The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-16 00:00:00

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their drooping loads as we passed them in our walks.
Addison says that the general salutations of his type of
all benignity, Sir Roger de Coverly, came from the
overflowings of humanity,'—so surely did these On
the whole, the Germans. seem to me the most rational
people I have seen. We never are,' but always to be
blessed.' They enjoy the present, and, with the truest
economy of human life, make the most of the materials
of contentment that God has given them. Is not this
better than vague, illimitable desires, and ever-changing
pursuits ?"—Miss Sedgwich's Letters from Abroad.
TALL DIVING.—A negro at Philadelphia, two
days since, took the end of a chain in his hand, " dove"
down thirty-six feet in the river, and fastened the chain
to an anchor with ease.—American Paper.
A LANDOWNER'S OPINION OF THE CORN-
LAws.—As one of your body, as a landowner and occu-
pier, I protest against the present Corn-laws as impolitic
and unjust, and I deny there being anything like a fit
and adequate protection. . . . But the time
is arrived when the landowners and occupiers can prove
to their fellow-countrymen, that they disdain any par-
tial or unfair advantage, and that they are ready and
willing to compete with the foreign growers on fair
and equal terms, and that they ask no favour. There-
fore, gentlemen, I trust you will, without delay, reason
this matter among yourselves, and join with me in
urging the Legislature to free us from the unjust charge
laid at our doors, and that some other plan may be
followed, if any is necessary, to regulate the tradein
corn. I perceive no other but " open ports with fixed
duties."—thus treating the food of man as every other
article of food is treated, and allowing corn at all times
to come here and be sold in our markets upon payment
of a duty of from Bs. to 10s. the quarter of wheat, and
other grain, in proportion. If any of you 'should be
alarmed at this proposition, let me remind them of what
took place in the article of wool in the year 1824, when
the import duty was lowered from 6d. per lb. to ld.,_
an alteration that was predicted by the growers of
wool at that time to be destructive to their interests •
and, it was said, must tend to the lessening of the breed
of sheep all over the kingdom. I beg to ask any flock-
master if this has been so ?—on the contrary, I aver
the breed of sheep has been increased, and conse-
quently the quantity of. British wool, in spite of the
enormous importation of that article. And this fact
leads me to deprecate the absurd cry that is now and
then heard against the principle of tree trade, which,
on a close examination, and tried by the test of experi-
ence, will be found to be based on sound sense and:os-
Lice to all countries, and to have produced an increased
degree of happiness and enjoyment of the fruits of the
earth in every part of the world. I trust, therefore, gen-
tlemen, entertaining a sincere desire to come to a just
view of our present situation, I shall be excused in thus
addressing you, and in urging you to come forward in an
endeavour to allay unjust clamour, and to prevent all ap-
prehensions of future famine, which—with our vastly
increased population, from 14 to 18 millions in England,
Scotland, and Wales, to say nothing of Ireland—can only
be done by encouraging at all times the largest supply
of food, whether of home-growth or foreign.—Letter of
Sir T. B. Lethbridge to the Agriculturists of England, sit
1838.

LABOUR.—Bread, wine, and cloth are things of
daily use and great plenty ; yet notwithstanding, acorns,
water, and leaves or skins, must be our bread, drink,
and clothing, more
did not labour furnish us with these
useful commodities ; for whatever bread is more worth
than acorns, wine than water, and cloth and silk than
leaves, skins, or moss, that is solely owing to labour and
industry ; the one of these being the food and raiment
which unassisted nature furnishes us with ; the other
provisions which our industry and pains prepare for us„
which how much they exceed the other in value, when
any one hath computed, he will then see how much la-
bour makes the far greater part of the value of things we
enjoy in this world.—Lock's Essay on Civil Governmeist..
A BEAUTIFUL STATE OF SOCIETY.—.A let-
ter from Tallahassee, dated June 10th, to a person in thip,
city, gives the following picture of the state of soelay
there :—" About four weeks since, as I was passing from
Santa Petre, a village where I reside, I ssnv an old „_
quaintanco of mine from Alabama, by the name of
Livingston, most horribly mutilated by the Indians. His
eyes were plucked out, his ears, nose, and both hands
cut off. He was really the most awflil-looking object I
ever beheld, '?lose who live in your country may tack
of the w4v ending, but if they were here their opinions
would change. !I:here are no signs of such a thing—it
may last, from present appearances, for twenty years,
The bilious and congestive fevers have raged to a consi-
derable extent in this place. Many persons have died.
CHO fitlVet,4, 44 you may be aware, have been the thua-
tres of some deep, dark, and bloody tragedies ; morals
are indeed out of tune. One thing, however, we need
not starve. as we Imo plenty of fish, game of every
dcscription, and vegetables in abundance. Those ever.-
lastiog fbvers, I fear, will long continue to ea at a mildew
over human happiness in this regioo,---New York Papm
QUALIFICATIONS Or A YANKEE.--The fol-
lowing description al a Yankee was given in a recent
lePttire et Banton ;—" If you place him on a rock in the
midst of the ocean, with a pen-knife and a bundle of
shingles, he would manage to work his way on shore,
He sells salmon from Kennebec to the people of Charles-
ton ; haddock from Cape Cod,' to the planters of
Mot4nsas; raises coffee in Cuba; swaps mules andhorses
for molasses in Porto Rico; retails, ice from Fresh Pond,
in Cambridge, to the East Indies--mutton from Brighton
at New Orleans and South America—manufactures
Mortis Multleaullif for the Governor of Jamaica—be-
comes an admiral in foreign nations—starts in a cockle
shell craft of fifteen tons, loaded with onions, maCkerek
and other notions (too numerous to mention) for Valpa-
raiso—baits his trap on the Columbia rivet—catches wild
beasts in Africa for Macomboy and Co.'s Caravan—sells
granite on contract to rebuild San Juan de Ulloa—is
ready, like Ledyard, to start for Timbuctoo to-morrow
morning'—exiles himself for years from his home, to
sketch in their own wilderness, the ' wild men of the
woods,' and astonishes refined Europe with the seeming
presence of the untutored savage—introduced to Metter-
nich, he asks him What's the news?'—says, how do
you do, Marin ?' to Victoria—and prescribes Thomp-
son's eye water to the Mandarins of China."—New
York Paper.

PURITY OF ELECTION.-_A man of the name
of Benjamin Binns, a hay-dealer, on Quarry-hill, who has al-
ways before voted for the Liberal candidates, on the last occa-
sion offered his vote to the Liberals if they would give hire Si.
This was refused, and he voted for Beckett and Jocelyn.
Of course, he got his price from the Blues. The result
plainly enough proves that. But it is impossible, of course,
to say how much that price was, and by whom it was paid.
We know, however, from the statement of the man
himself, that the Blues offered to find him the Iloor-
boards for a house that he is building, which he de-
clined, not considering it sufficient. The following is
another case of a voter seeking a bribe :—A man, of the name
of Cox, a pill doctor, living in York-street, sent up to the
Liberal Central Committee for 101. He has always before
voted for the Liberal candidates. The money was, of course,
refused, and be voted for Beckett and Jocelyn. There can be
no doubt that a bribe was both offered and accepted in this
Case, but as in almost all cases of successful attempts of bribery,
it is impossible to penetrate the veil in which both the parties
to the bargain are anxious to envelope the villany they have
committed. Another voter, who was bad in his rent, also dis-
tinctly and openly offered his vote for 101. It was refused, and
he also voted for the T es.— Leeds Times.
Qrgans are of Treat antiquity, but violins are
not. The former was first brought to Europe from the Greek
empire in 758, and violins were first invented about 1477, and
introduced by Charles 11. The gamut in music was first in-
vented by duy L'Aretin, in 1025. Musical glasses are of
German origin, but revived by Dr. Franklin, 1760.
THE CROPS.—The unsettled state of the wea-
ther has much retarded the hay harvest ; the crops an
several fields in this vicinity, after having been cut from
two to three weeks, were only secured a few days ago,
and in very indifferent condition. The present unfa-
vourable aspect of the season prevents the general cutting
of the crops, although quite ready for the scythe. Corn
in general looks well, and promises an early and
abundant harvest.— York Courant.
Wednesday, a few minutes past eight P.M., the
inhabitants residing in Coventry-street, Haymarket. were
thrown into great alarm by the sudden 00,;
sing
_lv_syn, !I:l_l7l3r-
sous places, of the fronts of two houses, N .__2r6. sod 27, a
veutry-street ; No. 26 in the occupation. of 111
cheesemonger, and No. 27 in the
bread and biscuit-baker.
AN ENGLISH TRAVELLER.--" You may
occupation of Mr. Taverner„
quantity
for comfort (alas com-
fort him by the q
by every ingenious contrivance 't and variety of his luggage,
impregnable English trunks, tra-
velling implies fixture),
d . • f all the
vellino.. bags, dressing-cases,Tller civilisation generates, and all, in
possible wants that provisions or
ei‘sueno flexibility about an
travelling armour.
and
cies. lie must stand
.
forth, wherever he goes, the irn
0 adaptation to circumstances exigen..
island-home. . I said his luggage
personation
0 Englishman,dnloiln;
ofl a
and demeanour n'
his is iome
tra) e in sure his face
muscles are in a state of tension, his nerves seem to be
on the outside of his coat, his eyebrows are in motion ,
looks, as my friend,he says she felt when she first came
to such a place as thus,
as if all the people about her
: his voice is quick and harsh, and his words
none the sweetest, so that you do not wonder the
Cwoenretirn of
stal people have fastened on him the descriptive
sobriquet of Monsieur God d--n.' "—Miss Sedwick's
Letters from Abroad.

GERMAN ACTORS." W Were fortunate in
seeing one of the great dramatic performers of Ger-
many, Emile Devrient. The play was one of the Prin-
cess Amelia, s ; a tale of domestic sorrow, as I ascertained
by my interpreters. There was no scenic effect, no
dramatic contrivance to aid it. The scene was not once
shifted during the play. Devrient seemed to me, as far
as I could judge merely from his action, expression, and
voice, to deserve the applause showered on him. The
playing was all natural, and the voices of the women
marvellously sweet. Have I never yet remarked to you
the sweet, low tone of the German woman's voiFe?
i
From the cultivated actress to your chambermaid, it s
a musical pleasure to hear them speak. is it an atmos-
pheric effect, or the breath of a placid temper ? The:
l
atter, I thought, when, a moment since, my inkstand
was overset, and the girl summoned to repair
themis-
chieflike heldtone,a p
uprhoelronligaenddsg,—smui_ledt,l a(gnododut:t)e,r,_ed iniiss a
sfieudteg:
wick.

Last week, as Thomas Spencer, a labouring
man, was collecting some small stumps of furze on the
top of a cliff, on the lands of Kiloton, between Bonma-
hon and Stradbally, county Waterford, and was pulling a
stump, it broke with him, and he was precipitated a
long distance down the cliff on the strand, where the sea
rolls in, and where his body was found, with broken.
bones.—Limerick Reporter.

We hear that the Duke and Duchess of Rich-
mond, together with the Earl of March, and all the mem-
bers of the family, will leave Goodwood during the
Races; in consequence of their late melancholy bereave-
ment, but that the usual party will be invited, and that
the Hon. S. Byng will do the honours and duties of hos-
pitality.—Brighton Gazette.
THE Loo, JULY 11.—The Falconry was
ended yesterday by Mr. Charles Stuart Wortley, u the oldest
Member present. The number of herons taken is 237.