The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-20 00:00:00

BOMBAY, APRIL 15.

In consequence of the limited demand for bills, and
an influx of paper from Calcutta and other places, tho
rate of Exchange on England has advanced from 2s. to
2s. O'd. per rupee, according to the credit attached to the
paper. At the latter rate Calcutta bills have been freely
offered.

CALCUTTA, APRIL 7.
Exchange bas been brisker ; and good bills have been
let off at 2s. lid. a id. at 10 months' date.

HERRING TRADE.— WICK, MAY 7.—A trial was
made for herrings, on this coast, last week, when about fifty were
caught one night on the hooks, off Sarclet. The appearance of fish
on the coast is said to be good. Some contracts have been entered
for cured fish of the ensuing season, at Lybster, for 18s. to 18s. 6d.
The same has been offered at Wick, but not accepted.—John o'Groat
Journal,

STRIKE.—The working carpenters and joiners of
Inverness have resolved to strike work unless an addition of 3s. be
made to their present wages, which average about 12s. per week.—
Ross-shire Advertiser.

Captain Somerset having announced his intention of
standing for the county of Monmouth, in opposition to Lord Gran-
ville Somerset, a member of her Majesty's Government and a Cabinet
Minister, the Gallant Captain has resigned his appointment as
Equerry in the household of her Majesty the Queen Dowager.
ENoßMous COD FISIL—Mr. J. Andrew, of Whitby,
fishmonger, had in his possession last week a most: extraordinary
cod fish, in fact, one of the largest that has been caught along this
coast for a great number of years. The following are the particu-
lars:—Weight, 5 stone, 73ilbs. ; length, 4 feet, 634 inches; circum-
ference, 2 feet, 6 inches.—Yorkshire Gazette.

•
THE ASCENT OF THE BALLOON.—Mr, C. Green,
who ascended on Monday night from the Royal Standard Tavern,
in the Albion balloon, with his brother, Mr. H. Green, after a very,
boisterous passage, landed safely at High Ongar, they having accom-
plished the distance (twenty-five miles) in twenty minutes.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, eldest son of
Prince Johan of Saxony, and heir presumptive to the throne of
Saxony, is shortly to enter the Leipale University.
BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—A poor married woman, of
the name of Mason, residing near the Pound, Bromley, Middlesex,
was on Monday evening (May 18) safely delivered of four sons, all
alive and well, by Mr. 11. V. Garman, jun., of Bow-road, Middle-
sex. The interesting little strangers have since been christened by
the Rev. Mr. Boyle, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Joseph. It is gra-
tifying to add that the mother and her four sons were up to yester-
day going on well.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A few weeks since, Mr.
R. Sallows, of Kates-hill Farm, Hadleigh, had a cat with six kittens.
Three of them were destroyed ; soon after four live young rabbits
were given to it; she managed to eat three, but the fourth she care-
fully placed in the basket with her young, and is now bringing them
up together with the greatest attention, —.Suffolk Paper.
DEATH FROM A PEA.—A boy, two years of age, the
son of Charles Stewart M'Fale, who lives at liazlebottom, was on
Tr,eeday playing with a few peas which his mother had given to him,
when he suddenly began to gasp, as if choked. his alarmed mot ier
Mr. Juckea,
ran to inform her husband, and a crowd collected.
surgeon, of Crumpsall, was riding by, and, thinking that the child
was labouring under suffocation, he rode home for his instruments,
returned, made an incision in the windpipe, and introduced a silver
tube, in order that the child might
breathe
y. It died, however,
Juckes
at
half-past seven in the evening. s the foowing day Mr.
made a post tnortom examination of the body, and found a pea firmly
lodged in the larynx. This, of course, was the CalL9o et death.—Man-
cheater Examiner.
A VICAR. IN A TRULY LAMENTABLE 7)TATE!—It is
the practice of the worthy Vicar of Leeds to invite young persons,
and others in want of spiritual advice and instiuction, to meet him
in the vestry of the parish church, one evening in each week, when
he is in waiting for the purpose. About three weeks ago, a young
journeyman tradesman waited on the vicar, "on serious thoughts
intent," at the hour appointed. He was introduced, and the usual
series of questions put. " Well, young man, are you a member of
the Church ?" " Yes." "Have you been coutirmed ?" " yea." ‘
you regularly receive the sacrament ?" "Yes." "Do you
ever‘rjjgoo
to any other place of worship ?" [Young man, hesitating]—" I have
once or twice of late gone to a Methodist chapel in the evening ?"
--"
[Vicar, drawing back with a shudder, and a stern
man, I have to tell you that you have been guilty of the Young
k awful sin of
achlsnt ; I must infolin ou that you are in a truly awful and lament-
able state.— [A pause.]—Young man, I sin sorry to to,„say that I can
do nothing for you I" [Exit the young man,
Query—Whether is the young man orlaunders t ruck) .
0 caz the cot. maw t
and lamtntabig AM, ?"-4404 AM;