The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-19 00:00:00

An officer, whose curiosity induced him to ask, some days
ago, sofne'qUestions from the French soldiers, when about to
enter the trencheS, was required to come before the General
commanding the corps. lie showed his passports and ex-
cused himself as being " British." " sir," said the General,
" You, as a soldier, ought to know that you ought not to ask
such questions."

HALF-PAST I O'CLOCK,
The great mortar is, as I am told, at this moment undergoing
the essay at Braschaef.

I have just heard that the Belgium Government has ex-
hibited some proof of resolution in the seizure fast night of the
redacteurs and printers of the Messager of Ghent, which paper
haring been supported by Dutch money and written by
foreigners, has done great mischief. I am no advocate for
Violent suppression of opinion, but a publication to continually
ridicule Belgium and its establishments could not be suffered
in a city declared in a state of siege, as is Ghent at this mo-
ment. Several French, and other foreign writers in the
Dutch pay here, and elsewhere, are now in a state of great
alarm. The firing is very brisk.

I (From the Morning Herald.)
The French accotint for the quiet manner they were en.
ablest to commence their march to the following curious cir-
cumstances :—A miller, near Berchem, was observed to have a
lighted lamp on the top of his mill every night since the ar.
rival of the French before the walls of Antwerp. On the
, nights the trenches were opened, a hussar was stationed near
the mill, and, not observing the lantern as usual, he com.
pelled the miller to light it, and place it in the same position it
was the night before. The miller has since been arrested as a
spy, and it has been found nut that he had concerted with the
citadel, that the night the French opened the trenches the
lamp should be taken down.

PRICES OF STOCKS Till
Bank Stock
per Cent. Red 83% 4
3 per Cent.Cous.
3% per Cent. -
Ditto Red9ll 14
Kew 11% per Cent. . ...
-
3 per Cent. Ann. 17.26. ... -
4 per Cent. 1826 ... ...... 1014%
Rank Long Ann to expire
Jan. 5, 1860...16 7-16 % 7-16
Oct. 10, 1859 16 3-16 14
Jan. 5, 1860
Jan. 5, 1880 -
Aprils, 1880 -
Jan. 5. 1870 .. -
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S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
New 5 per Cent. —
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 2O 21 pm.
South Sea Stock 9214
Old Annuities —
New Ditto —
3 per Cent. Ann. 1751
Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 3O 31 pm.
Ditt0........—..500 3O 31 pm.
Ditto Small 3O 31 pm.
(Ditto Commercial. pm.
Ditto Advertised pm.
Bank for Account —
India for Account. —
Cons. for Jan. 23 Ml 4 %%IA

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds B9
Belgian Bonds "43/4
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds 46%
Ditto Account 46%,A
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account 00% 1%
Chilian Bonds 16%
Ditto Account ,
Columbian Bonds 9%
Ditto Account —l
Ditto Bonds, 1824 lo4
Ditto Account —
Danish Bonds 68%
Ditto Account —
Greek Bonds 22
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account...... 264
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto Account.. ...... 20% I%
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Aceoinit 26 I
Neapolitan.... .............« —l]

THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
I Peruvian Bonds loli
Ditto Account ...... —
• Portuguese Bonds 494
Ditto Account 49% %
Regency Scrip 4l:dis.
• Ditto Account 4li dis.
Prussian Bonds 99%
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, 1822
Russian Bonds, 1822 98%
Ditto Account 98 %
New Loan 9178 41
Spanish Bonds, 1821 l6
Ditto Account 16%%
Ditto Bonds, 1823 14%%
Ditto Account —
French Rentes, sp. c. —f —c.
Exchange —f —c.
—3 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f —c.
Dutch Scrip 41;4%
Ditto Account 41%
French Scrip ..... ..... - -2,pin.

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PRICES OF SHARPS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £lOO 8
Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 162
Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pin.) £2O 46%
Ditto National 17% 16%
Ditto St. John Del Rey
Ditto Cocaes .
British Iron Mining Company ....
1 olumbian Milling Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 4914 6K,
English Mining Company l2 24
General Mining Association
Real dcl Monte Mining C 0....,...
United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/.
Ditto New Scrip
Alliance Fire Insurance Comp ,
Protector Insurance Comp.
Australian Co.
Canada Company
General Steam Navigation Co
Provincial Bank of Ireland

1914
• inn.) 40 414
•• 5 ,7,
10 ‘ is
8%
Xt: £1 5 0
25}6
.. .....
13 91,4 46
25 W

much of their esteem for the defence of Chasse, which they
now consider as not as effbctive as ought to be expected from
his position.