The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEIVMER 8, 1841.

to some distance in the sea, and 'when she attempted- to
return, her strength soon failed her in the unwonted
exertion. Her cry for help made such an impression
on the ladies present, that they immediately hurried out
of the water, to watch in safety from the shore the tragic
event that was preparing, while others loudly echoed her
call. Two young men, the only swimmers present, who
were already in their machines, sallied forth instanta-
neously, plunged into the water, and in a few minutes
brought the fair stranger, half dead with fright, if no-
thing else, in triumph to the shore. On the following
day, one of these two, a friend of mine, had •the good
fortune to save three ladies at once. This time it was
flood. tide, which is mischievous too, and was trying
whether it could succeed better in catching its prey than
the ebb had done the day before. At the place where
the flood has reached its highest point, it generally
scoops out the ground to the depth of some feet. Be-
yond this hollow commences the level sandy beach, which
I have described above. On that day, three young
ladies had been bathing quietly on this plain, while the
flood was gradually rising. When they attempted to
return to•the shore, the water in this hollow was above
their heads, and cut off their retreat. The nearer they
approached the shore, the deeper the water became.
Cries of distress were their only resource. The ladies
on the shore ran, in their alarm, to and fro, aad the cry
for help, echoed from every mouth, was all the assist-
ance they emild afford. My friend came up just at this
moment, and if,' on the preceding day, he had forgotten
to put on his bathing drawers, he had now forgotten to
fling off the gown, plunged into the sea, and brought to
shore the three females, who had already lost their foot-
ing when he reached them. A few seconds later, and
they must have perished. On account of such accidents,
let men and women continue to bathe together, as they
have hitherto done.

SACK.—In the reign of Elizabeth, and down to
the end of the 17th Century, our forefathers appear to
have been fond of sweet and spiced wines, as the name of
sack for the sweet wines of that period sufficiently
cotes. Shakspeare frequently mentions sack and mulled
sack in many of his plays, and he makes Falstaff call for
burnt sack. Sack is not found mentioned in the Percy
Household Book. That sack was an artificial liquor, and
made of various sweet wines, like punch of the present
day, made of various spirits, is evident ; as we say
sometimes now rum punch, whisky punch, rack punch,
as specifying the particUlar spirit of which it is made ;
so our ancestors said of sack ; sometimes it was simply
Mentioned as sack, at others sherry-sack, Malaga-sack,
Canary-sack. The following passage inserted in " Poor
Robin's Almanack for 1685," gives the' names of different
kinds :—"All these liquors come far short of the praise
of sack, whether it be Castilian, Canary, Iberian, Sher-
rian, Mallagonion, Robolonian, Robdanian, Peterseman-
tan, or by what other name or title soever dignified or
distinguished." Our ancestors liked wines sweet (whence
the name sack, froth the. Latin sacCharum, Greek sac-
'Aaron, sugar) and spiced. " Let rich men," says Pnor
Robin, " ink burnt claret, mulled sack, sherry, old
Malaga, tent, ippocras, .and burnt brandy."
A HARD CASE.—In the course of last week
some poor men, at some risk to themselves, dragged from
the river a young woman who had attempted to commit
suicide. She was taken before an Alderman, and at the
conclusion of her examination the poor men applied for
some remuneration. With an air of lofty virtue, the
Magistrate replied, that he supposed any one would save
fellow-creature without reward. That may be true
but these poor men had spoiled their apparel ; this was
pointed out, and 4s. from the poor-box was given to the
men. Now the writer of this does not blame the Alder-
man, though irthat high functionary had given a pound
from his 'own purse, instead of 4s: from the poor-box, it
would have looked quite as well ; but he does consider..
it a national disgrace that there is no fund for the re-
ward of the acts of heroism occasionally performed by
very poor peOple. We reward people who fight—
though they do it quite literally as a trade—though
they are in number immense ; surely the nation would
not ill spend the few pounds which would reward the
comparatively numerous indeed, but, as to possible ex-
pense to be incurred, limited Cases of this sort. In France
these poor men would have had a cross of honour ; here
they exchange decent clothes for 4s. and some prosy
aldermanics on the benevolent duties of men.

ATTORNEYS TO WlT.—The Master of the
Rolls,.Lord Langdale, has laid on the table of the House
of Lords "A Bill for consolidating and amending the
laws relating to attorneys and solicitors practising in
England and Wales." It is a rather lengthy affair,
consisting of upwards of 50 clauses, the first clause re-
pealing wholly or in part nearly 30 Acts of Parliament,
passed since the time of Edward 11., and two even so
recent as the reign of her present Majesty, to regulate and
control those agents of all that is legal. It requires that no
attorney shall have at one time more than two articled
clerks, nor take in any until he have been in practice five
years ' • that clerks be bound for five years, and are re-
quired to be actually serving during that period, though
they may be one year with a barrister or special pleader,
and one year with a London agent ; that " persons ap-
plying for admission as attorneys be examined by the
judges or persons authorised by them as to fitness and
capacity ;" that persons practising without certificates
be incapable of recovering fees ; that attorneys who are
" prisoners" be not allowed to commence or defend suits;
that attorneys be incapacitated from becoming justices of
the peace ; that unqualified persons be prohibited from
acting in the county courts; that attorneys be not allowed
to commence an action for fees, till " one month after
delivery of their bills of costs ;" that such bills, whether
paid or not, be subject to taxation; that attorneys be en-
abled " to take securities for costs," &c.
THE WEATHER.—THUNDER STORM.—On
Friday evening the metropolis and the neighbourhood
for miles around was visited by .a very severe storm of
thunder and lightning, accompanied by very heavy rain,
which lasted upwards of an hour. From the morning
the atmosphere was much clouded, with the wind south-
west. Towards noon it became almost a perfect calm
and very sultry, which continued through the afternoon.
About two o'clock there was a heavy shower of rain, ac-
companied by vivid lightning' which was, however, of
but short duration. About four o'clock there was
another smart shower, from which time the atmosphere
began to thicken, until about six o'clock, when it had
assumed the appearance of a dense fog coming on, which
increased until about half-past six o'clock, and the storm
suddenly burst forth with great violence, proceeding
ap-
parently from south to north, the rain descending in
torrents, the lightning being of the description called
' forked, and very vivid. A few minutes after the storm
commenced the wind suddenly shifted to the north, and
from thence to the east, from which quarter it blew
strorgly, which tended greatly to disperse the densely
charged clouds and lessen the violence of the storm. We
have not heard of any serious damage having been done,
although we have heard of persons of both sexes having
been slightly struck by the electric fluid.

ANDERSTON.—:AboIIt twenty years ago one
thousand hand-looms were employed in this district. By
a recent survey by Captain Wilson, only 209 were found
in the entire burgh ! and of these 26 were without webs.
Glisgow Argus.
Some alarm was created in the establishment
of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Bushy House,
on Friday last, by the discovery of the dead body of an
infant, under circumstances tending to induce a suspicion
that it had come to its death by unfair means. On the
day in question one of the domestics saw some appear-
ances in one of the water-closets that induced him to
obtain assistance, and ultimately the dead body of an in-
fant was removed from the soil. A young female, who
had been acting in the capacity of laundry-maid, named
Sophia Thorpe, was taken into custody on suspicion,
and was conveyed to the station at Kingston upon the
charge. On Monday a Jury was empanelled before the
Coroner for this division of the county, but the Jury,
after a somewhat lengthened inquiry, returned a verdict
that the deceased child was found dead, but that there
was no evidence before them to show by what means it
had come by its death, or who was its mother. The
young woman was the same afternoon taken before Mr.
Carpenter, a Magistrate, at Sunbury, where a further
inquiry took place, the result of which was that the ac-
cused was set at liberty.
. . _

The greatest blots, however, upon the Peel Go-
vernment are the renegades Stanley and Graham. At
one period of his life the latter went far beyond the ma-
jority of the Reform party in Parliament in the ultra libe-
rality of the opinions which he promulgated, and of late
years he has shown himself one of the bitterest foes to the
progress of Reform. Lord Stanley, a member of that Ad-
ministration which brought forward the great measure of
Parliamentary Reform, is now the colleague of:the same
Sir Robert Peel, who declared' of the Reforth Bill, in
1832, that " Time and good 'patience may reconcile me
to physical pain or moral danger, but to this measure
I never can become reconciled. The more I consi-
der it, the more I am satisfied of its dangerous and mis •
chievous character." The new Colonial Minister suc-
ceeds to the seals held by the foremost member of the
late Cabinet, and it is greatly to be feared that the mo-
dern Hotspur, the author of the Bill fur coercing Ireland,
will make sad havoc with those great interests so zeal-
ously watched over by Lord John RusSell.—GLlsgoic
Argus.
The worst feature in the new Administration
is the prominent place given in it to the, avowed. enemies
of commercial freedom. What reasonable groUnds can
any one have to hope for a real improvement in the
Corn-laws with such men as the Duke of Buckingham
'and Sir Edward Knatchbull in the Cabinet? or, for a
relaxation in the sugar and other colonial monopolies
with Mr. W. E. Gladstone virtually at the head of the
Board of Trade. Unless they _ are prepared to surren-
der their past opinions to preserve their places, which
there is no reason to believe, their appointments must
of corn and
bsuegeaorn,stileilae trendo nothing npgl eedffeecst tou mit hsehtinf)
tllba9el)(l°Olinsetstq deliver the
trade and commerce of the country from the ,-evils which
are filling the Gukette with baukruptep pd" the country
with wretchednesS.—Liverpool, '
EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGA'TION'AT NEW-
.
CASTLE-UNDRR-LYNE.—ApULTERATION OF FLOUR BY
MiLLEns.—Great excitement hasprevailed in Newcastle-
under-Lyne for the past week "in consequence of the
seizure of a number of sacks containing a mixture re-
sembling flour, which popular report represented to be
plaster of Paris, on the premises of the Union Mill Com-
pany in that town. An investigation of the affair
took place on Tuesday, at the Town-hall, before
1 two county Magistrates, and excited an extraordinary
I interest among the populace, who crowded into the hall
I in a most unequivocal state of indignation and excitement.
A circumstance that added great gusto to affairs in the
opinion of the people, was that the chief Magistrate of the
borough, the Mayor of Newcastle, was one of the mill-
owners implicated in the charge. It appeared that Mr.
Cottril, the vigilant head police-officer at Newcastle,
found a cart belonging to the Union Mill standing at
Copeland's door. Ten sacks, apparently of flour, were
I put into the cart, and conveyed to the Union Mill, but
I upon its arrival there the suspe:_qed cargo was seized by
the police, the bags weighing 23 cwt. A portion of the
contents of the sacks was then taken out, and analysed,

by Ml4`. Jones, chemist, of Hanley, who declared tti,
the Magistrates his opinion, that the substance in the
bags was sulphate of lime. Upon being burnt and mixed
with water, it became solid, exactly like plaister of Paris:
There was but a Very; slight mixture of vegetable matter
in it. Mr. Bull, one of the Union Mill Company, in
answer to the charge, said he would take all the blame,
if there were any, on his own shoulders. He then pro-
ceeded with a statement that he had been in want of pig
meat, that Copeland had been recommended to him by
a respectable miller at Madely, but it appeared from the
Magistrates' questions that Mr. Hill, in the course of his
business, had never met with pig meat of a like descrip-
tion before, that manufactured by the millers being fine
bran, the refuse of flour. The charge of having a mix-
ture on the premises, seemingly for the purpose of mixing
with flour, was considered by the Magistrates to be made
out, and the defendants, Messrs. R. Bull, T. Turner, and
R Mayer, were fined IC/. with costs. There was also a
charge against another flout-dealer, named Beardsmore,
whose cart had, been often seen by the officer at Cope-
land's door by four o'clock in the morning. ThiS per-
son acknowledged having made pretty ex tetAive use
of Copeland's precious composition, but stated that on
finding its deleterious effects he had burned what
he had not sold, and endeavoured to get back from his
customers what was not consumed. The Magistrates,
taking into consideration this acknowledgement of the
defendant, fined him in the mitigated penalty of 31. 6s. Bd.
When the defendants left the Court they were assailed
by the populace with loud threats, and even by showers
of stones, and had to be escorted out of the town by the
police.--Liverpool Times.
THE HUMAN PANORAMA.—Mankind moves
onward through the night of time like a procession of
torch-bearers, and words are the lights which the gene-
rations carry. By means of these they kindle abiding
lamps beside the track which they have passed, and
some of these, like the stars, shall shine for ever and ever.
The villages throughout Renfrewshire are now
suffering to almost as great an extent as Paisley. In
Johnstone, where there are 15 or 16 public works, only
four are at present in operation.—Glisgow Argus.
During the storm of thunder and lightning, on
Friday afternoon, a man named Suckling fell down at
Roxwell, and was taken up lifeless ; and a labouring
man, at Hatfield Peverel, in the employ of Mr. Ellis, was
struck senseless to the ground, but he soon after reco-
v a-ed.—Essex Herald.
A BEACON. ON BEMER ROCK.—Scaffolding
is at present erecting for placing a beacon on this rock.
The builder is, we believe, the well-known Mr. King-
horn. Certainly there is not in the whole Frith any
which stands more in need of something to warn the
mariner of its proximity, as within but a few years eight
or ten vessels have gone upon it, suffering much damage.
—Edinburgh Courant.
SINGULAR CHARACTERS.—AIderman New-
man, who had scraped together. out of the grocery line,
sixty thousand pounds, enjoyed no greater luxury, the
last three years of his life, than to repair daily to the
shop, and, precisely as the clock struck two (the good
old-fashioned hour of city dining), eat his mutton with
his successors. The late Thomas Rippon, chief cashier
of the Bank of England, was a singular oddity. Once
only in a service of fifty years did he venture to ask fur
a fortnight's holiday. He left town ; but after three
days' unhappy ramble through beautiful green fields, he
grew moping, and prematurely returned to the blissful
regions of 'l'hr.'adneelle-street, to die at his desk.
SEA WALL AT EXMOUTH.—At an early hour
on Monday morning last the good folks of Exmouth
Were awakened from their slumbers by the roar of can-
' non and the enlivening airs of their own excellent band
of music, which gave note of preparation for the ap-
proaching ceremony of laying the foundation •stone of the
great sea wall lately commenced at that place, and which
is to be built at the expense of the Right Hon. Lord
Rolle. The influx of visitors was very great. At eleven
o'clock a respectable and extensive procession was formed,
consisting of the Masonic brethren, Union, Humane,
and Samaritan Clubs, United Brethren, Friendly and
Temperance Societies, and the children of the National
and other Schools ; each Society bearing its various ban-
ners, the whole being preceded by a band, constables
with staves, sergeants of the Royal Devon Cavalry, &c.
&c. After having perambulated the town, it proceeded
to the works, where it was met by 11. James, Esq., of
Exeter, who, in the absence of Lord and Lady Rolle
(now in London), delivered an animated and appropriate
address, and the stone was laid amidst the firing of can-
non, the cheers of the people, the enlivening airs of the
musicians, and the mysterious finger movements of the
Masonic brethren.— Western Times.

A FRENCH FRIGATE AT CRONSTADT.—
The Danae frigate, which is to bring back to France
Baron de Barante, entered Cronstadt on the 12th ult.
This is the first time for 17 years that a French man-of-
war has been seen here. She was hailed with acclama-
tion by the populace.and by the authorities. Her Cap-
tain, M. 011ivier, and some of the officers, were pre-
sented to the Emperor, who invited them to dinner, as
also the Ambassador and Ambassadress of France, and
treated them with marked distinction. Next day the
Emperor went to Cronstadt, taking Captain 011ivier with
him. He showed him the port, a new fort in construc-
tion, and a division of the fleet. When his Imperial
Majesty passed by the Danae, the second in command
hoisted the Imperial standard, and fired a salute of forty
guns; the whole crew were in full dress. Prince Mentschi-
koff, Minister of Marine, twice went over the vessel, and
examined all her details with the greatest attention, ad-
dressing several questions to the officers, whose know-
ledge and capacity produced on him, as he said, the most
favourable impression. On leaving the frigate he re-
turned the salute and hoisted the French flag. Two
officers of the Russian navy, the Emperor's Ades-de-
Camp, the Grand Master of the Horse, Prince Dolgo-
roucky, and other distinguished personages also came
on board. Next day the Grand Duke Constantine, the
Emperor's second son and Grand Admiral of Russia, was
brought on board by his tutor, Admiral Lutke. On the
21st M. de Barante embarked, and a few hours after-
wards the frigate set sail for France. She will cast
anchor fur a few dayS at Copenhagen.—Moniteur of
Sunday.
A few days ago a man, dressed as a waggoner,
having a whip in his hand, applied to a money changer,
in the Cloitre St. Honore, for change of a 500 f. note
of the Bank of France. The money-changer, perceiv-
ing that although the note was genuine, the vignettes
had been removed and re-pasted on other paper, re-
quested the man to go with him to the Bank, to have the
note examined, to which he consented with apparent
cheerfulness: At the Bank he was interrogated by
Count d'Argout, the Governor, and stated that he had
received the note from a person who had it from a dis-
counter in the Rue Gadot Mauroy. As this was found
to be untrue, further inquiries were set on foot, the man
being in custody all the time, and it was soon ascer-
tained that his name was Adelaine, formerly a book-
binder in Paris, who had lately disappeared from Ar-
pajon and Lonjumeau to escape from his creditors.
With some difficulty his lodging was discovered to be
in the Rue des Carmes, and here were found convincing
proofs of the fraudulent operations which he had been
carrying on. It appears that, after long study as to the
mechanism of the Bank of France, Adelaine had con-
ceived the idea of splitting them in two, and transferring,
by means of ink, essences, acids, a press, &c., the im-
pression of the vignettes from the front of the note,
upon the divided paper, thus making two notes out of
one. Although Adelaine, when detected, wore the dress
of a. waggoner, as we said above, a rich and elegant ward-
robe was found at his lodgings, as also many articles of
jewellery, works of art, albums, &c., and a curious cor-
respondence with some gamblers at Baden-Baden, with
a drawing, on large paper, of gaining-tables and the cy-
linder of the roulette, on which he was apparently study-
ing some combinations, as was done by M. de Labour-
donnaye, in his games of chess with England, Germany,
and India. After these discoveries Adelaine was handed
over to the Procureur du Roi.

" Two days ago," says the Moniteur Parisien,
" the owner of a hotel in the Rue du Bouloi had removed
to the Hopital de la Charite, Madame Rey, an actrice of
talent, who was found in a dying state on the floor of a
small room, which she occupied in the hotel. This lady
had been reduced by the backruptcy, or breach of con-
tract, of some managers with whom she had engagements,
to a state of destitution, and was too high-minded to so-
licit charity. When her removal to the hospital became
known, several persons came forward to assist her, but it
was too late, as she expired almost immediately."
A suicide of an extraordinary nature took place
at Coignieres, in the Seine-et-Oise, a few days since. A
peasant, who had been accused unjustly of getting his
livelihood by poaching, was so Much depressed in spirits
by the imputation, that he went into the middle of a
wood, got on a pile of about 400 faggots, and then set-
ting it on fire, allowed himself to perish in the flames.
On the inhabitants coming to the spot, alarmed by the
conflagration, they found a letter near the pile, explain-
ing the man's intention, and stating that it was not true
that he was a poacher,—that he found he could not fol-
low the line he wished, and that he preferred death ;
but adding that he was not poor, for he had left 600
francs to his widow. On the fire subsiding, a black
shapeless mass in the middle of the ashes confirmed the
indications of the letter.• The Mayor drew up a certifi-
cate of his opinion that the poor man had been deranged,
and, on the presentation of this document, the cure of
the parish gave his remains Christian burial.
The Gazette des Tribunaux gives the following
account of a shocking murder and suicide at Mortagne,
in the department of the Orne, on the 29th ult. :—" A
female named Vallorey, who had been living for three
years at l'Aigle, as the mistress of a married man, the
father of three children, at length quitted him and came
to Mortagne. The man, whose name was Gorman, fol-
lowed her, and an apparent reconciliation being effected,
he went to sleep at a house of bad fame in which she re-
sided. In the course of the evening screams were heard,
and the Commissary of Police, who was by chancepass-
ing the house, saw the woman rush forth streaming with
blood. She had no sooner reached the street than"she
fell dead, having received a stab with a knife, which
passed through the body to the back. The Commissary
having entered the house, found the assassin, Gorman,
weltering in his blood, and insensible from the wounds he
had inflicted on himself. On the following morning
Gorman was for a moment able to speak, and inquired
whether the woman was dead? On being answered in the
affirmative, he smiled with satisfaction, and almost im-
mediately afterwards died."
Last April the diligence between Rochechouart
and Limoges, when conveying a number of witnesses to
appear on a trial to come on before the court at Limoges,
was overturned, as we stated at the time, and many of
the passengers were more or less seriously injured. All
arrangements for a compromise having failed, actions
were brought against M. Penicaud, the propeietor of the
diligence, and the following sums have been awarded to
be paid by him for the damages occasioned. The list is
curious: for a broken thigh, 3,300 f.; a bruise on the
abdomen, 800 f.; a wound in the head, 600 f.; the entire
loss of a nose, 4,500 f; a bfoken rib, 1,000 f.; a broken
shoulder, 1,0001.; a rupture, 2,000 f.; a wound in the
head, 600 f. ; a contusion, 500 f.; ditto, 400 f. ; total,
14,7001.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, SEPT. 3, 1841.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Honour-
able the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Steward of her Majesty's
Household, vice the Right Honourable the Earl of Erroll, K. T.
resigned.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 12.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Eleanor
Stanley to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her
Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Harriet Elizabeth Pitt.

WHITEHALL, SEPT. 4.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, granting to the Right Honourable Henry
Goulburn the offices of Chancellor and Under Treasurer of her
Majesty's Exchequer.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, ap-
pointing the Right Honourable Edward Lord Ellenborough
her Majesty's Commissioner for the Affairs of India.
The Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, ap-
pointing the Right Hon. George Earl of Jersey to be
Master of the Horse to her Majesty.
The Queen has also been pleased to constitute and appoint
Maj ,r-General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.8.,
to be her Majesty's Secretary at War.
The Queen Ills also been pleased to grant the office of her
Majesty's Advocate for Scotland to the Right Hon. Sir
William Rae, Bart.