The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-25 00:00:00

THE-FUND 6. (THIS DAY.)

CITY;
Accounts have been received from Rio Janerio, via Havre,
of the 29th of May, bringing the Exchange on that date at 36.
We are exceedingly short of arrivals this morning, conse-
quently no news in the City to communicate.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 911 ex dividend.
opened this morning at 91 4; Exchequer Bills, 47 48;
India Bonds, 47 48; Bank Stock, 210; India Stock, 258.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active closed at 204
ex Coupons, opened at the same price ; Portuguese closed at
at 4q-1, opened at the same ; Three Per Cents, 25k ; Dutch
Two-and-a-half Per Cents, 52i.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We have no continental news in the city of any description,
and indeed none is wanted, as the various elections sufficiently
occupy the attention of the public.
We just learn that the Sheriffs have announced a majority
for Grote of Six.
Console have reached during the morning to 91i; at pre-
sent 914 ; Money 91i ; little doing. Exchequer Bills 47
49 premium ; India Bonds 47 49 premium ; Bank Stook
210 ; India do. 258.
In the Foreign Market also little doing. Spanish Active
201 ex-Coupons; Portuguese ; 3 per Cents., 26 ; Dutch•
2} per Cents., 52k.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 914.

An improved method of planting cabbages is prac-
tised at Romford, where a narrow spade is used instead of the
dibbler, by which the root is found to spread much 'better.
The operation is merely to thrust the spade into the ground.,
and making an aperture sufficient to receive the plant, it Is
fixed by pressing it with the foot.—Essex Herald.
The next meeting of the Purcell Club takes place.
August 15. The members will attend Divine Service at the
Abbey morning and afternoon, and meet in the evening at
the Crown and Anchor, where Ladies will be invited to
attend.

The Corporation of Totnes met on Friday last, to
move an address to the Queen and Queen Dowager. Perfect
unanimity of sentiment prevailed, without any admixture of
party feeling. George Stanley Cary, Esq., moved the address
to the Queen, which was seconded by Sir George Adams.
The address to the Queen Dowager was moved by J. May,
Esq., and seconded by Thornton Bentall, Esq.
VIENNA, JULY 11.—Prince Polignac has left
Vienna ; the health of his son requiring that he should try the
effects of a warmer climate. The Prince is gone to Italy.
The Transylvanian Diet has adjourned for six weeks.
ST. PETERSBURGH, July 15.--On Sunday, the
gth inst., Mr. Milbank, Minister Plenipotentiary
of her
Britannic Majesty, was received by the Emperor at the Palace
of Peterhoff, where he had the honour to deliver to his ln.e.
perial Majesty the letters of notification of the decease of his
Majesty Kin; William IV., and of the accession of her Ma-
jesty Queen Alexandrina Victoria to the throne of the Unites
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After this audience
Mr. Milbank had also the honour of being received b 1 ber
Majesty the Empress.

niyers
daughter -teLADY'S
-hPeißr PROMISE.—Lady
ThomaslsE. LEaardlyo.f Penelopevihcam'Aarrrcit;sa
Sir George Trenchard, was left a widow at seventeen. She'.
wedded, secondly, Sir John Gage, Knt., and thirdly, Sir Wil-
liam Hervey, Knt., of Ickworth, in Suffolk. This fair lady
and wealthy heiress was wooed by. three suitors at the same
time, and the Knights, as in chivalry bound, were disposed to
contest the prize with target and lance ; but the lady herself
forbade the battle, and menaced the disobedient Knights with
her eternal displeasure, promising jocularly that, if they had
but patience, she would have them all in their turns, and she
actually fulfilled her promise—for she espoused first, Sir
George Trenchard, of Wolverton ; secondly, Sir John Gages
of Feile ; and thirdly, Sir William Hervey, of Ickworth.
Rattle Grass, so common on pasture ground, hss
by some means been transferred to the arable lands in the
Roothings and more northern parts of this county. At High
Easter, and in its vicinity, its effects have been nearly destruc-
tive to the crops. —Essex Herald.
TILE SPARTAN WomEN.—ln their domestic li le
the Spartans, like the rest of the Greeks, have but little plea-
sure in the society of their wives. At first the young husbinei
only visited the bride by stealth—to be seen in company with
her was a disgrace. But the women enjoyed a much
greater freedom, and received a higher respect in Sparta than
elsewhere ; the soft Asiatic distinctions in dignity between the
respective sexes did not reach the hardy mountaineers of La-
cedwmon ; the wife was the mother of men ! Brought up in r&-
bust habits, accustomed to athletic exercises, her person.
cea-
posed in public processions and dances—.:which, but for OWustom that made decorous even indecency itself, wonlid have
been indeed licentious—the Spartan maiden, strong, hardy,
and half a partaker in the ceremonies of public life, shgared en.
habits, aided the emulation, imbibed the patriotism of 'ner futar°
consort. And by her sympathy with his habits aid pursuits'
she obtained an influence and an ascendancy over him which
were unknown in the rest of Greece. Dignified on public
occasions, the Spartan matron was deemed however, a virago
in private life, and she who had no sorrow for a slauaht ere,
son, had very little deference for a living husliand. —Belo ler'i
Atie .s.

FAcTIoN.—It is no wonder that faction is so 'kW:
ductiv;! of vices of all kinds ; for, besides that it inflaroßs 411'
the passions, it tends to remove those great restraints, tyolaior
and shame, when men find that no iniquity can lose them.:the
applause of their own party, and no innocence secu'iv tb, eta
against the calumnies of the opposite.—Hume.