The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-08 00:00:00

A valuable mine of rock salt has been latel

discovered in one of the communes of the artondis•ment of
Arthes, in the Basses Pyrenees. A company has been
formed for the purpose of working it.

Two large eagles were shot last week on
Benaghlan mountain, near Illort,nte Court, the seat of the
Eirl of ENNISKILLEN.

One day last week, at Denton, near Hades

ten, in this county, an infant child was taken by the
mother Into a wheat field, and laid down in one of the

furrows asleep, while clic was gleaning. After a short
time, an empty waggon, passing through the field, was
actually driven over the child. It was naturally expected
that the child was killed : but symptoms of life appearing,

it was removed to the first house and laid on a bed. In
the course of an hoer the father entered the room, when,
to his great joy, the little innocent stretched forth ita arms
to be taken by him. It does not appear to have sustained
any injury.—Suffolh Herald..
FATAL EFFECTS OF CRANIOLOGY.—A

fair inhabitant of this town, accompanied by a gallant son
of Mars, to whom she had for some time been betrothed,
paid a visit last week to the sanctum of De Wile !
The learned pumpologist, havinr, examined the cranium of
his fair visitor, declared that the organ of combativeness
was strongly developed ; which appalling announcement
so alarmed the brave hero, that he left the fair maid to
return in sober sadness to her parental abode. This is a
fact.—From a Correspondent of the Maidstone Gazette.
'The following intelligence from Carlsruhe is
of the 20th uh. :—" The Dill on the Liberty of the Press
has just been unanimously adopted by the two Chambers,
as has that for the Abolition of Tithes. Our Govern-
ment is making progress, to the peat displeasure of
Austria and Prussia. Nothing can arrest the march of
the public mind. We will attend those who have not
employed their efforts to save Poland, when the news shall
arrive that Warsaw has fallen. The sympathy of all
classes in Germany is very great, and cries of indignation
are already uttered against the Sovereigns, vrhos•l obsti-
nacy and partiality have contributed to the propagation of
the cholera morbus."—French Paper.
Since Wednesday we hive had three days of
' westber far more valuable to the country than as many
pecks of March dust, which is said to be " worth its
weigkt In gold." The fields around Edinburgh are now
nearly cleared of victual—Scotsman.
SPEED OF THE HORSE.—Common report
says that flying Childers could run a mile in a minute, but
there is no authentic record of this. He ran over the
Round Course at Newmarket (three miles six furlongs and
ninety-three yards) in six minutes and forty seconds; and
the Beacon Course (four miles one furlong and 138 yards),
in seven minutes and thirty seconds. In 1772 a mile was
run by Firetail in one minute and four seconds. In
October, 1741, at the Curragh Meeting in Ireland,
Mr. WILDF engaged to ride 127 miles in nine hours.
He performed it in six hours and 21 minutes. He em-
ployed ten horses, and allowing for mounting and dis-
mounting and a moment for refreshment, he rode for six
hours at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Mr. THORN-
i
t211011n1.31;:o
miles,ll, nlid:o4,..sl:vaenenxd Cie,boeaducerkds,
atnia)dni
thirty-four
afgorainlletor rode from
tufortonem,,
whichS beingt i -
is, after allowing the least possible time for changing
horses, twenty miles an hour for eleven hours, and on the
turnpike-road and uneven ground. Mr. SHAFTOE, in
7a2, with ten horses, and five of them ridden t a ice,
accomplished fifty miles and a quarter in one hour and forty-
nine minutes. In 1763 Mr. SHAFTOE won smote extra•
ordinary match. Ile was to procure a person to ride
one hundred miles a day, or any one hone each day, for
twenty-nine days together, and to have any number of
horses not exceeding twenty-nine. He accomplished iton
fowrteen horses; and, on one day, he rode one hundred
and sixty miles, on account of the tiring of his first horse.
\lr. Ilut.L's Quibbler, however, affordel the moat ex-
traordinary instance on record of the stoutness as well as
speed of the race horse. In December, 1786, he ran twenty-
three miles, round the flat at Disivrnarket, in fifty-seven
minutes and ten seconds.