The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-03 00:00:00

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S DAY AT ONIZ O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF STOCKS THI
Bank Stem
9 per Cent. Red. ...88% 94 8%
3 per Cent. Cons.
336 per Cent. 97;4
Ditto Red 9714 %
New 3% per Cent.
3 per Cent. Ann. 1725 -
4 per Cent. 1826
Pink Long Ann. to expire
Jan. 5,186 P 17 1-16 17
Oct. 10, 1859 -
Jan. 5, 1?'0 -
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, 1880 -
Jan. 5, 1870

New 5 per Cent.
India Stock
Ditto ...... 23 25 pm.
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities 871,4
New Ditto.... .........
per Cent. Ann. 1751 ....
Ex. Bills, .£1,000...46 45 47 pm.
Ditto. ....... ....500 46 47 pm.
Ditto Small 46 47 pm.
IDisto Commercial
IDitto Advertised ...... Pm.
Bank for Account
India for Account ...... 247
!Cons. for Account 9O IA3 90

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds 97
Belgian Bonds 96
Ditto Account 96
Brazilian Bonds 671,f+M
Ditto Account 671/814
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Accoun' 21—%
Chilian Bonds —
Ditto Account M*s6
Columbian Bonds l9 ..f,
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, MN 2 214
Ditto Account 0114
ilanish Bon 4 —314
Ditto Account 73%
Greek Bonds —
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 2914

THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds .934
Portuguese Bonds 57
Ditto Account 56%
Ditto New Bonds 56%
Ditto Account 56V234
Prussian Bonds lO2
Ditto Bonds, 15C.2 lO3
'Russian Bonds, 1822 lO4
Ditto Account lO4
Ditto 11l 10314
Spanish Bonds, 1821 234
Ditto Ace. °37,N
Ditto Bonds, 1823 20%
Ditto Account 2ON
French Rentes, 5 p. c. —f —c.
-- Exchange ...... —f —c.
—S per cent...". —f. —c.
- Exchange ...... —f —c.
Dutch, 2:1., p. c....... 49%
Ditto Account '5O 49%
Ditto, 5 p. c 95
Ditto Account 95%
French Scrip 41ST pm.

Ditto Account
int, , (i per cent 3B
Ditto Account 3B
seapolitan 89

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCT.
Paid. Per Share.
Alien Mining Company....... £7 7% 8
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £lOO
140
Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O
Brazilian Mining Company £s 15
Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm ) to 6214
Ditto Natt0na1............. ....... ....
Ditto St. John Del Rey
Cata Branca Mining Company (116 514
_
British Iron Mining Comnanv £so
Columbian MininA Co. (iss at 51. pm ) 51%
English Mining Company l2g
12
General Mining Association
£lO
Hibernian Mining Co.
Mexican Mining Co £4B
Real dcl Monte Mining Co....(unreg.)
1 nited Mex. Min. Co. (iss. nt 2/. pm ) 40
Ditto New Mir i
Alliance Fire assurance Comp lO
Protector I nsurance Comp.
Australian Co.
Canada Company . ...... .......„ l7
General Steam Navigation Co. l3
National Provincial Bank of England 5
Rio Doce
Provincial Bank of Ireland 25

PRICES OF IRISH STOCI
Bank Stock —
Consols, 3 Der cent
Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 961,§
Ditto, New 964
1 per Cent. 1
Gov. Deb. 3% percent S
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock
City Deb. 4 per cent.
Ballast Office Deb. 4D. C. ----

254
4

11%
11 5 6
2114
48

12%
,4
1%
39NU

!TS, DUBLIN, DEC. 31.
ISt. Patrick Insur.(per Share
Royal Irish Ditto
National Ditto
Patriotic Ditto
Hibernian Bank
;Provincial Ditto
Royal Irish Mine
Imperial Mine
Mining Co. of Ireland
Commercial Buildings

HAILS.
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.
O America 0 0 Hamburg 1
O Brazil
O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 0
O Carthagena 0 0 Leeward Islands ... 0
1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0
O Flanders 1 0 Malta 0
O France 1 0 Sweden 0
O Guernsey &Jersey.. 1 0 Waterford 1

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning.. 57 minutes after 8.1 Evening...3l minutes after 9.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1834.

The Morning Post is very angry with the
Secretary of War, to whom it ascribes the con-
templated reductions at the Horse Guards, and
says, "it seems monstrous in the extreme that
the Civil Departments connected with it, divid-
ing as they do no less a sum than 190,0001.
in salaries, should be left untouched."
The Morning Post can know very little of
the Secretary of War if it supposes that he has
so little prudence, in these times of reform and
retrenchment, as to attempt to prevent inquiry
into any of the departments with which he is
connected, by merely directing the attention of the
Ministry and the country to the abuses which
exist in other departments, over which he exer-
cises only an indirect control. Mr. ELLICE is
known to be an advocate for sweeping reform
and rigid retrenchment in every branch of the
public service, where circumstances admit of
dismissing drones and cutting down over-
paid secretaries and chief clerks, without in-
terfering with the salary of the hard working
employe; and it is not probable that a man of
his shrewdness (we purposely abstain from
speaking of higher motives, whatever may be
our opinion, lest we should be considered pa-
negyrists,) would hazard the reputation which
he has obtained, in order to protect a few per-
sons with whom he has no other connection than
that which has arisen from a short official inter-
course, and who were nearly all brought into
office by his Tory adversaries. Without pre-
tending to be in the secrets of Mr. ELLICE, we
may undertake to assure the Post that
the 190,000/. to which he alludes will
not, if he can help it, be protected
against rigid
_inquiry, with a view to just
reform. Mr. ELLICE, when Secretary to
the Treasury, was the first Member of the Go-
vernment to recommend a large reduction of
salary in his own person ; and it is not probable,
after having acquired by this general sacrifice an
especial right to recommend general reduction,
that he will hesitate to enforce that principle
whenever he may have an opportunity of doing
so, particularly as he has no sons, nephews,
brothers, or brothers-in-law, who would be dis-
placed or injured by the operation. The Post
may he assured, that even the Deputy Secretary
at War, upon whose suggestion Mr. ELLICE is
said to be acting as regards the proposed reduc-
tions at the Horse Guards, will not escape
reduction if it should be found that he is over-
paid for his official services.
Our Contemporary has discovered a peculiar
reason for protecting the Horse Guards from
the reforming propensities of the Secretary at
War, or the Deputy Secretary. He says :
"We have heard comparisons drawn by individuals
well able to form a sound judgment in those matters, he-
tween the manner in which, for instance (we take one
branch), the correspondence of the Horse Guards and
that of the War Office is conducted ; much, very much,
to the disadvantage of the latter. We have beard of the
undeviating
punctuality and promptitude in replying to
letters which characterise the one, when a similar mea-
sure of approbation has but in too many cases been re- '
"used to the other. We have beard of an equal dissimi-
larity as characterising the tone of the correspondence of
the two Departments; and, in fact, the meed of praise
in every case awarded to the Horse Guards."
We are quite ready to acknowledge that it is
the duty of persons in office to pay prompt and
civil attention to the applications or communi-
cations which they receive ; but we have yet to
learn, even admitting the fact of the superior
courtesy of the Horse Guards, of which, how-
ever, we have never had any other intimation
than that of the Post, that any application
or communication worthy of attention remained
unanswered from the War-office. It may be very
agreeable to some gentlemen to receive an offi-
cial acknowledgment of the receipt of frivolous