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

FUNDS.

As nothing definitive is known as yet respecting the
mixed Committee at Madrid on the Cortes Bonds, Spanish
Stock is stationary at present ; opened at about the same
price as they left off-57i 4 ; Portuguese 86 871. Con-
sols may also be quoted at the leaving-off price, at 918 for
account.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We are exceedingly dull in the city, owing to the great
dearth of information which prevails to the present hour,
and in consequence of which there is no animation either
in the British or Foreign markets. Spanish, 5711. Por-
tuguese, 87 4.
Consols which were during the morninc, at 91i I for the
Account, may be quoted at present 914 1, both for money
and time.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols for tho Account, 91i H.

THE SUPERB STEAMER.

The following was posted at Lloyd's :—" Extract of a let-
ler from Lowestoffe, dated Nov. 7. Your favour of the 6th of
Nov. I duly received, and, in reply, have made inquiry respect-
ing the Superb steam-vessel, but could not learn any intelli-
gence relative to her, until unfortunately mentioning the cir-
cumstance to one of my own masters. He perfectly recollects
being in company with the Superb on Thursday. the 23d ult.,
about six leagues to the East of Yarmouth, in a gale from
N. N. E. ; both vessels ran for Lowestoffe Roads, where they
rode until Sunday, the 26th, at about three miles to the South
of this place, when the master of my lugger observed the same
vessel standing out to sea about six or seven leagues off to the
South of Yarmouth, in a strong wind of W. N. W. He then
steered to the North, and saw nothing more of the Superb ;
nor can I learn that she had any communication with the shore."

CROMWELL.—There is little doubt that the Pro-
tector always went privately armed; indeed, we have many
strange stories of his having done so. In the year 1655,
Cormwell being recommended by his physician (Dr Bates) to
take violent exercise, acted as his own coachman, and drove
his carriage in Hyde. Upon one occasion the horses sud-
denly took fright, and threw the Protector from the coach-box
on the• pole, when he was dragged some distance before he
could be extricated. A pistol, which he carried in his pocket,
went off, but luckily did him no injury. Much wit was ex-
hausted by the cavaliers upon this accident, and songs were
made and sung upon the Protector's bad coachmanship.—The
Parterre.

On Friday last, as Thomas White, a labourer
employed in the ironworks belonging to Mrs. Hill, at Tipton,
was stepping over a spindle which connects the rollers in
the mill, his apron became entangled with the spindle and
stretcher affixed thereon, and his body was forced round
with the spindle twice, by which his head was fractured, and
he died in less than three hours afterwards —Wolverhampton
Chronicle.

ANTI-MALTHUSIAN PROC EtEDINGS.—Last night
(Thursday) a young woman, the wife of a plasterer and tiler,
named Pearse, living at 23, Oak street, Lower Bristol road,
was safely delivered by Mr. Fryer, Surgeon, of three girls,
who, with the mother, are all doing well. As the usual pre-
parations had been made for only one visitor, the arrival of
three has caused great embarrassment. A circumstance cal-
culated greatly to alarm Mr. Malthus, and his disciple, Miss
Martineau, is that the age of neither of this prolific couple ex-
ceeds 20 years.—Bath Herald.
WILSON, THE POET AND ORNITHOLOGIST.—
Wilson, in his pursuit of a fortune, was accustomed, like many
a one else in the world, to allow his hopes and anticipations to
shoot a very long way a-head. His shopmates, on the other
hand, used to affirm, that with so many bees in his bonnet lug,
he would never get rich. " I'll tell you what it is, Sanny,"
said one of them to him one day, " Gin e'er ye be worth 30/.
in this warl, I'll leave my occupation, be it what it will, and
become your servant." " I hold you to your word," replied
Wilson. Time rolled on, and four years of it found the shop-
mate alluded to installed as dominie of the village school at
Quarrelton. While busily employed one afternoon in teaching
" the young idea how to shoot," who should pop in on him
but Wilson ! " Weel, Davit, I come to claim your agree-
ment—what warning must you give id ?" " Sax weeks,"
said Davit; " but dear me, man, hae ye really scraped
thirty pounds thegither at last ?" " Not yet," said Wilson,
" but I will before the six weeks are out, and I thought I
would give time to prepare." " Awed, awed," said Davit.
Four weeks more rolled on, and Wilson entered once more the
little temple of knowledge, and with a very dejected look, and
exclaimed, " Did you give in your warning, Davit ?" " Atweel
no," said Davit, " I thought it would be time enough when I
saw the siller." " I am glad of it," said Wilson, " for my
hopes have again been baffled, and I am once more at the ne
plus ultra of poverty."
THE EVILS OF PROSPERITY.—It is an ever-
lasting truth, that man is in more danger from prosperity than
from adversity. Bion being asked what was the most dange-
rous thing in the world, answered, " to be most fortunate."
" You will wisely shorten sail," says Horace to his friend
Murena, " when too much swelled by:a prosperous gale.'
Plato thanked the gods that he had been a pupil of Socrates,
who always despised Fortune and her gifts. Cicero says that
those who court fortune are more blind than fortune, who ne-
ver advanced any one without reducing him again to misery."
—The Parterre.

MARCH OF INTELLECT.—It has long been a
common saying, that "the Schoolmaster is abroad," and to us
it appears, in more respects than are meant, a very true one,
for to our certain knowledge there are very many districts in
this our merry England, in which it cannot well be said that
he has ever been rightly at home. Under such circumstances
it is not to be wondered at if the march of intellect amongst
the lieges be somewhat like that of Pady 0 Rourke's Irish regi-
ment, that is to say, if it should be advancing backwards. A
striking instance of this occurred to a worthy friend of ours, the
minister of a place not a hundred miles from New Mills, last
Sunday. As the reverend gentlemen was proceeding to
his duties, a blooming damsel, whose ruddy countenance
and dimpled cheek bespoke the wearer to be in the
most perfect health, came suddenly up to him, and after
honouring him with a curtsey in her best style, and wishing him
a good morning, asked him very politely " if he would be so
kind as to favour her with a shilling in silver for wwelve pence
in copper." Surprised at the singularity of the request he asked
her what she intended to do with it ? With simplicity she
informed him that she was subject to very bad fits, and she had
been told that if she would get four and twenty half-pennys
from four and twenty different folks, and get some church
minister to give her a silver shilling for them, and have the
shilling made into a ring, and wear it on D. certain finger, she
would never have any more of them, We wish we could
say that our Rev. Friend had complied with the innocent
girl's wish ; but, whether from want of thought, or having no
faith himself in such superstitious practice, we cannot
tell, but some how or other, it happened that he did not give
her change for her copper, but recommended Iter to gu home
and leap over the poker, which, he assured her, would answer
her purpose just as well as wearing a silver ring, and at the
same time save her both time and expense. W-
heard what effect the poker remedy
is sometimes great " vir_tez - eve not
tettrueed but as there
a pole.; " we sincer'ely, trust her
faith in the same will save her from all kinds of fits in future.
Stockport Advertiser,