The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-03 00:00:00

UNION =MALL.

Yesterday George Augustus Ilennessey, collecting-cleil; in
the brewery of Messrs. Soulby and Co., Lambeth, was brought
before Mr. JEREMY, charged on suspicion with embezzling
money to a considerable amount, the property of his employers.
Mr. Edwards, of Holland -place, Brixton-road, paid.the pri-
soner the sum of 41. 11s., for ale be had purchased of the
above firm, and for which money the prisoner had given him
the receipt produced.
The complainant stated that the prisoner had not accounted
for the above sum. ,

The MAGISTRATE, committed the prisoner for trial on Mr.
Edwards's case, but he will be brought up again in a week on
other charges.

TIIE' HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY.----
We understand that preparations arc in progress for giv-
ing a Grand Military Ball, at the Armoury House, early
in February, with the usual eclat that characterises the pro-
ceedings of that distinguished body. We hear that their il-
lustrious Colonel, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, is
likely to honour the corps with his presence.

The Tories have been anxiously endeavouring for
some time past, to get Conservative candidates to start for any
of the metropolitan boroughs, whenever any vacancy should
occur ; but they have not been able to succeed. Should there,
be anv change in the representation of these boroughs, Tory
candidates will have no chance ‘vhatevcr of being returned.
At East' Brent, on Sunday last, as the Rev. Mr.
Rocket was performing the burial service, and reading .that
beautiful pals2ge, " ashes to ashes, and dust to dust," Jot eph
Day, the sexton, while in the act of sprinkling the, earth ut:)on
the coffin, dropped nt the side of the grave Pala imniediatelY
expired. The clergyman's son, a surgoon, attempt:A to bleed
him, but it was perfectly useless, the vital strew bad ceased to
flow. The deceased was 7G years; W., anti tiad been sexton
20 years.—Bristol Mercury.

TUR

Letters from Persia, received yesterday, mention that
the Schah was expected on the Ws ef December at Te-
heran, on his return from the camp at Astarabad, where the
army has taken up its winter quarters. The picture given
of this camp is far from flattering. It is represented as
being a perfect wreck, and even making every allowance fur
the gasconading dispositions of Persians, it is difficult to con-
ceive how they can venture to talk of marching with troops
in so wretched a condition against Ileraut early in Spring.
The coffers of the Schah are empty, and ,ac provinces so
completely exhausted, that it will be beyond the compe-
tency even of the most ingenious extortioners to raise the
ordinary revenue. Arrears of several months are due to
the army. The general opinion is, that without foreign
subsidies it will be beyond the power of the Schah to carry
OD the war. Before coming in the presence of the enemy
the Persian troops have already experienced severe losses,
and these within their own boundaries. In the numerous
encounters they have had with the nomade tribes, the dis.
advantages have been generally on their side. The Schah
is said to have been delighted with the miners brought out
to Persia by Sir Henry Bethune, but has not as yet em-
ployed them, not having the funds necessary to defray the
expenses of the first works.
,Mira Giaflir, one of the Persians brought up some years
ago at Woolwich, has been appointe.l Ambassador to the
Sublime Porte, and left Tabreez in the beginning of De-
cember for Constantinople.
An Ambassador from Bokhara to Constantinople had
also left Persia at the same period.
Letters from Aleppo mention the Euphalles having left
Bussorah with the Indian mail of September. Col. Chesney
bad written from Mauls and expressed his confidence of
being able to reach Bir.
St. Sophia's dome because three days ago the theatre of
a highly tragic scene. During t ravers, a Turk, whom the
Director of the Mint, Riza Effendi, had dismissed from
his service, rushed upon his master, and seizing him by the
beard stabbed him with a pionard, and left him lifeless on
the pavement. One of his fellow servants, who attempted to
secure the assassin, met with the same fate. Brandish-
ing his bloody weapon, he opened himself a passage
through the affrighted crowd, reached the outer gate of the
mosque, wounded three soldiers who sought to arrest him,
and was on the point of making his escape, when a blow on
the temple extended him on the ground. On his recover-
ing his senses be was led into the presence of the Grand
Vizier, and, after a short interrogation, condemned to be
beheaded on the spot. Alli Bey, the ex-Defterdar, has
been appointed Director of the Mint.
The ravages of the plague, according the opinion of
every Turk with whom I have spoken on the subject,
have not been at any period more extensive than dur-
ing the week. Whole families have been terminated by
this dreadful scourge within the space of a few days.
Europeans who judge of the intensity of this distemper
from the report of the Greek Hospital, have, upon see-
ing the number of patients entered in this establishment
reduced for several weeks to one-half, concluded that it
was decidedly on the decline. This, unfortunately, is not
the case. The reason of fewer patients being received
into this hospital than before is this—within the last two
months upwards of 35,000 Greeks belonging to the work-
ing classes have fled from Constantinople to return to their
homes. Hardly 10,0001. have remained in the capital ;
yet, out of this number, 80 and more have, for the last
three weeks, regularly appeared on the hospital's list.
The city of Constantinople continues to be the principal
seat of the disorder ; Pera and Galata, quarters of the
town chiefly inhabited by Europeans, are, comparatively
speaking, exempt from its ravages.

We regret to find that the Earl of Lincoln has been
compelled to postpone his attendance in Parliament by the
serious indisposition of his Countess.
The Gibraltar Chronicle gives the following extract
of a letter from Mogadore, dated the sth of January : —" Bear-
ing in mind that I left in the garrison many who wore anxious
to hear of Mr. Davidson's progress in Africa, I subjoin some
particulars which I believe to be correct, as they have been
communicated by the interpreter who went with him as far as
Santa Cruz, and who is now in this town. According to his
statement Mr. D. set out from Tangiers on the 31st of De-
cember, 1835, and reached Morocco in twenty days. The
Emperor was in that capital at the time, and granted him two
audiences. Mr. D. stayed about a month and a half at Mo-
rocco after which he came to this place over the Atlas. Here
he continued one month more or less, pursued his journey to
Agadeer, where he remained twenty-two days, and left for
Wadnoon on the 18th of April. In that town he tarried till
the 19th of November, on which day he started for Timbuctoo
accompanied by 30 horse and 100 foot, and was expected to
arrive in forty or forty-five days. His Majesty's brig Scorpion
came in here on the 24th of November last, with orders to
proceed down the coast to the latitude of Wadnoon, and to
have an interview with the Sheik Beyrock of that place ; but
the state of the weather rendered it impossible for any one to
go on shore, and accordingly she first came back to this port,
and subsequently returned to England."
Wednesday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, as
a youth named Harper was walking across Hyde-park, he dis-
covered a human skull lying on the grass, within 100 yards of
Cumberland-gate, and owing to the extraordinary circum-
stance, a crowd of persons quickly collected at the spot.
Police constable Pooke, 82 D, who happened to be passing at
the time, took the boy before Superintendent Lincoln, at the
station-house, in Mount-street, where the skull, which had
been taken possession of by the constable, was examined by a
surgeon, who found that it contained but three teeth, all of
which were in the lower jaw, and in a tolerably good state of
preservation. There were no marks indicating that the de-
ceased had been the victim of any murderous attack, and the
skull is imagined to be that of a middle-aged female, whose
remains had been many years interred. The circumstance is
at present enveloped in the greatest mystery, but the parochial
authorities are instituting the most diligent inquiries, and in
the course of a short time some light may probably be throe n
upon the singular affair.

The destitution which prevails in the Highlands
and Isles at the present moment is of the most alarming and
fearful character. Famine has commenced in various district`.
Many hundred families are destitute of fuel, and the very ne-
cessaries of life. At a public meeting held in Edinburgh on
Wednesday, our respected townsman De. M'Leod attended,
and proposed the Resolutions which will be found in our co-
lumns. The result, splendid as it was, in a contribution of
1,050/., will do little to meet the awful crisis.—Glasgow
Herald.

The certificate of the return of Lord Hawarden as
a representative Peer for Ireland, in the room of the late Lord
Dufferin, deceased, was on Tuesday delivered in un oath to
the House of Lords.

The Lord Chief Justice is dangerously ill—he did
not preside in his court on Saturday.—Dublin _Freeman's
Journal.

It is now clear that no amicable settlement can be
brought about between the city and its creditors. This point
was decided at the last meeting which took place on this sub-
ject ; at which the offer of the Magistrates may be considered
as finally rejected ; the dissentients among the creditors having
increased in place of having diminished in number and in the
amount of their debts. Any further consideration of those
complicated affairs is therefore useless, as the several parties
have made up their minds, and must be left to contest their
respective claims in a court of justice.—Edinburgh Courant.
The weather has again become cold and stormy.
After about ten days of mild weather, frost set in on Satur-
day morning, with a keen wind from the east ; in the evening
and yesterday we had several showers of snow, but the fall is
not so great as to impede travelling. The thermometer last
night was at 30 degrees. The cold on the 11th instant was
so very intense that, by an observation made at Hanley, about
six miles. west from the city, the thermometer at a quarter be-
fore nine in the morning stood at 11 degrees, and at a quarter
past nine in the evening it was at 10 degrees.—Edinburgh
Courant.

An issue of shillings and sixpences is much wanted
in the metropolis, particularly among retail dealers, as the
chief silver coins in circulation are crowns and half-crowns, the
fourpenny pieces having seemingly vanished altogether. The
scarcity of the circulation of shillings and sixpences in the
metropolis is chiefly occasioned by the demand for them to pay
the labourers in making railroads, and those employed in other
works in the country.
For more than a fortnight past the weather has
been more variable than we have almost ever known it at this
season of the year. One day it is intensely cold, with a strong
breeze blowing from lie cast, and followed at night by a heavy
frost, and thick ice upon standing pools of water ; next day it
moderates, and the temperature of the atmosphere assumes a
comfortable and healthy standard : on the third day, perhaps,
the heavens are obscured with dense clouds, and torrents of
rain descend to deluge our watery land, and then, while the
system is relaxed, and the pores of the skin opened by perspi-
ration, the wind veers to the north-west, and the fierce blasts
of Boreas sweep, with an unceasing and relentless violence,
along our unprotected shores, and threatening to freeze the
shivering wanderers in their very traelz s. Christmas was no-
thing but a continual shower of rain, and yesterday, as usual,
was freezing, cold, and stormy; catarrhs and pleurisies are be-
coming frequent in consequence of the sudden and severe
changes, and you scarce meet a citizen who is not coughing
or croaking. We earnestly pray for a change shortly, and for
a return of the warm, settled, and clear weather which we
usually enjoy at this season—New Y,rk Paper.
From an official statement of the list of pensions
chargeable upon the Treasury, it appears that they amount to
nearly 56,000,000 E, and are divided among 139,000 pensioners,
making upon an average 400 f. a-year for each pensioner.
Galignani's Messenger.
THE INFLUENZA.-Since our last this most dis-
tressing visitation has been spreading over every part of the
county ; and, although it has apparently abated in the metro-
polis, it has been much on the increase in the south of En*
land, and particularly in Devonshire. In Tiverton, Tavis-
tock, Barnstaple, Plymouth, Devonport, and this city—in fact
in all the principal towns of this county, its ravages have been
very serious and alarming, as a great number of deaths have
taken place in consequence, as during the time of the cholera;
and not a village, or even a house, has escaped it in some shape
or other. In Newton it has been so bad that at least one-half
of the inhabitants were calculated to be ill at the same time.—
JlTestern Luminary.

=.IIUBRY, the HUNGARIAN ROBBER.

The German papers contain the following details regard-
ing the robber Shubry, in Hungary :
Sliuhry was born at Funt-Kircher, in Hungary, where
his father possessed an extensive tannery. From his earliest
childhood he betrayed an audaciousness which inspired his
parents with serious apprehensions. The frequency of the
Moody quarrels in which he engaged with the children of
the Noblemen induced his father, Francis Shubry, to send
him to the school of Gotha, in Germany, where he distin-
:;aiished himself by his application and talents ; though even
there he vexed his fellow scholars by fits of violence, but
!hey were always ready to forgive him, in acknowledgment
ror his other good qualitis. Shubry was a poet, and
wrote ballads, which he himself set to music, and which
sere sung by his comrades in chorus. On these occasions
he never failed to become quite furious against any one
who sung false, or mispronounced his verses, from having
the misfortune to be born in a province where no pure
German is spoken. He was compelled to leave the town
in consequence of a fray which he caused, by first ma-
king the students drunk, and then leading them with burn-
ing torches to an attack on the Numismatic Cabinet of
Gotha.

Pursued by some police officers, he plunged into the
Leine, and after having gained the other bank he succeeded
in hiding himself in a stable near the castle of Friedenstein,
and went to Hanover, Holstein, and Lubeck, from whence
lie embarked for Upsala in Sweden.
A prevailing passion for the fine arts and studies decided
him to a change in his habits, and to exert himself seriously
in scientific labours, which he continued until the beginning
of 1836, when he ceased to receive money from hi:father.
Wanting the necessary resources as well for living in
Sweden as for leaving it, he quitted the town every evening
to dig traps on the high-road, which lie covered over with
dry branches and snow. Whoever fell into the hole was
robbed by him. One day, however, passing over the mar-
ket•place, he had the misfortune of meeting with the dog of
a farmer whom he had plundered eight days before. The
dog, upon seeing him, assailed him and tore his clothes.
From a fear of being found out, he went away immediately,
and passed through Germany into Hungary. From Jo-
sephstadt he wrote to his father a letter in which he frankly
confessed his crimes, which he attributed to necessity ; and,
without asking pardon, announced that he would never sco
again a father of whom he felt himself to be unworthy.
From that moment he never ceased occupying himself
with forming a band of robbers, to whom lie endeavoured
to give both a military and poetical organization. By his
entrancing eloquence, he persuaded a number of students,
uncommissioned officers, and youths, ardent, profligate, and
burdened with debts, to enrol themselves under him ; and
in a short time he found himself at the head of one hun-
dred men, who, sometimes together, sometimes in small di-
visions, executed the boldest enterprizes. Shubry always
led them on to the combat, after having fixed on a place
of rendezvous in case of dispersion.
In the month of last June he had a serious engagement
with a squadron of hussars. Shubry was wounded, and
pursued by two hussars, but without success. The same
evening he had the audacity to go to Seyed, where the very
same hussars were garrisoned, and to dine at the table dhote,
where the conversation very naturally fell upon the famous
robber. "Do you know him, gentlemen ?" said he in a loud
voice. " No," was the general answer. " But I, I know
him." " How does he look ?" "He is thirty-two years old,
five feet seven inches high, and has shoulders strong enough
to carry you all, gentlemen ; a soft and melancholy coun-
tenance to seduce you all, my ladies ; one arm in a sling
to-day, but sufficient strength in his other to upset this table
and overthrow it. He wears a large velvet riding-coat,
with black loops, and Hungarian boots." " Then he is
almost like yourself...?" exclaimed some person present.
" Undoubtedly ; for it is Shubry himself who drinks to
your health." And after having replaced his empty glass
calmly on the table, he disappeared.
A number of other anecdotes are related about him which
equally denote a courage and mind of the boldest and
strongest nature. His band is not composed of starved
peasants, beggars, and common thieves and ruffians, but of
persons whom vice alone, and not misery, has degraded.
Shubry has established a very severe discipline amongst
his troops. To exercise and excite the zeal of his soldiers
he has founded prizes for the best riflemen, and the most
successful in gymnastics and tours d'addresse.
Shubry has found amongst his companions a Lieutenant
worth of him, William Karpfen, a native of Regensburgh,
an actor. To-day the whole band has taken refuge in the
Carpathes, in Silesia. The band counts five hundred men
well-armed and disciplined, who have already had several
engagements with the Imperial troops. The band is di-
vided into battalions, each of which carries a knapsack
furnished with provisions. The booty is deposited and
secreted in the forests, until they find an opportunity of
disposing of it at fairs and markets. A. regular treasurer
pays to each man his pay, and a medical service is insti-
tuted for those who are wounded or sick. Shubry has an
intention of adding a squadron of armed men to his force.

Robert Otway Cave, Esq., M.P., on Saturday last,
discharged all claim on him for tithe and costs in the Barons'
suits. The amount paid by this gentleman for tithe for three
years is three hundred and seventy-seven pounds, sixteen shil-
lings and nine-pence; and for costs five hundred and sixty
six pounds, fourteen shillings and two pence, exclusive of the
claims of his own attorney. Ten suits had been instituted,
and in one case where a decree had been obtained, he was
obliged to pay the costs of the entire suit, which embraced de-
mands against nine other parties, who have been also com-
pelled to pay their tithe.—Dublin Mail.
The Bishop of Durham gave a grand dinner to the
warden, professors, tutors, and other members of the Univer-
sity, at the Castle of Durham, on Wednesday last, and a nu.
merous party of clergy and gentry of the counties of Durham
and Northumberland was invited on the occasion. After the
cloth was removed the usual loyal toasts were drunk, amidst
great cheering. The Bishop of Durham then rose, and pro-
posed, " Success to the University of Durham," in doing which
he entered at great length into the incalculable advantages of
education ; and showed the high importance of founding an
University in that county. The principal officers of the Uni-
versity followed in a similar strain, after which the meeting
separated.
The barber-ous race of surgeons who flourished in
days of yore seem likely again to start into existence under the
patronage of the Poor Law Commissioners. The low rate of
remunemation allowed to the " Union doctors" has driven
many of the more respectable practitioners from the field, so
that the practice has at times fallen into the hands of the un-
scrupulous and incompetent. As a specimen of the acquire-
ments of one of this class we insert verbatim an extract from
an official return made by a district doctor to the guardians of
a union at a snug village in the north of Devon. The return,
which is before us, gives the name, age, and disease of the
patients, to which is appended the following remark by the
learned doctor respecting the treatment :—" This man have
not been here lately, but have been trying a parcel of old
women's fancies."—Annals of Medicine.
The Influenza in Dublin continues, as far as we
learn, without abatement. There is not, we believe, a fa-
mily in Dublin, in which some members are not afflicted, nor
an establishment which is not suffering in consequence. Six
persons in our own establishment are laid up, and we believe
that a similar calamity is shared in other offices. Such is the
pressure that we have found it difficult to get our paper to
press.—Dublin Paper of Saturday.
INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICAN SERVANTS.—
" I heard, myself, an American servant tell of the gentleman
he lived with,' 'that he lihed him very well, but always crossed
him in politics.' His master knew this, but kept him in his
employ, because he was, in every other respect, a trust-worthy
servant —Grand's Americans, in their Social, Moral, and Po-
litical Condition.

The clerk in the Post-office at Besancon, whose duty
it is to put the stamp on the letters, had recently a narrow
escape from the result of an explosion, caused by some fulmi-
nating composition, which had been enclosed in one of the
letters. The letter was blown to atoms, but the clerk fortu-
nately escaped, with only a slight wound in the hand. It ap-
pears that the composition was put into the letter by a lady,
in order to punish the curiosity of her brother-in-law, who was
in the habit of opening his wife's correspondence.
An article from Vienna states that Prince Esterhazy
will be succeeded in the Austrian Embassy to our Court by
the Prince de Schoenburg flaartenstein, the present Minister
of Austria at Stutgardt.
A FELICITOUS TRANSLATION.—One of the
Parisian Papers some time ago made "Love's last shift " into
" La derriere chemise de l'amour." The Edinburgh Review's
interesting article upon a race of assassins in India, says that
" two Thugs are employed in the murder of each individual,
one of whom holds his legs or hands, while the other ap-
plies the noose." The passage is thus given in the Charte
of Sunday :—"Il faut deux Thugs pour assassiner un indi-
vidu ; l'un le prend par les jambles et les mains, et l'autre
Freud par le nez."

On Monday evening last a new lodge of the Grand
Protestant Confederation, in connection with the Warrington
Lodge, was opened at the King and Queen, in Padgate, near
Warrington. Mr. Malley, the Grand Secretary, presided, and
the vice-chair was ably filled by Mr. Greenhaigh. The meeting
was addressed by Mr. Malley, Messrs. Houghton, Mr. Lythgoo,
and other gentlemen, and about 30 individuals were enrolled as
members. —Manchester Chronicle.

Another ball was given at the Tuileries on Satur-
day evening ; though not by far so numerous as that of Wed-
nesday it was splendid. Their Majesties and Royal Family
entered at eight o'clock, and immediately afterwards dancing
began, and was kept up with great spirit till two, when a
magnificent supper was served up in the Gallery Louis
Philippe, on a number of separate tables, each containing
from eight to twelve covers. The Queen and Princesses re-
tired at three o'clock. The King had withdrawn at an
earlier hour.-- Gatignani.
Lord Granville s eldest son, Lord Leveson, (who
is attache to the British Embassy at Paris), has left town, ac .
companied by his cousin, the Hon. Captain Howard, R. N.,
and the present representative of Morpeth in Parliament, for
the purpose of canvassing the electors of that place, it being
understood that the present Member accepts the Chiltern
Hundreds, being about to leave oz foreign service.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 2.

The House met at a quarter before Four o'clock ; but no-
tiring was done till the LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on
the Woolsack, at five minutes past Five.
Lord KENYON presented a petition from Dr. Sharpe, on
the subject of a claim which, as we understood, the Noble
Lord said, had been improperly made against the Gravesend
Pier.

Lord STRAFFORD presented a petition from the Borough
of Stratford, praying for the total abolition of Church-rates.

EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.

Lord NIINTo laid on the taidetitcslep:rt of the Commis-
sioners on Education in Scotland. Ile had not had an oppor-
tunity of attending to the progress of the proceedings on
which that report was founded. Therefore he considered it
more decent to abstain from signing it, more especially as it
would come before him hereafter in another character, as a mem-
ber of the Government. At the same time, having looked into
the Report, he found nothing there that he would not have
been perfectly ready to have signed. The Report contained
no recommendation. It was a mere statement of the facts
which appeared to the Commissioners on the evidence.
PUBLIC CHARITIES. .

Lord BROUGHAM laid on the-table 278i1l which he had
brought in in the course of the Session before last, for pro-
n.:ilia; education and regulating charities. It was not his
intention to enter at all into this important subject at present,
but he thought it convenient to state how far this Bill dif-
fered from the 13111 that was originally before their Lordships.
The whole of that Bill and the plans of that measure
were retained in the present Bill, and two material additions
were made. Their Lordships would recollect that the object
of that Bill was to provide a Board for the purpose of super-
intending the distribution of funds from time to time voted
by Parliament, for promoting the education of the people,
and also for regulating the administratior., and to prevent
the abuses of charities generally. The constitution of that
Bill, with a very trifling exception, was retained. By the
former Bill, three of the individuals to be appointed as Com-
missioners were the Lord President of the Council, the Lord
Privy Seal, and the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment; and in the absence of the Secretary of State for the Homo
Department, one of the Under- Secretaries for the Home De-
partment. By the present Bill, the Under-Secretary of State
was left out. No inconvenience would arise from this
omission. Besides those three, there were the Speaker
of the House of Commons and three Members of that House.
There were some changes to be made in the powers of• the
Commissioners with respect to the superintendence of the
schools, and also with respect to the powers vested in the
charitable Boards, but these were the only ones of any import-
ance necessary to be made. Their Lordships were aware that
the principal objection to the National System of Education was
the fear of substituting for the very large amount of education
provided from charitable and private funds the public funds of
the country. But upon the principles laid down by him there was
little fear of any interference, and its only effect would be to aug-
ment and extend the benefits of education generally among the
people. The plan would_ also give a power to the Town
Councillors, assisted by one of the responsible Ministers of
the Crown, to establish schools within the bounds of their
Corporations, and to levy rates for that purpose. That, in
his opinion, would be a most material improvement.
He (Lord Brougham) was very sanguine as to the safety of
the plan,. and there was no doubt that it would be most ef-
fectual in extending the benefits of education. He trusted,
under those circumstances, that their Lordships would give
their sanction to the measure which he was about to submit to
them.' There were other considerations, to which he should
not now advert, and which were noticed in the Report of the
Commissioners, and he should be content with having the Bill
now printed, so that ample time would be afforded for the full
consideration of its details.