The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-09 00:00:00

ing. A loan of seventeen millions and a half realize
only 50,000/. ! Verily the DON is a prodigy of
economy.

A Conservative Association has, we perceive, been
endeavouring to rear its head in Reading. The thing
will never go down there, so the sooner its projectors
give it up the better. The political opinions held by
Mr. Sergeant TALPOURD faithfully represent those
held by the enlightened and respectable majority of
the borough. True, a few desperate, square toed, old
Tories may still be found in Reading; but they are in
a miserable minority there, and look just like so many
fossil remains of an extinct species. Among the most
respectable of the squad is Mr. SIMMONS the banker ;
but even he, deservedly esteemed as he is, will be able
to do nothing with the Conservative Association. A
dozen superannnated Ultras, with powdered hair and
pig-tails, big gold chain and seals dangling half-
way down to their knees, and immense buckles on
their shoes, will be the very utmost number that
he will be able to bring together. Perhaps an adver-
tisement in a county paper may swell the dozen to a
score ; but even this we doubt ; for such animal curio-
sities arc becoming uncommon scarce in Berkshire.
For instance, an old Tory was detected the other day
tottering along Friar-street ; and the people stared
after him just as if he had been a Chimpanzee I They
had heard and read of such phenomena, but this was the
first perfect specimen of the breed they had seen since
the year of grace 1832. Does Mr. SIMMONS then
imagine that he will be able to fill a whole show-room
with these curiositi2s ? Impossible I As well might
the first Commissioner of the Woods and Forests hope
to people the Regent's Park with giraffes

We beg to draw the attention of our readers to an
excellent letter, signed " A Churchman," in another
column. The public expectation was miserably disa-
pointed in the small modicum of Church Reform
which last Session produced ; but what was to be ex-
pected from measures founded on a Report of Tory
Commissioners, which Report was itself founded on
materials, collected without any wish for accuracy on
the part of the collectors, or any responsibility on the
part of those who furnished them. It is, however,
some consolation that only a part of the plot laid by
the PEEL Administration,for juggling the country out
of Church Reform, was carried into effect. Thanks
to Mr. HumE, and some other staunch friends of the
people, the trick was discovered in time to arrest the
progress of two out of the three Bills which it was in-
tended to pass last Session. Before anv other mea-
sures professing the same object are introduced into the
House of Commons, or at least before'thcy are allowed
to pass, we are quite sure that Hon. Members will sa-
tisfy themselves- that the evidence on which they are
.grounded is such as to justify them in sanctioning le-
gislative proceedings. Let the wealth of the Church
be thoroughly investigated—not from answers given at
random by parties 'interested in concealing the truth,
but in the way and on the principles which are adopted
in all other investigations which precede legislation.
Until this is done we hold it to be the bounden duty
of the honest representatives of the people to oppose
every measure which pretends to re-model the finan-
cial department of the Church. ,

Lord Claude Hamilton has left Argyll House to
join the circle assembled at the seat of his brother, the
Marquis of Abercorn, Baron's Court, Tyrone, where a
grand entertainment to the nobility and gentry of the
county is expected to take place on the 15th inst.
Extract of a letter received in Doncaster, dated Ply-
mouth, Nov. 21 :—" We had an affecting event at church
yesterday morning, during the reading of the Psalms. A
Mr. Paul, the most respectable linen-draper of Gosport,
dropped down dead in his pew, in the midst of his children.
It caused a great excitement in the midst of a large con-
gregation."—Doncaster Chronicle.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Tuesday evening an
inquest was held at the Committee-room, St. Katharine's,
on the body of a female, name unknown, found opposite
Iron Wharf. The body when found, presented the ap-
pearance of a fine young woman, about 18 years of age,
five feet five inches in height ; her hair is dark, end she was
dressed in a dark merino gown, with but one shoe and one
stocking on. She had no bonnet or cap on her head, but a
striped handkerchief was fastened round• her neck. There
was no ring on her finger, and nothing on her person by
which her identity could be discovered. From the state of
the body, there was no doubt it had been many days in the
water.' No trace whatever had been discovered of the friends
of the deceased. The Jury returned a verdict of " Found
Drowned ;" at the same time expressing their anxiety that
the description of the deceased should be made public, as
the only means of clearing up the mystery in which the
death of the deceased was involved.
The following is a further list of vessels condemned
by the Mixed British and Spanish Court of Justice, esta-
blished at Sierra Leone, under the treaty with Spain of the
28th of June, 1835 :--Schooner Golendrina, Aug. 10, 1836 ;
brig Luisa, Aug. 10, 1836 ; brig Tridente, Aug. 23, 1836 ;
brig El Cazador, Aug. 23, 1836 ; schooner Mosca, Sept. 7,
1836 ; schooner Feliz Vascongada, Sept. 7, 1836 ; brigan-
tine Diligencia, Sept. 7, 1836 ; schooner Eliza, Sept. 26,
1836 ; brig Maria Mamula, Sept. 20, 1836. None of these
vessels had slaves on board.
The following truly affecting case of family bereave-
ment has just bee❑ related to us. About six weeks ago a
tradesman, residing in Charlotte-street, died of an inward
complaint, leaving a widow and four children. Two weeks
ago the eldest of the children, a girl six years old, was seized
with the measles and died ; on Wednesday evening last
another of the children, a twin, also died of measles ; on
Thursday the other twin died ; and on Saturday the second
eldest daughter likewise died of the same disease ; thus
leaving, in a few short weeks, the female head of the house a
widow and childless. Three of the children were interred
yesterday.—Glasgow Paper.
Notwithstanding the unusual severity of the weather
for some weeks past, a pair of throstles have recently built
a nest on the estate of R. H. Greg, Esq., of Quarry Bank,
near Wilmslow, and the female is now sitting on two eggs.
—Manchester Guardian.
LAW AND EQUITY.—.•" Pray, my Lord," said a
gentleman to a late respected and rather whimsical Judge,
" What is the distinction between Law and Equity Courts ?"
—" Very little in the end," replied his Lordship ; " they
only differ so far as time is concerned. At common law you
are done for at once ; in equity you are not so easily dis-
posed of. The former is a bullet, which is instantaneously
and most charitably effective ; the latter is an angler's hook,
which plays with its victim before it kills • it. The one is
prussic acid, and the other laudanum."
PROPORTION OF CRIME TO POPULATION.—AC-
cording to Colonel Forsell, who has recently published a
valuable work on the Statistics of Sweden, the offenders
against the laws in different countries bear the following
proportions to the entire population :
In England as one to
Wales .......
Ireland ..........
Scotland ........
Denmark 1,700
Sweden
New South Wales

The United states 3,500
During the late storm a large walnut-tree, at West
Dean, Hants, was levelled with the ground. By immense
exertions, however, during the following three days, it
was drawn up again, and now stands as erect as heretofore.
A few days ago a young girl, the daughter of one, of
the overseers at the hospital des Invalides, having deter-
mined upon destroying herself by means of? the fumes of
charcoal, conceived that she had got rid of every body and
every thing that could oppose her project. She accord-
ingly lighted the charcoal, and had already become insen-
sible, when a singular and unlooked-for agent appeared to
frustrate her purpose--it was her cat, which, either alarmed
at the state of her mistress, or not liking the fumes of the
carbonic gas, jumped through the window, and by her cries
and strange boundings about, excited the attention of .the
neighbours, who, suspecting from puss's vagaries that all
was not right, burst open the door in time to save the young
woman's life.—French Paper.
Two thousand five hundred soldiers are sufficient to
preserve peace in Scotland. In Ireland there are more
than " thirty thousand armed men."
'The Ohio Observer mentions that Mr. James
Orval was in the woods" a-gunning," and while loading his
own rifle he heard the crack of another at s«,me distance ;
and coeval with the crack he got a whack on the ear, which
laid him down horizontal." Upon recovering himself he
found that a neat round hole had been bored through the
gristle of his right ear by a small rifle ball ; and there being
nothing else the matter, he shouldered his piece and began
to progress homeward ; but seeing the operator at a dis-
tance he walked up and " thanked him pretty stiff."