The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-06 00:00:00

A FIGHT.

I advanced into the middle of the school-room and
proceeded to scan the countenances of my school-fel-
lows, with a view of striking up a friendship with one or
more of them. I had not long stood thus, however,
when a pull of my hair from behind caused me to start
round with indignant surprise. My eyes lighted upon a
row of faces of singular gravity, with a hand over each
mouth as of philosophical speculation. As I turned
scowling from these grave Muftis, hopeless of detecting
the delinquent, a second visit Ilion of the same nature
awakened my fury, and turning short upon my heel,
with a rapid swing of my arm I prostrated a small
wretch, upon whose upturned visage still lingered a slight
vestige of mischievous glee, whi:h was instantaneously
succeeded by a look of woe. Th 3 lamentations of this
victim opened the throats of the smiller fry. " He won't
fight ;" "He daren't fight ;" " What's his name?" re-
soundd on all sides.
" I say, you sir," cried a boy older and taller than my-
self, starting briskly up to me, " what's your name?"
" Go it, Sinclair!—that's it, Sinclair!', shouted the in-
genuous youths.
(Boys are the generous, noble, high-minded beings
their grandmothers inspire philosophers to call them.)
" What's your name, I tell you!" repeatel Sinclair.
" Richard Freeman," said I, sturdily.
" Well—have you a mind to fight ?"
" Any one of my own size," I answered ; " and I
should like to catch the coward that pulled my hair just
now."

Although I said this readily and resolutely enough, a
sense of my unfriended condition lay heavy at my heart,
and mingled grief and rage rose into my throat. I
would have averted my head to conceal the tears that
sprang to my eyes; but at this moment a tap on the
shoulder engaged my attention. I looked up, and saw a
boy about Sinclair's age. He kindly took me by the hand.
" I'm Gregory—Tom Gregory," said he; " never mind
them—l'll stand by you."
In the meanwhile Sinclair had been taking counsel
with his companions.
" I'll see what he's made of," he observed, as he broke
from them, sagaciously nodding his head. Thereupon
the young gentleman, in a kind of dance, receded a few
paces, and with his tongue between his teeth, and one
eye cocked as though to enable him to take a surer aim,
he advanced towards me in the same lively manner, and
struck me across the face with his open hand.
Two boys, with very good intentions, instantly seized
me by the arms. " You are no match for him—don't
fight him," said they. .
But had he been the devil's Own imp, I had flown
upon him for that. Bursting from their hold, I rushed
headlong upon jay assailant, and dealt him such a blow
upon the under jaw as, had he not withdrawn his inso-
lent tongue, might perhaps have abridged it. As it was,
he recoiled, with an expression of face almost pitiable.
" Enough," said Toni Gregory, interposing. " Well,
done, Freeman! Sinclair, you are a coward to strike a
boy younger than yourself."
" I'll fight him,', said I, going up to him. I remem-
bered to have taken down such an ignoble swaggerer
once before, who had interfered with my amusement in
Lincoln's Inn-fields. " Have you a mind to fight?" re-
peating his words.
" Yes, I have," he replied.
No more. Two detachments of lads seized upon us
severally, and hurried us into the play-ground, behind a
large elm tree, and, set face to face, we began to bruise
each other without ceremony.
Sinclair proved himself to be no coward, or, perhaps,
shame did the word of courage ; but he was utterly ig-
norant of the noble science to which the renowned Mr.
Broughton, before I left London, lent such additional
lustre. He lacked also my activity and quickness of
manual resort •, so that, after a prolonged combat, in
which many blows were exchanged, three black eyes
were given, and much blood was shed, he gave in, and
reluctantly proclaimed me the conqueror.—" Richard
Savage," in Bentley's Miscellany for July.

To propose to enrich a nation by forcing a per-
manent , scarcity of corn, and obstructing the natural
course of trade, is, indeed, at variance with common
sense. The consequences cannot be mistaken: they are
these—the embarrassment of our shipping, and of our
mercantile and manufacturing interests : want of em-
ployment, and desperate poverty among the labouring
population ; an increase of crime, and a tendency to emi-
gration ; a loss of our currency, and a fall in the prices
of labour and corn ; a diminution of the public revenue,
and a derangement of the public finances ; and, more than
all, the certain eventual ruin of the agricultural interest it-
self When England, the land of marine
affairs and of commerce, and the best workshop of ma-
nufactures in the world, attempted to sell corn in oppo-
sition to Poland, a country in want of those advantages,
she perverted the natural order of trade ; she sold that
it was most profitable for her to buy, and by destroying
the means of her natural customers to buy what it was
most profitable for her to sell, she artificially lowered the
prices of every description of merchandise. So much
for the crusade against the natural order of commerce.
Till 1815 the corn trade was free, and
commerce prospered. In that ill-fated year the prohibi-
tory system became operative ; and as in 1766 trade and
manufactures revived precisely at the moment when the
restrictions on the importation of foreign corn were re-
moved; so in 1815, when those restrictions were again
imposed, commerce languished, manufactures failed, and
universal distress overspread the land.—Free Trade in
Corn the real Interest of the Landlord and the true Policy
of the State, by Sir James Graham.
SINGULAR CASE.—Mrs. Marsh, of Elham,
whose death we noticed in our obituary of last week, had
been afflicted for eight years with a violent pain in her
side, seven 9f which she haa.been confined to her room,
and her body was swollen to an amazing size. After her
death a post mortem examination took place, when a
tumour was extracted from her side, which weighed the
extraordinary weight of 631bs.—Maidstone Gazette.
POETRY IN HUMBLE LIFE —A labourer in.
• a hayfield in this county, the other day, in reply to a
clergyman's remark, that a great deal of work remained
to be done said—" Oh, yes, Sir, but Time is young at
present." It was then nine o'clock in the morning.—
Northampton Mercury.
DESTRUCTION, OF THE SHIP ST. GEORGE.—
SEVENTEEN LIVES LOST.—lntellinbvnce of the loss of
this splendid ship, the property of Messrs. Fletcher and
Sons, Lower Shadwell, Ratcliff-highway, was received
by the underwriters at Lloyd's on Tuesday last, and it
has caused a deep sensation throughout the whole of the
east end of the metropolis. The unfortunate calamity
happened on the night of Thursday, the 17th of June
last, on the Florida shores, and all on board, excepting
two seamen and the cabin boy perished. From the
statement of the survivors which has been received, it
appears that the Saint George was on her voyage to
New Orleans, having left London on the 29th of April
last. The ship and cargo are valued at 12,0001.
The Meath Independent Club have adopted re-
solutions pledging themselves unanimously in support of
of Mr. Corbally, in the ascertained event of Mr. O'Con-
nell's making his election to serve for the county of Cork,
which will cause a vacancy in the representation of the
former county.
TOTNES.—The failure of the bank has broken
up the Tory party completely, and there is no doubt
whatever of the re-election of the lion. Mr. Petre when-
ever a vacancy occurs. An enthusiastic demonstration
in favour of Mr. Petre took place last week. Above
1,000 persons sat down to tea ; we mention the numbers,
in order to show how general the feeling is on behalf of
Mr. Petre.—Western Times.

THE VINTAGE IN FRANCE.--PARIS, AUG.
2.—Notwithstanding the very unfavourable weather
which has prevailed for a considerable time past, there
are still grounds for hope for at least a fair average crop,
in respect to quantity. The quality is not expected to
be quite so good as that of last year, at present, but should
dry weather succeed there is no doubt that the wine will
be as good as that of the last year, if not superior. All
depends, however, on the weather.

For some time a number of men have been em-
ployed in the erection of filterers on the tops of the ter-
minus of the Greenwich Railway, for the purpose of
supplying the engines with pure water, it having been
discovered that the water that has been used has occa-
sioned considerablo injury and wear to the machinery.
There are also similar filterers erected at the New Cross
station on the Croydon line.

LEITH CENSUS.—The returns have not yet
been fully completed, but we understand that the popu-
lation of the district does not much exceed 26,000, an in-
crease of only about 1,000 since last census. The slow
and almost imperceptible increase in the shipping and
commerce of the town sufficiently accounts for this.—
Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.

The following disasters happened a few days
ago at the hamlet of Goville, near St. Wandrille (Seine
Inferieure). A farmer named Desjardins, was carrying
home a load of corn, when, by inadvertently going too
near some hives of bees, he overturned them, and so
enraged the swarms that they, in one mass, set upon him,
his man, and his horse, and left not an accessible spot in
either of their bodies unassailed by their stings. Fortu-
nately, a village doctress was at hand, and witnessed the
occurrence. With the utmost promptitude and judg-
ment she deluded M. Desjardins with pailsful of water,
and while the insects were rendered inactive by the im-
mersion, she, with her hands, removed them all from his
body, picked out many that had got into his nose, mouth., 1
and ears, and then, with a care most essential in such
cases, extracted all the stings she could find sticking in
his skin, and which amounted to 400, washing the ori-
fices with cold water. The man was also severel
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quently the suspense and anxiety thus occasioned to the
parties in the connection in this locality and in England
are attended with serious consequences, both to the
manufacturers and the workpeople who dePend on them.
The total number of houses that have stopped payment,
or come down altogether at Paisley within the period re-
ferred to, is from twenty-five to thirty. Although, as
has been proved by the result of the elections, the utmost
unanimity prevails throughout the whole of the town
and trading population in the west of Scotland regarding
the revision of the commercial code and the alteration of
the Corn-laws, still, from the prevailing embarrassments
in trade, which is so generally felt, no active exertions
have yet taken place for bringing these subjects promi-
nently forward at the approaching meeting of Parlia
ment. Even the interesting meeting of Ministers of the
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gospel, which has been fixed to take place at Manchester
on the 17th for that purpose, has only had one or two
representatives fixed to attend it as yet, although long
before the time that meeting is to assemble, it is earnestly
to be hoped that a goodly number of our public-spirited
west country divines will be ready to take their place in
the Assembly.

DEATH OF THE HON. EDWARD DE MO-
LEYNEI.—This gallant veteran breathed his last on Sa-
turday, at Dingle, in the county Kerry, in the 64th year
of his age. The deceased was son of the late Right
Hon. Thomas Lord Ventry, and a Deputy-Lieuteuant of
the county. He served in the 28th Regiment throughout
the whole of the Peninsular war. He was wounded se-

verely at Barossa, and was honoured with the field
officer's medal for Orthes, where he commanded a bri-
gade of the light infantry companies.
DEATH OF MRS. MOODIE.—Mrs. Catheiine
Ferguson, relict of the late Rev. Leslie Moodie, D. 1).,
minister of Inveresk, died at Kilkerran, on the 27th ult.
Mrs. Moodie was the aunt of the present Sir Charles
Ferguson._ A series of remarkable coincidences have

been noted regarding the death of the venerable lady.
She was born at Kilkerran, in the very room where she
died ; and her husband died on, 27th July, 1840, being
the very day of the year on which his widow departed
this life.—Scotsman.

FRANCE.—The Semaphore, of the 30th ult.,
announces the arrival of the Prince d'Aumale at Mar-

seines on the preceding day. At seven o'clock A.M.
salutes of artillery, fired in the roads, and returned by
the batteries of Fort St. Jean, announced to the popula-
tion that the flotilla, carrying the 17th regiment of Light
Infantry, and its young Colonel, was in sight.. In an in-
stant, as if by enchantment, the extensive.eiplanade of
La Tourette, the quays, and streets, leading to the har-
bour, were crowded with spectators. The flotilla con-
sisted of five steamers—the Veloce, containing his
Royal Highness, the Euphrates, Etna, Papin, and Ca-
melion. These vessels were admitted immediately to
libre pratique, and were moored along the quay St.
Jean. At noon the troops landed, amidst the applause
and acclamations of the multitude, which redoubled at
the sight of its tattered colours and the Duke d'Aumale,
who stood next it. The 19th and 20th Regiments of

Light Infantry, drawn up on the Place Royale, received
their comrades of the 17th, who drew up in front of
them. The Prince, accompanied by General Tiburee
Sebastiani, then held a review of the three corps, and

proceeded afterwards to the Hotel d'Orient, where he
was waited upon by the civil and military authorities of
Marseilles. The 17th Regiment remained.fiire years in
Africa, and distinguished itself partieUlarly at the siege
of Constantine, and at the Pass of Teniah. The stand-

ard-bearer is the fourth officer to whom the colours had

been entrusted, the two first having fallen on the field of

battle, and the third had died of fever.

. ,
LADIES AND BISHOPS. —lt is ()nerved
that a college lad, what is called a hobble-de-hoy (i. e.
" hombre de hoy," Spanish " man of to-day"), is apt to
claim the privileges both of youth and manhood ; if he •
commit some mischievous prank, which is taken up
seriously, he appeals at once to his tender years, " 0! it
is only a boyish frolic :" if coerced by strict rules, he
claims to be treated as a man. Ladies and bishops
(sleeve-wearing animals, gens togata) are apt to do the
like ; if a lady is treated as " a weaker vessel," having
nothing to do with reasoning, forsooth she is " homo,
a rational animal as well as you ; but if you contradict
her, and argue against her, she at once becomes " mu-
lier" (not the comparative degree of muly), and you are
rude to a lady. Such a course is obviously unfair, and it
has the further demerit of being supremely ridiculous.

INDIAN CATTLE.—The Thibetan yak brought
to Calcutta by Mr. Huffnagle is one of the most curious
animals that we have ever seen. It is at present on the
premises of Mr. Adam F. Smith. It seems a connecting
link between three very different zoological genera. It
has the head of the ox, the body of a goat, and the tail
of a horse. Its osteology differs from that of the ox,
having one more rib. The cold climate of which it is a
native, its resting-place being among the snow, renders
Calcutta particularly trying to the animal. It is a
mere object of curiosity, but on the same premises Mr.
Huffnagle has four Lepcha cows from Darjefing, which
we consider likely to improve our breed of lowland
cattle far more permanently and effectively than any
importation which has yet been made. A W.', of
the same stock would be a still more valuable gift to the
vicinity. These cows have the slightest possible rudi-
ment of a hump, and the ears are rather large, thin,
and pendulous, as in the Nagore breed, otherwise in
frame, in fineness of head, lightness of bone, and supe-
riority of udder, they approach closely to some of our
best English breeds. To look at the black cows, a ca-
sual observer would conclude that they were of the best
kind of the Welch breed; whilst the one which is brindled
white and brown, looks much like a Devonshire. They
are altogether a most promising source whence
_to derive

improvement to our B:engatee cow and ox ; anti we hope
Mr. Huffnagle will fully carry out his intention of breed-
ing from these cows, not only by a Nagore but an Eng-
lish bull, and our desire is still greater that a Lepcha.
bull should be brought to the Presidency. We saw the
cows during the hottest period of the day, and, though
in not the best sheltered of sheds, they did not seem
to suffer from the beat ; whilst the yak, though in a
much cooler place, was panting extremely.—Calcutia.
Courier, May 22.

CANDOUR.—‘, There are people in the world
who affect to despise candour, to look upon it as symp-
tomatic of weakness, and evincing ignorance of human
nature. But surely openness is the most obvious cha-
racteristic of conscious strength and integrity—secresy,
the natural resource of imbecility and dishonest design.
He who believes, or, what is the same thing, acts as if
he believed, that there is not a single honest high-
minded man in the world, is right so far as one indi-
vidual is concerned—that is, himself. He who knows.
from his own consciousness that there is one, will not be
slow to believe there are others."

CURIOUS AND INTERESTING GEOLOGICAL
DISCOVERY.—A few days since, some workmen em-.
ployed in raising stone from one of the lies quarries on
Brockridge-common, made a discovery, fourteen feet
from the surface, of what they called the " bones of a
fish," and of which they gave information to Mr. Dud-
field, of Tewkesbury, who immediately. proceeded to the.
spot, and found it to be, on examination, the fossil re-
mains of an ichthyosaurns, or fish lizard. Mr. D., after
much care, patience, and labour, succeeded in disinterring
it, had it safely conveyed to his house, and upon minute
examination and careful cleaning, had the satisfaction to,
find that he had obtained one of the most beautiful and
perfect fossil skeletons of this extraordinary autediluvial
animal this country affords. This magnificent specimen
measures 6 feet 10 inches in length, haying the head, the
whole of the spine, consisting of upwards of 100 ver-
tebrae, with many of the spinal processes, the tail perfect,
even to the smallest point, two of the paddles or fins
quite perfect, and a considerable portion of a third, both
the scapular, many of the ribs, and some very delicate
small bones near the tail, which render it probable that.
the animal had an appendage there, probably used as a
rudder, which will excite the interest and curiosity of
scientific men, as they have been hitherto unnoticed or
undescribed.—Cheltenhain Chronicle.
DANCING AT A FRENCH FETE.--011e booth
contains a large lanthorn, two feet square, on which is
written " Bal de Paris." This is for the nobs and na-
bobs. The admittance price excludes all the rest—for
is fivepence. The next booth, devoted to Terpsichore,
isfoi
is at a reduced price, six sous, or threepence,
excellent.an
the snobs and nobobs. The music inbaotl!_.gallo-
is
Dancing all the afternoon, waltzing, u
pading, has been going on upon
small scale
and his lady
village clock has struck seven, the
d the ball begins in
have entered the " Bal de Paris,' an,
This is dancing
scale • but the
figure ! How the
right earnest. How they cici
with a vengeance ! How _
d t ks about'l inches be-
ladies advance, their gowns&
of nosegays ! That young
fore them ! What a number dance
man new.yellow gloves,,` must be taking
gymnastic
maffemoiselle Golberg, the chief
in
em black, with
couturiere (1. e.
herself into such attitudes and con-
vulsionsher doctor to throw
.eedlewoman), must surely be ordered by
in the cap of Madame Mulot, the epicier's
herself of rheumatism. How very blue
te lovingly she looks at her husband's head
wife ; and -°w
apprentice. Shame to you, Mrs.
Mulot, it's too bad of
h„,ake poor Mulot stop at home and keep shop
you w dance at the "Bal de Paris" with Henri Co..whilst you
gagers
to cure
chon.—New Monthly Magazine.
RAPID TRAVELLING BETWEEN LONDON
AND DUBLIN.—The Government, in order to make the
travelling between London and Dublin more expeditious,
has given orders that a mail-boat shall;proceed to Dublin
immediately on the arrival of the mail-bag from London
by the Chester and Birkenhead Railway. Persons desirous.
of availing themselves of this advantage, can do so by pro-
ceeding by the London and Birmingham Railway to Bir-
mingham, booking at Birmingham for the Grand junction
Railway at Chester, thence to Birkenhead by the Chester
and Birkenhead Railway,—thus accompanying the mail-
bags the whole way. The expense is similar to the
more circuitous route by Liverpool, and a saving of 12
hours is, in many instances, made in the journey by the
Government arrangement, occupying, on the whole, not
more than 20 hours between London and Dublin.—
Liverpool Chronicle.
AN INDIGNANT MERRY ANDREW.--Volange,
an actor of low buffoonery at one of the minor theatres
in Paris, had a particular objection to exhibit his pro-
fessional talent before private company, a proof of good
taste which some English performers might study with
advantage. One evening when he was at a party, at the
house of a nobleman, he was given to understand that
he had been invited only to amuse the company, and than
they looked for some drolleries similar to those which ex-
cited so much risibility in his favourite character of
Jeanaot. He politely excused himself ; but he was re-
minded that it was "Jeannot" who had been invited.
" Very well," said he ; " since you have thought proper
to invite Jeannot, M. Volange will wish yon good- even-
ing." So saying, he took his departure. An English.
story, of a similar nature, is told of the well-known-Lora
Lordship,
him, hintedftd t h went.a t
Kelly and Fischer, the celebrated performer on the
be
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MORNING SUN.

IREL AND.
KING'S COUNTY ASSIZES.---AucusT 2.

DUBLIN. ArGIJST 3.—On Saturday Baron Foster en-
tered the Crown Court at about halt-past three, and the
Grand Jury having been sworn, his Lordship addressed
them in a few words, and stating that there were thirty-
six prisoners upon the calendar—two for rape, two for
throwing down houses, some for grievous assaults, and
the remainder for larcenies, &c., besides these, there
were the three persons who were tried at the last
assizes for the shooting at Mr. Biddulph, J. P., upon
which occasion the Jury disagreed. His Lordship then
adjourned the Court until Monday.
On this day Baron Foster took his scat in the Crown
Court about ten o'clock. The only case tried up to the
hour of post, wal one for an assault upon a process-
server, who went to serve a writ at the suit of Messrs.
Lewis and Co., for the amount due for their celebrated
" Topographical Dictionary." The prisoners, after a
lengthened investigation, were found guilty of a riot and
Common assault.