The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-06 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red i.B% i Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons.
,Ditto Old Annuities ...
3% per Cent. Rel lOl% Ditto New Annuities...
New 3% per Cent 102% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I lid..„ 75 pm.
New 5 per Cent. Ditto 5001 — pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small... . . ...
Jan. 1860 1 % Bank Stock for Acct....
Ott. 1859 ......
Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Acct.... 287%
FOREIGN FUNDS. _

Austrian, 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent .....«..... -- Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent

Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian,.s Per Cent —
Chllian, C. per Cent " Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 14% Spanish, 5 per Cent 23%
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per Cent 33
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... 93 'Ditto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — 'Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 Dutch, 2) per Cent...... 611 A
Peruvian. 1825, 6 per Cent 29 , Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 96
Bristol and Exeter ( , 0 paid) .
Bristol and Gloucester (36 pint)
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) ;l4
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Registered (3/6st:lcl paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) . ........ ......... 7Sr
London and Birmingham (Stock)
.
Manchester and Birmingham 56%
Midland Counties (100 paid) 9l
North Midland (100 paid)

Norwich and Biandon (,2 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (3312 s 4d paid)
Ditto 'dew Shares ( 4 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)

FIRS IN PARLIAMENT-STREET, THROUGH THE
MISCONDUCT OF A FOOTMAN.—This morning, at a quarter
before eight o'clock. a fire was discovered raging in the base-
ment story of the offices adjoining the spacious residence of
Mr. Driver, the eminent land surveyor, situate at No. 8,
Richmond-terrace, Westminster. It appears that the care
of the plate was entrusted to the footman, William Cotton,
whose duty it was to sleep in the pantry, but, availing him-
self of the family's sojourn at East Grinstead, Sussex, he re-
mained out the whole of last night, leaving the gas burning
in th 6 pantry. Upon an alarm being raised, the engine from
the Chandos-street station, and five other engines belonging
to the fire brigade, were speedily. upon the spot, and a good
supply of water having been obtained, the firemen succeeded,
in less than an hour, in subduing the flames. The pantry,
however, and the valuable family plate, is nearly entirely
destroyed, and the staircase and ono of the front offices
abutting upon Parliament-street, are considerably injured,
and but for a massive door connecting the offices with the
family mansion impeding the progress of the flames, the
valuable collection of pictures and costly furniture, &c., be-
longing to Mr. Driver, might have fallen a sacrifice to the
devouring element.

DECORATIVE FURNITURE.--It has long been a
matter of great desire amongst the most scientific and prac-
tical chemists engaged in the advancement of our manufac-
tures, to provide for the furniture printer a permanent green
colour, which, while it would retain its brilliancy equally by
night as by day, would not detract from the beauty of other
colours with which it might be associated. Simple as this
may seem, there has been great difficulty in accomplishing it,
and we understand that Messrs. Clarkson and Co., her Ma-
jesty's Furniture Printers, have expended considerable sums
in the attempt to attain it, a result which has at length re •
warded their perseverance. The colour now obtained is pecu-
liarly fine, and approaches in all its tints as closely to nature
as possible.
.As these gentlemen are already celebrated for
the artistic beauty and arrangement of their chintz designs,
it is well that a discovery of such importance has fallen to the
lot of those who can render the perfection of British chintz
furniture, in the most extensive degree, available to the
public.
" BELL's LIFE IN LONDON" OF SUNDAY NEXT
MAY 12.—Newmarket Second Spring Meeting—The Sufffilk
Handicap and important matches between Oakley and St.
Lawrence—Semiseria and Extempore—Pegasus's fore-
gatherings of Gorhambury Races—Shrewsbury and other
Races—Racing, Steeple-chasing, and Fox-hunting at Rome
—Angling, by Ephemera—The Cricketters' Register—
Aquatics—Sailing-matches and Regattas on the Thames—
Pedestrianism—Coursing—Alphabetical List of " Run-up
Dags"—Pigeon Shooting—Fancy doings on Tuesday, and
the usual Sporting varieties. Price of Bells' Life, 6d. Office,
170, Strand. Bells' Life of last Sunday, May 5, gave three
long and wide folio columns of Chester Races, 100 advertise-
ments connected with sporting matters, Marylebone, Cam-
bridge and Oxford Crieketting, Meetings of the Royal
Thames Yacht and Thames Regatta Clubs, &c.
Sir Robert Peel has taken a house in the Isle of
Wight for thirteen weeks from the Ist of June.