The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

jog oligarchy !" Thus we find that because a mob of Bir-
mingham unionists, once the pride and delight of Whig-
Radical officials, are now opposed to those officials, they
are ignorant, self-conceited, and arrogant. And as if this
instance of the consistency and candour of Whig-Radi-
calism were not enough, we further find that the Tories,
although they opposed these ignorant, self-conceited, and
arrogant people, are "fawning Tories"—fawning on those
they thwarted and put down I—and besides be-
ing " fawning," they are " proud," " unfeeling," and
" oligarchical!" But the Tories also are opposed to the
Whig-Radical officials, and therefore though they oppose
what is bad, they must get no credit for it, but on
the contrary, be abused. Nothing is good but that
which the Whig-Radical Government does. Though
the sneer of scorn, and the hiss of contempt attend
it, both at home and abroad—everywhere except
among the Irish peasantry, who are so ignorant as to
be " utterly incapable of exercising an independent
vote"—yet according to the assertion of the partisans
of that Government, whatever it does is right, and all
are ignorant or worse who do not agree to that asser-
tion. There is, and there can be, no rational excuse for
such outrageous distortion of all truth and decency
as these Whig-Radical self-glorifications exhibit ; but
the cause is evident enough. Throughou t this vast
empire the Whig-Radical Ministerialists are destitute
of anything like independent support, and for want
of external aid, they are thrown upon a more vigorous ex-
ercise of their powers of self-commendation. In the matter
of praise they are thrown entirely upon their own resources.
Having no one else to give them a good word, they adore
themselves with a desperate idolatry to which the united
powers of vanity and impudence never soared before. Nor
is this to be •.wondered at. Do they not see that they re-
tain the advantages of Government? Does not the num-
ber of applications for places attest the fact that they are
considered to have power, and do not the receipts of each
revolving quarter-day prove that if they do not obtain the
" golden opinions" of all sorts, or of any sort of people, they
do obtain something else golden, to the full appreciation of
which their understandings are more level ? They have
pay, patronage, and public contempt. They are not scru-
pulous, and they are quite content to take the lot even thus
made up.— Morning Post.

THE BITER BIT.—On Sunday morning, a rail-
road man, called Jem, went into the inn at West Haddon,
and, leaving his basket in the kitchen, went into the tap to
drink a pint of beer. The landlord, being tempted by curio-
sity, opened the basket, in which he found a leveret, and,
doubting Jem's either being licensed or allowed to shoot, he
thought he ran no risk of being publicly complained of if he
rung the changes upon his guest, which he did by abstracting
the hare and putting a dead cat in its place. On getting
home, Jem found out the fraud, and returning with his basket
to the inn, he found mine host had gone to church, and
being past 11 o'clock, the servant refused to draw him any
ale. After much persuasion he induced the servant to leave
the kitchen to get him some spring water, and in her absence
he opened a large pot on the fire, in which was a fine leg of
mutton, and very ingeniously exchanged the tabby for it,
carrying home the prize. Jim sent his brother there after
church time, making him fully acquainted with the facts,
and the landlord, wanting some broth, ordered a basin out of
the pot ; not liking either colour or flavour, he caused an
examination, and instantly detected the cause and its author
on witnessing the cat's mortal remains. " Oh," said Jem's
brother, " I dares for to say that there cat first eat the mutton,
and then committed suicide to avoid detection I"—Northampton
Herald.

A woman was found dead by one of the sportsmen
on Inehgroundle-hill on Monday the lath current. Tile
body was so much decayed that it could not be removed, and
was consequently interred on the spot. She had black hair,
a full set of teeth, and seemed to have been a middle-aged,
stout-made woman. She had on a grey woolsey gown—a
light blue upper woolsey petticoat—a secoad one, not parti-
cularly described—and an under one of woollen, woven on
wires. Above her stays, she had a man's vest, with an in-
side pocket, in which were found 16s. 6d. in silver, neatly
rolled up in a piece of cloth. She had on one stout shoe, and
the other lying a few yards from her. She had also a basket,
in which were two tea-spoons, a pair of scissors, and
several neatly rolled-up packages, but all empty ; in
the basket, there were also fourteenpence halfpenny
in copper. She had a black and red tartan shawl,
and a merino cap, which seemed to have fitted tight, and was
drawn down upon her face. All her clothes had been good but
by the time she was found, they were so much decayed that no
swatches could be taken. Three or four weeks ago, a man
was found about two miles farther north, in the head of Glen-
muick parish, and buried where he was found. It is probable
that they had been travelling together; and, in endeavouring
to cross the Caple Mount from Glenmuick to Clove, they had
perished in the storm about the middle of January last. This
is more likely, because the two tea-spoons had been evidently
used ; and two knives were also lying near the place where the
woman was found. After the middle of January, the snow was
so deep that no person could have gone to the hill. —Edin-
burgh Courant.

THE M•N OF MANY WlvEs.—On Wednesday
Captain Willmett had the hardihood to visit Rochester, so
lately the scene of his disgraceful conduct, when he and his
father were subjected to the indignant chastisement of the
mob, particularly the women. On the above-named day
these gentlemen arrived at the .Crown Inn in a carriage and
four, where they ordered a dinner for several people at eight
O'clock, and went out into the city. The news that Willmett,
the husband of a dozen wives, was there, spread like wild-
fire, and the Captain and his father were surrounded by
hundreds of people, principally females, who proceeded front
one assault to another, until they rolled them both in the
mud, stole their watches. jewellery, and money, and ultimately
tore their clothes from off their backs. The Captain ran up
the Bull-yard, and cliptbed over a high wall, having a large
quantity of glass bottles on the top, by which he must have
cut himself greatly. .The landlord of the Bull took the old
gentleman back and put him into the custody of the polies',
who conducted him out of the town. In the evening the
father and son returned to the Crown inn ; but the landlord
turned them out of the place, and they were under the dis-
agreeable necessity of going back to Gravesend after twelve
o'clock at night. It had been their intention to have shown off
at Canterbury races. On Saturday, Mr. Wooler, the solicitor,
applied to the city magistrates for a search warrant against Ra-
chael.Larnb, who had stolen Captain Willmett'agold watch and
geird chain, but the bench refused to grant it; they granted a
warrant against Miss Lamb for taking the watch, &c., but she
could not be found. John Alexander Willmett appeared, and
stated that he resided at George-street, Bryanstone-square,
and was formerly a captain in the 17th Lancers, and stated
that the riot occurred on the preceding Wednesday, when he
and his father were robbed of their watches, chains, money,
shirt .pins, &c., by the ladies of Rochester. The Magistrates
said that if the parties complained against were not produced,
they could not act. Mr. Wooler made inquiry of Mr. Birch,
the solicitor, as to where Lamb eas to be found, who re-
fused to give the information. After an acrimonious and per-
sonal conversation between the legal gentlemen had subsided,
the case was adjourned to Wednesday.—Maidstone Journal.
DUELS AND DEATH.-We perceive, recently,
several appalling cases of deliberate murder and suicide, by
this fashionable mode of settling personal quarrels. Broils
which had been begun in houses of infamy, or over the gamb-
ling-table, have come to be terminated in this soi-disant gen-
tlemanly mode of giving satisfaction. We regard the chal-
lenger and the challenged as, in principle and motive, guilty
of both crimes—such crimes as the Scriptures assure us that
no one being guilty of them has eternal life. The seconds and
medical attendants to the field are abettors of their guilt. The
brand of the murderer should be fixed upon such gentlemen,
and their conduct reprobated by the concurrent voice of all
enlightened members of society. Let them bear the execra-
tion, rather than enjoy the sympathy, of their fellow-men.—
Scottish Pilot.

An inquest was held at Paddington on Saturday on
the body of a young man named Rye, a cabinet maker, which
was found in the Regent's Canal. The evidence tended to
show that the deceased had fallen into the Canal accidentally,
having bee'n last seen alive in the neighbourhood in a state of
intoxication.

On Thursday, the body of a male child, about two
months old, was discovered in the pond in the park of Mark's.
hall, Harlow. A woman, named Bliss, the daughter of a gar-
dener, named Farrell, residing in the village, had been seen to
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GREEK BEAUTY.—Our hostess, though not,
strictly speaking, a beauty, was a pretty lady-like person, and
with all the style and manners of a leader of ton in the centre
of Greek and Albanian fashion. Notwithstanding all her
amiable qualities, I fear that in London she would not have
escaped the damning character of a blue. She presumed to
admire Sophocles as well as Alfieri. Her dress was in the
style called Chami, or luwer Albanian ; which, when arranged
by the artistes of Janina, is, for composition and colour, the
most perfect thing in the way of costume I ever saw; and is
indebted for effect neither to pearls and precious stones, nor to
the false glare of gold and silver lace, nor of gaudy and con-
trasted colours.—. Urquhart's Travels in the East.
SACRILEGE.—Last week the parish Church of
Stoneleigh was broken into by some thieves, who fancying
themselves no doubt to have hit upon a valuable prize, stole
therefrom an iron chest, containing nothing more than the re-
gisters, which, however valuable as parish property, must be
perfectly worthless to those who have now taken the liberty to
examine the contents of the iron chest. The booty, however,
being found to be not worth keeping, the thieves have been
honest enough to abandon it, and the chest with its contents
was found near the church the morning after it was stolen.—
Covert fry Herald,
PLUMS.—Yesterday, Mr. Clark received by the
railway no less than four tons of plums from Worcestershire,
We shall now have all the fruit of the south of England in a
few hours after they are taken from tho tree. Mr. Clark in
the early part of the season imported great quantities of cab.
baps from Ireland,—Manchester Times.