The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-24 00:00:00

ET.—Jan. 23.

WallsEndßewieke&Co.
Ditto Clarke and C 0...., 36 3
Ditto Jesmond 37 6
Ditto 38 9
Ditto Russell's 38 ,0
Hartley 33 0
Beamish South Moor— 38 0
Eden Main
Russell's Lyon's 37 6

lips sold, 12N—Unsold, 30

COUNTRY GORN MARICE7'S DUItING THE WEEK

Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans.
Per Quarter. s. to s. ^s.to s. s. to s. s. s.
Abingdon...—. 54 66 35 42 a 5 42 62
Andover.—....—... 56 64, 34 39 30 36
Birmingham 48 62 30 34 24 40 62
Bridrt 52 .6 .32 39, 26 —328 56
Cirencpoester 48 58 '25 30 2t 27 6t
Faringdon 4B 54 36 38 24 34 46
Guildford 44 64 36 45 26 37 58
Henlvy 50 66 32 43 26 34 60
Hereford 64 66 46 50— 42 72
Maidenhead 60 68 38 42 29 38 60
42 64 27 33 18 37 60
Oakingham --.... 56 60 30 40 28 36 50
Reading —. 48 67 28 34 18 35 62
Salisbury-- 48 58 29 22 21 26 64
Southampton 52 56 37 40 80 32 54
Stroud 56 60 36 40 32 42 62
Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42 33 38 60
Uxbridge 66 74 30 34 24 - 32 52
Wantage— 55 70 39 45 30 40 62
Warminster 46 60 29 84 21 26 60
Windsor---- 48 64 30 34 22 30
Worcester........—. 52 64 34 22 32 64
CHELTENHAM MA RKET.—Jan. 22.
• Per Bushel.' s. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. to d.
Wheat 6 0 6 6 Beef ti 8
Barley
Oats
Beans 7 9 8 0 Lamb 0 0
Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 6 8
Hay 4l. 10s. to Si. per ton.

F. per ton,

MELANCHOLY CASE OF SUICIDE.---FUR-
TILER PARTICULARS.—On Saturday last, the 19th inst.
about two o'clock in the morning, a private of the 56th
Regiment, an Englishman, while on sentry at the Bank,
in College-green, blew out his brains by the discharge of
his firelock. On the Coroner's Inquest, it appeared in
evidence, that the deceased, while stationed under the
eastern portico of the Bank, quitted his post, leaving his
firelock in his sentry-box, and went to the sentry at the
western portico, who, on observing him, said, " You are
taking it rather coolly ;" to which the deceased said, " I am
going to take it coolly ;" adding, that " this drilling is
enough to make a man do what he would not wish to do."
—He then returned to his post, and terminated his ex-
istence as above. The disease of his mind is manifest, and
that what affected him was imaginary—for it appears
that he had never been sent to drill, though he had been
threatened with it. He bore a good character in his corps,
and his name never appeared in the book of defaulters. It
is worthy of remark, that the brother of the deceased, who
was in the marine artillery, put an end to his existence, and
that his sister also committed suicide. The deceased, be-
fore the committal of the fatal act, scratched on the wall of
the Bank, with his bayonet, the words, "E. Hearne, 56th
regiment." The Coroner's Inquest brought in a verdict,
" Insanity." He was 28 years of age.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

THE WHITE BEAR OF NORTH AMERICA.
—Nature has distinguished this animal by peculiar charac-
ters. He feeds entirely on fruits during summer and
autumn, and it is at those seasons that the 'lndians go in
search of him in places where fruits are abundant, and de-
stroy him. When the cold weather commences he pro-
ceeds to hide himself in the hollow of some tree, or in a
hole which he digs for himself in the earth. Here he re-
mains completely motionless, apparently under the influence
of the soundest sleep, for the whole of the winter. He
sustains himself by sucking his paws, from which the fat
with which his body is covered seems to pass for his
nourishment. The Indians discover his abode sometimes
by means of dogs which scent him, sometimes by the place
which his breathing marks in the snow, and they destroy
him without his making the least resistance or even motion,
so that a single pike or lance is sufficient for the purpose.
In the spring, the season when he quits his den, he in
the first place exerts himself to regain possession as it
were of thoSe natural powers which have remained
suspended or paralysed during the whole winter. He
cleanses himself by purgative and diuretic simples,
which nature points tut to him with more clearness than
they are indicated by our physicians aud botanists. As,
however, so long an abstinence, and this succeeding pur-
gation, must necessarily have weakened his stomach, and
it is consequently necessary for him to follow a light regi-
men, he commences with fish. The manner of his con-
ducting his fishing is truly extraordinary. Sitting on his
hind paws on the bank of a river or a lake, he continues
so perfectly motionless that be might be :uistaken for a
burnt trunk of some tree, which frequently deceives even
the keen and practised eye of an Indian himself. With
andrl skillf
fish which
his right paw he seizes withincrue:ildibelrehcieslee;!etys, a
h
them on the bnk
unsuspectinglyli'lle pass n
he has obtained a plentiful sup-
plya
for his table, he regales himself on a• portion of it, and
conceals the rest, that he may have sure recourse to it, as
aispetite serves, during the day : be appears perfectly to
know that morning and evening are the only times for fish-
ing. He afterwards proceeds to a more substantial fare, to
the flesh of beasts which he hunts, or finds dead, and at
length he returns to
he is a
to his diet of fruits. Thus, at successive
periods
piscivorous, carnivorous, and
(rupirorous animal.