The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-26 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the prices they left off yes-
terday, 914 for the Account, 91i f for money. No busi-
ness doing as yet. Omnium 44 prem. ; Exchequer Bills 18
20 ; India Bonds 4 6 ; Bank Stock 211 212.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Bonds are not so good as
they were yesterday when they left off, 44i 451, at present
44a Scrip 161 dis. ; Portuguese 881 ; Three per Cents.,
57 581.
UALF-PAST ONE.
To the present hour we have no further Continental
information, consequently we are exceedingly dull in the
City, and the British Funds have been stationary, during
the morning, at the opening prices. Consols, 911 s for the
Account ; 91* 1 for money. Omnium, 4* 1 prem. ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 18 20 ; India Bonds, 4 6 ; Bank Stock,
211 12 ; India Stock, 2551 61.
In the Foreign Market the only business doing is in
Spanish Bonds, which declined from 45 to 441, at present
44k, owing to persons realizing a good profit of 6 or 7
per cent. during the account. Spanish Scrip, 16 15/ dis-
count ; Portuguese, 881 ; Three per Cents., 571 58 ;
Colombian, 33i 34 ; Mexican, 374 38 ; Dutch 2i-, 541 I.
THREE 0' CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 914

Dr. Lardner, in his evidence before the Grcat
Western Railway Bill Committee, gives the following in-
stance of carelessness in the railway managers :—" I was
descending the slope of I in 96 on the Manchester
Railway with a train of goods ; the engineer let the
train run down for a considerable time without the
break, and we obtained a velocity that appeared to me
to be exceedingly dangerous. I ordered him to apply
the break, but the break totally failed ;it was burnt. A
signal was made to us by the road police to stop, but the
train did not stop for a considerable distance from the foot
of the slope. When we descended we found that the wheel
of one of the waggons had broken, so that both wheels
dragged along the rail during the descent, forming a more
powerful break than the common breaks, and notwith-
standing this the train went down with the furious velocity
of from 40 to 50 miles an hour !"

EXTRAORDINARY CHARACTER.—Sir John Ed-
mund Browne, Bart., who lately died at his residence in
Dublin, was a man of most singular and eccentric habits.
He lived to the advanced-age of 88, and for the last thirty
yehre drank nothing but water, the virtues and medicinal
qualities of which he extolled in many a long peroration.
He seldom went to bed before eight, nine, or ten o'clock
in the morning, and rose about the same hours in the
evening, thus turning night into day. His health was ex-
cellent until a few days previous to his decease, when he
gradually sank, suffering neither pain nor ache. He had
been called to the English Bar, and was acknowledged
to be a man of great attainments and extensive know-
ledge. His writings, which are very voluminous, it is
said, will be published. It may be worthy of, remark,
that the coldest night never obliged him to use a fire,
but, as a substitute, he wrapped his legs and feet in
flannel.

TIIE Toms or SPURZWEIM.—A writer in the
Portland (American) Advertiser makes the following
remarks relative to the tomb of Spurzheim :—" The
principal object which, upon entering, attracts the
attention, is a plain monument of white marble,
enclosed by a simple iron railing, and situated
upon a little green knoll directly in front of the gateway,
at a short distance from it. It is the tomb of Spurz..
heim. Its inscription is a single word—' Spurzheim.' It
is strange the effect which this simple monument with its
inscription produces on the feelings—veneration and awe
take possession of the mind, and we almost feel as if the
ground we stand upon is holy."

On Monday, a man named Walsh was run over
by the day-cars in the Main-street, Clonmel, and very se-
verely injured.
The censors make use of red ink ; the colour would
have more appropriately decorated their cheeks. M. C.
Dupin is occupied, they say, in writing biographical notices
of the last 30 " illustrations" of the peerage. In his capacity
of mathematician, M. Dupin is accustomed to seek the un-
known. For the short time its existence will last, in the
year of grace 1836, it will be only necessary, with a few
trifling alterations, to reprint the Royal Almanack of 1823.
We are told, that as soon as he learned there was a man of
the same name as himself among the new censors, Perrot,
the celebrated dancer, went before the Minister of Justice
-to obtain permission to change his name.—Le Charivari.

The ploughing match on the Duke of Sutherland's
estate, in this county, took place on the 15th inst., at Tib-
berton, in the presence of the Duke and Duchess of Suther-
land, and their son, the Marquis of Stafford. Several of his
Grace's cottage tenants received rewards for improving their
premises, and bringing into cultivation waste lands without
assistance from their landlord. The rewards to the succes-
ful candidates were given to the parties by the Duke him-
self, after all bad partaken of the excellent dinner provided
on the occ'tsiou, at Mr. Green's, at the Day House. His
Grace expressed the most anxious regard for the interests of
his tenants ; and his hopes that his son would be no less at-
tentivp to their welfare.—Salopian Journal.
SPRIG OF NOBILITY I—On Thursday, one of the
most forlorn-looking objects it has ever been our lot to
witness was brought before the magistrates, in the shape of
an old woman, dressed in a robe of coarse unbleached linen,
of which it was difficult to distinguish the original parts, if
any remained—a broad wallet, half full of matches, was,
however, sufficiently conspicuous. The lady (for so she
stated herself to be, own daughter to the Duke of Portland),
appeared. utterly to despise alike the laws of etiquette and
the casttgations of the law. She had little or no covering
to her feet, but of that she was too proud to take any notice.
Her bead was adorned with the remnant of an old black
bonnet, which it would require a nice discernment to de-
fine whether it was really of more use as defence from the
weather, or a scare-away for the birds.—Hull Observer,

A person of gentlemanly appearance and manners
called at the house of a lady at Knightsbridge on the sth of
September, when he engaged apartments, and, under the
pretence of paying some money in advance, obtained a few
yowls in exchange of an order on an officer at the office of
an army agent, whore, though the officer was known, he had
no immediate connexion, and was with his, regiment in Ire-
No money was paid, and from the above gentleman
absenting himself for so many days, it is quite clear what is
the nature of the transaction. He also borrowed two books,
one of them the Chamehon, the other a nueftbet of the
Quartery Review Qf tilt You 18.10. He appears to be
about yer, age, tall, With dark whiskers and eyes, pale
comp exionz and appeared to be foci Qf
ELopgMENT.—A few days since a respectable wi-
dow, residing in Hardres-street, Ramsgate, let her lodgings to
a gentleman and lady, under the supposition that
were
a
man and wife. Shortly after th ;rrival, a gentleman
pparpd, followed by twe officers, and demanded the lady,P-
whose screams brought the neighbourhood together en masse.
It appears that the parties are very respectably connected,
and belong to the neighbourhood of London, that they had
ploppd ficato their friends about two months since, and been
pursued by
the lady's brother and mother, and traced from
place to 010(3 till discovered as above. The fugitive was
placed in a chabie and carried off, leaving her gay Lothario,
(who was absent at the moment) to chew the bitter cud of
ttisavpointroent.—Kent Herald,

NENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.