The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1838.

common aim of both to discountenance the demands
hich (they say) are made for Universal Suffrage, while
they advocate an Extension of the Suffrage to classes
which are excluded by the Reform Act. We cannot.
help thinking that there is a common design among them,
not at all warranted by any actually existing circumstances,
to give an appearance of multitudinous force to the demand
for Unisersal Suffrage. They perhaps think to frighten
some foolish people of the Conservative party into new
democratical concessions, by pretending that it is necessary
to make such concesssions in order to keep off the Univer-
sal Suffrage men ; but we should hope that this delusive
attempt will avail them nothing. A weekly Contemporary
has stated that the working classes are resolved to try
their strength against the proprietary classes, and has
argued that the elective circle should be considerably en-
larged, because the most formidable assailants among the
exclulea would be strenuous defenders if once received
within the lines. The statement as to the fact we do not
believe. We do not think that the working classes
are at present resolved to try their strength against
the proprietary classes. There is no doubt much
revolutionary mischief brewing among the working
classes, and we are very far from advising that this mis-
chief should be held of tight account. We think
it ought to be carefully watched, and because it is the
business of Government to watch it, and that the pre-
sent Ministers are too intent upon their own interests to
watch any national interest with vigilance, we desire to see
them sent adrift, that better and honester public men may
undertake their duties. But the failure of the Reform
Bill has operated in different ways upon the working classes.
Hit has persuaded many of them that the Extension of the
Suffrage was not carried far enough in 1832, it has also
persuaded a great many that they were completely de-
ceived in being led to believe that Extension of the Suffrage
is a thing likely to be productive of practical benefit to
them. The argument that the admission of certain ex-
eluded classes would strengthen the lines against other ex-
cluded classes, has a superficial plausibility in it, but no-
thing more. The point to which democracy must be ad-
mitted under our form of Government, in order to secure
the State against the disorders of absolute democracy,
is a secret which theory can never teach. It must
be discovered by experience, applied with the nicest
judgment to varying circumstances. While the tide is
running towards absolute democracy, it does not seem
likely that by breaking down any fences, to admit a part
of the advancing waters, we shall best avoid the risk of
letting in the whole. Allowance should be made for the
effect of the impetus and the rush ; but to leave metaphor
and come to matter of fact, are the men who would now
welcome further democratic changes chiefly composed of
those last and lately " received within the lines," or not?
We think there cannot be a doubt that the true answer
must be in the affirmative. The same sentiment would
ever prevail among the last admitted. They would find,
as all men ever have found in that from which they have
expected much good, disappointment. Instead of attri-
buting their disappointment to the erroneousness of their
own views, they would believe that their views had not been
carried far enough, and they would be the partizans of
further change.—Morning Post.

The Government Police Report of yesterday con-
tains particulars of the following robberies :--On Tuesday
morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a silver watch and
guard, as also six sovereigns and a number of silk handker•
chiefs, were stolen from the house of Mrs. Alton, 5, Blue.
date-fields, Shadwell. On the same night a watch and ap-
pendages. together with various articles of jewellery, &c.,
were stolen from 23, New-street, Dorset-square ; the robbery
is supposed to have been committed by a sailor lad, about 17
years of age. On the same night some fellow entered the
bed-room adjoining the officers' mess-room, St. James's
Palace, and carried of a pair of epaulettes, with a grenade
and crown on the strap, the property of Lieut.-Colonel Thorn-
ton, Grenadier Guards.

An inquest was held last night in Whitechapel, on
the body of E. Norville, aged 14, whose death was alleged
to be occasioned by taking a quantity of raw mussels the pre-
vious night. It appeared in evidence, however. that, in addi-
tion to eating the mussels, the girl had indulged freely in gin
and beer, and a surgeon was of opinion that death had resulted
from excessive drinking. He stated farther that the appear.
ance of the corpse was not unlike that of a person who died of
cholera. He considered raw mussels very unwholesome food,
and when taken they produced a swelling and great itchiness
of the face; but he did not know an instance of persons dying
from the use of raw mussels, as they were, he believed, gene-
rally boiled or dressed in some way before eaten. Verdict—
" Natural death."

STRANGE YET TRUE.---On Thursday, the 23d
ultimo, an Irish gentleman, resident in Dumfries, left Bir-
mingham at 6A. Si.,in company with a host of other travellers,
on his way to Liverpool. For the first six or eight miles the
speed was what it should be when the steam is up, and
away went the long-drawn line of carriages as vigorously
as game newly flushed. But, after a little time, pace Aack-
ening, reached the incipient point of death halt; aid the pas-
sengers supposing something had gone wrong, mad, fearful
lest some succeeding train should salute them, after hostile
seventy-four gun fashion, eagerly inquired what had hap-
pened. But, as the guards were too busy to answer
every question put, they at once alighted, and then
learned that there was a want of coke to mix with
the coal, an article, it appears, essential to the rapid
generation of locomotive steam. In this dilemma the
engineer knew not what to do; but, on observing an old
wheelbarrow at hand, the thought occurred that wood might
form a substitute for coke, and accordingly he got it shivered
to pieces forthwith, and thrust into the furnace; and the effect
was so magical that the snorting steam steed careered more
fleetly than ever until the engineer reached a station where he
expected to receive a supply of coke; but he was disappointed,
and equally so in caperclawing a second wheelbarrow. Any-
thing, however, will do at a pinch, and, on observing a ladder
leaning against a wall, he again came to the conclusion that
its steps might be advantageously made use of
in improving
his own ; and from this point forward the train moved on-
ward, step by step, without further let or hindrance. Many
things are discovered by accident —exempli gratia, the self-
regulating safety valve, which we owe to the sagacity of an
idle boy—and, if chips happen to be cheaper than coke, the
above hint will not be lost.—Dumfries Courier.
It is stated that the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of
the Thames, has issued, or is about issuing, an order forbidding
persons to angle in that river on Sundays.
An inquest was held yesterday at the University
a large a
College Hospital, on the body of a woman named Andrews,
who committed suicide by owallovvin
laudanum, which she had procured in
small small quantities from
different shops. It was given in evidence that deceased's bus-
and that he
band, who is a tailor, hod frequently ill-used her, quantity of
is a drunken, dissipated fellow. Verdict, Temporary De-
rangement, occasioned by the ill-treatment of her husband."
On Sunday morning the Vivid steam-boat, of
Shields, was engaged to tow some ships out to sea, and had
got her steam up for that purpose, when the owners, who
worked the boat, found that she was not in a fit state to do so;
they accordingly brought her up, and while two of them were
employed in raking out the fires, the boiler exploded with great
violence, and dreadfully scalded the two men who were below.
They were immediately conveyed
,home, where they lingered
for a few hours and died. The accident appears to be the
more singular, as the boiler bad been undergoing some repairs,
and was only finished on Saturday.— Tyne Mercury.
A TURKISH ENTERTAINMENT.— An admirably
roasted lamb, dressed whole, but served cut up, with excellent
wheaten cakes, composed our fare. During our repast not a
word was exchanged, and we had too much to tl.ink of, and to
do, to make the meal appear long or the silence irksome. The
Bey seemed to have forgotten that we were present, and we
felt that all we could expect was to be suffered to be there,
and that, from untimely questions, we shculd neither fare the
better nor know the more. Perhaps, accustomed to that laconic
but expressive manner, which we then first began to feel, he
thought that our reception told us that it was necessary for
us then to know—namely, that he was not displeased with our
coming, and would give us a share of his carpet and his lamb.
Urqi!hart's Travels in the East.

Since the numerous supplies of water from Pad-
dington, which were continually running into the Serpentine,
have been drawn off into a new deep sewer, it has receded from
the hank on each side thirty feet, leaving a sloping gravel
bottom. Bathers, on entering the river, particularly the
rn,rth side, are therefore liable to fall at once from what are
termed the shelves, into eleven, fourteen, and in some parts
twenty-three feet of water. Mr. Pritchard, the superinten-
dent of the Royal Humane Society men, has sent out extra
boats on this account. In a few weeks the river will be filled
by a supply from the Chelsea Waterworks, for which an en-
gagement has been entered into at the annual cost of 500/.
MONSTER Musmtoom.—On Tuesday last, a
mushroom was brought to our office of the following dimen-
sions and weight:--Circumference three feet nine inches;
diameter, 14 inches; girth round the stem, 10 inches ; and
weight, 31bs.—Liverpool Mercury.
During the last week an interesting spectacle has
been witnessed on the lawn opposite the Vicarage-house at
Sturminster, where a young cuckoo is supported and main-
tained by the industry and attention of a water-wagtail. This
liltle fellow is most careful and zealous in behalf of his pro-
bye. and seems not a little proud of so promising a youth. It
another wagtail approaches the cuckoo, ho is sure to meet
with very heavy blows. The cuckoo can fly quite strong,
but is still in lading-strings, and seems loth to relinquish
the flattering attention of its little guirdian. The birds con-
stantly roost together.— Wilts Independent.
A POSTBOY KILLED BY A HORSE.—Yesterday
an inquest was held at the Tiger's Head Inn, in the village of
Font's Cray, Kent, on the body of William Martin, a postillion,
who was killed by a kick from one of the horses which he had
teen driving. Mr. 'William Power, the landlord of the Tiger's
Head, and the master of the deceased, said that he sent Martin
with a pair of horses on Monday to Roothern Heath, when he
retu-ncd early in the evening. He was quite sober, and having
lid his horses into the stable he set about cleaning them. He
hal not been long at the work when one of the horses kicked
him in the chest as he was cleaning it behind. The kick
knocked him backwards in a senseless state, and after lingering
thee-quarters of an hour he expired. Mr. Pritchard, a sur-
geon, said that he had opened the body of the deceased, who
he had no doubt died from the effects of the kick. Verdict—
' AccidetVa Death."