The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-30 00:00:00

THE METEOItS.

On the very interesting sukect which has of late oc-
cupied so much of *Public attention, both in Europennd
America, the periodical return of the meteors. in
August and November, we have been. favoured with the
following communication from Sir John Herschel :
To the Editor of the Athenceum.—Sir,_. the bright
moonlight of the 9th inst. having prevented my obtain-
ing satisfactory observations of the meteors, to whose
periodical return on the 9th and 10th of this month Professor
Quetelet has drawn much 'attention, as being more regular
than the displays of the 12th and 13th of November, allow me,
in place of observations for the current year, to offer, as my
contribution to our stock of knowledge on the subject, the fol-
lowing incidental mention of such an occurrence, which occurs
in Sir W. Hamilton's Recount of the great eruption of Vesu-
vius in Aug. 1799, printed in the Transactions of the Royal
Society, volume 70, which will be read with the more in-
terest, the periodical nature of the phenomena being then
unknown, 'and its occurrence being ascribed •by him to
some local electrical agency developed by. the Volcanic
ejections. " August 9, 1799," after describing the
phenomena of the eruption during the day till seven
o'clock at night, "when all was calm," Sir W. Hamilton
goes on to say, "it was universally remarked, that the
air this night, for many hours after the eruption, was
filled with meteors, such as are vulgarly called falling.
stars. They shot generally in a horizontal direction,
leaving a luminous train behind them, but which quick-
ly disappeared. The night was remarkably fine, star-
light, and without a cloud. This hind of electrical fire
seemed to he harmLss, and never to reach the ground, where-
as that with which the black volcanic cloud oflast night
was pregnant, appeared. mischievous, like that which at-
tends a severe thunder•storm." The meteors of August
9, 1840, in so far as I observed them, radiated almost
without exception from a point in the heavens very near
the star Gamma, in the constellation Perseus ; which is
almost coincident with the point (near the star 13'Ca-
melopardali) from which I observed them to emanate on
the 10th August, 1839. . Facts of this nature appear al-
most decisive in favour .of the opinion, that a zone or
zones of these bodies revolve about the sun, and are in-
tersected by the earth in its. annual revolution.--4 have
the honour, &c.

J. F. W. lARSCHELL.
Collingwood, Aug. 15, 1841.

. ,
FftIGIITFUL AtCItiENT.—On Wednesday
night, between nine and ten o'clock, another of those
dreadful accidents to which, all are so liable who,venture
in the ricketty swings and " turn overs" Hit fairs, occurred
to a young married woman of the name of Esther Bon-
sey. On the afternoon in question,. the unfortunate
woman, accompanied by her husband and a party of
friends, proceeded- to Camberwell fair, and, after visiting
the shows, &c., determined upon getting into one of the
swings for a ride. The party accordingly went into one,
and at their own request it was propelled to the greatest
height the machine would allow. In this way the
swing had been going on for several minutes, when
Mrs. Bonsey suddenly rose from her seat, and at the .
instant of the highest elevation, she was pitched out
head foremost to the ground, a fall of at least twenty or-
thirty feet. The violence with which she fell was dread-
ful; and the screams of those in the swing alarmed all
those who heard them. As soon as possible the machine
was stopped, and the poor woman was lifted from the
ground. She was perfectly insensible, and was bleeding
profusely from the mouth and ears. She was conveyed
most promptly to Guy's Hospital, where it was ascer-
tained she was suffering from a severe fracture of the
skull. She now lies in that institution .without hope
of recovery. It could not be ascertained whether shi -
had been seized with giddiness, or that it had been caused
in a spirit of foolhardiness, she being at the time in a
state of excitement, but not arising from any excess of
drinking.
The Univers says, "A letter from Tangiers, sth
inst., informs us that the Emperor of Morocco has just
authorised an expeditionary cruise against all the Powers
which have not official representatives at Tangiers. if
the King of Sardinia, who is in this category, shOuld be
attacked by the privateers of Morocco, we recommend
him to take advantage of the occasion for doing at Tan
giers what wo have done at Algiers."'
Among the most conspicuous illuminations 01. i
Thursday evening, was that of Mr, F. Shoberl, jun., t
Rupert-street, Printer to his Royalliighnese. It con
sisted of the Prince's motto, Trcu and Fest (true end
faithful), beautiful!), displayed in variegated lamps, with
the initials P. A. mid a Star, surmounting the Royal Arm
M. Odillort- Barrot has been natnedßresidety
of the Council-General Of the Alen& f

The. Cornikerce states that, a gentle ban, with.
his wife and his niece, was attacked on Sunday evening
in the Bois de Boulogne by two footpads, who attempted
to rob them. While the gentleman was, defiMding him
:alf with his cane, the. cries of . the ladleS brought soccu
persons to their assistance, and the as:sailants *made off.

NAVIGATION of the EUPHRATES.

[Connected with this subject, and so immediately brought
to interest the public by very recent advices, we have "
much pleasure in 'throwing a farther light upon these
important Asiatic measures.--Ed. Lit. Gaz.]
A short time ago there appeared in the newspapers a
'brief statement of the arrival of two steamers at I3alis, on'
the Euphrates. Our readers, who all along had fell and.
complete .accounts of the Euphrates' expedition, will be
glad to hear of the successful termination of this enter-
prise. It will be remembered that, after the loss of the
Tigris steamer, the Euphrates attempted the ascent, but
failed on account of her deep draught of water, which
'amounted to three feet, while the Tigris only drew
'eighteen inches. Colonel Chesney and the officers of the
Euphrates having returned to England, the charge of the
steamer left was entrusted to Captain Lynch, of the In-
dian navy, who, between that period and the present,
effected two very remarkable exploits: first, the ascent
of the river Tigris as far as close to where it receives
the Great Zab, and where he was not stopped by
want of water. but by the force of the current; the second
was, to take the steamer from the river Tigris to the
Euphrates by the most northerly of the canals on the
alluvial plain of Babylonia. In the accomplishment of
this latter task the paddle-boxes were sometimes sus-
pended over hard and dry ground.
Government, however, never abandoned the original
undertaking, and between that period and this no feWer
than four iron steamers, of light draught of water, and
constructed for river service, have been sent out to the
Eurptirates ; but unfortunately with inefficient crews, or
the ascent of that great river would have been before at-
tempted. Two of these steamers (we believe the Nilo-
eris and Semiramis) have now accomplished what puts
beyond all doubt the long-vexed question as to the pos-
sibility of navigating the river Euphrates.
We are not, at the twelfth hour, going to run over
again the important commercial and political advantages,
and, still more, the' great advantages to progressive civi-
lization, which the. opening of such a navigation offers
to Great Britain, and to sympathizing. humanity,
wherever it is to be found: Let us hope 'that, whileother nations are'talking of these- things, England will
be doing them. •
We have it in our power mention one or two
curious' little. filets in dentiection- with the progre.so of
these events. The suecessful-resUlt of the mission sent

by the Society for pr6moting Christian Knowledge to
the patriarch of the Chaldean Christians inliurdistan,
and which mission sprang out of the Euphrates expe-
dition, has not failed to awaken the greatest interest
among all to whom the fate of the Eastern Christian
nations possesses the slightest• attraction ; but it intlu
enced still more strongly the opposing churches of the
New, Worhl, one branch of which had already a very
extensive mission at Urinujelt in Persia, and close to the
Chaldean mountaineers.

Two missions have, in consequence, reached Mosul

this spring and summer. The first is composed of two
reverend gentlemen with their wives, one of whom is to
remain at the Mesopotamian capital, the other is to take
up his residence in the mountains. These parties are
Congregationalists ; and a third (Dr. Grant), who has
already distinguished himself by his labours among these
interesting people, has lately left Constantinople, also on
his way to the same field of good works.
In the meantime the Episcopalian mission from the
United States has not been inactive among Christians
with whom it especially feels -called upon to ally itself in
brotherly and religious affections, since they belong to
one of the oldest apostolical churches in the world, and
one which has not protested against, for it has never
tainted or corrupted by, Romish heresies. •
We, learn; by'our private advices, that the Rev. Mr.
Southgate, of the United States Episcopal Church, and
known by his travels in eastern countries, has arrived
at Mosul, • and is' in hopes of inducing a Chalthan bishop
to return with him to visit his brethren of the New
World.

In this activity for the welfare, and wish for the
friendship of the-Chaldeans, which has suddenly sprung
up, England has alone been slow iu her operations. Mr.
Bastam is now her Majesty's Vice-Consul at Mosul,
where he will do all that is in his power to keep up
the friendly alliance which was established by the
mission, of which he was a member. A learned and
reverend divine of Oxford has, we have, heard, offered
his services to visit the mountaineers; and for them, as
for all classes of Christians in the East, we sincerely
hOpe that the residence of a Bishop in the Mediterranean
Sea will be replete with many advantages.
The next interesting fact that it is in our power
to communicate concerns more general civilization ;
and it is to the effect, that a gentleman,
-also connected with the Euphrates expedition, and
holding an official situation at Baghdad, has had sent
over to that place various of the latest improve••
ments in agricultural implements, and among those es-
pecially a number of ploughs, a press for cotton, &c. &c.
These he intends to bring into full operation, with the
assistance of natives only ; as also improved means of ir-
rigation ; besides he is going to introduce the
cultivation of cotton and sugar, for .both of which the
country is admirably adapted. These movements are
calculated to have a great effect upon those countries
with the progress of time. .
We have been led into-this momentary digression con-
cerning the advanconf civilizition in Western Asia, from
having read this week a 'letter, 'running the round of the
newspapers, from One of the officers of the steamers en •
gaged on the Euphrates, who; in the feelings naturally
suggested by their triumphant success, calls attention to
the prospects now held out in the East, and truly ex-
claims, " may civilization, flying on the wings of com-
merce, carry with it the blessings of the Gospel of sal-
vation !"

We would beg leave, however, in relation to this
letter (which has appeared in a Liverpool journal, and
been copied generally by the press), to set the public
right upon a few facts. The Yezidis arc- not, as has
been calumniously stated by the Christians of the East,
worshippers of the devil, nor of a peacock ; but they are
among all Orientals who are not Christians, those Who
are most open to receive its saving light.
The names of almost every place noticed in the letter
are calculated to mislead. Perisalom is I'erisabor ;
l'ylor of Xenophon, 1100:1, Pykr, of Xenophon; Euri
is Erzi, or Ezra ; Thapsacus is not at Al Der the mo-
nastery, but at Al Hammam, near Rakkeh ; Raccaba is
Rahabah, the Rehoboth of the Scriptures ; Tenobia is
Zenobia.

The crusaders can scarcely be' expected to have ex-
tended their power to Jiaber, when they were so often
defeated at Harran, which is not more than twelve miles
from their stronghold, Edessa. And the Taurus is at a
much greater distance than the writer appears to ima-
gine, when he says the distant Taurus re-echoed the
royal salute fired at Bans, or Baulus, a: he writes it—the
ancient Barbalissus. He thinks that the river may be
navigated to the heart of Taurus. This is not so impro-
bable as may appear at first sight. The cataracts of Sa-
mosata, noticed by Pliny, are rapids of no importance ;
and there are only five rapids, one of them a fall of a few
feet, between Ergan Kalehsi and Malatiyah. The new
iron steam-boat, which passes the rapids on the Danube
above Orsovar. perhaps overcomes as great obstacles.*—
Literary Gazette, Aug. 21.

0' Under the circumstances we have not thought it neces-
sary to print the letter: at any rate this week.--Ed.

CORN-LAWS.—The farmers and tenantry can-
not eventually suffer from a repeal of these laws. A lower
price for corn and cattle will be favourable to them un-
der every view of the question, and their rent and tithe
must be lowered in proportion. Where leases exist (an
article not very rife with landlords since the Reform
Bill), a power can be given to abrogate them. Their
poor-rates and their county-rates will be diminished one-
half. Content and honest among the labourers
will surround their homesteads, and the odious rural po-
lice be as unknown as the wolf in their districts. I be-

Here a review of the condition of their ancestors would
prove that the farmers of tho present day are neither as
opulent, as contented, or as happy a race of men as the
tenantry of former times ; also that most of the present
race farm upon borrowed money, at high interest, as is
well known, and a large proportion of them die insol-
vent, leaving families educated and brought up beyond
their useful sphere of life, and left to the mercy of
a scornful world. On this theme much more might
be said, and on the gambling speculations of large
farms, taken with a view of high prices for corn and
produce, and supported by the erroneous system of country
banks. Let me now ask, who then will suffer from a repeal
of these laws? The answer is simple; Those who i.- . •
them; those who, as legislators, in 1815, coin • , -- I •
Cabinet,ot Lord Liverpool to enact laws to raise 7.'"Price
of agricultural produce, in order to keep up the high
rents of land, and remove from the shoulders of the
landed interest, including the,titheowners, that burthen
of taxation which the wanton and extravagant expendi-
ture in the late war had imposed upon the nation. The
avowed object of these laws, was to keep up wheat to
80s. per quarter on the average of years, and other arti-
cles of rural produce in proportion ; but the projectors
of these Corn-laws were not adepts at their ownprojects,
and they did not succeed.. They then altered them in
1822, which laws then became a prohibition, and still
failed in keeping up the prices, mainly owing to produc-
tive crops. George Canning, who became Premier
in 1827, did not scruple to aid the landed proprietors in
their new scheme of a sliding scale of duties and ave-
rages. This discovery had the happy effect of destroy-
ing all legitimate trade in corn, and keeping up its price
to at least one-third beyond the continental prices, and
thus kept the people of this mighty empire in a state of
famine. It was also a proscription of British manufac-
tures ;_ a bar upon commerce ; and produced the neces-
sity of that stringent and severe administration of Poor-
laws that has now severed the operative classes from the
masters and landlords, and laid the foundation of an
, "Iliad" of woes for the British isles.—Lord Teynhant on 1
I the Corn-laws. 1
• DOCTRINE
THE PREACHERS OF COMPF.N-
SATION..--a was lately confirmed in these desires by hearing a
sermon at church. The preacher, a man esteemed for his
orthodoxy, unfolded in the ordinary manner the doctrine of
the last judgment. He assumed that judgment is not executed
in this world; that the wicked are successful; that the good are
miserable; and then urged from reason and from Scripture a
compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No
offence appeared to be taken by the cangregation at this doc-
triaer As far as I could observe, when the meeting broke
up, they separated without remark on the sermon.
Yet, what was the import of this teaching? What did the
preacher mean by saying that the good are miserable in the
present life? Was it that houses and lands, offices, wine,
horses, dress, luxury, are hail by unprincipled men, whilst the
saints are poor and despised ; and that a compensation is to be
1
made to these last hereafter, by giving them the like gratifica-
tions another day—bank-stock and doubloons, venison and
champagne ? This must be the compensation intended.; for
what else? Is it that they are to have leave to pray and
praise, to love and serve men ? Why, that they can do now.
The legitimate inference the disciple would draw was, " We
' are to have such a good time as the sinners have now ;" or, to
push it to its extreme import, " You sin new ; we shall sin by
and by ; we would sin now if we could ; not being successful,
we expect our revenge to-mdirow."—Emmerson s Essay on
Compensation.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF ARISTOCRA-

TIC LAW-MAKING.

" The cause of the general distress will be found in the
selfishness and misgovernment springing from the great mon-
ster evil, the monopoly of legislation."

Nonconformist, No. XVIII.
We select from the daily papers, immediately suc-
ceeding our remarks upon the aristocratic
.principle, the
following illustrations of the misery flowing from the
system of hereditary legislation—the germ of all mono-
polies, and the Well-spring of selfishness
At the Guildhall yesterday, no less than four indi-
viduals were brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, who
Committed offences for the mere purpose of gaining the
temporary shelter of a station house, and the chance of a
crust of bread. Crime, therefore, is better off in Eng-
land than poverty. To be entitled to protection, shelter,
and food, a man must be a criminal. Such a fact, though
there were only one in a year, instead of crowding upon
us four in a day, would be an unerring indication that
our legislation requires revision.
" The process of debasement and degradation seems to
be this ; scarcity of employment and scarcity of food, as
they are felt in class after class, make one class press
down ,on the other, and squeeze out the lowest to utter
destitution. Amongst the humble classes. there is a
great deal of Charity ; they help each other; but when
all find it difficult to live, they are obliged to deny succour
to the most distressed, who are driven to commit offences
that they may drag out their miserable existence a few
days or weeks longer. We are much afraid that the
misery which thus forces itself into public notice, bears
only a very small proportion to that which hides itself,
and perishes in obscurity. We are much afraid, too,
that reckless despair instead of blithe and careful hope,
is becoming, from continual disappointment, the preva-
lent disposition of our people ; and that those who deny
them bread and a fair field for their exertions, will have
to answer, not only for starving many out of existence,
but for the moral debasement of all."---LSun,.4ug. 12.

The people are fast getting o- to know that forcible re-
sistance to the • law is absurd, for the aristocracy have
provided, and can provide against this—they can starve
a sufficient number of the poor into ignorance and en-
listment as soldiers, and arm them to keep down the rest,
and rake them pay the instruments. Whilst the mass
are foolish enough to be incited to force and reßelliOn,
and the aristocracy can vote themselves secret ;service
money, they will never want for spies to incite the igno-
rant, and gibbet them as terrible examples .at once of
folly, fraud, and:bitterncs.% Both sections, too have con=
curred in drilling and organizing a police soldiery that
could be made more effectual for both purposes.. If they
would Win equal laws the people must not resort to vio-
lence. If the-practice of seeking a prison instead of the
union should generally obtain among the starving and
rootless that they may obtain food and shelter, the aristo-
cracy will find it a more difficult thing to deal with • than •
an outbreak of physical violence. •
Two'nien were tried during the present assizes for kill
ing a. sheep, not with any felonious intent, but. that'
they might be transported—the aristocracy having most
benevolently enacted that the act, irrespective. of the
motive, shall be so puniShed ; and these poor wretches,
desiring to be sent out of this happy country, gave in-
formation against themselves, that they might avail them-
selves of the wretched provisions of this blind law, made
by the " Corinthian pillars of polished society." It is
not only blind, but merciless, for the Judge said he had
no discretion.

Would such a law, with such a punishment, exist if
poor men were represented in Parliament? Thus society
is suffering the natural consequence of converting the
new union-houses into a prison, and of evading the
claims of the wretched upon technical points, whilst the
poor grow desperate from want of food, clothing, and
shelter. • There is now, we fear! but little difference be-
tween the two shelters, except that relief is secured at
once in the one case, and is protracted in the other. By
this absurd law our wretched poor have now the power
to compel the country to pay the expense of their emi-
gration to a place where they may be better off, and can-
not be worse. We proceed with our extracts:—
" CAUSE AND EFFECT.—The uneasy state Of ,ithe
public mind in Ireland, produced by the prospect _of a
Tory Government, has induced her Majesty's representa-
tive to recommend that an addition be made to the mili-
tary force in that country. We have, of late years, had
the pleasure of reporting a reduction in the army sta-
tioned there. We have now the unpleasant duty of
stating that a regiment of cavalry is ordered to proceed
to Ireland forthwith, to be followed by two infantry re-
giments."-.—Sun.
This is quite consistent with Lord John's intimation to
the electors of London—which the Morning Chronicle
called a state paper.
In the outset of that pledge-myself-to-nothing docu-
ment, he volunteered this intimation to his Tory
cousins :--

" It would be inconsistent with my notions of public
duty to harass the Government of the day by vexatious
opposition, still less to deny to the Crown the means of
maintaining the reputation of the country abroad, and in-
ternal quiet at home."
Lord Ebrington, a pet Whig, is carrying out the hint,
—if the section cannot give good measures, they can
make the people submit to bad ones. The passage,
being translated, means, " It would be inconsistent with
my notions of di4y to my order to -deny to the order'
the means of compelling the people to submit to. laws in-
volving their starvation."
• Read agaia the paragraph—he falsely assumes that
some one had asked him to harass the Government by a
vexatious opposition, and to deny to the Queen the Means
of maintaining the reputation and peace of the country:
Men resort to false assumptions to veil dishonest or indi-
rect purposes—his purpose was to tell the people that he
considered the interests of his " order" more important
than theirs ; and that though he was going out protest-
ing in words against the prohibition-of-food laws, he
meant that the Tories should have the soldiery to com-
pel them to submit to those laws. He well knew there
was no other cause for apprehension at home, and that
the Crown was never more popular. Contrast the
Queen's. present visiting tour with the apprehension
as, to the late King's visiting the citizens. We do not
object to the purpose, but we point out the anxious and
unnecessarrvolunteering of the information, to show that
thq love of the order" is paramount to the love of the
country ; that is, as we use the word, of the interests of
the people. With the aristocracy it is the class first,
and then the people ; but the class at all events—it must
be so, whilst we have privileged classes irrespective of
living merit.
We proceed with our illustrations of the effects of
aristocratic selfishness and its spirit :
"GAME PRESERVES.—The extent to which the system
of game-preserving is carried is almost incredible ; for
not alone in the ranks of our proud and overbearing
aristocracy are game-preservers to be found—the mania
extends to tradesmen,—aye, to Liverpool tradesmen too,
—and we are bound to say . that the proceedings of the
latter class are often characterised by a spirit of petty
vindictiveness and spleen generally unknown amongst
despots of a more elevated grade. We spoke of Lord
Stanley preserving lands not his own ; the same remark
will apply, in an equal degree, to the Earl of
Sefton.: The latter Nobleman commences with
his preserves at Croxteth, and extends it through Kirby
Simmonswood, Aintree, Sefton, Thornton (a township in
which lie scarcely owns an acre of land), Altcar, to the
sea—a space, as the crow flies, of some twelve miles in
length, and averaging two miles in width. Lord Sefton
should not put the county to expense for punishing tres-
passers on twenty-four square miles of land. Some years
ago his lordship's keeper, Joseph Warner, of Altcar, was
left for dead by some poachers, who were transported
for the crime ; but the expenses of the prosecution were
borne by the county. Within our recollection one of
Lord Skelmersdale's keepers in Latham, was shot dead
by a poacher, who was never taken. In Anglesea, the
convict Chub now lies under sentence of death for the
murder of a gamekeeper. We repeat, then, game pre-
servers should dip into their own pockets, and not into
those of the putilic to pay for their whims."—Liverpool
Albion. _ _ _

It is not only the expense to society, but the moral
destruction of the men, and their unfortunate, and from
thenceforth miserable, wives and families..• From that
time, too, the bereaved wife may be shut up in a new
union, if she cannot drag up her helpless children, though
able to maintain herself—in this way women are constantly
the victims of bad laws, and of the temptatlons4of
tress and misery into which they are plunged by the im-
prisonmentl and transportation of their fathers, hus-
bands, and sons. , _ _

" .i.-FREEf.ThADZ MISSIONARY FROM THE UNITED
iSn'TgA
tT: Ameil ttindbder: SolV an delivered
the
the
mane Manchester
r TuesdayAnti.corne_vieniii;
Association, by J. Curtis, Esq., of Ohio, North America,
upon the capabilities of that country to supply s with corn
and provisions. He stated that he was authorlsed bythe
public voice, in the United States to state that nothing
was more desired by his countrymen than to exchange
their agricultural produce for the manufactures of Eng-
land. He was listened
to with great interest whilst he
went into a great variety of facts, showing- the rich re-
sources of the`gveat
west,' and at the close of his ad-
dress a vote of thanks was unanimously tendered to him
by the meeting.
make a tour through
":—Breadtux-ttlll
United States to
the principal towns
for the purpose explaining the capabilities of the
le understand lqr. Curtis
o f
the intends
kingdom to
Can any
population. A cdeirticcuielanre.y of food for our
the
erhat if our aristocratic leis-
lators permitted our brethren in America to pay the im-
mense sums they owe us by their flour, that our mer-
chants would have been paid their debts, and our work-
men kept in employ ?
Now, mark how these gew-gaw titles seduce those who
once were generous, and in some degree disposed to equal
rights and equal laws :
" We hear it. rumoured that Sir Francis Burdett is at
Drayton Manor, fishing for a Peerage."—Sun.
This plague spirit runs away with every thing that is
generous and noble in men's nature. It is not alone the
renegades and the demented whom the law of primogeni-
ture, and the folly of hereditary titles seduce from the
nobility of nature, and convert into subservient cringing
idlers but those who have been great and useful, when
they get dry and shrivelled, are made Lords, and become
the parents of idle and useless men and women, despising
work and promoting corruption and patronage that they
may be placed or pensioned upon society. The suppres-
sive.effects of hereditary titles are more injurious 'than
the positive, and they are blighting and destroying. It
is the black jaundice of the body social.

THE STORM.—The thunder-storm of Saturdal
last raged violently throughout the Potteries. The electric
fluid struck a building at Habley and did some injury, scorch-
ing a child's hair. At Burtlem a large tree was struck, which
presents a shattered appearance. Several little injuries were
also sustained in various parts of the Potteries, but we are
hapfl to hear of none of a serious nature.— Stafford Gazette.
Among the numerous interesting facts recorded
in the census returns for Scotland, the. following affecting case
appears under the head of the parish of Kirkpatrick, Iron Grey,
Stewartry of Kirkcudbright :—" Slept in a barn a soldier's
widow of- Highland regiment, whose husband mid ten sons
I fell in battle.'