The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

ployment, has now not work for three, and cabiret-
makers are in the same condition.
The linen merchants, bankers, and flax-spinners -at
Belfast have memorialized the Board of Trade on the
depreciation of their manufactures. Their products
have been thrown out of the French market by the Tariff
Lid on by that Government, and out of the German
market by the advance of machinery there. They pray
the abolition of the Corn-laws. In the trade of yarns
and linens, Ulster has been at a loss in the last year of
nearly 300,0001.

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The Zurich and Basle Railroad Company in Switzer-
land has been dissolved.

ASTICAL.
How TO CUREECCLESA PARSON.—A Contemporary, in de-
scribing the pleasure afforded to the Rector and Church.
wardens of Hackney by Church-rate contests, intimates
that three have already taken place in that parish in the
course of the year, and that a fourth is to come off on
Friday next to cure the parson. Since the last defeat,
the Rector of the parish, the Rev. H. H. Norris, has been
in indifferent health, and it is understood that recourse
to renewed agitation is now had as much with a view to
his perfect restoration, as to the ordinary purposes for
which a Church-rate is made.—We defy Jonathan to beat
this.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
Mr. Clough, a missionary, has lately made an excursion
into the provinces of Southern Abyssinia, never visited
before by Europeans. On the plea of elephant-hunting
he penetrated with others into the country. The inha-
bitants are principally Christians, of the order of St.
Mark, 'in whose ceremonies many of the Jewish rites
are blended.

The death of Dr. Forbes, at Erzeroum, barbarously
murdered by a Beloo chief, has been confirmed by a
letter to the Royal Geological Society. He was a good
antiquarian, and the first Englishman who had visited
the Singhur Hills, in Mesopotamia.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A new stand of colours will be presented early in the
spring to the 16th Regiment, by Viscount Beresford,
their Colonel.

LAW AND POLXCE.

Sir Peter Laurie announced on Tuesday that his cure
for jumping, or trying to jump, into the river was work-
ing admirably, and he would therefore persevere in the
regimen, and make the jumpers walk off to Newgate, or
take a little refreshing exercise on the tread-mill.
On Monday William Abrahams, aged 25, was taken
before the Alderman at Guildhall, charged with stealing
153 newspapers, the property of Mr. Edmunds, a news-
vender, and committed for trial. On Tuesday he was tried
for the offence, found guilty, and sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment.
At the Thames Police Court, J. Alexander, a Lascar,
belonging to the ship Canton, was brought before Mr.
Broderip on the charge of attempting to strangle a woman
named Ann Dix, and severely assaulting a policeman
named George Hailes, and another person of the name
of Fowler, all of whom appeared to have been much in-
jured. The prisoner was sentenced to one months' im-
prisonment in the House of Correction for the assault on
the police constable, to pay a fine of 40s. for the outrage
on the woman, and 20s. for striking Fowler, and in
default of payment to be further imprisoned for six
weeks.
re At the Brentford Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a farm-
labourer was fined 10s. for being found drunk on the
Great Western Railway line. He had a most miraculDus
escape, as a train passed within a few inches of his body.
Several meetings have been held at Gloucester, at
which the ratepayers have memorialized the Magistrates
for the abolition of the County police, characterised as
" burdensome and unnecessary."