The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-18 00:00:00

By letters from Salonica of the 23d ult., it does
not appear that any of the six emissaries sent by the Pacha
or Egypt , had been arrested by the Ottoman authorities.
The Pacha of Janina having refused to receive them, they
re-embarked on board the Egyptian brig on the 17th and
svt sail for Alexandria.. Among these emissaries was Me-
hemet Bey, the commander'Of one of the brigs of war of
the Turkish fleet, who was the bearer of a letter of the
Capitan Pacha to Mustapha Pacha, which was seized, to-
gether with the other despatches for the Pachas of Routce-
Ha, and forwarded by the steam-packet Hissair Hair.

Ou the 27th ult. all the English officers who had
obtained leave to visit Constantinople were ordered to join
the fleet, which, it was thought, would shortly quit Be.hika
Hay. Its further destination, however, was unknown. They
embarked the same evening in the packets Tancrcdi and
Maria Dorothea.

THUNDER STORM.-Thursday evening, from
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day
tbrokeh e
sever.
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Ne oon n eight
thunderr o s: ando'c lt
neighbourhood.c
thek '‘westwardvery seriousindistinctly heard in this
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quarter; and towards night the skv became overcast and
very gloomy. The first flash illumined for a moment
every street in town, and its vividness vas very alarming.
At this moment a gentleman, belonging to Arbroath, was
p,ssiag, the bridge at Rossie Mills on horseback, when his
horse started at the flash, and sprung over the parapet wall,
with his rider, into the den below, a fall of from twenty to
thirty feet. We are sorry to add that the unfortunate in-
dividual, whose name we have just beard is Walker, sur-
vived only for a short time after being taken up. The
horse was killed on the spot. We have heard of several
other accidents. The storm continued for about an hour.
—Montrose Review.

FIRE.—We regret to state that on Saturday
morning last, a little after two o'clock, it was,discovered
that one of the wings of the extensive dye-works of Messrs.
thewrl fora
originated,time b
Henry Monteith and Co., at Barrowfield, was on fire, and
r
how
-t
was eventually destroyed. We have not heard definitely
perty consumed ; but it is probable that a number of work-
peoplep will fie o
or
thrown the
outestimatedof employment.
value o f the
A
pro-
perty
an early hour in the morning application was made at the
Police Office by one of the finishers for the use of the
fire engines, but by resolution of these Commissioners
these cannot be granted beyond the Police boundaries, and
they were of course refused, Pity it is that the contention
between the Commissioners and the Insurance Companies
cannot be peacefully arranged, for under present circum-
stances much valuable property in the immediate vicinity
may be accidentally destroyed, which would otherwise be
saved,— Glasgow Herald,
ANECDOTE OF GENERAL CRAUFURD.—A
few days after the storming of Rodrigo our brave General,
Craufurd, died of his wound, and the Duke of Wellington
attended the funeral of the gallant veteran, who, though
ulna strict in discipline, was averse to punishment, and
was beloved by his men for his justice and care for them,
as well as for his bravery. The following anecdote, of
which I was an eye-witness, will serve to show his charac-
ter happened to be on guard one day, when General
Craufurd came riding in from the front, with his orderly
dragoon, as was his usual custom, when two of our men.
one of them a corporal, came running out of a house with
some bread, which they had stolen from the Spaniards,
followed by a Spanish woman, crying lustily "Laslrone I
ladrone 1" (" thief 1 thief I") They were immedißtely,
pursued by the General and his orderly; the bread
was given back to the woman, and the men were placed
in the guard-house. The next day they were tried
by a brigade court-martial, and brought out to a
wood near the town for punishment. When the
brigade was formed, and the brigade-major bad finished
resding the proceedings of the Court-martial, General
Craufurd commenced lecturing both men and officers
on the nature of their cruelty, as he said, to the harm-
less inhabitants,. as he called the Spaniards. lle laid
particular stress on our regiment, who, he said, committed
more crimes than the whole of the British army. " Be-
sides, you think," said he, " because you are riflemen,
and more exposed to the enemy's fire than any other regi-
ments, that you are to rob the inhabitants with impunity ;
but while I command you, you shall not." Then turn-
ing round to the corporal, who stood in the Centre of the
square, he said, with a stern voice, " Strip, sir." The
Corporal, whose name was Miles, never said a word until
tied up to a tree, when, turning his head round as far as
his situation would allow, and seeing the General pacing
' up and down the square, he said, " General Craufurd, I The General replied, " No,
hope you :will _ forgive me."
Sir, your Clinic is too great." The poor corporal, whose
sentence was to be reduced to the pay and rank of a private
soldier, and to receive a punishment of 150 lashes, and the
other man 200, then addressed the General to the following
caentre, out of which
effect Do you recollect, Sir, when you and I were taken
prisoners, when under the command of General White-
means of canteen-
lock, in Buenos Ayres? We were marched prisoners,
pound, surrounded
I parted my last bis.
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get my kindness to you. It is now in your power, Sir.
Yon know how short wee ave been of rations for some
time. These words e spoken by the corporal in a
mild and respectful accent, which affected not only the
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General, but the whole square. The bugler, who stood
11:11ye then ntaopl
waiting to commence the punishment close to the corporal,
received the usual nodfrom the bugle-major to begin. The
first lash the corporal received the General started, and turn-
ing hurriedly round, said, " Who taught that bugler to II I,t ?
Send him to drill —send him to drill ! He cannot flog—he
cannot flog—stop, stop! Take him down! take him
down I I remember it well—l remember it well !" while
he paced up and down the square, muttering to himself
words that I could not catch; at the same time blowing
his nose, and wiping his face with his handkerchief, trying
to hide his ermition, that was so evident to the wholeb
square. A dead silence prevailed for some time until
our gallant General recovered a little his 'noble feeling,
when he uttered. with a' broken accent, " Why does a
brave soldier like you commit these crimes ?" Then
beckoning to his orderly to bring his horse, he mounted
and rode off. It is needless to say that the other man was
Also pardoned, and in a few days the corporal was restored
to his rank...-0 Memoirs of Edward Costello," United
Service Journal.