The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-18 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ADDITIONAL EXTRACTS FROM THE NEW
YORK AND CANADIAN PAPERS.
AFFRAY AT NASHVILLE.—A rencontre took place
on the 11th inst. at Nashville between R. C. Foster,
son of :s: r. Foster, la!e United States Senator, and J.
G. Harris, Editor of the Nashville Union, which proved
oearly fatal to the latter. afferent accounts of the af-
fray are given by the two parties. It appears that there
had been some diffcreoce between them on the subject
of politics, Foster having spoken harshly of Gen. Jack-
son, and Harris giving the lie, Foster challenged him,
but he refused to fight. Foster then, it appears, under-
took to chastise him, anti for that purpose went to the
hotel where Harris boarded, and waited for hint as he
came in to supper. As he was crossing the bar-room
Foster fired a pistol, one ball from which entered his
breast and another passed through his arm. In his card
Foster states that Harris was approaching him with a
pistol in his hand and that he fired in self-defence.
ILr-
ris's wounds are severe but not dangerous.
SAD CALAMITY WITH Loss OF LlFE.—Tuesday
morning at about 8 o'clock, the steam engine used in
Messrs. Pike and Perry's Sash and Blind Manufac-
tory exploded, producing ruin and devastation to the
building, and what is most melancholy and afflict-
ing, Calvin M. Pike, a young man about 20 years of
age, and a brother of the senior partner, was killed
instantaneously.
The engineer, Mr. Higby, who was standing by the
engine at the time, found himself a number of yards
outside of the building—and fortunately, we are told,
uninjured. One or two other workmen were slightly
injured.
The boiler—upper part—was sent with tremendous
violence through the roof of the building to the height,
as stated, of 150 feet, producing in the earth on its fall
an excavation of several feet, although frozen.
Toe only cause which we arc at this moment able
to give is, that which is common in most eases of the
kind—the water in the boiler became too low, and on
filling up with cold, steam was created faster than could
escape through the safety valve.— Middletown County
Constitution.
POUTING ROOMS.—John Adams, in his correspond-
ence with Mr. Cunningham, gives the following descrip-
tion of a boudoir :—What is a boudoir ? It is a pout-
ing room. And what is a pouting room ? In many
gentlemen's houses in France there is an apartment of
an octagonal form, 21 or 15 feet across, and Z 37 or 45
feet round, and all the eight sides, as well as the ceiling
above, are all of the most polished glass mirrors ; so
that when a man stands in the centre of the room, he
sees himself in every direction, multiplied into a row of
selfs, as far as the eye can extend. The humour of it
is, that when the lady of the house is out of temper,
when she is angry, or when she weeps without a cause,
she may be locked up in this chamber to pout, and see
in every direction how beautiful she is.
FANNY ELSSLER.—This celebrated danscuse arrived
at Havana on the 15th ult., but had not landed at the
time of our informant's writing. Business was almost
entirely suspended and the Quay thronged with people
anxious to get a glimpse of "la Belle Elssler." A
Havana correspondent of a New Orleans paper, writes
that the managers of the Tacon Theatre have engaged
Fanny Elssler to perform 10 nights at 1,000 dollars
per night. She will then have a benefit which will
yield probably 4 to 5,000 dollars more.
We understand that Mr. M'Leod will to-day give
the required bail at Lockpert. This step, we believe
would not have been taken had there been any proba-
bility of his trial taking place when the Court sits in
February ; but as it is almost certain that he would
have been incarcerated for many months before his per-
secutors would bring the cause on, it is far better that
he should be at liberty in the mean time, his health
• having already suffered materially from the unjust con-
finement of which he has been the victim.—Niagara
Chronicle, January 14.
VERY LATE FROM THE PACIFIC.
(From the Baltimore American.)
The schooner Coquette, Galt, arrived at this port
yesterday in the very short passage of sixty-nine days
from the port of Islay, in Peru. The republic of
Bolivia was in a very disturbed state, and the opinion
was very general that a revolution would break out
shortly. In expectation of the event, the Pei uvians
were about to declare war against Bolivia, and were
concentrating their forces preparatory to joining one of
the revolting parties in the latter.
We have been politely favoured with the following
extract of a letter brought by the Coquette :
Iseas-, Nov. 13, 1840.--Wc have rumours of war
between Bolivia and Peru, and the event is weekly ex-
pected to take place. 1 have seen letters from the
capital of Peru, in which Bolivia is threatened with in-
vasion, and I find there is much dissatisfaction among
the higher orders of people in Bolivia, opposed to the
present administration of the Government. Those
who have large interests in that province fear a revolu-
tion will soon take place, and the Peruvians are ready
to join one party or the other, which will involve fearful
consequences.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.-THE

TWO JOHN FROSTS.

There was a John Frost, a very respectable attorney,
who in I 750 held the situation of solicitor to the Stamp-
office, about which period he commenced his political
career, when he became the friend and brother Re-
former of Mr. Pitt and the Duke of Richmond, and
acted as secretary to the Parliamentary Reform Asso-
ciation, held at the Thatched House, and of which the
two former, and some of the most eminent political
men, were members.
When Mr. Pitt became Minister, he abandoned his
political friends, not thinking then that reform was ne-
cessary. Not so, however, with Mr. Frost, who re-
mained firm and consistent, and continued to labour in
the vineyard of reform, which, however, was attended
with the loss of situation at the Stamp-office soon
after Mr. Pitt became Minister. Mr. Frost's house, in
Spring Gardens, was nevertheless the resort of the most
eminent men of the day, viz. Burke, Johnson Erskine,
Fox, Sheridan, Scott 6a fterwards Lord Stowell), John
Kerible, Horne Tooke, Drs. Price, Priestley, &c.
About three years after Mr. Pitt and the Duke of

Richmond (who also came into office) had quitted the
Reform Club, it dwindled away, and Reform and its
Club were shelved. But the French Revolution of
1789 produced a resurrection among the Reformers of
England, the liberal-minded of the civilized warld
were elevated to a pitch of enthusiasm in favour of the
French revolution, and about 1790 three Reform So-
cieties were established in London, viz., " the Friends
of the People," " the Constitutional Society," and " the
Corresponding Society.' The elite of the United
Kingdom were members of the two former—viz., Mr.,
afterwards Earl, Grey, the Duke of Bedford and his
brothers, Tierney, Erskine, Sheridan, Horne Tooke.
Earls Stanhope and Lauderdale, Drs. Price and
Priestley, " cum multis aliis." The members of the
Corresponding Society were chiefly tradesmen—viz.,
Hardy, Baxter, and Ashl, y, shoemakers, Thelwall, po-
litical lecturer, &c.

When Royalty was abolished in France, Mr. John
Frost and the well-known American author Joel Bar.
low, who was a member of the " Constitutional So-
ciety," were by that Society sent as Deputies to Paris
to congratulate the National Convention oa that event.
They presented a congratulatory address at the bar
of the Convention. Mr. Frost soon after returned to
London, when, dining at the Percy Coffee-house,
he made use of some intemperate expressions which
were construed into sedition ; on which charge he
was tried in the Court of King's Bench, sentenced
to sx months' imprisonment, and the Judge, Lord
Kenyon, on his own authority, inflicted the se-
verest punishment, which was, by striking him off the
roll of attorneys. Mr. Frost, although possessing
competent fortune, became clerk to the Commissioners
of Pancras parish, for watching, lighting, &c., which
situation he held many years, and acquitted himself
honourably and satisfactorily to the Commissioners ;
and '.'hen he retired from his situation they allowed
him a handsome pension. He was many years, not-
withstanding the change of his situation in life, on inti-
mate terms with the late Chancellor Eldon, Lords Sid-
mouth, Stowell, and Erskine, Sheridan, &c. When
he quitted his parochial situation he retired to a cottage
of his own, in the vicinity of Brighton. Such a man
was John Frost the First, once the friend of Mr. Pitt.
If Mr. Frost be now alive, he must have attained
his 90th vear.*—(Correspondent of the Times.)
* We believe that Mr. Frost is alive and in good health.