The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-10 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841.

SALMON FISHERY (SCOTLAND.)

A Bill has been brought into the House. of Com-
mons by Mr. Edward Ellice and Mr. Henry Baillie,
for the better preservation of Salmon Fisheries in
Scotland. The following are the principal
clauses :—Scotland is to be divided into twelve
districts for the purposes of tile Act. Pro-
prietors of salmon fisheries may meet and change the
close times of fishings in districts and rivers, and the
close time adopted at ''the meeting shall remain for
three Sears. The cruivee, or other devices for takiiig
salmor, grilse, &c., shall be opened to the full extent
required by former Acts, between six o'clock on Satur-
dey night, and sunrise on Monday morning, and that
an ample space shall be made for the free passage of
the fish. This clause does not apply to fishing with net
or coble, according to law. Clause 8 regulates the
size and positon of the cruive in a river. It shall not
be lawful to place any fixed engine, net, machine, or
device in or across the' mouth of any river, soils to pre-
vent the run of salmon-up the river ; and all milldams,caulds, &c., which shun not have been used for.
two years shall be so altered as o permit
the free run of fish over them, provided always
that no such alteratiO shall prejudice the going
of the mills situate upon' the river, inspectors are to be
appointed by the sheriffs of counties specified in the
schedule ; the salaries of such inspectors to be paid by
the proprietors of the fishing. Clause 15 enacts that
fourieen clear days after close time has commenced; it.
shall be lawful for persons duly authorised to angle for
salmon, erase, sea trout, ar other fish of the salmon
kind, prchided they are.6tot sold, The clause relating
to cruives-, &e-., shall not apply to riVers, the right to the
fishing of which is vested in one proprietor only. One
half of the flees, some of which are heavy, is to be paid
to the informer, and the other half is to be appl ed to-
wards defraying the expenses of carrying the Act into
execution in the district. The Act is net to extend to
England, Wales, Ireland, or Berwick-upon-Tweed, or
to the fisheries on the Tweed or in the Solway Firth.

THE LATE JOSIAH MISTER.

(From the Salopian Journal.)

It may be recollected that the Jury retired to take
some refreshment two or three times during the course
of their important inquiry, which occupied nearly twelve
hours. On each of these occasions the prisoner also
went down to one of the cells underneath the Court, to
which there is ready access from the dock. Captain
Mayne, the Rev. D. Winstone, Mr. Heathcott (surgeon
to the gaol), Mr. Cartwright, and one or two other
gentlemen, were accommodated by Mr. Dawson with
" standing places " in the dock during the trial, and one
of the party having gone Maw immediately after the
prisoner, accidentally went into the cell in which he was
in the act of taxing some refreshment, He was with-
drawing, with au apology for the intrusion, when Mis-
ter requested him not to go away. The turnkey or
policeman who also was in the cell did not object to
this gentleman's remaining, which he accordingly did.
The witness Mary Foulkes (cook at the Angei Inn,
Ludlow), had been under tress-examination by Mr.
Lee immediately before this, and Mister asked rather
anxiously, " What do you think, Sir? How is it
going on ?"
The reply was, " I do not think the case against you,
as far as it has gone, as bad as was expected from what
transpired on the examination at Ludlow."
Mister then said, in quite a gay mariner, " They can
make nothing of it, Sir. The prosecution was very
baldly got up. What do you think of Sergeant Lud-
low's speech ?" '1 he answer was, "It was a very tem-
perate one, and therefore more likely to make an im-
pression against you than if it had been violent, and had
overstated the case."

There followed a short pause, and Mister then said,
with some vehemence, " Mr. Lee is doing it very well,
I could do the cross-examination much better than he
does." The observation which his visitor made was, " I
think be does it remarkably well."
11 Ii: replied, " Yes, he does—but no one can do
it as well as or.e who knows all the facts. See what I
made of it at Ludlow ; I made Cooke admit that the
few drops of blood on my shirt might have got on it by
being spirted out from Mackreth's wounds while the sur-
geon was dressing them. There's that Mary Foulkes,
I must get Mr. Lee to ask her if she did not admit at
Ludlow, that she had not washed her hands between
the time of leaving Mackreth's room and cominz into
mine. That is in the deptlition, and I must have them
read. She left his room with her hands all bloody, and
came into mine without having washed them. It was
from her hands that the blood came upon the bad cur-
tain, and I am only surprised that the bedclothes were
not bloody also, for she pulled them off me in a heap."
He added, with considerable emphasis, " I'm sorry I did
not defend myself, and cross-examine the vritneses, No-
body can do it so well as one who knows the fact=."
He then proceeded very rapidly, " Mr. Charles
Phillips has used me very badly, hasn't he ?" He then
said, " Lee is doing it very well, but as soon as over I
get out, I'll have a fly at Mr. Phillips. put him
into the newspapers."

Whan this conversation was going on—if that can
be called conversation where one person does nearly all
the speaking—Mister appeared extremely at his ease.
He did not sit down, but walked up and down the cell.
occasionally turning his full bright eyes upon his visitor.
A pause ensued while he Was finishing the refresh-
ment provided for him, but he lost little time in again
speaking. " What a pity," he said, " that Gurney
tries me ? I was before him a year ago, at Hereford,
but I was most wrongfully accused. There was no
witness against me, and I had drawn a bill for 1251.
before." But what this was, it was impossible to
ascertain, as, at that moment, one of the officers sum-
moned the prisoner to resume his place at the bar, as
the Jury had returned. He made a civil bow to the
gentleman to whom he had been speaking, and was re-
moved from the cell.

When he went below a second time, he was within
the cell, standing near the entrance, when the gentle-
man above referred to happened to be passing by. Feel-
ings of humanity impelled him to hand Mister a paper
of sandwiches ; and when they were disposed of—being
received with the expression of much gratitude—Mis-
ter said, in a more subdued manner than before, " It
is very hard, Sir, to be accused of a crime I never
committed. I can prove that on the Saturday they
say I was between Shrewsbury and Ludlow, I had
gone to Birmingham, and dined on that very day at
the Swan in Wolverhampton. They might as well say
that Mr. Crawford did it as I. If you had been in
the Angel that night, and slept in my room, you would
have been open to suspicion as much as I."
The reply was to the effect that previous good cha-
racter would in such a case exempt any one of respect-
able appearance from the suspicions to which a Trial
who went to any inn without any money in his pocket
would be liable—that such suspicions once roused
would naturally be increased when it was found that he
had put up at two inns in a pennyless condition, espe-
cially when those inns were those at which Mr. Ludlow
put up, and that his defence would be incomplete un-
less he could show that he had not dodged Mr. Lud-
low from place to pace, or could account for having
done so. This reply did not appear to please Mister,
for he turned into his cell, and did not resume the con.
versition.

On the day of execution, as Mister was ascending
the stairs (within the porter's lodge) leading to the
drop, he passed the gentleman who had thus conversed
with him on the day of trial, and showed, by bowing
his heal, that he recognised him.
The curious in such points may like to learn that
Mister was by no means what can be called an educated
man. He wrote a good, plain hand, but almost every
sentence is ungrammatical. In spelling, he almost in-
variably wrote " as" instead of " has." It will scarcely
be believed that a gentleman in Ludlow received a
commission from an autograph collector in London desir-
ing him to go as far as five guineas, if requisite, to pro-
cure a letter in Mister's own hand-writing!
When the body was taken down from the drop, it
was removed, through the porter's lodge, to a cell ad-
joining one of the courts at the left, and extended upon
a bedstead. On removing the cap, the features were
found not at all distorted. The face tartts nearly the natu-
ra 1 co'our,-I;ttle paler, perhaps, than in life. The
eyes were closed, and on the lids being raised it ap-
peared that the pupils had considerably dilated. The
lips, which had their natural hue at first, soon grew
livid. The expression of the face was stern,—precisely
what has been well described, " as unrelenting, dark,
and passionless."
It bad bean expected that his reek would have been
broken by the fall from the drop, but, on examination, it
appeared that there was only a slight red streaky mark
round part of the throat, which was most decidedly on
the left side. The rope had got fixed upon the thyriod
cartilage (Immediately under the lump in the neck com-
monly called the pomum Adatiai), and pressing on it
with much force had crushed it in and caused instant
dtath by suffocation.
.Such, was the. opinion of the me-
dical gentlemen whom we beard speak upon the subject.
The deceased was a very well made young man, con-
siderably under the middle size, and looked more like a
lad of nineteen than a man of five-and-twenty.
As thepsuto a handsome inlody was not
no:cla;t7lm ied by Mister's relatives, it
wa
coffin, on which was a
plate bearing this inscripton—
"vjenosioa'ic' o Acll iste
o rns, aged 25 years,
MondaylB4l." morning
the
Josiah Misters %las buried on the north 'side of St.
Mary's churchyard, next the railing. body of
l
At oven

Tee RigLt Hoe. H. Labouchere has left town for
Stowey.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
( From the Times.)
Although, if the ostensible and constructive • ad-
vantages of Captain Elliot's heads of agreement with
the Chinese do not tarn out to have been seriously Corn-
promised in the subsequent arrangement of clet:ile some
of those advantages are undoubtedly entitled to our fa-
vourable consideration, we ate very tar indeed from attach-
ing the importance to them which seems to be so absurdly
magnified by the M nisterial journals. According to the
ineuetinent boastings of the Downing-street press, the
Chinese dispute has been brought to a triumphant, ho-
nourable, and satisfactory adjustment. For their own
gloomy and discouraging anticipations, warranted
by former advices, they have now the acuteness to_
discover, nnt there was no oundation whatever. The
whole course cf Captain Elliott's: management has been
charaeteiized, it seems, by progressive prosperity, issuing
in final!Succens. Now, whether the impudence or the stu •
pidity of these pretensions be the more conspicuous, it
May be someehat difficult to say. Certain it is that the
reflecting portion of the community, being thereby led
to examine the precise nature and amour.t of the al-
dogma suceass of this Celestial enterprise, cannot fail to
be struck with the practical insignificance and indefi-
niteness which appear, more or less, to mark the entire
upshot. Be fore proceeding, however, to offer a few ob-
servations upon this subject, we cannot refrain from no-
tieing the burlesque magniloquence indulged in by Captain
Elliot. From the style of the circulars issued by that self-
complacent personage, who occupies a sort of hybrid posi-
tion between a mercantile and a political Conant, it is plain
that his experience in Oriental diplomacy has imparted to
his proclamations a considerable smack of eeleseiariam. As
'specimens pompous bathos, they almost trans-
cend the renowned compositions of the sublime Ke-
Sher., or the ill-appreciated Lin. Laying aside
the humble title of " the British Superintendent at
Canton," the gallant functionary has suddenly
sprung to the altitude of her Majesty's Plenipoten-
tiary ;" and, as well bescems so high an officer, be largely
magnifies his culling, by an inflated phraseology which
even the courtiers of Pekin must ever despair to emulate.
But what, after all, has the worthy Plenipotentiary
achieved for us ? To understand the full value of the sti-
pulations with which he has contented himself on behalf of
Great Britain, it is necessary to keep in mind the precise
grievances he was called upon to redress. Not to mention
the loss of Mr. Moss's ears, and the infrineement of Mr.
Stanton's liberty (in reference to which the Globe tells us that
"the cause of the war was the violent spoliation and coer-
cion of British subjects"), we must not forget that our
countrymen had been arbitrarily defrauded to the tune of
about $10,000,000; that many of them had been an.
prisoned for six weeks, and threatened with starvation;
that the Plenipotentiary himself had also been put into
limbo, and menaced at "the last degree of scveity ;"
that the confiscated property was surrendered by Cap-
tain Elliot on a solemn pledge that the sufferers should
be indemnified, with interest, by the English Go-
vernment ; that British vessels had incurred a heavy
demurrage at Whampoa ; that at Macao, whither
the British traders had retired, the water springs
hid been poisoned ; and, finally, that the crew and pas-
sengers of an unarmed passage-boat had been attacked by
certain Mandarins and inhumanly butcbei ed. To effect a
salutary reparation for these enormities, an expensive expe-
dition was despatched and placed at the gallant plenipo's
disposal. During seven entire months did that expedition
attend his potent beck. At length, having reason to sus-
Feet that the force of reflection and self-interest, combined
with a small expenditure of powder and shot, might bring
his refractory opponents to a sound mind, a warlike
demonstration was seriously set about, and the redoubtable
Ke- Shen forthwith proclaimed, in the Captain's own
style, that " the Engiish barbarians were now obe-
dient to orders," and that he should therefore
" solicit fur them the Imperial favour." On the occur-
rence of this farcical solemnity, her Majesty's Plenipoten-
tiary prescribed nia terms cf peace—the terms, miud.
which prefess to redress all the foregoing catalogue of
wrongs and with which the Whig prints are now in ab-
solute ecstacy. Of those terms generally, we have al-
ready given an opinion, which we see no occasion to
ruodify ; but that they fail, in various respects, to meet
the exigencies of tie case, must be admitted, we think,
by every impartial person competent to understand
them. For example, the nominal cession of the
island of Hong-Kong to the British Crown, though
apparen ly promising considerable advantages to our
mercantile interests, has been clogged with con-
ditions which in practice may substantially defeat
them. As the same imposts are to be exacted by the
Chinese at that island, as have heretofore been imposed at
Canton, the disadvantage of British traders leaving a large
city where a profitable traffic has been carried on for cen-
turier, to take up their residence in an insulated and un-
frequented locality, appears to ba counterbalanced by no-
thing but the pretaction anticipated from a military sta-
tion, which, if any faith can be put in the effieiency of
Captain Elliot's treaties, might be equally available, whe-
ther our countrymen should prefer to reside in the one place
or in the other. Not more satisfactory, as we stated yester-
day, are the terms of the pecuniary indemnification, for the
payment of which, to the full value of the property
confiscated, the precipitate Plenipotentiary had long ego
put in pawn the credit of her Majesty's Government.
The sum which Captain Elliot has compounded for, is, as
we showed in a former article, %holly disproportionate to
the losses sustained. But, apart altogether from this un-
justifiable inadequacy, the question as to the mode in
which the Chinese may think fit to raise the solatium, still
remains to be solved. For any thing that Captain Elliot
has done, his wily circumventors may levy the stipulated
instalments in the shape of an augmented tariff upon bar-
barian commerce. " A tael or two on tea (says the
Canton Press) will soon raise the required sum." And
iu that case the whole burden will devolve upon English
COP sunicre. On the other hand, if an extra import duty be
imposed, the smart will fall upon ourselves in the de-
creased consumption and profits of the articles which we
send to their markets. In any event, the probability is,
that the whole amount of this miserable compromise will
be dragged in some form or another from British purses.
On the guarantees exacted from the Chinese for their
future good conduct, and even for the fulfilment of their
extorted engagements, Captain Elliot maintains a prudent
ciplomatic reserve. To say that no better terms could
be obtained under the circumstances, is just to say that
the crafty Orientals have beat us. In addition to all
this, the plausible recourse which our defrauded country-
men will have upon our impoverished Home Exchequer,
will perhaps give the Government more annoyance than
they choose at present to anticipate. For our own part,
we think we can discern certain lingering elements of dis-
turbance in this Chinese business, which it may require
some ti ne and trouble to extinguish.
The Morning Post of this day contains a leading article
on the subject of Free Trade, in the course of which our
Contemporary says :—" All we want is such amount of
protection as may secure a decided preference to our home
industry, it is not our wish both to exclude practical com-
petition on the part of foreigners, and the possibility of all
such competition, no matter how dear or how inferior
the products of our own country may be. We should ra-
ther have the possibility of competition under certain cir-
cumstances, as to form a check upon extortion, and a spur
to improvement."

Th'e Morning Chronicle, alluding to our late military
operations in Canada and the Eas', remarks as follows :
" It must be manifest to the nations that while England
has the strongest interest in preserving the peace of the
world, the immense resources which she can command
must make her a formidable enemy. This consiCeration
must check in the bud many ambitious designs. It is not
always by determining obstinately on preserving peace at
whatever cost, that peace, for a continuance, can be most
effectually secured. In this respect our late operations
have been peaceful in their tendency.*
The Morning 'Wiwi tiser thus refers to the recent in-
telligence from China :—" The possession of Hong. Kong
is in itself an object of great importance: but yet greats r
will be the establishment of " direct official relations be-
tween the countries on an equal footing." The latter,
however, is a point which the Chinese, with their wonted
duplicity, may endeavour to evade. Wi:h all these con-
tingonciesolLmever, the arrangement is such as to afford
much satisfaction ; fur, after what has taken place—after
the experience that the negotiators have had of each other,
it is scarcely to be expected that the Chinese will again
iaeur the chastisement of Britism arms, by endeavouring
to evade the stipulations or to baffle them in details, or
that the British representatives will accede to any condi-
tions which will possibly admit of misconstruction or mis-
take. To this expectancy, however, the Tories cling as
the last live of justifying their disastrous forebodings."

REPEAL OF THE BREAD TAX.—There are
two things which seem more especially to have contri-
buted to the success which has hitherto attended the ope-
ration of the League—the taking up of the broad ground
of justice, and the demanding of the abolition of the bread
tax in preference to nibbling at details ; and the restric-
tion of the exertions of the League to this one object. By
this means the League has escaped the waste of time and
irritation which must have been produced by discussions
of detail ; and it has saved itself from all hazard of neg-
lecting the main object amid a press of kindred busineF.
To this policy the League will continue to adhere. Its
members rejoice to see the sound principles of free
trade gaining ground in all directions, but they will
not abandon the work they have taken in hand
to turn themselves to any other. There are many
questions closely connected with the Corn-laws, and if
they took up one because of this relation they could not
well refuse to take up others. The best way to avoid
destruction is to refuse to have anything to do, as mem-
bers of the League, with any other till this is settled. The
re-at)ustinent of the duties imposed upon commodities
which may be taxed is quite a different question from the
extrication of one article—food, from the vortex of taxa-
tion altogether. Again, demanding as justice the total
abolition of the Corn-laws, they cannot enter into discus-
sions regarding, the relative merits of a fixed or sliding
scale of duties—a higher or lower rate of duty.—Anti-
G9rn-late Circular.
THE FIRST DAILY LONDON NEWSPAPER.
Londoners did not enjoy the luxury of a new:.
paper every day until the year 1709, in the reign of Queen
Anne. One was thel ablished, the title of which was
the Daily Courant, :11:.;h was issued every day of the
week but Sunday. At that time there was seventeen
others published thrice a week, and cne twice. Among
them wire the British Apollo, the General Postcript, the
London Gazette, the Postman, the City Intelligencer, the
Evening Post, &c.

PRICE 5(1.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 17.

Intelligence-has just reached us from Persia, dated
Tabreex, Fet.".l3, .by which it appears that Hussein
Khan has beep appointed Ambassador Extraordinary to
England, and would probably leave in the course of six
weeks, unless Mr. Rink, whose arrival at Teheran we
have just learned, induces the Persian Government to
change the appointment, and send some more respect-
able person in his stead. This same Hussein Khan ha?,
barely recovered from a severe bastinadoing he got from
the Shah abbot a month ;So. It is said he received about
500 blows of tbestick, and had his toe-nailspearly knocked
off. The Persians, however, do not appear to think it a
disgrace to get a licking from the Shah ; and it is a
thing that almost all the nobles about the court expect
to receive dnceor twice in the course of their lives, and
therefore alwayS'lseep on friendly terms with the execu-
tioners, by giving them presents, &c.; so that when
they have the ill leek to be tied up, ere executioner is
induced to deal mercifully with them, and contrives -to
hit the wooden bar to which their legs are tied, instead
of their feet !

In one of my former letters I mentioned a certa;n
Ady-Giuzec a famous robber chief in the Karadagh
district, and who had' latterly assumed the title of
Shah. It is quite astonishing the power and inguence
this man obtained in a very short time. His followers
amounted, they say, to; nearly 300 ; besides which, all
the villages in Karadagh were in his interest. He of-
fered all persons who would join him with a horse and
a gun, 60 tomauns (300 a year, besides a share of the
plunder. His wife Tied to accompany him in all his
expeditiongie,a4 nted as , quite an Amazon
in etrietegtr 'f•aWe tt, e. rle was "wro r —C-Critatiartli
Russians very much, and, being close to their frontier,
made frequent expeditions into their territory, to
plunder their v.llages. He once stopped one of
their Government couriers, who was carrying, be-
sides despatches, a large sum of money, to Tab-
reez. Owing to the wooded and difficult nature of
the country he resided in, the Persian Govern-
ment could not attack him openly, but finally suc-
ceeded in taking him by surprise. Cold weather
having come on, he disbanded his troop for the winter,
and settled down in a village with only five of his fol-
lowers. News of this was secretly brought to Mehty-
Cooly-Meerzta, the governor of the district, who in-
stantly, under pretext of going on a hunting excursion,
ordered his horse and people to get ready to follow him.
The village in which Ady-Giuzel bad taken up his
quarters was about one hundred miles off, but which
Mehty-Cooly-Meerza reached in an incredibly short
time, and surprised and caught the robber chief with
hls five followers, all of whom were forthwith marched
t) Tabreez. Ady-Giuzel being a Russian subject,
it was first intended to send him to Tiflis : but in
consequence of there not being a sufficient number
of troops in the place to escort him, and fearing
his being rescued on the road, the Russians had
him executed at Tabreez. He was a fine, hold,
dashing fellow, and on the day of his death walked
with a firm and intrepid step to the place of execution,
on reaching which he threw himself lull length on the
ground, and, calling to the executioner, said to him,
" Mess, keupekoglu, ,lass" (strike, thou son of a dog,
strike), and who forthwith, as if he had to deal with a
sheep, cut his throat, and left him to liked to death.
Tile execution of this man caused a great deal of ex-
citement and disturbance in the place ; so much so,
that the Government people have been afraid of put-
ting his five folloWers to death, they also having been
ordered for execution. The people say he did nothing
worthy of death, having (throughout his steer: career)
only robbed the infidels, which it was lawful for him to
do ; besides which, according to them, he always as-
sisted the poor end needy of his own (Mnssulman) faith.
His executioner was the same afternoon murdered by
some of the soldiery; and of this the Government has
taken no notice.

M. du Hamel, the Russian Minister at the Court of
Teheran, will, it is said, shortly return to Russia ; us
does also Baron Bodi, his first Secretary. It is not
yet 'known who will replace them. Trade hat -been
very brisk, but, owing to the near approach of the sa-
cred month of Moharrem, is dull again. Grain, which
has been very dear, is becoming cheaper, in consequence
of those who had large stocks of it being afraid of
keeping it any longer in reserve. My informant adds
in a proscript—" I have just heard that the followers of
Ady Giuzel were secretly sent off to Tiflis last night.
Little Ali Effendi, the Turkish Consul at Tabreez, has
been trying to roast one of his servants for having sim-
ply stolen a little soap. He tied him to a beam and
lit a fire under him, but the ma❑ being a Russian de•
serter, and the Consul (Rusr.ian) hearing of what was
going forward, sent and had him taken away, just in time
to save his life ; however, the poor fellow, they say, has
lost the use of his limbs."

EXCISE COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT
BlLL—This Bill, introduced by Mr. R. Gordon, and Mr.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, proposes, amongst many
other provisions, to enact as follows, viz.-1. That none
but such as were market-towns at the time of the passing
cf the 7th and Bth of George IV., c. 53. shall be deemed
market-towns within that Act. 2. That no keepers of ex-
cise offices shall, on that account, be deemed officers of
excise, &c. 3. That all machines, vessels, &c., not duly
entered, and all goods, &e., found in unentered vessels or
premises, shall be forfeited. 4. That managers and
directors of joint stock companies shall make entries
on behalf of their respective companies, &c. 5.
That the Lords of the Treasury may appoint a
controller and auditor of excise, &e. 6. That all
the revenues, &c., of the excise shall be paid over
to the Receiver-General of Excise at the chief office of
Excise, &c., to be paid by him into the Bank of Eng-
land. 7. That all such motley shall be placed to the ac-
count of the Exchequer, under the provisions of the 4th
of William IV., c. 15. 8. That all goods subject to
duties of excise, and all materials, &c., used in their
manufactures, shall be liable (with certain exceptions) fur
all duties, arrears, and penalties, incurred whilst in the
possession of the trader. 9. That persons aggrieved by
any judgment of the Commissioners of Excise, may ap-
peal to the Barons of the Exchequer, &c. 10. That the
Registrar of the Commissioners of Excise shall be the
Registrar of the said Barons of the Exchequer, on appeals,
&c. 11. That all seizures under the value of 15/., unless
claimed within one month after the seizure, shall be con-
demned, &c. By this measure portions of several former
Acts are repealed.
Pine-apples in Singapore are so abundant that
ship-captains frequently purchase them by boat-loads to
scour their decks.

The constitution of Ibrahim Paella is said to be
breaking up from confirmed habits of intemperance, and
the anxiety and mortifications he has recently undergone.
He is dropsical, but persists in drinking to excess.
IRISH LABOURERS IN PARIS.—A number
of quarry-men, who bad been employed at Bullock, six
miles from Dublin, have been taken off to Paris to work
upon the fortifications.
THE DANGER OF CHANGING COATS.—The
Gazette des Tribunaux gives the following :—Some time
ago the owner of a large silk warehouse, in the Quarder
St. Denis, who bad a very pretty wife, and a clever clerk
who enjoyed all his confidence, whilst, on the contrary, the
wife appeared to have a dislike to him. left Paris for Lyons,
on business connected with his establishment. Almost as
soon as he entered the diligence he fell asleep, and did
not awake until he was at a distance cf 25 leagues from
Paris. Having made notes of what he had to do at Lyons in
his pocket-book, which contained also a large sum in bank-
notes, be drew out a pocket-book with the intention of ar-
ranging his plans at Lyons from his notes, so as to expe-
dite his affaira as much as possible. He saw immediately
that the pocket-book was not his own, and, glancing at the
sleeve of his coat, ascertained that he had in his hurry
to leeve his shop put on the clerk's coat instead of his
own. Supposing that his own pocket-book would be for-
warded to Lyons by his clerk as soon a 3 the mistake should
have been discovered, he was not uneasy, except on ac-
count of the delay, and replaced the book in the pocket.
Before he had reached Lyons, however, an irresistible cu-
riosity impelled him to open the pocket-book, and there to
his horror he found four love letters addressed by his wife
to the clerk, towards whom she pretended to have so much
aversion. The poor silk-mercer staid only two hours in
Lyons, and returned home as rapidly as possible. During
his absence, the guilty pair, certain of the discovery which
had been made, had left together for England. Repent-
ance, however, soon overtook the wife, and she returned
a few days ago to her husband with his pocket-book and
its contents intact, having preferred disposing of her own
trinkets for support to adding robbery to the crime of
which she had been guilty. The husband, says the Ga.
zette des Tribunaux, gave a hearty welcome to the pc;eket-
book, but having received it, shut his doors for ever against
his wife.
Aa
yi‘oluAn
gD
laßbotliiLigWcoAuYnt,PyinAaSnS, EdrNesGseEdßin.—a Oronunr
frido:ky
last,,
got into one of the carriages at Reading to proceed to London
byand onouitts
and
dppjiunmg
pactdSlaobuoguht
contraryoneof th
tote morninghe
regulations,traisnhe got
y
st ho empul ac
h tfosr
ini
dne
ead, vae
sy
touncuosnuvailn
cacti
edv
eerxytrpaeorrsdoinn a‘rvi;
omsaanwn ehris;
strange gesticulations that his mind was affected. However,
he was again persuaded to enter the carriage, and proceeded
to London-with the other passengers. Mr. Byles, of the
Hope Inn, Windsor, and his son, with one of the guards,
were in the same box, and their attention was excited by the
violent manner of their fellow passenger, whom Mr. Byles
watched most attentively. When the train neared Hanwell,
the young countryman suddenly made a desperate attempt to
jump out of the carriage (the train then gong at great speed),
but by the firmness and promptness of Mr. Byles, who was as-
sisted by his son and the guard, he was forced back into his seat,
and compelled to remain there until their arrival at Padding:.
ton, when it was deemed necessary, from his extreme violence,
to have him confined until taken before a Magistrate and ex-
amined by a medical gentleman. This was done, and the me-
dical man gave his decided opinion that he was insane. In se-
curing him it appeared that he was in a paroxysm of rage, and
hit Mr. Byles, the guard, and every person who laid hold of
him, and he broke the windows of the cab in his way to the
Magistrates. The Magistrate deemed it necessary to order
that he should be taken care of until his friends were discovered.
His name was discovered to be Sanders, and he said he had
killed his child, and he intended to kill himself.—Rucks Ga-
zette.