The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-17 00:00:00

SHARES.

Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pa)... 67
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid ... ..... —j
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid).— . ...... ... 33
Great Wes'ern Railway (65 paid) ...... ... h'S
Ditto New Shares (;;0 maid)
London and South Western
Ditto Tenihs .
-.Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)... ......
Ditto New Shares (30 paid).. .........
North Midland Railway (100 paid) ......
Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam' CF. 12 61 Gibraltar
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ..2 U. 12 7 Genoa . 25 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 11 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 SO Palermo, per oz 119
Ditto, 3 months 25 75 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bout deaux 25 SO Rio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia

Petcrsburgh, 3 Us 37i
Berlin... 6 26
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 i\l 10 2
Trieste, ditto
1 adrid
Cadiz
Bilboa • . 35
Barcelona
Seville

Buenos Ayres
New York, :21 days' sight 464
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ
Portugal Gold Coin £3 17 6
Foreign Gold, bars... 3 17 9
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4
Silver in Bars 0 5 0

A CURIOUS CHARACTER.—A few days ago a
matt of very eccentric habit=, depart: d this I fe at his house
Broad-street-building:, in vie 84th year of his age. His
namc was John Yardley Vernon, and he had a fancy for
always appearing about the atm is in the.garb of a beggar.
man. He v, aY, we are g:v..n to understand, a stockbroker
many years ego, and by a careful and industrious course
re,li,ed upwards of 100,000/.. and yet he cut such a nri-
serab'e figure in the streets tha' people have dml pel alms
into a 1 ttie bag which it was his custom to carry. He
nerer appeared to be offended at the mistakes which were
thus made by the compassionate donors, but he invariably
restorei the money with a smile, and the words " No, no,
thank you." The refusal had always the effect of exciting
astonishment, and the old gentleman walked on in an oid
Pair of shoes, or lather slipper=, not worth a penny. The
parochial officers of the neighbourhood in which he resided
say that he made it a rule to walk down to Whitechapel
every day to get a glass of rum-and-water, in which he
soaked some bread, a dish in which ho seemed to take more
delight than in any other. His old habita of business were
exemplified in His visits to butchers' stalls, in which be
pureliased bits of meat, and to brokers' shops, where-he bar-
gained for old pieces of furniture, for which he could have
had no use, except the philosophical one of keeping up the
excitement which the very show of business seldom hils to
encourage. Mr. Vernon attended church regularly, but
never enterei a pew ; he sat among the poorest pa-
rishioners, but frequer tly put upon the pl.te as much as
would pay f)r a suit of the best clothes amongst the whole
congregation tl ere is not a charity in the ward to
which ho was nct a principal contributor.
THE RULING PASSION.—Art exciseman call-
ing at tie house of a pod humoured laadlady at
Shrewsbury, she consulted him about some liqLor that
had been deposited in her c.llir without a permit. At
de words "without a permit" the exciseman rushed b, -
low, and soon found I imself up to the middle in wat r,
which the flooding cf the Severn had forced into the
eellar.—Bristol Jnurnal.
CAMBRIDGE.—The three gentlemen, Messrs.
Cote, Bather, and Thrirg, who stand at the bead of the
first class of the Cambridge Cia,sical Tripos, are, ;cc un-
derstand, schoolfellows; having prcc eded together from
Shrewsbury schocl to college. Such a circumstance is
raid to be unprecedented in the annals of t i her Uaiver,tiy.
A HARE ROASTED ALIVE.—On Wednesday
week, as one of tie down trains v. as passing between Clay
Cross and Chesterfield, a hare sprung into tne ashei-pan
of the engine, ald was compktels roasted, —Sheffield Mer-
cury.