The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

fol,n's I-Ith instant, from Halif.o: (N. S.) with
100.000 francs for the use of Government.
We understand the Swift brings an account of
Checo having been captured by the force node/
HoLIVA R.

THE FUNDS.-It appears that about four fifth/
of the whole Funded Property of England is ia
trust or joint accounts, or belonging either to
public bodies or -to piitoite families, who keep it
as fixed incomes.—When we consider that all the

Property in the Kingdom is its security, and that,
from the regularity of paying the Dividends, eve! Y •
person knows to a day when his income will be
paid, and to a penny what he will receive, vs°
need not be surprised at the preference given to
this Property over any other, as 3 provision for
Families. But a part of the fluctuating Stock
being in the hands of Speculators, they can, anti
often do, not only sell their own Stock, but also
sell largely, for a distant time, what they do nut
possess,—circulating gloomy news in aid of their
speculations to depress the Funds, and in 1,00
of frightening other Stock-holders OUT of their
property at low prices, which the Speculators'
Agents ate always ready to purchase. TLey then
change their ground by buying more than they ate
able to paylor, and with a little coined news.of $
different nature, the Funds are run up, perhaps
unnaturally high, and the real Stock-holders
frightened IN at a heavy loss. From the increasing
investments of Saving Banks, and from other
sources, both of a Public and Private nature, for
the purposes of fixed incomes, and knowing there.

are now immense sums unemployed. in the City,
►ve sho:ild not be surprized to see the Speculators
themselves frightened IN, and the same game for
a rise played over again by them that took place
in 1817, when the Stocks rose front 67 to 84 is
about three months.

We beg leave to suggest to the Benevolent
mittee, who are so ineritotiously exerting them°

-selves to afford.shelter nod nutriment to the House'
less and Destitute Poor—the propriety of having
Placards posted throughout the Metropolis,in order
fully to announce the interesting and important
object in view, There are doubtless many poor
wretches wandering through the streets who
cannot possibly know what the Public Journals'
may contain, and who may be wholly unconnected
with those who could give them information'
of the comforts which they themselves hate
derived. Such Placards would spread the gratify'
ing information to every fugitive who otherwise
might remain in tura' ignorance that the libe'

rality of their superiors had provided such a Te'
source kir them. Still a sound discretion migl4..
be exercised in the selection of proper object9l
and in the proportion of the assistance imparted.
We consider this exertion of the several Cora'
tuittees as not only ben: finial on the score
of hunyinity, bitt as calculated to diffuse moral

advantages over the Country. We are tor'
willing to mingle any thing of politics with Ibis
truly noble subject, but considering the at•
tempts which the Radical Reformers have made',
to destroy all reverence for the higher otders of
Society, to represent them as insensible to the
wants of their fellow-creatures, and,only influenced
by vanity, pride, ambition, and venality, this ge"
nerous zeal -tmong the superior ranks to extend the
blessings of Charity to all whose situation tuaY
demand it, must remove that discontent,
envy and hatred of the Affluent, which Sedi--
tious Miscreants have been so iudustriuusl)
• endeavouring to excite, and which tended to
the total ruin of the Cou'ntry. The poor Objects'
who have thus been relieved by their Superiors.
may, while they contemplate the misery ft.,
which they have been rescued and the comfors
which they enjoy, reflect upon what they migl►6
have suffered if the wicked Radicals, who have,
we trust, now been effectually subdued by Law,
had overthrown the Governmeut, and divided the
property of the Kingdom. Can the poor victims
who have thus been relieved, and brought
to reflection, suppose, that, if the infamous
Radicals had obtained their ends they 001
would have set on foot such benevolent ln"
Stitt:llolls as that at the QUEEN'S HEAD TAVEEtt

and other meritorious Sleieties of the same do"
scription ? No, if the Objects relieved are-capable
of the least reflection, they must rejoice that the
Government has triumphed over its enemies, and,
they will look with gratitude towards thoso-
nt superiors' who have devoted their
time, their labour, and their wealth, to idle'
rime the sufferings and promote the corn'
fort of their fellow-beings, deeming those who
are lowest and the most distressed as the

most entitled to assistance and protection, %V
are sorry to :t.arn, that an imprudent paiagrapli
in a Morning Paper had perhaps checked the
current of charity, by intimating, that the fund
already provided was more than suilicitoc
(or the caUs upon it, um! tilt the surplus wgiii3