The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-08 00:00:00

May 1 I, at the Freemason's Tavern, for the purpose of petitioning the
Queen and the two Houses of Parliament, to avert the calamitous losses
that must fall upon the trade of the metropolis, should the Coronation
take place earlier than August. The Noble Marquis expressed hi;
willingness to preside, in the flail understanding that the meeting teas
to be considered as embracing a national and not a party purpose. The
dePutatinr. consisted of Messrs. J. Gould, Dinneford, Scott, Barwise.
Clarke, Fisher, &c., and was most courtoously received b 7 the Noble
Marquis,
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We regttt, the death of Dr. Edward
Harristili; tiffroili.,s-street, Cavendish-square, which took place yester-
day et Marlbrrough, on his way to Devizes, to visit an old and sick
friend. In him the community has sustained an irreparable loss. Tie
may be said to have been a true and consistent patriot, and really be-
nevolent man. It will be universally admitted that the words of a
sacred writer of the last centu:y may strictly and justly be applied to
him :—" He was superior to fear, to selfish interest, and corrupt means
—one whose mind was ever regulated by princip'es of the strictest rec.
titude and integrity—one who was true to the God he worshipped, and
unostentatiously fixed on the faith he professed ; full of affection and
charity to his brethren of every class ; kind and faithful in his friend-
ship ; forgiving and generous to his enemies ; warm and csmpassionate
to the unfortunate ; seTtdenying to his private interests, and prodigal
alone to those of the public—a man who possessed magnanimity without
pride, humility without meanness ; who was just to all men, withou t
being harsh to any; simple in manners, but manly in feeling; on whose
word all men might rely; whose countenance would never deceive,
being the index or a benevolent heart, from which nothing but kindness
ever emanated ; such a character as one would choose for a superior,
trust as a friend, and love as a fellow-man." His benevolence, although
discriminating, was almost boundless. Nearly 100 poor and afflicted
persons will lose a kind and constant benefactor. Among the many
liberal gifts in the cause of humanity which adorned his career is one of
3001. to the North London Hospital, and the more munificent and rare
gift of 1,0001. to the establishment of an Infirmary for Spinal Com_
plaints, in which disease he had himself performed some extraordinary
cures, to which the medical works of the last few years have borne
testimony. May his rest be as peaceful as his life was blameless ; may
the balm of resignation sooth the hearts of those who enjoyed his friend-
ship and love; and may they cease to think his death untimely, when
they reflect that on the wide face of creation every being who knew him
revered his worth and will cherish his memory.
SHOCKING AFFAIR.—On Wednesday afternoon,
a man named Stewart, residing in St. Leonard-street, Edinburgh, at-
tempted to commit suicide with a deliberation and forethought which,
perhaps, in the annals of those melancholy cases will find few parallels.
It appears that Stewart had obtained a piece of wood, which he con.
trived to manufacture into a rude but effective imitation of a gun, or a
small cannon, by boring it for a short way with some instrument or
other, of sufficient calibre to admit an ordinary pistol bullet. He had
formed a touch-hole by the same means, and on Wednesday, about two
o'clock, in the absence of his daughter, he loaded this rude instrument
of death with a bullet, and placing it on the table, and his head on a
level with its muzzle, he fired it by means of a match or some other
combustible. The bullet lodged in his head, which is dreadfully Ant-
tered.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
The Merchants, Manufacturers, Capitalists, and
Landholders, in the neighbourhood of Silkstone and Barnsley are seek-
ing to connect their coal-fielda with Sheffield and Manchester, in one
direction, and with the Humber in another. They propose to join the
Sheffield and Manchester Railway, near Penistone, and forming a line to
Goole. As now situated, Basnsley is let out of the railway communica-
tion, but the measure projected will enable her to transmit her minera
treasures in every direction—to the London market, as well as to the
manufacturing districts of Manchester and Sheffield.—Derby Reporter

A HINT TO M.P.'s.—When Sir Isaac Coffin we

into Parliament, Lord St. Vincent said to him, " Now be sure you
never bring forward any motion but upon the most solid information,
and a moral certainty of support."—Brenton's Life of St. Vincent.
Two or three young merchants, in a frolic planned
and carried into execution the abduction of one of Governor Picton's
sheep; and, determined to do the thing well, selected the fattest one
nursed in his stable. A noble dinner was provided, the initiated sworn
to secrecy, and all passed off gloriously. Two of these wags called upon
his Excellency a day or two after to transact business, which being
effected he turned to them in his own peculiar manner and said—" Gen-
tlemen, I hope the mutton was tender." They were astounded. This
anecdote was communicated to me by an officer then commanding a regi.
ment, who was one of the gentlemen sheeplifters.— United Service
Journal.
JONATHAN OUTDONE.--PARIS, MAY f2.—l con-
gratulate you on the change in the weather. Its effect on vegetation
was- proved to me to-day, I was sitting in the Cafe Paris, giving a
breakfast to a new arrival, when the room became dark. I called to
the garcon to open the Per:lens. " They are open, Monsieur." " What
the devil makes the room so dark then ?" " The trees, Sir, which have
burst into leaf since you sat down."
The four officers of the 3d Dragoon Guards, Lieu-
tenants Nugent and Warner, and Cornets Rich and Freeman, who were
a few weeks since convicted before the Magistrates of this borough for
an assault on the police, have been under an arrest ever since; and last
week Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Dalbiac attended at our barracks,
and took the examination of the party who had prosecuted them. It is
supposed they will continue " in durance vile" until further orders from
the Horse Guards.—Ssufolk Chronicle.
Mr. Bates, now of Hull, but lately of Huntingdon,
was much surprised on Wednesday week by receiving a parcel, forwarded
to him from his late abode, and containing five small packets, each en-
closing ten sovereigns. In explanation of this gift was a slip of paper,
requesting Mr. Bates to accept themoney as a token of gratitude for fa-
vours done thirty years since. Mr. Bates has no recollection of having
performed anything calling forth this testimony of gratitude, and has
determined on laying out the money upon plate to commemorate the cir.
cumstance.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
As a proof of the backwardness of the season, many
of the hay farmers near London are now, in the month of May, bush_
harrowing and rolling the meadows, which in a forward season would
be nearly ready for the sithe.
LORD OSSULSTON'S STAG HOUNDS.—On Tues-
day last, after a fast run of an hour, the stag jumped over a precipice
and bloke his neck. The hounds were at this time close to his haunches,
and unfortunately a couple and a half of the leading dogs went over
with the stag. Two of the hounds were so hurt that thay could not
move, and the third was found by the green coat first up lying on the
dead deer—a beautiful sight for the pencil of an artist to pourtray, but
a painful one for the eye of a sportsman to behold.
OLD SPORTSMAN.—Sir George Hewitt, who has
attained the great age of ninety-three, joined the Queen's stag hounds
last week, with all the ardour of early days, and was in at the death.
The Chelmsford Chronicle contains an account of
the examination of a Mrs. Harris, at Witham Petty Sessions, on a
charge of having boiled a cat alive. This cruelty arose out of an igno.
rant and superstitious idea that it would enable her to find out some
Gipsies who had tricked her out of some property on pretence of making
her rich if furnished with the means of working certain spells for the
purpose. The Magistrate ordered Mrs. Harris to pay the full penalty
of 40s. and costs, and 10s., the value of the cat, and in default of pay-
ment she was committed to the House of Correction for fourteen days.
She did not deny the charge, but said she was so irritated at the time
that she should have put her own hand into the boiling water if she had
thought it would have had any effect.
The Augsburg Gazette, in alluding to the probabi-
lity of the Emperor of Russia coming after all, when he is least expected
into Prussia, observes that this is a common thing with his Imperial
Majesty, whe travels in this way in order to take the authorities of his
own dominions by surprise. His suite usually comprises six carriages,
which can be distinguished from each other only by their numbers ; and
it is almost impossible to tell in which the Emperor is.
At the late meeting of the Swansea Philosophic
Society, it was stated by the president, that the anchovy fish is plentiful,
and caught in large quantities in Swansea and Oxwich Bays. If this
statement be correct, it is to be hoped that an establishment for taking
and curing the fish will be formed, and doubtless, a lucrative branch of
trafic to Swansea will be the result.—Hereford Journal.
CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 12.—The news of the
victories of Soliman Pacha (the well-known renegade Sevis) is con.
firmed by several letters from Aleppo. It is believed that Ibrahim
Pacha will now carry into effect the plan of making Bagdad tributary to
him. He is said to have many partisans in that rich and populous city
who are ready to support him. It is impossible to calculate to what
lengths the possession of Bagdad might carry the enterprising spirit of
the Egyptian commander. For the Porte it would be a deathblow.
Here the anxiety is great; a crisis seems to be at hand. Under these
circumstances a new organisation of the Administration seems the more
injudicious, as it impedes the public business of Government. With all
the great qualities that the Sultan must be allowed to possess, he con.
tributes the most to increase the difficulties in which the Porte is in-
volved. He violently pulls down, but rebui'ds slowly and feebly, and
but too well proved by the creation of the new Council, that he does not
know how to manage the machinery of modern polities.—Allgemeine
Zeitung, May 7.

THE ALBUM PERSECUTION.—Lamb, in one of
his letters to Barry Cornwall, writes as follows I have another
favour to try, which is the beggarliest of all beggings. A few lines of
verse for a young friend's album (six will be enough). Mr. Burney
will tell you who she is. I want them for a girl of gold. Six lines—
make them eight—signed Parry C--. They need not be very good,
as I chiefly want them as a set off to mine. But I shall be seriously
obliged by any newspaper scrap. We are in the last ages of the world,
when St. Paul prophesied that women should be headstrong, lovers of
their own will, having albums.' I fled hither to escape the Albumean
persecution, and had nct been in my new house twenty-four hours when
the daughter of the next house came in with a friend's album to beg a
contribution, and the following day intimated that she had one of her
own. Two more have sprung up since. If I take the wings of the
morning and fly into the uttermost parts of the earth there will be
albums. New Holland has albums, but the age is to complied with."
THE WILL OF MR. WOOD.—The Town-council
of Gloucester at their last 'meeting voted that 156/. be paid to Mr.
Wilton, to reimburse him for money actually paid out of his pocket in
opposing Mr. Wood's will being allowed probate in the Prerogative
Court; but they came to a resolution that all further proceedings must
be paid out of Mr. Wilton's own pocket, as the codicil would not be op.
posed.—Gloucester Herald.
DYSPEPSIA.—The greater number of persons af-
flicted with dyspepsia are to be found among care-worn speculators, stock.
brokers, and ardent students, or among those whose nervous system
has, by injudicious education, been too greatly developed, and rendered
readily excitable. There can be no doubt that sedentary habits concur
with mental excitement in Producing thin disease; but exercise derives
much of its utility to them by determining the blood from the head to
the extremities. So long as excessive mental excitement in kept up, but
little relief can be obtained by the strictest attention to dietetics. Ab.
stinence from mental toil, cheerful company, a country excursion, and
relaxation of mind, will soon accomplish a cure, where all the dietetic
precepts and medicines in the world would prove inefficacious.—Har-
risen Curtis on Preservation of Health.
HIDDEN TREASURE.--On Friday, as some work-
men were employed in pulling down an old house in St. Margaret's.
street, Rochester, belonging to Mr. Hedgcock, grocer, one of them
found in the brickwork of the chimney a wash leather bag, containing
158 pieces of silver coin, of various sizes and thicknesses, some of them
being no bigger than a sixpence, and others as broad as a half-crown.
Some of them are of the reign of Philip
and Mary, bearing the date
1554 ; others bear the names of Elizabeth, James, Edward VI., and
Charles ; and the weight of the whole is one pound and a half. The bag is as fresh in colour and appearance as when it was first deposited in
the place, in which it must have been concealed for near two hundred
years. Inside the bag is a small pocket, probably intended as a recepta-
cle for gold. The workman who found it very honestly delivered it to
Mr. Hedgcock, wino, as soon as lie has ascertained the value of the coin,
intends rewarding him accordingly.—n ,
entish Observer.
STATE OF TRADE.—The improved feeling noticed
in our last has been, fully maintained considerable purchases have
been freely making in both piece goods and
;
yarns at the previous low
rates, which, however, we believe are not remunerating either the
manufacturer or spinner, and little progress has, as yet, been effected
in the way of advance ; but if the present improvement be based upon a
real increased consumption, this desideratum will no doubt follow, and
in its train a greater supply of work and on better terms, for the la-
bourer, particularly that depressed the class, the hand-loom weavers.--
Preston Observer.
The plaintiff in two of the bribery actions, Lewis t).
Harwood the younger, and Lewis v. Widgery, has been arrested for the
costs,l
custodyad for the same. It remains to be seen whe.
then
the and i s
ppnow in
the victim, risking the consequences which
pu et is
to
be
threaten those who pulled the strings.—Bristol Mercury.