The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-14 00:00:00

THAT OF KILLARNEY,"

And the HUNTING and FISHING unsurpassed any where.
Very descriptive particulars will be ready for circulation 28 days
prior to the sale, and can then be obtained of W. B. Cowley, Esq.
8, Lower Gardiner-street, Dublin, who will give orders to see the
Estate ; also, at Morrison's Hotel, Dublin ; and on the Exchange;
also, at the Exchange, Belfast, Cork, and Limerick ; W. C. Jack-
son, Esq.'s, 58, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; 1. L. Curtis, Esq., Cork ; the
Auction Mart; and Mr. George Robins's Offices, London.

(Abridged from the Chester Chronicle.)
Fro.n the moment that an opposition was raised against
Mr. Wilbraham, the whole crew of Tories flocked lile
wolves to a banquet to his destruction. He has against
him all whose patriotism is plunder, whose god is gain, the
idle aristocrat, the hireling lawyer, the bloated parson, the
sneaking slave who would barter his soul for a mess of pot-
tage—a race more obscene than was ever " spawned on the
bed of Nile,"—all eager to eject a Reformer and sub-
stitute for the government of the Whigs the drunken legis
lation of Stephano and Trincula on their island.

That no man may say this is too strongly expressed, we
call his attention to what follows. A Parson, signing him.
self Joshua King (clarum et venerabile nomen), would pur-
sue Mr. Wilbraham with the malignity of Caliban himself.
Hero is a precious production :
" Woodchurch, July 31, 1837.
" Dear William,—As your name is on the list of voters
for my district, and knowing you to be a true Churchman,
I feel confident I shall not apply to you for your rote in
vain, at the approrching election. Sir Philip Egerton and
Mr. Corbett are our men. Vote for them, and let us turn
out that radical revolutionist George Wilbraham, who sup-
ports, through thick and thin, an Administration that has
attempted to rob our Protestant Church of their property ;
and who has forced upon us the new, monstrous, and inhu-
man Poor Law Act ; compelling us to build workhouses,
or, as they may more properly b called jails, for the recer-
tion of our aged and infirm poor, where the poor will be
treated as criminals, although they have committed no
crime, and will be put upon jail allowance ; where man and
wife are to be separated from each other ; where children
will be separated from their parents, and where their main-
tenance will cost us twice as much as it has ever yet done.
Let us, I again repeat, turn out such an inhuman monster
as George Wilbraham. Attend the nomination on Friday
next, and come to the scratch for Egerton and Corbett on
the day of election.—Yours truly,

" JOSHUA KING."

P.S.—Try what you can do witl;
DI r. Foster, who for-
meriy lived at Willaston, and is now a neighbour of yours,
with any other voter."

Now who would believe that this specimen of the church
militant who stigmatises Mr. Wilbraham. as an inhuman
monster for his support of the Poor Law Act is the most
constant attendant as a guardian of the Wirral Union, and
that Mr. Edwin Corbett himself for whose support the
epistle is written, is the Vice-Chairinan of the Northwich
Union ? The non-resident Joshua's two benefices is at the
bottom of this disgraceful cry. And his patrons, Sir Phi-
lip Egerton and Mr. Corbett, may say to him, as Stephan°
rays to his slave Caliban—" There is not only disgrace and
diAonour in that monster, but an infinite loss." And so
we dismiss this son of Nun. He will neither set the Thames
on fire, nor make the sun and the moon stand still.

The Tory opposition to Mr.-Wilbraham has been orga-
nized since their disgraceful success at Liverpool. Mr.
Corbett has no property in the county. He has been con-
stantly and arbitrarily the opponent of the poor.

M. Hennecart, an extravagant young man, entitled
to. a considerable sum of money on his coming of age, ap-
plied, through the medium of two of his associates, M.
Poncet, of Toulon, and Searadino, a sub-lieutenant, who had
been dismissed from his regiment for misconduct, to a money-
lender, named Hugues; for an advance of four thousand
francs upon a bill and judgment, to become available on
Hennecart's attaining his full age. Hugues consented to
make the advance, but paid only fifty francs in cash, giving
for the remainder various goods, which were stated to be
fully worth the difference, but were afterwards sold by
auction and produced no more 325 E, which sum before
it came into the pocket of Hennecart was reduced by the
charges of sale to 173 f. Thus, for his securities to the
amount of 4,000 f. he received only 223 f. The trawfaction
becoming known to M. Hennecart, the father, a prosecu-
tion for swindling and usury was immediately instil uted
against the three confederates before the Tr;bunal of
Police Correctionnelle. Searadino, being absent, was con-
demned by default to two years' imprisonment. Hugues
and Poncet were sentenced to two months' imprisonment
and a fine of 25f. each. Hugues alone appealed, but the
Procurcur du Roi appealed against them both, on the
ground that the punishment was inadequate to the offence.
The two appeals were heard yesterday before, the Cour
Royale, when the judgment against Hughes was confirmed,
but the imprisonment of Poneet extended from two to four
months.

FRESH WATER AT SEA.—Odd it may seem,
the Savannah Georgian assures us that the fact of the ex-
istence of a large mineral fountain, at sea, to the southward
of St. Augustine, is confirmed by Lieutenants Pettigrue and
Ingraham, as well as by Captain Sisson of the schooner
Krit. This fountain has been frequently seen and described
by others, but from the singularity of such a phenomenon
its existence has often been a subject of discredit. As de-
scribed by the gentlemen mentioned the fountain is situated
about 21 miles from the land, and eight or nine miles from St.
Augustine lighthouse, the latter being by compass N. W. by
W. It is distinguishable at some distance by a yellowish
appearance on the surface of the sea, and the breaking or
rippling of its escaping waters on the weather side, and a sul-
phureous atmosphere may be smelt half a mile to leeward of
the fountain. The soundings adjacent to the fountain are 9
fathoms on the land side. In the fountain itself Captain
Sisson reports that the lead at 23 fathoms failed to touch. The
waters of this fountain, as far as their observations went, were
cool, brackish, and sulphureous, and the volume discharged
they conjecture to be as large a column as 100 feet dia-
meter. But as to the mariner, the locality of this fountain
is worthy of particular attention, because, instead of its
being a shoal, as some of the breakers might indicate, it
may be a good mark at a time when other landmarks can-
not be seen. Instead of a Scylla and Charybdis to be
avoided he may find an opportune haven for the supply of
fresh water. Another marine eruption on a larger scale is
reported to be situated in the Gulf of Mexico, abreast of
Charlotte Harbour, and another in the Bay of Bengal
abreast of the Ganges, which strengthen the probability
that they occur more generally. Another deceptive ap-
pearance in the eruption of St. Anastatia caused it to he
mistaken by some on board for the exuvia ot, whales.
The limestone fountains of Florida are encrusted with
a white deposit which, refracted through the transparent
water, makes an illumination, which to the eye at some dis-
tance, seems a yellowish loom. Refractions of this sort
are familiar to those who have sailed among the calcareousshoals of the West Indies. Remarks.—The geologist will
recollect the Florida is a mass of coral rocks and shells,

and through these are intesticcs and caverns communicat-
ing by submarine arcades to the sea. Hence in the Ba-
hamas (the same formation) the brackish clear water of all
these lagoons, the fall and rise, sea fish, &c. ; and the le-
gend (true probably) that the group stands on a sublime
architecture of Corinthian columns of coral rock pillared
in the deep sea. These facts may lead us to some
light on the above. Why may not the above he the
outlet of some of the lagoons of the Everglades, &e.?—
American Paper.

A few days ago, a regiment of infantry passing
through Pont-a-Mousson, the inhabitants of the town were
required as usual to furnish bedding for the soldiers.
Amongst the number was a wealthy but avaricious pro-
prietor, on whom was levied the not very burthensome
contribution of a palliasse. The old gentleman happening
to be absent on business at Nancy, an aged female domes-
tic, who for a quarter of a century had acted as his factotum,
stripped his bed of an exceedingly ancient palliasse, which
" had done the state some service," replaced it. with a new
mattress which the miser had locked up in his granary,
and hied her to the barracks with her contribution. On re-
turning in the evening, and learning the change which had
been made in the economy of his sleeping arrangements, the
proprietor grew pale as ashes, and ordered his domestic to
take the new mattress to the barracks, and bring back his
favourite palliasse. The domestic obeyed ; but being un-
able, in consequence of the lateness of the hour, to obtain
an entrance into the soldier's quarters, was obliged to re-
turn without accomplishing his mission. The miser be-
came furious, quitted the house, paSsed the night on a stone
b,!nch at the barrack door, and in the morning succeeded
in obtaining his precious palliasse. On reaching his own
home he seized a pair of scissars, and with a trembling
hand ripped up the old relic of bygone days, and actually
howled with delight as the instrument came in contact with
forty thousand francs in paper and gold, which he had
buried in the palliasse, as the safest depository of his trea-
sure. In the height of his joy and gratitude he sent to
the barracks—to demand his new mattress as soon as the
regiment might resume its march.—French Paper.
As a strong feeling of anxiety prevails among the
Reformers with respect to the contemplated inquiry into
the circumstances of the late borough election, we beg to
state that, as far as time has permitted, every necessary
step has been taken towards the prosecution of the inquiry.
—Hull Advertiser.
The General Steam Navigation Company's packet,
the Neptune, from Hamburg, arrived off the Gistom-hoUse
this morning. The Columbine, from Rotterdam, arrived
yesterday.