The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841.

been damaged by the wind, will nevertheless. turn out
well.

Accounts from Norwich state that the damp wea•
ther has covered whole fields with mildew. The wheal
has not yet reached maturity, but it promises fairly.
In East Lothian the grain crops promise an abun•
dant harvest ; but the wheat is still in a precarious con•
dition, owing to the two plagues of fly and rust.

LAW AND POLICE.
The case of Mr. Wood's will, which has been so
long before the public, was expected to be finally settled
yesterday, but owing to insufficiency in the number of
jurymen it has been again delayed.

ELECTIONEERING.
A Liberal dinner was given to Mr. Marjoribanks al
Hythe, on Thursday, in honour of his return.

COURT-PASITIONARLES.
The baths of Lucca are, it is said, filling fast with
fashionable English visitors. Lord Holland is among
the number.

The Duke of Buecleugh has returned to Montague•
house, 'Whitehall.

Viscount Melbourne will give a Cabinet dinner on
Saturday, in South-street.
The Lord Chancellor arrived in town yesterday.
Lord and Lady Villiers have returned to Drayton
Manor.

The Duke of Argyll has been seriously indisposed
at Inverary.

MISCELLANEOUS.
-- On Sunday last Father Mathew administered the
temperance pledge to upwards of 20,000 persons in the
North of Ireland.

The London and Brighton Railway will be opened
the whole distance on the 15th Sept.
A gentleman who has just come from the manu-
facturing districts, informs us that discontent and distress
are very generally prevalent there, and that apprehensions
of a serious crisis are entertained, should Sir Robert
Peel not adopt a Liberal system of policy.
A piece of Chinese artillery, taken from the Ad-
miral's junk, at the island of Chusan, has been presented
by Captain Trail, who was present with the expedition,
to the Dundee Institution. A similar piece has also been
forwarded to Cupar Fife.

The University of Edinburgh on Monday last, eon-
(erred the degree of Doctor of Medicine on 103 gentlemen.

Rulvxouns OF THE DAY.
It is rumoured that the amount of our military force
is quietly and hourly augmenting in Ireland.
We learn that the Duke of Buckingham is to be ap.
pointed First Lord of the Admiralty.
• THE "

d. WEATHER.—NOON, AUGUST 10.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer... 64 I Highest 66 1 Lowest ..
Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

A FACT IN FAVOUR OF THE BALLOT.--Let
the opponents of protection to the voter,—let those
shilly-shallyers who think " the time has not yet come,"
for the application of the Ballot—read and ponder the
following startling and significant truth. The Duke
of Northumberland has 400 tenants-at-will, possessing
votes in North Northumberland, and the polling-books
show that out of these 400 the number who voted in
favour of Lord Howick amounted precisely to two !
—not 200, but two single individuals ! To add one
word by way of showing the full meaning of this fact,
would be superfluous,—to proceed to argue from it,
would only weaken its force. No man in his senses
would venture to say that there is to be found in broad
Britain a rural parish, or a street of a town, containing
400 inhabitants, 398 of whom are, to a man, of one
mind in politics, or in almost anything else, regard-
ing which there can be more than one opinion ; and no
honest man will attempt to avoid the inference that not
some, but many out of these 398 of the Duke's tenants
must have been coerced to vote against their wishes and
convictions. It may be added that those who possess
the best means of forming an opinion on the subject
from acquaintanceship, local residence, and being en-
gaged in the late canvass—estimate that (plumpers and
splits together) 350 out of the 400 were desirous, were
eager, to vote, for Lord Howick. All of these, till but
two suffered their independence to be trampled down
by the myrmidons of the Castle ! High honour to the
two !—the brave and honest two ! The Lord of Aln-
wick Castle ought to be prouder of numbering among
his tenants these two, who, like men and Englishmen,
withstood his tyranny and defended and preserved their
rights, than of the hundreds of serfs who suffered him
to rob them of their freedom, their honesty, and their
self-respect.—Berwick .Adoertiser.
PICTURE OF A SAVAGE.—I observed a na-
tive on the opposite bank, and without being seen by
him. I stood awhile to watch the habits of a savage
man at home. His hands were ready to seize, his teeth
to eat, any living thing ; his step, light and soundless
as that of a shadow, gave no intimation of his approach.
His walk suggested the idea of the prowling of a beast
of prey—every little track or impression left on the earth
by the lower animals caught his keen eye ; but the trees
overhead chiefly engaged his attention. Deep in the
hollow heart of some of the upper branches was hidden,
as it seemed, the opposum on which he was to dine.
The wind blew keenly through the lofty trees on the river
margin,. yet the brawny savage was entirely naked. Had I
been unarmed, I had much rather met a lion than that
sinewy biped ; but I was on horseback, with pistols in
my holsters, and the broad river was flowing between
us. I overlooked him from a high bank, and I ventured
to disturb his meditations with a halloo. He then stood
still, looked at me for about a minute, and then retired,
with that easy bounding kind of step which may be
termed a running walk, exhibited an unrestrained faci-
lity of movement, apparently incompatible with dress of
any kind. It is bounding lightly at such a pace, that,
with the additional aid of the warramerah (a short
notched stick), the native can throw his spear with
—Major Mitchell's Third Expedi-
sufficient force and velocity to kill the emu or kangaroo,
et
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at
A NOVEL ORDER.—Last week, writes a pro-
vincial ft se
r siopre eofd'Eastern Australia.
editor, a gentleman called at our printing-office,
and requested that we would print for him about two
hundred letters. On handing the copy to us, we were
surprised to read the following contents
" 18
g, My DEAR —I hasten to inform you that my
dear wife Susan presented me with a fine —, at
o'clock —, and that she and the dear babe are doing
as well as can be expected.' You are aware that this
is my —teenth blessing.—Ever yours,

This " novel order" certainly caused us to cast up an in-
quiring look, as much as to say, " Are you in earnest?"
—for his reply was, "I am really in earnest" " You
know," he continued, " Airs. --- has just been con-
fined with the twelfth, and I see no prospect of her
arriving at the end of the chapter. Nov, every accouche=
ment I have to write to upwards of twenty Mends and
relations. Therefore, if I have a stock of pritited ftirtlis
by me, all I shall have to do on thou ititePesting occa-
sions will be to fill up tlw tAriks.' " Well," we re-
joined, " but rro* she hDs completed a round dozen, the
chances are against the number augmenting," " Not
at all," he replied • " Mrs. —'s mother Was remark,
ably fond of strawberries, and site *had 10 ehildrett 1 buy
wife is as fond of strawberries, and ealtii ktge quantities
every year—so that like hinter like daughter." We
were not leatiriOd cough in connubial mysteries to un-
derstand, much lass to reply
.to this logic ; so we took
ttne copy and carried it into the printing-office, and
being bachelors, wended our way, much wondering what
mysterious connection there could be between babies
land strawberries and admiring the philosophy of our
cßoennnetche'neat,newe,howiultdwme,levearcahis
children, and
acnhdm ,
thea n dp
an indefinite augmentation of that awful number. Our
raosrpesecigtneodf
diary on that day has the following entry r—" Resolved
never to marry a woman that loves strawberries Over-
much."—Hull Advertiser.
DUMB ELOQUENtg OP A intt4ll
j —I remember a touching ineldmit which happened at
the Cape of (food Hope when I was there. A party
had gone out to shoot baboons. The gentleman *bo
bated the anecdote wounded one rather merely. (neat
was his surprise on seeing the anintarthus WOOlidOcl leave
the rest of the troop, approach hlm to N dowii tot this
feet. Looking him fall in tlre fa'c'e faltiting, dying
creature pointed At Its beedint side, as much as to say,
" This is yotir`CAtiel WOric, and how have I deserved it ?"
No largo' ige could surpass this in truth of appeal, or the
Maki lesson which it taught.—Rev. Dr. Jones's Lectors
on Oratory.
FIELD MUSHROOMS,—Persont at this season
of the year cannot be too cautious in the felielee cf mush-
rooms. On Monday afterneon a riutilly named Harper,
residing in., BeilViek-streut, Soho, nearly lost their
lives by 'eating too thely of some stewed mushrooms,
which hi the course of the morning had been purchased of
a country-looking lad, who was hawking them in a basket
about the streets for sale. Shortly after eating the same,
they were seized with violent retching, attended with cholic
bsins in the stomach, which, had not medical assistance
een promptly procured, would most probably have proved
fatal. Besides several poisonous "fungi," there is a variety
of the tuber, which, although an innocuous catsup may
be made from them, yet are dangerous to be eaten, being
highly indigestible. and apt to swell in the stomach, pre,
ducing very painful and dangerous cOnseqiitnces. The
best way to test the quality of kithellrooms is to intro-
duce a silver spoon, or A. new drilling or sixpence, or an
onion, into a vessel In Which mushrooms are seething ;
if, on taking either of them out, they assume A dark dis-
coloured apJearance, the circumstance kke4l6t4E4 tkt rte.-
8011C0 ti poison existing among them the •otil'er
hand, the metal or onion san being withdrawn -lila We
liquor wears its natural appearance the *oft Mi 47
garded as being genuine an of iii
" PEEL nAS 0."1-z=.11.t.t. liingest Administra-
tions since the itcceggeh of George the Third were Lord
North's) iron). February 1, 1770, to March 27, 1782 ,•
fl'om December 27, 1783, to March 7, 1801; and
Lord Liverpool's, from June 8, 1812, to April 11, 1827.
And Sir R. Peel's was the shortest—it lasted three months;
and if the people could only be true to themselves, his
next conglomeration would not have a much longer du-
ration—except it display "submission to the reasonable
expectations of the people."
In the American navy an official order has
been lately issued for all officers to cut off their soap
lochs, and enacting, where whispers are worn, that they
shall not descend beyond one inch below the tip of the
' ear, and from thence making a straight line to the cor-
ner of the mouth. Moustaches and billy-goaties are. ab-
solutely prohibited, to be worn by naval officers in uni-
form. -- •