The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-13 00:00:00

LIGHT READING.

THE BITER BIT.—A good story is told of a chap in !
North Carolina who went the entire figure in the way
of marrying all the girls who would have him, without
waiting for any of them to die off as the law direet,!d.
After having married the thirteenth, tome of his first
-lovers came down upon him and had him lodged in
gaol. But a person so fond of perfect liberty, and who
could get into Hymen's noose with such ease, found little
difficulty in getting out of the jug, and the next news
of him he was running at large with a heavy reward
offered for his apprehension. He was shortly recog-
nized by a gentl mac, who, anxious. to get the reward,
invited him to his house, desired him to sit down, called
his wife to chat with him as an inducement to detain
him there, while be made some excuse for learinf, a few
minutes and starting for a constable to arrest the run-
' away. What was the poor man's astonishment on re-
turning with the constable, to find that the gay Lo-
thario, taking advantage of his short absence, had ab-
sconded with his wife! This makes the fellow's stock
on band fourteen! _

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COGENT.—A country editor in the State of New
York complains that lad.es' bonnets now are so small

that they will hold but one face at a time.
ELOQUENCE.—The following ' touch of t'ie sublime'
was &livered before a Court of Justice in Pennsyl.

yam:—
" Your Honour sits high upon the adorable scat of
justice like the Asiatic Rock of Gibraltar, while tie
eternal streams of ju,t;ce, like the cadaverous clods of
the valley, flow meandering at your ex:ended fee.."
CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.—The Portland Argus
relates an amusing case, in which a beggar in that c►ty
received what he asked for, but not what he wished

for :
" A few days ego, a full grown able-bodied man pre-
sented himself at the door of one of our eitizms, and
solicited the lady of the house to give him two cents.
She retßarked that she had none, and inquired what he
wanted of them. To buy a dose of caster'oil, marm,
(was the reply) for I am dreadful sick.'
" The lady had no cents. but she had plenty of oil ;
and she prepared him a stiff dose. Ho tried hard to
gtt excused from taking it ; but sho was firm, he was a
sick man, and it must go down. The loafer' found he
was caught in his own trap : and where he meant to
have a glass of liquor, he got a dose
„fsf physic ; but,
making a virtue of necessity, and with sundry wry
faces, he gulped it down and cleared. He'll not cal
at that house again, we dare say."
11011R1BLE.-A woman who has teen residing in this
city for the last year, was arrested on Wednesday even-
ing, charged with having committed three murders be-
fore her removal thither ! The murders were com-
mitted some two years since, according to the evidence
against her. We are acquainted with the circumstances,
but as others are implicated who are now at large, we
are requested not to make them public.—Rochester
Democrat.

FRESH ORGANIZATION OF THE_ CirititrisTs.
—Another Convention is about to be held in London.
The election of delegates is to take phee on the 22d in_
slant, and the C: nvention is to to opened on the 12th of
April. The Cc nvention will consist of fifteen members—
five from the metropolitan districts, and ten
for
th from e
the
estora-
pro.
vinces. Their object is to devise Wans " r
tion of Frost, Williams, and Jones—for the release of all
Chait;st prisoners—and for making the Charter the law of
the laud." The Convention will sit for two weeks, and
each delegate is to be pail 31. a week ; the expenses to be
defrayed by a weekly subscription of ont-halfi,enay from
each Chartist. London is to be divided into ten
id is-
tries, and a delegee, accompanied by a friend, to I
attend a district each n;ght, while the missionaries, class
I?aders, news vendors, and all friendly shopkeepers, are to
have in their houses petitions for signature, and those peti". 1
tions see to bo presented by Mr. Duncombe, before the
23d of April, who is also to move an address to her Ma-
j .sty, praying the release of all polit'cal pi isoners. The
expense of the Convention is calculated at 601. a vt eel,.
The Address states that the objects of the
bConveni ion are
e
to release the Chartist prisoners from
houses—to revive e Charter, and resent addresses on
behalf of Frost,
Williams, rind
and Jones,
P Its and mad-
Mr, Richard Julion, who w• recently brought
. outing under the up to Quo:r-square, and was then labouring an.
de-
lusion that he was Duke of
ago in a state of insanity. il "(Tr died a day or two
young man, possessing a highly'
exemplar) in all the relations cultivated mind, and was
of life.