The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-28 00:00:00

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NEW SOUTH WALES.—THE A BORIGINES.--,-
At the end of half a century from its first occupation of.
this territory, the British Government has de.ermined.
upon the adoption of some decided measures for ti:e civi-
lization of the aborigines. A series of papers have been
received from the Colonial-office, containing the heads of
a plan for the accomplishment of this desirable work;
and Lord John Russell's instructions for putting it in
force, with such modifications as the Governors of the
different Australian colonies may deem. necessary. The
plan owes its origin to Captain Grey, the new Governor
of South Australia; and, if a consideration of its diffe-
rent bearings justifies the hesitating tone with which
Lord John Russell adopts it, still it appears more feasibl&
than any of the miserable attempts of protectors and mis-
sionaries that have been tried hitherto; and it shall give
us a high degree of pleasure to see it energetically set in
motion, to encourage those engaged in it, and to record.
every instance of its success that may come,to our know-
ledge. On looking at the details of the plan now about.
to be carried into effect, one is struck with its simplicity,.
and with astonishment at the length of time that has.
elapsed before even this simple encouragement has been.
afibrded to those who might be willing to give their as-
sistance in the great work.—Austrattsian Chronicle.
AN INGENIOUS IMPOSTOR.--Of all the beg-
ging-letter impostors of whom I have heard, Peter Jones
was unrivalled in the facility and success with which he
could change his personal appearance. In the course or
one day he could assume, and sustain with admirable[
effect, seven or eight di&rent characters ; so that tfinses
who saw him, and were conversing with im, at ten int
the morning, might have been in his company at tweber
and never had the slightest suspicion of the fact. Ifs
had a pair of huge artificial whiskers, which he put on-
and cast off just as he pleased ; and he had also a pair
of moveable mustachios, which a Spanish Don would
have looked on with envious eye. Of wigs, too, he had
an abundant supply, embracing every variety 'of colour;
while his wardrobe was so extensive, that you would
hare thought he had purchased the entire contents of
some Jew clothesman's shop in Holywell-street. By
these means, coupled with great natural cleverness, be
was able to assume so many different characters, and to
appear so very unlike himself (if there be not an
Irishisin in the expression), that, though the Mendicity
Society had at one time no fewer than three hundred
cases of begging-letter impostures against him, and
though its officers had repeatedly seen him in the police
offices, they passed him day after day in the public
streets without recognising him.—LOts and Shadows
of London Life, by the Author of The Great Metropolis."
WONDERFUL. ESCAPE.—During the late floods
Southmolton experienced the wild ravages of the watery
as well as the fiery element. Its roads were swept away
and a large portion of its bridge destroyed by the swell
of the waters. With this latter a young. boy fell into
the river, losing -his• lifs. A commercial geritleilan,,
coming from the Torrington side of Umberleigh-•
bridge, in a gig, reached the centre of the b;idge,
when, - finding that he could not proceed will:tout
danger, he was obliged to remain there twelve haws
With his horse and gig, no one daring to render him as-
sistance. Another person in the road by the side of the
river near the same spot got so deep into the watei",,
that finding his gig afloat, he mounted his horse, cut!
the harness, and thus escaped. The houses destroyed
by the late conflagration are 105. The extent of the
feet on each side of the street occupied by those houses
650. The property insured 3,5001, uninsured 1,5001. A
subscription in aid of the sufferers has been opened, and
250/. already contributed.
Oo Tuesday a great crowd assembled in the Wal-
worth-road, to witness the funeral of the late Dr. An-
drews. The procession consisted of twenty-two mourning
coaches, each containing six individuals, the relations
and friends of the deceased, and eight other carria.ges,
belonging to members of the congregation. It arrived
at the South Metropolitan Cemetery, at Norwood, about
four o'clock, when the funeral service was read in the
Chapel, which was crowded to excess. The corpse was
removed out of the Chapel into the burying-ground,
where it is temporarily interred until the Sutherland
Chapel, Walworth-road, (which was being built for the
deceased) is completed, when the body will be removed
from the Cemetery to be re-interred there. The Rev.
Alexander Fletcher is to preach a funeral sermon on
the occasion, at l3eresford Chapel, Camberwell, on
Sunday next.

The measurements made by Mr. Thomas Catley
of this town (Brighton), by his rain guage at his cot-
tage on the Hastings' hill, of the quantity of rain fallen
from the 22A of September to the 21st of October; both
inclusive, being a period of thirty days, during .which

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period it rained every day except two, was 111 inches
and three parts. This shows a considerable quantity
above any corresponding period for a number of years.
The nearest approach to it was the year 1830, when from
the 24th of October to the 21st of November, it rained
every day excepting eight, when the de.;:th of rain was
4i inches and three parts. In 1839, the 30 days of Sep-
tember were all wet excepting six, and then the quan-
tity of rain was 62- inches, and nineteen parts.—Brighton
Guardian.

LETTER-CARRYING,—During the past week
the Tribunal has had before it a case of some importance
to the Steam Companies. One of the stokers of the
Commercial Company, was found- by a 'douanier with
some letters upon him for a commercial hoUse in the
town. A process was the result, and although the Com-
pany had dismissed the.man, and proved that they had
previously refused to carry letters fbr the firm from Lon-
don to Eoulogne, still the Court condemned them to pay
154 fine and the expenses. A process, we understand,
will SOM come before the Court, of the Company against
the firm, for damages for employing one of their ser-
vants to commit an illegal act—Boulogne Gazette.
THE MA NUMOTIVE.—A self-propelled chaise
called by this name, the property and invention of Mr.n
A. G. Guinness, the Civil Engineer of Dublin, I," been.
running through our streets, to the great astonishment
and amusement of the inhabitants and visitors- 11l
appearance it resembles an ordinary Batl'
with the exception that the wheels ares _
wen,
higher than the body. Underneath the seat is aof
v..
in which the machinery is hidden. Its p
Zost locity appear to be very n•reat ; but the most
i With which
chair,much
wonder-
ful property connected witli it is the f
I square, and
evening. It ran down the street into U
a most tremendous
it is made to turn. We saw it in North-street
thence curvetted into East-street at
and we have little
pace, and with the most perfectcalsse
availably on acelivi-
doubt, if its powers can be madei,e ,
1 roads, that railroads
ties as they are upon nearlytl.e
Brighton Guardian.
Castle-square,
on Friday
will speedily be at a discoun
STEEPLE CH ASE E e
lioval Hotel, Marine-parade,
EXTRAORDINARY.—As Mr.
Marshall, of the Belle y4tx.TRA-:,Repbbi,N:q., from Here-
ford,L g from the Hafod Arms Hotel
were returning in aft7,lnoon of Sunday last, when
Devil's-bridge, on
yardsthea from the south turnpike-gate, a
about one hundred
gave way, which caused the horse
Aberystwith, and a friend,
~ he being a young and spirited one.
to start forwaro,
perceiving the danger (the gate being
Mr. Marshall
requested Mr. Webb to sit firm and
closed at the
time),
forward, expecting the horse would
place his feet before‘ the closed gate ; but as they
portion of the harness
the"gate, Mr. Marshall, perceiving it was
approached.
n to make a leap, he boldly and fear-
he ho:•se's intention .
d tookall
itessly olive him the reins, an chances, when,
gig, and all passed
bold.ly for the gate
at
tnd racingltors e,
speed for about three
(beings about five feet six inches in height,) broke, it
Yrelate the horse made
sutorpprissiiindgd suddenly
:Ism]
quarters of a mile, when Mr. Marshall succeeded in pull-
ing up, safe and sound, within a few hundred yards of
throttigihr,ianndticloenteiennuterde,
Aberystwith. It appears the only fear Mr. Marshall
had, after breaking through the gate, was the soundness •of the reins, but they remained firm. ; and by that, and • • Mr. Marshall's presence of mindnt , the party was saved
from almost inevitable destruction.—Wdshman.
The Lord-Chancellor, imtnediately upon his re-
turn from Turville-park on Tuesday, repaired to Buck-
ing ham Palace, and was honoured with a long interview
by his Royal Highness Prince Albert.

Lord IVlonteagle had'a long interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday, in Downing-
street.

Lord Stanley, we are happy to say, is nearly
recovered. His Lordship again attends to his official
duties in Downing-street,

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CORN-LAWS AND THE SHIPPLiKi ;•,I._ .4/4
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At a meeting of the South Shields ShipowmAr4 Lt-t_ , ,
iety, Mr. lirawn, the new Member for the borbU ..e. r.M.Fikt
proved himself the straightforward, honest, and fear-
less representative that he declared the people: would'
find him. The annual Report of the London Ship-
owners' Society, which was read, evidently shows
that that body desire to retain the Corn-laws as
they are; and Mr Wawn, at the very opening of his b-Doec h ,
says that "he felt it to be his duty to express his dis-
approbation of that part of the report which condet nned
any change in the present Corn-laws." Mr. W. demon-
strated that ie was mainly owing to the sliding-scale that
corn came to this country in foreign vessels, " that not
one-tenth of the quantity imported was brought in
British ships." 11,-..Wawn showed that the foreigner
raised his prices • to a great extent as soon as
he found ;what a h:rge demand there w:ts from
this country, and that from the necessity there was:for the
greatest possible haste, before the low duty sh( add be
raised, foreign shipping was employed. Mr. 'Wawa
properly observed that the London repor t was
political and one-sided. At a general meeting of ship-
owners of the same place Mr. W. Fallows of MidC Ilebo-
rough, clearly proved that the effect of the Corn-
laws was to employ the foreign shipowner to the
detriment of the British, and. that "if there had
been a fixed duty on -corn, every person ;hav-
ing a first class vessel would as easily get freighti for
corn as for flax or any other article." We are gin[ 1 to
end that this view of the Corn-laws Las come so forei bly
upon the minds of some of the shipowners; and we te ust
no very long time will elapse before they will ha ye
been generally convinced of the correctness of the vii w
taken by Mr. %Yawn and Mr. Fellows. Indeed, we have
only te, examine the pecuniary interest of almost every de -
partment of trade and commerce to be convinced that the re
never was, or never could exist, either in this or any other
civilized country, a greater evil than the present Corn—.
laws. Besides the Corn-laws, Mr. Fallows reconunended.l
the shipowners to endeavour to obtain au altera- •
tion in the other provision laws ; he suggested
many other important topics for the attention of -
the shipowners, but as they do not relate to the subject
we are now discussing, we shall not enter upon them at
this moment. It must, however, be highly gratifying
to every Liberal mind to perceive how rapidly the home
truths of Mr. Wawn and Mr. Fallows are gaining ground
amongst the shipowners. There was a time when such
statements and doctrines would not have been listen exl to. -
at a shipowners' meeting, when a man who had hinted
at such opinions might have almost rejoiced if he was .lot
considered worse than a Hottentot, or even an atheist.- —•
Tyne Mercury.