The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-28 00:00:00

ARISTOCRACY OF THE SKIN.

On Tuesday last two American sailors, named Alonto
Lewis and George Brookes, were placed before Mr.
nnder the followipg circumstances:—
It appears that a poor Lundoo, who seas

into the house where the sailors were for the purpOse of
selling his books. He succeeded in selling one, for
which he got paid. One of the accused seized the re-
mainder of his stock and destroyed them. On the llin-
doo remonstrating, he was immediately, with much
abuse, ordered out, and, not instantly complying with
the order, both the sailors assailed him. He was beaten
aud kicked, and fled for safety into the street. The
poor fellow was followed by his assailants, who, as Mr.
Moss, one of the witnesses, stated, beat end kicked him
about the head and breast in the most dastardly man-
ner. The seamen made no defence. As soon as this
case had been heard, an elderly man, a negro, steppe('
forward to prefer another charge. The negro stated,
that as he passed the same sailors, one of them squirted
his spittle into complainant's face, and, on being remon-
strated with, the negro was immediately knocked down
by one of the sailors, whilst the other threw at him a
large stone. The negro had not given him the slightest
provocation. Their cowardly conduct did not stop here;
for a poor woman, an English woman, who was carrying
a mulatto child in her arms, was strucked in the face,
and the child knocked down. In both those cases no
defence was made. These republican sailors were ex-
cited by the dark skin of their victims to abuse and in-
jure them. Mr. Rushton, on inquiry, found that the
negro had shipped on a voyage to Calcutta, and that tci
detain him till the sessions would inflict further injury;
he, therefore, did not send them for trial. He, however,
spoke with indignation of the brutal conduct of the pri-
soners, and told them that such conduct in England
could not be endured ; that the laws admitted no dif-
ference between white and black ; and that the utmost
punishment the justices could award for the offence was
much too light. After consulting with Mr. Christopher
Rawdon, who sat on the bench, Mr. Rushton ordered
each of the sailors to pay the sum of 51. for each assault,
and in default of payment t) be imprisoned two months;
he also ordered them to find bail to keep the peace, or,
in default, to be imprisoned four months. We trust this
prompt and salutary punishment may serve to convince
such of our American visitors as venture to beat and
kick a man because he has a black skin, that the law is
too strong for them. We are glad to say that in general
the American sailors are as well-behaved and as respec-
table as our own Now and then, however, the curso
which slavery brings appears, and we have the results
in acts of this kind.—Liverpool Mercury.

GROUSE SHOOTING IX " THE HOUSE."—In conse.
quence of the extreme length of the Parliamentary session'
several Members of Parliament are detained from their
favourite sport of grouse-shooting. As it is very hard upon
theseindividuals, who are thus deprived of their recreation
by the business of their country, it has been proposed to in-
troduce into each House a large cage of living grouse, at
which Members may pop from their places, and thus combine
the pursuit of pleasure with the performance of an impoetant
duty. They may, by this arrangement, discharge the order
of the day and their fowling-pieces at the same time, or
bring up the report on a Bill simultaneously with the reports
of a different character.—Punch.
COPPER Roca.—The Detroit Advertiser contains, in
a letter addressed to that journal, the following account of
a most remarkable natural production :—You undoubtedly
have heard of the enormous copper rock at Eagle harbour
location, pronounced by Dr. Petit the great-grandfather of
all the rocks of this kind—estimating its weight at fiom 75
to 100 tons. A brief description by an eye-witness may be
interesting to your readers. At Eagle Harbour, commencing
at the shore of the lake, is an open cut 12 feet wide, 86 fest
long, 7 to 8 feet deep, in which is found this enormous mass
of copper. The shoe, which is 90 per cent., pure copper, is
in the centre, running the entire length of the cut, varying
in thickness from 6 inches to 2 feet, having branches of from
1 to 2 inches in thickness shooting from it east and west, atilt
varying in length from Ito 2 feet. The interstices are filled
with sand and trap rock, charged with native copper—say
50 to 75 per cent.; also small masses of beautifully crys-
talised marcasite or spar, tilled with what has the appear-
ancei of copper filings—being quite rich. This is what s
called the copper rock, as unlike a roek as posAible; it looks
more like a large tree that has fallen, and turned to metal,
with this exception, that its depth is not in proportion.
Large detached ma'scs of native copper, weighing from 5(1
to 3001b5., arc taken from alongside of this sheet, and the
vein stone up to the wall rock is richly charged with copper
in its native state.
ELECTORS (IRELAND).—A return bits just been issued
by order of the House of Commons, showing the number of
Parliamentary electors registered for each county, city, town,
and borough in Ireland, on the Ist of February, 1835, 1837,
1845, and 1846; of the number of electors for counties en-
titled to vote on the 2d February, 1845, and 1846; and of
the number of electors registered for counties, cities, and
boroughs, ftotn Ist February, 1844, to Ist February, 1845.
&c. Taese returns were moved for by Mr. Pigot, on the
15th of May last, and the following are a few of the
results shown thereby :—There was a decrease in the
number of registered electors in the county of Antrim,
on the Ist of February, 1810, compared with the Ist of Fe-
bruary, 1835, of 1,436 ; Carrickfergus, county town, a decrease
of 362 ; Cashel borough 67 ; Cavan county, 696 ; Galway
county, 6,099 ; Limerick city, 952 ; Mayo 4riumntg7,
of
tahe
crease of 1,184 ; Wexford county, 1,034 ; and:most
compared
with the Ist of February, 1837, was stit,
increase
in the number
ter'. In other
above, the decrease on the Ist a Februlalry,rela.
instances, there has been a decided
Thus, the following cases there
of registered electors.
Dublin •t 6 327
pared with the 1 it of It ebruary, city,
egy, 320.
Monaghan county, 90 Wate ,
was the increase stated_onthe ;sit of February, 1846, corn•