The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-26 00:00:00

At the time when the New Town, Edinburgh, was
built, the proprietor of the Gallow Lee, near it, finding it
composed of excellent sand, sold it all away to the builders
to be converted into mortar, so that it soon, from a rising
ground, became a deep hollow. An amusing anecdote is
told in connection with this fact. The honest man, it
seems, was himself fully as much of a sand bed as his pro-
perty. He was a big, voluminous man, one of those per-
sons upon whom drink never seems to take any effect. It
is related that every day, while the carts were taking away
his sand, he stood regularly at the place, receiving the mo-
ney in return, and every little sum he got was immediately
converted into liquor. A public-house was at length erec-
ted at the spot for his own behoof; and assuredly, as long
as the Gallow Lee lasted this house did not want custom.
Perhaps, familiar as the reader may be with stories of sots
who have drunk away their last acre, he never before heard
of the thing being done in so literal a manner.

Last•evening an inquest was held at the Horse
Shoe, Blackfriars, on the body of Lawrence Reilly, who
was found dead in Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on Monday
e, •ning last. It appeared that the deceased, who had been
for some time out of employment, was, on the evening in
question, on his way to visit a brother who was in the habit
of ass•sting him, and who is in the employment of Messrs.
Graham and Co., in Bridge-street, when he burst a blood-
vessel, and dropped dead in the street, where he was found.
The body was carried into the house of Mr. M‘Whinnie,
surgeon, who employed the means usually resorted to in
apoplectic cases to restore animation, but without effect.
Upon a post motion examination, it was found that the de-
ceased had burst a blood vessel in the lungs. Verdict—
Natural Death.

Considerable interest had been excited by the expec-
tation that the Blue-coat boy, Octavius Gibbon, who stood
committed for a robbery on a respectable female named
Field, while travelling on a coach between Ramsgate and
Deal, would be tried at the late East Kent Sessions ; the
witnesses, however, although bound over to appear and give
evidence, did not attend before the grand jury, and were in
consequence called upon their recognizances, which were
ordered to be estreated, and the prisoner was discharged.
It will be remembered that the prisoner, dressed in the cos-
tume of the respectable public school of Christ's Hospital,
London, committed thi robbery whilst outside the coach,
by cutting the dress of a lady and abstracting her purse,
containing upwards of two pounds. The lady was very un-
willing to prosecute ; and it is supposed that the friends of
the family h :ye interposed to save him and them from the
di,grace of being publicly tried and convicted. His mother
is a highly respectable widow with eleven children, residing
in London.—Keutish Chronicle.
ORIGIN OF YANKEE DOODLE.—In the attacks
made upon the French posts in America in 1755, those
against Niagara and Frontenac were made by Governor
Shirley, of Massachussets, and General Jackson, of New
York. Their army, during the summer, lay on the eastern
b ink of the Hudson, a little south of the City of Albany.
In the early part of June the troops of the eastern pro-
vinces began to pour in company after company, and such
air assemblage of men never before thronged together on
such an occasion, unless an example may be found in the
ragged regiment of Sir John Falstaff. It would have re-
laxed the gravity of an anchorite to see the descendants
of the Puritans marching through the streets of that an-
cient city, and taking their stations on the left of the
British army, some with long coats and others with no
coats at all, and with colours as various as the rainbow ;
some with this hair cropped like the army of Cromwell,
and others with wigs, the locks of which floated with
grace around their shoulders. Their march, their accou-
trements, and the whole arrangement of the troops, fur-
nished matter of amusement to the British army. The
music played airs of two centuries ago ; and the tout en-
semble, upon the whole, exhibited a sight to the wondering
strangers to which they had been unaccustomed. Among
the club of wits that belonged to the British army there
was a Doctor Shuckburg attached to the staff, who com-
bined with his knowledge of surgery the skill and talent of
a musician. To please the new corners, he composed a
tune, and
_with much gravity recommended it to the offi-
cers as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music.
The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British.
Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was " nation fine," and in a
few days nothing was heard in the provincial camp but the
air of " Yankee Doodle." Little did the author in his com-
position then suppose that an air made for the purpose of
levity and ridicule should be marked for such high des-
tinies. In twenty years from that time the national march
inspired the heroes of Bunker's-hill ; and in less than thirty
Lord Cornwallis and his army marched into the American
lines to the tune of " Yankee Doodle."—Martin's History
of North Carolina.
Martha Whitworth, a young woman about 22 years
of age, was removed to the asylum at Wakefield on Friday.
She has for some time been labouring under insanity.
Among (Asher fancies which the poor maniac took, was that
of recreating herself with a walk, not in the shrubbery or
by murmuring and shady water, but up the chimney ;and
so nimble was she in her tasteful walk, that a sweep of most
expert parts might have envied her amiable dexterity. The
poor girl (who, before this dreadful malady, was remarkably
good looking) became at last furious, and was a terror to
all around her, and her friends were compelled to remove
her to the asylum, all hope of bringing her round at home
having vanished.—Leeds Times.