The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

" VOUCHER FOR MOSES."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
remarks
ole
localoe artyhael a
abovegs
boen.
er tenlllvaettiooqrpuiiesnsgttoi odbneewl
deluge
—pass,
t ht e
withoutstpeeramk
Stit,—l could net reconcile it to myself to let your judicious
of a
rotFrhr,i'do'
coming, as I am of opinion, to the rescue, and reminding
you of a statement incontestibly proving the rotatory and or-
bicular condition of this planet:—Joshua's words, " Sun
stand thou still upon Gibeon, AND thou Moon, in the valley
of Ajalon—(the latter not needed for the prolongation of
daylight)—by which conjunct command the miraculous ces-
sation of the earth's gyration is evidently intimated. I affirm
that the means and described effects of the flood pertained to
the entire sphere whereon man dwells. The earth is de-
scribed, at the commencement of the Pentateuch, as being en-
veloped with water—THE DERr. This, on the second day, is
stated to have been divided into upper and lower spheres by
the intromission of the aerial sphere, (probably the result of
caloric action through the clwep ; both direct, from withoutt
and reverberated from the solid at bottom) or " firmameic
the midst." That next the earth was subsequently, within
and without the solid shell, gathered to one place, that the
dry, or land, might appear. Of the upper, or air-encompassing
moiety of the deep, we read no more until the firmament of
elastic atmosphere is deranged:--" The windows of heaven
were opened ;" i. e., columnar gaps, floodgates, were super-
naturally caused throughout the else separating orb of air
between the tcrraqueous globe and the primitive moiety of the
deep, (" mist" had watered the face of the earth, Gen. 2),
and with the fountains of the great deep from below, water by
oceans, sufficient to satisfy Voltaire's demands,lwas poured upon
the plains and mountains of our planet, prevailing some
" cubits" above their highest altitude. Yet all the exterior
waters were not expended ; their descent was " stopped ;"
none returned to the external sphere; consequently, climates
are less genial, the sun's rays being less diffused through the
air's thinner cisling : where ? the shy.
I am, yours, &c.,
Sept. 9, 1838.. BEREAN.

half-yearly examination of candidates for
the East India Company's service, which has
h loi
sfh
et the ehstrictness
s i
r j. Ho
obhs observed
,u
Pre-
sidentnd e r
jmwuresitnAtet
admitted :—Messrs.
we understand that_ one-third of the number
were the gentle-
Messrs Lillie, Burford, Inverar' Ay, Buckle,
Maconchie, Hunter, Ratcliffe, Arbuthnot, Paterson,
Boldcro, Vans Agnew, Stewart, Thornhill, HU-
of the Board of Contr.el.; the following
Melville, Lushington, Garrett, Inglis
lenden, ' . Robinson.
thewer ware
regulationsrejected
recently consequenceesta
DGeoldviiet,re
The first on the list was nominated by Mr. J. Alexander, one
of the Directsorirs,
John
nanseaoctktnLowillieiedr
wehnot tow atshseofafothrteurnoaftethai:
young man (
to save thlPieetstleiidnfe:_of Mr. Alexander's. only son some years slice,
when upset in a boat passing with a great fall and rapid cur-
rent under one of the arches of the old London Bridge, which
accident proved fatal to one of the party, who was swept un-
der some of the works of the new bridge then building.
An accurate Engraving of the Doncaster Cup will
be given in Bell's Life in Londo?! and Sporting Chronicle of
Sunday Next, Sept. 16. The price of Bell's Life in London
is Fivepence, now increased to 24 columns, being the largest
folio Journal printed in London. The publication of the
Country Edition of Bell's Lffe in London will, on and from
Sept. 22, commence at twelve o'clock on Saturday noon, by
which arrangement the papers can be forwarded by the two
the Jewish era commences on
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be fe s ti
observedv a l will
with continue
great
solemnity
l days,em ni t andy as theth
the
tmnwiewsl fyi heeaydr
On Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, as Tho-
roof2,,d44,hhYi
which
York-terrace, es
krerndaoccoet,
over
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him,e Regent's 'bbs
but
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wwai lss shaft Cor
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a
fortu-
nately not seriously injured.
THE CZAR AND lIIS ARMY (AFTER REVIEW.)
en-
thusiastic: —They (the soldiers) do not salute, but as every division
passes the Emperor hails them with the accustomed cheer of
roar,y ols,
,m, yvve
thankchildren Y"
you,to wohnirchfatthheoyr respond,father." The
The in
corps
having defiled, the Emperor aai touches his hat to all the
y children." " We'll do better next time" is then
tcohoffiencdeur
regiment,eln saying,he (`
exclaims,A die u , m,
,e Is iael
nu r
satisfieds; ' ' an d
withthen
yourwalking
zeal fromand
the cry from the battalions.— The Marquis of Londonderry's
Tour to the Northern Courts.
A LIVING SKELETON.—In passing through a
village, I was struck with the sight of a stiff and shrivelled
corpse,
wall, so that the air, and the head was bent
swharsivealledhuman feet were in the
clothed and seated in a chair, laid slanting against a
down upon the breast. While I stood looking at it, I was
startled by a jerking motion in the right arm, and then seeing
two black and vivid eyes straining to catch my attention. This
flesh seemed to have disappeared from his bones; the skin bad
go fit a
backwards seesaw
m and human
motionlessand
state
egio
r whichtw e n
thya-
edi
g h t
yearsexisted in; thisthe
shrunk and was almost black : I have seen mummies that ap-
peared in a better state of preparation. The joints were all
fixed, with the exception of the right shoulder and the jaws.
This freedom of the shoulders amounts, however, only to three
iwnocrhkeisn
exercise.—
Urquhart's Travels in the East.
On Wednesda afternoon an inquest was held in Wey-
mouth-street, Walworth, on the body of John Collier, aged
demfoeriwitaordfst,haesfhoores-aayrsm; and be keeps
40 years. T
" appeared from the evidence that the deceased
for
was a journeyman carpenter, in the employ of Mr. Young, in
'Weymouth-street, and while at work on Saturday afternoon
last, he suddenly fell backwards and instantly expired. Ver-
dict—Died by the visitation of God.
et
atonement.
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will