The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-02 00:00:00

KnitlNG INTELLIGENCE—(TiIit DAY.)

riiat LLOYD'S,

fr.
)tf Nov.ati W Ar the
tat, nv. t . W.---Arrived Venue,
Vook, from Palerinn,
Po"smoFtlis.,rlPv, 1.--Wind W.N.W.—Arrived his
Majesty's eittp Sappitire, from Rio Janeiro, with a million
of dollars on linen'. •
FLLItOUTH, OCT. 81.---Wind W. to N.N.W....-Arrivell
Ms Majesty's steamer, Columbine, fiotn Plymouth.
LtvEnront., Ocr. 31.—Arrived the George Canning,
Allen, from New York; Catherine, RPDonald, and
Portia, Taylor, from Quebec.; Lovely Cruiser, Porter,
and Elisabeth, Kidgeli, from Newfoundland. Off port,
the Margaret, Johnston, from Baltimore.
COME, OCT. 30.—Arrived the Jane, from
end Sir Welker, Sanderson, from Quebec.
HULL, Oct. 30..—Arrived the Alfred, Baas, and
Venerable, Bennett, front Davis' Straits.
Lunn, Oct. SO.—Arrived the Daedalus, Scott, front
itamichl.

The Rohm, Dillon, from Liverpool, was on shore near
the pillar's River, St. Laurence, the end of September,
and it was feared would fall over.

The Emulous, Weilbank, from Archangel, hat arrived
at Lerwick very leaky.

THREE LORD MAYORS IN LONDON 11!

(raom A CORItBSPONt)ENT.)

The good citizens of London have now a greater
assemblage of civic dignitaries amongst them than have
fia year* graced the metropolis. Not less than three
Lord Mayors! ! The Lord Mayor, whose functions will
expire en Tuesday next. The Lord Mayor elect, whose
civic duties Will- mainaence on that day ;—and the Lord
Skier of Dublin! This is an honour of which fete
chic" can boast; *but highly u we in modern times may
value such an honour, it would seem. to have bean viewed
with far, different feelings by our forefathers. L ord
Mayors, a few centuries ago, snust have been considered
terrible fellows, when an assemblage of three of them was
looked upon as an omen of the most dreadful import. For
we find In an old northern prediction of the lbth century
that au& a combination portended evils to the country of
the %oat awful character. It is said—

When London secs three Lord Mayors,
Let England for troubles prepare' •
}or in that year, on mischief Kent,
The Devil will stalk through Kent,
Mid the men Of the West and North,
To the battle field will go forth
And the raven of war will be fed,
For the living can't bury the dead."

BAPTISM OF A CONVERTED JEW.

A novel and highly interesting event, the
baptism of a converted Jew, took place here on
Sunday last, the 17th instant, in the Vestry of
the church, immediately after divine service in
the afternoon. We have not been informed of
the circumstances which have directly led to the
conversion of this individual ; but his very ad-
vanced age of eighty-seven years, the respectable
character for industry and sobriety which he has
maintained in this place for a period almost
equal to the ordinary average of human life, and
above all the fervent but unostentatious ardour
which he manifested to be admitted within the
pale of the Christian. Church, seem sufficiently
to remove from him all suspicions of interested
motives in leaving the faith of his fathers. We
needscareety say that the ceremony was per-
formed by the Rev. Mr. Walker, in the most
ameopriate and impressive manner; while the
'venerable and patriarchal appearance of the
Catechumen, together with the deep feeling of
devotional earnestness and sincerity with which
he gave the responses to the interrogatories
of the clergyman, conspired to impress the
spectators with a greater degree of solemnity
than ia usual in witnessing the administration of
the,eaerament of baptism, under ordinary cir-
Gunistances. The form of baptising an adult,
whoiablinself capable of coming under those
vows, and Obligationa generelly laid upon the
parents or eponsnre, was of .course adopted in
this instance. The prayers, the address, and
the' trestions proposed to the individual to be
baptised, most properly all bore a very pointed
reference to those peculiarities of the Christian
Faith which slang
.11, cat atU thG dogmas of
Judaism. The crowd ofspectators who pressed
into the vestry, and the passages leading to it,
to witness the interesting ceremony was very con-
siderable, although the time and place of cele-
bration were not in general previously known.
The above is from a correspondent. We
may add that the venerable old man who has re-
nounced the errors of Judaism, and embraced
the Christian religion, was born in Germany in
1743. He was in Paris during the first part of
the Reign of Terror. Apprehending his own
life to be in danger from the, frequency with
which he OM the myrmidons of -Robespierre
butcher others equally inoffending, he contrived
to escape to haigland. 11e soon afterwards
made his way to the north of Scotland, in which
plate, principally betwixt Elgin and Inverness,
he has contrived to earn a livelihood by vending
spectacles and other trinkets. His first
misgivings as to the truth of Judaism
were occasioned, about .a year since, from pe-
rusing the New Testament. He persevered
in the daily reading of that book—the errors of
his former creed became daily snore manifest—
still his wishes were on the side of Judaism.
The struggle between his convictions and his
prejudices at length became so great,' that he
represents his consequent mental agony as being]
far a time beyond description. He ultimately
determined, however, to sacrifice his prejudices
to his convictions. Those convictions were that
Judaism was a system of the most dangerous
error—that Jesus of Nazareth, whom his fathers,
with wicked hands, crucified and slew, was the
promised Messiah—and that, in short, Chris-
tianity was the only true religion. An applica-
tion was accordingly made some time since, by
the converted Jew, to our parish ministers for
the Privilege of Christian baptism. He was
carefully and repeatedly examined touching his
views of the Christian dispensation, and the
result was, that Sunday last was appointed for
his undergoing the initiatory rite to the privi-
leges and blessings of the Gospel economy.
His former, or Jewish name was Isaac Samuels,
and his Christian name is William Isaac Sa-
muels. We understand that the aged man now
declares that he never felt himself so happy in
his mind, as since his public admission within
the pale of Christianity.—Eigin courier.

AiILIT.AnY 1410 rEMENTS.--.TIIIS =mpg,
between seven and eight o'clock, a detachment belonging
to the let Battalion of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot
Guards marched from the Barracks in Pt,rtinan•street to
Kaw, where they relieved detachment belonging
to the fld Battalion of the Grenadier Regiment of Guards,
which arrived in the Bird Cage %Ilk between eleven and
twelve o'clock, .from whence the non-cmunissioned of•
Pere and privates proceeded into Westminster *porters.

As Cardinal WELD was lately riding nut
with a large party ►►f gentlemen, in the neighbourhood of
Home, his horse fell with him, 'and hroke his Eminence's
kg in two places. Surgical assistsnce was procured as
speedily as possible, and, in the mean time, the lion.
Ur. Curvolin had set the benev. A letter received on
Sunday lit, by 4 biend.in this city, stated that the pa-
tient was out of alt danger, and was going On very r,
eourshly.— Mai Jeurnai.

In the year 1.796, a certain Abbe Pour,E, a
fanatic, ha►ing contrivad to gain admission ink, the bowie
of Ow Directeur tHJlvni disehargell a pistol at the loner's
heal, but mimed his aim ; upon which the Republican,
nowise flurried sit his narrow stud shown rr►iraculous es.
cape, eaolly turning to his housekeeper, said aloud, " Should
the Abbe Pour.* call hare again, you will have the good.
nests to say I stn not at home."... Vis Tathr.