The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-18 00:00:00

Al ODD FACT.

C. Bur..LE.E. LOQUITEr.g.
" Mr. C. Buller begged to state that if the Bill of Sir An-
drew Agnew should ever get into Committee, be should MOVe
the insertion of a clause to shut up the Carlton Club 00 tbo
.Sabbath, as he had been very much shocked of late by observ-
liig. as he passed on his wal to church, soeral eminent Con-
servatives reading not the it Bibles or their Prayer-books, btl,t
the Jain Bull or the Age."—Vide Buller's Speechlest
night in the House of Commons.

On my road to St. James's Church, as I past
The Carlton Club on Sunday last,
Sighing to think, despite St. Andrew,
What wicked things Humanity can do ;
Profaning the Lord's own day by grinning
Oe'r Sunday Prints (that worst of sinning)
And cherishing from morn 'till night
An Atheistic appetite,—
I saw, as I glanced into the room,
A vision that filled me so with gloom,
And made me so with horror wince,
That I've been in hysterics ever since

I saw (just think I) two Heaven-sent,
Astringent Members of Parliament,
Well known for their speeches grave and sly,
And the costive turn of their piety,
Poring, with eyes of laughter full,
O'er the jokes of that ghostly print, John Bull;
And grinning away, from ear to ear,
At its ribald rhymes, to Tories dear ;
Then sobering down to a pious smile—
The church-bells tolling all the while I I
A few nights after, I saw this supple,
And well-matched Puritanic couple,
Rise in the House their spleen to vent
On all who patronize merriment ;
On all who drive, or cross the back
Of an unbaptized, abandoned hack,
On all who commit that deadly sin
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Of allowing a barber to trim their chin,
Or walk, or talk, or smile, or play,
Or eat baked pork on the Sabbath Day !
Sick of such Vaaddle, " and this," said I,
" Is what men call, true piety
This that gives the Quail: dominion
O'er an unreasoning world's opsnion
Well, be it so; despite the schools,
This world was ever swayed by fools ;
So, hey, for each modern Saint's endeavour—
Down—Down with Reason—Cant for ever I I"

Last week some symptoms of disorderly concluck!,
were evinced by the cotton-spinners now on the strike at 01!
bank Factory, where a number of new hands, unconnected i'fi_at
the despotic union, have recently been engaged ; and Ili%
that time the police have been constantly in attendance. "
Friday night Cowcaddens was the scene of great disorder'
Between seven and eight o'clock, a crowd of at least five bud'
dred idle fellows assembled in the vicinity of the factory, lint'
while the new hands were retiring from their emplorlieL:
were with the greatest difficulty prevented by the police
pressing on and maltreating the workers.—Glasgow _Hera.
MODERN JUSTICE.—The following prisoners --
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victed at the late assizes for this town, and against whom o
,tence of death was recorded, have been sentenced as follow
Daniel Walton, with stealing a shirt and a pair of drawn:
not having been previously convicted, to be transported :0
life I Charles Eyre, for having assaulted and beaten
Burrows, with intent to do her some serious bodily harm,t
be imprisoned to hard labour in the House of Correction wr
eighteen months ; and William Lowe and Solomon Bingba°l;
with burglary, the former had been previously confined for
less than seven offences, and had been once convicted of re'
lony, to be imprisoned to hard labour in the House of Corte;
tion for one year each!! What a contrast do these seawall
exhibit. We have frequently, of late, imsgined that it wogs
be a good plan if our Judges were to write a Kist of sentenceci
clip them up, throw them into a lucky bag, and give to ors,
culprit the benefit of a draw. Chances would be equal in os
your of transportation or imprisonment, and fortune conid Pot
possibly play any vagary more passing strange than WTI

we have above recorded.—Nottingham
On Tuesday morning a poor man, named Jun Wit:
a whitesmith by trade, was found at his house in the Mecie;
near Melton-street, Euston-square, in a fainting state Age
loss of blood, occasioned by an incision he had himself 011 tis
in his throat. He was immediately conveyed to the I°U
London Hospital, where he was promptly attended to, but Sh's;
in about an hour afterwards. One of the medical gentle to
present was of opinion that his death was rather attributabll
the excited state of his frame, than to the wound itself, Whic4
was not so severe as to be highly dangerous. We regret '
add, that he has left a wife and four chileren, in a state heris;
dering on destitution. Ho is understood to have been a Yee;
industrious man, but has been recently much distressed fr°
want of work and the increased expences of a sick family
In September last four tench were taken out Cu
a mere, at Playford, in Suffolk, in the morning, and Wel
packed in dry straw. They arrived in London on the Ft!,
evening, and two of them showing strong signs of life, the's
were put into river water, and soon came round. At ha-5h
ten on the following morning they were packed again, half-5b
the dead ones, in dry straw, slung to the lamp iron of a coe
rr
and so carried to Sudbury, whence they were wheeled
barrow, with other luggage, to Upper Halliford, Middleseo
On their arrival, about two r.w., one only was living. It irbs
put into a tub of rain water, recovered in the course of t.te
day, an _I on the next morning was turned into a pond qunld
lively and well. The four tench were much of a sise, ese,
weighed together about five pounds, but the survivor wss
ther the smallest.— Quarterly Review.
.1 October
Prince I,IADAGASCAR.—About the end of last Oetove-
Prince of Madagascar, brother to the Queen of that Islaulf
arrived at the Isle of France in a French corvette, on his is
to Europe, and more especially to France and England.
Highness was remarkable for exalted ideas of state and
nity. Fifa attendants were decorated, and wore splendiu-tse
forms of blue and scarlet. He PM 01 saluted .from one ocl
bstteries with thirteen guns, and on his landing was condue
by the authorities to an hotel, at the door of which they !telt
tioned a guard of honour. It was understood that his 110,
Highness came on a conciliatory mission to the British 0
rernment, the Queen of Madagascar having refused foreigneor
the liberty of advancing into the interior of her dominions' iso
of forming colonies on the coast: After leaving Port Is° 0,
he stopped at the Isle of Bourbon ; but, tenacious of the ts
nours due to his rank, refused to land until he was saluted h's
the French garrison with the same number of guns fire d 111'4
the English at the Isle of France. The circumstancedf the
foreigner being connected with commercial interests will sty
him distinction both in France and England.
STEAM PLOUGH.—Our readers have heard of the
steam-plough which has been performing such marvels glue./
the mosses at Bolton. Well, the said machine has bee° sid,
spatted by a Committee of the Highland Society of Scodsoi,
accompanied by an engineer, and as their report is exceediego),
favourable, it is not improbable that it will be exhibited herons
the great meeting which takes place in October nest. eof
if you plough by steam, what, it will be said, is to becoel
the ploughmen ?—Golaetnith's
" Bold peasantry, thss'e country's pride,
When once destroyed, ean never be supplied." nit
Bnt the change from animal to s‘eare-power, happen whe „
may, will be extremely gradual, eve were we to suerase,
which we arc far from doing, that the invention is alike Perot
ticable in all situations. Locomotive engines, which "woe
so well on railways, seem to be of little value on CO.
roads, and, wonderful as is the progress of the mechanic a
the period must still be distant, should it ever Arrive, Wh e n
op.
power which stops not, nor readily turns aside, cart Oatllo
sibility exert the same supremacy over precipitous or vole
heights, that it has done, and still is doing, over imS3repoes
moss, and other descriptions of land of the same level.--
fries Courier. • life
THE SPARTAN WOMEN.—In their
the Spartans, like the rest of the Greeks, has but 14;1! sPbaed
sure in the society of their wives. At first the young "1.1, with
only visited the bride by stealth—to be seen in coillPan-Trester
her was a disgrace. But the women enjoyed a mush sisr
freedom, and received a higher respect in Sparta the's, see
where; the soft Asiatic distinctions in dignity between tIS
spective sexes did not reach the hardy mountaineers ohs Up
daemon ; the wife was the mother of men l Brought nes
robust habits, accustomed to athletic exercises, her persp° r the
posed in public processions and dances which, but for
dances—which, but
custom that made decorous even indecency itself, wo heolyr
been indeed licentious—the Spartan maiden, strong, d the
domestic
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and half a partaker in the ceremonies of public life, share, be
habits, aided the emulation, imbibed the patriotism .41 and
future consort. And, by her sympathy with his habits over
pursuits, she obtained an influence and an ascenclaneleised
him which were unknown in the rest of Greece. Digosserr
on public occasions, the Spartan matron was deemed, h°_ for a
a virago in private life ; and she who had no sorros;b101,
slaughtered son, had very little deference for a living WI
—Bulwer's Athens.
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THE SEA DEVIL.—A fisherman had 110 ok
cod-fish, and while drawing it up he felt a heavier well 0
large
tech itself to his line : this proved to be an ang'te-ee blow
size, which he compelled to quit its hold by a heavY in sew
its head, leaving its prey still attached to the hook. sen the
ther instance, an angler seized a coner eel that bad w'ortnaee
hook ; but after the latter had been enwulphed in thelt.ser-
jaws, and perhaps stomach, it struggled through the Iva tie toit
ture of the angler, and in that situation both were
drbaall of &sr ;
gether. I have been told of its s-vallowing a largesd the
employed as a buoy to a bulter or deep-se:line ; and red
this implies of its mounting to the surface is further c it 055
by the evidence of sailors and fishermen, who have see,_o_ooo.6"
ing, and taken it with a line at mid-water. These fic:ch: elr
times abound ; and a fisherman who informed me t or
al
cumstance, found seven of them at one time on the, Itsti
trawl-boat. On expressing his surprise at the number, Whe
told that it was not uncommon to take a dozen at once' s its It'
this fish is taken in a net, its captivity does not destrg Seib"
pacious appetite, but it generally devours some
of
cio ,tlis.eto
especially
have been taken from their stoma for t
after
specially flounders. It is not so much sought, es in
cis,
,wn flesh, as for the fist, generally to be wussi, its r
stomach : thus, though the fishermen reject the " rose
they do not reject those that the fish has collected'--
British Fisheries.