The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty, accompanied by the Duchess of
Kent, and attended by the Countess of Charlemont,
left town at a quarter before three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, in. an open carriage and four, for the resi.
dence of her iNhjesty the Queen Dowager, in Bushy
Park. Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Paget,
Hon. Miss Anson, and Colonel Buckley, followed in
another carriage and four. Her Majesty and suite
returned to Buckingham Palace, at seven o'clock.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of
the Queen.

The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening
included the Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of Albe-
marle, Earl of Surrey, Viscount and Viscountess
flowick, Hon. Mr. Berkeley Paget, Mr. Rich, and
Mr. Brand.

The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones,
left town at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, on a visit
to the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence -in Bag-
shot Park.

Bishop Macdonnell, Dr. T. Rolph, and the very
Rev. A. Macdonnell had an interview with the Mar.
quis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office.
The Belgian Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreig❑ Office.

Captain Hobson, Captain Mackenzie, Mr. C. Lush-
ington, M.P., and Mr. Carmichael Smythe had inter-
views with the Marquis of Normanby at the Colonial
Office yesterday.
Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Macken-
zie, Governor of Ceylon, and also from the Governor
of south Australia, were received yesterday at the Co-
lonial Office.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
family take their departure early this week for Dredling
stone House, N. B. The Marquis, we hear, has taken
Dudley House, Park-lane, the former residence of the
Marquis of Conyngham, for a term of years. His Lord•
ship has also purchased considerable landed property ad-
joining Bentley Priory, of Mr. Drummond. It is said
the consideration amounted to little short of 100,0001.

PARACHUTE ACCIDENT.—On Monday even-
ing Mr. Hampden, who has already made two descents in
his parachute, the one from Cheltenham, and the other,
about two months ago, at Cremorne House, Chelsea, made
a third experiment with his dangerous machine from the
Flora Tea-gardens, at Bayswater. When the balloon had
ascended about three-quarters of a mile, dash down-came
the parachute, and up went the balloon. The former
heaved heavily from side to side, but as it descended it
came more steadily, and at last fell upon the branch of a
tree in Kensington Gardens. Mr. Hampton seemed
stunned : he was assisted out, but at first could not speak,
and was very faint. He was carried to a tavern, cheered
as he went along. He was hurt in the chest and knee.
The valves of the balloon did not open, consequently it
ascended to an immense height, and has not been heard of
since.

ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND Bllt
NIINGITAM RAILWAY.—Another unfortunate man has lost
his life on the London and Birmingham Railway ; his
name is Thompson. He was employed in holding a horse
when the two o'clock train came up on Friday afternoon.
The noise frightened the horse, which threw the ill-fated
man across the line of teams, and the whole train passing
over his body, it was literally cut across.
MUTINY AT SEA.—The seamen on board the
Franklin, Captain Farwell, from Liverpool, mutinied in
New York Bay last month, and seven of them are arrested,
charged with the revolt.
There are no less than 798 uninhabited houses
in the township of Oldham at present, partly attributable
to the entire stoppage of the machinery of some mills, and
the consequent emigration of the hands.
When Samuel Scott, of Hulme, was arrested in
his own house on Sunday last, he was employed in making
ball-cartridges with gunpowder and Northern Stars.
68 cartridges and 168 bullets were found iu his house, and
also a quantity of loose gunpowder and several pieces of
the Star, the latter being intended for conversion into
cartridge papers.—Gateshead Observer.
. .
A letter from Frankfurt to the Emancipation
says—The provisional state of things in Luxemburg and
Limburg will continue some time longer. The King of.
Bavaria and the majority of the Diet think that the terri-
tory of the Grand Duke of Luxemburg-Limburg, ought
not to be more closely connected with the kingdom of the
Netherlands than the possessions of the house of Nassau
in Germany formerly were with the United Provinces.
THE CROPS.—We are informed by two gentle-
men well qualified to judge, and who have just made a tour
of 300 miles in the counties of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk,
Cambridge, Huntingdon, and Lincoln, that the crops of
all kinds are most abundant, and in excellent condition.
Never was so large a quantity of wheat known ; nor is the
corn laid in those counties as it is in Yorkshire.—Leeds
Mercury.
POPULAR COMMOTION.—We wish not to
create unfounded alarm. There may have been too muc'o
of this disposition in the public press; but it will be good
policy to be prepared for coming events, so far as they may
be anticipitated. There are certain appearances in the
present political state of our country by no means favour-
able to domestic and wo pr,ociva a threatening
cloud hovering over the destinies of England. We repeat
that it is not our wish to create unfounded alarm ; yet it
is our duty to express openly our opinion that evil is near
at hand. The next week may prove that we have some
reasonable ground for such an opinion. It may happen
that many thousands of the discontented may be collected
in powerful masses, from the great manufacturing and
mining districts, displaying their moral and physical
strength ; striking terror to the souls of the timid, and
disturbing the tranquillity of the country. We anxiously
wish all may be well at the close of next week. A great
movement may be expected to commence on Monday next
(yesterday).— Warwick Advertiser.
COURT MARTIAL AT WOOLWlCH.—Yes-
terday morning, William Hemmings, a private of the 24th
company of the Royal Marines, was brought out into the
Barrack ground, Woolwich, to receive the sentence of a
garrison court.martial, of which Colonel Wright was presi.
dent, held on Friday last. The charges of which Hemmings
had been found guilty were, first, for quitting the guard-
without leave, and absenting himself for three days; and
secondly, for stealing a regimental coat belonging to Ed-
ward Wells, a private of the same company. For the first
offence, he had made himself amenable, by the articles of
war, to the punishment of death, by being shot, or such
other punishment as should be awarded by a general court
martial. The delinquent bore an irregular character, hay-
ing been, on a previous occasion, confined for twenty 'lays
in Coldhath.fields prison; and the sentence that was now
awarded him was to receive 150 lashes. The sentence of
the court-martial having been read by the Ad!sttant of the
division, Hemmings was ordered to strip, and was imme-
diately seized up to the triangle, and at the word of com-
maed the punishment commt need. After he had received
one hundred lashes, Dr. Hunter, the medical officer in at-
tendance, recommended that the remaining fifty lashes
should be remitted, which was immediately granted by the
officer in command. /lemmings was subsequently removed
to the infirmary.
COLONEL SEVE, OR SOLIMAN PACIIA.—
The following account of the career of Solirnan Pacba
is given by the Siecle, which affirms that the family name
of this officer is Seve, and not Selves, as it is generally
written :—" Ile was born at Lyons, Ist April, 1787 ; he
entered the navy in 1799, and the 2d regiment of Marine
Artillery in 1803. In 1807, he left that service and
entered the 2d Hussars, but was not made sub-lieu-
tenant till 1813, after 14 years' service. In 1814 he was
promotes to the rank of lieutenant in the 14th Chasseurs,
Discharged (deniissionaire) in 1815, be was restored the
year following, and received half-pay till the year 1818.
M. Seve made the campaigns of the years 7,2, 10, 11,
and 12 of the Republic, and that of 1805, in the frigates
the Meuron and Hortense, and the ships IA the line the
Indomptable, Pluton, Bucentaure, and force. On land
he was engaged in the following campaigns :-1809 in
Austria, 1812 in Russia, 1813 in Germany, and 1814 in
France. He has received six wounds, and had a horse
killed under him at the battle of Brienne. He finally
quitted the service because he could not obtain a confirma-
tion of his promotion to the rank of captain, and went to
seek his fortune in Egypt, where he has found a glorious
one."
HUMAN SKELETON DISCOVERED.-- OnThurs-
day se'nnight a person who was walking on the beach, under
the Coast Guard Station at Cornhill, near Dover, disco.
vered some small bones which he knew to belong to the
human foot. Having mentioned the circumstance he re.
turned to the spot on Saturday oo
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on the occasion—such as, that
the deceased might have been drowned at sea, and washed
ashore ; that she might have been overwhelmed by a fall
of the cliff, &c. ; but as the discovery was unaccompanied
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A SCORPION.—A few days since the operative
hatters in the employ of Mr. Jacl:son, of Oldham, on cut-
ting up a piece of logwood which they have for the use of
their hatting, found in the inside of the timber, a living
scorpiorA; it ran on the floor for several minutes, when one
of the men cut it with a knife; it died immediately, and
is now to be seen, in spirits, at Mr. Jackson's shop. It is
a singular reptile, and very like a small lobster.—Liverpool
Mercury.
On Monday next, the Duke de Rov-igo will lead
to the hymeneal altar Miss Starner, daughter and co-heiress
of the late Colonel itiimer, Carnelly, county Clare. The
lady being a Fre',estant, and the Duke a Roman Catholic,
the cereisss,ny will, in the first instance, be performed by
thz lice. Mr. Young, of Clare, and afterwards by the Rev.
Mr. O'Gorman, P. P. The Duke is son of savary. Duke
of Rovigo, Chief of Police at Paris, under the Bonaparte
dynasty, and successor to the celebrated Fouche in that de-
partment.--Limerick Chronicle,
in consequence of tl's: late heavy rain and wind
the duty on the hs-siis has fallen 25.0001. Great mischief
bat bees 4.^.;:ie to the bi
"ne. —Maidstone J'ostenal.
it Caller herring," Three a penny," Four a
penny," are cries which have rejoiced the ears of the lovers •
in Gateshead
of fresh herringfor several days past.

P, V ENING EDITION.

LITERATURE.

MEMOIRS OF DR. MORRISON.-2 Vols.
_Longman, London, 1839.
Dr. Robert Morrison, the subject of this biographical
sketch, was born in the year 1782., at Morpeth, in
Northumberland, whence he was removed, in 1785, to
Newcastle, where his early life was spent. His fatter
Was a last and boot-tree maker, an exemplary lean,
punctual in the discharge of his social and religious
duties, and for many years an elder of a Scottish church
at Newcastle. Robert received his elementary instruc-
tion from a maternal uncle, a schoolmaster, under whose
care he evinced, from earliest youth, an extraordinary
delight in the pursuits of learnieg, though his progress
was but slow. His memory was remarkably tenacious,
so much so, that when only in his thirteenth year, "he
repeated one evening the whole of the hundred and nine-
teenth psalm, Scottish version, without making a single
mistake." At the usual age he was apprenticed to his fa-
ther, and learned' his trade, at which he worked with
Commendable industry. Towards the close of 1797 he
became the subject of "that great change which"—to
quote the biographer's words—" the Saviour describes as
the new birth ;" and from this period all his thoughts were
bent on becoming a Gospel missionary. With this view
he entered Hoxton academy, and after going through a
regular course of study, was sent out, at his own parti-
cular request, on a mission to China, " because there the
difficulties were the greatest, and to all human appear-
ance the the most insurmountable"—an observation of
Dr. Morrison's, which shows great energy and enthu-
siasm of character. While preparing for this arduous-
mission, he studied with indefatigable activity, acquired
a sound knowledge of medicine and astronomy, mastered
the difficulties of the Chinese language, and then set out
on his departure in the year 1807. On his way thither,
while yet in the Channel, he encountered a tremendous
gale, which he thus describes in his diary :
" Before daylight our anchor snapped in two, our mizen
and fore-sails split, and we scudded down the Channel
under bare poles. The sea ran mountains high, and the
atmosphere was so thick with snow, that we could not see
the length of the ship around us. In the midst of our ex-
tremity, an alarm was raised that the ship was on fire, owing
to the bursting of some bottles of oil of vitriol. The pilot
and one of the men leaped into the mizen chains, in order
to jump overboard, which was to cast the,nselves into the
arms of death, as they preferred death in that form to being
burned to death. Happily, however, the other men had
courage enough to seize the bottles, and push them over.
board."

On passing the -Isle of Wight, which he remained on
deck to look at, till the-last glimpse had faded in the
horizon, the young Missionary gave vent to his feelings
in the following pathetic passage, which we quote from
his diary : _ _ _ . _ .

" Last evening we saw the Isle of Wight, in all proba
bility the last of the English coast we shall see. I took
farewell of the land I shall visit no more. It is a land that
is dear to me—the land of my fathers' sepulchres. There
rests my mother I Epithets tail me. Suffice to say, she
!vas my mother. With maternal feeling and anxiety, on
her dying pillow, she inquired what would be my future
destinies. In that land live my father, my brothers, and
my sisters. There, too, lives my friend ! The God of
Heaven bless that happy land."
After a stormy voyage Dr. Morrison reached New
York, whence he embarked for Canton. When 'the
vessel reached the equinoctial line, the usual rough nau-
tical ceremonies took place, of which we here subjoin
the Doctor's account :
" On the 10th instant we passed the equinoctial line.
Our people went through the ceremony of ducking.
You have doubtless seen and heard accounts of it. H
"ex, I will run it hastily over. Neptune and Amphitrite,
Most ludicrously dressed, he having an immensly long
beard and tail, with a trident in one hand and a speaking-
trumpet in the other ; she clothed in a rough shaggy skin
presented themselves on the forecastle. Those men
Rho bad before crossed the line, accompanied the god and
goddess, having their trowsers and shirt-sleeves rolled up
to as to present their les and arms bare, painted, or rather
edaubed, in a most rude manner. Neptune hailed the
ship, to, which a person answered in the steerage. Ad-
vancing with the goddess and their retinue to the quarter-
deck, I understand,' said he, in a hollow grumbling tone,
You have some of my children here who have not before
Passed this way ; bring them out, that I may see them ; bear a
hand.' One was ima.ediately brought, blindfolded, by tao
conductors. Each of them laid a large cudgel on the
man's shoulder. Having dragged him before Neptune,
they seated him on a half-barrel full of water. Well,
my son,' said the god, lam glad to see you pass this way ;
you must now hail the line,' putting the trumpet to his
mouth for that purpose. He cries Line, a-ho I' at which
instant a seamen throws, with violence, a pail of salt
water down the trumpet, into the man's mouth. Come
now, barber, and shave my son,' said Neptune. The
barber steps forward, with a large painter's brush, and be-
daubs the man's lace and neck with tar or black paint.
Amphitrite gives him a cordial, viz. a glass of salt water.
An old•rusty hoop is then applied to the man's face, and
as the tar is scraped off, the razor is wiped between his
lips. Now,' says Neptune, you must make some vows
to me; first, you must never eat- brown bread when volt
ca.n have white, unless you like it. better.' yes,, says
the man, between whose lips a tarry stick is thrust, that he
may, as they say, ' kiss the book.' You must never
drink water when you can get wine or porter ; you must
never lea” the pump till it sucks ; you must serve as you
have been, aLI that come this way.' To each of these the
-mail must reply, and when he opens his lips, the tarry
stick-is thrust into hie mouth. Six or eight buckets of
weVer are then dashed against him, his seat is removed,
and he . tumbles down in the dark almost suffocated,
amidst the loud laughter of his shipmates. Half of our
People were served thus. The Captain's interference
Prevented them from treating me in a similar manner."
Arrived at Canton, Dr. Morrison met with consider-
able opposition to his missionary labours ; nevertheless,
4c persevered, and was to some extent successful in his
efforts. At Macao, whither he went for the benefit of
his health, he met with an Englishman named Morton,
Whose eldest daughter he married, and was soon after-
Wards appointed Chinese translator to the East India
Company's Factory, with a salary of five hundred pounds
Year. This ensured his continuance in the country,
aktd by this it is hoped," observes his biographer," the
inunortal interests of millions were decided." The ap-
Pc'io tment, however, was ultimately taken from him, in
consequence of his refusal to abandon his missionary
labours, which he now prosecuted with more zeal and
atlecess than ever. In 1824, after many years resi-
%ince in China, Dr. Morrison returned to England,
thieh he qaitted again in 1826 for Canton, where he
died in the . year 1834, after a few days 'illness.
Ilia character, as we judge from the present
term*, was one of infinite energy and deter-
tWination of purpose. Once resolved on a point,
Ile never swerved' from it, no matter how great
Were the obstacles he had to contend against. His
korai and physical courage were remarkable, and not
less so his piety, which was.fervent without being in the
slightest degree alloyed by cant. His literary acquire-
kenta were profound and various, and his Dictionai y of
the Chinese language will ever remain a triumphant
tw.nonument of his indefatigable powers of application.
The Biographical Memoir before us does every justice
to his character, but we think it might have been coni-
Pressed within half the space. For the generality of light
readers it will not possess much attraction, inasmuch as
1t contains few striking incidents and still fewer anec-
dotes. The impress of truth, however, is visible on every
Page, and this alone is a great recommendation to the
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