The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-06 00:00:00

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natl=7ed in sQme of the newspapers Gf Fist
dayi, the toprt pf the examination at
i;ui!,:nall of " the Servants'
Hiring Office," No. 64 teas first
brought up on Thursday, the f 29.11 ult., r: +i again se-.,:ter-
day, to answer the complaint of several young men, fet
ender the deceitful pretence that he could in-
form them of vacancies iii of merchants and
tradesmen, and having heard of one case in Ithich a party,
knowing me by name only, supposQd I was the same person, I am
fearful of the spread of such a supposition, which might seri-
ottsly attxt my character—l will therefore feel obliged if you
notit'e, in some prominent part of your Paper, that I have
•,.tith the above (Alice, and do not know, even by
sight, the said henry William Dawson, who has Leen in Can-
non-street about too or three ril9tilli)% only, in which street I
have resided more than 20 years.

I am, Sir, your most obedient servant.
WM. DAWSON,
Newspaper Vendor and Stationer,
'4, CannOn‘streeti City, July 5.

To-morrow, a considerable ii6Ti9n of the great line
of Railway, which is to expedite our communlea:ons with the
British Nfetropolis, is to be opened to the public, and vOn
he
traversed by the mails from LOndeo, of which we are hence-
forth to have the benefit of two every ltmft4i day. The new
arrangcmentg which have become necessary at Our Post-office
hive been oilicially notified. Further accelerations will, no
doubt, from time to time, take place, as this magnificent line
of Railway advances to completion, any giYen distance being
traversed in less than half the time occupied by the present
mail-coaches. When the periol shall arrive that the whole
distance between London and Greenock can be travelled by
railway, the journey will be completed within the incredibly
short space of one day—a rapidity which the wildest visionary,
but a very few years since, would not have dreamt of.—
Greenock Advertiser.

Accounts from all parts of the Continent represent
the weather to be as generally favourable to agriculture, nst
the winter and spring had been long, cold, and discouraging.
TIIE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.-Parties may now
marry either at Church or Chapel, or in their own dwellings.
They will no longer be compelled to go to Church, where,
too often, through the whim, caprice, or indolence of the cler-
gyman they have been insulted. An instance occurred on
Tuesday, the 27th ult., at St. Mary's Church, where a young
couple with their friends were kept waiting more than half an
hour, though the time for the performance of the rite had
been already postponed in order that his reverence, the Cu-
rate, might not be hurried over his breakfast. We understand
that this is not an uncommon occurrence with this reverend
gentle man. —Leicestershire Mercury.
Several erroneous reports with respect to the open-
ing of the first section of the London and Birmingham Rail-
way from Euston Grove, London, to Box Moor, llerts (24
miles), having recently obtained circulation, we have (says a
Manchester paper of Wednesday) made inquiry on the sub-
ject, and are enabled to state that it is expected that that por-
tion of the work will be opened to the public on Tuesday, the
18th of July, and that by the first week, or, at any rate, by the
middle of August, the line will be opened as far as Tring, 31
miles. The question is to be decided at a general meeting of
shareholders on Friday next, to prevent the line from being
used at all on Sundays.

Dr. GRANVILLE.—We copied from a morning pa-
per a paragraph stating that Dr. Granville had left town by the
Hamburgh steam-boat, Batavier, for the Continent. So far
from this being the case, he has not had the slightest inten-
tion of leaving London, where he is busily engaged in seeing
his forthcoming work on the Spas of Germany through the
press, and attending to his professional duties.
We regret to learn the failure in Glasgow of a large
house in the foundry trade.—Glasgow Chronicle.
FRENCH AND ENGLISH INNS.—I have often

thought (says Mr. Cooper, the American novelist) that the
regularity, silence, order, cleanliness, and decencies of an
English inn, added to the beds, elegance, table, and liquors of
a French inn, would fora' the ne plus ultra of inn-ism.
The coach proprietors on this line of road, aware
that on even the partial opening of the London and Birming-
ham Railway, they may cry " Othello's occupation's gone,"
are making hay while sunshine is left them. The fare from
Birmingham to London, which of late years has averaged
from 18s. to 11. ss. has recently been trebled ; and the pro-
prietors now modestly ask 31. 12s. fare to the mstropolis.
Manchester Guardian.

Dr. Johnson, when in Scotland, complained stur-
dily of the paucity of trees ; but should his spirit ever revisit
the glimpses of the moon, it can no longer say, that from Ber-
wick to the Orcades all is barren, if we except the Hebrides,
and a few other clustered or lonely Isles. When an English
noblemen, who had visited Wigtownshire, inquired of a for-
mer Earl of Galloway, in London, whether he had still his
seven trees, the bold Baron replied, " I have now seven mil-
lions ;" and this is merely a sample of the umbrageous change
that has taken place over the whole country.
The Precurseur of Antwerp gives some details re-
specting a young girl who has lived for some time in the en-
virons of Maestricht in a sort of savage state. Her name is
Genevieve Colombo. She says she is a native of Piedmont,
and that for some years an old gentleman used to come to the
asylum at Novane, where she was placed, and pay an annual
sum for her support ; but the old gentleman being dead, the
pension was discontinued. Some papers were found which
stated that her father's fortune had been left to her brother, a
Canon of Maestricht, who, however, was directed to pay his
sister a small annual pension. Entrance to the fortress was
refused her, but her efforts to obtain admission became such an
annoyance, that she was told if she did not leave the kingdom
she would be sent to prison. She then retired to the grotto
of St. Pierre, where she stayed for 18 months on a rock,
taking no other nourishment than was left by the peasants.
There it was that she lost her reason. She says that she was
only born to trample the grass under her feet. She will wear
nothing but silk gowns and velvet shoes. When any other
description of dress is given to her, she tears it into atoms.
The poor girl is about to be sent back to the asylum at Novane.
The unfortunate and deluded peasantry of the neigh-
bourhood of Tipperary have been excited not a little within
the last week by a humbugging story, got up evidently for a
similar purpose to the " Wild Fire," or the " Blessed Turf,"
of the last year, and which has the effect of collecting thou-
sands and hundreds of thousands together almost at a moment's
warning, who can then be led on to any act of desperation their
leaders may direct. A man named Keating, from near New-
castle, was taken ill, died, and was buried some short time ago,
but a few nights since he appeared to his brother and father,
end told them lie had been only taken by the fairies, and that
if they were resolute, and would bring plenty of whisky, and
some of their neighbours, and have each a black-hafted knife,
he would be passing the cross-road at Giendalough, ar twelve
o'clock precisely, at St. John's Eve ; that they Is ould first see
a little man on a fine grey horse, whom they were to let pass
as well as any others, until they perceived him ; he would be
mounted on a black horse ; they were to get between him and
the rest, and to cut off the right ear of his horse, when he
would be at once out of the fairies' power, and be let home
again to them. Numbers in this town and neighbourhood
either believed it or pretended to do so, and went off to the
meeting, where, we are informed, upwards of 1,20 e persons
assembled. As may be supposed, no little man or gray horse
appeared, and all returned again, but what passed there, and
why they were called thus together, is as yet a secret. To
carry on the humbug, this ghost or fairy appeared on Sunday
night to his father again, and told him all was lost by a fellow
going in their company who had murdered three men (whom
he named), but that lie would be passing Ratcliffe's mill,
near the Spa, in a few nights again, when they would have
another opportunity.— Tippe, cry Constitution.
HERRING FISHERY IN HOI.LAND.—The first
vessel from the herring fleet arrived on Saturday, with 201
barrels of new herrings, which were sold at 700 florins per
barrel. A second vessel with 49 barrels had left the fleet for
Hamburgh. On Monday evening, at six o'clock, the second
Dutch boat, with 101 barrels of herrings, arrived at Maesluys ;
it left the fleet on the 27th of June, and brings the most fa-
vourable accounts of the success of the fisheries.—Dutch paper.

The quantity of iron made in this country duting
the year 1836 has been estimated at the enormous quantity of
a million tons; the average price of pig-iron for the year
being about 7/. per ton, and that of bar-iron about 11/. per
ton.— The Cambrian.
The ravages of time and the march of improvement
are making sad havoc with the antiquities of Leith. It is but
lately that the house was taken down which was formerly the
residence of the unfortunate Earl of Balmerino, who, along
with the Earl of Kilmarnock, was beheaded on Tower-hill on
the 11th of August, 1746, having been taken prisoner at the
battle of Culloden. This ancient building was situated in the
Kirkgate, between Charlotte-street and the Kirkgate. King
Charles 11., when invited by the Scottish Parliament to come
to Scotland in 1650, landed at Leith, and lodged in the house
now spoken of. Another memorable building is just now dis-
appearing, to make way for grain lofts ; we allude to the old
building in Queen-street, said to be the residence of Mary of
Lorraine. This house presented rather an elegant exterior,
all the window frames being formed of oak richly carved ; the
panellings of the doors were also of oak, embellished with
beautiful carved work.—Edinburgh Courant.
On Monday evening, a meeting of the unemployed
operatives was held on the Market Hill, Barnsley, to consider
what course should be adopted to gain immediate relief;
when at the recommendation of Mr. Joseph Crabtree they
agreed to go in a body to the workhouse the next morning, to
demand relief from the overseer, which was accordingly done,
and relief was obtained as far as the overseer's means would
allow. A public meeting was held a few days ago, at which
a committee was appointed for conducting a subscription for
the purpose of employing the most distressed, and for reliev-
ing widows and others. Since then partial relief has been ad•
ministered. The committee found such urgent claims upon
their sympathy as to induce them to give immediate relief :n
many cases. They examined 350 cases, and distributed 1:31.
in money, and 369 stones of flour amongst 275 families, which
will supply them with bread one week, during which time the
committee are in hope that they will be able to get some in,
some sort of work for any relief which may be given to them.
On Friday last, a boy 14 )ears of age, named
James Sillitoe, living at Barlingdo::, hung himself'small cord. His father had left him only ten minutes, and
on his roturn he was quite dead. He had been previously ob-
served to be much depressed in his spirits.—. Essex Herald.
morning of
TEIGNMOUT ll.—On the Tuesday last,
between two and three o'clock, A. M. (the evening before
having been quite calm), an easterly wind sprung suddenly up
and brought a heavy sod with it. A larze raft of timber ly-
lantv,ing to Messrs. Hoover of Exster, and intended for the