The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-10 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Scarce a bargain has been done in the Funds to the
present hour, caused by the non•arrival of continental
information. The French mail is hourly looked for,
and perh ips will bring us some important news from
Spain, which we heir is expected soon.
Consols, which left off yesterday 88i for the Account,
opened at 881 ; reduced 87i;}.
The Foreign Funds are nominal at yesterday's prices.
HALF. PAST ONE.
Lettere from Vienna to the 25th ult. state that un-
favourable news had been received from Constantinople;
that Mahmoud bad been forced to change his Minister and
exile Cbo'rew Pacha, who was suspected of being con-
cerned in a plot. Constantinople was in a state of great
fermentation. Accounts from Antwerp state that the
ship Schimmelpennick, twelve hundred tons burdens,
constructed at that port, was on the eve of sailing; this
fine vessel had been in the outer basin since the preceding
Saturday.
To the present hour we still continue without arrivals,
which causes a great dearth of intelligence.
The Congo! Market is not so good as in the early part
of the morning, when they were 881 for the Account,
since which they have been done at 88i ; Reduced,
871 1. This stagnation in the fends may be attributed to
itnportant intrigues going on in the north Of Europe, which
causes the speculators to be very cautious in their opera-
tions ; and perhaps, ere long, the secret will come out.
The Foreign market is in the same state as that of the
British, little or nothing doing. Spanish, 23Vt; ; Por-
tuguese, 56i ; Dutch, 56 to In other Foreign
Funds nothing doing. _

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THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 89i j.

The Rev. Mr. Rice, who died a few days
ago at his house in the Royal Crescent, at Brighton,
was a renowned Bibliomanist. His collections of early
English poetry—if not so extensive as Mr. Heber's, in-
cludes some of the most rare gems, and others that are
unique. Mr. Rice was a bold bidder. He gave fif y
pounds for Anthony Munday's " Banquet of Daintie
Conceits," a thin quarto consisting of 72 pages, pur.
chased from the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetics. This little
volume is of such extreme rarity, that even its title was
unknown to Warton, Rit,un, or, we believe, even the
leviathan Ileber. What will this poetical tract produce
when the collection of Mr. Rice is brought to the hammer
GENERAL SAARSFIELD.—This distin-
guished General was born in the county of Louth, and
left this country for Americs in 1793, with the view of
bettering his fortune; but having been shipwrecked on the
southern coast of Spain, and all countries appearing alike"
to him, he abandoned his intention of proceeding further,
and entered the artillery service of Spain, then at war
with France. Previous to leaving Ireland, be studied
mathematics under a distinguished mathematician, who
then kept a small school at Tenure, county of Low!), and
afterwards attained high proficiency in this science, to
which, perhaps. be is indebted for the rank he now holds
in the Spanish army. There is still living in the county
of Louth a brother of General Saarsfield—Patrick Saars-
field—a man well known for his kind and philanthropic
disposition. He keeps a public house about three miles
from Drogheda, on the northern road ; and although
frequently written to and solicited by his brother to join
him in Spain, he prefer,' the peaceful retirement of his
little farm and the enjoyment of rural avocations to par-
ticipating in the rank and splendour which his relative so
honourably acquired.—Drogheda Journal.

A FOX-HUNTING TAILOR.—From a sports-
man to a tailor is a great jump, but if the tailor happen
to be a sportsman the drop is much reduced. A few
years since—and for anything I know to the contrary he
may now be going—there was a most extraordinary
member of the shop-board in Cheltenham, by the name of
Hastings, whose passion for the chase led him to follow
hounds over a country in a manner and to a degree that
would stagger belief, were not his performance as noto-
rious as the sun at noon_day. He has been in the habit
of constantly starting on foot, from the kennel, with Lord
Seagrave's hounds, quite regardless of distance to cover ;
but what is still more extraordinary, from his fine wind
and speed, as well as perfect knowledge of the country and
the line foxes take, he has never been known to be many
minutes in making his appearance at the conclusion of
the hest runs. He has been known to hunt five days a
week on foot with Lord Seagrave, and meet the
Duke of Beaufort's hounds on the sixth. On one
occasion be walked from Cheltenham to Berkeley
(twenty-six miles), and found the hounds gone to
Haywood, ten miles further. He was rather late, but
saw a good run nevertheless ! Of course he has been
patronised by Lord Seagrave, who, I have been told, pays
for his hunting gear—a fustian jacket and trousers—but
his Lordship and all other sportsmen must lament that a
man with so intuitive a knowledge of hunting, added to
an enthusiastic love of the sport, should have ever been pu
an almost natural
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antipathy to the saddle, which perhaps prevented his en-
tering
into the service of hounds; but if it he all true
which is related of his exploits on foot, and if it be also
true that it requires nine tailors to make a man, I can only
say, I should like to bo the Man that nine such tailors as
Hastings would make. I understand Lord Seagrave more
than once offered him A good situation as earth-stopper
but his answer always was, that he "could not stop
earths a-nighte and hunt a days too." In the summer
months he works hard at his trade. What a strange
animal is man, and what noble sporting is fox-hunting !
Nimrod in the New Sporting Magazine.