The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-11 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols are 90-3-8 for the Account, with very little doing in
them, as the chief operations of the day continue in Spanish
stock, which had reached 48, and at present is 471 Portu-
guese, 844 85.
THREE O' CL CK.
Consols for the Account, 908 4.

Mr. Lawrence Lander, late of the Customs, and
brother to the late African traveller, died on Tuesday last at
Truro, at the age of twenty-seven.

The Duke of Rutland has gone to Longshawe
Lodge, his shooting-box, on the moors of Yorkshire, for the
diversion of grouse shooting, which commences on Tuesday next.

CIIOLERA.—We regret to state that cholera has
again visited Glasgow, and that in the lower streets of the
town especially, several cases have occurred on Saturday and
Sunday, most of which have been fatal. On Saturday a meet-
ing of the district surgeons was held at the request of the
magistrates, with the view of adopting vigorous measures for
meeting the evil.—Aberdeen Observer.
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.-011
Saturday an inquest was held at the Manor House Tavern,
Stoke, Newington, on the body of Joseph Greenhough, Esq.,
aged 34, late a gentleman holding a lucrative situation in the
Bank of England. The deceased, who was on a visit at the
residence of Mr. J. Shaddock, of the Grove, Tollington
Park, Tottenham, went out for a walk, and shortly after his
body was discovered floating in the New River. The Jury,
having no satisfactory evidence, returned a verdict of " Found
drowned."

At the Tyrone Assizes, a man was tried for giving
" three cheers for the King, and his declarations to the
Bishops !" The Court directed him to be acquitted.—Linte-
rick Chronicle.

Tuesday afternoon, two ladies got out of a caleche
to make some purchases in a shop in the Place de la Bourse.
A dexterous thief went up to the carriage, and was on the
point of appropriating to himself different objects which the
ladies had left in it, when he was laid hold of by a workman,
who had noticed his movements from the window of a wine-
shop at the corner of the Rue Vivienne. One of these ladies
had in her reticule 10,000 f. in bank-notes, which she had just
received from her banker. A reward was offered to the honest
operative, who, notwithstanding the earnest entreaties of the
lady, refused to accept it.—French Paper.
WOLVERHAMPTON, AUG. 6.—The weather
showery ; the harvest in a precarious state, progressing but
slowly, and almost daily incurring damage ; the, farmers
alarmed, and asking wild prices for their grain ; the millers
and other buyers cautious and hesitating, hoping, or rather
fearing, finer weather, therefore taking off the market no
more than for their immediate demands, so that business is
not doing to a great extent, but, on the contrary, is rather lan-
guid, hinging upon the weather.
At Colignac, near Urgan, a few nights since, a
person named Rodier went to the house of one Volpilliere,
who had seduced his daughter, with the intention of shooting
him. Having knocked at the door, the latter looked out of
the window, upon which Rodier shot at, but missed him. Vol-
pilliere then came down and fired at Rodier, who fell. Sup-
posing him to be dead, he returned into the house and blew
out his own brains. The other, however, though seriously
wounded, is likely to recover.—Paris Paper.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY A
BoY.—On Saturday morning a youth only 13 years of age,
the son of a very respectable person named Sexley, living in
Park-street, Dorset-square, Marylebone, attempted to commit
suicide by throwing himself into the Regent's Canal, near to
the foot of Primrose-hill. He was got out after being under
water four minutes, and was recovered.

THE WISDOM OF OUR ANCESTORS.—The dwell-
ings of the Anglo-Saxons were full of crevices, and to prevent
the current of air from extinguishing the lamps in the Royal
Palace, Alfred invented lanterns. In the reign of Edward I.
a proclamation was published, forbidding the use of coal as a
public nuisance. In the reign of Edward I V., so great was
the ignorance of the times, that many even of the bishops,
when compelled by their office to sign certain laws or regula-
tions, were obliged to adopt such methods as the following :
" As my Lord Bishop cannot write, at his request I have sub-
scribed."—lnce's Outlines of English History.