The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-09 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
m
3 per Cent. C0n5...... 97i Ditto Old Annuities 96
3# per Cent. Red lo3# Ditto New Annuities.. 95#
New 3# per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small-- 69 pm
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1819
Jan. 1860 ......
FOREIGN FUNDS.

A i.trrao, 5 per cent ;Portuguese, 5 per cent 75i
Belgian. 5 per cent I Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... ...... IPrussian, 5 per cent
B ienos A yres 6 per cent 35 'Russian, 5 per cent.....,
Cuilian, 6 per cent ,lDitto, Metallic . ....
Colombian, 6 per cent... 124 , Spanish, 5 per cent 24k
Ditto 1824 Ditto, 3 per cent 33i

Cuba Bonds, 6 per eent. 93 ;Ditto Deferred.... . 13
Danish, 3 per sent — French, 5 per cent. —f.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ...... —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent. 55i
Parlivian,lB2s,6 per ct. 26* Ditto, 5 per cent.... 1011

SHARES.
Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (21/ p) 24
Great Western (75 paid) ll2k
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 pad) .....
London and Blackwall (161 13s 4d paid)
London and Birmingham ( —paid) —
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 2B
London and South Western (411 6s 10dpd) 77
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) 2l
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 16
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ..... 113
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) 39
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Norwich and Brandon (2 paid) .....
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (12i paid)
North Midland (100 paid) 96
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)
.._ 47i

South Eastern and D'over (50 paid) 34
York and Scarboro' Branch (2i paid) 2l

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TRUR9DAY.—The Countess of Dunmore, Lady
in Waiting on the Queen, took her departure from the Castle
to-day.
Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting on her Majesty, and
Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting, also left the Castle
this morning.
To-morrow the Maids of Honour, Lady Caroline Cocks, and
the Hon. Miss Frances Devereux, will, it is expected, take
their departure.
The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk
Marshal) and Colonel Wylde, remain at present at the Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended
by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing from her residence at Kew. The Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefelt and Baron
Knesebeck, left town in the forenoon on a visit to her
Majesty, the Queen Dowager, at Witley Court, Worcester-
shire. Their Royal Highnesses and suite travelled by the
London and Birmingham Railway, and took their departure
by the ten o'clock train from the Euston-square terminus.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England sat yesterday
afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commis-
sioners present were the Bishop of London, the Bishop of
Exeter, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the
Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Salisbury, and the Dean
of Westminster.
The Health of Towns Commission sat yesterday at Gwy-
dyr House, Whitehall. The Commissioners present were
the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Robert. Ag-
lionby Slaney, Mr. George Graham, Sir Henry Thomas de
la Beche, Dr. Playfair, Dr. David Boswell Reid, Mr. Richard
Owen, Hunterian Professor of the College of Surgeons, Capt.
William Thomas Denison, Mr. J. R. Martin, and Mr. James
Smith, of Deanston.
The Duke of Buccleuch gave a dinner to the Cabinet Mi-
nisters on Wednesday evening, at his residence, Montagu
House, Whitehall-gardens.
Lord Granville Somerset, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, returned to town on Wednesday afternoon, from
Windsor Castle, after attending the nomination of the Sheriff
for the county of Lancaster for the present year.
The Earl of Dalhousie had an interview with the Duke of
Wellington yesterday.
Dispatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong, and also
from the Governor of Newfoundland, were received yester-
day at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester-
day. The Lords present were, Lord Brougham; Lord Camp-
bell, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
Lord Campbell gave judgment on " The General Steam
Navigation Company v. Tonkin," an appeal from a decision
of the Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, relative to a
collision between the steamer Menai, and the schooner
Friends. His Lordship, after stating that the Dean of the
Arches, who had attended the hearing of the case, entirely
concurred with the Lords present in their decision, gave
judgment that the Court would recommend to her Majesty,
that the judgment appealed against should be affirmed with
costs. _ _

The Judge of the Admiralty having joined their Lordships,
an appeal from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury," Jones
v. Francis Godrich," was heard, Dr. Addams and the Queen's
Advocate appeared for the respective parties.
An appeal from Bengal was heard, " Maharaja Tej Chand
v. Sri Kauth Ghose and others." Messrs. Charles Buller,
Jackson, and Forsyth, appeared for the appellant ; Mr.
Burge, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. E. J. Lloyd, for the respon-
dents the representatives of SuroOp Chund Roy. Mr.Wigram,
Queen's Counsel, and Mr. E. F. Moore, for the respondents,
the heirs of Ram Nedhee Ghose.

Sir E. Ryan sat as a Privy Councillor during the proceed-
ings in this case. The Court afterwards rose, having deferred
the judgment.

DEVIZES ELECTION.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.

Bruges
Temple

- 206

Majority-

-- 142

REPRESENTATION OF LANCASTER.—Mr. Marten
states that the rei•ort that he was about to resign his seat for Lan.
caster " is mere invention."

A public supper of the Hoxton Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciation took place on Wednesday evening at the North
Briton, New North-road, to celebrate the anniversary of its
formation. The festival was most numerously attended, and
the large room was crowded to excess.
CURIOUS MANORIAL RIGHTS.—At Ripley Castle,
in Yorkshire, the seat of Sir William Ingilby, there is in the
great staircase an elegant Venetian window, in the divisions
of which, on stained glass, are a series of escutcheons, dis-
playing the principal quarterings and intermarriages of
the Ingilby family since their settling at Ripley, during
a course of 430 years. In one of the chambers of the tower
is the following sentence,'carved on the frieze of the wainscot :
—" In the yeire of owre Ld. MDLV. was this howse buylded,
by Sir Wyllyam Ingilby, Knight, Philip and Marie reigning
that time." John Pallisser of Bristhwaite, formerly held
his lands of the manor of Ripley by the payment of a red
rose at Midsummer, and by carrying the boar's nead to the
lord's table all the twelve days of Christmas.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE.—On Wednesday
Mr. Buckingham, as Director of the Institute, delivered the
first of a course of lectures on Palestine and the Holy Land
to a numerous and select audience.
Fi THE CITY GATES.—Ludgate, Aldgate, and Crip-
plegate were pulled down in the autumn of 1760. The
materials were sold to one Blagden, a carpenter in Coleman-
street. Those of Ludgate fetched 1481., those 'of Aldgate
1571. 10s., and those of Cripplegate 911. On Ludgate stood
the statue of King Lud and his two sons, and also of Queen
Elizabeth.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ST. PAUL'S CATEIE-
DRAL.—Mr. Hume has the following notice of motion on the
Order Book of the House of Commons for the present session,
respecting Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's :—" To move
for the re-appointment of the Select Committee appointed to
inquire into the present state of the nations' monuments and
works of art in Westminster Abbey, in St. Paul's Cathedral,
and in other public edifices, to consider the best means for
their protection, and for affording facilities to the public for
their inspection, as a means of moral and intellectual improve-
ment for the people.'