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

ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON.

Shortly before the battle of Jena, Napoleon had well
nigh fallen a victim to one of those accidents which may
be considered as reinforcements to the legitimate ha-
zards encountered in the glorious " trade of war." At
Weimar thelimperor disposed his forces in order of battle,
and bivouacked in the centre of his Guard. He had ordered
a passage to be hollowed in the rock, and towards
two o'clock in the morning set out on foot to ascertain
how the work was proceeding. Having remained an
hour on the spot, he resolved to make a rapid
inspection of the nearest outposts, before returning
to his bivouack. This solitary excursion nearly cost
the Emperor his life. The night was so dark that
the sentries were unable to see the stightest object at
the distance of ten paces. One of them, hearing foot-
steps, challenged, and immediately presented his piece.
The Emperor, who was prevented from hearing the qui
vive by one of his fits of absence, made no answer,
and was speedily aroused from his reverie by a ball
whizzing past his ear. Instantly aware of his
danger, be threw himself flat on the ground. No
sooner bad be adopted this precaution than a shower
of bullets passed over him ; the first sentry's fire having
been repeated through the whole line. The momentary
danger pact, the Emperor row and walked straight
to the nearest outpost, where he was immediately
recognized. In a few minutes the sentry who had first
chalenged and fired was relieved from his post, and
brought before Napoleon. The soldier was a young
Grenadier in one of the regiments of the lice. " You
young rascal !" said the Emperor, familiarly pinching his
cheek, " it seems you took me for a Prussian ! the dog
does not waste his powder ; nothing less than an Em-
peror serves him for a mark." The poor soldier, in the
utmost consternation at the idea that he might have
killed the liit'e corporal, whom he idolized not less than
the rest of the army, could only stammer out a few
broken sentences :--" Pardon, Sire, but I had orders
to fire ; if you will not answer, I am not to blame ;
another time you must put in the orders that you don't
choose to answer." The Emperor laughed, and to re-
concile the poor fellow to himself, said, as he withdrew,
" My brave lad, it was not your fault; for a random
shot in the dark, yours was not amiss ; it will soon be
daylight ; take a better aim, and I'll provide for you."

We learn from Bremen that a boy, only 13
years of age, the son of highly respectable parents, liv-
ing at Bayreuth, in Bavaria, has been detected in at-
tempting to poison one of the masters of a school at
Bremen, where he was placed. by infusing in a glass of
sugar and water a quantity of arsenic. Fortunately the
intended victim, before drin'.:ing, stirred the water with
a spoon, and discovered a sediment, which he knew not
to be sugar. The boy, on being accused of the act, con-
fessed that he had done it in revenge for having been
punished with two hours' confinement. He asserted that
the poison was givon him by the apprentice of an apo-
thecary in the neighbourhood, but this was proved to be
!rase. It is added, that he had previously attempted to
poison his sister, but she escaped after some slight suf-
fering. The delinquent is committed to prison, but it is
said he cannot be punished on account of his youth.

Not long ago the Puseyite rector of a village
near Winchester, who recently obtained an unenviable
notoriety for refusing to inter canonically the remains of
an old Church lady, because some of her friends were Pri-
mitive Methodists—called on an Hon. and Rev. Gentle-
man to inform _him that a grocer, with whom he partially
dealt, encouraged the Ranters, and, in fact, was a Ranter
himself, and ought not to be supported. The clerical
Baronet, full of indignation, sent for the delinquent shop-
keeper, ascertained the truth of the allegation, ordered
his bill, paid the amount, and withdrew his future fa-
vours. Soon after, this dignified clergyman and his
dashing family started for the Continent, leaving his good
conforming tradesmen to whistle for their debts to the
tune of many thousand pounds. But the Dissenting
grocer was all right, his 130/. in his pocket, through the
intolerant meddling of the aforesaid parson, who, at all
events, has done one good deed in his lifetime, although,
poor man, he meant it not.—Nenewformist.
A letter from Leipsic, in the Debats, states that
a number of forgeries of Bonds of the Prussian Treasury
have been detected. The criminal is a Prtissian litho-
grapher, named Ghynemann, who has been arrested at
Leipsic, and, according to treaties between Saxony and
Prussia, will be delivered up, as soon as the requisite
formalities have been gone through. The punish-
ments for forgery of public documents in Prussia is
hard labour for life, exposition on the
.pillory, and a
certain number of stripes with a whip, given inside
the prison.
Afn c hrtUS.
the
HOSPITAL TOR DRUNKARDS.---r
asorid lo
pital has been recently opened in NewYo York
kards who are resolved to reform, Throwing
inconveniences, in the medical point of view, attending
a sudden change in the use of stimulating drinks, it is
obvious that there is nothing more difficult than
to renounce habits of indulgence ; and, as to
leaving them off by degrees, it is morally impos-
sible; to indulge at all, is to relax self•control,
and to abide the consequences of such relaxation.
The only chance for the confirmed drunkard is to change
scene, change associations, to quit, as far as possible, the
routine of his life, so as to weaken those ties which bind
him to any particular habit. This is no easy task ; and,
without the advantage of an institution like that just
established in New York, there are but few who can ac-
complish it. An asylum for the cure or. amendment of
bad habits in general would meet, we think, if skilfully
managed, with more encouragement and success than
might be at first imagined.—Athencrum.
Why has a clock always a bashful appearance ?
—Because it always keeps its hands before its face.
The weather during the last few days has been
extremely variable. On Friday it was exceedingly fine;
on Saturday much wind and rain in the afternoon, which
continued during the night and following morning, when
it blew a perfect hurricane. Since Sunday evening
we
have had a continuance of fine frosty weather, w Ihdvt
slight fall of snow on „Monday night.—Cani/Vg! A
PENCIL CEDAR.—It Is not generallyknown
that if the lining of drawers in which clothes y
is made of pencil cedar, no moths other destructive
and as
insects will get into them, and g woo
ives a nuich
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cheaper than wainscot or mahogany, or
rhis dis
lightful perfume to the clothes contained
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these facts only require to be known to
very general Ilse.-
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LOVE MATTERS.---A
the following touching advertisement !—" he Fair
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Incognita of Gloucester Festival
cto proceed one step further,
(of the 10th of Septem-
ber) is earnestly requested
•by rendering her admirer a clue whereby he may be
enabled to express the sentiments with which he also was
the meeting to which allusion has been
impressed, at _ , • •
I made in favour recentl received.'
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Honey, the re s, who'
has been lately
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playing at the Hull Theatre, has for the last week been

MORNING SUN

THE HAPPY POPULATION OF
THIS MOST FREE AND MOST GLORIOUS
NATION.

I am a hand-loom weaver, and have a wife and seven
children, three of whom can earn a trifft each. The
whole earnings of the f..lnnily amount to about twenty-
one shillings. This places tne, you will perceive, with-
out the pale of relief from the Poor.law Guardians,
their standard being 2s. 3d. a week per head ; but they
do not take into consideration the outgo in fixing this
standard. But to give you and the public a proper
idea of my real condition, which is that of thousands of
my fellow hand-loom weavers, I will enumerate and set
down that outgo, and no one acquainted with weaving
will dispute either the necessity or the amount of the
different items. I pay for— s. d.
Rent and rates
Candles
Coals
Flour for sowins.—..
Soap for washing.and wetting bobbins ..... 0 9
Clogs.
Looming
Oil and grease 2 24
Sick arid funeral societies

Total
Total earnings of family

Remaining for food and clothing for nine

persons