The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The friends of Reform met in Rotherham on Friday
last, for the purpose of forming a "Parliamentary Reform
Association." Rules were adopted, and a Committee
appointed.

A meeting of Reformers w•as held on Tuesday last,
at the Royal Exchange, Dublin, to consider the most
suitable testimonial they could present to Lord Mor-
peth, in gratitude for his services to their country.
The Irish Repeal Association, as we find by the
published Report of their Committee, have come to these,
among other resolutions:—" Never to support any Mi-
nistry that does not leave the question of Repeal an open
one to the Irish people," and " never to support any Mi-
nistry but one that avows further Reform, and disavows
Finality."
The Welsh coal-fields extend over 1,200 square
miles, with 23 beds of workable coal, at an average
thickness of 95 feet. Each acre will yield about 100,000
tons, being at the rate of 65,000,000 tons per mile. Al-
lowing largely for waste, these would supply England
with coal for 2,000 years after all the English mines
were exhausted.

Ghosts, it seems, are coming into fashion again.
On Friday night last, two servant-maids at Cambridge
were horror-struck by a phantom—" a thing of head and
legs," as they described it—coolly walking at midnight
into the nursery, where they were seated, and making
" several strange and mysterious noises." They rushed
out immediately, assistance was called in, but it had va-
nished, leaving behind " a curious odour." We doubt
the genuineness of a phantom that walks into the private
apartments of servant-maids at midnight. Flesh and
blood, we suspect, had more to do with the matter than
spirit, unless indeed it were the spirit of wine !
" We esteemed it our duty," says the Cambridge
Advertiser," to send a reporter to the Newmarket Tory
Dinner ; but the speeches were so surprisingly stupid,
that we spare our readers the infliction." Our Contem-
porary deserves the lasting gratitude of the political
world, for this kind consideration for their feelings. We
cannot, however, account for his being surprised at the
stupidity of a Tory dinner speech. We should have been
surprised had it been otherwise than stupid.
- Yesterday morning a labourer in the West India
Dock was bit through his breeches by a centipede.
A Morning Paper says—" It is not a little singular
that in London men who become ruined and are penni-
less, immediately commence money-lenders to any
...mount." This is new to us, for we had always till now
imagined that such men' were rather money-borrowers.

A meeting within the few last days took place at
Liverpool, to promote the formation of a railway to
Edinburgh. The principal promoters of this measure
are the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and the Grand
Junction Railway Companies. •
The question of Church-rates was violently agitated
on Thursday week, at Cheltenham. A poll AN a 3 de-
manded, when a majority of 157 was obtained against
the rate.

At a Tory dinner given on Wednesday .at
Reading, the Rev. S. W. Yates congratulated the com-
pany on "the noble stand which the Church had made
against the Government plan of national education?'
It is certainly a noble boast for the Church to' make,
that she has resisted with all her might the diffusion of
knowledge, and done her utmost to continue the people
in a state of besotted ignorance ! A Church like this is
admirably qualified to be the mainstay of a Tory Go-
vernment. They are an amiable pair, and worthy of
each other!