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

" SUCH A GETTING UP STAIRS."

On 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 full speed. One of the
three, after threading some of the intricate passage
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 imagined, 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 appeared
not unlikely that it would have to share the fate of an
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; but it descended
upon the wooden landing-place withandthedust after
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
Ewald.

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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-tu" 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 footrope, and was
almost precipitated into the yawning abyss. He caught
long indeed, not to him, but to those
hold of a rope in his fall, and struggled for a long
time. It was very
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 were 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
n_pon the deck, he touched me by the merest accident.
winter:nt
a_nt.rembling sensation passed through his whole frame,
4___d a marked inspiratory effort carried gratitude to hea-
w"eumtriom his breast. On the very threshold of home,
have lost this poor fellow, after the Arctic
Voyage to
lin„,
~_ , d_ the intense frosts, after the fatigue of travel-
04* TZ:htehre excruciating thrst, had all failed to break
4;--.Sutherland's Journal of Captain Penny's
Wellington Channel.
The present
ik toter failure. National
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
THE Cos'im
every one exelaimr against it, as in every
Gallery cost some 90,0001., and
works at
No such parsimonious
There
worthy. It is respect un-
srnt, But there is some-
feeling directed the
have beenitt Windsor. There a million,
and perhaps more,
1 thing for the money,
a certain grandeur of intention! certain air of dignity,
Who asks the cost? Who, now, 'thine fine, some success.
Chapel, or Greenwich Hospital, a ornel{- at Whitehall
Chapel, Cambridge, or any one of our G u.lg's College
aonsiders the ethic cathedr 1
for a moment enormous Bums bestowed a s,
those noble erections?
Thereason
is
obvious. 011
and then no one will accuse you, Do any.
thing well, out your money, whateveithe of ,:ztava-
gantly laying on .
Mons upon millions h a --.
Paris
is a noble city, but mi. have been
ex-
tender it 50. The Madeleine,-- the Arc cl
pended to the Louvre, the Hotel de
l'Etoilo, the Luxembourg...
._ .
_,O
..,.,..e
xf Melte, (-Nal d rgaY, v ersailles,
Vile, the Palais du .---1
absorbed countless sums- Did poet
—does have et
feel it? HR H p •
• • • niece
—does the present generation ,p
let us rofit by the
Albert has taught us a great lesson: .
proceedings in the Great Ex-
wisdom which guided his ; antic and well-digested
hibition of 1851. It was a gigantic
all nations were
plan: it embraced every contingency:
or manufactured pro-
to take part: no branch of natural
ce of twenty-
ductions was to be omitted: the vast spa . .
Ile raised to
two acres was to be covered in, and a p
nurpose.—
cost 150,0001. and this for a mere temporary r
Builder.

THE SHREWSRITRY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY
progress oP pre-
sented such a formidable obstacle to the .
. has been
'The heavy tunnel at Dinmore-hill, which has hitherto_f ptrhars
line, is now rapidly advancing. The. driftway
and
throagh some few weeks, and light is visible from end to
end. The workmen are busily engaged in enlarging
....r.
securing the bore, which is 1,100 yards in length. rt. •
Wilmot has undertaken to deliver 3,000,000 bricks for
the arching of this tunnel and other railway purposes. A i
Young 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-
p.ara that he accidentally struck down one of the supports,
which caused the mass of earth to fall, crushing the de-
C,,ased nauch in the fall as to cause immediate death.
court,. and
( iperations have been commenced near Hereford, at Ban's-
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.
lionwith nny lne,
city as to which shall first open rail communica-
tion the
of Hereford
t: timely desirous that the lines 'proceeding to it should be
the inhabitants being ex.
completed. They wish to secure a large joint station for all
the termini to centre in. g
have been appointed to
the office of g
CvsToms.—Messrs. W. J.
inspectors of the sussing Ready and W. Hemp-
ton, principal gaugers of Customs,
department.