The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-06 00:00:00

TRADES' UNION.—On Saturday night the
whole of Mr. Noell's men, stone-masons employed at the
Castle, turned out for a rise of wages, which not being
submitted to, the work is in consequence this week par-
tially suspended. On Tuesday the union buried one of
their members at Clewer ; the funeral was attended by
143 from the different lodges ; six acted as pall-bearers,
six as mourners, and the remainder followed in procession,
headed by a man wearing a black silk scarf and hatband,
and carrying on his arms a velvet cushion and Bible.
Each member of the union had a black rosette on his
breast, and a branch of ivy in his right hand. At the
conclusion of the burial service the followers deposited
their ivy branches in the grave ; they afterwards returned
in the same order to Windsor. In addition to the unionists,
we think there were at least 3,000 persons present. On
Wednesday morning the whole of the men who attended
the funeral the day previous were dismissed from the
Castle.—Reading Mercury.
A SAILOR'S DESCRIPTION OF A HUNT.
—Going to see my father the other day, he axed me to a
voyage a-hunting with him ; so when the swabber had
rigged the horses, they brought me one to stow myself on
board of, that, they told me, she was in such right and
tight trim, she would go as fast on any tack as a Folk-
stone cutter ; so I got up aloft, and clapt myself athwart
the ship's tbis'n, and made as much way as the best of 'em.
After some time, to the windward of a gravel pit, we
espied a hare at anchor ; on getting within hail she weighed
and bore away. We held her in chase a long time, and
bad come up with her, when my bore came bump ashore
upon a stone. The la ,ckstay broke, she pitched me over
the forecastle, came keel upward and unshipped my sbou!-
der—so sink me if ever I set sail on a bad privateer again.
APPARITION OF CiESAR.--.1 do not doubt
that the apparition of Julius Caesar, which appeared to
Brutps, and declared it would meet him at Philippi, was
either a dream or a spectral illusion—probably the latter.
Brutus, in all likelihood, had corns idea that the battle
which was to decide his fate would be fought at Philippi :
probably it was a good military position, which he had
fixed upon as a fit place to make a final stand ; and he had
done enough to Caesar to account for his own mind being
painfully and constantly engrossed with the image of the
assassinated Dictator. Hence the verification of this sup-
posed warning—hence the easy explanation of a supposed
supernatural event. --Macnish's Philosophy of Sleep.

YOUNG CLERGYMAN.— There coming a
foolish young man to the church, his masters praise and
extol him, either from love or ignorance ;—he swelleth
and marcheth proudly; the people gaze at him, his kins-
folks and friends can scarce contain their joy ;—he, being
willed, getteth up into the pulpit, and, overlooking all
from on high, murmureth out, no one can tell what ! but
they extol him as one that bath spoken like a god ! In
the mean time, bells jingle, trumpets rattle, rings fly about,
kisses are given, and a piece of black cloth is hung on his
shoulders;—when all this is finished, down comet!' the
wise man that went up a fool! Thus are wise men made
now-a-days..—Petrarch.