The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-05 00:00:00

The CORONER concurred in the view of the Jury.

the valves had not been improperly interfered with by some
person or other, the unfortunate results might not have ensued.
Mr. Smith was sure that no man could feel more hurt than
himself at the accident that had occurred. His invention was to
save life, and it was his having noticed the many accidents that
occurred from the great swell of the river, caused by the ordi-
nary paddle-wheels, that first led him to consider whether some
other mode of propelling vessels could not be adopted by which
these occurrences might be obviated.
Mr. Rennie felt it was his duty to state that he considered no
blame whatever could be attached to Mr. Smith.

It was stated that a liberal subscription had been entered into
on behalf of the widow of the deceasod, and to which the pro-
prietors had contributed 35/,

AN " INGENIOUS" PARSON.—At the close of
his sermon, in a beautiful seaside village, a minister of the
Gospel of Truth, last Sunday produced a petition against
the Government plan of National Education. " The
Ministers, my dear hearers (said he), propose to introduce
the Roman Catholic Bible into the new schools I ( A shudder
of horror ran through the congregation.) Now, I've got
here a Catholic Bible, and I will read you a few passages.
( Here the preacher read one or two verses differing from
the translation of the received version, though not more
widely, perhaps, than the translations of Dr. Adam Clarke,
Archbishop Newcome, and others.) Would you like your
children (he continued) to be taught from so corrupted
and perverted a copy of the Sacred Scriptures ?" Of
course, the bamboozled congregation signed the petition
with all imaginable alacrity—and the preacher would con-
sider himself to be a very " ingenious" fellow—superior
even to M'Ghee. We will say nothing of his honesty, in
cheating the people into the belief that the Catholic Bible
was to be a lesson-book for all the scholars. That is a
point which the reader can decide for himself.—Gateshead
Observer.

A GRAVE-DIGGER BURIED ALIVE.--A
melancholy and fatal accident occurred at Kintore on
Tuesday. The church officer, George Scott, was digging
a grave, in which were to be interred the remains of a
widow, whose husband had died six years ago. The new
grave, which was close by the other one, had been dug
about ten or twelve feet deep, and Scott was working in
it wheu the large tombstone from the first grave slipped
off, and, with a quantity of earth, fell upon Scott. In
twenty minutes he was got out, but by that time was
dead. The poor man bore an excellent character, and
has left a family, but badly provided for. Truly, "in the
midst of life we are in death."—Aberdeen Constitutional.
MR. O'BRIEN AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—

In a report of the proceedings of a meeting of the County
of Norwich Club, published in the Pilot, we see that the
members on Saturday, after taking into consideration the
address of Mr. William Smith O'Brien, M. P., in reply to
the resolution of that body, expressive of a loss of confi-
dence in him as a public man, and passed at a late meeting
of the members of the Club adopted the following resolu-
tion :—" Resolved—That Mr. William S. O'Brien, M. P.,
having, in consequence of the resolutions of the club at
its last meeting, intimated his intention to resign, and
our having consequently asserted the independence of the
great majority of the electors of this county, whose con-
fidence we enjoy, we do now adjourn to Wednesday in the
assizes week, and that our chairman do write to Mr.
O'Brien to request him to retain his seat in the interim."

ABSENCE OF MlND—(Neat, but not imported.)
—Brother Jonathan is a cute lad in forgetting things, but
the talent is not wholly monopolized by him. We know
several friends who are proverbial for forgetting they ever
borrow gilt-edged books and silk umbrellas. Last week a
defendant pleaded in one of our Courts of Law, that he
forgot having drunk two gallons of brandy,—and about a
fortnight ago, Mr. John Newman, corn-dealer, of Rayne,
having quietly trotted over to Braintree market, put up his
horse at the Bell, handled a few samples, drew a few
cheques, and then leisurely walked home again, quite un-
conscious that he ought to have been an equestrian, till he
entered his own yard, and was accosted by his man with—
" Lawk, master, have you sold your horse ?" What an
opportunity for some way-worn traveller to mount old
bobbin and forget he never bought him.—Essex Herald.
The Naval and Military Gazette says that the
following measures have been arranged at the Horse
Guards :—The Ceylon Rifle Corps is to be largely aug-
mented, so as to render two regiments available for service
in India. A Colonial Corps is to be formed immediately
for service at the Mauritius, which will afford the means of
sending one of the regiments now there tolndia.
arrangements will cause the recall home of the 16th, 6th,
and 55th Regiments in the course of 1840.
Arrange-
ments for corps not proceeding from Australia to India,
not having been finally settled, the 50th Regiment is to
relieve the 49th in Bengal. We have not heard what
regiments are to proceed from Ceylon and the Mauritius
to India, but we suppose the 18th and 90th from the
former, and the 35th from the latter station. Such is the
outline of the proposed measure for the relief of regiments
from India, and we hasten to lay it before our readers even
in this imperfect form.