The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-31 00:00:00

RICHARD SAVAGE AND BUR-

RIDGE THE SCHOOLMASTER.
Mr. Burridge was at home, and at leisure,—for it was
half-holiday,—and sent word out that we were to is ai-
mitted to his presence. When we entered the apartment,
we beheld a gigantic figure reclined almost horizontally
in a very large chair. He was smoking a pipe, and had.
it would seem, recently divested himself of an enoinnins'
rthuestytabplee.riwilige regarded‘'rhie h lay
clutched in his huge fist upon.us in silence for some moments
through the smoky veil by which he was surrounded;
and then rising leisurely he laid aside his pipe, and came.
towards us.

" This letter, Sir," said Ludlow, " will explain for
what purpose I wait upon you," handing it to him.
" A letter, eh!" said Burridge, whipping a pair of
spectacles out of his waistcoat pocket, and jerking them
on the bridge of his nose. " Let's see—Francis Bur
ridge, Esquire—Esquire!" and he gave a loud whistle.
" Ah! well—very good just so," he added, at inter-
vals, as he hastily perused the letter.

" This tells me,"; said he, holding the letter from him.
" that I am to take this little fellow—what's his ntaxe?
Richard Freeman—under my care, under my tuition."

" Yes, Sir," said Ludlow. -
" And that he is to remain with me during the ho-
lidays ?"

Ludlow bowed.

"That implies that the lad's parents are dead : is it so?"
" 1 believe they are," replied Ludlow, hesitating.
" Ah! Not certain?" said Burridg,e. " Perhaps there's
more life than death in the matter, eh?"

" I really do not know," replied Ludlow, disconcerted.
" well!" returned Burridge. "Who is Tienri-

etta Mason?

" My lady," replied Ludlow, " the Lady Mason."
"The Lady Mason! Oh! I beg her pardon," cried
Burridge, with a low bow, " that's it : I always bow to
a title." He rang the hell. " Bring some wine," as the
servant. entered.

Ludlow began to plead headache, but was stopped by
the familiar hand of Burridge upon his mouth.
sow, Sir„' said he, when the wine was put on thin
table, " 1 eraip pardon—your name?"

" Ludlow, Sir."

" Well, Mr. Ludlow," and he slapped his brawny leg.
" let us drink to the speedy progress of our young stu-
dent.; and we'll give him a glass too, to damp him down.
as printers do their paper, before he goes into the press.
Let us hope he'll contain something good when he comes
out of it."

" I hope so, indeed," said Ludlow, earnestly, setting
down his glass. " Will you forgive me?" he resumed,
after a pause, " but I trust—l feel no doubt—indeed, I
know that he will be treated kindly. I am, Sir,"—and
poor Ludlow smiled with a kind of mournful humility—
" I am greatly attached to him."
Mr. Burridge raised his black brows, and gazed into
the meek countenance of the other. " well—you
like him," he remarked at length. " Why, yes, we shall
treat him kindly enough, 1. dare say. We keep a school,
Ludlow, not a slaughter-house ; we are not cannibals,
but Christians ; men, not monsters. But, Sir," and here
he shook his finger in the air, " Mr. Shakspeare, an
-author strangely neglected in these our times, albeit the
greatest genius that ever appeared in England, except
Milton, and in all, save sublimity, he surpasses even that
stupendous genius,—Mr. Shakspcare has proposed this
question Treat a man according to his deserts, and
who shall escape whipping?' Now, Sir, if that be true,
and I believe it is," winking his eye knowingly, and
pointing with his thumb over to me, " d'ye think the
boys ought to go scot-free,e h?" •
" No, indeed," said Ludlow. "Do you hear what Mr.-
Burridge says, Richard? You must take cure."
So he will," cried Burridge, putting on his periwig.
" The truth is, the temples of Greece and Rome are
bosomed high in tufted trees,'—birch trees, Mr. Lud-
low,—and I never knew a boy yet who could find his
way to those temples without going through those trees.
But come, Dick, take leave of your friend : he is anxious
to go."—" Richard Savage," in Bentley's Miscellany for
July.

ANTIQUITIKS.—At Lyons, a few days ago,
some workmen found, in excavating the foundations of
a building, two gold coins of Augustus Caesar, a gold
bracelet and necklace with pearls, and various other va-
luable objects of Roman art, all in fine preservation, and
the intrinsic worth of which is estimated at I,ooofr. Near
Beaucaire on the Rhone there has been recently disco-
vered a small statue of Jupiter, which from the nature of
its execution, is supposed to be of the time of Tiberius,
when native sculptors began to exercise their art in Gaul.
AWFUL ACCIDENT AND WONDERFUL
ESCAPE.—On Tuesday afternoon a most calamitous and
fatal accident, yet marked by the almost miraculous
escape of one of the men who had nearly fallen a victim
to it, occurred at the I-Lately Heath colliery, belonging
to Messrs. Bagnall, near West Bromwich. Three men
named Thomas Ward, Thomas Gibbons, and Richard
Knight, were employed in bricking the shaft of a pit,
upon a scaffold, about nine feet from the bottom, when a.
man named John Holden, who had just come out of the
pit, hearing a great noise, turned round and saw the
banksman, James Lewis, and a quantity of bricks fall-
ing down the shaft. He immediately ran to the shaft
and found the banksman hanging in it by his shoe, which
had providentially caught some projection of the mouth
of the pit ! Holden instantly seized him by the legs,
and dragged him up out of the shaft without his
having sustained any injury 1 Strenuous exertions
were then made to rescue the three unfortunate men
below, and Holden instantly went down the pit, but
I unhappily only to discover that the accident had proved
fatal to them all ; they were all three found lying at
the bottom of the pit, and quite dead ; "knocked all
to pieces," Holden said, " there being scarcely a bone
about them but was broken." An inquest was
held on the bodies of the three unfortunate sufferers on
Thursday last, when a verdict of " Accidental death,-
, was returned, with a deodand, of l Os. on the bricks,-
1i olverlaimpam Chronicle.
Of the many useful articles exhibited in
the Show-yard of the Royal English Agricultural
Society, none attracted more attention, or were
more generally admired, than two beautiful models
exhibited by Benjamin Edginton, 2, Duke-street,
Southwark, and 208, Piccadilly, London ; one a
' model of a splendid marquee, which had been more than
once honoured by the presence of royalty, and the other
that very useful article a rick-cloth, which completely
protected a rick of hay, with poles and tackle complete.
The farmers of Lancashire, with all their natural shrewd-
ness, have too much neglected the use of this most ne-
cessary article ; in fact, from its great utility and rea-
sonable cost, we should say that no man calling himself
a farmer should be without a rick cloth. There were
also two beautiful little silk flags—a royal standard and
union jack, and a circular tent, which we were surprised
to find cost so little as Si. Bs., quite an ornament to any
gentleman's lawn.—Liverpool Chronicle, July 24, 1841.
CRANBROOK HOPS.—In some of the planta-
tions in this and and the adjoining parishes the bine is
strong anti luxuriant, while on some, where the soil is
not very stiff, the bine is slighter, and the cold air of late
has checked the appearance of the burr.
We are extremely sorry to hear that the firm of
Messrs. Wilkins and Co., clothiers, of Twerton, near
Bath, has stopped work. We understand the great dif-
ficulty of obtaining remittances from the United States
has been mainly instrumental in this untoward event.
Nearly 800 persons are thrown out of employ.—Bath
Herald.

DEATH OF A VETERAN..--FOr these last
twenty years an old man has stood at the gate of Green-
wich-park, which opens on to Maize-hill, opposite
Vanburgh-fields. This venerable centenarian, whose
name was William Lucas, expired yesterday morn-
ing, at a house in Greenwich, at the advanced age
of 106 years. Till within these last few years
he occupied his old station at the Park-gate, where
he was well known. lie was one of the crew of the
Royal George, and sank in her at Spithead, but, accord-
ing to his own statement, was washed up through the
main hatchway, and saved by one of the numerous boats
attending on the melancholy occasion. The deceased
had resided upwards of eighty years in Greenwich, and
was much respected by the "College men."
ingly well,
The wheat crops on the Wo!ds from Caistor to
Barton, Grimbsy, Louth, and Horneastle, look exce.ed-
ERS.
REWARDS TO DESERVING LAS
GloucesterOUß ho-
nouredHer Royal Highness the Duchess of.of
and to all appearance will be very pouctive.
• ce of the Chertsey Union
which took.place a few days_sin
g labourers in
Association, for rewarding d
at the Union Workhouse,
with her presence the first distribution prizes,
agri-
culture. The Board-room
-zeswere distributed, was crowded
where the numerous
the course of the day
r to taking her departure, her Royal
inshParblihteai' iptsninantehses nne_asigheboonudruheoteodd.
over
pre ous
inj e. the Patroness of the Institution.
P‘paileased to intimate her intention of be-
eebHtI3I:egEMIGRATIONTO AMERICA.--The tide of
rapidly. to the western world.
Yesterdayleft the St. Katherine's deck for New
orershunadnrded
thpeaisrsentgazis_,
eilligratien stillthe flows
serican line-of-packet ship 'Wel-
lington .
pYroinrkeip,Tyth
aigirc-ualrtdusraloflabtoviu•
lies, who expect to better their condition in va-
rious parts of America. Among the emigrants there
were several farmers of small capital, and not a few
good mechanics. In the first and second cabins there
were 40 passengers, and in the steerage 160. A consi-
derable number of their friends and acquaintances as-
sembled on the dock head, to witness their departure
for the " far west," and in taking farewell many af-
fecting scenes took place. The Wellington is a fine
ship of 703 tons register, and on leaving St. Katherine's
Dock was taken in tow by a steam-packet, and instantly
proceeded, against a strong flood tide, down the river.
At Gravesend, the wind being fresh and favourable, she
would set sail for Portsmouth, from which place she is
to proceed to New York on Sunday next. The Welling-
ton has a full and valuable cargo.
RELEASE OF A BIRMINGHAM CHARTIST.—
Edward Brown, a member of the late Convention, who
was arrested for sedition just before the riots at Birming-
ham, having completed his time of imprisonment, has
been released from Warwick Gaol. The Chartists cele-
brated the event by a public dinner, to which Brown was
invited.
The abuses of an unreformed Parliament, and its
subserviency to Wm. Pitt and his Tory supporters, were
manifest by the numbers who voted in March, 1818, for
a Bill to indemnify Ministers against their abuses during
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. In the Lords
the principal division was 93 to 27, and in the Commous
199 to only 64, so that on so important a question more
than half the Members were absent. A few days after
the Bill passed there was a very numerous meeting of
the electors of Westminster, in Palace-yard, who re-
solved to adopt measures for a reform in Parliament.
which was supported with much energy by Sir Francis
Burdett.pid the reader ever see two buzzards bowing to
each other over a dead rat ?—Chartesiom Mercury.-0,
yea 1. we have seen you and Blair bowing to caeh othe
over Mr. Van Buren.—Petersburgh Intelbgence.

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS.
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3 per Cent Cons ssi Ditto OH Annuities ...
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New 34 per Cent 96i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001 l4pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l6 pm
Jan. 1860 l2 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct.-170i
Oct 1859 — 'lndia Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. ;Consols for Acct B9i
FOREIGN FUNDS. . '

Austrian, 5 per cent :Portuguese' 5 per cent.
Belgium, 5 per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto 3O
Brazilian 80nd5.... — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres. 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l9l
Ditto, 1824. — ~Ditto, Deferred ..
Danish, 3 per cent 791 IFrenci, 5 per cent.llsf. 23c.
C 4. 1823, 5 per cent —_!Exchange f• ......e.

,ireek, . a per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 23i French, v 3
per cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 16125. , Dutch, 26 per cent.
Peruyian,lB2s, 6 per ct. 'Ditto, 5 per ',cent 102-i
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Ditto New Shares (50 paid
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London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
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