The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-30 00:00:00

NAZARETH.

I perceived at my feet at the bottom of a valley hol-
lowed out like a basin or a small lake, the white and
gracefully grouped houses of Nazareth on the two side,
and at the extremity of this basin. The Greek church,
the high minaret of the Turkish mosque, the long thick
walls of the convent of the Latin fathers, were all at once
perceptible ; a few streets formed of smaller houses, but
of an elegant and oriental shape, were grouped round
these larger edifices and animated with the noise and the
movements of life. All around this valley or basin of
Nazareth were seen clumps of the high thorny nopal ;
fig trees deprived of their autumnal leaves, with green
and yellow light-leaved pomegranates—the whole giving a
freshness and a grace to the landscape, like the flowers of
the field round a village altar. God alone knows what passed
at that moment in my heart ; but by spontaneous, and, as it
were, an involuntary movement, I found myself on my knees,
at the feet of my horse, upon one of the blue and dusty paths
of the precipice we were descending. I remained, I sup-
pose, several minutes in silent contemplation, wherein all the
thoughts of my life as a Sceptic or a Christian, rushed
upon my mind with such confusion, that it was impossible to
class them ; these words alone escaped my lips :—" And
the word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us." I pro-
nounced them with the sublime, profound, and trrateful sen-
timent they are calculated to inspire : the place,b indeed,
suggests them so naturally, that I was struck, on arriving
in the evening at the sanctuary of the Latin Church, to
find them engraven in letters of gold on the marble table of
the subterranean altar, in the house of Mary and Joseph.
Having made this exclamation, bowing my head respect-
fully to the earth which had given birth to Christ, I kissed
it in silence, and moistened with tears of repentance, of
love, and hope, that soil which had seen so many shed,
which has imbibed so many, and from which I invoked a
portion of truth and love.—La Martine.

David Anthony, who was found guilty at Down
Assizes on Thursday of the murder of William Ryan, at
Newry, on the 15th of December last, was executed on Sa-
turday in front of Downpatrick Gaol. Anthony, although
young in years, was old in crime. He had been engaged in
upwards of 40 robberies, but stated that he never had imbrued
his hands in blood before the last fatal transaction, and that

be had no intention at the time of killing Ryan, but that be

was determined, in case of resistance, to take the life of his

victim.

He confessed the crime for which he was to suffer

some time after his condemnation.—lrish Paper.

The late mysterious affair in L-e, which has
terminated so fatally, still continues an engrossing theme of
conversation. The general statement seems to be that the
unfortunate lady, who had been married but a few years, had
suffered, uncomplainingly, extreme personal cruelty; and after
her demise there were marks of injuries discovered, which
tended to prove the assertion. Her father had at length re-
solved to withdraw her from this unfortunate union ; but it
was then too late, as she died heart broken within five days
after her removal. This is the form in which the tragic story
has gone abroad, the accuracy of which none but the parties
themselves can decide ; but we sincerely hope, when the first
gi ief for her loss is over, that some statement may be made
which will place the matter in ale is painful point of view than

at present.
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE.—A man who has
been residing in Scarborough several years, and in very poor
circumstances, has recently become possessed of considerable
wealth, which has been left to him by a brother. The pro-
perty consists of a considerable sum of money, and a very
extensive and valuable estate in the county of Cavan. His
name is James Gilmer ; and it appears he was born of
highly respectable parents, but had fallen into disgrace with
his friends, and had had no communication with them for
the last thirty years. Gilmer was designed by his family for
the medical profession, having studied at Edinburgh, in the
,VifBtir, 2, and 3. Owing to family aissensions, Gilmer
then entered into the army as a private soldier, and was
many years in the Royal Artillery ; when having obtained
his discharge, he became a "traveller" with tapes and
thread, &c.—visiting most parts of the kingdom in this ca-
pacity. At length he settled at Scarborough, and opened a
vagrants' lodging-house, which he has conducted many years.
The discovery of this great wealth was through an advertise-
ment in the newspapers. Gilmer appears never to have fol-
lowed his original profession, with the exception of going a
single voyage to America, as surgeon, in the Regent emigrant
vessel from null, about six years ago. He passed through
York by the mail on Tuesday last, on his way to Ireland, to take
possession of his suddenly acquired wealth.— Yorkshirernan.
A CAPITAL SPARROW BUTCHER.—We learn
from a country paper that a few days ago a person at Wiley, or
Willy, in Wilts, laid a train of seeds on the snow for the pur-
pose of attracting sparrows and such small birds. They came
as he expected; and, " with nothing but a common partridge
gun" he valiantly took hisstand against the said sparrows, and
got three shots at them through a hole in the barn door.—
" At the first shot, he picked up ninety-five dead 'uns ; one
hundred and fifty-three at the second ; and sixty-eight at the
third, making three hundred and sixteen at three shots, to say
nothing of the wounded that hopped away ! !" some hundreds
of them perhaps, very handsomely mangled, and they may be
many days a dying ; but that's their look out and not ours, as
the Battersea Pigeon-manglers say.--As a pendant to the
above extraordinary feat we find in the same paper the follow.
ing pathetic announcement :—" A monument is preparing to
the memory of the late Mr. Joseph Manton, the celebrated
gunmaker, who was buried, last July, in the Cemetery at
Kensington. Several epitaphs have been prepared by his late
patrons, at the request of his family and sporting friends, and
the one chosen is the following, by Colonel P. Hawker :
In memory of Mr. Joseph Manton, who died, universally re-
gretted, on the 29th day of June, 1835, aged 69. This
humble tablet is placed here, by his afflicted family, merely to
mark where are deposited his mortal remains. But an ever-
lasting monument to his unrivalled genius is already esta-
blished in every quarter of the globe, by his celebrity as the
greatest artist in fire-arms that ever the world produced, as
the founder and the father of the modern gun-trade, and as a
most scientific inventor in other departments, not only for the
benefit of his friends and the sporting world, but for the good
of his King and country.' "
DREADFUL FIRE AT SOUTH HETTON COL-
LIERY.-On Saturday last, about seven o'clock in the evening,
the No. 1, Engine House, of South Hetton Colliery, in this
county, the property of Colonel Braddyll, was discovered to
be on fire. It appears to have originated in a closet contain-
ing hemp for the use of the engines, and was first discovered
by the brakeman. At that time there were two men down
the shaft of the pit, at the depth of nearly 100 fathoms, re-
pairing the wood brattices, preparing for the regular work-
ing of coal on the Monday following. The brakeman had
the presence of mind to hasten immediately to the machine,
is order to get the men to bank. By the time this was ac-
complished, the flames had reached nearly half way up the
building, which was composed entirely of wood, and were
spreading with great rapidity. Mr. Turnbull, the engineer
of the colliery, was on the spot in a_few minutes, and fiuding
that the flames had reached the top of the building, caused
the fire-engine to play copiously on the main braces, to pre-
vent the flames communicating with the main framing ; but
seeing that the raging element could not be easily subdued,
Mr. Turnbull immediately flew to the maim braces, and as
• the only means of reselling the main engine, (which was of
greater consequence than the one which. had been destroyed),
at great peril cut the braces through w:ih a saw, in order to
sever the connection of the pullies with the main framing.
Another engine arrived from Hetton in about an hour after-
wards, and rendered very efficient service. During the time
the above was taking place, sparks or flakes of fire, from the
burning mass, fell on the sheds which cover eight screens, and
which, to prevent cl-eery, were coated with coal tar, and entirely
consumed them. The 'scene at this time was awfully grand,
and the colliery
fire was see,-, Lein in an elevated part of the country, the
from Durham, the Newcastle road, and various
Parts of the surrounding neighbourhood. Immediately after
Mr. q:nrnbullhad succeeded in breaking the connexion be-
twr.:eil the main braces and the main framing, the whole of the
machinery, with an engine of sixty-horse power, fell with a
tremendous crash. By the fall, the immense fly-wheels and
planes were broken to fragments, the cylinder tops destroyed,
the main levers broken to
pieces; the cylinder nozzles, and
connecting rods being the only parts capable of repair or use.
Had not the fire been arrested when and where it was, or bad
the wind been high at the time, the whole of the splendid ma-
chinery must have been destroyed ; and the probability is that
the engines,
&c., would, in their fall, have closed the shafts of
the pit; thus destroying immense property, depriving a num-
ber of families of employment for many months, and, perhapti
the individuals in the pit, of life.—.Sunderland Herald.