The Sun.
London, England, 1838-07-05 00:00:00

THE CORONATION SUN.

In Dublin and in all the provincial towns the Coronation
was celebrated by illuminations, banquets, and ' public re-
joicings. Your Golden Sun has been among the most ad-
mired novelties to which the season gave birth.

THE LAMBETH TRAGEDY.—The deepest sensa-
tion which the late tragedy has produced has been experienced
by that class of men about town who happen to have sallow corn.
plexiotss and black whiskers. Swarthy gentlemen have walked about as
though on the verge of a precipice. You tru.y seen them casting an
anxious sidelong look at cabdrivers and policemen, as appralsensi, a of
beng identified by mistake. Foreigners have been religiously dumb,
lest suspicion should attach to their accent. But one of them has been
less fortunate than the rest. A most shocking and odious feature
of this aTair, not less revolting than the murder itself, calls for
esrecial mention. A gentleman whose ill fate it was to have
black whiskers and a sallow complexion, and to be seen moreover
in the neighbourhood of the very cigar-shop which the sus.
pected Italian was reported to have was apprehended
upon these and other grounds) on Saturday night, confined in a cell for
about forty hours, and carried before a magistrate en the Monday,
amidst " an immense concourse of spectators, each eager to catch a
glinspze of the prisoner." He proved to be a:inusical practitioner at the

Italian Opera-house. On being charged by the police-constable with
exhibiting (to his thinking) a resemblance to the absentee, the
magistrate declared that he detected no likeness at all; then it was
that witnesses were called, who at once swore that he was not
the person ! Why not have asked them the question on Sunday ?
He .was of course released, " amidst the congratulations of his
friends, and without a stain upon his character," and Mr.
Inspector Haining does not appear to have been reprimanded
for his abominable officiousness. It appears, therefore, that every
swarthy and black-whiskered perambulator of . Piccadilly is
liable to be apprehended, imprisoned, and carried Ito a police
office (without the the little formality of being confronted with the
witnesses trst) amid an immense concourse of spectators, each eager
to catch a glimpse of a murderer! Now we must say, that although
it is highly desirable that the assas,in should be discovered, it is much
more important that- outrages like this should not become a police
practice. We remember nothing more monstrous or more calculated
to create among foreigners erroneous ideas of our boasted liberty.
They will be apt to think, when they he;:r of eery
house being his castle, that the necessity of his keeping within doors
is implied in the maxim. The consequence of this arrest has been
that many a swarthy cheek has been divested of its whisker—the
parties forgetting, in their trepidation, that the very fact of shaving is
~regnant with suspicion, and t hat the attempt at disguise may prejudice
them when their respective trials come on.—Monthly Chronicle.

PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—The Corcyron schooner,
from the west coast of Africa, Captain John Richardson, on Tuesday,
June 261 h, about one o'clock in the afternoon, was approaching the
English coast, when about thirty miles from the Start Point, he disco-
vered a boat at a distance; supposing it tote a fishing-bo:It he bore away
for it, with the intention of asking which way the land lay, when he
perceived only a man in it, making signals with outstretched arms, for
assistance, whom he took on board and brought to the London
Docks. The poor fellow was overjoyed on getting on board,
being exhausted for want of provisions and water. Ile
proved to be a Frenchman, from a small town close to Cher-
bourg, on the French coast, who, having gone out fishing in
company with another, they were blown off by a gust of wind on the
previous Sunday. The other man swam to the shore on the boat near-
ing a point of land. What makes the affair the more singular is, that
the poor fellow did not know how to manage a boat, he being by trade
a stonemason, and having accompanied the other for a little pastime and
to procure some fish. The Captain was obliged to navigate the vessel
alcvgside the boat with caution, as it was evident he did not understand
putting the boat ta the ship ; and, as he could not speak English, the
captain did not understand him, or even where he came from till his
arrival here.

SAXON LADIES.—A tourist,in Germany gives the
fallowing description of the Saxon ladies :—" Ladies are models of in-
dustry ; whether at home or abroad, knitting and need'e work, no inter
ruption. A lady going to a rout would think little of forgetting her
fan, but could not spend half an hour without her implements of female
industry. A man 'would be quite pardonable for doubting, on jen tering
, whether he had not strayed into a school of in.
whether°' he was not expected to cheape ; stockings, instead
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smallr talk. At Dresden it is carried ri far that even the
theatre is not protected against stocking wires. I have at en a lady
gravely lay down her work, wipe away the tears which sorrcws of
Thcckla, in Wallenstein's death, had brought into her eyes, and Mune.
diately resume her knitting.

THE WILMINGTON MURDER.—WC learn from
the Manchester Guardian, that one of the prisoners kas been com nitted
for trial, and that the four others have been discharged.