The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-10 00:00:00

PARAGRAPHS from the AMERICAN

PAPERS.

HILL, THE COMEDIAN.—Mr. Hill, the celebrated American
comedian, is playing a farewell engagement at the Walnut-
street Theatre, preparatory to his departure for Europe. He
appears to-night in several favourite characters—and relates
three or four Yankee stories. The bill of fare is one of the
most attractive ever presented.
Mad. Celeste is at the Bowery theatre, N. Y.,—Wallack
at the Park,—and " Robb, the Outlaw," a new drama, in
wnich John Sefton personates the principal character, is the
chief attraction at the Park.
Miss Phillips is enrapturing the audiences of the Park.
During her nights of performance the boxes beam with beauty.
Talent may be obscured for a time—not for ever.
JOSEPH BONAPARTE.—This distinguished individual, (gene-
rally known as Count Suvilliers,) arrived in New York on
Tuesday afternoon, and engaged apartments at the Globe
Hotel, No. 61, Broadway.
STEAM-BOAT LOST.—The steam-boat Ohioian, Captain
Freeman, we learn by the Columbus (Geo. ) Inquirer of April
29, was destroyed by fire on Saturday, April 23, about eight
miles below Ocheese. The females escaped in the yaul. The
other passengers jumped overboard. A servant girl only was
drowned. The boat was not insured. Loss 25,000 dollars.
COL. CROCKETT.—The National lntelligencer gives the
following as an extract of a letter from a gentleman in Louisi •
ana, dated April 12, to a Member of Congress :
" Crockett was found (within the Alamo) in an angle made
by two houses, lying on his back, a frown on his brow, a smile
of scorn on his lips—his knife in his hand, a dead Mexican
lying across his body, and twenty-two more lying pell-mell be-
fore him in the angle."
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Mr. Williams, a respectable stone-
mason and builder, residing at the corner of Walker and
Church-streets, was dreadfully injured, together with one of
his workmen, by the falling of a chimney-stone, while engaged
in repairing the building of Messrs. Souillard and Co., near
the corner of Broadway and Ann-street. The unfortunate
men were conveyed to their respective homes in a seriously
mangled and bruised condition, having fallen a distance of
about forty feet. Some gentlemen who were passing the
building at the time of the accident were much injured, both
in their clothing and persons, by the falling upon them, from
the roof, of a number of paint pots and their contents.
DESCRIPTIVE.—A Boston paper, describing a complainant
in a court who had been bunged in the eyes, remarks—" His
macerated visage spoke for himself. There was not a white
spot as big as a fourpence upon it ; he looked as if he had fallen
head foremost in a boiled huckleberry pudding, and had per-
mitted its contents to dry on."
A WARNING.—We learn that a man was killed yesterday on
the Norristown Railroad, about three miles from that place, in
the following manner. He was riding in one of the return
cars, in a state of utter intoxication. Strenuous efforts were
made to keep him quiet, and in safety; but he kept moving
about continually, against the express commands of those pre-
sent, until, in a fatal moment, he fell directly under the cars
on the rail. His head was literally severed from his body by
the wheels. Not the slightest blame can be attached to the
excellent conductors, who are proverbial for their scrupulous
care and attention.—Philadelphia Gazette.
A person bemoaning the uncomfortable prospects of celi-
bacy, and comparing the respective situations of married and
single persons, exclaimed, " What can make the bitter cup of
a bachelor go down ?" A wit in the company, assuming the
manner and tone of the complainant, exclaimed " a lass 1 a
lass !"
AN AMERICAN POPE.—Cardinal Cheverus, formerly Bishop
of Boston, it is said, will probably be chosen Pope on the death
of the present incumbent of the Pontifical chair.
ANECDOTE.—A Dutchman was some time since indicted
for bigamy. On being brought up on the charge, he admitted
the fact, but pleaded in extenuation, that the Squire who
married him to his first wife, authorized him to take sixteen
wives. " Why what do you mean ?" asked the Judge.
" Well," said Han 3, " he dold me I should haf four Fetter,
four vorse, four richer, four boorer,—and in my coundry four
dimes four always make sixteen."
ANOTHER PATRIOT GONE !—MARRIED.—On Monday even-
ing, 4th inst., Mr. George Holbrooks, a soldier of the revolu-
tion, in the 93d year of his age, to Mrs. Broils, aged about
50 years.— Vincennes Sun.
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION.—We learn from the Evansville Re-

publican that one of the flues of the steamboat Science col-
lapsed off that town a week or two since, and six persons were
severely scalded. Dr. Noel, of Bloomfield, 111., is the only
person missing. He was seen sitting on the how of the boat
at the moment the accident happened, and it is believed that
he was instantly killed and blown overboard.
A MODEST REQUEST, AND A MODEST SENATOR.—Mr.
Gansevoort, one of the Senators of this State, had the modesty
and amiability to present to the House on Tuesday last—pre-
faced by a long and tedious harangue—the petition of a Mr.
Soloman Barnett, Jr., the author of a work on English Gram-
mar, to furnish a copy of his publication, at the public expense,
to each of the district schools in the State.
The editor of our Boston namesake was regaled with a glass
of mint julep, at the Exchange Coffee-house, on . Monday
last; whereupon, not having the fear of the Temperance So-
ciety before his eyes, he discoursed to the sedate people of the
" Literary Emporium "as follows. Hear him :—" It was a
luxury even to look at the chrystal drops, stolen from the in-
visible air and made palpable to the touch, as they sprang
into being on the cold icy bosom of the transparent goblet, and
mingled their tiny bodies into sparkling rivulets, like living
streams gushing front a moss clad rock shaded by copse wood."
WIIEN TO TAKE OFF FLANNELS.—The Boston Patriot,
discoursing of the sudden changes of the weather, and the im-
propriety of haste in taking off flannels, breaks out in the fol-
lowing distich :
" Ye who would the Doctor pay,
Take your flannels off in May."
To which we add, in the like poetical strain:—
Ye who would all physic scoff,
Never take your flannels off.
Learn in Summer's heat to bear 'cm,
Day and night forever wear 'em :
Then when Death and Doctors come.
You may send them packing home.
And good enough for 'em.
SUFERSTITION.—Ort Wednesday night, about half-pa.t:t

eleven o'clock, a crowd of two or three hundred was col-
lected near the corner of Broadway and Felton-street, for the
express purpose of seeing a ghost, which it was said was a
tenant of No. 208. Broadway. Some persons said, and
they trembled as they spoke. that on Sunday right last
they saw two men, sans culottes, run about on the roof
all over blood. Others had seen a woman with her
head cut open ; others had seen a man with a load of
pistols, a sword, and a candle, stealing about, and any quan-
tity of rumours of the same nature, were flying about among
the crowd. On the night in question a light was seen in the
third story, and a shadow as of some person in motio❑ in that
room. Hundreds collected to see the ghost, and it bid fair to
terminate in a pretty row, had not sonic persons, more auda-
cious than the rest, entered the house, and after searching
from cellar to garret, reported that—nothing was wrong.
The third story of the house is occupied by an honest French-
man and his wife, who bear little resemblance to ghosts, and
they were in truth, the only ghosts that were found.
VILLAGE OF CENTREVILLE, MICIIIGAN.-(From the Penin-
sular, published in the above village. )—Centreville is situated
on the west bank of the Prairie river, which is a fine stream,
and affords an abundant and never-failing supply of water to
the mills upon its shores. The first building erected on the
village plot was a " shanty " of unhewn logs, rolled together
by two brothers for the convenience of the chase, in November,
1832, and it was literally "a lodge in some vast wilderness,"
in which they continued to reside, without beholding a human
face, save their own, for nearly a year. It is but three years
since the second building was erected ; and yet what a
great contrast is offered at the present time by the en-
terprise and spirited exertions of the inhabitants. There
are, at this moment, about forty frame buildings on the
plot, which number includes a court-house, printing-office,
post-office, two hotels, two stores with extensive assortments of
goods, two tailors' shops, two blacksmiths' shops, one shoe-
maker's shop, one gunsmith's shop ; there are two physicians
in the place, who have some leisure to devote to horticulture
and other pursuits, and one lawyer. There are under contract
to be completed during the present season about forty frame
buildings, chiefly of two stories, in which number are included,
a largo church of the gothic style of architecture for the Me-
thodist Episcopal congregation ; a drug and medicine store, a
spacious hotel, and a chair factory. The site of the village is
an unbroken level, called a burr oak plain, and we never saw
a spot better adapted to building purposes.

THE CROWN OF POLAND.—This diadem, with the
chains of the white eagle, is deposited, with gorgeous jewellery
and wealth piled to the very roof, in the treasury at Moscow, and
cannot be looked at by any son of freedom without giving a
sigh to the fate of Stanislaus, whose dominions were so basely
wrested from him, cut up, sliced, partitioned, and the mo-
narch turned adrift. The very royal robes and wearing ap-
parel of this mild and inoffensive person were brought to the
hammer by auction. He died of a broken heart, and the hy-
pocrite Paul shed crocodile tears at embracing his coffin and
attending his funeral. But a day of retribution must speedily
arrive, an account of the plunder and all the misery, banish-
ment, confiscation, and train of evil which has been visited on
that unhappy land by the devouring and insatiable Lion of the
North.— Wilson's Russia and Poland.

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MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary
meeting was held en Wednesday evening, Earl Stanhope,
President, in the Chair. Several presents were announced,
after which, Dr. Ryan, Professor of Materia Medica to the
Society, delivered a lecture on certain diseases of the heart,
which were considerably relieved by the use of hydriodate of
potash. He read several reports of these cases, attested by
medical students who attend the medical practice of the West-
ern Dispensary. He likewise described nervous disorders,
neuralgia, shaking palsy, both general and partial, success-
fully treated by strychnine. He mentioned the case of a pa-
tient now under his care at the Metropolitan Free Hospital, in
whom the most decided effects were produced, who, at the age
of 30, had lost and regained all the hairs on his body, and ex-
hibited drawings of partial loss of the hair and plica polonica,
which were remarkable and instructive. He concluded an in-
teresting discourse with some observations on the efficacy of
the sceale cornutum in hemorrhages and other mucous dis-
charges. The Society adjourned to the 26th inst., which will
be the last meeting of the present session.
ENORMOUS TROUT.—On Whit-Monday Mr.
Wm. Lloyd Roberts and a party of friends enjoyed a day's
splendid fishing at Nantille lakes, with the net, and bagged a
large quantity of beautiful trout, amongst which was a veteran,
weighing about eight pounds and measuring twenty-six inches
in length. The sport was the best that has lately been en-
joyed in these favourite lakes, and we understand that so large
a trout has not been taken for some years.— Carnarvon
Herald.