The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

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Luellos Ayres. 6 per cent..... ,Russian Bontir, 5 per eel t II I %
chilian, 6 per cent • Ditto, Metallic
Colonikan, 6 per cent ' :Spanish, 5 per cent 311,§
Ditto, 1924 'l3 Ditto, Deferred
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Manchester and Birmingham Railway
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Northern and Eastern Railway l5

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On Friday two off Leers belonging to toimouth
delivered into the custody of Mr. Cope,- the Governor
of Newgate, John Wentworth Fairbanks, a young man,
19 years of age, and steward to the barque Secret, of
Liverpool, who stands charged with the wilful murder of
Wm. White, master of the said vessel, on the high sus,
between England and Rio de Janeiro. The prisoner
has undergone an examination at Falmouth, and stands
committed to Newgate for trial at the ensuing sessions.
On Thursday evening last a large flock of wild

geese was seen to pass over Hendford-hill, near Yenvil,
very near the ground, and which doubtless took up
their abode for the night in the corn fields at the top
of the bill, as they were again seen early the next
morning, winging their way to the southward. Se-
veral wild ducks were also seen in the river between
Longport and Ilchester on Sunday morning last.
The early appearance of these birds is generally sup-
posed to 'indicate the setting in of severe weather in
tle north, whence it is also inferred that, in all pro-
bability, an early and severe winter will be experienced
liere.—Sherborne Journal.
The Westminister Cemetery Company have
bought' seventy+ acres of ground of Lord Kensington
adjoining the canal in the .Fulham-road. There are
upwards of ainety men employed in building tit,_ wall
and laying oat the grounds. The burial,pl2ce will be 'o;
great accomodation to Pimlico and Chelsea..,..
. The Semaphore of Marseilles gives, under the.'
head of Digne, an amusing anecdote. of a bear, u hich,
without having had the, benefit of an education from
Mr. Van Amburgh: showed that he was not so bruitish
as his species is gent rally represented. We are informed
that whilst an ambulating artiste was exhibiting, in the
streets of Digne, the extraordinary feats of his bear,
and of a company of theatrical monkeys, the end of the
chain by which Bruin was attached got loose, and he
contrived, whilst the attention of his owner and of the
audience was directed to the performance of his brother
actors, to make his escape unperceived. When his
absence was remarked great alarm was occasioned, and
the bear-leader immediately set off in pursuit of the
fugitive. In the mean time Bruin, in search of adven-
tures, had entered the doorway of a house, which was
open, and quietly walked up to the first floor, where,
leaning against a door, it gave way, and he found him-
self in the presence of three little children, who, in the
absence (;1 their parents, were at play. At first, says
the Semaphore, tine children were frightened, hut, taking
courage at the amiable manners of their visitor, they
gradually approached him, and in a few minutes Bruin
was roiling on his back, like a kitten, in gambols with
his little playfellows, and growling forth, in as tender
notes as his organization would permit, hiz, delight. The
shouts of the children, mixed with the bass notes of the
bear, produced a concert which reached the ears of the
mother, who was in an upper floor. On arriving at the
door of the room in which the game was going 00, her
horror at perceiving her children in the embraces of a
bear may be easily conceived. She uttered a piercing
shriek, and was about to rush to her children ; but her
husband, who had followed, prudently withheld her.
The cry of the mother, however, produced an iinmedi ite
effect upon Bruin, who, unwilling to increase her alarm,
resolved, after two or three more gambols, to take his
leave, which he did in the quietest way imaginable, drag-
ging his chain after him down stairs, and hastening to
join his disconsolate owner, who had returned from a
fruitless search, and given up his bear as lost.
A correspondent in Musselburi!h, having ob-
served in our paper of last week a notice regarding the
large turnip from Balgane, has sent us one, which he
says was raised in the usual way, in a field in that
neighbourhood, farmed by Mr. James Sinclair, measur-
in
—.g thirty inches in circumference, and weighing lsllbs.
1 Scotsman.