The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-12 00:00:00

BERLIN, SEPT. 6.

New Cases. Recovered. Deaths.
To Sept. 3
4
5

Total 49 1 31
Remained on the 6th, at noon, 17.

Two new adventurers in the field of play are
reported, within a few weeks, to have carried off upwards
of 14,0001. from the Fishmonger's-hall, and the rival
shop in Piccadilly.

A few days ago, at Bayonne, Perpignan, and
o! her places, the sun had the appearance and colour of the
moon, and it could be looked at without inconvenience, al-
though there were no clouds near it.—French Paper.
LONDON MECHANICSINSTITUTION.—Mr.
WALKER, tailor and draper, Southampton-street, Blooms-
bury-square, is now giving a course of lectures at this In-
stitution on the theory and practice of his trade. These
lectures divtiy much skill and ingenuity, and we can
therefore recommend them conscientious►y to the attention
ci those who may feel an interest in the subjects on which
they treat.

The public will be glad to find that a new
work is about to appear in monthly numbers under the
title of " Wild Sports of the West." It is the production
of a gentleman who enjoys great ettlebrity in the sporting
world, and who has, in the work in question, embodied all
the knowledge, acquired during many years' devotion to
field pastimes, of hunting, shooting, angling, &c., as prac-
tised in this part of Europe.
The rectory of North Fambridge, Essex, re-
cently become vacant, has in the handsom' st manner, and
without solicitation, been presented to the Rev. G. Caorx,
whose eminent talents, both as a divine and a poet, well
entitle him to the gift. This appointment does honour to
the CHANCELLOR'S disinterested regard for merit, as the
politics of the Rev. Gentleman have ever been notoriously
in opposition to his own.
On Monday morning, the 29th ult., Mr.
JOSEPII NEAVE, ropernaker, of Yarmouth, while in the
act of descending a ladder placed in a vat of boiling
liquor, used in tanning of nets, fell backwards into the vat,
owing to the ladder being placed too perpendicularly, and
was so dreadfully bruised and scalded that he lingered in
the most excruciating pain until the following day, when
he expired.

The race between the Subscription and De-
fiance coaches still continues through Ilminster, Ilchester,
and Wincanton, and these coaches have, during several
weeks past, performed the journey from Plymouth to
London in the short space of eighteen hours and a half--
that is, at the rate of upwards of twelve miles an hour,
including stoppages. Notwithstanding the great im-
provements which have been a,rtady, and are still making
on this line, no additional turnpikes on the \Vincanton,
Ilchester, and Ilminster trust have been erected since the
original Acts were passed.—Skerborne ltftrcury.

SLAVERY V. CHRISTIANITY.—The late
Rev. MATTHEW TATE, of Beaufort, in South Carolina, made
his I% ill a short time ago, and three days previous to his
death, he added to it an exceedingly long codicil, in his
own hand-writing, in which there is the following para-
graph :—" I enjoin it upon my executors to publish it in
all the newspapers in Charleston, that I departed this life
under a full persuasion that if I died in possession of a
slave, I should not conceive myself admissible into the
kingdom of Heaven."

Some gentlemen of a Bible Association lately
calling upon an old woman, in New Orleans, to see if she
had a Bible, were severely reproved with a spiritual reply,
" Do you think, gentlemen, that I am a Heathen, to ask
such a question?" Then, addressing a little girl, she
said, " Rua and fetch the Bible out of my drawer, that I
may show it to the gentlemen." The gentlemen declined
giving her the trouble, but she insisted on giving them
ocular demonstration that she was no heathen. Accord-
ingly the Bible was brought, nicely covered, and, on open-
ing it, the old woman exclaimed, " Well, how glad am I
that you have come; here are my spectacles, that I have
bee❑ looking for these three years, and didn't know where
to find e'm."

HYDROPHOBIA FROM THE BITE OF A
HORSE.—A Mr. CLARK, living about five miles from
Cincinnatti, Ohio, had a mare and colt bitten by a mad
dog in January last. Both became mad and died. The
mare bit Mr. C. on one of his fingers, but the wound healed
up, and he thought little of it. On the 12th July Mr.
C. was seized with a dreadful piroxysm, and was put into
a boat to be conveyed to the city to receive medical assist-
ance, but so great was his distress caused by water, that
they were obliged to carry him by land. After his arrival
the steam doctors put all the steam they could raise in
requisition to cure him, but he grew worse—raved,
foamed, and was convulsed all night. The next day, how-
ever, he was better, and hopes were entertained of his reco-
very.—Asnerican Paper.

JENNY CAMERON.--The new introduction
to the edition of Miss PORTER'S " Scottish Chief," just
published as the seventh Number of " The Standard Novels,"
exhibits JENNY CAMERON, the mistress of the last Pre-
tender, in a different light to our imaginations from that
in which she appears in the novel of " Tom Jones," where
Sophia Western, in all the bloom and vivacity of a runaway
beauty, is taken for her. Miss PORTER is one of an inte-
resting family who have all attained an eminent rank in
literature; and her novels continue to be devoured with as
much eagerness by the present rising generation, as they
were on their first appearance. Little did we expect to
see such choice fictions as " Thaddeus of Warsaw," and the
" Scott:sh Chiefs, beautifully illustrated, and containing
the last touches of the author, presented to the world at so
'cheap a price as in the present edition.