The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-06 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Chief Justice TYNDALL.)
SCALES V. PINKERTON.
This was an action on the case, brought by Mr. Alder-
man Scales, against a water works company, for damages
done to property of the plaintitl by the defendants, in the
execution of their works.
On the cause being called on,
The COURT was informed that it had been arranged to
leave all matters in dispute between the parties to ar-
bitration.

POSTMAN V. HARRELL AND ANOTHER.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages
fur an illegal distress. The facts of the case were entirely
destitute of public interest, and after a long examination
of a host of witnesses, the Jury found a verdict for the
Plaintiff—Damages 201.

MODERN PHILOSOPHERS AND PH
LOSOPHY.

We copy the following shrewd and pertinent re
marks from the Athanceunz :
There is not a parish in London, and there is
scarcely a town in the kingdom, in which any
fidgetty little prig, who has nothing better to do
with his time, might not get up a philosophical so-
ciety. If you have a telescope, an almanack, and a
pair of globes, and if you look at the moon with
your nightcap on your head, you are a philosopher;
if you have an electrical machine, and serve your
friends shocking tricks, you are a philosopher; if
you have a barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, and
hydrometer—if you chronicle the clouds, and tell
the world once a week which way the wind blows,
you are a philosopher ; if you have a mantlepiece
covered with brickbats, and a bureau full of black-
beetles and cockchafers, you are a philosopher ; if
you roam about the fields and the ditches with a
tin box in your hand, picking up chickweed, ground-
ael, and duckweed, you are a philosopher; if you
become cat's butcher, and kill mice with an air
pump, you are a philosopher; if you risk the blow-
ing up of your house with hydrogen gas or other
combustibles, you are a philosopher ; if you hunt
for a soul with a dissecting knife, and then, because
you cannot find one, say that that there is no such
thing, you are a philosopher; if you read German
metaphysics, and talk moonshine that nobody can
understand, you are a philosopher ; if you disbelieve
what your neighbours believe, and beleve what your
neighbours disbelieve, you are a philosopher. If
you do not care who is hanged or drowned, or
whose cat has kittened, you are a stoic philosopher;
if you growl at everybody and everything, you are a
cynic philosopher ; if you have a fancy for fish,
flesh, and fowl, and like good cookery better than
bad, you are an epicurean philosopher; in short, I
verily believe that the difficulty now is to avoid
being a philosopher—the whole air and the whole
nation is thoroughly bephilosophized—saturated
with philosophy : we cannot open our eyes or ears
but wisdom must come in—we cannot open our
mouths but wisdom must go out Everything is
made on philosophic principles,wigs, whiskers, boots,
breeches, and bed-posts :so that we are almost
all of us forced to be philosophers, whether we will
or no.

CATHOLIC POPULATION OF LIVERPOOL.
--At the Liverpool Corporation inquiry, which has just
terminated, Mr. Rosson (the barrister) tendered to the
Commisi•ioneis the following statement:—
Number of Catholic baptisms within the Par-
liamentary borough for 1832 2,388
Total amber of baptisms ditto ..................... 8,501
Population of Liverpool and its vicinity in 1331 205,97'
Average yeatly increase for the last 10 years
(10,000 seamen not included therein) ......... 5,000
Total population of 1832 220,974
Assuming that the total baptisms were to the Catholic
baptisms as the whole population was to the Catholic po-
pulation, then they
had the fulfollowing proportion, viz.—
T.B. C.D. T. POP. C. POP.
As 8,504-2,388 —220,974-62,051
the fourth term being the number of Catholics.