The Sun.
London, England, 1830-03-02 00:00:00

The poet HARDING, at Oxford, was half-
crazy, and sometimes walked about with a scythe in his
hand, as Time ; sometimes with an anchor, as Hope.
One day I met him with a huge brick, and some bits of
thatch, upon the crown of his bat ; on my asking him for
a solution of his prosopopceia,—" Sir," said he, " to-day
is the anniversary of the celebrated Dr. Communes
death : and lam now in the character of his Deserted
Village."

SMALL-PDX.—This disease is very prevalent
in this town and neighbourhood just now. There is a
family of six close by us who have all either just undergone
or are undergoing the ordeal, and they afford a good illus-
tration of the benefits of vaccination. Those of them wbo
are vaccinated have had it in so trifling a manner as scarce
deserves the name of an eruption, with little fever and
leaving no marks, while one child, whose unkind stars
denied it the antidote, lies in a precarious state—a speci-
men of the most pitiable and loathsome disease that can be
imagined.—Ayr .4drerleser.

SLOOP RUN DOWN BY A STEAM-VESSEL.-
About one o'clock on Wedn►sday morning, the steam-vessel
Corsair, on her voyage from Belfast to this port, and the
sloop Ceres, of Cardigan, laden with herrings, from this
port to Newry, came in contact at sea, when the sloop
sunk, and the master, DAVID GEORGE, was drowned—
the mate and two boys (the remainder of the crew) were
saved. The night was extremely dark and thick, with
light rain, so as to render it impossible to see to any
distance. The Corsair had her usual light at the mast-
head, with the master, mate, and usual watch on deck,
who could not discern anything even at a vessel's length.
The sloop had no light, and the men were occupied in
reefing the mainsail at the time of the occurrence.—
Liverpool Journal.

ANECDOTE OF THE REV. DR. CHALMERS.
—Studious persons who pass a great part of their time in
retirement, are often ignorant to a degree that is scarcely
creditable of the most common affairs of life. Dr.
Cual..3tEas having, when in Kilmany, returned home
from a journey on horseback, and finding nobody to take
the horse from him. nor the key of the stable, turned it
into the garden. When the circumstances, on his sister's
coming home, was known to her, she said " Had you
really so little sense TAM, as to put the beast into the
garden to destroy the bed■," and off she ran into the gar-
den, followed by her brother, and found that the horse
had indulged in a latitude of perambulation from which
every well-bred animal that enters a garden feels it his
duty to abstain, It had completely frustrated the labours
of the gardener, by trampling and rolling on the beds.
" I could not believe," sail her brother, " that the horse
would have had so little sense as to move from the walks."
—Elgin Courier.

BISHOPS' LANDS.—The new Bill (the heads
of which we published yesterday) proposes to give the
Bishops the power of leasing for 41 years, at a rent to be
certified by three sworn valuers, one to be chosen by the
Bishop, the other by the intended tenant, and the third by
the Lord Lieutenant. There is no doubt that this Bill, if
it pass into a law, will tend much to the improvement of
Ireland. No one feels he has any interest in Bishops' land
that would warrant an outlay of capital; and, therefore,
this land in general exhibits the most wretched cultivation
to be found even in Ireland. And what is the extent of
this land 7 No one can tell, for it never has been accu-
rately ascertained ; but there is good reason to believe that
it cannot be much short of one million of acres, or say,
one-thirteenth of the entire island. The Bishop of Dzaxv
has 98,000 of these acres, and the Archbishop of ARMAG ir
about 160,000. In what condition these and the other
lands possessed by the Established Church generally are,
may be inferred from the fact that the immense tract
leased some time ago by Bishop Liwnsalr to his son, though
situated partly within half a mile of Dublin, has not as
many trees or shrubs as an Englishman would think he
ought to exhibit in his cabbage-garden.—Dublin Morning
Register.

In 1826, out of 100 accused of crimes against
persons and property, there were in the Netherlands 22
for crimes against the person, and in France 28. Examin-
ing the great crimes for the same year--such as murder,
assa.sinstion, poisoning, highway robbery, &c., we find
them to be in the proportion of 1 to 16, which, since the
populations of the two countries are in the ratio of 1 to 5,
induces the result that the great crimes are three times
more numerous in France than in the Netherlands ; and it
is remarkable, that in this year there were in France 14
parricides and 26 poisonings; hut in the Netherlands,
neither one nor the other. The capital crimes in 1826
were thus divided :—Netherlands—Crimes against the
person, 39; against property, 31. France—Crimes
against the person, 873 ; against property, 276. Thus
the crimes against the person were four times, and those
against property twice as numerous in France as in the
Netherlands. Crimes against relatives—such as parricide,
infanticide, &c., from which the highest degree of depra.
vity may be inferred, were for the two countries as 1 to
11, or for the Netherlands twice as many as in France,
with reference to the population. Forgery was Ito 7,
which makes it a little less common in the Netherlands ;
and theft as 1 to 5, or about the same amount.—Foreign
Quarterly Review,

THE WEATHER—SNOW STORM.—Since
Thursday last we have had a heavy fall (4 snow, by which
nearly all out-door operations have been suspended, and
the fair face of creation rendered, like the self-delineated
mind of the Right Hon. TuogA.s PEREGRINE COURTE-
NAY, M.P. "as blank as a sheet of white paper." In
Ross-shire the snow lay in many places to a great depth,
and since the memorable Martinmas of 1826 so violent a
drift has not been experienced as that of Sunday. All
night it kept " oonding of snaw," as Dumbiedikes ex-
presses it, and by Monday morning communication was
interrupted on most of the Northern roads. Mr. U
MAcKENztE set all his men to clear the road about Kil-
muir and Milton Bridge ; and near Beauly, where a simi-
lar obstruction had taken place, Mr. DAVID SIIIRREFF,
with much spirit and attention, set his servants with nine
carts, two horses in each, to cut a passage from the Muir
of Ord to Beauly. By these exertions, the mail coach
was enabled to pass through, but instead of arriving in our
Highland capital at nine o'clock p.m. on Monday, it was
one o'clock p.m. on Tuesday ere it appeared. On Monday
morning, the Caledonian coach was detained several hours
from the depth of snow about Freeborn. The country
people having been collected by Mr. CanottNa of Free-
born and the guard, a passage was cut for the coach.
About Dalwbinnie the snow also lay deep.—Lwerness
Courier.