The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-10 00:00:00

tuated in the rapids, just ahOVe the Falls, and that ail ef-
forts to rescue him were as yet unavailing. ea C!to arrlval,
all was excitement, hundreds were crossing and re-ciTa4:
ing to Goat Island, from the head of which he could be
observed. These islands lie side by side near the head
of Goat Island, and the unfortunate man is on the farthest
one, and where no human being was ever known to be
before. The first and second are rarely • visited, but
the third is inaccessible. The daring Robinson was on
the second preparing ropes to cast over, by which it was
hoped a boat might be drawn over by running cords.
This was, after much difficulty, performed, :Ind the
empty boat was sent over, but from some reason the
passage of the poor fellow was not attempted, and the
boat returned without him, and so matters stood when
we were obliged to leave by the cars. He had been on
the island forty-eight hours, and was discovered by the
smoke of his fire. He signifies, by signs, that he was
above when one of his oars broke, and with the other he
succeeded in making a landing. We believe food has
been sent him. The distance across the boiling flood is
nearly fifty yards, and• it is doubtful if he ever can be
brought off. His name is Allen, a brother-in-law of
Robinson's, and resides at the Falls, and has a family.
When we saw him he appeared restless and uneasy,
wandering about constantly, with what seemed a small
hatchet. in his hand. God help the unfortunate man !
Bidt'uti Penny Press. [Fudge !]
Over the door of a vender of varieties in a coun-
try village is—" Licentious dealer in Backey and Snuff."
A Magdeburg paper gives an account of a new
mode for walking on the water. A pioneer ( f the garri-
son of that place not only goes down with the stream in
the river,•but crosses it with ease and safety. He Makes
use of a balancing pole, which at times serves to steer
with, but it is not indispensable. He has several times
descended the river with his uniform on, and his knap-
sack on his back, repeatedly charging and discharging
his musket. It is added that the Prussian Government
intends next year to have the corps of pioneers exercised

in this new discovery. •
AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.—
Wednesday a man named Black, in the employ ofMr.
Massey, engineer, Brewhouse- lane, Wapping, was taking
some refreshment at the White Swan public-house, op-
posite Execution dock, when he suddenly complained of
severe pains in the head, and was advised by a lad who
was present to go home. lie had scarcely laid himself
down on his bed when he expired. Black was in his fif-
tieth year, and was previously in
_laipdrent good health.
DEMAND FOR BAPTIST NOEL'S PAMPHLET.
—The Rev. Mr. Crowe urged the audience at Angel- .
street Chapel on Monday night forthwith to make them-
selves acquainted with the Corn• law question, to which
end he recommended them to purchase the Hon. and
Rev. Baptist Noel's pamphlet on the subject, not only for
their cr.% n reading, but for distrililition : the following
clay not one was to be obtained at any of the booksellers'
shops in this city.—Worcestershire Chronitl!.
THE HUMAN VOICE —God has made the
whole earth vocal with sweet sounds. The untravelled
forest echoes the notes of the wild bird, and the habita-
tions of men are made glad by the song of the feathered
minstrel. But, above all, the human voice, that com-
bines the highest charm of sweet sound with the inspira-
tion of thought, is given for no ordinary purpose of
earthly pleasure. In its whisper of affection how grate-
ful ! In its expression of religious devotion how ex-
alted ! For its solace in trouble how dear ! For its
participation in joy how unspeakable !
ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR.-.-It may
gratify- the admirers of this magnificent structure to
learn that the alterations of the windows in the choir
are now sufficiently advanced to allow of an opinion to
be formed of the effect which will be produced when the
whole are completed. The two windows immediately
adjoining the altar (formerly closed up with stone) have
been opened. Each window contains the arms, helmet,
crest, and lambrequire of twelve Knights of the Garter,
filling the twelve divisions formed between the mullions
and transoms. The general ground being in quarries,
bearing the initials of the patron Saint, St. George,
gives great relief to the splendid tints of the heraldic
'devices. In the glass of the old windows, so much of
the space was absorbed by a huge star and garter, re-
peated in each opening, that the armorial bearings them-
selves were nearly imperceptible frnm below, and the
general effect was poor, heavy, and monotonous. This
error appears to have been studiously avoided in the
new designs. In these the part of most importance, the
shield of arms, has been made the most conspicuous, and
the several bearings are clear and distinct. The Chapter
of St. George deserves great praise for the judicious and
liberal manner in which they have commenced these

works.
WILSON THE POET, AND THE ARTIST OF
WATTY AND MFG.—Most of our local readers, we think,
will have, ere this, seen the statues of Natty and Meg,
and other articles of sculpture,
,by Mr. Anderson, of
Perth, for some time exhibited here. The roan who
could embody the ideas of the poet so vividly, very natu-
rally felt some interest in the poet himself. Knowing
Paisley to be the place of his birth, he, soon after his
arrival, made inquiry as to the identical spot, and felt
some degree of surprise that not a single memorial could
be found of the man whose name was so celebrated on
both sides of the Atlantic. Resolvieg to remedy this,
he asked, and obtained permission from the proprietors
of the house in which Wilson was born, to put a slab in
the wall, to mark the time and place of his birth and
death. This slablie is at present bringing with him from
Perth, in order that it may be chiselled. here.—Paisley
Advertiser.
EXTRAORDINARY DEATH OF A WOMAN ON
BOARD TILE LATONA FRIGATE.—CHATIIAM, TUFSDAY.
--For the last two days a great deal of excitement has
prevailed in this town and neighbourhood, in consequence
of reports that a seaman of the name of Stone had been
placed under arrest on board the ordinary guardship
Poictiers, for having been the cause of his wife's death.
From accounts it appears that on Friday afternoon Stone
had been ashore for the purpose of removing some fur-
niture, when upon his return, and coming alongside the
ship for the purpose of going on board, his wife seeing
him, called out to him from one of the portholes, at the
same time using abusive language; whereupon the hus-
band said to some of his . shipmates, " Is this not enough
to provoke any man ?" On his arrival on deck he struck
her a severe blow and knocked her down ; he afterwards
seized her and knocked her head against the bulwarks,
at the same time saying. he Would be the death of her.
They afterwards went into their cabin and quarrelled
again, when the boatswain felt it his duty to part them,Stone
(soing into, the galley, leaving his wife sitting on her bed.
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short time afterwards the woman was found dead
lying on the lower deck, bleeding very much from her
nostrils and ears. The man and his wife had been about
three years on board, and they had always conducted
themselves well ; they had been married about 25 years,
and had eight children, three of which are alive. An
inquest was held on the body ou Wednesday afternoon,
at the Lord Exmouth, by Mr. Einde, Coroner: The
prisoner was attended by a guard of marines, and ap-
peared to be a man of about 60 years of age. From the
evidence of John Whately, the boatswain, it appeared,
on Friday evening, the prisoner and his wife were tipsy,
and quarrelling in their cabin. He went to thein and
parted them. About three-quarters of an hour after-
wards his wife came to him and said, the deceased was
not st. he found. He then procured a light, and in search-
ing the shies found her lying on the lower deck. He sup-
posed the decoyed must nave fell through the ladder-
way from the uppei: ecl.s into the lower, a depth of seven
cet and a half. Told the; Prisoner of his wife's death.
He came to .her. John Wood', ship-keeper, deposed to
the same effect. There being no ecjdence -to show how
the death arose, the Jury returned a veiZl Pict—Accident-
ally killed by falling from the top to the ;ewer deck.
'The deceased's husband was reprimanded by the Coro-
ner for his conduct to the deceased.
MEL ANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-011 Thursday
evening last, about six o'clock, as two young gentlemen
were busily engaged in eating fruit (peaches). in a garden
near Liverpool, one of them unfortunately got a peach-
stone in his throat, and could neither get it one way or
the other. A surgeon was instantly sent for; but, before
he arrived, the unfortunate young man was dead.—
Liverpool Mail.
TrrE TuRY QUARRELS.—A strange and un-
intelligible specimen of mystification in the form of a lead-
ing article appeared last night in the columns of an even-
ing contemp3rary, affecting to treat as matters of import-
ance the communications of certain real or pretended
anonymous correspondents of its own, in conjunction
with some unmeaning verbiege in recent numbers of a
Dublin paper. There are only two possible modes of ac-
counting for such effusions as those of the Standard and
the Dublin Evening It 1 ail. The one is that the edi-
tors
of these journals are striving collusively and abor-
tively to enhance their own importance and to injure the
Conservative cause ; and the other that they are both
so completely subject to lunar influence, as to disregard
everything that is passing upon earth.—Morning Post.
Madame Bretot, a thriving blanchisseuse, of the
Rue de Bievre, had a fair daughter, who,. like all her
sex of the same age, which was temptin eighteen, was
was
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da
while s
these scenes ofleamusemen.
lively damsel to ettend The ond mother
permitted
ways tack care to accompany
about a month ago, at the gnat
her. At a Sunday's dance
re Saisons, Midemoiselle
Eugenie met with a partner so genteel and gallant that
he won the hearts of both mother and daughter, and the
favoured youth was received into their domestic circle as
a suitor. The'- preliminaries were at length so far ar-
ranged for a marriage betweil the lovers, that Madame
Bretot drew .1,000 francs from the savings' bank to pur-
chase a suitable outfit for the young couPle• Alas, fur
the uncertainty of human projects I two evenings ago,
when the expecting bride and her mother returned
home, after a day spent on their knees—not at church,
but in their washing barge, near the Pont de l'Arche-
veche=they found that their dwelling had been broken
open, their locks forced, and not only the 1,000 francs,
but every other article of value carried off. This was,
indeed, a dire disaster, but the severest cut of all was a
sheet of paper, conspicuously affixed to the chimney-
glass, on which was written, in too legible characters—
" I might have taken both your daughter and her dower,
but I content myself with one, and leave you the other."
NEW PROCESS FOR THE PREVENTION Tthl(OiNghOik'n
EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DARIP —I .t has been found by ex-
perience, that Sir H. Davy's safety lamp,
many .respects an invaluable discovery, has failed in
proving- a preventive to the explosion of fire-damp in
coal-pits ; and the frequent recurrence of accidents in the
mining districts, evince the melancholy truth, that the
precautions hitherto devised are incomplete. I venture,
therefore, to propose a process for abating an evil so fatal
to human life, which is at least worthy of trial. It is
well known, that fire-damp explodes on ignition be an
electric spark ; and on this principle it is proposed, tha t
an experiment be made with an apparatus consisting of
Professor Daniell's voltaic battery and electrical wires,
for the purpose of firies. e mine
with an explosive mixture. By- :nexus of this ingenious
and scientific contrivance, an explosion of fire-damp
can at all times be efibeted with perfect safety,. when-
ever the gas •is evoWed in sufficient quantities to