The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-26 00:00:00

RUMOURS 01' THE DAY.

A Spanish priest much attached to the chase, when
he was entering the church, one day towards the close of
last century, was informed that a wild animal was in
the neighbourhood, and away he went, called up his
dogs, and set off in full chase. He has never since been
allowed to stop ; and often on a fine still evening, when
the sun is setting, his figure may be seen scouring along
the horizon, while his pack of dogs follow after him in
full cry.

Bartholomew Dillon, Esq., of Ballyquin house,
Kilkenny, who died on the 15th inst., voted for the Tories,
West and Grogan, at the Dublin election, though he had
been bed-ridden for several weeks. 'We suppose the
assessor saw him in person as really as the Spanish
peasant still sees the hunting priest.
A rumour is abroad at Turin that his Sardinian
Majesty is about to make a tunnel on an immense scale
through part of Mount Cenis, to diminish the difficulty Of
that route into Italy.

A NEW SPECIES OF ANIMAL,
DISCOVERED BY DANIEL O'CONNELL.

" 0 sight of horror, ugly and deform."—MlLTON.

" There was another thing also that interfered to mar that
election (Dublin)—it was an animal called an Ass-ESSOR."--
Speech of Daniel 0' Connell at the Cork Election.

Mythologians may talk mighty high,
And extol their hermaphrodite Venus,
With other such epicene fry
As frighten the heart of Qum genus ;
They may prate of their Satyrs and Pans,
And sirens whose mouths make sweet bubbling,
But there ne'er was a monster like Dan's,
Which of late he discovered at Dublin.

Geologians may throw by their spades ;
E'en Iguanodon Mantell at Brighton
Must be utterly cast into shades
By what Dan and his Dublinites light on ;
They may talk of their gneisses and sands,
And monsters all human size doubling—
But their monsters are nothing to Dan's,
Which of late he discovered at Dublin.

Now Dan found this monster deform
In no granite, or quartz, or coal section,
Not mummied or petrified, but
Broad alive at the Dublin election.
'Twas no sheep in wolf's clothing, or goat's—
No Catholic monk or confessor—
But a biped who reckoned the votes,
And goes by the name of Ass-ESSOR.

" 'Tis an animal ugly," quoth Dan,
" As e'er fixed a blot upon zoology,
And to call him less ugly than sin
'Twould itself be a sin and false eulogy ;
So I'll turn into showman," quoth Dan,
" And go about Ireland—God bless her—
('Twill help out reform, will this plan),
And show up this ugly Ass-essor."
So from Dublin sped Dan with his tail,
And went to the fair at Cork city,
And there this Assessor he thwacked,
Poor devil! and showed him no pity.
" Though Dante's Inferno," quoth Dan,
" Be a hot and voracious engulpher,
Of horrified ugly ones—this
Beats all that e'er roasted in sulphur.

" Oh a far more respectable boy
Was each of the Cyclops of Etna,
Black-Brontes, Pyracmon, or Strops,
Or their grandson, the blacksmith at Gretna ;
Nay, a perfect Adonis to this
(I swear by the mother that bore me)
Was he whom Pub. Virgil declared
To be Monstrum, horrendum, informe.' "

Ah! Thebans may talk mighty high,
And extol their hermaphrodite Venus,
With other such epicene fry
As frighten the heart of Qum genus;
They may prate of their Satyrs and Pans,
And sirens whose mouths make sweet bubbling,
But they ne'er saw a monster like Dan's,
Which of late he discovered at Dublin.

The receipts of the principal railways in opera-
tion for the last week, are as follows :—London and Blackwell,
908/. ; Hull and Selby, 909/. ; York and North Midland,
1,9F5/., ; North Midland, 4,573/. ; Birmingham and Glouces-
ter, 1,752/. ; Midland Counties, 2,911/. ; South Western,
7,338/. ; Birmingham and Derby, 1,259/. ; Great Western,
13.,8241. ; Greenwich, 890/. ; Northern and Eastern, 895/. ;
Birmingham, 18,820/. ; Eastern Counties, 9771.; and Man-
chester and Birmingham, 349/.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.--NO
official returns are yet given of the traffic of this line, but we
hear that it has been about 1,000!. and 1,200/. for the two
weeks it has been opened, which is quite as much as we ex-
pected, if not more, for the place to which the line is opened,
that is, upon a heath almost without a road to it. But not-
withstanding this, we understand that two more of the coaches
have been taken off the road and pat upon the railway. A
statement having appeared in the Brighton Guardian, that
the Company is sustaining great loss in consequence of the
opening, we have made inquiry, and we have reason to believe
the statement to be quite unfounded.—Railway Magazine.
Vauxhall Gardens were again attended, on Friday
evening, by a most fashionable audience, amongst whom were
his Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswick, the Duke of
Leeds, Earl and Countess of Glengall and party, Lord Powers-
clurt and party, Lord Marcus Hill, Hon. James Macdonald,
Sir Charles Kent, Earl of Chesterfield, Count d'Orsay, Lord
, Macdonald Earl of Eglintoun, &c.

A SECRET.—' My dear Murphy," said an
Irishman to his friend, " why did you betray the secret I told
you ?" "Is it betraying yen call it ? Sure, when I found I
wasn't able to keep it myself, didn't I do well to tell it t 9 ;mu-
body who could?" •