The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

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all listeners to bs of good cheer ; that she was
about to visit Paradise for ohjects essential to their
spiritual interest, but would return, if permitted, in nine
days, if not in the same number of years; or, at all
events, at the • end of half a century, to perform the
miracles previously marred by want of faith on the part
of her people. All these dreams sank deep into the
mind of the confiding Lines, who, after the spirit had
fled, preserved the body until it became offensive, and
was complained of as a nuisance by his nearest neigh-
bours. To soothe, therefore, the public mind, he gave
out the corpse had been privately interred in the garden
behind the house: and as time rolled on, and decomposi-
tion so far ran its course, nothing more was said on the
subject .until Innrs himself had been numbered with the
dead. This event occurred the week before last; and, strange
as it may appear, it is not the less true, that on the trus-
tees entering the house to take an inventory of effects, they
discovered in an upper chamber the identical remains of
Elspeth Simpson alias Mrs. Buchan. This apartment
he had converted into a sort of shrine, which he was in
ae habit of visiting, as long as able, twice or oftener
evey week, and covering the skeleton with warm blan-
kets, in the belief that -re animation would assuredly
return as the end of the half century drew nigh—con-
duct that would have been scouted as utterly incredible,
bad not the fact become a matter of local history, amply
demonstrating the verity of the saying, that " truth is
sometimes stranger than fiction." The remains, thus
treasured with a miser's care, bore a strong resemblance
to an unrolled mummy ; and a medical gentleman, who
examined them carefully, describes the skin es clinging
to the bones, and the whole quondam tabernacle of clay
exhibiting little more consistency than a skeleton, with
the exception of hair of a sandy colour, luxuriant, fresh,
and even elastic. In his will or testament the recently
deceased left strict injunctions that his own and the
remains just described should be interred in the same
grave—the female coffin to be undermost, and the male
uppermost, in the full belief, as the neighbours say, thar,
if Mrs. Buchan rose at the time appointed, his own
emsncipation from the silence of the tomb would not
only be centemporaneous, but unavoidable ! And on
Friday, the 2.3 d ult., his wishes were complied with in this
respect, both corpses having been consigned in the pcsi-
lion enjoined toa resting place in the garden, where nine
more of the sect were long since buried.
Mr. Nicholson, bookseller, Kirkcudbright, publisher
of the " history of Galloway," has in his possession a
charecteristic letter from old Innes, dated 1842, in which
he says, in reference to the priestess he to the last fol-
lowed, " She was rather below the middle size of wonan
than otherwFse. Although always clean and neat in her
dress, she was no way gaudy. Her countenance was
commonly sad, rather of the melancholy cast, and a little
piitoll .40. th, 0.1“3t1y,..:, The.--sound of her voice-
bore testimony of her being truth, and revealed, with-
out the help of, words, the very sentiments of her own
mind and heart."

Mr. Evans, in his " History of Sects," gives some ac•
count of the Buchanites ; but it is rather meagre, and
upon the whole incorrect. In these circumstances, we
are glad that Mr. Joseph Train is about to favour the
public with an authentic history of the Buchanites—a
work for which he has been collecting materials for
several years. No man can do the subject more justice;
for, as Sir Walter Scott often said, he was of all his
correspondents the best in ferreting out the forgotten
lore of Scottish antiquities, and the most devoted in
looking through what Young calls " the dark postern of
things long elapsed."
From an American gentleman we learn that of the
remnant of Buchanites who emigrated to North America
—Mrs. B.'s spinning maidens pioneered by Mr. Whyte
—one and all have disappeared from the stage of time.
Their doctrines, it appears, found no favour in the new
world; and, as they were averse to intermarrying with
other sects, not a trace of their existence remains
behind.

In a letter received this morning from a respected
correspondent, it is said—" Innes was a wheelwright by
trade, and has left considerable property in money and
houses. Ills principal heir, I hear, is a daughter of
Elstpth Simpson (Mrs. Buchan), at the present time
residing in Dumfries."

THE 40Tu REGIMENT.—On Monday evening, the 2d
inst., the head-quarters, the 7th company, and Grenadiers
of the 40th Regiment. attended by their band of drums and
fifes, marched into Chatham barracks from Gravesend, where
they had disembarked from the ship Seringapatam, of 1,000
tons burden, Captain Goding, after a passage of 123 days.
The ship put in at St. Helena on the 13th of November, and
during last month they encountered a very heavy gale that
last eight days. The head-quarters embarked on the 8d
of October. Their strength consisted of 6 staff sergeants,
4 sergeant, and 113 men, with 9 women .and 16 children,
under the command cf Major Fitz H. Coddington, with
Lieutenant and Adjutant T. L. K. Nelson, Lieutenant
W. H. Queade, Lieutenant John Cormick, and Quarter-
master Thomas Walter Hives. During the voyage they
lost only one man, named Robert Taylor, a private of
the 7th company. The whole of the troops are very
healthy; they brought home with them two Mahratta
colours, which they captured on the 29th of December, 1843,
at a place called Gowan, during their attack on the Mahratta
army. This regiment have had granted them a bronzed star,
with the inscription " Maharajpore," they also wear a second
medal in honour of their services at Caudahar, Ghuznee, and
Caubul. This regiment has been from England upwards of
twenty years. The head-quarters are to remain at Chatham
until the arrival of the second and third division. when they
will join their depot at Canterbury.
THE ENSUING SPRING ASSIZES.—The following are
the last days for full notice of trial for the several places
specified:—Lancaster, Friday, Feb. 6; Appleby, Monday,
9 ; Carlisle, Wednesday, 11; Newcastle, Saturday,
Swansea, Monday, 16 ; Hertford, Tuesday, 17 ; Reading
and Winchester, Wednesday, 18; Northampton and. Dur-
ham, Friday, 20; Chelimford and Aylesbury, Saturday,
21 • Oxford and Ilaverfordwest and town, Monday, 23; Oak-
ham, Tuesday, 24; Lincoln and city, Bedford, York and
city, Welchpool and Salisbury, Wednesday, 25; Maidstone,
Friday, 27; Worcester and city, Huntingdon and Cardigan,
Saturday, 28; Nottingham and town and Bala, Monday;
March 2; Cambridge and Dorchester, Tuesday, 3; Carnar-
von, Wednesday, 4; Lewes, Derby, and Carmarthen, Friday,
6; Stafford, Saturday, 7; Bury St. Edmund's, Beaumaris,
and Exeter and city, Saturday, 7; Leicester and borough,
Tuesday, 10; Liverpool, Ruthlin, and Brecon, Wednesday,
11; Kingston, Friday, 13; Coventry, and Norwich and city,
Saturday, 14; Warwick, Shrewsbury, Mold, Presteign, and
Bodmin, Saturdi', 14 ; Chester, Wednesday, 18 ; Hereford,
Friday, 20 ; 'Nunton and Monmouth, Saturday, 21;
Gloucester and city, Wednesday, 25.
REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.—Notwithstand-

:ng the declaration, made by Mr. Mark Philips some time
ago, of his determination to retire from the representation of
this borough at the next general election, it has been
recently supposed by many parties that Mr. Philips
had been, or might be, induced to reconsider the subject,
and permit himself to be again put in nomination as a
candidate. We are sorry to be compelled to state, how-
ever, that this opinion Is altogether erroneous; and that
we are directly authorised t'y Mr. Philips to state, in the
most explicit terms, and with the view of enabling the
electors of the borough to make their arrangements in the.
selection of his successor, that it is his intention to retire
whenever a dissolution of Parliament shall occur. We are
quite sure that this announcement will be received with re-
gret by a great majority of Mr. Philips's constituents; includ-
ing a large number of those whose political opinions are at
variance with his own.-2Ltanehester Guardian.
SCOTCH FREE-TRADE FARBIERS.—Front AL we CAR
learn a great number of the more intelligent farnim of this
district are not only reconciled to free trade, but would p:efer
the immediate abolition of the corn-laws to any temp.:-
rising measure. In some parts of Buchan, the usual toast We
" Sir Robert Peel and free trade ;" and amongst the agri-
culturists generally the feeling is, the sooner this much-
vexed question is settled, and settled finally, the better for
all classes. Several farmers who were in town yesterday,
and heard of Sir Robert Peel's proposal, objected to it, mainly
on the ground that the repeal i 3 not to be immediate. They
argue, and not unjustly, that the three years' delay—while
irlB49,and.
it is sure to produce a large influx of grain
nota -serious consequently create an injurious panic,
the
meantime to de-
rangementpre-
vent of
used
cases where it may not be necessary; and they would nmuch
e
an adjustment prices—bVwl prices—will
innrdt aei
rather have free trade at once. Their own experience
teaches them that, from the impossibility of putting more
than a certain quantity of soil into cultivation in one year,
the importation from abroad must be almost too gradual to
enable them to know what their future position is to be. If
it is to be bad (they argue), they want to know the worst
and be done with it; or, as the yeoman at h
an English
"drownedngli sh meet-
ing eat
ing wittily remarked, they, would he
onTcentEhaGn
Ad,utcriceLdAstlvo death.".—OßATteprdeuervr Herald.
BLOODHOUNDS.--
The barbarous system of employing bloodhounds to hunt
down and worry human beings found offending against the
game laws, has recently met with a check in the neighbour-
hood of Stamford. The Marquis of Exeter, some months
ago, obtained possession of three ferocious animals of this
species, which, for the safety of the persons having the care
of them, it was found necessary to keep constantly muz-
zled, though even in that state they proved to be most
formidable antagonists, it being asserted that each of
them possessed the strength of three or four
men. To try their powers and instinct, one of
them (a bitch) was put on the track sf a strong
man employed at Burghley : her scent was found to be sure,
and before the other men could come up with the animal
she had severely injured the person she was net upon, although
at the time she was closely muzzled. It seems that about a
fortnight ago two watchers were out in Collyweston Spinney
at night, accompanied by the bitch, when two trespassers
were discovered ; the brute was forthwith set at them, and she
was about to worry one of the strangers when the other levelled
his gun and shot her dead. The two men, who were
believed to be poachers, then made off, and the
keepers ran in another direction for assistance. Even
among those who severely reprobate the crime of
poaching, satisfaction is expressed that so cruel and un-
English a mode of attacking trespassers has met with a
Proper check. On the night of the occurrence, a man named
Joyce of Collyweston, was taken from his bed by Pocock
the constable, charged by the watchers with being one of
the men who were in the Spinney when the dog was shot •
and on the following day Mr. Thompson, sen., appeared
against him, before Dr. Hopkinson and the Rev. C. Atlay.
Joyce was defended by Mr. Atter, and, after considerable
argument between the attorneys, was discharged, on account
of a defect in the inforniation.—Stamford Mercury. 2_.,
BONDED GocmDs.—ln consequence of a recominenua
the depart-
meat, tion to that effect from the principal officers of
rehousing
the revenue authorities have directed that,
issued by the clerks or officers of the warehousing
the Long-
ments, on the receipt cf the warrant
doe
upon the ar-
room showing the payment of the duties
tides required to be delivered, to
goods are deposited, and
thedeoprdaretrf
t same from the bonding
officer at the warehouse
authorising the delivery
tefe
h book kept by them oft e
tho locker or customs'-
officer
e the instant the same are re-
verreadi,,
eto
d before they have been acted upon ;
deliveries premises,
wbehierhect.c%rkdeedp
ceived by them, and
ry
this roefguthieacitruiisavnyesi
of wines and spirits at the seve-
ral land wet goods at the legal
3 on
lockers for
wharfs the banks
wood
do
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observerretsoponsible for seeing that tit'
tl ter
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officers that
been,a,st
theheneejyno
wnfeui (enjoined
be st rhi cetl ld
intimated to the superintending
order be fully carrid out from the present time. It is prel!
sumed that this regulation has been adopted in consequence
of time back of some irregularities having • occurred with respect to the delivery of some
of the discovery
bonding premises to a larger amount than wg-aoso jtsfrifimedtbilye
the official document showing the payment of the duty due
on importation, and previously to the delivery taking place,
with a view to the prevention of similar attempts at fraud,
and, if attempted, furnishing a ready mode of detection ; and
also for the better security of the revenue and the property
of merchants housed under bond.