The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-02 00:00:00

THE COSSACKS OF THE DON.

ODESSA.—" I announced to you that. a considerable
ferment had of late prevailed among the Cossacks of the
Don. Notwithstanding that the Government is doing
everything in its power to intercept and prevent any
communication with their country, and although it is
forbidden to speak of this fermentation on pain of being
transported for lite to the forests of Kamschatka, I have
succeeded in learning some details, and I hasten to com-
municate them to you.
" Immediately after the promulgation of the famous
ukase which ordains that the Cossacks may be con-
demned to suffer the punishment of flogging, like the
other subjects of the Autocrat, tne Cossack nobility and
people bold:y expressed their indignation against it, and
sent to their Hettman ad interim, Wlassaff, a deputation
declaring that all the Cossacks, men, women, and chil-
dren, were ready to sacrifice everything for the defence
of their privileges and prerogatives, and praying him to
inform the Emperor of their intention on this subject.
" The Hettman, conformed exactly to the desires of
his countrymen, and in consequence the Emperor or-
dered several bodies of troops to enter the country of
the Don ; but the elders of the Cossacks, that is to say,
their superior officers, called to arms the extraordinary
contingent, and all, not even excepting the Hettman
Wlassaff, resolved to repel the aggression. However, at.
the same time they sent the old General Yeffremoff to St.
Petersburgh, to state to the Emperor that they would not
rebel against his authority unless they saw themselves
forced to it ; that they would remain faithful sub-
jects to the Czar, but that they would not allow the
smallest of their privileges to be taken from them.
" The Emperor received the General Yeffremoff very
courteously, and ordered the troops sent against the
Cossacks to suspend their march, and commanded the
directing senate to revise the ukase in question, and to
make a report to him stating why it could not be exe-
cuted. This is the first tine the autocrat has given way
to his subjects. It is the first time he has yielded to
resistance of his orders. However, in the country of
the Don this concession is not believed sincere, and the
young Cossacks, who generally come to spend the cad-
nival in St. Petersburgh or Moscow, have remained at
home this year, fearing the resentment of Nicholas.
" The fermentation which rages in the country of the
Don is only appeased, and I can assure you that all the
inhabitants, from the hichest to the lowest, are ready to
follow the example of Pougatchef, and to fight the Mus-
covites."—Le Commerce.

THE LATE CASE OF STABBING AT HAYES.
—We have heard, from a quarter upon which we place the
utmost reliance, that a charge of two guineas per day has
been made by Mr. Sturmer for his attendance before the
Magistrates on the 15th and 21st instant, concerning the
death of one of his own pupils. It does not appear that
any extra charge has been made for the severe lecture read
to the Reverend Gentleman by the Bench on that occa-
sion. The stick, which was non est inventus during the
Coroner's Inquest and the inquiry before the Bench, has
been since found in Mr. Sturmer's drawing-room to the
utter surprise of the Reverend Tutor.—Windsor Journal
(a new Conservative Paper).
INCENDIARISM IN OXFORDSHIRE.—On Sun-
day night a fire broke out at Headington Oxfordshire, on
the farm of Mr. Burrows, which destroyed a double barn
containing twenty quarters of corn .in sacks, a new waggon,
a winnowing machine and other farming implements, be-
sides two straw ricks. The fire is supposed to have been
the act of an incendiary. The only cause which can be
assigned for the diabolical act is the fact that Mr. Bur-
rows, jun., as vice-chairman of the Headington Union. has
taken an active part in carrying out the principles of the
new poor laws, which has made him unpopular among
some of the poorer classes, although he was always among
the number of their best friends. On Tuesday evening
another fire broke out in the rickyard of Mr. Peake, of
Islip, which also destroyed a double barn containing a
quantity of corn and straw, two large wheat ricks, together
with some wood stacks, and other property to the value of
about 7001 , a portion of which was insur..d in the County
Fire Office, and the buildings were insured in the Plicenix.
The fire was kindled in a small building attached to one of
the portions of the barn. There is not the slightest doubt
of the fire having been the act of an incendiary. Lord
Chetwynd was on the spot, and rendered considerable ser-
vice by giving directions to the firemen.
MANCHESTER.—The gentlemen who prefer the
government or the Lord of the Manor to that of the repre
sentatives of the various wards, popularly elected, have
been in high spirits this week in consequence of observing
that the Mayor has had an interview with Lord John Rus
sell at the Home-Office ; for they canno suppose that such
an interview could have been sought with any other view than-
to have a patch put upon some newly discovered hole in the
charter. We will charitably leave them to their enjoyment
for another week. They will see, however, that the mem-
bers of the council are not at all discouraged, as they have
directed the Mayor to issue his precept to the overseers of
the various townships within the borough to furnish him
with their assessments, preparatory to the laying of a rate ;
and we believe that the anti-corporation gentlemen will
not be long deprived of the opportunity, for which they
profess to pant, of resisting its imposition.—Mane/ester
Times.

LIFE ASSURANCE.—Since writing the article
on Life Assurance in a late number, our attention has been
drawn to a number of peculiarities in the mode of eff..cting
insurances on lives. Almost every institution, it would ap.
pear, professes to hold out some peculiar advantage to
assurers, which it would be altogether endless for us to
notice. It can, however, be nrither invidious nor t,ut of
place for us to bring under the attention of the puhlic a set
of rules for insurance, which strikes us as being caner ived
in a spirit of enlarged intelligence and liberality. We here
allude to those put forth by the institution called the Na-
tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. In the event
of having discontinued to pay premiums, the policy is not
forfeited, but an allowance made for it to the assurer or his
heirs, to the extent of two thirds of all payments which have
been made after the first five years. It also lends to assu-
rers at any time to a similar extent, and, as far as safety to
the Society will admit, without guarantees; thus prevent.
ing the necessity for forfeiting the policy. To the person
who falls into a state of poverty these regulations must
prove very advantageous; at all events, this Society cannot
boast of increasing its gains by the lapsing of insurances.
Another regulation still more peculiar consists in the re-
laxation of the ordinary provision for depriving the heirs of
assurers of all benefit in the event of the assurer having
committed suicide. It being now a well ascertained fact
that suicides are in almost all cases a simple result of mental
disease or insanity—not by any means premeditated acts—
the usual deprivation of all beaefit in such cases is, we
think, to the list degree oppressive towards the unhappy
family of the deceased. The institution to which we refer
considerably relaxes this provision in reference to those
who have been insured for a certain number of years, so
that no injurious result to society can possibly take place.
—Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
MACASSAR.—At Macassar, Mr. Lay describes
a state of society curious anywhere, but especially on the
extreme verge of Asia:—" Several thousands live near the
city of Macassar; but their home is on the Bay of Boni,
where a confederacy exists, which is a curious combination
of deipotism and liberty; for the hereditary sovereigns of
eight States form a Couricilfor exereisieg the functions of
Government in the Union, and for the purpose of electing
one of their number as President, and investing him with
the executive department. The love and reverence for a
particular family appears among these trustees of freedom,
for the choice of President or Arunga is limited to a par-
ticular family. Each one of these Councillors appoints
his own Prime Minister for the regulation of public matters
in his own particular State, where his will is law in all
questions of a private nature ; while all that have a general
and federal concernment, cannot be transacted but by and
with the consent of the rest of his broth-2r Councillors.
Their cncomiests have decorated them with many high moral
and intellectual qualities; while others, upon a closer ac-
quaintance, have found them to be nothing but a set of
cowardly knaves, who never act an honest part except when
compelled by fear, or allured to it by the prospect of eein.
• • • • It cost the propagators of the Mohammedan
faith more than a century to bring them to embrace the
' faith ;' and it is a matter of rejoicing that they did not suc-
ceed in making polygamy fashionable, as at Borneo and
other places; but the women continues to be on a parity of
condition with her husband, may be elected one of the
arong, or members of the council, and after her marriage,
retains her rights with such general allowance and recogni-
tion, that she sometimes governs her own province, while
her lord is head of another, without the slightest inter-
ference from that quarter. In my walks and visits from
house to house, I saw many intimations of that respect and
honour in which females are held among the natives of
Celebes, and did not fail to note it as an evidnce that sin
had not deprived them of every thing that was amiable in
their character. . . When we called upon a Bugis
prince in the Kampong Waju of Macassar, we found him
sitting upon the floor, his ledger spread before him, and his
wife close by his side; who, though her looks were youth. I
ful, seemed to be acting the parts of accountant and confi-
dential clerk, and doubtless took an equal share of interest DIED. „wl'
in all the mercantile speculations of her partner."—.2Vot e onßussell-street, Jeo
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property straw',
of Mr. Joseph Lockwood, of Cinder hills, Londe,:: Printed amid
mar ' , wins Ne. 112, :Strand, at Vic San Oftice.
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firth, calved three fine healthy calves.
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SECOND-HAND SILVER WATC--o
A variety of some dozens may be selected from, Price 0111 f
Guinea, each ; some rather more modern, Two and !lived
Guineas each ; and an assortment quite equal to iiew'A
Guineas each. The whole have been carefully examine"
are warranted. _

T. COX SAVORY,
Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London, •
( Seven Door,, from Grac•echurch-street)
N. B Second- hand Watches purchased in exchange:.

PLATED CORNER DISHES, E
OS BT4II,
1 s
GUINEAS the SET.—A. B. SAVORY an,
r, (of
Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, Lon'-!°"-plat°
posite the Bank of England), submit for choice in theirnioeit,
Rooms, mane patterns of strongly Plated Corner Gal-
dandleswith Silver dandles and Shields, for Engraving, fregibandles
ncas to 10 Guineas the Sc. of four ' • by removing the
from the corers, eight dishe• are formed when required' li'
don OP
N. B. A Pamphlet of the Prices of Plate may be ha
cation.

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BIRTS.
On the Ist inst., in Charles-strH
eet, Berkeler-square'
Countess of 13reeknock, of r daughter. wynbei;g:
On the 10th of January, at Blickwood Cottage, 01 '
Cape of Good Hope, the wife of Captain Bowes Fster,
son.

MARRIED. 0 Datteock,
On the 30th ult , at Kensington Church, T. ..‘.• ct Dial
Esq., of Chelsea, to. Catherine Walker Taylor, 0; "
Abbot's-terrace, Kensington.
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