The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-16 00:00:00

POETRY.

ON THE GREEKS WHO FELL AT THERAIOPYLIE
They fell devoted, but undying ;
The very gale their names seemed sighing :
Tho waters murmured of their name;
The woods were peopled with their fame ;
The silent pillar, lone and gray,
Claimed kindred with their sacred clay ;
Their spirits wrapt the dusky mountain,
Their memory sparkled o'er the fountain ;
The meanest rill, the mightiest river,
Rolled mingled with their fame for ever.
Despite of every yoke she bears,
That land is glory's still and theirs !
, 'Tis still a watch-word to the earth :
When man would do a deed of worth,
He points to Greece and turns to tread,
So sanctioned, on the tyrant's head ;
He looks to her, and rushes on
Wher.: life is lost or freedom won.

BYRON.

ST. PAUL'S. CATHEDRAL will, through the whole of the
ensuing winter, be brilliantly illuminated with gas lights,when-
ever it shall be necessary during divine service. The candle-
sticks and chandeliers, by the help of which.it has been hitherto
partially lighted up, have been suffered to remain in case of ac-
cidents, but no use is otherwise intended to be made of them.
The pipes have been some time since laid down, and traversing
the crypt, ascend into the choir and body of thechisrch, where
they are concealed by passing through the centre of eight ele-
gant pillars of gilt brass, the summits of which are each fur-
nished
with three large burners. Pour•more pillars of a simi-
lar description, but of greater magnitude, adorn the railing
in front of the altar; and by the brilliancy of the light they
will afford, supersede the necessity 'of continuing the pair of
tall wax tapers which hitherto have stood upon theater . .
About a month ago; three Cornish miners,
having been informed that some appearance of copper ore had
been discovered near St. David's Head; in Pembrokeshire, set
out from Penzance, in order to trace the foundation of the re-
port ; when, after having explored the rocks upon the coast,
they, in their judgment, hit upon a copper vein, of great sup-
posed value, on the property of Samuel Harries, Esq., of Tre-
vacon ; and so sanguine are they of the existence of it, that
they have offered, and are anxious to take a part.in the concern
as far as the amount of their daily wages will extend. They
returned with a specimen of the ore with them, which has been
thought highly of by some mineralogists.—( Cumbrian.)
The lady who was charged on suspicion of
shoplifting, was brought up to Hatton-garden Police Office yes-
terday, for final examination, when the prosecutor stated that he
had made particular inquiries respecting her character, and find-
ing that her conduct had hitherto been irreproachable, and that
she was subject to occasional aberrations of mind, he was de-
sirous not to pursue the inquiry further, and the prisoner was
immediately discharged. The prisoner was led into and out
of the office by two respectable gentlemen, in a state of ap-
parent insensibility.
FEMALE HEROISM.—On Saturday se'nnight,
about half-past ten o'clock in the evening, as
Mrs. Holland, the wife of Mr. Holland, of the
Saracen's Head Inn, Borrowash, near Derby, was
sitting the fire, she heard a noise of some Guinea
fowls near the back door, which had been dis-
turbed from their roost in the orchard, upon which
she instantly proceeded to the orchard to ascertain
the cause, when she saw a ladder reared against an
apple tree, and found two fellows, one of whom
made a precipitate retreat down the ladder, and
ran into a ditch to screen himself against his fe-
male pursuer; upon which, Mrs. Holland rushed
upon him, and seizing him by the collar, firmly
kept her hold until the arrival of one of her
female domestics, when they dragged their
prisoner into the house, to the no small surprise
of Mr. Holland. The fellow was afterwards
taken before the Magistrates, when he received
a suitable reprimand, and upon paying the costs
incurred, and promising to amend his conduct in
future. Mr. Holland humanely consented to his
discharge. The other fellow ran away upon
seeing Mrs. Holland enter the orchard, but in
his fright and hurry to get away from his female
pursuer, forgot to take his hat with him, which
was immediately picked up, the inside of which
betrayed its owner, who has since absconded.—
This fellow turns out to be a boatman, and has
taken a voyage for the present, but ere long he
must at least share the same fate as his copartner.

Extraordinary Produce of Apples, and wet
sold.—Mr. HA M M ERSLEY, of Hanley, lately' pur•
chasing apples at Betley, in this county (Staf-
ford), the owner proposed to him to take the
produce of one of his trees, at a halfpenny for
the first measure, and doubling the amount upon
each measure to the last, whatever the quantity
might be ; on a little consideration, Mr. 11am-
mersley cheerfully consented, congratulating
himself upon what he thought an advantageouf
bargain. The produce of the tree proved to be
41 measures, and, to the great surprise of the
purchaser, a demand was made upon him for
2,290,649,5441. 10s. Sd.—SlaffordshireAdvertiser.

ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—AbOU
seven o'clock on Sunday evening, whilst Mrs.
Powell, an elderly widow lady, lip Ong at 35,
Coldbath-square, was at Chapel, some villain by
means of false keys entered her house ; the noise
he made in ransacking the lower part of the
house was heard by two men who lodged on the
second floor ; one of them went dow❑ stairs to
ascertain whence the noise proceeded, whilst the
other went to look out of the window. As soon
as the man who went down stairs (in the dark)
entered the parlour, he received a tremendous
blow on the head by the villain, and was knocked
town. Ile called to his fellow-lodger to come
down to his assistance, but as he was then look-
ing out of the window, be did not hear; the vil,
lain gave him several desperate blows whilst
he was down ; the poor fellow kept crying
out " Murder !—Thieves!—Murder !" on which
the ruffian gave him a deep stab in the side
with some sharp instrument. his cries at length
brought his fellow-lodger to his assistance, but
the robber °fleeted his escape. On Mrs. Powell's
coming home it was ascertained that the fel-
low had broken open a small escrutoire, and
taken from it fourteen pounds in sovereigns ; a
silver table-spoon, dropped by the villain in his
hurry, was found in the passage ; all the rest of
the plate escaped. We are happy to add, that
the poor fellow who received the stab, though
shockingly beaten and wounded, is in a fair way
of recovery.
A shocking accident happened yesterday (Sa-
turday, 12th inst.) at a manufactory in George-
street, Lawford's-gate. A young man, named
George Jones, was in the act of tying a rope to
the dinner-bell, when his foot slipped, and he
fell on the fly-wheel of a steam engine, which
was at work at the time, and which actually
severed his head from his body.—(Bath Journal.)