The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1838.

ments, as Colonel Thompson no doubt expected, were re-
ceived with vehement applause. But, whatever may have
been the failure or the success of the meeting of yesterday,
regarded as an incident in the popular movements of the
British metropolis, there is great reason to apprehend that
its success, and that of the numerous similar meetings in
other populous towns by which it will certainly be followed,
will not disappoint the wishes of its promoters in reference
to the contest between lawful authority and rebellion in
Canada. The character of the meeting, and the degree of
weight and influence enjoyed in this country by the Mem-
bers of the House of Commons and the other persons who
took a conspicuous part in its proceedings, will not be so
well understood or so accurately appreciated on the other
side of the Atlantic as they are on the banks of the
Thames. That the proceedings of this meeting must
produce mischievous effects both in Canada and the
United States, it would be weakness and folly to
deny. They will, unquestionably, inspire the rebels
with confidence and courage, and diffuse in the same
proportion alarm and dismay among the loyal part of the po-
pulation of both the Canadas ; while, at the same time,
there is the greatest reason to fear that they may commu-
nicate a decided Canadian bias to the yet hesitating feelings
and policy of the people and Government of the United
States. We should scarcely exaggerate theinjurious effect
of this proceeding of the Westminster and Londo❑ Ra-
dicals if we computed it as equivalent to an array in favour
of the rebel cause of five thousand well armed and well dis-
ciplined men. What will give its greatest value and effi-
cacy to this meeting, both in Canada and the United States,
is the fact that five Members of the House of Commons
took an active and zealous part in its proceedings. And it
were the greatest injustice to forget that there is not one of
the five to whose election the present Ministers of the
Crown did notessentiallycontribute, or to whose re-election,
in opposition to any Conservative competitor, the present
Ministers of the Crown would not again contribute, the
utmost exertio❑ of their influence, personal and official.—
Morning Post.

On Saturday last, a stranger presented himself at
the police station in this town, and asked the superintendent if
be bad a copy of the Hue and Cry for March. Mr. Gooiyer
p oluced the paper, and the stranger pointed to an advertise-
ment describiug a fugitive named John William Beeson, who
had embezzled several sums of meney, amounting to about
1501., the property of his employer, Mr Jones, of London, gas-
fitter. "I am that man " said the stranger ; and finding that
his visitor answered to the description in the advertisement,
Mr. Gaodyer took him into custody. The prisoner stated
that he had tecently got married, and entertained the hope
that his wife's friends would enable him to make an arrange-
ment with Mr. Jones ; but he was disappointed in his expecta-
tions, and quitted his bride within two days of their marriage.
He had no peace of mind, and could not feel easy until he hod
satisfied the demands of justice. He therefore came to Lei s-
ter, to surrender himself, preferring to take this step in a
strange town, rather than in the place where he. had been
lately residing among his friends, and where (on their account)
he thought it undesirable to make a stir by confessing his of-
fence. Mr. Goodyer took him before a magistrate, and after-
wards conveyed him to London.—Leicester Chronicle.
NEW REAPING MACHINE.—We hive tO COll-
- our agricultural readers upon the invention of a new
reaping machine, likely, from its simplicity and efficacy, to
form an important era in the rued labours of the farm. This
machine is totally different frumthose hiahly-ingenious jaapie.
meets invented by Mr. Bell, and Mr. Smith, of Deanstone ;
and, in operation, may be said to combine the clipping
with
the cutting principle. The cutters are attached to a revolving
eilindrical drum, from which they are exerted on the inner
side, together with the rake fur carrying ran ,d the cut corn,
f.-om whence they move ruund towards the exterior of the
sanding cure; when, after having performed the a ork allot-
ted to them in each revolution, they are again withdrawn to
the inside of the cylinder, fur the purpose of facilitating the
laying down of the grain in a regular manner, and in being
sharpened by a streak appended for that purpose. It also
possesses the advantage, never hitherto obtained, of being
equally applicable to standing as well as lying corn, and can
be worked on the root irregular nitrite-, in consequence of a
regulating wheel preceding the cutter. It is calculated to
cut ten acres a day, with the assistance of a man and horse.
This machine is invented by Mr. Itol7ert Baldwin, Ann an.
Dumfriesshire. It has been examined in the course of the
last few days, in the Aga icultutol Museum of Messrs. P. Law-
son and Son, by Sir Charles Girdon. Secratsry to the nigh_
land and Agricultural S,:ciety of Scotland ; D. Lowe, Esq.,
Prolassor of Agriculture in the University : J. D. Forbes,
Esl., Professor of N. tural Philosophy, University; J. S.
IZussell, Esq., M. A ; -James Slight, Esq., Curator of the
Highland and Agricultural Society's Models; and several
other gentlemen versant in mechanics and agriculture, who
all concurred in expressing their high opinion of the simplicity
of this invention.—Correspondent ofthe Scotsman.
SIIISEIINESS.--.011 Tuesday the family of Mr.
resident not far from the Royal Hotel:Mile Town,
wereahrown into a state of great consternation, in consequence
of the daughter, Miss N —, and the daughter-in-law, Miss
D---, having eloped. It appears after .the ladies had
lunched they went for a walk, and not appearing at seven
o'clock at night, the family begun to be alarmed. At nine
o'clock they received information that ,the ladies were gone off
in a hired chaise to be married. The parents immediately
commenced pursuit; but whether they were successful or not
we have not yet learned. One of the young ladies is only
fourteen years old. The two gallants are stated to be Lieu-
tenant S—, of the last regiment that was stationed here,
and the last Ensign of the regiment new on duty.—
Maidstone Gazette.

INDEPENDENCE OF MlND.—There are some men
who go in leading strings all their days. They always follow
in the path of others, without being able to give any reasen
for their opinions. There is a proper mental independence which
all should maintaiu—sel f-respect andthe stability of our character
require it. The man who pins his opinions entirely on another's
sleeve can have no great respect for his own judgment, and is
likely to be a changeling. When we consider carefully what
appeals to our minde, and exercise upon it our own reason,
taking into respectful consideration what others say upon it,
and then come to a conclusion of our own, we act as intellt.
gent beings should act, and only then. This proper inde-
pendence of mind is far removed from presumptuous self-con-
fidence, than which there is nothing more severely to be con
eemned. Presumption is the associate of ignorance ; and it is
hateful in the extreme to hear some half-taught stripling de-
livering his opinions with all the authority of au oracle. This
is not what we mean by mental independence, and it is hoped
nave will mistake what has been said. We refer to a modest
yet firm and independent exercise of judgment upon subjects
which the mind understands ; in short, we intend only the op-
posite of that slavish habit which makes one man the mere
shadow of another.—Revs. J. Stoughton.
A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURIL—In the night of
Wednesday week, about the hour when the ghosts play at
leap-frog over tomb-stones, or stick themselves up in corners
of dark rooms to frighten simple maidens out of their senses,
Mr. Thomas Eve and Mr. Charles Bird, inhabitants of the
village of Orsett, sallied forth from the house of a friend some
miles distant, to search out their own good roof trees. Now,
be it known, at the identical house from which they sallied.
a young stranger had taken up a " local habitation," to whom
they had that day given " a name," and consequently the
hearts of Messrs. Eve and Bird were so wrapped up in the
warm things which hospitality scatters about at these joyous
times, that they feared not cold winds, thieves, hobgoblins, or
other midnight trifles. In this heroic mood they reached Stif-
ford-hill, when a cart attracted their attention. Though fear
slumbered, suspicion was awake, and they very coolly
walked
round to look at the name on the cart. Now conscience is a
troublesome fellow at times, at least to a certain class of per-
sons, and as the owner of the cart did not happen to be pro-
vided with the best in the world, it gave him at this particular
juncture certain 'twitches, so throwing off his coat, he leaped
to the ground and escaped, leaving an excellent cart, his coat,
and five pigs, in the hands of Messrs. Eve and Bird, who thus
captured a valuable prize without striking a blow. The cart
had on, " Samuel Mitchell, General Dealer,
Tottenham-
road," and Messrs. Eve and Bird, following up their adven-
ture with the most praiseworthy promptness, started without
loss of time, and on searching the premises thus pointed out,
found a sack with the name of Field (who is known at Aveley)
d ebnyt 1 yt
hoen
christeningits svay to
upon it. The pigs, it proved, had been stolen from Miss
itiiaffmor, and the Hanson's,_ of New Jenkins Farm, Mucking, about six miles
thuscart
frrrrttenscaptured uer
party. Chelmsford Chronicle.
The public curiosity through Bath and its neigh-
bourhood has been much excited by the vestiges of a Roman
villa laid bare by the railroad excavations, near Newton St.
Lee. They indicate the former residence there of an officer
belonging to the Roman legion, stationed at Bath, or Aquae
Solis, 17 or 18 centuries ago ; and display the luxuriousfit-
tings-up of such a mansion with hypocausts, tessela.ted pave-
ment, crypto-porticos, etc. But remains of much deeper an-
tiquity, coeval with the Deluge, have been recently discovered
near the same spot—a tooth of an antediluvian elephant, depo-
sited in the bed of gravel (brought from afar) which spreads
itself over part of the flat near Newton, and covet,' a portion
of the declivity of Sion-bill. We understand that a tusk of
another primaeval elephant was found in the same extensive
deposition of gravel in Newton-park some years ago.—Bath
Journal.

The Black Arabian—for we know him by no other
name—was presented, with another stallion and two mares, to
his late Majesty William IV., by the Imaum of Muscat, in
Arabia, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf ; and thoughpure bred Arabs of this colour are rather unusual, he is said to
he of the very highest caste.. The brandA mark which is to
be seen on his hind quarter is an Arabic character ; but whe-
ther it is expressive of his breed, or 13 merely the proprietary
mark of a former owner, we have not been able to learn. His
height is 14 hands 3 inches ; his form—though devoid of good
racing points, in the opinion of Englishturfmen—is highly
dicative of the strength and activity which are characteristic of
the real Arab; his thighs and legs are good; and his hoofs
are almost as clear and as hard R 3 flint. His neck i 3 light,
with a large wind-pipe allowing full room for free respiration •
his shoulders is rather heavy ; and, thourli his loins are nar-
row, he is round barrelled and has a roomy chest. From the
prominence of his cheek-bones and the depth of his jaiv, his
head, when seen in profile, has the appearance of b ing heavy.
He was purchased f,o• the King of Wu tcmberg Ft the Hamp- -
ton Court sale on the 25th of October last for 580 guineas, a
sum which was considerably greater than what our best judges
thought he would brin?,.. The bay stallion, his companion,
who was considered to Le not so highly bred, was. purchased
fir 410 guineas by an agent of the Freuch govern nent,_New
Sporting Mayazine.

LA IT INTELLIGENCE.

SHERIFF'S COURT, J.N. 4.
FRASER AND ANOTHER V. R. D. BROWNE, ESQ., M.P.

This was an action brought by tho plaintiffs, who are tailors
in Bond-street, to recover of the defendant, who is a Member
of Parliament for Mayo, the aura of 611. ls., for goods sup-
plied. The plaintiff was sot prepared with his witnesses to
prove the orders, but adduced evidence to show that goods to
the amount of 451. had been delivered at the defendant's resi-
dence in Charles-street, St. James's-square. The remainder
was ordered through Mr. Mahon, and sent to him in Dublin,
but no one was present who could identify the handwriting of
the defendant in the letter to that gentleman. The letter was
franked by the defendant, which, it was submitted, was prima
facie evidence of its authenticity.
The Jury found for the plaintiffs.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THURSDAY).

OLD COURT.

George Penn, aged 24,;asindicted for feloniously uttering
and putting off a forged Bank of England note for 51., well
knowing the same to have been forged, with intent to defraud
the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
The Jury return,d a verdict of Guilty.
There are several other cases of uttering forged bank-notes
to be tried.