The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-28 00:00:00

ANECDOTPS,

SAINT SIMON AND SAINT icon.—This day is
the Anniversary of Saint Simon and Saint Jude.
Saint Simon is called the Canaanite and the
Zealot, to distinguish him from Simon Peter, and
was one of the twelve Apostles. He preached
in Egypt, Cyrene, Africa, Libya,Mauritania, and
Mesopotamia, at which latter place meeting with
Saint Jude, these saints went together into
Persia, and in consequence of an Open reproof
of the supersitious rites of the Ma,zi, they
both suffered martyrdom in the year 74. Saint
Jude left one Epistle, which has been placed
in the sacred Canons. Saint Simon is usually de-
pieced as bearing a saw, and generally in the
back ground of pictures, wh ,re he alone is drawn,',
is to be seen a person expiring on the cross; the
Latins assert, that both that Saint and Saint
Jude suffered martyrdom by crucifixion, and in
token of that death, the latter is represented
bear:ng a cross similar to the one used as the type
of the death of Saint Philip; but the transverse
beam of that appropriated to Saint Jude is down-
wards, whereas that of Saint Philip is the re-
verse. It appears from the old writers, that
Saint Simon and Saint Jude's Day was accounted
min)/ as well as Saint Swiihin's. In the play
of the Roaring Girls, is the following passage :
" As well as I know, 'twill rain upon Sithon and
Jude's Day," vide Reed's Old Plays, vol. vi. page
23. And in page 31 :—" Now a continual Simon
and Jude's rain beat all your feathers as flat
down as pancakes." Holinshed states, that in
1536, when a battle was appointed to have been
fought on this day between the King's troops and
the rebels in Yorkshire, that so great a quantity
of rain fell upon the eve thereof, as to prevent
the battle taking place.—This day is also the
anniversary of the Coronation of Henry 111., at
Gloucester, in 16216.
HENRI' 11f. of FRANCE was a weak and a silly
Monarch. his favourite occupations consisted in
dressing his own and the Queen's hair, and in
starching and plaiting his own ruff, and that of his
consort. These occupations took up so much of
his time on the day of his coronation, and on that
of his nuptials, that the procession did not reach
the Church before six o'clock in the evening. At
balls, and other diversions he appeared habited
as an amazon, in female attire, with his bosom
uncovered, and a collar of pearls hanging down
upon his breast. He wore besides, like the ladies
of his Court, a small toque, over which he himself
frizzed his hair, three bands of fine linnen, two of.
which were plaited into ruffs, and the other in-
verted. These bands gave rise to the remark
that his head resembled that of John the Baptist,
presented to King Herod upon a charger. When
the celebrated Selby had an•interview with him
in 1586, he had a toque on his head, a tippet on
his shoulders, and a broad ribbon round his neck,
from which was suspended a basket full of pup-
pies ! !—As he himself assumed the female attire,
so also he enjoined the ladies to adopt the dress
of men. They were obliged to obey, and attended
at grand entertainments in male apparel, made of
damask of two different colours.--(Journal de
Henri III.)

SUCKING PIGS.—In the seventeenth century,
the Ladies of Bayonne had a particular fancy
for sucking pigs. Every Lady carried one of
these little grunters, decked out with collars of
ribbons, in her arms. They took them even to
balls ; but as when they danced they were
obliged to lay down their favourites, the little
animals ran grunting about the room to the mani-
fest annoyance of the dancers who were often in
danger of trading upon them.
JAMES I.—The greatest anxiety evinced by
JAMES the FlusT, during his reign, except in the
detection and punishment of old women for
witchcraft, was for the recovery of a hawk which
he had lost sporting. Sir Anthony Weldon says,
that " the King being at Newmarket, delighted
much to fly his Boss-Hawks at herons, and the
manner of the conflict was this : the heron would
mount, and the hawk would get much above it ;
then, when the hawk stooped at the game, the
heron would turn up its belly to receive her with
' his claws, and sharp bill, which the hawk per-
ceiving would dodge and pass by, rather than
endanger itself. This pass being over, both hawk
and game would mount to the utmost of their
power, till the hawk being got above, would be
at another attempt, and after divers such assaults,
by some lucky hit or other, the hawk would bring
her down. But one day a most excellent hawk,
being at his game, in the King's presence,mount-
ed with his game so high, that both hawk and
heron got out of sight and were never seen more.
Inquiry was made, not only all over England but
in all the foreign Princes' Courts in Europe, the
hawk having the King's jesses, and marks suffi-
cient whereby it might be known, but all was to
no purpose."

JUDGE Tttoaec.—ln the elaborate charge of
Judge Tnotten on the Northern Circuit, in the
year 1618, among other offences that he states
the Grand Jury to have power to take cogni-
zance of, is one referring to the trade of shoe-
makers, which places that useful body of men in
sad jeopardy. St. Crispin himself would hardly
escape the penalty, if all our Judges were like
Thorpe, calling to have examples made of every
shoemaker " if he do not make his wares of good
leather, sod, and upp.r leather well tanned, and
sewed with thread well waxed and twisted, and
hard drawn with hand-leathers—if he mix his
wares, part teats-leather, part calf, horse, or
bull-hide--if he sell any wares up on Sunday."
HORSEMANSIIIP.--In 1520, it is recorded that
JAMES IV. King of Scotland, with a relay of '
horses, rode from Stirling, by Perth and Aberdeen,
to Elgin, a distance of 150 English miles, in one
day : and in 1735, Count de Buckeburg, the cele-
brated German author, being in England, laid a
wager that the would ride a horse from London
to Edinburgh, with his face to the tail, which he
performed in less that) four days.
PARLIAMENTS.—ID ancient times, Sunday ap-
pears to have been an usual day on which to con-
vene Parliaments. From the close rolls of Ed-
wards 11. and VI., there are various tested writs,
in which the King commands the attendance of
Parliament on the Sabbath-day, principally at
York and laincolu.

PO ET R Y.
THE WANDERER TO TIER CHILD.
The sun is sunk, and daylight gone,
As over the moor we journey oti ;
The snows are lying all deep and chill;
The clouds are gathering round the
The winds they are moaning through the air,
And backwards tossing the branches bare;
Oh hush, oh hush, thy piteous cry, •
And shut in repose thy little eye;
Be still, my babe, and sleep !
Though cold the snows, and though cold the air,
That sweeps O'er the frozen mountains bare,
afore cold was that ungenerous mind,
Which holiest vows were rain to bind,
Which stole my peace, and, ruining me,
Left me to roam the world with thee :
Oh hush, and oh hush thy piercing cry,
And I will sing your lullaby ;
Be still, my babe, and sleep !
Thy father he cares not for his child .
Thou art forsaken, and I reviled ;
From town to town, a dreary way,
We wander along from day to day,
Begging a crust of the poor man's bread,
And laying us down in some humble shed;
All but thyself look in scorn on me,
And oh ! I shall ever be kind to thee;
Be hushed my babe, and sleep I
Ali once, sweet baby, I had a home,
Nor dreamt I then that I thus should roam ;
By a pleasant village our cottage stood,
And my parents were pious, and kind, and good :
They had no comfort but me on earth,
For I was the light of their lonely hearth ;
Till there carne to our door, in cruelty gay,
Thy father, who stole their treasure away ;
Be hushed, my babe, and sleep !
The old man broke his heart, and died,
And soon my mother was laid by his side ;
I was lying in weakness when these they told ;
And thou wert an infant three days old ;
I prayed for death, anti I wished to die, •
Till I heard thy pitiful tender cry,
And then I petitioaed for life to be
In thy helpless years a mother to thee ;
Be hushed, my babe, and sleep !
A haven yet may smile for us,
And the heart which could neglect us thus,
May feel the misery we have felt,
And share the sorrow itself bath dealt;
We soon shall be over these barren ways,
And I will warm thee, love, at the blaze,
Where, 'mid yon trees, on the upland moor,
Stands kindly open the peasant's door ;
Then hush, my babe, and sleep !