The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-01 00:00:00

Tilt FUNDS.

Consols opened at 891 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced
89H- ; Three-and•a•Half ditto, 991 g ; Bank Stock,
166 167 ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. Very little
business doing at present.
The settlement of the half-monthly account in the
Foreign Market yesterday passed over without any
casualty occurring. Spanish /Wive Stock opened rather
flat at 24 to 25 ; Mexican Bonds remain firm at 281
to 29 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 33k- to 34 ; Ditto
Threes, 20h 1.

The Continental exchanges were steady yesterday, al
much the same quotations as last post day.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 64i to
Cheltenham and Great Western. 72i lBi to
Eastern Counties
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Debentures ...... —Bl. 6s. Bd. 101. 16s. 8d to
Great Western .65
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
London and Brighton 5O 39ii ... to
London and Blackwall
Ditto New 4l. 6s. Bd. ...... 71. Is. Bd.
London and Birmingham 9O l7O ...... to 169
Ditto New 2 ...... 28i to
London and Greenwich
London and South Western 384
Loudon and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 124..... to
South Eastern and Dover
COURSE OF EXCHANGE=—(YESTERDAY).

Amsterdam CF. 12 7iiGfbraliar 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 Genoa
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 13k Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Palermo, per oz 1191
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeauz 25 90 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin.
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 952 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto 9 55 PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid

Cadiz
Bilbao 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville
HALF-PAST TWO.

There has been but little business doing in the Stock
Exchange up to the present time. Consols are now
quoted at 89i ; Three per Cents. Reduced 8911;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., ditto, 991 s ; Exchequer
bills 14 16 prem. ; Spanish Active Stock, 25 ; Colombian
Bonds, 22 ; Mexican, 24 29 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents. have advanced to 34.
No material alteration has taken place in the Share
Market ; the following are the quotations :—Birming-
ham and Gloucester 64:1,- ; Great Western, 88 ; Ditto
New, 611 ; Ditto Fifths, 10i ; London and Brighton,
39i ' • London and Birmingham, 169 ; London and
South Western, 591 ; South Eastern and Dover, 2.2 i• 23.
HALF PAST TWO.,
Consols, Account, 89i ; Spanish, 2511 a ; Mexican,
291 30.
QUARTER TO THREE.
It is satisfactory, as far as the consumption of the sta-
ples of Colonial produce are concerned, to find that it
had not fallen off last year, though, perhaps,
a very different result might be exhibited were
meat and bread to come within the category.
It should be borne in mind also that the year 1840 was
one of privation. The stock of goods in bond, 'except in
a few cases, is not so high as at this time last year,
proof that our merchants hive not been over trading
Very few have done a profitable business, however,'
during the year.

GUILD HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
NOVEL MODE OF PROCURING CLOTHES.—SiX able-
bodied young men were charged by Alexander Lamb,
the Master of the East London Union Workhouse, under
the following circumstances :
Lamb deposed that they• came into the workhouse
last night as temporary paupers, and their clothes being
in a very filthy condition a fresh suit was given to each
while they stopped in the house, and this morning, about
day-break, they piled all their old clothes on the floor
of the sleeping-room, and,, having got a lucifer-match,
set fire to them, when they were burnt to a cinder. Only
two remedies, therefore, remained to him, either to
turn them into the street in a state of nudity or keep
them in the workhouse. Having refused to give them
any breakfast, in consequence of their conduct, they
broke twelve squares of glass in the sleeping-room, when
he sent for a constable and gave them in charge.
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER sentenced them to seven
days' imprisonment.
A wretched-looking female was charged with breaking
a square of glass in the shop of Mr. Sherwood, Cheapside.
In reply to the Bench, she said her only motive for
the act was to get sheltert as she was houseless and
starving. She was sentenced to a month's imprisonment.

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