The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

SIR,—I have just seen an article in your paper of the 4th
inst., in which you nee some discourteous language respecting
the proprictars of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. Your
grounds fur using this language appear chiefly to rest on a pa-
ragraph extracted from the Journal of July 7, in which the
fl,)od which laid down the diluvium is spoken of as one long an-
tecedent to the human creation. This paragraph you state to
be a cool declaration that the Bible history is false.
I bad thought, Sir, that every well-educated or well-in-
formed person was aware that the flood or floods which de-
posited the diluvium were now generally regarded by geolo-
gists as quite apart from the deluge of scriptural history. If
I could have supposed that any public writer, of a rank much
below th,t of the leading journal of Europe, was likely to re-
main ignorant of this fact, I might-, perhaps, in writing the
article, have taken some pains to make the case clear to him.
But, unfortunately I took it for granted that from the whole
tenour of the article, none above even a r intellectual
rank than those chiefly addressed in Chambers's Edinburgh
Journal could have failed to perceive (if not already inforn ed
on the subject) that it could not be the Noachian deluge, or
anything of the kind, which wrought effccts so tremendous.
May I be allowed to hope that your generosity will not permit
my brother and me to remain under an opprobrium which has
only been incurred through a too high idea of the information
and good sense of the class which acknowledges you as its
head ? If any other inducement can be wanted to prevail
upon you to do my brother and me this justice, or at least all
the poor justice which the retractation of a wantonly affixed
c dumny ever gives, I can safely assure you that for the future,
in al: my writings for the Journal and other works, I shall
estimate the scientific ktsowledge and intellectual acumen of
the newspaper press, and of the Times in particular, at a very
different rate, so that there is not the least chance of the re-
currence of any such stumbling-block for babes in our bumble
and unworthy pages.

I have the honour to rest, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
ROBERT CHAMBERS.
9, Waterloo-place, Edinburgh, Sept. 7.

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EXTRAORDINARY RECOVERY OF TWENTY-
THREE THOUSAND PouNns.—Several erroneous statements
relative to this extraordinary recovery of money have been put
forth. The following account is obtained from a source so
respectable as to leave no doubt in our minds of its perfect
accuracy:—Yesterday ( Wednesday) a gentleman hired the
cab, No. 218, and took up money at Coutts', 23,0001., and on
quitting the cab, left the parcel of money therein; the cabman
took up another fare which he t.ut down in Winchester-street,
and then on dusting the cab, be found the money, which ho
immediately took to the Stamp-office. The gentleman who
had lost it had, in the mean time, sent to Coutts' for the 'him-
hers of the notes, and to the Bank to stop payment, also to the
Stamp-office, where the cabman with the money was found,
the loser immediately said he would recompense the man with
3001., but the Commissioners of Stamps awarded 1001.;
however, the gentleman kept his word and gave also tpe
other 2001.

PAVEMENT OF OXFORD-STREET.—At the last
meeting held on this question, it was decided by a majority
that a part of the street should be paved with wood by way of
experiment. But last night on a division at an unusually full
meeting, called for the purpose of confirming or non-confirm.
ing the minute alluded to, and which was carried last Satur-
day, there appeared a majority of three against the experi-
ment. Russia and New York have their wooden pavements.
Theirs, we think, can scarcely be worse or more dangerous
than ours. In the City particularly, accidents daily occur.
EXPLOSION ON BOARD TIIE VIVID.—We have
noticed the accident on board the Vivid steamer at North
Shields, by which two brothers of the name of Greener were
killed. According to the evidence adduced before the Coro-
ner's jury, the explosion was caused during the process of
blowing off the water to prevent the accumulation of sediment
in the boiler.

Yesterday afternoon a porter, named Henry Bartley,
in passing over London-bridge with a heavy load on his head,
slipped from the curb-stone to the road, and on rising.
found himself incapable of using his left foot, the anele of
which proved to be dislocated. He was taken to St. Thomas's
Hospital.
About a quarter past eleven o'clock on Tuesday
night as a cart, containing four men, was driving past the Duke
of Clarence public-house,
Notting-hill, it broke down, and ono
of them, named Such, residing in Bowling-street, Clerken-
well, was thrown out with such force as to fracture his skull in
a most dreadful manner. lle was immediately conveyed to
the shop of Mr. Barnett, a surgeon, close by, and from thence
in a fly to the North London Hospital.
CARRICK, TIIE MURDERER.-On the person of
the prisoner were found several pieces of coloured leather
and satin, sewed together as little bags, and a number of
small pieces of white substance, apparently Wax, which he
iv.,s in the habit of selling as charms to keep the devil away ;
the bags were to put them in to bang round the neck. —Li ver-
pool Standard.
On Thursday last as the waggoner of Mr. John
Owen, of Brimmon, Newtown, was returning with Ilia empty
waggon after delivering 100 bushels of malt at Pont-del..
Goch, he fell under the wheels, one of which went over his
bead, He has not spoken since, and lies without hopes of
recovery at a public-house about three miles from the town.--
Siturtan.