The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-23 00:00:00

THAMES- OFFICE.

TIIE RIVAL BLACKS. —Mr. Williamson, a coloured Ameri-
can " gentleman," complained of haVing been assaulted by
Mr. Fisher, a "gentleman of the same colour and country.
Both parties were fasbionab,y attired. The complainant dis-
played a coat in the D'Orsay style, with a white vest and
neckcloth, which formed a very strikin,, contrast with his sable
countenance. His hands were covered with a pair of laven-
der-coloured gloves, and on being desired to pull off the right:
hand one, he with some exertion did so, and the oath being
administered, he deposed as follows :-
1 war 'qusinted ti, id Mr. Jackson in 'Meriki, and knowing
him was chief cook on board the 'Merikin liner, in de San
Ketrine Dock, I went on board to see him. I found him in
do cook house, an I say, " How you do, Mr. Jackson? hope
you am well." I war speaking to him, de under tuard
cum 'pon deck. When he see me him go down in cabin gin;
an den Mr. Fisher, de chief tuard, cunt 'pan deck. I knowed
Mr. Fisher, having seen him at my residence in 'Meriki; so I
say, " How you do, Mr. Fisher ?" and say, " Excuse my
glove ; give me your hand."—(Laughter.) When he say,
,t What you know ob me, you black nigger?"—(Much
laughter, in which the Magistrates could not help joining.)
" You cum here, and make ridicule of your own country, sing-
ing nigger songs 'bout de street ; get out duty ship directly."
I war going out oh de ship as he desired me, when he cum
behind de cook house, and knock me on de nose till be make
my nose bleed, and here you may see de blood all round my
hat.—(Laughter.) He guv me black eye.—(lncreased
laughter.)

MAGISTRATE-Well I don't understand how he could do that
at all.

Complainant—Yes, your warshup, and call me ebry ting bui
genl'man, and dat he forget to do. _ _

s.,
Mr. BALLANTINE asked the complainant if it was true he sung
about the streets ? Complainant (bridling up)—Sartainly not,
your warshup. I got a 'gagement at de teatre—de Garrick
Teatre, where I sing ebry ebening.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Negro songs, I suppose, such as " Jim
Crow," and other popular ones of that sort?—( Laughte.r.)
Complainant—Yes, your warshup I sing "Jim Crow."
Mr. BALLANTINE—In character, I think—( Loud laughter.)
What have you to say to this Mr. Fisher ? Defendant--Whr,
sar, I tell von ril 'nut it. Dir.; L.,tl T 1
"i>e• It ,j i.ad I had szeti 1,i1".t at .1 ;,)
and when I see him board de ship in de docks, knowing he teas
quare cractcr, I tell him get out ob de ship, and call him black
nigger.--( Laughter. )

Complainant—lt's all round my hat. Increased laughter. )
Defendant—l hab witness to proob what I say, sur.
Mr. Jackson, the chief cook, was called—l saw all dat ha-
enp tween dem two gentlemen.-.-(Roars of laughtrr ) Mr.
Williamson cum board to peak to ma, and when Mr. F s'rer see
him he berry angry, call him black nigger, and tell him go
ashore and sing away in do street
" Lubly Rosa Sambo 'cum,
Don't you hear de turn turn Liam ?"—(Great laughter)—
but did not strike him.
The witness was questioned by Mr. BRODERIP, but persisted
he saw the whole of the aff:ay, but no blows were struck.
The MAGISTRATES, owing to the conflicting nature of the
evidence, discharged -the Week stevvarl, but were under an
impression the cook had not bold the whole truth.

INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—August 22. The Duchess of Kent, Newby, from
New South Wales, in the Downs, sailed from Sydney 7th
April; Vectis, Isemonger, from New South Wales, in the
Downs, sailed from Sydney 14th April. August 22. Alex-
ander, Johnstone, Auld, from Batavia, off Swanage, sailcd•lo:h
March, and St. Helena 15th June.

Arrivals at Sydney, N. S.W.—Her Mjestv's ship Conway,
Bethune, March 24. from a -cruise ; the Vigilant, Powell,
March 24, from whaling, with 350 barrels of oil.
Departures from Sydney.—The Patriot, Mullens, March
21, for New Zealand ; the James Stewart, Dougharty, March
26, for Sperm Fishery ; the Sir D. Ogilby, Hutchens, March
27, for the Friendly Islands ; the Sir William Wallace,
Cooper, March 27, for the Sperm Fishery ; the Earl of Hare-
wood, March 18, for India. -

Arrirals at Valparaiso.—The Ve3per, Fraser, May 7, from
Marzallan ; the Vanguard, Walker, April 20, from New Zea-
land; the Esperanza, Almeida, May 16, from Manilla; tho
Royal Admiral, Greaves, April 27. from South Australia.
Departures from Valparaiso.—The Navarino, Warning, May
5, for Arica.

Arrival at Teneriffe.—The Pestongee Bomangee, Thomp-
son, June 28, from London, and :ailed for South Australia.

Arrival at Hclvoet.—The Catharina, Riettneyzr, Aug. 14,
from Batavia, sailed tlw 15th of April.
Arrival at Batavia.—The Enterprize, Tizard, in April, from
Liverpool.
Vessels spoken with.--The Orator, Terry, from the Mauri-
tius to London, July 20, lat. 13, 28. N., long. 28. W. ; the
Thomas Blyth, Rowe, horn London to the Mauritius, June 24,
lat. 26. S., long. 24. W. ; the Sir John Beresford, from Liver-
pool to New South Wales, July 14, lat. 10. N., long. 25. W.;
the Favourite (whaler), in December; the Nelson and Diana
(whalers), in January ; the Warrens, Brothers, and Pacific
(whalers), in February ; the Dispatch, Alert, and Marquis of
Lansdowne (whalers), in March.

THE FRENCHMAN'S GREY MARE.

James Riquier, a weather-beaten waggoner, was lately
brought before the Correctional Police in Paris, for assault-
ing some of its agents.
President—Why did you not obey the agents who found
you in fault, seeing your cart was standing in the public
road without your being there to watch it ? Riquier—
There was no danger, Mr. President ; no daner at all ;
Nancy was in the shafts.

President—Who is Nancy? Riquier—Nancy ? why
my grey mare, to be sure ; you could not find her equal
anywhere ; she will spin her nine or twelve miles, and let
me sleep all the way. There's no fear of her ever being in
fault, I assure you.
President—What you now tell me only aggravates your
case. It is exceedingly wrong for a driver to go to sleep in
his cart. Riquier—Pray, where would you have me sleep ?
I have been two-and-thirty years a driver about the capi-
tal, and I have never slept anywhere but in my cart. We
start at eleven or twelve at night, and return in the beat of
the day. I have nothing to do but say, " Wag on,
Nancy," and stretch myself on my bit of straw, and sleep
till we get home.

President—l tell you you are very wrong in doing so ;
but this time you were not asleep, but drinking in a public
house, whilst your cart stood unminded in the public road.
Riquier—lt was not much I drank, I assure you ; we had
just three bottles of beer among seven of us.

President—The officers state that you remained three
quarters of an hour in the public-house. Riquier—l tell
you we had three bottles among seven ; do you think
carters are mere children ? Three quarters of an hour in-
deed ! more likely taro or three minutes.

President—lf you only staid one minute that is enough
to make out a case against you ? Riquier—One minute !
Why, Mr. President, you beat waggoners all to pieces—one
minute for three bottles of beer! barely time enough to
draw the corks.—l'm done, I'll give in. I suppose you
don't take out the corks, but knock off the necks ; that's a
shorter way, I'll take the hint, but I think it must be rather
expensive.

President—You are accused of having assaulted the
police ? ltiquier—Thcy caught me by the neck, the
strangers, two of them, set upon me, pulling me right and
left. Nancy was as quiet as a soldier on sentry, neither
she nor I made any noise—it was the police who created
all the uproar.
The officers having been heard, the magistrates did net
disposed to place much confidence in the tranquil dis-
position of Nancy and her driver, whom he sentenced to ten
day's imprisonment.

FIELD SPORTS IN SOUTH AMERICA.—We had
taken tin ee brace of birds, when an ostrich starting before us,
Candioti, jun., gave the war whoop of pursuit to his Gaucho
followers, and to me the now well-known intimation of
" Varnes, Senor Don Juan." Off went, or rather flew, the
Gauchos ; my steed bounded away in their company, and we
were now, instead of tracing any invisible Mid through tufted
grass, in full cry after the nimble,' conspicuous, and athletic
ostrich. With crest erect and angry eye, towering above all
herbage, our game flew from us, by the combined aid of wings
and limbs, at the rate of sixteen miles an hour. The chase
lasted half of that time, when an Indian peen started a-head
of the close phalanx of his mounted competitors, whirled his
bolas with admirable grace and dexterity around his head, and
with d'adly aim flung them over the half-running, half-flying,
but now devoted ostrich. Irretrievably entangled, down came
the giant bird, rolling, fluttering, panting, and toeing in an in-
stant despatched, the company of the field stripped him of his
fe alters, stuck them in their girdles, and left the plucked and
mangled carcase in the Vain a prey to the vultures which
were already hovering around us. The bolas, next to the
laze, are the Guaxho's most formidable weapon. They con-
sist of three round heavy stones, each about the size cf a large
orange, covered with hide, and attached to three plaited
thongs, which diverge from each other, and from a common
centre, every thong being about five feet in length. These,
when thrown with unerring aim, as they almost invariably are,
at the legs of an animal at his full speed, twist and entangle
themselves around them, and bring him with a terrible im-
pulse to the ground. The Guacho then runs in upon him, and
either secures or kills him.—Robertson's Leiters.

WATER-SPOUT.---A water-spout broke with (le-
Ftructive violence upon the Barony of Fos;well, in the parish of
Auchterarder, betwixt the hours of one and two o'clock in the
afternoon. The rain was falling heavily during the forenoon,
but about the time mentioned a suddsn darkness overspread
the Barony, from Fossuell Bank to Carlounie, its western
extremity, more than half a mile, and torrents of water descen •
ded, accompanied, not by common hailstones, but pieces of ire as
numerous as hailstones, some of which were as large as partridge
eggs. The scene was au fully terrific ; and the view
from Auchterarder gra -id beyond description, exhibiting tl s
whole land, above half a mile in breadth, and thrce•quarters
of a mile in length, as one sheet of water, rushing down the
declivity, sweeping every thing before it, filling up every ditch
and hollow to a level with the surface, with stones, earth, gravel,
&c. The inhabitants, of course, were alarm,. d for the fate of
their dwelling-houses, thinking every moment t`lat they would
tumble about their ears; but in they were fortunately
deceived. The descent of the water-spout lasted from 15 to 20
minutes; and the hail, or rather masses of ice, continued to fall

fully three quarters of an hour longer. The damage done to the
crops cannot he estimated at present. The floods laid oats and
barley flat to the ground, and the potatoc and turnip fields pd.-
fcred a worse fate—they being soft and highly pulverised
at this season. The whole soil, in some instances, was
completely swept away ; while the masses of ice completely
cut up the oats, barley, and pasture grass, to the very roots.
The latter will recover partly, but it is feared the former
will not this season. The level lands at the foot of the de-
clivity are, in many places, completely overlaid with stones
and other rubbish, from the higher grounds, which will, in a
great measure, destroy the present crop, and require conside-
rable expense to clear them for a succeeding one. The water
of Rutliven rose, in a few minutes, as high as we have ever
seen it, overflowing its banks in all directions, and doing a
great deal of damage to the fields adjoining it in its course, of
about five miles from this, before it joins the Earn River.—
Glasgow Chronicle.
MR. URQUHART'S " SPIRIT OF THE EAST."
—This work (judging from the reception it has met witht
among the critics) seems likely to prove as greatly a t
to the mere readers fur amusement, as to those oseek itste
information
-pages with the more laudable motive of acquiringtwith the
tracr
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and instruction. The Athclueurn remarks,
placing
and colours before
view of engaging the attention of thinktehrss andur
Turk,
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correcting misapprehensions, of
Russian, respectively, in their true forms
published his travels.
his countrymen, that Mr. Urquharth
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notice speculation
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With these intentions it wasfimispiaoinssiisbmlesthhnantltdhenoctivibl
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poral policy and character
and significantly illustrate
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t\uvree ss,hnaol ehsos
wtehvaenr,
and these, it will be seen, are many. In this notice sages, ininhoisurpapgreesse
no-
thing more has been attempted than loosely to string together
such passages as contained striking or interesting pictures of
scenery or manners, though as yet we have only touched the
first volume, leaving wholly undisturbed a body of minute acid
amusing information concerning the domestic manners-and ha-
bits of the Orientals. In the meantime ' The Spirit of the
East' may be heartily recommended to all classes of readers,
as one of th" most inte-,-=,i!1:? fqo !;..-,-! ~-!!ich ha.
ceney

About three thousand mackarel'have been brought
on shore by the ground seins at Pendower within the last fort.
night.—Falmouth Express.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
M0rning........ 14 minutes after 4 I Evening ...,„,.. 29 minutes after 4

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