The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-25 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Although the British and Foreign Funds left off yesterday
very heavy, with an expectation of a further (lc cline this morn-
ing, attributed to various reports respecting Ministers, and
measures going to be adopted by the Bank of England to
abridge their discounts, as well as the scarcity of money, Con-
sols have improved to 924, for money 92, owing to the French
Funds coming higher. Foreign Securities also firmer, and
improved on the leaving off prices of yesterday. Spanish
654. Scrip, 81.

HALF-PAST TWELVE.

All description of funds have become very heavy. Consols
have receded to 914 for the Account. Spanish also lower-
-651 4 ; Spanish Scrip 71 prem. South American Stocks
have receded ?j- per cent.

HALF-PAST ONE.

In consequence of the President's Message to Congress,
which was known in the early part of the morning, the Funds
became exceedingly heavy, and Consols, which were pre-
viously at 92 for the Account, receded to 91/ for money, and
91'F for the Account, at which price they are at present.
Both Ambassadors are now recalled by their respective Go-
vernments, (the French and American,) but still the general
opinion is that no war will take place.
The foreign market also appears in a sickly state. Spanish
Bonds are 641 ; Spanish Scrip, 7/ prem. ; Portuguese, 93i ;
Columbian, 39i ; Danish, 78i ; Chilian, 47 ' • Dutch 21 per
Cents., 56 ; India Bonds, 21 ; Exchequer Bills, 38 lower.
Late accounts have been received from Mexico via Ame-
rica, from the above city of the Bth February. All was quiet.
A convoy of specie was to leave Mexico on the 15th February.
President Santa Anna had retired to his estate on leave of
absence granted by Congress for two months. General Bar-
ragan was elected Vice- President. The new Ministry had
been completed.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 91
THE FUNDS.—C
BRITISI

,USING PRICES.
FUNDS,
India Stock
Ditto Bonds "0 pin
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, lO 44/....
Ditto sfo' 39 pm
Ditto 500/ 39 pm.
Bank Stock for Act.
India Stock for Opg. 250
Consols for Opg.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent Red. 924
3 per Cent Cons 9l
13, per Cent.
3Y4 per Cent Red
New 34 per Cent 9934
4 per Cent. Assented

Dissented —

Long Annuities to expire
1860 17%
Oct. 1859 17%
Jan. 1860 l7
FOREIGN kUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent IO2N
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres; 6 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent 4t
Columbian, 6 per cent ...... 37
Ditto, I 824 39%

Portuguese lends, 5 per cent 9311,
Ditto, New Ditto 94.4
Prussian. 5 per cent.
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. —lO9
Ditto. Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent 64N
Ditto, 1tt.23

.
Danish
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — I Exchange
Nlexican, 5 per cent , 18:23.... : French, 3 per cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 18.25, 6 per cent 43 Dutch, 2, per cent
Peruvian, 6 per cent.

It is stated that two thousand divorces are annually
granted in the United States.
A canal, from Hamburg to Lubeck, it is calculated,
can be constructed in two years, at a cost not exceeding two
millions marks, by which course Russia, in her foreign rela-
tions, may save 200 miles.
The authorities in Spain have improved their post,
reduced the postage on newspapers, and established regulations
similar to our own as respects letters.
On the 12th inst., a captain of the Paris gend'-
armerie, aged 78, terminated his life by leaping into the
Meuse. This is the second suicide of the same sort succeed-
ing each other at an interval of only a day or two.
A glut, and consequent depreciation, in prices in
European merchandise has taken place.—Moniteur de Com-
merce, March 19.
Sixty thieves of Gaucher's gang were apprehended
a few days ago at Paris.
WINDOW TAXES.—MARYLEBONE VESTRY.—
(This Day. )—A special meeting of the above body was held
this morning, at the Court House, Oxford-street, to take into
consideration a request made to them on Saturday last, by a
deputation of rate payers, to petition Parliament for the abo-
lition of the above tax. Dr. Harrison was called to the chair.
Mr. Hovendon, the barrister, after briefly animadverting upon
the inequality of this tax, moved the adoption of a petition
which he read, and which was carried with only two dis-
sentients.
M. Amedee Jauge, of Paris, the banker of Don
Carlos, has arrived in London, charged with a financial mis-
sion connected with Spain.
The Birmingham Journal states that the Rev. J.
Ellis, Vicar of Wootton Warren, near Henley-on-Arden, lately
obtained a warrant of distress against a parishioner, for the
payment of Easter dues to the amount of is., and that a table
was seized, and sold by auction, out of the proceeds of which,
9s. 2d. was deducted for the original dues and expenses.
g The long-depending trial of the Bishop of Winches-
ter and others, for an assault npon the Rev. Cornelius
Griffin, will take place at Kingston Assizes on the 30th inst.
We undersand that Dr. Abercromby has declined
the Lord Rectorship of Marischal College.—Aberdeen Ad-
vertiser.
Don Miguel is at Rome. He had ceased to be (if
ever he had been) an object of interest to the Papal Go-
vernment, by whom he was no looked on as a nuisance (un
embarras.) Their most anxious thought was how to get
rid of him. He was living a very retired life—was not
master of a Paul—and nobody paid him the slightest at-
tention• His affairs may, therefore, be deemed as wound up.
--Letter from Paris.