The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-18 00:00:00

DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGLISH.

" The people of this kingdom are of genteel nature,
and delicate constitution ; most of the ladies, and fe-
males in general, are more delicate and refined than the
blossom of roses. Their waist is more slender than a
finger ring, their form is beautiful, their voice gains
the affections. The men are very particular in
their disputes, which are carried on with great ability.
If there should be the widest possible misunderstand-

ing, still they keep up the rules of politeness. If it
should rise so high as to produce vindictive feeling, still
they carry on their disputes in a genteel style, and bad
language (God forbid !) is not used. To be called a liar
is the utmost insult ; this will lead to a due! ; the duel
is allowed here."

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ample and exclusive account of the Races at Doncaster;
an Engraving of the Doncaster Cup ; and a Portrait of
the Winner of the Great St. Leger; together with all the
Sporting and Miscellaneous Intelligence of the week
Office, 170, Strand. Early orders to country agents are
indispensable. Bell's Life in London is out in time on
Saturdays for the Birmingham two o'clock train.
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OAFFRON WALDEN.—An accident lately hap-
pened at the Abbey-lane Chapel in this town, which,
though not attended with any serious consequences, occa-
sioned no small alarm and unpleasantness. A considerable
number of persons had assembled to witness the interment
of a woman who died rather suddenly, and they having
followed the corpse into the vestry, the Rev. Luke Forster,
the respected minister of the Chapel, gave an appropriate
address previous to the interment. The Rev. Gentleman
had just concluded, and the coffin was about to be re-
moved, when suddenly a part of the floor close to the spot
where the bier was placed, and on which it is supposed
between twenty and thirty persons were standing, fell in, ROBBERY.—Between Thursday se'nnioht and
and precipitated those who were standing on that part of .
the floor to the foundation of the vestry, a distance of beo Dromore, was broken into, and three
- WiTuesday morning last, the office of Mr. W. Waugh, at.
tween four and five feet. The accident happening s arngsford, near
near where the coffin stood, it was with great difficulty pieces of light unbleached linen, of the sets of 14, 15, and 190
prevented from falling on the persons below, in which case hundred, were carried off. The burglars accomplisheil
some of them would have been undoubtedly seriously in- their purpose by placing a ladder to the wall, breaking a.
jured. On examining into the cause of the accident, it was
pare in one of the windows on the second story, and with
found that the joists were not properly supported next the -.
drawing the fastenings, so that the lower half of the case-
walls. This has now been thoroughly remedied, and it is meet could be raised sufficiently wide to admit a rnaa'ie
W
hardly possible that a similar accident can happen again. body. Mr. Waugh resides at hitehill, near Banbridge„
On inspecting the foundation of the vestry, a small open- ando only attends at Waringsford one day in each week, to
ins was found in the southern wall, leading under the floor receive cloth from weavers, and give out yarn, sect,, or
of the chapel. • On searching it, a tomb was discovered,
course, the office remains closed during the interval". Of
in pretty good preservation, the inscription on which shows
this fact, no doubt, the thieves were aware. It would be well
that it was erected to perpetuate the memory of the first if pawnbrokers and other dealt/. s were to be on t. Ile alert,
pastor of this church, which is one of the oldest in the and to detain linen of the above description, - and those
county, having been established about 150 years. The offering .
it for pawn or sale, if they should have an opper-
following is a copy of the inscription :—" The Reverend, y On every five yards of the pieces tiler eis a liar-
tunit
learned, and pious Willian Payne. first pastor of this row brush mark, made with indigo blue i'a f ,he selvage,
church, died July 10, 1726, in the 78th year of his age." which may
be useful in its identification.- -No rthern Whig.
Mr. Payne was originally a Nonconformist Minister at DISTRESSING FIRE AT O,TFOR.:D CASTLE
Bishops Stortford ; and, after being silenced by the Act of
FARM --The inhabitants of this 'town were thrown into a
Nonconformity, by which so many good men suffered, he state of great alarm about six, o'clock in • the evening of
became the first pastor of the Independent Dissenting in-
Thursday last, by the arrival of a farm serf ant ofJ. Selby,
terest, at the Abbey-lane. He was an eminently pious Esq
, of Otford Castle Farm, distant f.rom Sevenoaks
and devoted man, and was intimate with some of the best
oboe* three miles, viii.h information that tlie extensive farm
and most distinguished ministers of his age, as appears by •
hu:loings of that esentleanan were on ,ire. The engine
published correspondence which the writer of this has seen. was quickly disprAtcheo., and on arrivi..tg at the scene of
—The Patriot. conflagration, a sight seldom witnes sod by the firemen
fIIE DUKE or SUSSEX.—It will be remem- presented it'erlf 'co their gaze. A vee-y large double barn,
bored that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex was
capable of,
last year invited to Edinburgh by a large number of ci- o.antaining from 70 to 80 loads of corn, was in
one mass •oi flames, the roaring of which, although the
tizens of all shades of political opinion, and that his Royal
Highness, in answer to the Lord Provost's request, found 1,
evening
heavens here illuminated with thee lurid glare for a great
it impossible to accept the invitation, but would be ha
ioinoi
inagrg , nasnasda,whtibehe
~vas serene; was absolucely deafening. • The
to fulfil his promise this summer. It will be seen, from the
happy distance., around, and with what effect may be .9,neeived,
following answer from his Royal Highness to the Lord the fin , was not in Sevenoaks. Beforeor the engine
Provost's recent letter, reminding him of his promise, that, when it is stated that sonic would hardly beheve that
eaoin in the
games attacked
actotamernkeedneee
from severe illness, his visit is again postponed :—" Your
shed near.
Lordship is perfectly correct in stating that, when I declined contai• (led about thirty loads
spreadbest; to
last year accepting of the kind invitation with which I was neiev bourhood,
and from
thenceed that thed
wheatplai playing
stack Oncolfoths
teeh
ea burning;
honoured by the citizens of Edinburgh, I then held out to rs
a-es a- s were at first env:atilt.'
e__.
0. _ eve 'tiring element
them a promise that, were it in my power at the end of the would reach Mr. Sel'oy's dw Ihnbeh°llsel tend the greatest
Session of Parliament, I would avail myself of the offer. and c' :e rtioes were acceedingly made to stop Its progress; and
have the pleasure of presenting myself before them. Such r it:nough the bear, and smoke were s'affocating, still the
was my intention when I left London three weeks ago, Avemen were urgy :el to rerienve part ot the barn, which they
when I proposed writing to you on the subject from here, b; pity accompr.tshed. The barn %),I,Z.S built of wood, and
but, unfortunately, I was seized with a violent inflaturna- wets divided i' ite vie compartereets, each of which was
tion, and have not been able to leave my room since. Ron i
fns], the one:• with oats, and the other with wheat. Two of
duced to great weakness, the result of severe illness, and ea g 11,
-r. ,Te,"4,13 labourers had not left that portion of the barn
uncertain when I may be able to go about again, itwouldik in "rnell "T e latter was deposited, and where they were
be hoth unwise and imprudent, on my part, were I to
see. thrashing, more than twenty minutes before the flames
so long a journey at such an advanced period of the were obse'
that Iso ~, vied. They broke out among the wheat, close
son. It is, therefore, with the deepest regret that
for an- fl 7, 111 o,"1. pollard tree contiguous to the pathway leading
myself under the painful necessity of po.stponne
so much 11 'B,_` ' and Kemsing ; and there is every reason to be-
other year, a visit from which I had anticipatedexeuse the delay „,e,l/e 112! t the premises were set on fire; in fact, the spotto
pleasure. Your Lordship will, I trust, f
indisposition,
and ,7.,:wri,e a' .he flames were first discovered being so handy
of my reply to your letter on thethere
picarespect I t • 'e roe h would favour that supposition. Had _
believe in the sentiments of regard and
en ertatei 1 , epee
would have been truly
the loyal citizens of .'een a ny wind, the consequence
for your Lordship as presidingt over . the
Edinburgh ; and with which
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am %our Lordship's obe- , ell. The mildness dread' ' - ot the weather alone saved . _
to the flames ; which,
i, G. USTUS, P. P. i "'le nt castle from becoming a prey
client servant,could not have es-
hurch also
1839 "
Southwark Park, Fareharn, Sept. 6, . if it been reached, the c
had - was in-
h d whether the propene
—Scottish Pilot. caP ed, We have not heard
••• ' star
SALMON FISHING IN THE TWEED.-- A, ed.—._.12teen
wich Gazette. ,
"'Il A CO'RONER S
salmon fishing in the Tweed, we regret to stat a, has ATTEMPT TO TAM unn. 'WI.
,
the body of the young
during the last week or twos
tae
unpreeedentliinquest on
unpro.. it
_ILL —The adjourned fall of a house ir, 1 the Edge
ductive. On some days t whole of the, Berwick • n who was killed by the
Ace
• n The Sun) was held on
• • a Company's waters have not yielded more that •
Shipping "ma
d (as already detial
dental deal h" returned..
seven or
eight fish ; and altogether the liishi
verdict of " f
bad, that although some time has yet ngs are so Monday, and a th f
house had fallen rem. e a lure
to ela se b-' lt appeared that thef .
lure had probably arisen from the
the statutory close time, the fishing season, IP ..fore
which ae
by many of those connected with the fi 'al a regarded party-wall, it stood ha
vin h ving become soft from the
whicht the course or the inquiry it
Over. 4 ng as virtually ground upon
ter-piPo• °
Dr. Chalmers addressed leakage of
a '''
al
letter had been written to the foreman of
a crowded awl' out that a e
of imposing a. 'heavy dcodanst
the church of Forces, on iionday ..tence in came .
the propriety
Church Extension, in the course of k, on • wee . 'ode subject of the jury ure
'-ings which are the property of Benjamin Bond
of which he mentioned on the premise
a The Coroner (Mr. Wakl:4) conderr ~,,id
that the subscriptions obtained • I
Cabbell, Es I• In Inverness for the General the duct 0- the
f letter-writer in the strongest 'terrO,
AN.embl,'s Supplementary Fund amounted to upwards of
2 0001. In Aberdeen, about
and it was
Perth 2,0001 —Edin 4.000/ rues collected, and in
liu It Courant,* 4
rg
against him.