The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-15 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday three journeymen hatters in the employment
of Messrs. Christie, the hat manufacturers of Bermondsey,
were brought before Mr. WEDGwoon, charged with absent-
ing themselves, and leaving their work in an unfinished
state.

The MAGISTRATE committed them for one month each
to Brixton to hard labour.

A remarkable phenomenon has been observed in the
neighbourhood of Frankfort. It is a sudden malady among
the mice, thousands of which are found dead or dying in the
fields.

PEARLS.-Pearls were very highly esteemed in
Pliny's days.—The ladies wore them dangling at their fingers
and cars, took great delight in hearing them rattle, and not
only appended them to their garments, but even embroidered
their buskins with them. It will not suffice them, says he,
nor serve their turn, to carry pearls about them, but they must
tread among pearls, go among pearls, and walk as it were on
a pavement of pearls. Lollia Paulina, the wife of Caligula,
was seen by him, on an ordinary occasion, ornamented with
emeralds and with pearls, which he valued at 40 millions of
sestertii (about 300,000/. )
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 13.
We have had an extensive business in our Cotton Market
to-day, our sales reaching 8,000 bales, and prices above our
currency of Friday. Speculators have takes 4,000 bales, of
which 300 are Surats, and the remainder American. A few
choice Boweds brought 100.

IGNIS FATUUS.—A fine specimen of this pheno-
menon was witnessed on the " Loch of Barbush," near Dun-
blane, on Monday evening. This loch, comprising upwards
of seven acres, was used about ten years ago as a curling pond
by the Dunblane Club; but subsequently, from the excessive
growth of a species of lichen and furze from its mossy bottom,
this water disappeared, and the whole surface now presents the
appearance of a brown dusky morass. Here, during an hour
and a half, apparently dancing along the whole surface of the
marsh, " Jack wi' the Lantern," or rather " Will o' the Wisp,"
went through all the varieties of his nocturnal gambols, to the
amusement of some, and the wonder and terror of others, who
were passinf, at the time. Two, three, four, and even six
" glints" of blue light were frequently visible at the same in-
stant, reeling and passing each other in the most fantastic
manner imaginable. It was remarked that this phenomenon
became extinct upon the fall of a heavy shower of rain, accom-
panied with a high wind ; and that, during the whole time of
the phosphoric ignition, the air was perfectly calm and moist.
—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

PRESERVATION OF ANIMAL SUBSTANCE IN
PEAT.--One interesting circumstance attending the history of
peat mosses is the high state of preservation of animal sub-
stances buriedin them for periods of many years. In June,
1747, the body of a woman was found six feet deep, in a peat
moor in the Isle of Axholme, in Lincolnshire. The antique
sandals on her feet afforded evidence of her having been buried
there for many ages ; yet her nails, hair, and skin are described
as having shown hardly any marks of decay. In a turbury on
the estate of Earl Moira, in Ireland. a human body was dug
up, a foot deep in gravel, covered with eleven feet of moss ;
the body was completely clothed, and the garment seemed all
to be made of hair. Before the use of wool was known in that
country, the clothing of the inhabitants was made of hair, so
that it would appear that the body had been buried at that
early period; yet it was fresh and unimpaired. In the " Phi-
losophical Transactions," we find an example recorded of the
bodies of two persons having been buried in moist peat, in
Derbyshire, 1674, about a yard deep, which were examined
twenty-eight years and nine months afterwards ; " the colour
of their skin was fair and natural, their flesh soft as that of
persons newly dead."—Lyell's Geology.