The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-26 00:00:00

" SUCH A GETTING UP STAIRS."

' Oa Monday last, as the band of juvenile teetotallers
were marching out of the town to the inspiring strains of
the Grangemouth flute band, three oxen, which were
being driven to the slaughter-house, took fright at the
demonstration, and ran off at fall speed. One of the
three, after threading some of the intricate passages
running west from the Cow Wynd, rushed along
Baxter's Wynd to near the High-street. The fear of
encountering the music seems to have frightened it
from proceeding further in that direction, for at this
point it turned to the right, and took shelter in the house
known as the lodging-place of Prince Charles Edward.
The first intimation that was received of its presence
was at Mr. John Johnston's door, the farthest up the
stair, where, as may easily be imag4ed, its appearance
rather astonished the inhabitants. Those in charge of
the cattle having arrived, the difficulty was to get the
brute down the way it had come, the stair being
old-fashioned and narrow, and at one time it appoareo
not unlikely that it would have to share the fate of ac
adventurous cow which mounted the spiral staircase of
Michael Scott's tower at Aikwood, and be killed on the
spot. By means of ropes attached to the body, how-
ever, and by strenuous pulling at the tail—which seemed
almost in danger of parting with the rump—the animal
was got down two flights of stairs; bat it descended
upon the wooden landing-place with such force, that its
bind legs instantly disappeared, and after the dust bad
cleared away, were discovered by the shopkeeper dang-
ling from the ceiling of his back room. Fortunately a
short stout rafter was between the animal's legs, or he
must have descended bodily into the shop. There was
considerable difficulty in getting him out of this fix, but
he was at length got safely into the open air, and without
further adventures was driven to his quarters.—Falkirk
Herald.

PERILOUS POSITION.
At midnight there was a perfect gale from the south-
east. The ship had been snugged by little and little
until at length she was " hove-to" under close reefed
maintopsail. About eight o'clock orders were given
to stow the flying jib, the foremost sail in the ship:
two of the men went out to perform this duty. As one
of them was feeling his way out, for it was as dark as
pitch, he planted his feet on the lee footropo, and was
almost precipitated into the yawning abyss. Lie caught
hold of a rope in his fall, and struggled for a long
time. It was very long indeed, not to him, but to those
who were watching his writhing form by the light of
the boiling and phosphorescent waves beneath. I was
on the weather bow at the time, and saw how his com-
rades behaved. No one spoke a word, for that might
only diminish his chances of escape; there was no help
for him if he failed to save himself. The man that was
on the jibboom with him moved neither hand nor foot,
and uttered not a word. At length he regained his
footing, and proceeded to his duty. Had he been a
minute longer swinging among the footropes, he would
have been swept off never to have been seen, for the
bowsprit was actually buried in the sea, while the two
men wore clinging with clasped arms to the yielding
spar, on the strength of which their lives were hung.
When they came in, having discharged the duty en-
trusted to them, I endeavoured to be near the one that
had made such a narrow escape. As he stepped down
upon the deck, he touched me by the merest accident.
A trembling sensation passed through his whole frame,
andve_ !marked inspiratory effort carried gratitude to boa-
,iveulr.oM his breast. On the very threshold of home,
winter and ht have lost this poor fellow, after the Arctic
the intense frosts after the fatigue of travel-
ling, and the
excruciating thirst, had all failed to break
our number,
Voyage to 1T'—Sutherland's Journal of Captain Penny's
cuington Channel.

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every one exclai BUILDINGS,
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some 90,0001., and
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worthy. It is am ota
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and perhaps more, eve been
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therehere a million,
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Windsor. such_ parsimonious
thing for the money.
a certain grandeur of
Who asks the coat? Who, 'Cr; in fihe,asoirmof e
dignity,
Chapel, or Greenwich o , that looks at ‘,snccess.
hospital, or R. " hitehall
Chapel, Cambridge, or anyone of our GothTireo Collegeßums
those noble erections? The reason is obvionbeatowed on
thing well, and then no one will accuse you 30i 1)0 any.
gantly laying oat your money, whatever the suruextrav,_
is a noble city, bat millions upon millions have L.,,,,Paris
pended to render it so. The Madeleine, the "I
, e Arc d
l'Etoile, the Luxembourg. the Louvre, the Eiotel de
Ville, the Palais du Ministire, Quai d'Orsay, Versailles
Fontainebleau, have absorbed countless sums. Did pa 4,
—does the present generation feel it? H.R.H. Prince
Albert has taught us a great lesson: let us profit by
wisdom which guided his proceedings in the Great Ex-
hibition of 1851. It was a gigantic and wenations 11-digewere
sted
plan: it embraced every contingency: a
to take part: no branch of natural or manufactured pro-
dactions was to be omitted: the vast space of twenty-
two acres was to be covered in, and a pile raised to
cost 150 ,000/ . and this for a mere temporary purpose.—
Builder.

hitherto which has ,
THE SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD AILWA
pre-
sented such a formidable obstacle to the
progress of this
line, is now rapidly advancing. The driftway has been
through some few weeks, and light is visible
from end to
end. The workmen are lousily engaged in enlarging and
securing the bore, which is 1,100 yards in length. Mr •
R Y.—
The heavy tunnel at Dinmore-hill,
Wilmot has undertaken to deliver 11,000,000 bricks for
the arching of this tunnel and other railway purposes. A
"ung man was killed in this tunnel a few days since by the
falling of a large mass of stone and earth upon him as he
was engaged in driving the waggons in the tunnel. It ap-
pears that he accidentally struck down one of the supports,
which caused the mass of earth to fall, crushing the de-
ceased so
tions h nauela in the fall as to cause immediate death.
Operaae been commenced near Hereford, at Barr's-
court, and All along the line the works are rapidly ad-
vancing. It is said that there will be a close contest between
the Shrewsbury and Hereford and the Newport and Aber-
gavenny lines, as to which shall first open rail communica-
tion withtedesirous that sh theTchiteyy
t remely d the lines proceeding to it should be
1 the termini to centre in.
of Hereford, the inhabitants being ex.
wi to secure a large joint station for all
comple
cusTom •
s —Messrs. W. J. Ready and W. Hamp-
the,office of
• cinal gaugers of Customs, have been appointed to
ton I)" r
inspectors of the paging department.