The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-11 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

forced the wood-work considerably out of its place,--
York Courant.

SHOOTING.—Owing to the quantity of cortt-t:.
still remaining uncut, the returns of our sperting,lliQudiA
have been, by no means very favourable. The beittlifig• '
we have yet heard of was that of a gentleman on the
manor of Somerton,who brought homeon the Ist eighteen
brace and a half and a hare. Having only one dog,
many birds were lost in the luxuriant crops of clover,
which would otherwise have been brought to bag.—
Shcrbourne Journal.

CORN-LAWS.—A petition in favour of a rcpea
of the Corn-laws is in course of signature at Lenton.
700 have already signed, and many more will no doubt
do so.—Nottingham Review.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.--A very me-
lancholy accident occurred in the neighbourhood of In-
verness on Monday, which has carried distress into a
wide circle of friends and relatives. About six o'clock
in the afternoon, Dr. Basil Tytler, son of the late Alex-
ander Fraser Tytler, Esq., of the Hon. East India Corn;
pany's service (who had been on a visit to his uncle, the
Sheriff of this county), was in a boat on the river Ness.
in company with a young gentleman, Mr. Wm. Fraser,
son of Mr. Fraser of Culduthel. They were opposite
Lady Saltoun's cottage, where the river is deep and
strong, besides being at present much swollen by the late
rains. The boat upset, and the body of Dr. Tytler was
seen in the midst of the water. All attempts to recover
the body proved unavailing, and there is every reason to
suppose that it was carried out to the sea. The deceased
was about twenty-six years of age, of accomplished ta-
lents and amiable disposition. He had studied niedicine
under Sir Charles Bell, and was distinguished for his
knowledge and proficiency.—lnverness Courier.
ENORMOUS TROUT.—There was caught, at
one of Messrs. Dickson and Co.'s fishing stations in the
Tweed, a salmon trout of the extraordinary weight of
nineteen and a quarter pounds ; it measures thirty-three
inches in length, and twenty in girth. —Edinburgh
Courant.

NOVEL MEANS OF OBTAINING MONEY.--
A woman of rather shabby appearance has been calling
at several lodging-houses in this city of late, and endea-
vouring to draw upon the charity of the lodgers, by a
rather ingenious device.. First of all, by some such dia-
logue as .the following with the landlady or servant at
the door, she contrives to learn the name of the lodger,
and the place from whence he comes :—" Have you a
young man staying with you ?" "Yes." "What is his
name, if you please ? I think this was the direction' I
got, but I have forgotten the name." The name is of
course given, and then, as if to be more assured that he
is the person of whom she is in search, she politely in-
quires where he comes from. If it turn out that he is
from the country, she immediately, ,requests an inter-
view. She then informs the geutlernan.that she has been
sent by " Jean Cairns," an old .servant of his fathers, to
request a little assistance. " Poor. dean_has been mar-
ried"—" has three children"—quite a reasonable number
—" is anxious to get to - Cupar '—" one shilling would
be sufficient"—and so forth. Of course, the: gentleman
informs her Olathe never heard of Jean -Cairns ; but he
is assured that it was a long time ago she served hiS father,
and if home recollections thus called up'soften his heart,
or a vague remembrance of. a Jean whose second name he
never knew, but who perhaps attended him in childhood,
flash upon his mind, it is ten to one but he complies
with the request. Not having heard the previous colloquy
with his unsuspecting landlay, he says to himself, " how
could this woman know my name or where I come from
if her story was a fabrication," and the next moment
his hand is in his pocket. We beg to warn young men
residing in lodgings, that " Jean Cairns" has served a
great many of their fathers.—Scotsman.

SERIOUS CONFLAGRATION AT WINGER-
WORTH.—We regret to state that serious loss has been
experienced by Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart., by the de-
struction of Nearly the whole of his stock of hay, which
was placed in a Dutch barn near Wingerworth Hall. It
took fire owing to the state in whic it was got in, in
consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather
during the hay harvest. Upwards of 100 tons of hay
were in the barn at the time, including a portion of last
year's crop. The fire-engines were obtained as early as
possible, and waggons and carts were employed in carry-
ing away the hay into the adjoining fields ;' but in many
instances the bay in the waggons, While being removed,
burst into flames, and it was found frequently necessary
to " shoot" it out instantly, to prevent ,the waggons
taking fire. Many portions thus removed burnt out
without any possibility of extinguishing the flames.
The roof of the Dutch barn was completely destroyed,
and fell in on the hay, nothing but the stone pillars being
left standing. The loss sustained is calculated at nearly
1,0001., viz., 500/. the building, and upwards of 4001.
the hay.—Shejficld Iris.
ELEPHANT SHOOTING IN COORG. We
learn from Coorg that Lieut. M—, of the 36th Native
Infantry, who is an elephant shooter of no ordinary emi-
nence, has quitted the province en route to join, after a
rather unsuccessful campaign against those monsters of
the " leafy deep." Whilst stationed in Coorg, this officer
killed a great number of elephants, but during his late
excursion he has been less fortunate than so ardently de-
voted a disciple of St. Hubert deserves. Amongst his ad-
ventures amidst the " greenwood tree" is one, however,
worth narrating, if only to show the wonderful sagacity
of the elephant. Lieut. M—, it appears, in pursuit of
cne of these noble " sovereigns of the forest," put eight
(brass) balls successively into his game, three of which
evidently took effect in the head ; but the animal got
away, though sorely hurt and bleeding in torrents ; but
whilst fleeing from his pursuers the elephant was observed
to pick up mud with his trunk, and plaister it on the
wounded parts, clearly for the purpose of stopping the
hemorrhage, the vital effect whereof was each moment
becoming more evident in the slackening and unsteady
gait of the dying monarch of those sylvan scenes.--
United Service Gazette.

JEMMY WOOD" AND' THE GLOUCESTER
MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—The last time but one that the
grand festival in aid of the distressed widows and orphans
of clergymen in the dioceses of Gloucester, Hereford,
and Worcester, was held at Gloucester, the renowned
Jemmy Wood stood in front of the Old Bank in West-
gate-street, and observed to a friend of ours, in reference
to the multitudes pressing towards the Cathedral, "There
the fools go; I keep my half-crowns in my pocket ! "
and, suiting the action to the word, pushed his hands to
the very bottom of his capacious waistcoat-pockets,
turned over the coins therein, and elicited that metallic
jingle so grateful to his ears. The rich old banker is
gathered to his fathers—the Old Bank, instead of wearing
the business appearance it did in 1835, is,closed—none
of the immense wealth of its owner has, as yet, been dis-
tributed under his will--but in this short term of six
years more thousands of pounds have been spent in legal
proceedings concerning it than would have provided a
permanent fund, amply sufficient fur the relief of all the
distressed widows and orphans of clergymen in the three
dioceses. The numbers thronging to the Cathedral were
notiools—Jemmy's policy of keeping the half-crowns in
his pocket was not the perfection of wisdom. Far better
would it have been for the fair city had Mr. Wood en-
dowed it with a part of his riches in his life-time, instead
of, leaving it, as he did, to the uncertainty of a torn
codicil and the tender mercies of the law.—Cheltenham
paper.
MOTTOES OF MINISTERS.--The Duke of
Buckingham exclaims, on taking his seat, " Templa
quam ailceta," Anglice, " High prices, hoW delightful !"
The Earl of Ripon, with that credulity which led Cob-
bett to call him " Prosperity Robinson," declares that
Fuses( tout—" Faith's every thing." Lord Lyndhurst's
" Ultra Pergere," may be Englished by the elegant
phrases, " Push along," or "Go a-head, ' or, perhaps
better still, by "Go the whole hog." Lord Stanley's
motto is peculiarly appropriated to his Lordship's present
and past position, "'Suns changer,"---" Without chang-
ing 1" Ireland has justly been regarded as a great breaker
e-head- of a Tory Ministry ; and we may imagine the
Tory Lord Lieutenant (Earl de Grey), Iyhen a little too
sanguine' perhaps, exclahning in the language of his
family Motto," t'Faith's• everythirig,"'being gently but
sadly rebuked by his Secretary (Lord Eliot) in turn
sighing his own too prophetic motto, " Occurrent nubes,"
—" Ah, my Lord, but clouds :eV come." If such mixed
and modified rejoicings are in the Cabinet, the joy in the
new household troops is without any such alloy. The
Lord
_Chamberlain ,(Earl Delawarre), by his motto,
JOiti de ma has declared that it was the happiest
day of ,his life on which he became Major dome; and the
Lord Steward (the Earl of LiVerpool),
Palma, non sine pulvere," says as plainly as tongue can
speak, " I have got the Stewardship, but not without
raising a dust about it."LL-Illanchester Guardian.
pa.
TENBURY.,—NOVEI, PUNISHMENT
AND PQ'
PULAR INDIGNATION.—On Saturday last,
.vrly was handcuffed for six hours to the post
fclo.wri a long
in his motto,
be-
longing to the stocks .(which have beLf.n
to
which
time), in default of payment of a fine (e.)l.
for drunken-
nesshe was adjudged by the Rev. C. Turner,
uhfoiuithe i the punish-
During the time the prisoner was u
(cergofonrgtnight since.
and disorderly conduct;
labouring classes,
merit, many persons,
chiefly of
made a subscription
were 'assembled to witness At,
a'
which would have more
amongst them for the prisoner,
ing
him to drink, and it
than paid the fine, besides Cresting
of the bystanders that
was only by the persuasionfrom cutting down the post.—
the people were prevented
..e.
Worcestershire Citron
itze
cl
DE SEYFRIED.—A letter
DEATH OF IG2N5th nit., says :—" The Chevalier
from Vienna, the 25th
one of the most fertile and celebrated
Ignace de Seyfri '
the theory of music,. died yesterday.
'liters on
German N‘ rof more than two hundred composi-
tions was the with".
amongst which are • nine operas and
of.
tions
five oratoriosingularsinular circumstance characterised his
death. Being
attackedwith illness on the 26th, he fore-
saw that his end was near, and prepared an article for
rnals announcing that he had died on th
the Vienna jou,
and leaving only a blank for the hour of his death.
e
12i Ittih
eevening of the 26th he sent for two of his friends,
31. Litte
• rmayer, director of the Imperial singing-school,
and 3
Barley n, the musical publisher, and gave to them
a parcel, With a request that it might not be opened until
after his decease. This parcel, which was opened this
morning, contained the MS. of a funeral mass, and a
note, stating that this work, composed in 1835, was to
be performed at the funeral of the author."
There is no person more conscientious than a
thorough bigot, nor one more consistent in his entire
career. The cause of this was curiously explained by a
clever packer in a cotton warehouse, who speaking to me
of some of the bigotry on the part of a neighbour, said
" I suppose, Sir, that when a man has a small mind he
does nut require much time to make it up,"—The Bishop.
LONGEVITY.—A poor woman, named Mary
Chandler, upwards of 101 years of age, having been born
on the 3d of August, 1740, was admitted yesterday
into the union workhouse at Lewes. She had been in
the habit of walking from Lewes to Brighton and back,
a distance of sixteen miles, generally once a week, and
on Tuesday last walked over to see her friends at
Brighton, previous' to going into 'the house. The poor
creature, who seemed to feel very much her situation.
said it was a hard thing to be compelled. to go into the
workhouse at her great age.