The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-15 00:00:00

THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)
GIILLIBILITY.--Some of the papers this morning centain
what is called an extra from the " office of the Advertiser, Buf-
fahs, Feb. 14, four o'clock," giving an acc mut of the destruc-
tion of the FAls of Niagara. A slight glance at it will con-
vince any one that it is a hoar, arid by no means a good ore,
gnt up by some witting who probably never saw the Falls. We
will point out a few of the i,;(l.cia leading to this conclusion.
I. The article was not written, althoui.zh purporting to
have been, by the editor of the Buffalo Commercial Adver-
tiser. We know his style too well. He never deals in such
inflated, windy language as the account presfints.
2. The extra purposes to he dated at Buffalo on Sunday
evening, at four o'clock, and it was received in this city last
evening. This could not be done.

3. "Biddle Tower and all the adjoining ground-work had
disappeared." Mr. Piddle never built a tower at the Falls.
Some years ago he caused tobe built a staircase on Goat
Island, leading down to the Falls, which goes by his name.
4. "The water made a subterraneous passage, and burst
through the wall of Goat Islas I." Absurd.
_ _

5. " The hotel is gone. It is believed no lives have been
lost." The last clause is correct ; there can have been no lives
lost, because there was no hotel to be carried away. The near-
est hotel is the Clifton House, far below the Falls.

P. S.--Since the above was in type the northern mail, only
due this afternoon, has arrived, and brou:zht us the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser of Saturday evening, the latest which
cool.' he expected. The Albany papers of 3 esterthy are silent
on the subj-•ct. The hoax was probably got up in this city.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR PRIVATE BILLS
FOR THIS WEEK.
MONDAY, MARCH 15.
1. Herculaneum Docks (No. 2).
2. Oakwood and Argoed Coal and Iron Company.
3. British India Sugar Company.
4. Mersey Dock Dues Exemption.
5. Drogheda Harbour
6. St. Marylebone Paving, &c.
7. Olveston Inclosure.
B. South Western Railway
9. Great Leinster and Munster Railway.
TUESDAY, MARCH 16.
1. Liverpool Docks (Runcorn Exemption).
2. Bedingham Inclosure.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17.
1. Herculaneum Docks (No. 1).
2. London and Greenwich Railway.
3. Lough Foyle Drainage.
4. Lough Swilly Drainage.
5. Strensall Inclosure.
6. Liverpool and Crosby Road:
7. Tramore and Duckspool Embankment.
FR►DAY, MARCH 19.
Belfast and Cavehill Railway.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
FRIDAY, MARCH 12.
1. Bogdan's Naturalisation,—Second Reading, March 16.
2. Waningtore Inclosure,—Second Reading, March 16.:
3. Patent Rolling and Compressing Iron Company,—Second
Reading, March 16.
4. Br;tannia Life Assurance Company,—Report, March 16.
5. Stumpeross Roads,—Second Reading, March 16.
6. Whitby Improvement,—Report, March 16.
7. Stafford and Rugby Railway,—Second Reading, March 17.
8. Northern and Eastern Railway,—Second Reading, March 16.
9. Northern and Eastern Railway (Hertford and Ware Branch),—
Second Reading, March 16.
10. South Western Railway,—Report, March 16.
11. Barnstaple Roads,—Report, March 15.
12. Southorpe Inclosure,—Third Reading, March 15.
13. Collyweston Inclosute,— Third Reading,—March 15.
14. Slough and Colnbrook Road,—Second Reading,—March 16.

THE SOCIETY OF TRUE HIGHLANDERS.—
The Members of this Charitable Institution dined toge-
ther on Friday, at Evans's Gram! Hotel, Covent Garden•
From the bta'ements made by the Secretary, it appeared
the Society was rapidlc progressing in prosperity. Se-
veral national toasts and songs were given, and the
hilarity of the company was kept up to an early hour.
Charles Romilly, Esq., has received the appoint-
ment of Principal and Private Secretary to tie Lurd
Chancellor. Mr. Romi'ly was Secretary to the Speaker
of the House of Commons, which office he has resigned.

In the beginning of last week a conversation arose
between Aderman Wilson and Mr. Thwaites, the re-
lieving officer of the City of London Union, and Mr.
Richa-ds, the Master of Peckha-n Workhouse, on the
subject of the treatment of destitute persons by the
functionaries of other unions, and statements were
made to the effect that in many of the country unions
the dietary was exceedingly circumscribed, the poor re-
ceiving not enough to sustain animal power.
The, Lord Mayor received on Saturday a letter on
the subject, from Mr. Chalwick, the Secretary to the
Poor-law Commission, together with a copy of another
letter, addressed to Mr. Richards, the Master of the
Peckhali Workhouse, in which the Commissioners re-
quest Mr. Richards will furnish them with the fol-
lowing particulars :
" Ist. The names given by all or any" of the casual
poor, or vagrants, who bale made such complaints to
you in the course of the winter.

" 2,1. The nature of the complaint 3 in each case.
" 3d. The name of the union, or parish, from which
each professed to come, or in which each asserted that
inadequate relief had been afforiel, or ell relief refused."

Numbers of destitute persons have compl tined, opon
being brought before the Lord Mayor by the police, or
upon offering themselves voluntarily to the notice "of
his Lordship, of the conduct of the unions to which
they bad applied for relief, and from which they had
been thrust out, unassisted and unpitied, according to their
own statements, the only authority which it has been in
such cases possible to obtain. Some of the unions in
the immediate vicinity of London have been frequently
and bitterly complained of by poor persons who pto-
bably never bad any communication with Each other,
and who have described the conduct of the officials with
great apparent truth.

'LAMBETH STREET.
On Saturday evening at six o'clock, as Mr. NORTON
WZ.S .rout to leave the bench, John Shore, a cab driver,
was brought before hire on suspicion of picking up and
concealing a pocket-hook, containing 185/. in Bahk
notes. From the evidence it appeared that on the day
before a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Butcher,
Smith, and Co., carpet and rug manufacturers, of Great
Marlborough-street, had been sent to the City to get
cash for country notes, amounting to 1851. He got
on the top of a Mile-end omnibus, and shortly after
getting off, at the corner of Cornhill, he missed the
pocket-book in which the notes were deposited. Mr.
Dryland, a respectable tradesman, residing at 34, High-
street, \Vhitechapel, stated, that between 1•?. and 1
o'clock on the day before he observed the accused pick
up a black pocket-book in the High-street, and put it
into the pocket of his fustian jacket. He then pro-
ceeded up a gateway in company with another person
and got into some place, us he, witness, lost sight of
them for the tnomeht, and such was his impression
that it was a pocket-book, that he took the number
of the prisoner's cab, so that he might be traced in
the event of . any such article being lost. Oa that
morning witness saw an advertisement in a morning
paper describing the loss of a black pocket-book contain-
ing a number of bank notes, and he felt it his duty at
once to communicate with the party who'e reference
had been stated in the advertisement. The prisoner
produced a black leather ease in which he kept his bras
badge or number, and said, that on Friday, at the time
sated, be had dropped it, and that it was it, and not
the pocket book, which he had picked up. In corrobo-
ration of his assertion, he called a man of colour, named
Davis, who declared it was the badge, and not the pocket-
book, he (Shore) had picked up. The pouch produced
wts so Lice a pocket-book, that Mr. Dryland would not
take on himself to say that it might not have been !t
that had been picked up by the accused. There was
this difference between'Mr. Dryland and the prisoner,
that the latter declared he was dressed, at the time he
picked up his badge, as he then was, with a dark wai,t-
coat with sleevez, while the former swore he had a fus-
tian coat w:th large pockets on. M. Dryland also swore
that the accused and the other man got out of his sight
in the gateway, while both the latter said they did not ;
and that the accused had gone up the passage a yard or
two to put on his badge.
• Mr. Noirros said he was inclined to believa the
staternert of the accused, and discharged him.