The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-22 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .. ...... 91A Ditto Bonds ...... 2B pm
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 9Ol Ditto Old Annuities -
3i per Cent. Red... 11004 Ditto New Annuities
New 31 per Cent......... 991 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....9d 46 pm
New 5 per Cen'., — Ditto 5001— .. .46 pin
Lone Annuities to expire Ditto Small 46 pm
Jan. 1860 .. l2 9-16 Bank Stock fur Acct —

Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 — Consols for Acct...:... 904
FOREIGN FUNDS. _ .

Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent. 54i
Belgian, 5 per cent lOll Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds... 62i Prussian, 5 per cent.
BuenosAyres6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent....
Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic...—.
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, b per cent. .... 21
Ditto, 1824 2l,i Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c
Mexican, 5 per cent 36i French, 3 per cent. —f.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent. 5l
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. . .01*
SHARES.
Bristol snd Exeter (70 paid) ...... . 41*
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .....
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ...• 6l Is 6d
Ditto Debentures . . . lO/ Is 8d
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 45
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 62

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Hull and Selby (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall ( p►id) 9h
London and Birmingham (90)
London and South Western (411 6s 10dpd) 614
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... -. 26
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
South Eastern and Dover (80 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ~..,,,.. 87

A return respecting Church Patronage in Scotiandi
which has been printed by order of the House of Com-
mons, exhibits in a strong light the blessed effects of the
Veto Act. It was moved for by Mr. Wallace, in order
to ascertain the number of causes arising out of this Act,
and now pending in the Court of Session. The causes
respecting patronage amount to twenty-five, arid are
brought for the purpose of ascertaining such points as
the following. Who has right to the vacant stipend ?
To whom it is to be paid ? Whether the presentee' can
claim damages against the Presbytery for keeping him
out of the living ? and whether certain members of
Presbytery have a right to sit in the General Assembly ?
One of the causes is now before the House of Lords,
and all the rest may follow ; so that whatever
be the result, the lawyers at least will profit by these in-
terminable disputes, but the true interests of religion will
suffer. Independent of these causes there are thirteen
others arising out of a decision of the General Assembly,
by which the ministers of chapels of ease were admitted
members of Church Courts. Several respectable clergy-
men having been deposed by what they consider, incom-
petent authority, have appealed to the Court of Session
against the judgments, and are resolved, if necessary, to
carry the appeals to the House of Lords. The number
of ministers and elders thu.; implicated in these suits
cannot be less than two hundred, and the number of
patrons and heritors must be considerably more. The
public, therefore, may judge whether this Veto Act is
what its authors describe it—" a healing measure.'
Lieut.-General the Duke de Clermont-Tonnerre,
Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Louis, died on the
12th inst., at the chuleau of Glisoiles (Eure), in his 90th
year. lie was brother of the Cardinal of the Same name,
and father of M. de Clermont-Tonnerre, ex-Minister of
the War Department and the Niarine.
On Tuesday morning, a working man, named
Rene. presented himself, in the utmost agitation, betore
the Commissary of Police for the Quarter of the
Faubourg St. Antoine, and gave himself into custody
for having caused the death of his own child. It
appeared that, being left a widower with a 'young
daughter, he had placed it out to nurse at Clichy,
On Monday he drank rather too much wine, a! d insisted
on taking the child out with him to show her to
her godmother. He stopped at various wine-i.lops on
his way, and at last got downright .cirunk. He still,
however, instinctively took car;; of his charge, and
even when he got borne gave her some milk and
water. He then went to bed, placing the child by
his side. When he awoke in the morning he found him-
self on-the floor, and the child under him already cold.
He had fallen out of bed during the night, and dragged
his infant with him. The case is at present under the
consideration of the law authorities, and Rene remains
in custody.

We learn from Bourg, Ain, that, a few days ago, a
huge mass of stone separated itself from the Chaz rock,
and. fell into the bed of the Valserine, and on the high
road.between Mijoux and Vancy. The river v%as cut in
two, anti hal., foriiL:d a6t 11;L:c vvhere the
It is stated from Altona that the Jews of the Duchy
of Holstein have been admitted to the rights of burgessel.