The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The Home Securities opened steady this morning, with a
slight improvement upon the closing prices of yesterday.
Consols are now, for 11Ioney and the Account, 89 buyers ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 893 ; Three-and-a-Half Re-
duced, 993 t ; New Three-and-a-Half, 983 ; Exchequer
Bills, 20 22 prem.
In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Stock is heavy, at
243 3 ; this depression is attributed, in a great measure, to the
non-appearance of the advertisement for the payment of the
over due dividends. The other securities present no variation :
Portuguese Five per Cents are 32% 3, and the Three per Cents
19% 3 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, 52%; Ditto Five
per Cents, 1023 ; Columbian, 223 3.
The Foreign Exchanges advanced again yesterday ; but little
business was, however, transacted in them.

PRICIi.S OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RA ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ... ..
Ditto New
Great North of England . 90

Great Western 65
- - to •4i

Liverpool and Manchester .....100 ......192
London anc. Brighton
London and Birmingham 9O l6B . to 167
Ditto New
Midland C J1.l ntie s
_...

North Midland IOO
Ditto Thirds
South Eastern and Dover

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Loudon Joint Stock
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—tYESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 8 'Gibraltar ... .. ..... , ...... 47
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .2 U 12 8 IGenoa . 25 95
Antwerp l2 7111ilan
Hamburgh M. B. 13 14 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sigkt ... 25 70 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 0 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 151 i Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 954 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, Pia OZ
Madrid

Cadiz .. asi
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville ••• 36

Portugal Gold Com 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 4 114
HALF-PAST ONE.

The English continues firm, notwithstanding the Govern-
ment broker has effected sales of Money Stock to the extent of
80,000/.
Consols for Money, and to-morrow, are now 89i ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 894; Reduced Three-and-a-Half, 994; New
Three-and-a-Half, 98-1 ; Exchequer Bills, 20 22; India Bonds,
7 to 9 premiuin.
In the Foreign Market the transactions have been ex-
tremely limited. Spanish Active Stock continues flat, the
present price being24t ; in Portuguese Stock there has not
been a bargain done, the Five per Cents. are nominally quoted
at 32i ; and the Three per Cents. l9i ; Dutch Two-aad-
a-Half per Cents., 521; and the Five per Cents., 102 a.
The Share Market is heavy, and prices have generally given
way. London and Brighton are 3.4 ex loan notes; London
and Birmingham 167 ; Midland Counties, 78 ; North Midland,
66 ; South Eastern and Dover, 25i.
QUARTER TO THREE.
It may be as well to state here, for the information of our
readers, and in order to prevent injurious surmises or rash re-
solves, a circumstance that has just come to our knowledge, in
regard to Spanish Bonds. In consequence' as is said, of the neces-
sity of announcing the payment of the dividends on the capi-
ta ized stock at one and the same time, in London and Pariz,
there will be a further delay of some days before the appear-
ance of the advertisement, and in the meantime it is
hoped that the gentleman appointed to act as president of the
Commission of Finance, M. Duron, wil be enabled to reach
London, or if he has resigned, for his successor. We hope
sincerely, that M. Duron, will not be quite so long en
route, as was his avant courier, Salamanca, for this slow
travelling, though " mighty amusing", to a Spanish Don, at,d
perfectly consonant to his habits and views, is anything but
grateful to the poor bond-holders. We will give the Capi-
talization Gnnmissioners another fortnight yet to mature their
plans, and then may we trust to see some announcement of
them in The Sun.

SIMIMITH.—On Saturday last an enormous por-
tion of the Chitaock Cliff, at the Western end of the town, fell
with such tremendous violence as to cause great consternation to
the inhabitants of the immediate vicinity, to whom it appeared as
the shock of an earthquake. A person in the cottage of a lady,
named Lu-;,ington, asserts that be was thrown out of bedlthrough
the violence of the concussion.— Western Times.
The navigation of the port of Taganrog WftS closed
on the 6th of December last.