The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-31 00:00:00

TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 01+ 911 for money,
may be quoted at present at the same price ; and for the Ac-
count, 91i- 914 ; Omilium, 4k 41 prem. ; Exchequer Bills,
10 12 ; India Bonds, par to 2 prem. ; Bank Stock, 209- 2104.
Although the information from Spain is of a favourable de-
scription this morning, it has not had any effect on the Spanish
Securities, which are still heavy at, Spanish Bonds, 43+ ;
Active, 42i ; Portuguese, 871; 3 per Cents., 56i 57.

HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols have rather improved since the morning to 91i for
the Account, and 911 for Money. Omniuna, 4 premium ;
Exchequer Bills, 10 12 ; India Bonds, par; Bank Stock,
2091

In the. Foreign Market the Spanish Bonds have also im-
proved to 43+ ; New Spanish, 4:4; Portuguese, iii 1 ;
Three per Cents., 57 ; Columbian, 313: i; Mexican, 364
371 ; Dutch, 21 per Cents., 551. Shares are lower than
they were yesterday.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 91i.

A NEW FEATURE.—I remember Grimaldi being
hissed once at Sadler's Wells after singing his celebrated
comic song of " Tippity-witchet," and he appealed to the
audience. "He had nodded," he said, " frowned, winked,
sneezed, choked, gaped, cried, grinned, grimaced, and hic-
cupped ; be had done all that could be done by brows, chin,
cheeks, eyes, nose, and mouth, and what more did they.
want ?" " Why, we want," yawned a languid voice from
the pit, "we want a now feature."

THE SILENT SYSTEM.—We understfrad that the
introduction of the silent system into coAr county gaol has
had a most beneficial effect in keepinv it clear of offenders,
especially of those guilty of mine-, crimes. The irksome-
ness of the system is found te_,
leaving the gaol have 'ln intolerable, and convicts on
enheard to declare that they will
take care never f:.O subject themselves to it again. It is
doubtless in Some measure owing to this circumstance that
there liar cif late been such a remarkable diminution of
crime ill this county.—Hereford Journal.
THE VINTAGE.—VIENNA, OCT. 19. The
vintage begins in our neighbourhood to-day, with very bad
weather, which has now continued with few intermissions
for a fortnight, and has greatly clouded the flattering pros-
pects of our wine growers. This morning the snow on the
neighbouring mountains was five inches deep.—Allgemeene
Zeitung.

Tuesday evening the
Regiment of Guards was

body of a private of the ht
found in the Grosvenor-canal,
Vauxhall-road. It is supposed
walked into the canal arid was

neui. the gas factory, in the
that, being intoxicated, he

smothered in the mud.

In the church of the White Nuns, of the order of
St. Augustin, at Maestricbt, there is preserved the figure of
a crucifix, said to have been found in the heart of a walnut
tree on its being split by lightning. In 1816, when some
trees were removed on the enclosure of the waste land at
Smallberry-green, nearly opposite the mcnsion of the late
Sir Joseph Banks, a gold ring about the weight of a wed-
ding ring, rather flat and broad, with the following inscrip-
tion, " Constancy is a noble virtu," rudely engraven on the
inside, was found embedded in the root of an elm tree. Sir
Hans Sloane also bad in his museum a log of wood brought
from the East Indies, which on being split exhibited these
words in Portuguese, " Du bun ora"—i. e. " Del (Deus).
bonam horam." Jacobus Jaffarellans, among his unheard-of
curiosities, tells of a tree found in Holland, which being cut
to pieces by a wood-cleaver, had in one part of it the figure
of a chalice, in another that of a priest's albe, in another
that of a stole, and, in a word, there were represented very
nearly all the ornaments belonging to a priest.
THE DEATH OF TIIE FOx.—Tile CertkliAtir at the
death of a fox is a very different 111,44 v-was from what it
was formerly. In the first place, there is no scrambling
for the brush, As the fox is generally killed under some
hush, Itl a ditch, or some such place, the huntsman, gr
one of the whips, takes him from the hounds, aq, carries
him to a clear open space—" Whoo hoo,r, 'l.7* and the horn
is blown as a signal of death, and fikr. the purpose of letting
in stragglers—strazoA hounds as well as straggling sports-
men, Tl#t lin* hay the fox, but are not suffered to
totteb lutn.. The. huntsman or whip e 1143 cON. his brush,
his head, and generally the. blebs and if no one manifests
an inclinatiou fc c hher brush or pad, they are pocketed
either by the huntsman or his assistant, the head being
strapped to the horse of the first whip. The hounds, by
this time, have got their mouths together. tiv rvtAitinS of
the fox is thrown to them, and thm i\tsness concludes.
If it be early in tnt4cr. lioutid; nor horses
appear clistrebseil, tine rie'al•eit convenientcover is tried 19y.
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