The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

LITERATURE.
THE FLORIST'S JOURNAL

Contains some excellent advices for the cul-
ture of several delicate exotics, and possesses a
coloured plate of an ornamental flower-bed, so
grouped, by the Duchess of Bedford's gardener,
as to give the greatest effect to the fbrms and
colours of the flowers composing it.

LONDON JOURNAL AND REPERTORY OF
ARTS, SCIENCES, AND MANUFACTURES.

Among other patented improvements, Mr.
Maughan, instead of the pole and cross-bar now
employed in the construction of " curricles,"
advises the adoption of two pairs of shafts,
creating thereby greater elegance of appearance
and freedom of action to the vehicle. Woven
wool or rope, covered with India-rubber, is pro-
posed under another patent as a substitute for
corks. A series of patents for improvements in
weaving-looms and .cotton-machines should be
looked into by every master manufacturer and
artisan.

FINE ARTS,
A PLAN OF THE TOWN OF WELLINGTON
PORT NICHOLSON.
Port of Larnbton Harbour, or Port Nicholson, New Zea-
land, comprehending about one.third of the water front-
age of the town of New Zealand, 6-c. Hultnundel.
These are two showy delineations, published
by the New Zealand Company, of the town they
have partly founded, and intend to found, at
Port Nicholson, New Zealand. The plan of the
town looks on paper most magnificent; such re-
gular streets, noble quays and wharves—such
splendid squares, canals, and basins, are quite
ravishing. The view of the harbour undeceives
us a little, for that shows us steep hills running
almost to the water's edge, and leaving only a
very small margin of ground adapted for culti-
vation between the hills and the sea, while there
seems no creek, harbour, or river to break the
continuous beach, and afford shelter or a conve-
nient landing-place to boats or small craft. The
" Plan" shows a noble wharf, the " View," a
beach on which the surf continually rolls. The
latter is what now exists, the other is what the
speculators hope to make it when they have
tempted a large number of persons to go thi-
ther, and give the Company 20s. or 12s. per
acre for the hills, which, in comparison with the
land skirting the beach, sold at the same uni-
form sums, may be worth, perhaps, a penny an
acre. The Wakefield scheme of colonization,
indeed, seems admirably calculated to give an
immense bonus to the first purchasers, and make
every successive race of purchasers, or swarm of
emigrants, contribute to swell the wealth of those
who have the first choice. Both Plan and View,
but particularly the Plan, seem well calculated
by their pictorial charms to serve the purpose of
the New Zealand Company.

EXTRAORDINARY SENTENCE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
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 man bears a good character, he ought
to be doubly punished. Therefore, a man
having a bad character has a better chance,
should he ever be brought before my
Lord. Sir, would it not have been much
wiser, at the same time, for his Lordship to have
said, " Ought not this man to have been paid ac-
cording to the responsible situation he was hold-
ing?"
It is my opinion that untiJ 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 .1 USTICE

----7---,----

THE " POST," or the PUSEYITES'

FAST.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—The following extract from an Act of Par-

liament willshow what our early Church reformers
thought of superstitious fasting ; and perhaps it
will be of very great service if you will keep at-
tention td 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 39-40—" 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 townsand 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.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY OF NEWSPAPERS.—
Yesterday morning .a young man was taken to Guildhall
Police Court, on a charge of stealing five quires and
eighteen Weekly Dispatch Newspapers from out of a
cart belonging to Mr. Edmonds, a newsman. Similar
robberies are not unfrequent, but they are seldom com-
mitted to so large an extent at one time. In the present
instance the prisoner was seen by Spring, a City police
officer, coming away from the cart with two quires
eighteen on his shoulder, which quantity was missing
from the cart; three quires more were discovered to have
been left by the prisoner just previously at a coffee-
house in Smithfield-bars. His case was ordered to stand
over until the arrival of additional evidence. The pri-
soner was formerly in the employ of a news firm in
the City.
The Hon. H. R. Yorke, of Grantham, Lin-
colnshire, M.P., visited Paisley on Saturday last, to ac-
quaint himself by personal observation with the state of
distress in Paisley, in order that he may be able to speak
of it from practical knowledge when the subject of dis-
tress shall be brought before Parliament. The Hon. Mem-
ber showed much sympathy with the distressed families
visited, and put his purse in requisition to relieve them.
Paisley Advertiser.
Died an the 24th ult., at Wigan, Miss Mary
Aspull, aged 89. On searching the house, bags of money
and notes were found to a large amount. Some of the
parties interested were engaged throughout the day in
counting the money; and in the evening a coach was
sent for, and cash transmitted to the bank in the shape
of 3,000 guineas, bank-notes, and a number of old coins,
amounting, in the whole, to upwards of 5,0001. The old
lady has also left four tenements and some land, which
will perhaps realise another 1,0001.--Liverpool Mercury.
The quantity of rain which is recorded as having
fallen at the Gardens of the . Horticultural Society a
Chiswick during the last month, was no less than 4'31
inches. The fluctuation of the barometer was conside-
rable, as on the 7th of November it was 30'391 inches
whilst on the 30th it stood at 28.845.. There was an
equally important variation in the state of the tempera_
ture, as on November 12, the thermometer stood at 63
degrees Fahreinheit ; whilst on the 16th it stood but at
15 deg., being the difference of no less than 48 deg.
INSPECTOR-GENERAL OF R AILWAys
consequence of the recent promotions in the army,. Sir
Frederick Smith gives up the appopeisenettmorelft of Inspector-
a n important tar
an com-
mandinmitsakingG en e raalt ocfhaltthaailmw.aysT,
haenndewassitz
Ma-
jor-General Pasley, of the Royal
known among engineers as Coloel PEasngtie*Gyneers, so well
this announcement, although opposed to Sir Frederick
on several points, and objecting altogether to the exist-
ence of the office he held,d we cannot do so without
acknowledging that Sir Fre
of his demeanour, and erick Smith, by the courtsey
owfithhiswdhuotmitsileha ac by his bearing in the performance
MARNOCH acquired the esteem of most of those
Magazine. held official communications.—Railway
, the talented and S d
Edwards, Saturday last the
parish of handsome pul-
pitmarnoceiilited and accomplshheda minister of the
gown, Purchasedwbas• Rev. Mr.
The gown psruebsscri tiownst
was presented to lions
Edwards by Peter
Findlater, Esq. Aberchirder. More money than was
among his hearers.
sufficient for the purpose was tendered ; and many per-
sons, desirous of subscribing, complained that they had
never been offered an opportunity of doing so.—Aber-
deen Herald. [This is the Rev. G'entleman whose set-
tlement in opposition to the non-intrusionists raised the
Strathbogie hubbub. He ought to be thankful to Cand-
lish and Cunningham. He has got a good gown, a
good living, and his name n ill go down to posterity with
the famous song, that celebrated the "Castocks of
Strathbogie.")
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Madame Ves-
tris, not satisfied with the crowds that throng to her
house every night that Miss Kemble plays, laid a fresh
bait for the public on Saturday night, in the shape of a
new farce called The United Service. As it was all but
irretrievably damned, and will probably never be played
again, it may be deemed 'almost a work of supereroga-
tion to give any account of it. However, as the subject
is a good one, and there are here and there a few smart
things in the dialogue, the farce may, if cut down, pass
, muster.

MORNING SUN

THUGGHEE.
'Fills iniquitous and inhuman practice is not limited
to tho 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 mangees or boatswains of Paunchwises and
dingoes are the disciples of Sivoo or Halee (the
Goddess of Destruction, as received under the faith
of the Hindoos). Instances have occurred where
native seders 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 soriar, 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 merchandise,
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 Subunreeka river on their route to the
great Temp!e 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 Thugghee. 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 Bustorn.
The marks of the lassee were apparent on the necks of
the deceased. This band, it was upon inquiry learned,
had struck out of the high road to Juggernaut, and
had pursued a westerly direction, progressing
either to Harriospore or Surebulpotl.r. There is
scarcely a chowkee or village throughelit 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 very 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. Tbugg-
hee, it is well known, is an evil that must eventually cure
itself. The temptation of a r eward, upon conviction of
Thugghee, 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 Slcaman 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.

CALVIN'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE:--A
letter preserved in the archaeological collections of
Grenus gives us a graphic picture of Calvin's personal
appearance. "He resembles an old hermit of the The-
bald, emaciated by vigils and fasting, his cheeks colour-
less as that of a corpse ; but his brilliant eyes glow with
an unearthly fire. His figure is slightly bowed ; the
bones seem bursting through his skin ; but his step is
ready, and his tread firm."

FATAL ACCIDENT. -- Yesterday morning,
about seven o'clock, a young man, of the name of Gif-
ford, in the employ of Mr. Chiswell, of Belmont-row,
Wandsworth-road, was drowned in the river. He was
carrying a sack of barley out of a vessel which was
lying in the Thames close to Nine Elms, and while so
engaged walking over a plank which extended across two
barges, one of the boats suddenly shifted, and the
plank fell into the water carrying with it the unfortunate
youth, who was plunged to the bottom of the river by
the weight of the sack. The body has not been dis-
covered.

The following naval appointments are to take
place : Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Brace, K C.B„
K.C.H., to succeed Admiral Sir Henry Digby, K.C.8.,
as Commander-in-Chief at the Nore ; Captain Sir Wat-
kin Owen Pell, Knt., to be Superintendent of Sheerness
Dock-yard, vice Captain Sir John Hill, Knt., re-appointed
to Deptford Victualling Department ; Captain the Hon.
Jeceline Percy, C. 8., to be Superintendent of Plymouth
Dock-yard, in the place of Vice Amiral Warren ; Cap-
tain Sir Francis Collier to be Superintendent of Pem-
broke Dockyard; and Rear-Admiral W. F. Wise, C. 8.,
is appointed to the Cape command, vice Sir Edward D.
King. Our C9ntempaKaries have announced Captain
Peter Fisher, as Comptroller-General of the Coast
Guard, but we believe, the appointment has not yet been
filled up. Captain the Hon. Richard Dundas is also
named as likely to obtain it.—Naval and Military Gazette.
ILFRACOMBEe—At the Borough Court held
on the 2d inst., presided over by Sir Bouchier Palk Wrey,
Bart., attended by his steward, T. Knight, Esq., Robert
William Dickinson, Esq., was unanimously elected Port-
reeve for the year ensuing. _

WIGTOWNSHIRE.—Whether it has been owing
to the prospect of improving times, the superabundance
of.unemployed capital, or the height to which politics
' have been carried, certain it is that more land has lately
changed owners in Wigtownshire than for a century be-
fore. In this small county within the last two or three
years, land to the amount of 314,0001. sterling has been
purchased by the Earl of Stair, the late much-lamented
James Blair,___Esq., of Penninghame, and Col. AUDowall,
of Logan. Though it is to be feared that the greater
part, if not the whole of these lands, will be settled under
the fetters of entail, which in many cases is known to
have acted as a decided barrier to improvement, it must
be admitted that the Earl of Stair has, by judicious
operations, entirely changed the face of the country at
Garthland, one of his late purchases ; and though Wig-
townshire has not been surpassed by any county in Scot-
land for the rapidity of its agricultural improvements
during the last twenty years, his Lordship has yet a wide
field of enterprise remaining, not only on the large pur-
chases he has lately made. but on the extensive estates
to which he has recently succeeded. In the neighbouring
county of Ayr several sales of land have taken place, but
by no means so extensive as in Wigtownshire.—Ayr Ob.
THE MESSRS,. STRUTT.--The Messrs. Wit.
Liam, George, and Joseph Strutt, of Derby, men of great
wealth and acquirements, employ nearly the whole of the
population of Belper and the neighbourhood, where
their works, as cotton-spinners and manufacturers, are
situated. To give higher taste to the work-people at
Belper, Mr. John Strutt has formed a musical society,
by selecting forty persons, or more, from his mills and
workshops, making a band of instrumental performers
and a choir of singers. These persons are regularly
trained by masters, and taught to play and sing in the
best manner. Whatever time is consumed in their studies,
is reckoned in their working hours. On the night of a
general muster you may see five or six of the forge-
men, in their leather aprons, blasting their terrific
notes upon ophicleides and trombones. Soon after the
commencement of this music-school it was found that the
proficients were liable to be enticed away, and to com-
mence as teachers of music. To remedy this, the mem-
bers of the orchestra are bound to remain at the works
oforroisleesvterna,ylevairdsi.
theM rd.oSaktrantatnhdasbionxgeesnicoounstlayilriong thetrive in-
struments, struments, to fold and pack up, so that, with the addi-
tion of a pair of wheels, the whole forms a carriage ;
and, with an omnibus for the performers, he occasionally
moves the corps de musique to Derby, or the surrounding
villages, where their services are required for charitable
occasions. The liberality with which this musical esta-
blishment is SCPported, is as extraordinar as its novelty.
hearwith thhiemkt who
iest performers are treto of the
th
As an incentiVe 'td 'excellence, when he Yvisits town, he
occasionally takes half•a-dozen of his cleverest people
and Friends.
A New Orleans that there is in that
paper states,
the opera and concerts, to
Gardiner's Music
city a hog with his 'ears set so far
back that he can't
hear himself squeak, except when lie is running back-
wards.
A TOUCH or THE SUBLIME.—The clouds
hung black and lowering-11c !I
vio-
lently, and as a vivid flash of rugnninlg shot across the
heavens, we discovered a fat ni like the devil
lightning
nder ripped away
gger g
across the watermelon patch !
have broken usually
dear
yartments in the city have at
tion of the undergrounbreeap.eet of water. This of course
f
The springun t
sin he n ght
ibiloa Year, , daeodf
aCghriecalti e p
es t err-
this time from onebtotatnts
to
very great inconvenience.
subjects the inhabitants
which generally
redundant
isquite dry, presents-
h eight months of the year
through fiTol iwe brookstheir
banksin th e;
and
appearancether neighbourhood,oferaarapid
ntt manyrr
epnl over-
flow
at this time the
shire Advertiser.
proverb.
symptom
its of
re
sinhfieuence of
living are the most common causesof this
is
so
roefltieenve but
the asysstey
affection. Solomon remarks—" A merry heart doeth
of blood, causes an increased deposition of fat. Good iner.
good like a medicine ; but a broken spirit drieth the
bones." " Laugh and grow fat," says the old
moorC health.°
arnP duNigeaout oucdrYe
adds to
tSterne
raobserves—his"lEifev.e”ry
Itinmaielandminang
to
olautgbhe
a life of ease in causing corpulency, Dr. Arbuthnot says
—you may see an army of 40,000 soldiers, Without a t
man among them, but I dare affirm, that with plenty of
rest, 20 out of 40 shall grow fat." Whoever saw a fat
post-boy?--- Winslow, in the Polytechnic Journal.
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.—TaIk of Paisley, and
the poverty of 'its unemployed population ! Most sin-
cerely do we sympathise with these people, and happy
are we to observe the successful exertions made to miti-
gate their sufferings. But we will venture to assert that
there arc few districts in Ireland—we see that even the
weavers and spinners of Ulster are experiencing the ge-
neral distress—in which the pressure of want is not much
the
more severely felt than in Paisley, or in any o r part
of Great Britain. As a sample of the real state °Mins,
we are anxious to call attention to the following extract
from the Kerry Examiner received this morning "Itis,we
are sorry to say, a fact but too well known that extreme
and general distress prevails at this moment among the
humble classes, both in town and country; owing princi-
pally to the late very unfavourable season, and the con-
sequent deficiency and deteriorated quality of every de-
scription of crops. This is particularly the case with re-
gard to potatoes and turf—the poor man's chief meow
of sustaining existences—Dublin Evening Post.