The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-14 00:00:00

office numerous times, and he had in each instance been de-
livered up to his father, who possesses a princely fortune ;
but his parent had never been able to keep him under his
protection for more than two days.
Waddington, the gaoler of the office, had seen the de-
fendant in custody there at least twenty times, and be was
aware that his father had done every thing to make the lad
love his home, but his habits were so vicious that he was
now satisfied the lad was irreclaimable. Every time that
the father had recovered him he had forthwith clothed him
in the most expensive stylo, and the moment he obtained
his liberty he would dispose of his apparel in a manner
which was attended with extreme mystery, and in a few
hours afterwards might be seen about brick kilns and cattle
layers in the wretched state he then presented.
Mr. LAING recollected the prisoner perfectly well, and
wished to know if the father was aware that his son was
again in charge ?
Allen, the officer, had called at the residence of' the fa-
ther, but had not met with him.
Mr. LAING asked the defendant his age ? Lad—l am
turned nine.
Mr. LAING—How long is it since you were here ? Lad
—About six weeks.
Mr. LAING—Did your father take you away from here?
Lad—Yes ; and I ran away from him in two days.
Mr. LAING—Why did you? Lad—Because my father
was going t• send me to sea.
Waddington—l know that his father agreed to give a
large sum of money to the captain of a ship to take the
prisoner under his charge, hoping by these means to bring
him to his senses. As soon as the prisoner comes of age
he will be entitled to a large fortune.
Mr. LAING would see what the House of Correction dis-
cipline would do, and committed the prisoner to that prison
for fourteen days.

LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday Thomas Drake, who was charged on Thurs-
day with a murderous attempt upon his son, a boy of ten
years of age, was brought up for re-examination. Evidence
was produced to corroborate the testimony given on the
former day, and the prisoner was remanded. The boy now
lies in the London Hospital.

I must observe that I never did see either a graceful
or dignified Persian ; indeed, their dress does not admit of
the first, and rough abrupt manners, with a loud voice, are
now the fashion, in order to imitate the tribes-men and
court party. I should call the Persians ruffian dandies.—

Rich's Curdistan.
In justice to the conductor at Manchester, whom
we have heard arraigned for inciting Madame Malibran to
repeat the duet (which was but the feather that broke the
back of the horse), we think it right to state what we know
to be the truth. Malibran, after making imploring signs
for remission to the audicnee, turned to Sir George Smart,
and said—" If I sing it again, I shall die." Ife answered
to this effect—that nothing remained but for her to leave
the orchestra, and he would address the audience. She
said, with renewed energy—" No, I will do it ! but I shall
die."—New Monthly Arag,azine.
A very fine young golden pheasant was shot on the
estate of Sir Thomas Hesketh, of Rufford, in this county,
last week. It is supposed that it was one of a brood turned
out some time ago, with a view of naturalising those beauti-
ful birds in this country ; and from its condition and wild-
ness, it is not unlikely that the experiment may succeed.
Our common pheasant, and even our barn-door fowls, are
all natives of southern climates, however much they may
now appear to be at home in this country ; and there is
therefore nothing unreasonable in the expectation that the
golden pheasant may also, in the course of a few years, be-
come accustomed to the climate.—Manchester Guardian.
LONGEVITY.-There died, on the 31st of last
month, in the city of Zlvolle, in Holland, a man named
Isaae Heynderyk, who was born in the same month, in 1736,
so that he was just a century old. He was a tradesman in
a small way, and was always deemed a man of good cha-

racter.
When people understand that they must live to-
gether, cxcept for a very few reasons known to the law, they
learn to soften, by mutual accommodation, the yoke which
they know they cannot shake off. They become good hus-
bands and good wives from the necessity of remaining hus-
bands and wives, for necessity is a powerful master in teach-
ing the duty which it- imposes. If it were once understood
that upon mutual disgust married persons might be legally
separated, many couples who now pass through the world
with mutual comfort, with attention to their common off-
spring, and to the moral order of civil society, might have
been at this moment living in a state of mutual unkindness,
in a state of estrangement from their common offspring, and
in a state of the most licentious and unreserved immorality.
In this case, as in many others, the happiness of some indi-
viduals must be sacrificed to the greater and more general
good. To be sure, if people come together in marriage
with the extravagant expectations that all are to be halcyon
days—the husband conceiving that all is to be authority
with him, and the wife that all is to be accommodation to
her—everybody sees how that must end ; but if they come
together with a prospect of happiness, they must come with
the reflection that, not bringing perfection in themselves,
they have no right to expect it on the other side ; that hav-
ing respectively many infirmities of their own to be over-
looked, they must overlook the infirmities of each other.—
Lord Stowell.
A STORY TOLD BY DR. RUSII.—" During the
time that I passed at a country school, in Cecil county, in
Maryland, I often went on a holyday, with my school-
mates, to see an eagle's nest upon the summit of a dead
tree, in the neighbourhood of the school, during the time
of the incubation of the bird. The daughter of the farmer,
in whose field the tree stood, and with whom I became ac-
quainted, married, and settled in this city about forty years
ago. In our occasional interviews, we now and then spoke
of the innocent haunts and rural pleasures of our youth,
and, amongst others, of the eagle's nest in her father's field.
A few years ago I was called to visit this woman, when she
was in the lowest stage of typhus fever. Upon entering
the room I caught her eye, and, with a cheerful tone of
voice, said only—the eagle's nest. She seized my hand,
without being able to speak, and I discovered strong emo-
tions of pleasure in her countenance, probably from a sud-
den association of, all,,her domestic connections and enjoy-
ments with the Wozds,.which I uttered. From that time
she began to recover. She is now living, and seldom fails,
when we meet, to salute me with the echo of—the eagle's
nest." •

LEGENDS OF THE ROSE..—The following details
respecting the rose are taken from a very able and scientific
work, now in course of publication, entitled Arboretum et
Fruticetion Britannicum :—The Romans were fond of roses.
Cleopatra received Anthony at one of her banquets in an
apartment covered with rose-leaves to a considerable depth ;
and Antony himself, when dying, begged to have roses scat-
tered on his tomb. The Roman Generals who had achieved
any remarkable victory, were permitted to have roses sculp-
tured on their shields. Rosewater was the favourite per-
fume of the Roman ladies, and the most luxurious even used
it in their baths. In the East the rose has always been a
favourite with the poets. They represent the nightingale
as sighing for its love, and many beautiful verses are derived
from this fiible. In a curious fragment, by the celebrated
Persian poet Atter, entitled " Bulbul Nameh, the Book of
the Nightingale," all the birds appear before Solomon, and
charge the nightingale with disturbing their rest, by the
broken and plaintive strains which he warbles forth all the
night in a sort of phrensy and intoxication. The nightin-
gale is summoned, questioned, and acquitted, by the wise
king, because the bird assures him that his vehement love
for the rose drives him to distraction, and causes him to
break forth into those passionate and touching complaints
which are laid to his charge. The Turks believe that roses
sprang from the perspiration of Mahomet ; for which reason
they never tread upon a rose-leaf; or suffer one to lie on the
ground ; they also sculpture a rose on the tomb-stones of
females who die unmarried.
SPANISH CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.—It was
during my stay at Trevino that I witnessed an instance of
corporal punishment among the Spanish troops. I was
looking out of my window one morning, and saw in a field,
at some distance, two or three companies of Spanish infantry
drawn up in line. From their situation, and the silence
that pervaded the men, I suspected what was going forward,
and watched to see the event. Presently the drummer
stept forward, and, laying his drum on the ground in front
of the line, a couple of soldiers, who ware standing apart
from the rest, proceeded to take off their accoutrements, and
knelt down, with their coats on, by the side of the drum.
Upon this, about half a dozen men fell out with short sticks
in their hands, and advancing one by one, inflicted five or
six strokes a piece between the shoulders of the culprits,
who, after the operation was over, very coolly got up, put
on their belts, and returned to their places in the ranks.
The blows, thongh few in number, were given pretty
smartly, as I distinctly heard them from a considerable
distance ; and when one of the men did not strike hard
enough, I saw the officer go up and give him a cuff on the
head to make him " do his duty."-7'tvelve Months in the
British Legion.
All the observatories of Europe are preparing to view
the possible appearance, in the night of the 12th instant,
of the periodical meteors which were first discerned and
pointed out in America in 1833. According to a curious
memorial, published by Professor Olmsted, it appears that
a meteoric cloud of numerous flitting stars circulates round
the sun like a planet, and comes very near the earth at
that point of 'its orbit which corresponds with November.
The central point ,of this mass of luminous bodies is fixed
by the American astronomers in the constellation of Leo.
The group can be visible at -Paris in the month of Novem-
ber, only from two o'clock in the morning till the sun ap-
proaches the east. At the same time it must be ob.ierved
that the periodical appearance of these brilliant phenomena
is very uncertain.-- Galignani's ,Messenger.