The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-14 00:00:00

W OR SHIP- 8 MEP r.

Yesterday Bazil de Mail', a Canadian refugee, was placed
at the bar before Mr. DkOUGHTON and Mr. (hos"Y, a county
magistrate, hared with having slaughtered a cow and stolen
a part of the carcase., under tiie foldi*ing eirenmstances. In
consequence of a report that the animal was alive when the
flesh had been cut away from it, the prisoner had to be con-
ducted IYorn the station,house of the N division, at Kingiland,
und,r the protection of Inspector Mellish and a body of police
of the N division. The mob threatened to tear Lim ti
pieces, a:l4 he was groaned at and pelted with stones:—
Police Constable, N 108, about six o'clock that morning,
met the prisoner in the Kingsland-road, and who, upon seeing
the witness, went down a lane. Witness followed him, and
asked him what he had in h's possession ? The prisoner, al-
luding, to a bottle he had beside him, said water. Witness
finding that he had a large quantity of meat which appeared to
have been cut from some animal recently slaughtered, t.)ok
him to the station-house, where, shortly after, a person called,
stating that a cow belonging to Mr. Dawkins, farmer, at Tot-
tenham, had been killed.
Mr. Dawkins had found the cow about three o'clock that
morning in the shed. The hind quarter had been cut away,
and the entrails were strewed about the floor. The prisoner
had tied the legs of the poor beast before he had committed
the work of slaughter.
The piece cut off was shown to the Magistrates. It weighed
about 501bs.

Inspector Mellish said that the prisoner's arm was bloody, and
that he had a clasp knife in his pocket, which was also bloody.
Some cord was found in his pocket and some canvass, which
COT responded with the same articles found in the shed.
Mr. Swaine, a butcher, in Whiteeross-street, having been
requested by Mr. Broughton to examine the cow and the
flesh cut from it, said that there were gashes on each side the
windpipe, but he saw no cut by which the breath could have
been stifled before the hind quarter was cut off. He never saw
a carcase so mutilated. The tearing out of the entrails would
have caused death.

Prisoner said he met a man in a donkey-cart about three that
morning, who offered him the meat for a shilling. His knife
got bloody, as he lent it to the man to cut the meat off, as he
took a piece for himgetf, and the cord and canvass found on him
was given to him by the man, who was an entire stranger to him.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

MAIL-BAGS LOST, STOLEN, OR MISLAID.—
Owing to some extraordinary oversight or mistake, the mail from the
south arrived on Thursday night without the London bags, in conse-
quence of which we are, of course, unable to give any of the usual
Wednesday's London news, «e hope the bags have not been stolen ;
but it seems strange that, if they had merely been left behind, they were
not, on the fact being discovered, forwarded in a post.chaise, in which
case they would have been here long before the time of eur going to
press, when they had not arrived.—Carliae Patriot.

The palace of Herod stands on a table of land on
the very summit of the hill, overlooking every part of the surrounding
country; and such were the exceeding softness and beauty of the scene,
even under the wildness and waste of Arab cultivation, that the city
seemed smiling in the midst of her desolation. All around was a beau-
tiful valley, watered by running streams, and covered by a rich carpet of
grass, sprinkled With wild flowers of every hue, and beyond, stretched
like an Open book before me, a boundary of fruitful mountains, the vine
and the nave rising in terraces to their very summits. There, day after
day, the haughty Herod had sat in his Royal palace, and looking out
upon all these beauties, his heart had become hardened with prosperity ;
here, among these still towering columns, the proud monarch had made
a supper "to his lords, and high captains, and chief estates of Galilee ;"
here the daughter of Herodias, Herod's brother's wife," danced before
him, and the proud King promised with an oath to give her whatever
she should ask, even to the half of his kingdom." And while the feast
and dance went on, the " head of John the Baptist was brought in a
charger, and given to the damsel." And Herod has gone, and Hero-
dias, Herod's brother's wife, has gone, and the " lords, and the high
captains, and the chief estates of Galilee" are gone; but the ruins of the
palace in which they feasted are still here; the mountains and valleys
which beheld their revels are here; and oh! what a comment upon the
vanity of worldly greatness—a Fellah was turning his plough around
one of the columns. I was sitting on a broken capital, under a rip,.trce
by its side, and I asked him what the ruins were we saw; and while his
oxen were quietly cropping the grass that grew among the fragments of
the marble floor, he told me that they were the ruins of the palace of a
King—he believed, of the Christians; and while pilgrims from every
quarter of the world turn aside from their path to do homage in the
prison of his beheaded victim, the Arab who was driving his plough
among the columns of his palace knew not the name of the haughty
Herod. Even at this distance of time I look back with a feeling of
uncommon interest upon my ramble among those ruins, talking with
the Arab ploughman of the King who built it, leaning against a
column which, perhaps, had often supported the haughty Herod, and
looking out from this scene of desolation and ruin upon the most beau-
tiful country in the Holy Land.—Stephen's Incidents of Travel in the
Holy Land, Egypt, Edom,

THE TRUCK. SYSTEM.—A short time ago, a bar-
ber wanting a bucket, requested a cooper to furnish him with the arti-
cle ; which the latter consented to de, asking whether it was to be
cash or truck. The barber said, the latter would be most convenient,
and, accordingly agreed to shave the cooper ad valorem. The other
day, a friend meeting the cooper, with a long tolerated and

"Broad black beard,
Just like a shoe.brush stuck beneath his nose."

asked him, if the bucket was paid for. " No," replied the cooper,
" but I've only one shave left, and I mean to have value received."—
Sunderland Herald.

WHIRLWIND.—The whirlwind which we men-
tioned on Wednesday as having occurred in the neighbourhood of Old-
ham on Monday evening, was felt also near Middleton, where its vio-
lence was very great, tearing large branches from all the trees growing
in its course, and carrying them to an immense height in the air. Some
of them are said to have been carried a mile from the place whence they
were torn. A ♦ery large willow tree, at Little Green Mill, near Mid.
dleton, was split up the middle during the storm; but we should rather
suppose, that this must have been done by lightning, which was several
times observed during the continuance of the phenomenon.—Manches-
ter Guardian.

Influenza, attended in some cases with sore throat,
and in others with slight fever, is at present rather prevalent in the me-
tropolis.

Mustapha-lien Mahomet-Mouchallech, ex-Bey of
Tlemeen, and his lieutenant, Ben David, arrived at Lyons a day or two
since, and visited the principal objects of interest, as well as various
manufacturing establishments in that city.

A SIIREWD REPLY.—Last Sunday, the Primitive
Methodists of Stockton held a long and well attended Camp Meeting,
in a field near the town, at the close of which, one of the party meet.
ing an acquaintance who had Been attending his usual place of wor-
ship, said, " Ah, Bob, thoo sud hae been wi' us! Thoo wad hae Bitten
thy soul filled." Bob quietly answered, I've not such a glutton as
some folks : I can't tak so much fud at once."—Sunderland Herald.

GENEROSITY OF CATALANI.—Of the generosity
of Madame Catalani's disposition, many instances are remembered.
When she perfor.ned for the benefit of musicians, she frequently re.
turned the whole, or a large portion of the sum for which she was en.
gaged ; and she often acted in the same manner towards public charities.
When a great musical performance took place for the benefit of the
Westminster Hospital, in 1821, she was solicited to contribute her ser.
vices, but declined, on the ground that her own concerts, then announced,
might bre injured by her previous appearance elsewhere. But, on the day
after her first concert, she transmitted to the Committee the whole pro.
ceeds of that performance, amounting to about 3001., as a gift to the
hospital. When she visited Cracow, in the height of her fame, she was
engaged, for a very large sum, to sing in the theatre. When the amount
was tendered her she returned more than half of it as a contribution to.
wards the fund for erecting a statue to the memory of Kosciusko. Kelly,
in his " Reminiscences," says, " I could relate numberless traits of her
goodness; no woman was ever more charitable or kind hearted, and as
for the quality of her mind, I never knew a more perfect child of nature.
At Bangor she heard the Welsh harp for the first time. The old blind
harper of the house was in the kitchen ; thither she went, and seemed
delighted with the wild and plamtive music which he played. But when
he struck up a Welsh jig, she started up before all the servants in the
kitchen, and danced as if she were wild; I thought she never would have
ceased. At length, however, she finished; and on quitting the kitchen,
she gave the harper two guineas."—Hugarth's Memoirs of the Musicet
Drama.

An irquest was on Saturday morning held at the
King's Head public.house, Lerg Ditton, near Kingston, Surrey, before
Mr. Carter, Coroner for the county, on the body of Richard Cole, late
of the 50th Regiment of Foot, an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital,
who was found drowned. It appeared that the deceased had beet, wan-
d:ring around the neighbourhood of Long Ditton for three or four days,.
and seemed to be in a state of idiotcy, being followed by a errd of
children, whom he was endeavouring to amuse. On the evening of
Wedne,day last he went into a public-house and deposited a bundle of
clothes with the landlady. He remained until eight o'clock, when he
went out perfectly sober, and was not again feell alive. On the to!low-
ing morning a labourer going to his work oes
-rved the body in the
water in an osier bed. The Jury had no moral doubt that the deceased
hed destroyed himself; but in the absence of a sufficient leeal evidrnrc
to that effect they returned a verdict of " Found drowned." In add -
tionto the paper found upon his person, describing him as an out-; en.
sioner, there was found a duplicate in the name of John Cole, No. 25,
D division, Bryanston-square.
The Waterford _Chronicle contains the following
paragraph relative to the railway report We find that a complaiut
is justly made of the second report of the Railroad Commissioners, Until
this report was put forward nothing could be more certain than that
the Kilkenny line, already agreed upon, would have been perfected with
English and Irish capital. But useful enterprise is now put iu abey-
ance by the ingenuity of one of the most accomplished jobbers hi the
Kingdom. Let us recommend to public notice the report ; it is One
of those efforts made by power to crush native speculation for its own
purposes. By the Kilkenny line for which an Act of Parliament has
beet, obtained, and for which Mr. Pierse Mabony wanted to be Soliel.
tor, the distance of Waterford from Dublin would be but 95 mile,
By the proposed line of Mr Mahony to which he is to be übiversal
licitcr, the distance is 110 miles!—Monstrous! In fact the v, hole
thing is a job, and a job, too, of the most ehjtelioaable character."
The signs of the season give manifest evidence of
its drawing to a close. The secondary set of London society is always
the first to give way ; having neither Pat liamentary duties nor the still
more urgent claims of faellion to detain them from the enjoyment of
their parks arid gardens; they arc very early on the move, leaving the
parks and the gardens to the enjoyment of a more fashionable elaes.
Bal's and concerts are over in Bryanston-sguare full three weeks before
those of Grosvenor or Berkeley, and Park-lane is still alive with dinner
parties, when the chisnnies of the Regent's Park terraces have ceased
to smoke.

L.tPLosioN.— ast week, a gamekeeper, at Kirk-
evington, near Tartu, gave a gun into the care of Wass, the guard of
be " Times" coach, who, not su,peeting that it was charged, stowed it
away. Scarcely had the coach gone twenty yards, when, in consequence
of somethiim touching the trigger, the piece went oft; and was so near
lodging its contents in Wass's side, that his coat, which was tight
bu;t:,ned, was singed by the explosion.—Sunderland Herald.
Last week, Mr. Kent, of this town, butcher, found
in a lamb the twQ l!dneys en the sar2e side of the backbone,--5:47,,,,,cr.
/and Herat&