The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-07 00:00:00

THE PRESIDENT STEAMER.

Nothing whatever had been heard of the President to
to a bite hour last night, and great anxiety is now felt
respecting her. Si e may have gone into the Western
Isles for coal or repairs, as the Liverpool did on her last
voyage from Americ 4. —Liverpool Times of yesterday.

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE. On
Wednesday wick a most extraordinary circumstance oc-
curred between Workington and Maryport, by which the
turnpike road, for a considerable distance, was literally
strewn with gold I On the morning of the day above
mentioned a servant man belonging to Mr. Walker, of
Ma-yport, was sent to the Whitchaven Bank to draw the
purchase money to pay fir an eAattt which his master bad
bought, amounting to 2,800/. It appetrt,, however, that the
sum of 2,000/. had been paid through the Bank, and the man
received the sum ef 8001, the whole of which was in
soverti.inF, carefully packed up in brown paper, This
amount in soy. reigns Leirg deposited in the saddle-
bags, the man instantly mounted his horse, and set
out on his return home to Mary port, and was seen on
the road, prok ceding at a rattling pace. The man,
however, fad no sooner reached nis master's, and had
dismounted, than he discosered that many of the sove-
reigns were loose in the b,gs, which had burst, and no
less than 233 of them were missing 1 The rue,senger
immediately began to retrace his journey back towards
Workington, in search of the lost gold, and at the
bridge-end, on corning out of Mars port, be found not
less than seventeen of the sovereigns 1; Lig nearly altogether.
Proceeding onwards he picked up several more near
the same place, and a number of odd ones on the road.
A man named Joseph Graham found forty-six of these
sove-
reigns, and another man named Richard Gill found tw
eight ; these were gathered near Flimby. As Mr. Walker's
servant proceeded, tie heard of a gang oh vagrants who had
been seen pushing each other, and scrambling fcr the
golden treasure on various parts of the turnpike. These
vagrants, consisting of an elderly man, two young men,
two women, and two children, had picked up large Tian-
Cities of the money, and were traced to various places,
and on the,,, were found the sum of 461. Mi. 6id..
and no less than five watches I They argued stoutly
that the money was th, it own I but they were
taken into euswdy, and th ,n admitted that they had
picked up the sovereigns on tne road, and said that they
tiad given them all up. There is still a considerable per_
tion of the money missing. The man who bad charge of
the money is very deaf. We are not aware of the precise
amount of, the sovereigns yet missing; bt:t through the
activity of the police officers, and the honesty of other in-
dividuals, Mr. Walker's loss is much less than could have
been calculated on under such extraordinary circumstances.
—Carlisle Journal.

NVooLi,victi—On Saturday morning the whole
of the men of the Royal ArtiliTy not on duty were assembled
to witness the inflict on of punishment to the extent of lUu
lashes on gunner .Sl),cartney, a native of Ireland, who was tried
by a Court-ilkrtia!, and found guilty of having attempted to
stab sergeant Freeburn on the pi evious Sunday morning. It
appeared the prisoner had insisted on joining in the parade be-
fore church service while he was in a state of intoxication, and
after he had been erdercd to retire ; and that on being brought
before his sergeant and ordered to be taken away, Lo made a
stab at him with his bayonet, which would have taken effect
had nut one of the men had presence of mind to ward off the
thrust and succeeded in wresting the weapon out of his hand
before he could use it again. islacartney bears a ve.e bad
character in the regiment, having been tour times in custody
for habitual drunkenness ; and although he has been two years
in the service he has not yet learnt his drills, ()wing to the
periods he has been in eenfinernent in the guardhouse and in
the Milbank Penitentiary.
RAILROAD TttAVELLING.—It has been al-
-1 ged, that the being viatt id through the air at the rate of
twenty or thirty suites an hour must affect delicate lungs
and asthmatic people : that to such as are of a sanguiatieus
constitution, and labour under fulness of bLiod in the
bead, the movement of rail-trains will produce apoplexy ;
that the sudden plungirg into the darkness of a tunnel,
arid the emerging out of it as suddenly, cannot fail to
make work for the oculists; and finally, it hasnever been
doubted, but that the air in such tunnels is of a vitiated
kind and must give rise to the worst effects; while that
at the bottom of deep cuttings or excavations, being ne-
ces-atily damp, will occasion catarrh, and multiply
agues I There is not much of truth in tt,e allegod rne:ii-
c6l grievances against railway travelling, and that, per se,
such a mnde of conveyance is not more likely tis do mis-
chief to people's health than any other hitherto adopted.—
Granville's Spas of England.
THE CONFESSION OF A PRIEST.—The Bishop
of Angers having appealed to the [loyal Court of that place
against the decree of the Tribunal of First Instance, which had
condemned him to a fine for refusing to give evidence con-
cerning facts which had come to his knowledge in the exercise
of his ecclesiastical functions, the Court has quashed the de-
cree, and declared the Bishop discharged of the fine. One of
his clergy, who had also refused to gave evidence in the same
case on similar grounds, and had been fined, and who had
lodged an appeal, was judged by the Court not to have esta-
blished sufficient cause for overturning the decision of the infe-
rior Court, and the fine was therefore maintained.
THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM-SHIP.—GE-
NERAL POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Monday the following no-
tice was posted at the Chief Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand :
—" Ship Letter-office, General Post-office.--A ship letter-bag
will be made up for New York, to be forwarded by the Great
Western steamer. Letters in time at this office till Wednes-
day evening next, the sth of April. Newspapers will also be
forwarded by this conveyance. The public are particellrly re-
quested to take notice. that the Great Western will not call at
Ibilifax as heretofore." Should the President not arrive before
the departure of the Great Western, much additional incon-
venience, not to say immense anxiety, will be sustained by the
mercantile interest.
We understand that arrangements have been
made to carry pa:-en4eiiis from Linden to Liverpool by
fast trniO,, ...,y shortly, in six boars and a quatter.—.
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