The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-16 00:00:00

Ten tribes still smart from the battle of Tippecanoe
bile Winnebagoes alone lost sixty men there. We have
.inee destroyed half the Sague tribe, and exasperated
;he Sioux beyond measure, and they alone, in their va-
rheas raraLications, number thirty thousand fighting
,m n. Catlin thinks sixty thousand.
There is no doubt that in any war that may take
place with Indians, they must be beaten ; but still, they
are capable of doing incalculable injury. Metacon, and
Pontiac, and Tecumseh, and Black Hawk, and Osceola,
have shown what - Indians are capable of. Territories
laid waste, blood shed ingloriously, women anC chil-
dren piteously slain, are not agreeable objects to look
forward to. " Look before you leap," is an old proverb
and a wise one.
Tilere can be but little doubt, that in any war with
the United States, numerous tribes of Indians could be
taken advantage of to their fearful detriment, if Great
Britain should consider it correct for a civilised and
Christian Power to make use of the dreadful expedient.
War, in its least fearful aspects, is bad enough—a dread-
ful phenomenon in nature—but the supposition of the
unbridled Indian let loose among the Saxon race, causes
a feeling of unusual horror. A Member of the United
states Senate, said, lately, that there were 43,f300 armed
[ndian warriors ready to engage in hostilities against
the Republic. Our neighbour's Indian policy must have
/Oen wretched.—Thid. -
THE PRESENT AGE.
Doctor Channing, the celebrated American orator and
writer. delivered an address to the Mercantile Company
of Philadelphia some months ago ; it was entitled the
Present Age, and late papers furnish some extracts. The
)actor appears to have a lively faith in the improve-
cent of the human race, and he gathers corroboration of
is views from numerous signs of the times. The sub-
Dined scrap will furnish some notion of the mode in
vhieh he has treated this subject :
The multitude is rising from the dust. Once we
ward of the few, now of the many ; once of the pre-
.ogatives of a part ; now of the rights of all. We are
ooking as never before, through the disguises, enve-
opments of rank and classes, to the common na-
ture which lies below them, and are beginning
;o learn that every being who partakes of it
ias noble powers to cultivate, solemn duties to perform,
nalienable rights to assert, a vast destiny to accomplish.
grand idea of humanity, of the importance of man
is man, is spreading silently, but surely. Not that the
,north of the human being is at all understood as it should
; but the truth is glimmering through the darkness.
A faint consciousness of it has seized
,upon the public
nind. Even the most abject portions of society are
,isited by dreams of a better condition, for which they
sere designed. The grand doctrine, that every human.
)eing should have the means of self-culture; of progress
a knowledge and virtue, of health, comfort, and happi-
less, of exercising the powers and affections of a man
that is slowly taking its place, as the highest social
truth. That the world was made for all, and nut for a
new ; that society is to care far all, that no human being
,hall perish but through his own fault ; that the great
Nul of Government is to spread a shield over the rights
of all these propositions are growing into axioms, and
the spirit of them is coming forth in all the departments
of life."
These are exhilirating views of our common huma-
nity. Too long the practice has been, among some
classes, to look upon others as so much of the rough
materials of society, which might be worked up for the
general benAt, with but little consideration of their own
peculiar claims and feelings.
,Many of the human family
hare been looked upon as so many means of production
and consumption merely, and speculators exulted or
complained, forgetful of what was really due to those
who formed the basis of their calculations. If, accord-
ing to Dr. Channing, this unholy part of a commercial
spirit is declining, and if man, in every' condition, is
approximating to the value which God and nature
stamped on the species, a great good is in coarse of de-
aelopment.—lbid.
MURDERS.—Five• convicted murders are now in gaol
in Greene County, Kentucky, awaiting sentence and exe-
cution. -Their names are Carrington, Simpson, Jason,
Bell, and Pleasant Saddler, for the murder of the W hite
family (five in number), and Josiah Johnson for the
murder of Ila Johnson.
There have been three arrivals at Boston frOm Ma-
nilla.— ships 'Unicorn and Arabella, and hark Canton
packet.
SEVERE PENALTY FOR THIEVING.—In Scott County,
Indiana. on the night of the 14th instant, three men were
shot while robbing a watermelon patch. Two of them
immediately expired. The third was expected to re-

cover.
A remedy for a shock by lighting, was publihed in
several papers some time ago. The New York San
states that it had been proml efficacious, by two late in-
stances. It consists in carrying the superabundant elec-
tric matter from the apparently dead body, by extend-
ing it on the ground, and drenching it with water.
RAILROADS IN BRAZIL.

(From the Journal de Commercio, Rio de Janeiro.)
The following Report from the Committee of Agri-
culture, Commerce, Industry, and the Arts, respecting
the Memorial of the Imperial Brazilian Railroad Com-
pany, was read and approved of. This Company was
formed under a decree of the 4th of November, 1841,
whereby exclusive privileges were granted to it for a
period of eighty years :
" Ist. That the Brazilian Government purchase four
thousand shares of the Company, equal to 500,0001.,
one-fourth of the capital to be raised.
" 2d. That the shares of the Company shall not be liable
to any embargoes, mortgages, or judicial seizures what-
ever, and shall be guaranteed in time of war.
" 3d. That: for a period of five years all the steam-car-
riages, machinery, and every kind of utensil fur the use
of the railroad imported by the Company, shall be ad-
mitted free of all duty.
" Considering the magnitude of the undertaking, and
the immense advantages attendant thereon to the Bra-
zilian empire, the Committee deem the enterprise as one
which well deserves the exclusive privilege for eighty
years granted by the Government, as also that it is en-
titled to every reasonable pecuniary support.
" But as the Ist and 3dclauses of the Memorial affect
the interests of the public Treasury, inure particularly
the Ist, to the extent of 500,0001., the rattle of tour
thousand shares, the Committee deem it judicious, in so
important a matter, previous to making its final decision,
that the Government be referred to. in order that every
information may be granted to the Chamber and the
Committee fur their better guidance.
" Chamber of Deputies, July 5, 1841.
(Signed) " RAMIRO.
" FERREIRA. PENNA."

So deplorable are the roads within the fertile provinces
through which the railroad is to pass, that it is stated,
on the evidence of the Government statistics, the actual
expenses incurred yearly in transporting the various
kinds of merchandize to Rio de Janeiro for exportation
amount to ten thousand contos and upwards, a sum of
money considerably above the capital required to con-
struct the railroad.
The undertaking is so popular, that four thousand
shares are already subscribed for, in addition to the same
number which the Brazilian Government show every
disposition to purchase, in furtherance of the interests of
the empire. Not the slightest calculation appears to
exist with reference to the shares being disposed of out
of the country, as the funds are confidently expected to
be raised among the Brazilians themselves.
The young Emperor, although only sixteen years of
age, appears to have a wife already selected for him.
The choice lies between the daughters of the Archduke
Reiner and the Prince of Salerno, whilst the Emperor's
sister reported to be affianced to the son of the Duke
of Modena.
The Imperial family appear to be universally beloved
larties of every political shade.

TWENTY SEVEN PERSONS POISONED.—
DEATH FROM EATING DISORDERED VEAL.--AbOUt nine
weeks since, a farmer named Schofield, residing in the •
further side of Spotland, had a calf dropped ilch he
wished to rear, but, as it became disordered, he employed
a cow-leech, who doctored it about four weeks, at the
end of which time it was handed over to a butcher
named Kershaw, who killed it, and sold the meat in
cheap lots, at 21d. and 3d. per lb., to people chiefly in the
neighbourhood of Whitworth, all of whom were taken
more or less ill immediately after eating it. Amongst
the rest were a decent working family named Sprawel,
to whose share fell the head and midcalf, The former
they boiled for dinner on Sunday week, and, like all
the others, they were taken ill the same day, the meat
Ilac•jng only been sold on the Saturday. The family
consisted:sr old James Sprawel, nearly seventy years of
age, his wife, an:! saveral mature sons and daughters :
and the old woman %N.'s the only one who was not se-
riously affected oy the she having
small portion of the broth. janag,-
to vomit immediately after he had only eaten a
the old man, begun
Thurs-
his dinner ;
and he continued in the same sickly state un...;1
• day week, when he died. One of the sons also 'lt
present remains in a rather dangerous condition. On
Tuesday last, an inquest was held on the body by
Mr. Dearden, when, after a patient investigation, a ver-
dict was returned which legally exonerated the vendors
of the disordered meat ; they were, however, called into
the inquest room, and severely admonished, being also
informed at the same time, that, if another death en-
sued from a similar cause, it would probably be the pain-
ful duty of the Jury to send them to Kirkdale for trial.
The number of persons thus poisoned was about 27.—
Manchester Guardian.

TA. shepherds of the Pyrenees, remarked for
their skill and hardihood as hunters. lately killed an
enormous brown bear, an animal distinct from the black
bear, which lives on herbs and roots, while the other is
carnivorous, and makes ruinous depredations among the
flocks and herds. These men were employed two whole
days in the chase, armed only with single-barrel guns,
and to finish the destruction of' their prey were obliged,'
after wounding, to assail him with the butt ends of their
pieces. They carried their game to Eaux-Bonnes, and,
having sold the flesh to the restaurateurs, who regaled
their customers with it, put the skin over the back of an
ass, and paraded it through the town, making a good
collection. The animal weighed from 400 to 600 pounds.
MYSTERIOUS ATFAIR AT BEDFORD.—Last
week, Mr. Walter Brooke, a commercial
traeveller,
thoe
f
Broinsgrove, Worcestershire, went by coach to
Swan Hotel, Bedford. On going to bed at night, he left
on the•sideboard in the commercial room a portfolio, con-
taining fifteen Si. notes, all of the Cambridge Bank, and
upwards of 'lO sovereig,ns. Next morning, shortly after
entering the room, he discovered that the portfolio had
been broken open, and notes to the amount of 251. taken
therefrom. Mr. Jebbutt , the superintendent of police,
was sent for, and a search was made by him amongst the
domestics and their apartments, but no discovery of the
lost property was made. It was suggested by the officer
that the commercial room had better be searched ; and
under the oil-cloth near the fire-place, and also under the
carpet, was found the property in question ;t bt how or
in what way it became concealed there, remains A rays-
tery.—Cambridge Advertiser.