The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-13 00:00:00

their own sect, to give to these opinions their due
effect. But where Omnipotence in its omniscient
wisdom forbore to enforce its decrees by any com-
pulsory application, but that of truth operating
on free conviction, presumptuous and impious man
dares to describe the Christian dispensation as inade-
quate to its purpose, unless he interfere to perfect its
intention. Fanatic zeal in some instances may be al-
leged in palliation of this enormous profanation of
Christian precepts ; but more generally it will be found
that the coercive system is suggested by motives of
the mast selfish and anti-Christian character. Reli-
gious persecution, in whatever grade, shape, or cha-
racter it may present itself, is not only directly opposed
to Christianity, which inculcates forbearance and peace,
an elgood-will amongst all men, but implies an acknow-
ledgment of Atheism—it supposes that man's petty
brief authority is necessary to give effect to the decrees
of the Deity. Out upon such blasphemy I Perish
the Established Church rather than prolong its ex-
istence by means so unjust and iniquitous, so subver-
sive of the principles broached in the Reformation,
and so repulsive to every humane and Christian-like
sentiment I.—Morning Advertiser.

A feat, as novel as it was extraordinary, was per-
formed last Tuesday in the western part of the Strand. A
young man undertook for a wager to travel from the Adel*
Theatre to the Golden Cross, Charing-cross, without as-
sistance, on a tub. The start was made about half-past
five, and the condition was, that the man should not get off
his wooden Bucephalus more than three times. The line of
road being rather a slight descent, the tub, as a matter of
course, would roll down, but the difficulty for the man was
not only to keep it in a proper course, but to establish his
equilibrium whilst standing on the tub in its progress ; and
this he did by a very rapid movement of the feet, something
like the dancing on a horse's back. It appeared no easy
matter to get over the crossings of the several streets, and
at Kin.- William-street the performer was some time before
he could get his vehicle in a proper direction, which, howe-
ver, he accomplished, and finally won the wager, apparently
without much fatigue. A large number of persons were
collected during the performance, which was on a large-
sized ale barrel.
An attack was made on the chapel of Loughall
last night, with the intention of pulling down the hell and
belfry of the chapel ; but information having been forwarded
to Armagh, a party of police well armed were despatched
to the place and arrived just in time to save the building.
Two cable ropes, 18 and 17 feet long each, were, with the
assistance of a ladder, fixed round the roof, with sticks six
feet long tied to the end of each rope, and a crow-iron. The
party, about 30, fled on the approach of the police, leav-
ing their apparatus, consisting of ropes, ladder, and crow-
bar ; but we are sorry to say the villains made their escape
through the darkness of the night, and it is to be feared,
from the threats mentioned in the neighbourhood, that they
will if possible, accomplish their object at some other time.
—Dublin Evening Post.
TRUE CHARACTER OF THE DOLPHIN.—The
dolphin—the theme of poets and painters, great and small
—in all ages the subject of many a beautiful fiction and
absurd romance, whose graceful curves and sportive bounds
have been reported with all the charms of exaggeration,
of whose iridescent body the beautiful and varying tints
have been described with an abundance of imagination
equalled only by the deficiency of truth—has dwindled
in the accounts of modern naturalists into a slender fish-
shaped animal, about nine feet long, with a large head,
wide mouth, long snout, of a black colour on the back,
and white underneath, voracious in habits, and fierce in
disposition. This fish has been represented as fond of the
society of man : it certainly is often known to accompany
ships on long voyages, sometimes following in her wake,
sometimes sporting at her prow, or springing its whole
length into the air. Whether this indicates a love of
human society at an humble distance, or a hope of nearer
acquaintance, similar to that which influences the atten-
tions of the shark, is doubtful. Certain it is, that in a
storm it becomes more frolicsome than ever ; and the
greater the danger the greater is its exultation. The
flesh of the dolphin was formerly esteemed a delicacy ;
we read of an English feast consisting of a roasted dolphin
with porpoise sallc, ; yet, except about the shoulders, the
flesh of the animal is said to be rather tasteless. The young
dolphin is reported to be far superior to that of the old.—
Donn van's Domestic Economy—Human _Food; Lardner's
Cabinet Cyclopedia.
The following disgraceful occurrence took place
lately at Libourne, in the Gironde. A lady, who had been
married four years, was awakened during the night by vio-
lent cries of murder from her husband, whom she found in
the kitchen, bleeding from several wounds. On inquiry, the
servant maid, who had not attempted to escape, declared
that her master had not only made criminal overtures to
her, but had endeavoured to gratify his passion by force, and
that, in this extremity, she had snatched up a knife and
used it in her defence. She was conducted to prison, and
medical ail called in to her master, who is said to be in an
alarming state.
The heat has been unusually intense this autumn
in the Levant. On the Gtli of September, at Argos, the
thermometer stood at 108-deg. in the shade ; and on the
Bth of September, at Adrianople, it was at 96 deg. in the
shade.

The beautiful City of Newhaven, in Connecticut,
seems partly doomed to be destroyed by incendiarism. Not
a week passes without five or six large fires, purposely
caused, but by whom the inhabitants have as yet been
unable to discover. Only one individual has been appre-
hended, and he is only charged with firing his own house.
The regular incendiarism continues to be as bad as ever.
This crime, apparently without motive, unless it be revenge
against an entire city and university, is without a precedent
in the United States. It is clothed in mystery, and excites
much wonder.—Letter from America.
On Saturday night, while a young villain, named
Guy, living at Belleville, and who had on many previous
occasions displayed the most brutal disposition, by robbing
and beating his mother, was at supper with her, he insisted
on her giving him a sum of 50f., which he knew she had
locked up in her secretary. She refused, saying that it was
all the money his rapacity had left her, and that it was ap-
propriated to pay her rent, which would be called for on the
next day. Guy, however, resolved to have it, and got up
to force open the secretary. The poor woman attempted
to resist him, when the unnatural son took a knife from the
table, and stabbed and cut her in I I different places. Her
cries called in the neighbours, and Guy was seized and
secured. The mother is not yet dead, but no hopes are
entertained of her recovery. The father is said to have
died mad ; and, for the honour of humanity, it is to be
hoped that the son will be proved to be also insane.
TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE.—The Journal des
Tribunaux of Thursday gives the details of a horrible crime
recently .committed in the upper sphere of Parisian society,
which revives the exclusive iniquity of the too celebrated
Marchioness de Brinvilliers, in the seventeenth century.
The initial of the names of the parties are alone given, in
order to spare the feelings of a distinguished family. A
young, accomplished, beautiful, and wealthy heiress, Mdlle.
X., was in 1830 married to a young and rich proprietairr,
M. de N. The match was equal and auspicious—the lady
was fondly loved by her husband, to whom she bore two
children. But, neglecting these sources of domestic hap-
piness, she had meanwhile cherished a guilty passion for
M. A. de C., who, himself trembling for the consequences
of its undisguisable violence, fled from the embraces of his
paramour to the Brazils, whence he wrote her a let-
ter, avowing and justifying the reasons of his flight.
The criminal passion of Madame de N. was inflamed
rather than quelled by this event ; thenceforward her hus-
band appeared to her as the only obstacle_ to its crimi-
nal indulgence. What passed in her mind cannot be
inferred ; but from that time she resorted to the ruthless
expedient of imparting slow poison to her husband in small
and successive doses, so as gradually to consume him,
without leaving indications of the means. Her husband
removed, she next successively destroyed the two children
which she bore him in the same manner ; and then, in the
character of a rich and unencumbered widow, and with a
view to re-open advantageously her suspended communica-
tions with her self-banished paramour, she hired splendid
furnished apartments in the Rue de la Chausee d'Antin.
But so many deaths had awakened public suspicion. She
herself learnt that proofs of her murders were sought and
collected. At length they were complete ; and last week,
at six in the morning, a police inspector, with several
officers of the body, went with a warrant to her lodgings.
After knocking for some time to no purpose, they broke
open the door, and found the infatuated woman lifeless on
a couch, still beautiful in death, and clenching in her hand
a phial, which retained some drops of the prussic acid which
had caused her death.

Wednesday afternoon, as a cart drawn by three
horses was passing near the door of a woman named Mary
Schofield, in Withington, her child, about two years old,
was seen walking on the opposite side of the road imme-
diately before the cart-wheel. A man who observed its
danger ran to stop the horses, but just as he was about
to seize the bridle of the leader the mother ran past him
in great terror, and running against the head of the animal
was thrown down. The horse sprang forward at the mo-
ment, and before it could be checked one of the cart-wheels
had passed over the unfortunate woman's body, and she
was killed on the spot. In the meantime the child, uncon-
scious of its danger, had passed under the shaft between
tilos shaft-horse and the wheel, and walking under the body
of the cart escaped unhurt. An inquest was held on the
unfortunate mother, and a verdict of " Accidental death"
returgede—Maischester Times.