The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-26 00:00:00

CATTLE AT MARKET

407 I Sheep
310 I Pigs
To sink the Offal, per stone of Mb.
Beef 4s 4t: to 5s ed I Veal '') Od t, 6, 0,1
Mutton 4s 6d to 5s Od I Pork 5s 0:1 to (s Od
Lamb 5s Od to 3s 10t1.

Beasts..
Calves

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HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £3 0 to .E. 5 0 0 I Clover £4 ur to

Straw P 1 16s to £2 Ig.

FLOODS IN SCOTLAND.--ThP mountain streams
were much swollen with the heavy rain on Saturday and
Ssr-
day last, and in Straithnairn and Struithdearn tliu cons!der-
able damage. The river Nairn rose to a greater height than
at any time since the year 1782; some old people say that
the flood on Sunday last was four feet higher than on that
occasion; the river covered the haughs on its banks, from
Dunmaglas to the town of Nairn, and several farmers had
to remove their families and cattle. The waulk-rnills of 17:tir-
lie were under water, and a kiln at Cantray was thrown
down by the current ; when the flood subsided the low grounds
in some places were covered with potatoes, and • other articles
carried down from the heights. The river Fearne, which runs
into the Nairn, broke down the embankment made last year,
changing its channel, and rushing over the farm of Milton, on
the property of Farr, swept away the newly cut hay, and de-
stroyed the potatoe crop; a part of the garden-wail was car-
ried away ; the arable land of Coulbuie was also covered with
water; a girl passing from Milton to Coulbuie was surrounded
by the water, and the island or which she stood was decree sing;
in size, when, after being three hours in this perilous situation,
• she was extricated by some fox-hunters. Loch alloy was
swollen by a reflux through the channel, by which it pured its
usual tribute into the 14'indhorn ; a burn near Moyhall carried
away the bridge over it, and flooded the highland road so as to
render it impassable; the Caledonian, coach was in consequence
compelled to return to town on Monday morning; but a tem-
porary bridge having been erected, the coach proceeded to
Perth the following day.---(lnverness Journal.) '
PATHETIC NARRATIVE.-The remarkably fine
bells of Limerick Cathedra were originally brought from Italy ;
they had been manufactured by a young native (whos-! name
tradition has not preserved), and finished after the toil of
many years ; and he prided himself upon his work. They were
subsequently purchased by the prior of a neighbouring con-
vent; and with the profits of this sale, the young Italian pro-
cured a little villa, where he had the pleasure of hearing
the tolling of his bells from the convent cliff; and growing
old in the bosom of domestic happiness. This, however,
was not to continue. In some of those broils, whether civil
or foreign, which are the undying worm of a fallen land,
the Italian was a sufferer amongst many. He lost his all ;
and, after the passing of the storm, found himself pre-
served alone amid the wreck of fortune, friends, family,
and home. The convent in which the bells were hung
was razed to the earth, and these last carried away into
another land. The owner, haunted by his memories, and
deserted by his hopes, became a wanderer over Europe. His
hair grew grey, and his heart withered, before he again found a
home or a friend. In this desolation of spirit, he formed the re-
solution of seeking the place to which those treasures of his me-
mory had been finally borne. lie sailed for Ireland, proceed-
ed up the Shannon—the vessel anchored in the pool, near Ll-
merick, and he hired a small boat for the purpose of,landing.
The city was now before him, and he beheld St. Mary's steeple,
lifting its turreted head above the smoke and mist of the Old
Town. He sat at the stern, and looked fondly toward it. , It
was an evening so calm and beautiful as to remind him of his
own native skies in the sweetest time of the year—the death of
• the spring. The broad stream appeared like one smooth mirror,
and the little vessel glided through it with almost a noiseless.ex-
pedition. On a sudden,amidst the general stillness the bells tolled
from the cathedral—the rowers rested on their oars,and the vessel
went forward with the impulse ithad received. The ohl Itislntn
looked towards the city, crossed his arms on his breast, and lay
back in his seat; home, happiness, early recollections, friends,
family—were all in the sound, and went to the heart. When the
rowers looked round they beheld him with his face still turned
towards the cathedral, but his eyes were closed, and when they
landed—they found hint cold ! !
CONGOR EEL.-Last week, as some men were
sailing in a small boat on the river Forth, near
Stirling, they were not a little suprized by a
large congor eel suddenly raising' his usseemly
head above water, close to the boat. One of
the men happened to have a stout sticks in his
hand, struck the animal with it•So severe a•-blow
on the head, that it was completely stunned ;
and before it had time to recover,,.he graspetl• it
with both hands beneath. the •giils, .and dragged
it into the boat, where it was quickly dispatched.
It measured 5 feet 4 inches' in length, and 16 in
circumference, and weighed 9.2-pounds Dutch.
Yesterday an accident, attended with melan-
choly consequences, occurred in the Maze, South-
wark, Mr. Shoults, an eminent builder,-and most
respected man, who had served the office. of
Churchwarden for the parish of St.. Olave, passe&
up a ladder to the attic story of .a house,. he
was building, and owing to the hoard he stepped
upon not being secured, fell down the well•of
the staircase into the cellar, and was taken up
senseless, and conveyed to his house, where
four medical gentlemen attend him, who eryter-
tain slender hopes of his recovery. •
An accident occurred yesterday evening in the
Pool, which had.nearly proved fatal. A water-
man with a female and two boys, in a wherry,
by some neglect got foul of the City of London
steam vessel, and was overturned by the pro-
jecting work which serves as . a guard for the
wheels.. The engines were stopped ; the screams
of the children were truly appalling when •the
Captain instantly desunded through the wheel,
and came out from beneath with one of the
children in his arms. The woman and the other
etdheto crew
her
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moorings.

111 E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracti front the 31orning Papers,atug. 26, 1825.

[THE TIMES.]

The formation tyf strong. camps at both extre-
raities of the Pyrenees,. is a fact which seems to
be admitted. The aggregate force thus brought
together will amount, it is said, to 28,000 men ;
and its presumed object is to await in those con-
venient positions the proper crisis for advancing
into Spain, where great political changes, as we
learn from the correspondence made public, are
...Wier meditated by the French. Government, or
about to be attempted in spite of it.—From
whatever quarter such changes are anticipated,
they equally attest the fragility of that edifice
which the French House of Bourbon, at the beck
of Russia, has incurred so many risks and bur-
dens to support, and the shallow blindness of
that policy which so little understood the mate-
rials it had to work with, when it employed the
wayward factions and headstrong passions of
Spaniards for a purpose irrelevant at least to the
natural interests of their country. It appears,
moreover, that the French Government as much
miscalculated the end as it did the means of
its own attack upon Spanish liberty, since the
very despotism which it succeeded in establish•
ing, has proved either an agent too refractory
to be directed by its authors, or a scourge too
sharp to be longer tolerated by its victims; and
therefore alike incompatible with the tranquillity
of the power that created, and of that which
wields it. Had the invasion of Spain either
wholly failed or been left unattempted, France
would have been at the present day incomparably
less embarrassed by her neighbour. The Cortes
would have been disciplined into prudence and'
sobriety at last. The national interest of Spain
would soon have developed itself to the eyes of
the Spanish nation. They must have seen how
essential it was for them to preserve or recover
the friendship of the French Government, and
to listen respectfully to its Counsels. The. Cortes
would thus have shown themselves a far more
atnenable and docile body than the furious,..do-
, mineering, selfish, and unteachable priesthood :
the cause of legitimacy itself could never have
been so endangered by the defeat of its arms,
a!; by the utter impotency of its triumphs, the
consequent disgrace of its principles, and the
obvious necessity of transferring its appeal from
the prejudices of even the least enlightened
among men to the purely vulgar, abject,
animal terror of the bayonet. All the world,
if we mistake not, will agree by and by, that
the " success, " as the French Court calls
it, of the Spanish invasion, and the absolute ex-
tinction, by means of that success, of whatever
bore the name of civil government, or political
society, or of the law and order throughout the
Spanish territory, has given to divine right and
the " monarchical principle,"—or, in other words,
to individual caprice, and to the reign of terror
as contrasted with that of law and justice—the
severest blow that ever fell upon those enemies of
Cod and man. The .nature of the revolution
pointed at as likely to be brought about in Spain,
is differently described by the letters. A short
time back it was asserted, that Ferdinand was to
be forced to abdicate by the Sower ts hich had
restored him, and Carlos to he set up as a more
hopeful minion of the Holy Alliance. To-day
and yesterday we ore informed that Ferdinand is
the more liberal (! !!) of this illustrious pair, and
that the camps at Perpignan and Bayonne are to
scare away the priests and other fanatics, whose
stomachs crave for a rich(r feast of persecution
than the mild and temperate Ferdinand can bring
himself to partake of. Carlos may be, and is
usually supposed to be, a more inveterate auto-
crat than his brother : but he is bolder, and not
so arrant a knave, and therefore can be trusted
even by his fellows in iniquity, where the
corporal fears of his present Majesty might make
him treacherous to his own most favourite and
unprincipled projects. Let the French Govern.
went act as it thinks fit. The occupation of Spain
will not be a shscure. Whether that country is'
to be thrown back, by some unforeseen convul-
sion, to the primitive elements of society, or
hurried on by corrupt despotism to a final disso
lotion, that hand which has wilfully imposed
upon. itself the necessity of restraining or uphold-
ing her, has undertaken no enviable office..