The Sun. — 1837-08-18 (London, England)

SALE OF HINDOO IMAGES.—A very interesting Hindoo exhibition, which has been recently brought to this country, and exhibited at St. Katharine's Docks, was yesterday brought to the hammer by Mr. George Robins, at the Auction Mart. The sale was numerously attended by amateurs and connoisseurs, among whom were several foreigners. There were 78 figures as large as life, including the principal images of Hindoo worship, with their peculiar dresses, representing with great accuracy the various people of the principal cities of Hindostan, which ware copied from living objects, including Burmese and Armenians, the descendants of Tamerlane, and the followers of Zoroaster and of Confucius, the Jew from Jerusalem, and the " mild Hindoo," the whole: being the works of native artists. The chef d'alare in the collection was Doorga, the chief to whom every devotee and Hindoo saint boasts of renouncing all pleasures of life, with all the charms of social intercourse of their fellow-creatures. The whole of the 78 figures (which, it was whispered in the room, originally cost upwards of 3,0001.) were put up in one lot, and, after much competition, produced the sum of 630/. Yesterday morning a quantity of smoke was observed to issue from the shop of a bookseller, named Hone, in Chancery-lane, which was occasioned by a lad, the son of the proprietress, a widow, having commenced amusing himself by pouring a quantity of gunpowder, which was contained in a tin box, on the top of a lighted lamp, which having ignited, caused the box to fly with great violence into the face of the lad, by which he had it scorched in a shockinc, manner, besides sustaining other injuries. The little sufferer, who is not more than ten years old, was conveyed to Mr. Paulson, chemist, who dressed his wounds, which are not of a dangerous nature. The fond anticipations entertained during the spring months of having, this season, an ample and excellent crop of potatoes, are already being fully realized. To-day they have been selling at the Square and at the Mid-quay, at the low price of 8d per peck. The peculiar disease that destroyed such extensive quantities of the esculent during the last two or three years, and puzzled so many of the agricultural theorists, has this season completely disappeared, and we have now the confident hope of obtaining a more luxuriant potatoe crop than we have had for some years.—Greenock Advertiser. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Tuesday night a young gentleman, dressed in the first style of fashion, attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the river near Waterloo Bridge, under the following melancholy circumstances :—For some weeks past the unhappy youth has been residing with a female at a house of ill-fame in William-street, Waterloo-road, where he spent a considerable sum of money (received from his mother in the country) in visiting the theatres and other places of amusement, but after spending nearly his last penny he was turned into the street, and rather than return home he determined to destroy himself. Nothing could exceed the gratitude of the misguided youth to his preservers. He stated himself to be a native of Liverpool.  PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOChBank Stock. "11 101 A , India 5t0ek„......„ ................ 3 per Cent. :ed. 9-2% % Ditto Bonels 3 per Cent. Cons 9110“;, South Sea Stock 3 per Cent.- ...... Ditto Red. 100 9954 !New Ditto — New 36 per Cent 99% % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751._ New 5 per Cent--...... — , F.xch. Bills, .£l,OOO 47 49 pm. Bank Long Annuitiestoexpire 'Ditto ...............5011 47 49 rep. Jaa. 5, 1860 Oct. 10, iSS9 .-. — -- Ditto C0mmercia1......... Pm. Jan. 5, ISGO Jan. 5, 18541 — Bank Stock for Acc0unt.........Acc0unt......... April 5, ISt-A, — India Stock for Account. .-Jan. 5, 1=170,.... .......... Omnium ........-- ..... ...... pm.