The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

A lady from Patrington took her departure from
Hull on Wednesday evening last, at dusk, in a gig, at-
tended by a male servant on horseback. -.After--passiag
Winstead (about 15 miles from Hull), the moon being then
rising, the servant apprised her mistress that something was
hanging from under the carriage and likely to be lost. She
immediately stopped the horse, when, to their infinite sur-
prise, a little boy about seven years old was found extended
upon the axle-tree, laying upon his belly, with one h upon
each side, and his arms firmly grasped round the end-rail
of the gig-frame. In this manner the boy had travelled
all the way from Hull, with one of his toes occasionally
trailing upon the road until his shoe was worn through.
He was then taken home by the lady, and on Friday morn-
ing he was forwarded, under the care of Mr. Pinder, the
driver of the mail coach, to Hull, where he was joyfully re •
ceived by his almost inconsolable friends, who had him
cried by the bellman the day before, and were proceeding
to do the same again. His name is Charles Anderson,
and his mother a carwoman in the Pottery. The boy had
been playing about the gig after leaving school, and suffered
himself to be driven away for the sake of a ride. -
On Monday night, about eight o'clock, the audience
in the large concert-room of the Yorkshire Stingo were
thrown into the most indescribable alarm and confusion
from the following accident :—The persons assembled
amounted to about a hundred, when, waiting in momentary
expectation of seeing the curtain drawn up and the per-
formance commence, and while all eyes were directed to-
wards the stage, a loud explosion was heard in that quar-
ter which shook the building to the very foundation, throw-
ing down the iron palisades in front and tearing up the
flooring, which was soon in flames and burnt with fearful
rapidity. The-room was soon filled with smoke, and the
terrified audience made towards the door in order to es-
cape the threatened danger as speedily as possible ; in
doing this several persons were thrown down and bruised,
but no one sustained any serious injury. An alarm was
instantly given that the building was in flames, and in a
short period several of the engines arrived from Baker-
street and other stations, and at the same time Mr. Inspec-
tor Wiggins, and a strong party of the D division of police,
arrived, and succeeded in maintaining order. By the
Prompt exertion of the firemen and others the flames were
confined to the flooring of the stage, which was much
burnt. In about an hour after the accident all danger was
removed. Fortunately no individual was hurt by the ex-
plosion, which arose from a quantity of gas having escaped
from the main, which runs under the stage, and which took
fire on the approach of a lighted candle.
Happening, in the course of last summer, to visit
the coast, I was pleased with the appearance of a stately
church just erected at Herne Bay, in place of a mean con-
fined building which I found on a former visit. On offering
my congratulations to the inhabitants I was told that it was
not looked upon as a subject of much felicitation, having
failed in imparting all the expected consolations, in conse-
quence of the refusal of the Archbishop of Canterbury to
consecrate it, except on terms deemed inadmissible by the in-
habitants. The modest conditions demanded were the pay-
ment to his Grace of the sum of 500/., and the concession
of the power of appointing the officiating clergyman. The
inhabitants were willing to pay the sum of money, exorbitant
as it appeared to be, but were resolute not to confide the
selection of their spiritual comforter into hands so often
faithless 'to the trust. While such events take place under
our eyes, which even a child can understand, let the clergy
cease to deafen us with their clamorous anxiety to promote a
knowledge of the gospel of peace. It is quite plain that
their love of religion is subordinate to their rapacity and
their lust of power.-:—Letter in the Examiner.

What would a country be without roads and bridges ?
Mr. M'Adam, who has done the State signal service in his
day, once told us that the roads in Great Britain are equal
to the superfices of a third-rata English county. This, no
doubt, is a great substraction from the land fit for cropping;
but who does not perceive that a subtraction from the soil,
under certain circumstances, may become an addition to the
wealth of the country ? Where the docks of Liverpool now
stand, wheat and barley at one time grew : the space com-
prises 100 acres ; and so omnipotent is art, that in place of
a rental of from 2/. to 31. per acre, it now yields'a revenue
of more than 200,0001. per annum. When the Manchester
Railway was first talked of, the Road Trustees took the
alarm, and petitioned strenuously against the Bill ; yet; in
spite of this, their property has been improved by the very
invention which in their opinion threatened to involve it in
utter min.—Dumfries Courier.
The tar and turpentine distillery of Messrs. Lee
and Tall was on fire at an early hour on Thursday morning,
but was fortunately got under with very trifling injury.—
Hull Observer.
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