The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-04 00:00:00

TiiE FUNDS',

Consols—Yestprday closed

. 79:171

After the Close

This morning opened

Consols bezau this morning at 794, but gra-
dually advanced to SO 'There is a general
impression, that the issues of Bank Paper xvill be
materially increased, to which may be attributed,
the buying in of their accounts by the Bears,
which has occasioned this improvement in Consols.

A forgery is ascertained to have been com-
mitted on the Bank, to a considerable extent, but
the particulars have not transpired.
A forgery on Messrs. COUTTS, to the amount
of about 6001., is also reported to have been de-
tected.

31_;.

Bank Stock
India Stuck
India Bonds .
3 per Cent. Consols (Money)
per Cent. Reduced -
per'Cent. Reduced
New 4 per Cent. 964'.
Exchequer Bills, £looo—par. 1 his. ) pm. I dis.
£soo—par. 1 pm.
' XlOO-2 5 pm.
FOREIGN.

~3d?;.

6 5 pm.
tioh.
. no.

This Market still flat—very few transactions,
and hut little variation in prices.

Columbian 1824--5 S —Mexican 6 per Cents.
661—Danish 58.1—Greek IC—Spanish 12—
Russian Bonds 141.

SITARE.

The Share Market stagnant.

i r tsT 2.

An eminent operator has given for the sale
of Consols at f 395 at any time during the present

Account.

Consols for Account, so to S!)-,L.

REMARICABLZ DAY.—This day is remarkable
as the anniversary of the abolition of the lesser
monasteries by order of Henry the Eighth, in
1536. By this act three hundred and seventy•
six monasteries were suppressed, and the revenue,

amounting to 32.,0001. per annum, given to the
King, besides their plate and chattels, computed
to be worth 100,0001. This day i% also the an-
niversary of the birth of George Lille, dramatist,
author of George Barnwell, 1693; of the death
of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury,
at Naples, 1713.

SILK TRADE.—A meeting WaS )11'1(1 at TAUS.
TON, on Monday last, of persons interested in the silk trade,
at which a petition to Parliament, praying for a continuance a
the prohibition of French silks, was unanimously agreed to.

lu the fourteenth century the shops in Paris
were opened at four o'clock in the morning ; the
King of FRANCE dined nt eight in the morning,
and retired to rest at the same hour in the evening
When the laws with regard to silk goods come
into complete operation, it is highly probable
that the principal sent for that manufacture will
eventually be in Dublin and other parts of Ire-
land—where the price for weaving is, we are in-
formed, lower than in France. At present Irish
silk goods are liable to seizure in England, under
the pretence that they are foreign.—(Stockport
~I(lvertiser.)

Flar..—At an early hour yesterday morning,
the extensive premises of Mr. STAFF, rope-
maker, of Staple-street, Borough, was discovered
to be on fire. The devouring element threatened
destruction to the whole neighbourhood although
six engines were on the spot. To much praise
cannot be bestowed on the firemen of the Surrey
and Sassex engine, which was the last that ar-
rived, hut the first and only one which played
upon the premises. Al r. 11 all, the Chief Consta-
ble, and the greater part of the officers of Union
Hall, were in attendance, and prevented the
depredations too common on such occasions.

AconxNT.—Yesterday afternoon, as a one,
horse chaise-cart was proceeding along the Kent-
road, a fine boy, named Norman, about nine
years old, in his attempt to cross the road at the
moment the vehicle was passing, he was acci-
dentally knocked down by the animal, and be-
fore the driver could pull up, the wheel passed
over his body. The cries of the sufferer speedily
brought several persons to his assistance, and, on
minute eximinntion, it was ascertained that no
bones were broken,neitker did it appear the youth
received very material injury. lie was con-
veyed to his friends at Bermondsey, dreadfully
frightened.
SENDING LETTERS EY COACIIES.--We are in-
formed that an officer especially deputed by the
General Post Office, assisted by four policemen,
stopped the two stage coaches which ran be-
tween this city and Shibbeleen, and also the
Bandou Coach, on Monday last. After a very
diligent search of the latter, be discovered two
letters, one enclosed in a sealed bag, and the
other (a few lines written on an unsealed piece
of paper) accompaying a message from one lady
to another, with a few articles as patterns. The
officer had the proprietor fined ten pounds the
following day, at the Innishannon petty sessions,
to whom, however,
he made a proposition, that if
he would prosecute the persons who had sent
the letters, the penalty should be redueed to
fivei pounds, but to h the proprietor dis-
sented and immediately
paid the money.—
The coachmen, .&c. &c. of the Skibbereen
coaches had each a considerable number of letters
taken from them. Prosecutions have been insti-
tuted against the respective proprietors, which
ai ft ti3oatndd eocni,doen s
decided beforeaturda
Saturday
I tb,e‘ticci
`gill,
we are told, be of Magistrates
removed to Dublin.—(Southern Reporter.)