The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.

Sparta nominated twenty-eight senators, 'whose successors
Stn,—Lycurgus in appointing the government of
were ever afterwards to be elected by the people ; and
lest the kings or senate should overstep tEe Constitutional
were
offended
limits in-
vested theirt h
authority power,
tfinvebrjiundggetso, ntarmiaeld;;Elipwhohroi,
against the laws, whatever might be 'their rank, with
power to punish by fine and flogging even the kings
and senatori themselves. Once on a :time a poor man
complained to the Ephori that a servarct of the senators
had defamed him, and taken assay his chartteter. The judges
finding that his complaint was true,fincd thc servant,notwith-
standing that he excused himself by sayiing that he bad
only acted by orders from the Senate. 'The senators, in a
rage, sent for the complainant, and. asked him how he
dared to apply to the Judges for justice, and being too
cowardly openly to attack the Ephori, imprisoned the poor
man instead. History then goes on to say that the sena-
tors, after blustering and threatening the understrappers
of the law with their high displeasure, were obliged ulti-
mately to retract all that they bad done. This hap-
pened about the year 880 B.C. How strange, Mt.
Editor, that almost a similar case should occur in a Euro-
pean kingdom nearly thirty centuries afterwards
Bristol, Jan. 21, 1840. ARISTIDES.

•
Mr. Hedworth Lanabton, M.P., and his Lady,
have arrived at their house in Chester-street from Leamington.
Mr. Edmund M'Donnell arrived at Mivart's
Hotel yesterday morning, from Glenariu Castle, Ireland.
The manufacturers of Choler, in the department
of the Maine, are represented to be in great distress; and wholly
unable to obtain subsistence. A meeting had been convened
by the authorities to project measures of relief.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—At Riddles-
worth Hall, Norfolk, Thomas Thornhill, Esq., to Miss Fores-
ter, daughter of Major and the late Lady Louisa Forester, and
granddaughter to the Duke of Cleveland. The bridegroom has
taken one of the mansions in Berkeley-square for the ensuing
season. The Bishop of Carlisle's marriage with the Hon.
Miss Hope Johnstone is expected to be solemnised in the course
of the ensuing month. A marriage is understood to be in
contemplation between Mr. Rothschild, brother to Baron
Samuel de Rothschild, and his cousin Miss Montefiore.
STORM.—Since earl', on Saturday morning
last, np to the hour of going to press, it has blown an almost
uninterrupted hurricane, chiefly from the south and south-west.
We have heard of no casualties on our coast, but several nar-
row escapes have been made. A good many vessels have found.
refuge in the harbour of Troon. The barque, Ro3al Adelaide),
mentioned in our last, as having been driven on shore at Dow-
hill, near Girvan, is not expected to be got off. The storm
has thrown her much farther up on the beach.—Ayr Observ.er..
A FATAL FALL.—Yesterday morning an tn—
qttest was held berore Mr. Wakley, M. P., at the Middlesex
Hospital, on the bo:'y of Mrs. Jane Johns, aged 74. It ap-
peared that the deceased wzs a widow lady of small fortune,
and that she had passed the day of Friday last at a friend's
house in Soho. In the evening, about ten, she took her leave.
and descended the stairs alone, refusing to be lighted (Ilows
by ht r host. Shortly after a cry and fall were heard,_,11,1,.....
ceased was found at the bottom of the kitchen-slairs...l3dl
profits-4y from the ears, mouth, and nostrils. •‘-'
from the passage to the kitchen-door. 3y a.
she was speedily conveyed to the above hospita_i
-riental Der.th."
Trfhneco;hsicandvsiheee
expired on Monday morning. Verdiet—,. Accidental