The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-16 00:00:00

" • Confound the varmint i—and what was done to 'ern ?'

" ' Ay, there's the mischief. They was flogged all round,
just as many lashes as they could stand without the pulse go-
ing ; and then they was salted ; and it done 'em no more harm
than if they had been so many red herrings. But if the Co-
lonel had been liberal and only hanged three or four of 'em we
should have seen how the rest would have quaked. The var-
mint know the valy of their lives, and 'tis that makes them so
malignant and rebelsome.'
" "Tis very true, Mr. Hogstown, Sir ; but when a man
has a gang of his own,' replied Whitlaw, remembering with
no little feeling of pride the three men, seven women, and ten
children, that made the glory and profit of Mount Etna—
' when a man has once got together a gang, you will most
times find 'em considerable against losing 'em, any how.'
" There's more of profit than patriotism in that notion,
Mr. Whitlaw, you won't deny that, Sir. But, however, that's
not much to the business in hand between us two. I expect
that we are both of us come to New Orlines pretty much in
the same line, by what has been made known to me at Para-
dise Plantation ; only I am engaged for the public—the pub-
lic of Natchez, I mean—and you, as I take it, for Colonel
Dart and nobody else. Now my instructions at starting was
specially.to find you out, and make you comprehend clear and
distinct what it is we have got to perform.' "

The wheat crop everywhere promises to be very
abundant ; that of potatoes is deficient in all parts of the west
of England.—Taunton Courier.

The Emperor of Russia was expected to set out for
the southern provinces about the middle of July. It does not
appear that the Empress will accompany him.
The Thames Tunnel continues to occupy public
curiosity, and is visited weekly by several hundred persons,
amongst whom were on Tuesday last the following distin-
guished fashionables, viz. :—the Marquis and Marchioness of
Downshire, Lady Charlotte and Lady Mary Hill, Lord
Arthur Hill, M. P., the Hon. F. Vesey, and Mr. Macleod, &c.
Lord Ponsonby has obtained satisfaction. The
Reis Effendi, Akif Effendi Muschir, has been dismissed, and
will be succeeded by the former Kaimakhan, Kolussi Pacha.
Lord Ponsonby appeared satisfied, but has, nevertheless, not
yet re-appeared at the Foreign-office. Akiff Effendi retires
to Broussa in a sort of exile ; he is one of the most skilful
servants the Porte ever had, and the Government will severely
feel his loss. It was found necessary for the Sultan to afford
this satisfaction to the British Minister, even before he had
received any communication from his Government. The
Sultan has punished all those who had any share in the offence
committed towards England, in the person of a subject
of his Britannic Majesty. Justice must, however, be
rendered to Akif Effendi, who several times soli-
cited his own resignation. The Sultan only decided
upon the point after learning that Mr. Churchill was
one of the most devoted friends of the Porte, and after
being made acquainted with several circumstances which had
been hitherto kept secret from his Highness. Angry at the
deception put upon him, the Sultan banished Akif Effendi on
the night of the 15th-16th June; Taffoki Boschau, chief of
police at Galatz, has been condemned to imprisonment for
six months; and the inferior officers who shared in the injury
done to Mr. Churchill have been bastinadoed. Thus, says
the facetious German chronicler, the affair has concluded : it
began by blows, and finished by blows, and is now fairly
blown over. Halil Pacha, the Sultan's son-in-law, has gone
to Varna ; it was said that his voyage related to the evacua-
tion of Silistria. The cholera at Vienna was raging fright-
fully ; there were 100 deaths a day. The Duke of Brunswick
and the King of Naples were still in that capital. The
Duchess of Beira, under the name of Duchess of Anguesaq,
with three Infants, sons of Don Carlos, had arrived at :ialtz-
bourg, in which city it was said that she would probably
reside.—Augsburg Gazette, July 10.