The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-06 00:00:00

the most unscrupulous .of politicians, and the most un-
compromising of. partisans—to an. ffice connected with
the administration of justice, outdoes all their previous
absurdities."
• The following is from the Wilts Independent :—" Ought
a tax on food, and the New Poor-law Bill to exist toge-
ther ? andi Will the people, much longer suffer them-
selves to be crucified between the two ?, Let all parties
interested look to it. Let the Cora-law men-the Now
Poor-law men—and above all let the people, and parti,
cularly the working classes, look to it, for them it con-
cerns the most deeply."

MONEY—TRADE—COMIVIZIP-CE.
At *WoolWich Dockyard 70 fresh masons are at work.
The numbcr that struck was 101.
The postponed meeting
.upon the affairs of Messrs.
Hobhouse and Co.'s bankruptcy stands adjourned to the
9

._ inst., at the White Hart, Bath.
The shoals of herrings upon the-Brighton coast this
season are said to far exceed the supply of former years.

NAVAL ANL TILIEMITAILY!

The fifth anniversary of the London Maritime Insti-
attion was celebrated on Thursday at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate•street, where upwards of sixty fiatal and
mercantile gentlemen sat down to dinner. Sir George
Cockburn filled the chair.
The Mikes of Marlborough and Wellington, on their
visiting the Tower on Thursday, were observed accidentally
viewing at the same time the smouldering embers of the
trophies from the two great fields of Blenheim and
Waterloo.

LAW A 14113 POLICE.
In the Court of Admiralty on Thursday, a suit was
brought, at the instance of the Crown, against the steam-
vessel the Duke of Sussex, belonging to the Commercial
Steam-packet Company; for damage done to her Ma-
jesty's steam vessel Lightning, on the 3d of January,
1841. The vessels came in collision, and both were
damaged ; the Lightning to the amount of 301., and
the Duke of Sussex 461. The officer in command of the
Queen's steamer acted on the rule laid down by the Tri-
nity-house, that vessels on different courses should put
their helms a port when there is a risk of collision,
while the Duke of Sussex put her helm to starboard.
The Trinity Masters were of opinion. that the Duke of
Sussex was in the wrong, and the Court pronounced for

the damage.
It will be seen from the Bow-street report, that Smith,
late principal clerk in the Exchequer Bill-office, was
fully committed to take his trial for forgery.
Mr. Gundry, whose name is so well known at the
Marlborough-street' Police-office, was -brought up on
Thursday for further examination, when the Magistrate
discharged the prisoner, but he was no sooner outside the
office than he was inside a coach, and conducted to a pri-
vate asylum at Kensington,

ECCLESIASTICAL.
A meeting of the Protestant Association took place on
Thursday, at Exeter Hall, to commemorate the discover},
and prevention of the Gunpowder Plot. One of the
speakers. said :—" He was born on the banks. of the
Boyne, where it was the custom of mothers to bathe
their children in the waters of the river, to imbue them
more perfectly with the pure principles of Protestantism.
So deeply had he been impressed with these principles,
that the only tune lie could ever learn was ' Protestant
Boys,' and the only toast he knew was The glorious,
pious, and immortal memory.'
LITERARY AND SCIENTWIC.
A new democratic - Journal in the Italian language,
has been started at Monte Video, in South America : it
is gratuitously supported by the refugees and merchants
of the place:
At a recent sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences,
M. Arago read a letter from M. Oltramare, on an un-
usual flux and reflux of the water in the Lake of Geneva,
observed on the 3d inst. after some heavy storms. The
level of the water had that day experienced a difference
of five feet nine inches in the space of two hours and

a half.
The public examinations at the University of Oxford
commenced on th® Ist inst. The number of Under.
graduates who have given in their names is 203.
SPOUTING.

A pike was caught on Tuesday last in a pond at God-
stone, Surrey, by Mr. Thomas Weller, which weighed
301b5., and measured 2 feet round the middle and 3 feet
10 inches in length.
On Thursday last 26 woodcocks were shot in the
neighbourhood of Workington, by three Cumberland
sportsmen, in a few hours.
The hare-warrens in England do not number more
than three or four : the largest is that of the Marquis
of Hertford, where the hares became so numerous about
three years agO, that it was necessary to destroy the
greater part for the preservation of the remainder. The
late constant wet weather has greatly injured these
warrens.