The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-27 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday, LVesbett, who describes himself as a "bone
polisher" to one of the Borough hospitals, was charged on
suspicion with having robbed the house in which he was
lodging.

The complainant, an elderly MAO, stated that the pri-
soner lodged at his house, and that recently several articles
of dress and other things had been taken from the house,
and suspecting the accused wag the person by whom they
were stolen, he had him taken into custody.
The Magistrate inquired how the prisoner was getting
his lisinz.

Prisoner—(who is an Irishman)—l am " bone polisher"
;o the hospital.

Magistrates—Explain it. I don't understand you.
Prisoner—l will if I can. After the doctors are done
with a subject they hand the remains over to me to
cut the
.retn•tioder of the flesh off; And J poishrsdrp the
bones to prrpare them for,l;eiog convarted into skeletons.
—(Laughter.)
As there was no eviden', to implicate the prisoner in
the alleged iebberY he was disehat'4.ed-: "

DR.• VAUGHAN'S " PROTECTOR-ATE OF OLIVER -1
CRomwELL2—It bus been so much the. fashion. among-1
writers upon ,the Commonw.ealtki,,to present Cromwell to
our imr.t.tiFltAtiot.qas.a."
.compouptl,
~e,vervhingguilty „in
ambition, vulgar insentiment. . and hateful in hypocrisy," that
a different portraiture of that extr.toFdinary man is as r.:-
freining as it isS-noticL - Dr. V;iughtdi, iii bS'"'Phiteetotitt'd
of Oliver CrOmtvelt,"just published,' has' at niueirtirbre-
favorable . view,' of, this '-`• most maguanitsmusi of 'usurpers"
than . biat.,priqlecessors in . tha ,same .field,.; Bosides...Dr.., •
Vaughan's, esttinktte of , the character or .Crotnwfll,4lll3, bas
given succint, but exceedingly vivid sketches of the leaders
of the two great parties who divided the stage of public af-
fairs between them at the commencement of the civil war,
which give, probably, a better key to the study of the history
of that 4,ventfu! time than any other work exta,:t. In the
correspondence between the distinguished men of the pe-
riod (which forms the greater portion of the work) not only
will the historian find himself iiiitiat. d into the mysteries of
the state policy of the time, but the general reader also will
participate in the new; of the day—the passing humours of
the peoplii—and the talk and doings of Courts—to enable
hint the better to understand which, there is abundance of
illustrative notes of all descriptions.
Ott Saturday lost Mr. William Porter, of Hereford,
whilst angling in the River Wye, near Hunderton, hooked
a fine salmon, and after a severe struggle of two hours and
a half, sueeeed.id in landing the fish ; it weighed 2711b5.
Worcester Herald.

Last week, a splendid salmon, weighing seventeen
and a half p,,un is, was caught near Uffi.gton, by Peplow
and Butler, two fishermen of Shrewsbury, who, on Thurs-
day morning, caught another magnificent fish, weighing
sixteen and a halt pounds, both of which 'blind a purchaser
at 2s. 6d. per lb.—Worcester Herald.
A BRIGHT IDEA OF A FOX HUNT.—A Carrick
farmer the other day sitting on a hid observed the fox-
hounds draw several coverts on the ground below with
little effect, and by breaking off in divisions in different
directions on account of a bad scent, occasioning much
trouble to the hunstman to keep them together, remarked,
" I dinna undersand this sport ava, or what's the meaning
of
a' athort the eo,lntry ; hot fru, onvthin.
I can judge,would as soon be tile ithe as ouy 4; they_
fbr las is far lessfaskt than they appear to be.*--3,0*