The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

EVENING
STII.

A FIGHT.
I advanced into the middle or.
the and:
morel ws, woifthtialeNmie. w
lofhsar
niontgluopnga
sfrtiooenddsthhiti'swf orc.a..•••'l
proceeded to scan the countenances WAtli,s khol-fatlT. 7
when a pull of my hair from behind caused me to star t
round with indignant surprise. My eyes lighted upon
row of faces of singular gravity, with a hand over each
mouth as of philosophical speculation. As I turned
scowling from these grave Muftis, hopeless of detecting
the delinquent, a second visitation of the same nature
awakened my fury, and turning short upon my heel,
with a rapid swing of my arm I prostrated a small
wretch, upon whose upturned visage still lingered a slight
vestige of mischievous glee, which was instantaneous.,
succeeded by a look of woe. The lamentations of tin s
victim opened the throats of the smaller fry. "He won' 14.
fight ;" " He daren't fight ;" " What's his name?" re-
sounded on all sides.
" I say, you sir," cried a boy older and taller than my-
self, starting briskly up to me, " what's your name?"
" Go it, Sinclair!—that's it, Sinclair!" shouted the in-
genuous youths.
(Boys arc the generous, noble, high-minded beings
their grandmothers inspire philosophers to call them.
" What's your name, I tell you!' repeated Sinclair.
" Richard Freeman," said I, sturdily.
" Well—have you a mind to fight ?"
" Any one of my own size, I answered ; " and I
should like to catch the coward that pulled my hair just
now."
Although I said this readily and resolutely enough, a*
sense of my unfriended condition lay heavy at my heart,
and mingled grief and rage rose into my throat.' I
would have averted my head to conceal the tears that
sprang to my eyes; but at this moment a tap on the
shoulder engaged my attention. I looked up, and saw a
boy about Sinclair's age. He kindly took me by the hand.
" I'm Gregory—Tom Gregory," said he; "never mind
them—l'll stand by you."
In the meanwhile Sinclair had been taking counsel
his companions.
see what he's made of," he observed, as he broke
from thsem, sagaciously nodding his head.> Thereupon
the young gentleman, in a kind of dance, receded a few
paces, and with his tongue between his teeth, and one
eye cocked as though to enable him to take a surer aim,
he advanced towards me in the same lively manner, and
struck me across the face with his open hand.
Two boys, with very good intentions, instantly seized
me by the arms. " You are no match for him—don't
fight him," said they.
But had he been the devil's own imp, I had flowrt
upon him for that. Bursting from their hold, I rushed .
headlong upon my assailant, and dealt him such a blow
upon the under jaw as, had he not withdrawn his inso-
lent tongue, might perhaps have abridged it. As it was,
he recoiled, with an expression of face almost pitiable.
"Enough," said Tom Gregory, interposing. " Well,
done, Zreemanl Sinclair, you are a coward to strike a
boy youngbr than 7onrself.'
bored to have taken clown such an ignoble swaggerer
" I'll fight him,' said I, going up to him. I remem-
once before, who bad interfered with my amusement in
Lincoln's Inn-fields. " Have you a mind to fight?" re-
peating his words.
" Yes, I have," he replied.
No more. Two detachments of lads seized upon us
severally, and hurried us into the play-ground, behind a
large elm tree, and, set face to face, we began to bruise
eielfiSther without ceremony. -
Sinclair proved himself to be no coward, or, perhaps,,
shame did the word of courage ; but he was utterly ig—
norant of the noble science to which the renowned Mr-
Broughton, before I left London, lent such additional
lustre. He lacked also my- activity and- quickness of
manual resort ; so that, after a prolonged combat, in.
which many blows were exchanged, three black eyes.
were given,
Richard
and much blood was shed, he gave in, and
reluctantly proclaimed me the conqueror.—"
Savage," in Bentley's Miscellany for July.

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To propose to enrich a nation by forcing a per—
manent scarcity of corn, and obstructing the natural
course of trade, is, indeed, at variance with comm, ,n
sense. The consequences cannot be mistaken: they a. "e
these—the embarrassment of our shipping, and of ou r

mercantile and manufacturing interests 2-want of em—
ployment, and desperate poverty among the labouring •
population ; an increase of crime, and a tendency to emi-
gration ; a loss of our currency, and a fall in the prices
of labour and corn ; a diminutien of the public revenue,
and a derangement of the public finances ; and, more than
all, the certain eventual ruin of the agricultural interest it-
self When England, the land of marine
affairs and of commerce, and the best workshop, of ma-
nufactures in the world, attempted to sell corn in oppo-
sition to Poland, a country in want of those advantages,
she perverted the natural order of trade ; she sold that
it was most profitable for her to buy, and by destroying
the means of her natural customers to buy what it was
most profitable for her to sell, she artificially lowered the -
prices of every description of merchandise. ;So ends
for the crusado against the natural order ofcaoamerce.
Till LBl5 the corn trade was fr,ee, and
commerce prospered. In that ill-fated year the wohibi-
tory system became operative ; and as in 1;66 trade and
manufactUres revived precisely at the moment when the
restrictions on the importation of • foreign corn were re-
moved; so in 1815, when: those restrictions were again
imposed, commerce languished, manufactures failed, and
universal distreSs overspread the land.---Free Trade in
Corn the real Interest of the Landlord and the true Policy
of the State, by Sir James Graham,
THE WORLDLY MINDED —The thozghts of
worldly men are for ever regulated by a moral law of
gravitation, which, like the, physical one, holds them
down to earth. The bright glory of the day, and the
*silent wonders of a starlight night, appeal to their minds
in vain. There are no signs in the sun, or in the moon,
or in the stars for their reading. The are like so mewise men, who, learning to know each planet by its pa o-
per name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly con-
stellations as charity, forbearance, universal love aad
mercy, although they shine by night and day so brightly
that the blind may see them ; and who, looking up at
the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of
their own great wisdom and book learning.—Humphreys
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED
LOVE.—On Monday the family of Mr. Bulfoy, landlord
of the Weavers' Arms public-house, in Brown's-lane,
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, were thrown into the most inde-
scribable affliction, by the death, by her own hands, of ,
Miss Bulfoy, a very fine young woman, in her 21st: year.
It appears that the deceased, after a lengthened acquaint-
ance, was a short time ago on the point of marriage with
a respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood, but for
some cause or other her intended husband broke off !ho
match. This circumstance preyed deeply on her ran d,
and on the night before, unknown to her parents, ae. l i
sent a potboy to a neighbouring chemist for a smell quan-
tity of arsenic, and having procured it she swallowed it.;
at bed-time, and. at two o'clock was a corpse. Informa-
tion of the unfortunate occurrence was forwarded t.•) Mr.
Baker, the Coroner, and an inquest will be held o.n the
body this day.
On Sunday last, as a waterman of Limeho,isc,
named John Stokes, was rowing off Brunswick-wliar£,
Blackwall, he found, floating on the surface of the water,
the body of a gentleman, apparently 30 years of age..
He conveyed it ashore, where it was examined, but no
marks of violence were perceptible. The dress consisted
of a blue coat, black waistcoat and trousers, and Hes-
sian boots, all nearly new. The linen was marked "J.
W., No. 3." The body had been in the water apparently
about nine days.
DEATH OF A VERY OLD MAID.--A STOMaII,
of the name of Mary Macleod, who passed all li9r days
in a state of single blessedness, died at Morefl eld, in
the parish of Ullapool, on the 23d ultimo, at fi'ie ad-
vanced age of 105. When upon her death-bec), she
called in one of the neighbours, a piper, and, obliged
him to promise her, under pain of being haunted by her
ghost, to play the tune of " Caberfeigh" at her funeral.
The lad being somewhat superstitious, and fearing, in
case of non-compliance that the old lady's masses would
take vengeance upon him, actually kept his word,_ and
played the wished-for tune merrily, in the rears teen
procession, from the place at which the co.rpsoe,.,v,,_
u. p till it came to a river, within half a r.nvill?
hietutuing ground. When he got over th
disconti-
nued, perhaps recollecting the popular Courier.
stream they daurna cross."—Inverness
ebelief—" a rune n'
Loss or
LlFE.—Early on
MondayACCIDENTANDIast, a most terrific!
s Pactory, at Mold-green,:
explosion took place atro)vieg
the quiet inhabitants of.
near Huddersfield,
nth
state of the greatest constcrna-
that locality
intipd.ng to the spot we were struck
lion.
boiler which had been brit very
r:eteethe horrid spectacle which presented
iws e morning
Iworked for the first •
k had burst, scattering destruction
on last Tuesday wee ,
with
itself.
recently
ft
el da ,r and was on y
It occurred just previous to the time_ of
around.
ta,teidv,hn thetiho;denigninthee (mstillx
woe'crelOcstak)n,th.:gleinn
timlea3n,ayrdo,fntehaer
gtilstall.relr stbienomgilPer-house (which is partly detached from the
of the waiting
boiler fo
Ootkheplaencegi, engine
abovet
o stasrt
throw-
ing its- boiling contents over the hapless girls, and
scalding them in the most horrible manner, at the stone
time throwing three of them completely over the pail-
btsildtiialf ,
pail-
ings into the mill-dam, whence the engine was supplied
with water. The names of the unfortunate sufferers
are Sarah Dowlass, Sarah Broadley, Emma Boothroyd,
Martha Northrop, Hannah Milnes, and Mary Holden,
the whole of them residing in the vicinity of the fac-
tory, or at no great distance. They were conveyed with
all possible speed to their respective homes in a state
that almost defies description, the flesh and skin of many-
of them coming away like ribands. Their ages we learn
to be from fourteen to fifteen. Such was the violence of
the explosion, that the boiler was completely blown out
of its place, and turned bottom upwards, the lower end of
it being thrown near 20 yards distant, while numbers
of the bricks and stones were blown to a distance of from
forty to fifty yards. We have not at present heard by
what accident the bursting was occasioned. The first-
named girl, Dowlass, expired at about half-past one
o'clock the same day; and the second, Broadley, lies in
the most excruciating agony, without the least hope ; the
others are most shockingly scalded, and one in a most
precarious state. Since the above was in type we have
learned that the girl Boothroyd also died on Thursday.
evening.—Leeds Intelligencer.
THE WEATHER.—The weather continues very
unfavourable,.and the accounts-from every part. of the
United Kingdom might be written in Dublin and If
Dublin. In Ireland, which for the last three
Frain will ho
almost totally spoiled. We do not imagine, however,
that as great a breadth of land has been devoted to the
cultivation of this crop as in former years : so that we
shall be less sufferers than we would have been had not
Irish farmers, alarmed at their ill-success in former sea-
sons, abstained from growing a large crop. oi,wheat._
Dublin Post.