The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-13 00:00:00

EVENING SUN

EXTRAORDINARY SENTENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU.N.
SIR—By inserting the following lines in your
valuable journal you will oblige one who is an
advocate of justice :
A messenger in the service of the Post-office
was sentenced to be transported for life for steal-
ing one penny, and the remarks of my Lord Den-
man were enough to rouse the heart of any
man who is a friend to humanity and fair
justice. My, Lord Denman, remarks in the first
place, that the man is holding a most responsible
situation, and it is necessary to punish him with
the severest penalty the laws allowed-; secondly,
as the Mini bears a mod character, he ought
to be doubly purishCd. Therefore, a man
having .a bad character has a better chance,
should he ever die brought before my
Lord.. Sir, wenhl it not have been much
wiser, at the .same time, for his Lordship to have
said, " Ought;tlot this man to have been paid ac-
cording to. the responsible situation he was hold-
ing?"
It is my opinion that until Government pays
these hard-working classes of public servants
better, they never will protect the public from
losses over which they have no control.
Hoping the Press will take up this poor man's
case, and arouse the public feeling in his favour,
I am, Sir, your obedient and very humble
Servant, A LOVER OF J USTICE

THE « POST," or the PUSEYITES'

FAST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—The following extract from an Act of Par.
liament will show what our early Church reformers
thought of superstitious fasting; and perhaps it
will be of very great service if you will keep at-
tention to the point by occasionally republishing
it, whenever too great a stress is attempted to be
made as to the efficacy of outward fasting.
By the 35th Elizabeth, c. 7, s. 22, it shall not
be lawful for any person to eat flesh upon any
days now usually used as fish days, on pain of
forfeiting twenty shillings, or one month's close
imprisonment without bail.
By section 3p,-40-" And because no manner
of person shall misjudge of the intent of this
statute, limiting orders to eat fish, and to for-
bear the eating of flesh, but that the same is
purposely intended, and meant politically for
the increase of fishermen and mariners, and
repairing ofport towns and navigation, and not for
any superstition► to be maintained in the choice of
meats ; it is enacted, that whosoever shall,
by preaching, teaching, or open speech, notify,
that any eating of fish, or forbearing of flesh, is
of any necessity for the saving of the soul of man,
or that it is the service, otherwise than as other
politick laws are and be, then such persons shall
be spreaders of false news, are and ought to be."
Here stands a post—
Who put it there ?
A better man than you,
Touch it if you dare.
Ilfracombe, Dec. 9, 1841.

NO BIGOT.

THUGGHEE.

This iniquitous and inhuman practice is not limited
to the sphere only in which it is suspected to exist, but
has its ramifications extensively displayed throughout
the most obscure circles of society. It is as prevalent
in the City of Palaces, under the very shadow of the
Government-house, as it is in the Mofussil. The very
public Ghauts of Calcutta are paraded by Thugs,
and the mangers or boatswains of Paunchwises and
dingees are the disciples of Sivoo or Halee (the
Goddess of Destruction, as received under the faith
of the Hindoos). Instances have occurred where
native soriars have left Calcutta with large sums -of
money from houses of agency, for the captains of vessels
stationed at Diamond•harbour and in Saugor-roads,
which have never afterwards been heard of. The
writer sustained the loss of his own eerier, in
1833, whilst proceeding from Calcutta to Tumbook. No
traces of him could be discovered, and yet he was seen
at Singapore. midway, in company with a party of min-
strels. In July, 1833, a boat laden with merchanditte,
accompanied by two chaprassees, was unaccountably
lost in the Rhoop Narrain river, and in 1830 a party
of pilgrims, consisting of 95 persons of both sexes, whilst
crossing the Subun reeks river on their route to the
great Temple of Juggernaut, were waylaid by Thugs,
and precipitated into the stream. Six days afterwards the
sands were strewed with human corpses, whilst the vul-
tures and dogs followed in the train of Thuggbee. In
1830 the writer saw a huge camp of Thugs, who had
pitched their caravan under a tope of mango trees,
within a quarter of a mile of Mohammed Nugghur
Patna. They were furnished with a very effective
strength of bullocks and horses (of the Patna breed).
They remained on the spot for upwards of five days,
during which period several of the inhabitants
were missed, and could not be accounted for. They
passed onward toward Bulasore, after breaking up their
camp ; and within two days afterwards a report reached
the Magistrate of Bulasore that six human bodies had
been discovered under a bridge crossing the high-road
between the chowkee of Hudderpuddah and Buttons.
The marks of the lassee were apparent on the necks of
the deceased. This band, it was upon inquiry learhed,
had struck out of the high road to Juggernaut,• and
had pursued a westerly direction, progressing
either to Harriospore or Sumbulpore. There is
scarcely a chowkee or village throughout the south-
western districts of India that has not a corresponding
agency with Thugs. It is extremely doubtful whether the
very local or Mofussil thannas are not corrupted with
Thuggism. The most effective way to put a decided stop
to this abominable practice, would be for the Government
to hold out a vet), heavy reward to persons who could
and would furnish them with evidence sufficiently strong
to bring any Thug to conviction. Let a scale of re-
wards be published in every tbannah throughout the
country for the apprehension of Thugs, and mercenary
motives would go a great way to unveil the present fea-
tures of a most barbarous and monstrous masonry. Thugg-
hee, it is well known, is an evil that must eventually cure
itself. The temptation of a teward, upon conviction of
Thugghce, would operate most powerfully in suppressing
the crime. The mine must be laid within the camp
and sprung ; any outward assaults or invasions upon
it will prove ineffectual. Colonel Sleaman has done
much towards putting down the dreadful practice, and
it is to be hoped that Thugghee will very shortly hence
be looked upon only as a thing that has been. ,

NEW ABSTINENCE MOVEMENT.—We men-
tioned, a fortnight ago, that a number of Corn-law re-
pealers entertained some scruples of conscience about
consuming in ale and spirits the barley which might
shall
otherwise have been converted into food for famishing
-sleavwern
multitudes. Since then some movement has been made
towards establishing a society, the object of which
be to discourage the voluntary taxation thus incurred for
rsiAgnnattrceo% active
Associationm mem-
bers benefit of the landowners ; and the following decla-
iavneCihethe
decla-
ration no
fh
the
erellcei
" We, the undersigned, members of A •
As-
sociations, declare that we will not Anti-Corn-law
our-
selves, for the benefit of the landowners,"untarily tax
con-
sumption of the barley grown in by the
Ire-
land which is malted for brewing great Britain and
that we will not give our aid to or distillation, and
to free trade by paying the dutiesany Government opposed
im-
portation of foreign winesand imposed on the
pledge ourselves to abstain, spirits ; and we therefore
law, from the use of until the repeal of the Corn-
intended that, when ale, porter, wine, and spirits." It is
is likely to be oue hundred persons whose example
they shallinfluential shall have subscribed this de-
claration,be called together by circular to
take into consideration the means of promoting this self-
denying movement.—Manchester Times.
TRAVELLING E T
ure4 . , XTRAORDINARY.— w 0 WiSt.
.., residents of Petersfield, were last week neatly
gulled by a man calling himself a sailor. He stated to
those greenhorns that he had about seventy pounds prize
money to receive, and that he had drawn ten pounds at
Portsmouth to convey him and pay his expenses to
London, but which he had unfortunately lost; the re-
mainder he was to receive at Somerset Mouse imme-
diately on his arriving there, his papers for A hich he had
forwarded to his sister at liateliffe-highway. He very
generously offered the parties twenty pounds to convey
him to London in some vehicle, which they did, and
were to pay all travelling expenses. The money was
to be paid immediately on their arrival in London. The
party lived gloriously on the road, sparing no expense,
but on arriving in London Jack made a sudden bolt,
leaving his companions to travel back to Petersfield, and
to bewail their unlucky fate in having to pay the piper
out of their own pockets, instead of grasping twenty
pounds for so slight a service rendered.—Hampshire In-
dependent.
THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND " THE LIGHT,
OF ALL NATIONS."—That very fidgetty personage, Dr,
Blomfield, has, within a few days past, taken a •
which is almost beyond belief, and which we certainlystep
should have been sceptical in crediting, had ~,,,
seen his Lordship's hand-writing on the subject, lie not
actually protested against the intended Goodwin e has
light-house being called " the Light of All Nations," Sands
the ground that such appellation is one of the tides°ll"°a
our Saviour, and ought not to be " irreverent' ;
to a lighthouse. In the beautifully expresehree " applied
to
figu-
rative language of Holy Writ our Saviour • -a"
door," " afountain," " a lamb," &c. ; and is
called " a
such is the case, will Dr. Blomfield say, thatyet, because
of the things signified by such names, we in speaking
must seek for
other terms ? Nay, to go to one of his own titles,
reverend—is there not a text which, in reference to the
Deity, says, " Holy and reverend is his a
to be consistent, does not Dr. Blomfield cease ?" Why'
cease to be a
" reverend?" It the vagaries of the Bishop
pub-
lished, they would form a most amusing were
melange might be compiled that volume. A
more laughable than the " Americanwould be infinitely
old Joe Miller himself.—Sunday Times.
Broad Grins," or
A very fine grand pianoforte
las been presented
by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland to the North-
ern Asylum for the Deaf and
Dumb.--Great Northern
Advertiser.
SNIPE SHOOTING.--Our sportsmen complain
of the scarcity of these delicious birds
during the autumnal
months. The best shots, however, send most of their
game to the Brighton and Lewes markets.