The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-18 00:00:00

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SUICIDE.—The colonel of a regiment of militia down
east, was informed lately that one of his sons had run 77,-"
his sword through hii body. On inquiry he found i cAtti..l,
that he had sold the sword for liquor, which he had I,l,'Jtu'
drunk. I
Pe Brit
DEFINITION OF LOVE.—A little sighing, a little
crying, a littie dying, and a deal of lying. Feri
A PRESS OE BUSINESS.—WiII cur paper-maker (c,aarrtniitta
please to call at this office, 21, Ann-street, and get Cowbri
the money for the paper he sent yesterday-250 dol-
lars, I believe. We sire so busy at the Herald-office, Barn
rhar
that we have no time to send him his money. Dua'
Richm
VALUE OF PAPER MONEY.--The Schuylkill Bank, stockti
at Philadelphia, seems to have taken suspension in
the second degree. A gentleman i.‘resented four of
its five-dollar notes at its counter on Friday, and
asked for specie, and they said no. He then asked
for other bills, and they said no. Will you give me
anything for them ?" and they said no.
AFFECTIONATE.—A Connecticut Jonathan, in taking
a walk with his dearest, came to a bridge, when he
honestly said, after paying his toll (which was one
cent), " Come, Suke, you must pay your own toll, for
just as like as not I shan't have you arter all."

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COUNTY COURT OF REQUES

TS.

Mr. Johnson, a respectable tailor, was summoned by
a girl, apparently about sixteen years of age, for twelve

weeks' wages.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—What reason has your
master given for witholding, your wages ? Girl--
Please, Sir, I went. into the back parlour to put it to
rights, while missis and master were down in the kitchen
haying breakfast, and as I saw a piece of cloth on the
counter, I went into the shop just to look at it, and as
I was playing with the shears, they slipped and cut the
cloth. So, as I was afraid my master would see the
place, I cut the piece off and took it into the kitchen,
and put it into the drawer. My master found out the
piece of cloth, and he sent me away without my wages.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Do I understand you
to say that you accidentally cut a piece of cloth from
another piece which you went into the shop merely to
look at ? Girl—Yes, Sir.
Mr. Commissioner Dußors—And that you then
took the cloth into the kitchen and bid it in a drawer,
because you wanted to conceal the accident. Girl—

Yes, Sir.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois--Upon my word an ex-
traordinary story indeed I think I could tell what a
Jury at the Central Criminal Court would think of it.
Defendant (throwing down a piece of cloth, about a
quarter of a yard wide)—There is the piece the girl
cut off and placed in the kitchen-drawer. She went
into the shop, and with the shears cut it off a roll that
was on the counter. When the theft was discovered
the cloth was found in the kitchen-drawer, with a quan-
tity of cigars, and a lawn handkerchief and a pair of silk
stockings belonging to my wife.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois (to the girl)—Afler this
do you still mean to say the cloth was cut by accident?
Girl—Yes, Sir. I was playing with the shears and they
slipped out of my hand and cut the piece of cloth:
Mr. Commissioner Dußois—Well, such a " slip" as
you experienced has been the means of transporting
many persons. Pray were you taken before a Ma-
gistrate ? Girl—No ; I was only ha& up before an
inspector, and the inspector thought it was better to let

me go.
Defendant—The fact is, the girl, as soon as the rob-
bery was found out, ran away. I discovered her and
gave her into custody. The inspector however thought,
as the girl was so young, it would be better not to pro-
secute ; and so, after she had been in the station-house
a few hours, I agreed to release her.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—You acted with more
humanity than prudence. But we'll hear what the
Jury says as to the demand.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.
Mother—But my daughter has not been paid her
wages, and that's what she has summoned her master
here for.
Mr. Commissioner Dußois—We never give wages
under such circumstances. Your daughter has been
proved to be a thief.
Mother—No, she hasn't, and it's a shame she isn't
paid what's due to her. She ought to have justice.
Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS—Oh, she shall have it if
you choose. Come, we'll send her before a Magistrate,
and then you will hear what the Magistrate's opinion of
the matter is.
The mother and her hopeful daughter made the best
of their way out of Court.
Gentlemen," said Mr. Commissioner DUBOIS, ad-
dressing the Jury, " this girl has exhibited the most
extraordinary instances of simplicity I ever met with.
First, in the invention of such a story, and next in the
supposition that any sane person would believe it."

AN OWL " FAR, FAR AT SEA.—The ship, Marga-
ret, which arrived at this port on Friday last from
Quebec, has brought home a prisoner of rather an
extraordinary description. This is a fine owl, which
was captured at sea, not less than 500 miles from any
land. Whither the solitary bird was voyaging is not

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second
third

known.
EARTHQUAKES.—The latest arrivals from the
Mediterranean state that Vesuvius is inwardly con-
vulsed, and thick clouds of smoke cover the mountain
top, the vapour of which is so very prejudicial to the
nines in the immediate neighbourhood, that the Govern-
ment has remitted the taxes of the growers. It is a
remarkable fact that the eruptions of Vesuvius have,
almost in every case, been preceded by alarming indica-
tions of the volcanic action in Perthshire. About a
month ago, it will be recollected that some smart shocks
were felt at Crieff and Cowrie. It now turns out that,
almost immediately afterwards, Vesuvius became con-
vulsed. It thus appears that there must be a chain of
strata, of uniform sympathy, stretching from the Gram-
pian and Ochil Hills to Italy. There is nothing in the
history of Scotland to show that earthquakes were pe-
culiar to Perthshire previous to the great earthquake
at Lisbon ; but, since that time, they have been more
or less common ; and, on the assumption that a chain
of electrical strata does exist in this direction, the
conclusion might be drawn that " the foundations
of the earth," so to speak, were then .‘
"rent ;"
and
thus, according to Daubeny's hypothesis, wate! l
atmospheric air" would thereafter find comparatively
easy access " through the channels in the rocks,
and,
reaching the heat which is believed to " exist below a
given point of the earth's surface," produce the volcanic
action. From the borings which have been made in
Perthshire in search of coal, the strata have been proved
to he highly charged with electricity, more especially in
the valley of Strathearn ; and it has also been demon-
strated that the heat there is not far from the earth's
surface. Loch Earne, too, never freezes—a phenomenon
exclusively applicable to that lake, as compared with
others of equal dimensions in Scotland. Taking all these
circumstances into account, we think they open up a
very interesting and inviting field for the father inves-
tigation of physical science in connection with volcanic
phenomena, and we hope the attention of scientific gen-
tlemen will be early directed to the subject.
In the garden of Mr. Peck, of Rushwick, was
yesterday dug a carrot, measuring one foot five inches
in circumference, and weighing four pounds.— Worces-
ter Journal.
MARYLEBONE VESTRY, SATURDAY.—Mr. Da-
niell, the Churchwarden, having taken the chair, it was
moved and seconded that the minute appointing a Com-
mittee to inquire into the means of improving the reve-
nues of the district Churches of the parish be confirmed
Dr. Dibdin opposed the motion. He said the resolution
was most reprehensible ; no persons but the Bishop,
Rector, or Churchwardens, had the power to interfere
in matters connected with the Church, either spiritual
or temporal ; the resolution implied an unjust censure
on the conduct of those having the management of places
worship, and an insinuation that he (Dr. Dibdin) had
not done his duty. Those present had nothing snore
to do with the churches, while there, than to kneel
down and say their prayers, and heat the doctrines pro-
pounded. There had been but 101. deficiency in St.
Mary's Church. The Committee sought to alter the
arrangements of the choir, into which they wished to
introduce fiddles ; he deemed this attempt as wrong in
principle and as illegal. Lord Stowell had decided that
no persons, hut those above stated, had a right to inter-
fere with the doctrines, worship, or management of the
Church. Messrs. Savage, Rathbone, Jackson, and G.
A.Young, were against the confirmation of the minute.
conceiving that the vestry were not legally authorised to
interfere in the way proposed. Messrs. Biers,Theobald,
Gibson, Loder, and Joseph, were in favour of the Com-
mittee, and contended for the right of the Vestry to
interfere. The last-named Vestryman said that the
desire of those in favour of the Committee was to makemusic
introduced, as in the Roman Catholic Chapels. Mr.
Kensett said that he was induced to bring forward the
motion from the following facts :—Since the year 1811
nearly 270 ar
,000/. had been expended upon the Churches
of this parish, and the pishioners were still saddled
with a Church-rate, which he thought was caused by bad
management. There had been a varying deficiency in
the receipts compared with the expenditure of all the
Churches, whilst the Dissenting Chapels more than
supported themselves. Baker. street Cnapel, w hich
three years since was bankrupt, had, in consequence of
a more popular preacher and better management, an
annual net income of 6001. or 7001. ; this convinced
him that the introduction of similar attractions into the
district Churches would prevent them from being any
longer a burthen to the parish. Dr. Dibdin having re-
plied, the question was put from the chair, when there
appeared—For the motion 23, against it 21 ; majority
in favour of appointing the Committee, 2.—The Vestry
then broke up.
Ever since the severe shock on the
night of the 23d ultimo, the earthquake has been felt,
though slightly, we may say, through the course of
every night since, in this place. Being now accustomed
to it, the alarm is not so great ; but in Comrie, fear pro-
caii, Lo a great extent—the cotieusious being much
severer there than about this place.—Aberdeen Journal.

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NEWCASTLE CORN EX.CHANGE
-Nov.-NoY.
Rd. White.
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- Norfolk aria Suffolk... ......... ... 75. 71. 73, 7.1,..
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HA DDINGEON CORN MARKET.—Nov. 15.
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Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid
to idleness, an immense qnnuity expended to retain
mankind in brutality and ignorance. The poor are
kept in ignorance for the want of leisure. The rich are
furnished indeed with the means of cultivation and lite-
rature, but they are paid for being dissipated and indo-

lent.—Godwin.
A carrot, of extraordinaiy size, has this week
been politely sent to us by Henry Stracey, Esq.,
which was grown in that gentleman's garden, at
Kirby Bedon ; its weight is 50bs. ; it is eighteen
inches long, and its greatest circumference fifteen
inches. It can be seen by any one calling at our
office. The above gentlemen pulled a parsnip a
fortnight since weighing five pom:ds, minus 5 oz. ; and
he has also some potatoes remarkable for their size. Sir
Edward Stracey has potatoes of even gt eater weight,
at Rackheath, but these are again exceed,ed by some
grown by Sir Henry Durrant, of Scottow. Gem of those
grown at the latter place, we understand, weighs three
pounds.—Norfolk Chronicle.
PRO VINCIAL.—There is little news from the
country, if we except the intelligence from Newport, at
which locality we may observe, by the way, the insur-
rectionar y movement appears to have been limited, for
save in So uth Wales no symptom of a Chartist rising is
seen. The country, however, exhibits in many instances%
a frightfu record of rural crime. Stealing from fields,
barns, and houses, is of nightly occurrence almost every-
where, and the state of society in the provinces gene-
rally, shows at least one thing plainly, it proves that
the protecting duties on corn do not secure the rich,
on the one band, from constantly recurring depreda-
tion, nor, on the other, do they appear to procure those
comforts for the labouring poor, the possession of which
form the best preventive to the commission of crime.
FAILURE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL FOOT-
PATH IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—On Friday the experi•
mental new gravel footpath, which was made of the tar
of gas spread over with grave), being found not to
answer, was fenced in, so that the public cannot walk
on it. The gas tar, by walking on the pave', worked
through it, and became adhesive to the passengers'
boots and shoes. The smell arising from the tar is
most obnoxious. The whole of it has proved a com-
plete failure.
PUBLIC HISTORY.—A register of the sue-
ceases and disappointments, the vices, the follies, and
the quarrels of those who engage in contentions for
power.—Palcy.
A WONDERFUL AND CERTAIN CURE FOR
GOUT ANT) RHEUMATISM.--,-If those who suffer with
these dreadful complaints would persevere for a time
with " Holloway's Ointment" as an external applica-
tion, and his " External Disease Pill" to be taken et
the same time, these remedies would effectually era-
dicate from the system the most inveterate Gout or
Rheumatism that ever assailed it. Nothing is more
certain than that they perform thousands of most
traordinary cures in every class of External Diseases,
and no family throughout ithout them. Every respect-
able chemist througthe kingdom keeps them, or
they may be had at 13, Broad-street Buildings, City,
the establishment of the Proprietor, where advice il
given gratis.
CREDITORS OF THE DUKE OF YORK.
We have great pleasure in stating that his Royal High-
ness
the Duke of Sussex has consented to act as
Dukead
mi-
nistrator to the estates of his late brother, the
bert
of York. The death of his executors, Sir Her
Taylor and Sir Benjamin Stephenson, rendered this
step necessary. Her Royal Highness the Princess So-
phia is residuary legatee, and although her Royal
Higiiness has always been willing to abandon her claims
in favour of the creditors, still she has a right, through
her illustrious brother, to protect her own interests as
well as that of the creditors. The latter are deeply sen-
sible of the kindness of the Duke of Sussex, and ear-
nestly hope that some means will now be found to ex
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pelite the adjustment of their claims.—Correspondent
qf the Observer.
On Saturday, at the Kensington Petty Sessions,
a number of omnibus drivers on the western road 3r_
peered at the instance of the police before the Bench, cud
answer summonses for furious driving, obstruction, an ~
for loitering, In most of the cases, the evidence vv",
conclusive, and the defendants were fined in mitigate
penalties. It is understood the the police have reeelv:u
strict orders to enforce that clause of the new act wile
imposes a penalty of 40s. on the driver of every Pub i•
carriage" which obstructs a public thoroughfare a lone;
time than is necessary "to take up or set down by
gers," " a desideratum devoutly to be wished" bY t
omnibus-going public. of
In consequence of the late heavy rains, relyllo..flg
P-
the lowlands of the county have been com,,d.
flooded, and much stock has been injured or destrol",‘,
Several small bridges have also been damaged bY ti;jo
swelling of the rivers. In some places where ferer
run across public roads, there has been great dangot,
in crossing them, and a few days since an acc at
ide
nearly attended with fatal consequences, happened
the ford across the Culm, between Huxham and St°
Canon.—lrestern Times

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BIRTH'.
On the 11th inst., in the Close, Salisbury, the lady °f I°lll3
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Mills, Esq., of Bisterne, of a son. he Is/
On the 13th inst., at Su.nrnit-place, Upper Clap
of Charles Barrow, Esq., of a son. - , 5 0.
On the 15th inst., at Sydenham comLnc.
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At Kernaul, in the East Indies, William Balfour,
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late William Bishop, Esq., of North Bank, Regent spar
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of Gray's-wood, Hazlemere. S:f
On the 14th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, J. ter -
tharn, Esq., of Fenehurch-street, to Catherine, only daugh
the late Thomas Coleman, Esq.
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On the 16th inst., at No. 51, Cambridge-street,
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road, Mrs. Anthony Austin, daughter of the late
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cardo, Esq. iteet°
On the 12th inst., the Rev. James Geldart, LL.D.,
of Kirk-Deighton, Yorkshire, aged 79. , V -
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On the 12th inst., Mary, the only daughter of the O'
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