The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-03 00:00:00

parts of the borough he has addressed the electors with
no success ; we mean so far as applause was concerned.
Mr. 'Wilberforce and Mr. Busfield met in the street one
day last week, and on being introduced to each other did
not agree.—York Courant.

A GAME PIKE.—A gentleman, fishing in the
neighbourhood of Fochabers, a few days ago, caught a
pike, upwards of two feet long, from the stomach of
which he extracted a well-grown leveret. or young hare
—the head, shoulders, and fore-paws being as fresh and
entire as if newly coursed down. The presumption is,
not that the pike had gone a-poaching, but that pussy
had unwittingly trespassed upon the watery domain of
this sharkish gourmand.—Aberdeen Journal.
An Anti-Corn-law Association has been formed
at Birmingham, the declared object of which is to obtain
the total and immediate repeal of the existing Corn
and Provision-laws by all legal and constitutional
means, by the formation of other associations, the de-
livery of lectures, and the distribution of tracts. No
party politics are to be discussed at its meetings, which
are to be confined strictly and exclusively to the objects
of the Association. The General Committee are to
elect out of their own body a Sub-Committee, to be
called the " Executive Committee," whose duty it shall
be to conduct the business of the Association ; and elio a
Committee, to be called the "Finance Committee," to
receive all moneys on account of the Association, and
pay the same to the treasurer.
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" I'll back out of this, if you please," as the
crab said when the girl put him in the pot.
ROUEN, AUG. 24.—We have had beautiful
weather for several days, and they say there is not near
so much mischief done to the crops as reported, and that

the result will be not much short of .a.faCr average. Se-
veral English dealers are over here purchasing corn. A
new and extensive English establishment has commenced
here for building locomotive and other carriages, and
other railway business, and it is said will employ from
five to six hundred workmen. Our hotels are full every
day with English, Americans, Le., and the Grand Hotel
at Rouen has been obliged to send 'away 30 or 40 per
day, although they make up near 100 beds.
EPITAPH.
Here I lie bereft of breath
Because a cough
Carried me off—
Then a coffin
They carried me off in.
—New York Evening Post.
PRINCE ALBERT.—It is currently, and we
believe correctly, reported that his Royal Highness
Prince Albert has expressed to the gentlemen of his
suite who have seats in Parliamant, the deep regret he
would feel in being deprived of their services, and has
intimated, at the same time, his R•iyal Highness's very
decided opinion that such of them as wish to retain their
offices near his person ought either to retire from politi-
cal life or to afford their Parliamentary support to her
Majesty's Government.—Morning Post. [Surely his
Royal Highness cannot have so speedily given in his ad-
hersion to the masters of the Queen. He cannot have
entered into a conspiracy with the Tories to deprive her
Majesty of liberty. This must be a calumny.—En. Sun.]
THE WEATHER.—On Saturday and Sunday
we had excellent weather, but its effect, we regret to
say, was considerably marred by a heavy fall of rain on
Monday. The weather again cleared up yesterday, but
it is so changeable that there is no calculating upon a
continuance for any length of time. Meanwhile the far-
mers are not idle during the sunny blinks that do occur,
and we only want a week of really good weather to ren-
der harvest general throughout the country.—Scotsman.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Monday mo-ning,
considerable anxiety was felt in Aberdeen, on account of
the detention of the South mail, which did not arrive
here till about three hours past her usual time. It was
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then found that the delay liad arisen from a serious ac-
cident which had befallen the driver. A short time after
the coach had left Dundee, about half-past eleven, with
a solitary passenger inside, the driver was by some cause
or other jerked from his seat. The guard missing his
companion, dropped down, and attempted to stop the
horses; but was unable to do so, and the coach was car•
ried on to the end of the stage without guard or coach-
man, and without the least accident. The guard, though
injured, made his way to the end of the stage, where he
found the coach. Every search was made at the tithe
for the driver, but owing to the darkness of the night he
could not be found. In the morning, however, about five
o'clock, he was discovered by a countryman, in a
field a small distance off the road, where he had crawled
in order to reach a house which he thought he saw in
the neighbourhood. Assistance having. been got, the un-
fortunate man, who is very severely injured, was con-
veyed to Dundee, where he now lies in a very precarious
state.—Aberdeen Journal.
LOSS OF THE SOLWAY STEAMER.—We
have just received information from an eye-witness of
the loss of the Solway steamer, on her passage from 13e1-
fast to Carlisle. It appears that owing to the thick fog
that prevailed, the captain was unable to ascertain the
situation of the vessel, and after beating about for some
time was at length compelled to run on shore. There
were upwards of 200 passengers on board, chiefly reapers
from Ireland. When preparing to land there was a great
deal of confusion ; and many lives would no doubt have
been lost, but for the energy and promptitude of Colonel
Napier, who was one of the passengers. The gallant
officer prevented the boats from being over-crowded by
the precipitation of the Irishmen, and was heartily abused
for his pains. There were also on board 254 head of
cattle, only 54 of which were saved, and the rest of the
cargo suffered more or less damage. Our informant
states, however, that although he has seen several ship-
wrecks, he never saw one where the people on shore ren-
dered such valuable assistance, and without a single at-
tempt to pilfer. The vessel struck about 16 miles west
of Dumfries, not far from the entrance of the Solway
Firth.

LORD CONGLETON.—As few people in this
quf.rter are aware of the origin of the title wjiich Lord
Congleton has taken, we give an extract from Dr. Gold-
smith's life of the poet Parnell, an ancestor of his Lord-
ship :—" Thomas Parnell, D.D., was descended from an
ancient family, that had for centuries been settled at
Congleton, in Cheshire. His father, Thomas Parnell,
who had been attached to the Commonwealth party, upon
the restoration went over to Ireland ; thither he carried
a large personal fortune, which he laid out in lands in
that kingdom. The estates he purchased there, as also
that of which he was possessed in Cheshire, descended
to our poet, who wis his eldest son, and still remain in
the family."—Dundee Advertiser.
HOP INTELLIGENCE.--WORCESTER, AUG.
28.—The fine warm weather of the last four days has had
a most beneficial effect upon the Hop crop, which is vi-
sible throughout the whole plantation, and the prospect
is now very gratifying to the growers, who began to be
fearful that the crop would not only prove deficient in
quantity, but inferior in quality ; they are now, howe-
ver, sanguine of realizing a full crop ; and should the
present weather continue a few days longer, the sample
will be of first-rate quality. There is nothing doing on
the duty to-day, but opinions are in favour of 19,0001.
Good Hops are still in demand, but inferior samples are
quite unsaleable.

HARVEST BELL.—It has been the custom,
from time immemorial, for the parish clerk of Driffield
to ring what is called the " Harvest Bell." This custom
is observed by giving the principal bell of the church a
merry swing for several minutes, at five o'clock each
morning, and at seven each evening, to warn the labour-
ers in the harvest fields when to commence and.quit their
toils. Before the general use of clocks and watches, this
custom would doubtless be of much service. The clerk
is rewarded for his trouble with a small portion of corn
from each crop, which, like tithes, was formerly paid in
kind, but is now received by an equivalent in money.—
York Courant.

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Worcestershire Chronicle.
THE PAST.—When the art of reflection takes
place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light
of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in
beauty. Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing
forms, as clouds do far off. Not only things familiar
and stale, but even the tragic and terrible are comelY, a'
they take their place in the pictures of memory. The
river-bank, the weed at the water-side, the old house, the
foolish person, however neglected in the passing', have a
grace in the past. Even the corpse that has lain
The
soul has added a solemn ornament to the house.
soul will not know either deformity or pain. Essay on
Spirituel Laws.
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but on going to the bar it was found
lowed him to depart'
1 I drank the whisky and filled up the stoup
that he had
with water. The fellow was speedily brought back by
the landlord, but he stoutly denied having tasted- the
whisky, and refused to pay the value of it, for one of
the most Cogent reasons imaginable, that he had no
mone. Finding it impossible to obtain satisfaction,
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mine host" permitted him to depart, after bestowing
an relmonitory lack or two on his breach.—Ayr Observer
THE WEATHER AND THE. CROPS.—With
the exception of the after part of yesterday, which was
gloomy and showery, we have been favoured with an-
other week of glorious harvest weather, which the
farmers in our neighbourhood have turned to good ac-
count, the wheat fields being pretty well cleared of their
golden produce. We are happy to state that the in-ga-
thering is more than an average both as to quantity and
quality. There were many line sampleS of new wheat
in our market on Saturday, but the hot noonday sun
made the buyers cautious, lest they might burn their
fingers as well as scorch their faces, and but very little of
the new grain passed from the hands of the g rowers.
There was a fall of from Gs. to Ss. a quarter (es. 9:lcd. in
the average) from the prices of the preceding week, but
strange to say, the price of bread and flour remains the
same. How is this ?—ln another column will be found
extracts from the country papers of Saturday, which
will be read with interest, as a.fferding an index to the
state of the crops in all parts of the kingdom. [We
have learnt, after writing the above, that the price of
bread, first quality, has fallen (this day, Wednesday) to
9-4 d., and seconds, sid.—Cambridge Advertiser.