The Sun. — 1837-11-04 (London, England)

SAGO.—At auction 528 bags 83 chests were nearly all taken in at 12s. to 13s. for low and mid. Pearl.  Charles Pair, who was yesterday sentencezl to be transported for life for uttering a gilt sixpence for a half-sovereign, when taken back to his cell contrived? swallow a quantity of laudanum. His intention was ma discovered, and by the prompt application of the stoch, pump his life was saved. A packet of arsenic wasfen° in his pocket. Tile convict, when sentenced, strongly protested his innocence ; and his wife, who was in Court, fainted when the sentence was passed. Cowper, the poet, was vehemently opposeA ~ to ballooning, believing it to be a sinful attempt to rival the Deity. " Were I," said Cowper," an absolute legislator, 1 would make it death for a man to be convicted of fiYing' the moment he could be caught ; and to bring him down from his altitude with a bullet should be no murder.' The barque Elvira, of Halifax, from Hatnburgb. to Jamaica, laden with flour, butter, &c., was dismasteda between Orkney and Shetland, on the 11th ult., by heavy running sea, which swept the decks and washed an the crew, with the exception of one lad overboard, and 3t ten P.M. of the 14th she was driven on shore at Noss, to the westward of Fitfil Head, where she very soon went pieces ; but the only survivor of the crew was again prow dentially saved. GitEENocK.—This morning the hills in sight of our town were capped with snow, and one of our gameh shops exhibited a couple of fine looking woodcocks, Which, on being handled, were plump and fat, evidently none w worse for their journey hither. These nice birds were te be purchased for five shillings—a price, it is believed, that e many an epicure would gladly give, at this early period of the season, for a single woodcock.—Glasgow Chronicle. The small-pox having spread in some nei,shbourin, parishes, has lately appeared in this town, and a report this having been made by one of the district surgeons to tie magistrates and guardians of the poor, a generarvaccinatio has been appointed, and is to he commenced without delay f by the six district surgeons, in their respective districts.° the town, in which the poor will be vaccinated gratuitously' In two adjacent parishes, where the smallpox has rkpp.eareti_. the most satisfactory evidence of the value of vaceination,ro a sure preventive, is attested by the parish surgeon' one of these parishes there were about 40 or 50 children: living in the very vicinity of a house in which the smalVe appeared, who had not, more than those attacked, bee-vaccinated. By a prompt resort to vaccination the Plague' was arrested, not one individual who had been vaccinate( being seized with the small-pox. The efficacy of vaeei° tion was signally shown in three houses, where there were cases of very severe small-pox. In all these there were several children—in one house eight persons—who unprotected by vaccination, who yet were subjected to tidly int,ction four or five days before they could be vaccinate; Nut one instance occurred where the vaccination felon even under the most unfavourable circumstances,--Bull Herald.  AUTHENTIC ANECDOTE OF THE PRINgPRINCE