The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

(From the Day Book of Feb. 15.)

The larger the animal the more ridiculous are its
flounderings and kickings in its last struggles—pro-
viding that animal, from its stealthy character and pesti-
lential influence, and long depredations on the com-
munity, has made itself loathed and despised.
Such is the case with the Courier and Enquirer of this
city at the present time. Impudence, treachery, and
the worst kind of duplicity often, from various and mul-
tiplied causes, will succeed and be suffered for a long
time to exist in the community, especially in a city like
this, for the reason that time is too precious and the
business of each individual too important to enable any
one to take upon himself the duty which more properly
belongs to the whole.
The Day Book, faithful to its promise as an
independent journal, has taken upon itself to send one a
its arrows to the vitals of the Courier, and hold up the
blanket-sheet towards the sun, where its patchwork,
threadbare and rotten condition can be seen in its true
light.
At one time possessed of the talents of MM. Noah
and of James Gordon Bennett, it obtained a notoriety
which, as soon as they left it (as we believe in disgust
and abhorrence), was made the means by which the ac-
complished blackguard who now controls it commenced
his depredations on the community. And since that
time no press, in this country at least, has exhibited such
unblushing prostitution and profligacy.
And not satisfied with his 52,000 dolls. black mail
depredations, or the turning of widows and children
houscless and homeless upon the world, he adds another
and another to his victims, by means which his own
cowardice would not allow himself openly to employ—
" murder most foul" and fiendish; an unblushing bully
too cowardly to do the deed himself, though ever after
gloating over his victims—over the dead, and the living,
too, not less helpless in their feminine innocence and
juvenile dependence.
Success in crime for a series of years deadens the per-
petrator to all shame, save the shame and inconvenience
attending personal duress and hard labour. This is
precisely the case with James Watson Webb, the pro-
claimed editor of the Courier. Vain of his successful
frauds and duplicity, for ever vacillating and treacherous
to men, parties, and principles, he goes on in his un-
blushing shame, while our bankrupt courts show his dis-
graceful profligacy, and oar criminal records chronicle
him as a seutonced felon.

And now to prove hirn alive to the pains of physical
duress, his coalition with William 11. Seward is all suffi-
cient. Wo know of no other person, principle, or party,
during his long career, however deep and sacred his obli-
gations, which he has not abandoned in a much shorter
time than this coalition has existed. But Seward is too
smart, and continually reminds him that but for his cle-
muney he would have gone to the State) Prison; and that
the mere hap that he had the pardoning power saved
him from hard laimr, and, perhaps, from the occasional
lash—just the only kind of punishment of which the bully
convict stands in tear.

We give Webb the credit—for once he is true to his
friend, and we give him a long mark! The refined and
accomplished demagogue bids him mount the black hobby
of abolitionism and spread his blanket-sheet over all
the " seven heads and ten horns" of the black monster.
lie does; and now, shot at in every by-path and corner,
the whole concern is reeling in its sickness and asking
to be propped up while it is grasping at every hold to
prevent its final fall. Let it bo transfixed to that wall
where the Day Book has driven it.

How THE ARABS TAKE THE HVENA.—The
Paris Constitutionnel gives the following account of the
manner in which the Arabs;hunt the hymna, and of
the intrepedity they display in that dangerous sport,
as related in a letter:—" A few days since, the com-
mandant of a battalion of Turcos (native soldiers)
was informed that a female hyaena had been seen
in the neighbourhood of Mostaganem, near Mazsgran,
and that she had taken refuge in a cave about
one hundred yards in depth. Orders were immedi-
ately given to carefully guard the entrance to the cave.
Two Turcos, provided with a simple cord and a small
chain, went into the cave without weapons, and
merely carrying a candle, and, in about halt an hour,
to the great astonishment of the spectators, an enor-
mous hyasna appeared muzzled, and allowing
itself to be led along with the docility of a sheep.
According to the account given by the Arabs,
the animal, dazzled by the light of the candle, allows
itself to be handled and caressed like a young dog, and
during this time the hunter takes care to muzzle it, and
thus prevent the possibility of its doing any mischief.
Two soldiers were, however, two days since seriously
wounded by one of these animals, which suddenly re-
sumed its ferocity, and, after biting through the muzzle,
took to flight, after knocking down its two assailants.
It is impossible for anything to equal the courage and
temerity shown by the natives in these sports."
A new form of Post-office money-order :and
advice will be brought into use in all the money-order
offices in April next in the country. The new orders
and advices will be of a different shape from the
ones in present nse, and the printing on which will
be red. The order before issued will be at-
tached to the advice, and will bear the came
printed number. When issued the former will
be torn front the latter and given to the remitter, and
the latter will be filled in and sent on to the postmaster
who will have to pay the order: The great advantages
of this plan will be that before an order can be paid,
a postmaster must have the identical advice which
was joined to it before it was issued, because the
counterparts and printed numbers of both advice
and order must agree. As, therefore, the issuing
postmaster will not ho able to use an advice in-
discriminately for any order; and as at the end of the
day he will have the precise number of separate advices
as of orders he has issued, he cannot possibly forget to
write an advice for every order he grants, and as the
same numbers are printed on the order and advice they
must always correspond. Postmasters forgetting to
write advices, and the number of orders and advices
not corresponding have hitherto been two very fruitful
sourcea of error, and of consequent inconvenience to the