The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

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Bank Stock
167 j India Stock
3 per Cent Red. B9g Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9l Ditto Old Annuities ...
3e per Cent Red 99g iDitte New Annuities...
New 3i, per Cent
New b per Cent.. Ditto 500/ l9 pm
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small .....•• 19 pus
Jan. 1860 ... l 2 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859......... !India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. ........ 'Consols for Open—
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, spi vent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pet cent lO3l Ditto, New Ditto 34
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 66 Prussian, 5 per cent. '
Buenos Ayres 6 per cox 21 ißussian, 5 per cent ll6l
Chilian, 6 per cent..... 70 iDitto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 pet cent.. 24 tSpanish, 5 per cent 2si
Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... Ditto, Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent B2i IFrench, 5 per cent. I.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent. ... 294 French, 3 per cent •.•_c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 211 per cent. , 51i
Peruvian, 1825, hper ct. 16 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 101 i
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ...
Ditto Debentures ( paid) ...............101 9s 2d
Great Western Railway( 65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ... 611

Ditto Fifth (4 paid-)
London and Brighton (50 paid) '.37/1
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 111
London and Birmingham (90) . . ... 170
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 35
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ...
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (40 paid)
Paris and Rouen (14 paid) l3i

THE FLEET DITCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Srn,—ln your paper of the 20th inst., I find the follow-
ing statement regarding the effluvia arising from the
Fleet-ditch :—" The bed of the stream, from the termi
nation of this cloaca maxima of the metropolis towards
the river was deepened and dowered over at great ex-
pense, for the escape of the water coming from the fil-
thiest part of London, and in order to render the neigh-
bourhood more salubrious. The attempt, however, has
completely failed. At low water now the effluvium is ab-
solutely insufferable, and if something is not done to
correct the bad effects caused by the stagnation, the
place will be unfit for the habitation of human beings."
When I reflect upon the circumstance of the effluvia
only, causing a risk to life, what must be the feelings of
that person, when he knows that all the filth of that, and
a hundred other equally offensive drains, is daily pumped
into the cisterns, and the inhabitants (f this great and
splendid metropolis compelled to drink it? Surely an
alteration should be made to give to the people a better
commodity—for we all know we have to pay dearly for it.
The water of the Thames is daily becoming worse and
worse—in fact, this river is looked upon now, and for
some time past, as the great artery for metropolitan filth.
In the long list of discoveries with which the public, from
time to time, are favoured, I cannot find that any plan
has yet been discovered to work a cure for this dreadful
evil.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A WATER-DRINKER.
Great George .street, Westminster, Jan. 22, 1842.

ELIZA FENNING'S TRIAL.--The first official
report of Eliza Fenning's singular trial was printed for
the celebrated Wm. Hone, dedicated to the Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor, to the Worshipful the Aldermen, to
the Hon. the Common Council, and the worthy Livery-
men and Citizens of the City of London, 1815. Original
Correlpo:dent.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FRIDAY, 21st.
—A few lots of the remaining small stock have been
disposed of at very full prices, averaging 2s. to 3s. above
the London market. The trifling quantity in first hands
in Bristol will, in all probability prevent any decline
here, although the demand is evidently becoming more
languid in other ports.—Bristol Mercury.
Sauvaitre, the man who made his escape in
November, as we mentioned at the time, from some
gendarmes in the Palais de Justice, as they were con-
ducting him back to prison after being condemned to
three months' confinement for having belonged to an il-
legal society, was caught the day before yesterday, and
secured. _ _

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On Saturday last the country in this vicinity
(Keswick) was covered with snow to the depth of about
half a foot, and the snow was then descending heavily.
In Borrowdale and on the Ambleside road the snow has
fallen in such quantities that the carriers' carts between
Keswick and Kendal have been compelled to stop for
the present. The south mail left Keswick on Saturday
morning last for Kendal, drawn by six horses.---Carlisle
Patriot.
A notorious robber, Picard, who has rendered
himself well known to the police by his repeated es-
capes from-prison, and who was temporarily confined at
Gisors, having been recaptured after his last outbreak
from the hulks, made another attempt to regain his li-
berty on Sunday night by setting fire to the door of his
cell. He had broken up his bedstead, and had lighted
the wood by means of the fragment of a razor blade and
other materials for striking a light, which he had con-
cealed about his person. The keepers were alarmed in
time to prevent him accomplishing his purpose.
MAESTEG....-IR consequence of the extreme
slowness of the works at this place, coupled with the
very low wages given to the workmen, besides a great
many who are without any employment at ail, poverty
the most abject, with all its accompanying evils, prevails
here to a very great extent ;—men, women, and chil-
dren, crouching like slaves around their almost extin-
guished fires. Through the instrumentality of a few
ladies (always the first and most effective emissaries of
charity), a fund was collected sufficient to supply the poor
with soup and potatoes for twelve weeks ; and about
200 tickets are distributed every week.—Cambrian.
CHEESE COLOURING.—The plant from which
this matter is derived is called Bixa, and Orellana was
added to it by Linnaeus, in honour of the name of the
traveller who first traversed Amazonia, 1540, where the
plant is indigenous. It is, according to Linnaeus, of the
I order Monogynia and Polyandria class of plants ; it was
introduced into this country as a dye for cheese about
100 years since, aid our.early ancestors therefore knew
not the pernicious art of cheese colouring in dairies.