The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

MORNING SUN.

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his side. The poor sufferer was conveyed to a surgeon's
in ete neighourhood, who advised his immediate removal
to St, George's Hospital, which was done. in a cart in as
expedwious a manner as possible. Such is the nature of
the injul y
he has received that very little hopes are en-
tertained
.of his recovery. Clarke is a young man of
steady sob. ?.r habits,' and has a wife and two younc,r,
children.
LARGE
I:IAKE OF IRON —At the Park-end
Iron
Lear Colefold, in the Forest of Dean, the
property of Meters. Montague and James, 144 tons of
AFRuGrnEace, Ls
ironthe course of last week, Winn. b a larger
quantity
own to have ever been made in the
v ere
than madeis in
I,'l'
good a quality from one furnace.--
same
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NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALMON.--
Various interesting observations have of late been made
on this subject, to which wt./ have now to add the follow-
ing, which has been furnisheA to us upon the best autho-
rity. The manager of the Duke of Sutherland's
fisheries in Sutherlandsbire ettived his men to mark all
the spawned grilse which they to on the 4th of March
this year, with a brass wire, whicit they inserted in the
back fin, and restored to the rivers. \One of these taken
on the Shin at the above date, whej it weighed 4 lbs.,
was caught at a station on the same OsKer on the Ist of
July, when it was found to weigh exactly 141bs. ! being
an increase of 101bs. in less than 'four .ii-mths. This
ratio far exceeds that stated by Mr. Shaw Drumlan-
rig, but the difference may be explained by the fish in
the former case having had free scope in the riv,•r, while
in the latter they are confined to ponds.—Perthcourier.

THE VALUE OF PINS' HEADS.—The crin-
cipal members of the Chancery bar were occupied for
several days last week before the Lord Chanceller in •
arguing a question relating to a patent connected with
the making of pins' heads. The costs of the proceed-
ing on both sides are said to amount to nearly 5,(001.
DEATH OF LADY PRIDEAUX.—We have re-
ceived the melancholy intelligence of the death of Lady
Prideaux, who expired at Netherton, this (Tuesday)
morning, at six o'clock. This lady, who was the daughter
of the late Rev. James Bernard, of Combe Flory, So-
merset,
was married to the Hon. Baronet on the 99th of
April last, so that scarcely three months hava elapsed
between her nuptials and her death.— Western Luminary.
THE CONVICT FRUST.—A gentleman who
lately arrived from Van Diemen's Land says—" Frost
was, in spite ofibthe assertions to the contrary, an over-
seer of convicts, but he is no longer so. About ten days
previous to my informant's departure, Frost, with a gang
of his fellow-prisoners, was missing. They had pro-
cured a whaling-boat, with which they had attempted to
escape. After a week of very great privations they re-
turned to Hobart Town and surrendered themselves.
Notwithstanding the declarations of the others that they .
had forced him to accompany them, he had been deprived
of his appointment. and has been sent to the extra penal
settlement of Port Arthur. The Govern:nent believe that
he must have had some foreknowledge of the attempts.
Glasgow Courier.
DUNDEE.—We are still unable to mention any
changes in the state of our trade and manufactures.
Notwithstanding the dull state of our market, foreign
prices continue very stiff. In the Riga market there
are eager buyers at the prices demianded. In St. Pe-
tersburgh there has been nothing doing—the quality of
the flax from that quarter not being well reported of.
Advices received from Archangel yesterday state that
only a small quantity of °thorny flax--,say ten tons—
was parted with by a needy seller, at 127 ItS. The de-
mand for tows and codillas, particularly the third sort
of the latter, continued undiminished, the ,dealers not at
all anxious to sell at present prices ; indeed both tows •
and codillas have every appearance of maintaining their
prices during the season, the demand being considerable
and the supply small. We regret the shipping interest
is 2ikely to suffer just now. Freights in the Baltic are
lower than we ever recollect of their having been ; flax
has been tzken to the East coast from St. Petersburgh
at the aepeeee,ientedly low figure of 30s. per ton ; and
even at this price cargoes are exceedingly scarce. We
think that flax must soon give way—at least, if the de-
mand from this side govern the price. At present prices
consumers can make nothing of it.7---Dundee Advertiser. •
BRITISH MANUFACTURES.--There were in
this country, about a year since, not fewer than 16,000 •
steam eaginei at work, some of them 1,000 horse power.
But taking them at the low average 0f.25 horse-power
each, this would be equal to 400,000 horses. Five men
and-a-half are equal to the strength of one horse ; thus,
the country possesses a power, through the medium of
this vast number of steam engines, nearly equal to that
of 2,000,000 of men. Each horse, for his food a year,
consumes the produce of two acres of land, and thus
800,000 acres are to spare for human subsistence, more
than there would be if steam power were not employed
in the produce of the manufactures for which England is
now so celebrated. ~
4 few Sundays
SUNDAY HAY-MAKING.--.
ago, the Rochdale Churchwardens stopped a small farmer
in cutting his grass ; but, last Sabbath sia, y (August Ist),
the vicar's late warden was suffered to oake his hay, in
the immediate vicinity of the sacred edifice,- unmolested.
—[How could " a small farmer " expect to e. cape lik.: a
churchwarden ?
" That in the captain's but a choleric word, '
Which, in the soldier, is flat blasiihemy.''3
—Manchester Guardian.
as a Icaa-
AUDACIOUS THEFT..-011 Sunda?,,boutbOut the
racter well known to the police was prowling .
North Inch, Perth, he fell in with a person lying asleep,
apparently from the effccts of liquor, and finding th,:t lie
had a better suit of clothes on than his own, coolly pr‘.''
Iceeded to strip him, which he did to the shirt--habili-
tated himself with them, and left his. own lying beside •
the unfortunate son of Bacchus ; who, on awaking, and
collecting his scattered senses together, no doult felt
much surprised at the change that had taken place his
condition. He went in a sorry plight to the police-oifice,
stated ilis complaint, and William Wood, an active aficer,
succeeded in capturing the depredator the same day. Ile
was tried the next day, and sentenced to sixty days' im-
prisonment. .
LimEnrcrc.--The oat crop promises a very .
fine and full produce this season. The rain, which may
have affected the wheat, has improved the oats.—Lime-
rick Chronicle.
STOCKS OF OLD GRAIN.—So far RS these
can be ascertained, they turn out to be exceedingly-
light ; there being at the present time only 28,000
quarters of free wheat in Liverpool ; whilst at Wake-
field, the depot from which a large part of the West
Riding of Yorkshire and of South Lancashire are sup-
plied, there are only 6,800 quarters, and in Leeds only
2,800. In all parts of the country, too, the stocks are
believed to be on an equally insignificent scale.; and it
becomes tolerably clear, that a supply of foreign grain
will be required to eke out the consumption until har-
vest. 'That supply is not likely to be obtained
until the averages rise to 735. per quarter ; and,
therefore, th: labouring poor of this neighbourhood,
whose earnings have been so fearfully diminished by
the unfavourable state of trade, will have to incur the
additional evil of paying a famine price for their bread.
—Manchester Paper.
HINDOO WIT.—A Hindoo woman having
been summoned to give evidence before the Court of
Judicature in Calcutta, deposed that such a circumstance
happened in her presence. The Judge asked where it
happened. She replied, in the verandah of such a house.
" Pray, my go6d woman," said the Judge, " how many
pillars are there in that verandah ?" The woman, not
perceiving the trap that was laid for her, said, without
much consideration, that the verandah was supported by
four pillars. The counsel for the opposite party imme-
diately offered to prove that the verandah contained five
pillars, and that, consequently, no credit could be given
to her evidence. The woman, perceiving her error, ad-
dressed the Judge, and said, " My Lord, your Lordship
has for many yearspresided in this Court, and every day
that you come here, ascend a flight of stairs : may I beg
to know how many steps these stairs consist of ?" The
Judge confessed he did not know. " Then," replied
she, " if your Lordship cannot tell the number of steps
nou ascend daily to the seat of justice, it cannot be asto-
ishing that I should forget the number of pillars in
.a
balcony, which I never entered half-a-dozen times 'n
.
my life ?" The Judge was much pleased with the
coo"
man's wit, and decided in favour of her party., .a ,
FIRE WITII Loss Or LIFE. 1111 s
between one and two, p.m., a fire broke Fuht :fnonce..
three-
the Bell Inn, Horndon-on-the-Ilill,
wholeinocf the premises,
tened destruction, not only to tb_eut‘.3.oallea
as last
from the very efficient
but to several adjoining houses. b
aid rendered by the
reaching the house,
,notl
lamenti to add, loss of life. Mrs
enfiveaeting,le:sbi
tohmu.ocrurhetogogrdoe,taust-iin' hdeosestreneeexer-
tions
3.
were indefatigable.h, °these
the
seilmN horsee 1 e
nve ning. The origin
ployed in re
kV
house, was onwf:CsleimarelesofDtihxoen,fulr‘n-hiitltsirtebufrseilmy etmh-e.
sehfet hree
epeeirvseodn
slt:tehho
Dixon, property,
e it-ht 3.e• ,
wifeaid '
resides in premises adjoining ,
Mott, who
urance.— Essex Herald.
understood to be covered by ins
is under of the fire is not known.
.The propertrythbeelconrgnswtno Mr.and
are sorry to state that the numbers of
increase.ittee
en wrTehde. •
Nin*jatsirdicessltactih“;'hd°eefocer:r:lllir°eewdenntbhgei
number 702. These represent 2,106
Wed-
nesday last amounted to
eadrehysttihileocnotmhme
efd casesoper arteilvieesv
individualsn ; about seventy of them are employed at
the quarry breaking metal. The money ' distributed
on Wednesday last amounted to 421. 17s. 3d., and this
unemployn*
does not include those persons employed at the quarry ;
a greater sum will be required to-day. A number of
new applications for relief have been given in to-day,
consequent on the heavy failures which have lately taken
place. The Magistrates and th relief Committee are
exerting themselves to the utmost to procure funds to
meet this heavy expenditure, aided, as they are by a
number of benevolent individuals in the town and neigh-
bourhood.—Renfretvehire'paper.
VORACITY OF THE TROUT.—A curious in-
stance of a trout's voracity occurred a few weeks ago
when fishing in Warrington Park. I was trolling
with the diving minnow in a leet which communicates
with the tunnel that supplies the pond with water, when
a trout laid hold of it, and having allowed him time
to gorge, I struck, when my gut next the hook snapped
off, and away went the fish. I did not, however,
suppose it to be a large one, from his uneasy move-
ments after he had taken the bait, and attributed the
breakage to some flaw in the gut that had escaped my
notice. About a quarter of an hour afterwards I
chanced to cast in again near the same spot, and
instantly had another run ; this I missed, though not
till I bad pulled the fish, which was a small one,
above the surface • and yet the very next throw I
made, what appeared to be the same fish rose almost
-the instant the bait touched the water ; and this fish
I caught, when, to my great surprise, I discovered that
h
this fierce and hungry liattleglelli, him with, gentleman—for
in hisfor he only
weighed, three ounces and a quarter—had actually my
gorge,itoll
thook,o the o minnowne
caughtnd a i
I:l"estdiadighed one-thirteenth part of his own weight.— Cc rrse-
pondent of the Sportsman.