The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-25 00:00:00

STORM on the WESTERN COAST.

PLYMOUTH JULY 23. —This coast was visited the latter
part of last week, by one of the severest storms ever re-
membered at this season of the year. The gale came on
vert suddenly, and blew with great violence from E. S. E.,
shifting to S., and S. W., increasing, with h:•avy rain, and
thick hazy weather. A brig came in from Swansea, and
anchored at the mouth of Catwater, but dragged her
anchors and went on the rocks, under Queen Anne's Battery
—crew and passengers saved. Eight men and an infant
were brought in yesterday by one of the Dublin steamers ;
they were taken from a wreck near the Laud's End ; the
parents of the child and two of the crew were drowned.
Several vessels which ran for shelter into Mount Bay, being
unable to get inside the pier, were either driven ashore, or
sunk at their anchors. We fear that the loss of life hns
been very great. The trowlers which left Plymouth on
Wednesday morning were caught by the gales, whilst
driving their nets, and many were compelled to cut them
away ; one man bad his arm broken whilst at the wind-
la-s. A brig is ashore at L.)oe.

UNPROFITABLE DELIBERATION.—One-half
of human life is made up of wasted consideration. The
highways of the world arc strewed with the sands of
thoughts cast away. The events over which we have no
control affect our destiny a thousand fold more than the
few that we can govern ; and while we ponder over our
decision, fate decides for us and the game is played.
The Anti-Corn law Circular, one of the ablest
as well as the most t i eful publications of the day, has com-
menced a series of pictorial illustrations of the Rent-Laws.
The first number of the " illustrations" is admirably exe-
cuted. The sun is rising, and a Russian and a Pole ap-
proach the British shore, offering abundance of corn and
bread to a famishing group of hand-loom weavers. They
are unable to read the notice put up by order of the
landlords, that "no bread is to be landed on this
ground," and they hear with incredulity the expla
nation and threats of the servants of the landlords.
But at length the bayonet and the policeman's
truncheons are levelled at the crew of free-traders, who
are reminded that, unless they instantly depart, they will
be imprisoned, and their cargo seized and thrown over-
board. Probably the policeman, who appears a hard-
visaged fellow, is in the act of telling the Russian that he
was once employed by his masters, the landlords, to
destroy more than three thousand quarters of foreign corn
at one time. The horror and amazement depicted on the
countenance of the Russian and Pole, contrast strikingly
with the quiet and observing face of the boatman, who
casts his eye upon the scene around—the dying wretches
on the ground, the starving family beyond, the faeLory
converted into a barracks, the gallows, and the carrion
crow; all which he will very carefully describe to his
countrymen when be returns home.

riiE EXECUTION ORDERED AT YORK.-
The Herald says, in reference to the crime for which two
Young men (the principal only eighteen) have been or-
dered for execution at York, by Mr. Baron Maule :
" From 1835 to 1838 (four years) the committals tor the
offence in question was 223, and in that time there was
but one execution ; while from 1831 to 1834. (the pre-
ceding four years) the committals were 222, and there
were in that time sixteen executions. Is it not clear,
then, that those seventeen lives were uselessly sacrificed?
The taking of sixteen lives in the one period did not tend
to repress the crime. The taking of but one life in the
other period did not tend to increase the crime. As a
moral example, then, the punishment is barren. But it is
easy to show that, as a lesson of cruelty and demora isa.
tion, it is prolific of evil."
OMNIBUS SPECULATIONS.—In the Insolvent
Debtors' Court on Tuesday an omnibus proprietor on the
Clapham• road, named William Hilton, made his third
appearance. He had also figured as a bankrupt, and to
account for the several failures it was alleged that he had
been ruined by keeping cmnibuses. Mr. Woodroffe, his
Counsel, gave a graphic description of the connection of
omnibuses with insolvency. The Government duties
swallowed'up all the money, and the parties again got into
prison. What was astonishing was their infatuation in
pursuing the
.same career, which ended with the same re-
sult. The insolvent was discharged.
SUPPOSED MURDER.—On Saturday morning,
as some labourers were employed in excavating a piece of
ground by the waterside lir the purpose of forming a
foundation fur a wall at the back of the London and South-
ampton Railway's Company's warehouses at Nine Elms,
they discovered, at the depth of about six feet from the
surface, the skeleton of a female with the face upwards, and
from the decomposed state of a portion thereof it is
judged that a great number of years must have elapsed
from the period of the body having been interred. On
examination' of the skull it was found to have two severe
fractures, evit!ently inflicted with an axe or some other
sharp instrument. The bones are in the possession of Mr.
Rofe, the Superintendent of the Railway Company's
poli e. The place from which the skeleton was taken was
until lately extremely secluded, and the general opinion is
that the deceased woman had been decoyed there and mur-
dered.

The Animals' Friend Society last week at Bris-
:01 caused John Bradbear to be fined by Mr. Herapath,

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for crueltyt-Oa horse. Mr. Newman is, however, still
opposed, and again dismissed a strong case against George
Smith of ill treatment to a horse, by urging the pretended
necessity of proving the sex of the animal, though he had
been in a former case shown that the statute specifically
made no distinction. It is a pity that Magistrates should
thus oppose so valuable an institution. At Dursley the
Messrs. Yewen (agents of the Society) have also been
active in bringing offenders before the Magistrates ; and
at Southend the two agents, T. and B. Gibbins, have
been equally active in this necessary service.

METROPOLITAN SCHOOLMASTERS.—Satur-
day
masters have availed themselves of the privilege of
e a
entering University College, on Lord Brougham's " patriot
fund," was held in Newcastle-street, Strand, Mr. Higgins
in the Chair. The object of the meeting was to acknow-
ledge in some suitable manner a sense of their obligations
to Lord Brougham himself, and to the Council and Pro-
fessors of University College, for the advantages they had
received by their admission to that institution. A series of
resolutions in accordance with this object was. submitted to
the meeting and unanimously adopted. The number of
schoolmasters who avail themselves of this privilege was
qijrl to he greatly on the increase,

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