The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-08 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

which closed yesterday at 911 for the Account,
opened this morning rather heavy at 914 sellers, owing to the
indisposition of thu Kino.; Exchequer Bills, 35 to 37; India
Bonds, 33 to 37 ; Bank° Stock, 2041.
Spanish Active maintains the price they closed at, 221 221,
done (Ex-Coupons)—at present, 231, without Coupons ;
Portuguese, 434- ; Three per Cents., 28a ; Dutch Two-and-
at Half per Cents., 53k.
We understand that all the China Bills drawn upon the
thi%e great American Ilouses, recently failed, will be pro-
vided for.

Up to the present hour all is tranquil 41 the City in respec
to commercial affairs.

HALF-PAST OAK
All continues perfectly tranquil in the City to the present
It:Air—not even a failure is reported.
A second letter from Liverpool has been received by the
coach ; it does not bring any tidings of the American packet-
ship of the 16th being off that port, no doubt owing to the
easterly winds. It is anxiously looked for,
Consols continue rather heavy. In the early part of the
morning they were at 91f , since which they have receded to
91A- for the Account. His Majesty's illness throws a damper on
the market. Excl:equer Bills, 35 37 prem. ; India Bonds,
35 37, ; Bank Steck, 205. There is ♦ery little business doing
in either of the Heus••s. Spanish Active, 23ii ex .Courons ;
Passive, ; Portuguese, 431 ; Three per Cents, 28 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, 53i ; Brazilian, 83. ;
American Bank Stock, 931—little doing.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, 91i.

The country-gentlemen, in losing their rank and
condition, lost the higher and more delicate part of their prin-
ciples. There decayed at once in them that robustness and
that nobility of character, which men, like trees, acquire from
standing separately. Deprived of their former occupations
and amusements, and impatient of inactivity, they condescended
to be members of gaming clubs in the fashionable cities, in-
curred new and worst expenses. and eagerly sought, from among
the friendships which they had contracted those who might
obtain for themselves, or for their families, some atom from
the public dilapidation. hence nearly all were subservient
to the minister; those who were not so, were marked out as
disaffected to the constitution, or at best as single men rho
courted celebrity from retirement.—Lander.

A farmer, from Sparkbottom, Derbyshire, named
William Sampson, who bad lately been attending the market,
narrowly escaped a most horrible death under the following
circu:nstanees was setting his cart in a shed in the Royal
Oak-yard, Little Underbank, when accidentally placing his,
feet upon some decayed boards, which proved the only cover
to an old pump well, the boards gave way under his weight,
and ho ivas precipitated to a depth of about thirty feet, and,
in all probability, would have been drowned if his descent had
not been interrupted by a beam across the well, to which he
clung for support. Ile was soon extricated from his dan-
gerous situation, and fortunately the only injury he sustained,
in addition to being thoroughly drenched, was a few bruises.—
Manchester Times._

Mr. Francis Hunt at the Ballast-h]ls, near this
town, has a hen which lately deposited an egg weighing up-
wards of four ounces, and of the extraordinary longitudinal
circumference of eight inches.—Sunderland Herald.

In spite of the jibes and jests of our Tory Con-
temporaries the requisition to Mr. Elphinstone has been for-
warded to London, and after passing safely through the ordeal
of the examination with which they threatened it, has been
accepted. 'We shall be strangely disappointed if Toryism is
net put down for ever in this town at the next election.—
Liverpool Chronicle.