The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-18 00:00:00

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This s a farthing short of 1.& a week per head
for food and medical assistance in case of need, or 2d.
a day each !

I have said above that 2d. a-day is all that we have
left for food nod clothing per head. As to bedding and
clothing, I have not bought a particle of bedding the last
six or seven years ; nor have I had any shirts for that
time, but. what I have received from Poppleweles cha-
rity. We have only one old blanket for the whole
family, and three of the children (girls) lie on the floor ;
and the generality of the bedclothes are not. worth de-
scribing.
I have said that my case is the case of thousands of
my fellow band-loom weavers. To illustrate thii, I
have only to mention that there are twenty-seven fami-
lies (weavers) in the same street, amounting in the whole
to considerably more than one hundred persons, and my
wife, being under the necessity to borrow one•hallppinny
to purchase something necessary for breakfast, applied
to eight different houses without being able to obtain
the loan of it ; such is ihgir destitution.
Assuring you, Mr. Ed tar, that the above case is no
fictitious one, of which I shall give every one desirous
of ascertaining the truth a proof, by leaving my name
with you,-1 am, yours respectfully,
A HAND-LOOM WEAVER.
Little Bolton, Nov. 9, 1841.
—Letter in the Bolton Free Press.

Our readers will remember that a man, named
Serein, was arrested some time ago near Orleans, for
having carried off two female children from that town,
and, after a criminal assault on them, having murdered
them under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. He was
brought to trial a few days since for this crime, before
the Court of Assizes at Orleans, and the proceedings
lasted three days. From the prisoner's own declarations
it appeared that he had suffocated the poor children in
his cart, and concealed their bodies for some time in a
loft in his house, under a heap of straw ; he had then
conveyed them to the wood in which their mangled re-
mains were found. Several witnesses were heard, who
established the identity of the children, and the circum-
stances or their being inveigled away from Orleans ; but
the Crown lawyers required that the public should be ex-
cluded from Court during the remainder of the evidence,
as it was of a nature not fit for public disclosure. The
circumstances being fully proved, Serein was found guilty,
and condemned to death. He was in a state of apparent
stupefaction during the proceedings, and was removed
from the Court amid the loudest demonstrations of in-
dignation on the part of the auditory. This affair has
created a great sensotion at Orleans and in the neigh-
bourhood. _ _

The Temps states that an instance has just oc-
curred at the Hopital Saint Antoine to confirm the opi-
nion that the glanders is a disease which may not only
be communicated by the horse to man, but also from
man to man. A young dresser of the hospital, having
to dress the wound of a patient afflicted with the glan-
ders, has caught the disease, says this Journal, and no
hopes are entertained of his recovery.
The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce has
just addressed a circular to the members of the Councils
General of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce, .
whose Session is to commence on the 10th of next
month, recommending to them to take into consideration
the question of foreign cattle, as regards the customs and
octroi duties, and the mode of levying them ; the sugar
question, which, he says, affects so many 'interests, that
it demands further examination ; the question of patents
for new inventions, with a view to aiding the Minister in
the preparation of a law on the subject, and other points
of industry ; the high or prohibitory duties on iron,
cotton, and woollen goods, B:c., and the duties payable
on oleaginous seeds. The Minister calls upon the Coun-
cils to collect all possible information upon these diffe-
rent subjects, and to discuss them carefully, in order
that they may come to a calm conclusion as to iheitn-
provements and changes which may be necessary in the
general interest of the country.
EDINBURGH, Nov. 15.—0 n Saturday we had
the first indication of the approach of winter, in a heavy
fall of snow, which completely covered the street,. To-
wards evening it melted in the city ; but the hills in the
neighbourhood, we perceive, are whitened with the
shower. Yesterday was dry and clear, but frosty ; and
at night the frost set in with an intensity such as we are
only accustomed to in the depth of the season.
'SINGULAR DISCOVERY.—The inhabitants of
the little village of Carnfield were on Monday last
thrown into a state of considerable excitement in con-
sequence of a report that a quantity of human
bones had been discovered, while digging some
ground for the foundation of a barn on the land of
Mr. Wallgrove, a farmer residing in the neighbourhood.
Numbers flocked to the spot, and shortly afterwards
the remains of what appeared to have been a saddle
was dug out, and a pair of old-fashioned pistols, the
locks and barrels of which were completely incrusted
with rust. On examining the pistols a couple of bullets
were with considerable difficulty drawn from the bar-
rels. A pair of stirrup-irons were likewise found. The
attendance of a medical gentleman for the purpose of
examining the bones, was obtained, and he pronounced
them to be those of a horse, but under what circumstances

the animal could possibly have been buried in the place
where they were found, it being evident that that the horse
had been equipped for some sort of warfare, the pistols h av-
ing, doubtless, originally been in holsters, attached to the
saddle, remains a mystery, there being no record of any
battle or skirmish having taken place, or any other signs
of bones, &c., discovered in excavating the ground.ip the
neighbourhood. The owner of the ground where the
remains were found is upwards of eighty years old, and
the farm has been in the posicssion of his family for cen-
turies, yet he never heard of any circumstance that can
throw a light on the subject- The pistols have been an
extremely handsome pair, being silver mounted, but the
locks and barrels are so thickly corroded with rust, that
no mark or name can be discovered engraved on them.—
Reading Mercury.
ANCIENT CANNON.--In the life of Bruce,
by Barbour, we learn that guns were first employed by
the English at the battle of Werewater, which was fought
in 1227, about 40 years after the death of Friar Bacon, the
supposed discoverer of gunpowder; and there is no doubt
that four guns were used at the battle of Cressy, fought
in 1346, when they were supposed to have been quite
unknown to the French, and tended to obtain that victory
for British arms. Froissart gives an excellent representa-
tion,"
if ae cannon
T_
Ro FROST.—During
and. cannon eers in 1390.
During Tuesday night the frost
was so severe that yesterday morning ice of an inch in
thickness was carted to the different confectioners and
ice wells in the metropolis.
FALL OF SNOW IN PA RM.—A fall of snow

took place in Paris on Monday afternoon, between four
and five o'clock, but the weather was not sufficiently cold

for it, to remain on the ground.
We are happy to state that the severe rem
which which we have been obliged to make on the c_ornav, n
the
the searchers at the Duuane in this town d
attention of the Director to-the subject, and that
instruc-
tions have been issued to the searchers to perform
ei
their
and civility.—Boulogne Gazette.
ft.
Au inquest
duty according to the spirit of the lawand with pro-
prietyA
BODY FOUND IN THE Myst
r,
wasriver at
outßo-
of the
held on Monday before Win.
body of a lad which was taken_
eetning_y
I been in the
therhithe. The deceased had Car e Esq., on the
His clothes will be kept by A, - . no one appeared
his identity, as
river nearly three weeks, anditrs,aGsarddreeesseerd,
theas a
hseattidhlier:
which may be a clue to
Chronicle states
to oAw nhim.
very high in Romney
that the water, which has
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correspondent Verdict
for seed time.
ploughing the land in preparationmiddle of the last
Marsh, is now fast subsiding,and that many farmers are
WILD n the young Baronet of Talacre
Sir I'yers Mosty ,
month,... the shot °
family skill in the use of gun, a
emulating the famii,
in
the
CA T.—About the
parish of Llanasa. The cat
wild cat,
aofcoLexres started from the same gorse bush,
dissolved the partnership. A stmt_
Jar not been seen in the country for fifty
Jar animal lead and
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Joe
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The tail is annulated with black; body with
years. .
braceil lin nton soon
The
black stripes. The dorsal ones, three in number, longi-
tudinal; those on the sides, spiral. length is three
feet two inches, the girth si::teen inches and a half, and
the weight thirteen pounds two ounces. These strangers
have been induced to come by the extensive plantations
made by the late Sir Thomas Mostyn upon this part of
his property in the Principality ; but they will not be
welcome visitors, as, after the wolf, now happily extinct
in this country, they are the fiercest and most destruc-
tive beasts of prey in the island. The same gun laid an
embargo upon a male hobby, a beautiful specimen of a.:
small hawk, which was upon the point of setting out for.
his winter quarters in Western Asia. This little fellow ..
was formerly used in hawking to dare larks and other
small game. In early times lie was employed by the
Welsh falconers, as is testified by an ancient bard of the
fourteenth century.—Curnarvon Herald.
GOOD ADVlCE.—Resolve not to be poor.
to human happiness ; it certainly destroys liberty, and
Whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy
it makes some virtues impracticable, and others ex-
r emely difficult. ,
Lord Cloneurry has offered two prizes of 04
each for the bast Prize Essays on Manure and Road-
making, in order to promote the objects of the Agricul-....
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