The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

APPOINTAINNTS.

Second Master—William Greet, to the Hercules.
Clerk—C. W. Motherwell and J. L. Thorne, to the
Crocodile. _ ....

Master's Assistant—Robert Forder, to the Star.
Boatswains—Edward Rouse, to the Prim* Regent;
John Turner, confirmed to the Blenheim.
WiLd S.S.W., strong breezes and hazy weather.

The Hereford Times describes a drake with three
legs, to one of which two feet were attached.
The largest forest set apart for red deer which ex
ists in Scotland is the forest of Atholl, where 100,000
English acres are given up to them.
DEATII or OTAHEITIAN CHlEP.—Prince Teti, the
fifteenth son of Tati-Vahine, one of the greatest chiefs
of Otaheite, died onWednesday in the hospital of theVal-
de Grace, Paris, in which he had been placed, in conbe-
queuce or ins sintering irons 4 ijuiplitstit;
diathesis tuberculosis, and which it appears was aggra-
vated by his being brought to this climate.
SERIOUS FIRE. NINE HORSES BURNED TO
DEIPIL—A letter received on Saturday at the Sun Fire
Office, announces a most serious fire having occurred
on Thursday last at a place called Spittle, near Aber-
gavenny, which destroyed the farming premises of Mr.
Richards. It commenced in the stables, where there
were fourteen valuable horses; five were extricated alive,
but the remaining nine were burned to death. Each
animal was worth forty guineas. How the fire origi-
nated is not stated.

DEATH or ANOTHER GENEEAL.—We have to an-
nounce the death of Gen. Frederick Maitland, Colonel
of the 58th Regiment of Foot. This gallant veteran is
one of the family of Lauderdale, the heritable standard-
bearer for Scotland, which has produced so many dis-
tinguished generals and admirals of the army and navy.
He was the brother of the present Sir Alexander Mait-
land Gibson, Bart., and fourth son of General the Ho-
nourable Alexander Maitland, fifth son of the sixth Earl
of Lauderdale; was born in 1768, and has died, conse-.
quently, in the 86th year of his age.
EARTHQUAKE AT BlTAYlA..—Letters from Batavia
in the island of Java, of the 20th, state that on the 16th,
17th, and 18th, shocks of earthquake were felt at
Batavia, and in the regencies of Cheribon, Bonjoemak,
Kaddoc, Semarang, and Rambay. The shocks were io.
violent as to recal to mind those of 1834. At Batavia
the towers of the church were a good deal shaken, and
that of the town-hall bad taken a strong leaning to the
left, whilst a cross in cast-iron,, which surmounted it,
was overthrown. In the town of Cheribon all the
buildings, except the stores, the walls of which are of
great thickness, were so much injured as to threaten
ruin, and oblige the inhabitauts to seek refuge in the
plains in the environs. At Palimang the residence of
the governor was thrown down, and all that it contained
destroyed. Forty houses in the Chinese quarter shared
the same fate, and seventeen inhabitants were crushed
to death under the ruins. A great number of sugar and
indigo manufactures in the open fields were destroyed.
Intelligence from all points of new disasters was reach-
ing Batavia, and the greatest alarm prevailed in that
capital.
Tun Faartcn n Cut/ie.—M. de Montigny, lately
appointed Vice. Consul of France at Shanghae, in China,
had forwarded to his Government various interesting
reports on the productions of Indo-China and the islands
of the Indian Sea, which are likely to occupy an im-
portant place in the trade of France with those coun-
tries. The observations of M. de Montigny bore prin-
cipally on the different species of teak, on the numerous
applications of the gum known by the name of gutta
percha, and on the many species of flour extracted from
the roots and plants of the above mentioned countries.
Those documents are accompanied with samples carefully
selected, and even sets of the plants, of which M. de
Montigny recommends the cultivation, either in France
or Algeria.
Tun Emu Ix igis NA-TIVI •FoitzsTs.—A native
who was walking at my side, and who had accompanied
us all day, stopped suddenly, and, pointing with his
finger, said, " Emu!" About a mile distant across the
prairie were two of those birds quietly feeding. The
dogs were immediately called together, fresh vigour
seemed to animate the whole party, and we proceeded to
give chase in high spirits. Emus are sometimes shot
with the rifle, but the usual mode of obtaining them is
by hunting them with kangaroo dogs. If you happen
to corn. near enough io them without raising alarm,
they may frequently be detained, and even attracted
almost up to you: stirrup, by whistling. I have known
this to be repeatedly tried with success. When you
begin to whistle the emu lifts up its head and listens with
attentien; soon, delighted with the sound, he walks
leisurely in the direction from which it comes; then,
perceiving a human being, he pauses, seems irresolute,
and finally walks round and round you in circles, gra-
dually lessening, until he approaches within a few yards.
If his confidence be not repaid with a bullet, he will,
after gratifying his curiosity by a good stare, quietly
walk away through his native woods. Emus are fre-
quently speared by the natives, who, by taking care
to stand stock-still the moment the creature lifts up
its head, manage to approach within a few yards of them
while feeding. Though the savage may have his hand
raised in the act of throwing the spear he remains fixed
in that attitude whilst the emu takes a surrey, of him.
Perceiving only an object without motion, the bird takes
him for a tree, sad continues to graze, falling a victim,
like other innocent things, to a misplaced confidence in
its own security. The emus ran fast, and gave us a
long chase; but at length the headmost dog caught hold
of the extended flapper of one of the birds, and arrested
its progress; the others, coming up, soon pulled him to
the ground, and by the time we reached the spot he was
dead. The feathers from the tail were distributed among
the party, and placed in our caps; and the legs being cut
off, the rest of the bird was abandoned. The legs alone
afford any meat, which is by no means a delicacy, and
resembles coarse beef.-7he Buihman.

The trial of Mr. Gutteridge, for libelling the
Bishop of Manchester, will take place at th• Wurwick
Assizes in the month of March.

The Zeitungshalle of Berlin, of the 26tb, announces
some leases of cholera in Upper Silesia, especially at
Rutiboo, Pleas, and Leobschitz.
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Public prayers hare been ordered in all the churches
of Belgium, on account of the contagious disease which
is now prevalent in Flanders.