The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-26 00:00:00

Descomb, however, persevered in her intention to redeem he
promise of giving her hand to the young man. It was agreed
between the parties that they should be married on Sundae
morning last. Mr. Descomb having ascertained this, took the
precaution of locking the street-door on the previous nighk,
and keeping the key in his pocket. Miss Descomb, on rising
early in the morning, was unfortunately disappointed on finding
that the door was not only locked, but the key gone. Still.
however, determined to fulfil her vows, she resolved on getting-
to the outside by leaping from the first-floor-window into the
street. In the fall she unhappily broke her thigh and several
of her ribs, and now lies in a state of the greatest suffering.
Observer.

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.—The master-buildeN
held several private meetings last week, for the purpose of
considering what steps should be adopted by the trade in the
situation in which they were placed with regard to their men.
At ali the meetings the utmost unanimity prevailed, and the
masters are firm in their determination not to take back a
single man to their employ, unless he signs their declaration
never to have anything more to do with the Union. It is
stated that a great number of the workmen have made over-
tures to return to their work, if the declaration in question is
in some degree modified, so as to meet the wishes of the
Union ; but this the masters have resolutely refused to do.
STRIKE OF STONEMASONS.--A great number of
journeymen stonemasons in this town have had the infatuation

to abandon their employment, not that they required higher
wages, but because several men not in the Union were earning
bread for their wives and families upon terms which were dis-
approved of by the Union dictators. The consequence was
that the delegates first sent a mandate to the masters, requir-
ing that the poor fellows alluded to should be discharged, and
on this tyrannical and insolent demand being treated with de-
served contempt, it wag resolved that the men in the Union
should cease to work. The gentleman against whom this
measure was directed has acted with becoming spirit, and is
determined to employ no men in future in any way connected
with the Unions. We have satisfaction in adding, that a num-
ber of strangers have already accepted the good work and
excellent wages discarded by the Unionists ; and as others are
daily arriving, the individuals who have been duped by unprin-
cipled delegates will speedily be brought to their senses.—
Newcastle Journal.

CURE FOR THE BITE OF AN ADDER.--A few
days since, as Mr. St. George, of Prestbury, was walking
near Queen Wo' accompanied by his favourite dog, the
animal darted at omething- in the grass, and immediately re-
treated 4if hurt. On examination it appeared he had met
with an anguis in herba ; a large adder was discovered gliding
away from the spot, by which the dog had been bitten in the
nose. Soon after the animal was seized with vomiting, his
head and throat swelled to an enormous size, and he appeared
to suffer great agony. Application was made, as speedily as
possible, to Mr. Hingston, chemist and druggist, High-street,
who recommended a solution of chloride of lime, which by
constant application, reduced the swelling in about half an
hour, and soon after the dog recovered. Quere—Whether the
same remedy would not be efficacious in curing the bite of a
rabid dog?—Cheltenham Chronicle.

SALE OF A WIFE.—On Wednesday morning the
village of Holme-upon Spalding Moor was in the greatest con-
fusion, owing to a report that John Lazenby, labourer, in-
tended to exhibit for sale the frail partner of his affection.
About eleven o'clock a vast number of people assembled
to see the transaction, and a more disgraceful scene was
never witnessed. The husband made his appearance with a
new halter in his hand, evidently labouring under the greatest
agitation of mind ; he stated that his wife had partly left her
children and her home, and had joined herself to a person of
the name of Britton Etty, who had only about a week ago re-
turned from Beverley House of Correction, where he had been
confined, as we are informed, for receiving some flannel from
the above Mrs. Lazenby, which the husband had purchased
for clothing for their children. The sale took place in the
street, in front of Mr. Hudson's public-house, when Lazenby
exhibited his much worse half in the new halter. The first
bid was is., by a huckster, who was passing with his cart at the
time ; the next bid was 25., by her old favourite Etty, when
the poor disconsolate husband declared it to be quite enough
for her, unless she mended her manners. The money was
paid immediately, and the happy " pair," to all appearance,
left the ground arm in arm, amidst the groans and hisses of
the assembled multitude.— York Chronicle,
THEFT AND CURIOUS RECOVERY OF THE
STOLEN GOODS.—Two respectable horse dealers being at St.
James's Fair, stopt for the night at an inn in Kelso, and on
rising in the morning, their great-coats, which had, on their
retiring to bed, been laid on a sofa in the parlour, were amiss-
ing, and after the most diligent search could not be found.
The travellers imagining that the coats had, in the hurry and
bustle of the fair, been somehow or other mislaid, and being
well acquainted with the landlord, requested him to send the
coats when found, to their address in Edinburgh. Next day
the landlord searched every corner, but in vain ; and he was
reconciling himself to the loss of six pounds, the value of the
coats, when he received a letter from the gentlemen to whom
they belonged, intimating that they were glad to find that their
coats were so far on the road home before themselves ; for on
getting the length of Carfrae Mill, they came upon a gang of
persons pretending to be gingerbread bakers, when one of the
horse-dealers conceiving that a coat which one of the men
wore greatly resembled his own strayed coat, and hinting his
suspicion to his friend, resolved at any rate to have a nearer
inspection. They accordingly alighted from their gig, yd
seized each a fellow by the neck, when their suspicions were
confirmed. The rogues were soon forced to divest themselves
of the property which they had so unceremoniously appropri-
ated, and compelled to suffer 3 good horse-whipping. We
understand that the gang pretending to be gingerbread bakers
were neither more nor less than one of the many gangs of
thieves and pickpockets who yearly infest the fir, and exercise
their evil practices upon his Majesty's lieges.—Kelso Mail.
DUCK FEASTING.—For a considerable time the
town of Redruth and its vicinity, has been the scene of nume-
rous depredations. Gardens, potatoe fields, and farm-yards,
in particular, have frequently been plundered in a manner the
most daring, and at the same time with so much tact as long to
baffle the efforts of that active constable Trevorali to discover
the depredators. At length, however, he has succeeded in
capturing a part at least of the desperate gang. Having sur-
prised and secured them at their house of rendezvous, he com-
menced searching the premises, and soon discovered that active
and rather ludicrous preparations were making for a duck feast,
several of which were stowed away in a large pot commonly
called a crock, with a due proportion of potatoes and otherve-

getablos, for the purpose of making a stew. And so anxious
were the parties for a ready meal, that little pains were taken
in giving the poor pilfered quackers, either an outward or an
inward dressing ; in fact, to all appearance the duck feast
would have been almost a literal " feather and gut" one, had
it not been for the interference of Trevorab, who placed the
disappointed gourmands in durance vile, and basketed the con-
tents of the crock to bear testimony against them. On Sa-
turday last six of them were committed to the county goal to
answer the charge of duck feasting at the quarter sessions.--
Cornwall Gazette.

EXERCISE.—Man was never created for inactivity ;
his organs require action, and his limbs motion. Too much
sleep deadens and enervates the body ; exercise enlivens and
strengthens it, gives new vigour to the principle of life, urg-
ing the circulation of all the fluids through their many chan-
nels, facilitating the secretion of the different humours and
the rejection of those which must compromise life if allowed
to remain within the frame. But the good effects of exercise
are not confined to this point alone; it also prevents or re-
moves the concentration of the vital powers on the brain or
stomach, the common result of too much sleep ; it establishes
or maintains the equilibrium in all the parts, and kindles in
some degree the spark of human heat. Addison, though not
a physician, was so convinced of its importance, that he assures
his readers that if a man will once accustom himself to regu-
hr exercise and temperance, he will stand much less in need
of medicine. The great truth, uttered by a very ingenious
philosopher, may be supported by numerous examples with
which history furnishes us. Strato, attacked by a severe .
ease of the spleen, supposed to be incurable, recovered his
health by great exercise alone. Galen, of an infirm habit up
to the age of thirty, attained a great age by the same method;
as did Herodicus, the preceptor of Hippocrates, who was weak
and full of humours in his youth. It was from the conviction
alone that Socrates and Agesilaus entertained of the good
effects of exercise that they did not think it beneath their
dignity to ride a stick with their children ; and that Scipio
Lnlius and the Grand Pontiff Sceevoia amused themselves by
playing at quoits, and made " ducks and drakes" by the water
side to rid to rid their minds of care, and preserve in full
vigour their strength and health.--Rules for the Health of
the Aged.

The usual stagnancy of affairs in this philosophical
island was somewhat interrupted on Sunday morning by th•
astounding intelligence that Miss Kitty Challon had eloped
on the previous night, from Mrs. Tadrnan's school, with Mr.
Affieck Trismegistus Williamson, son of Mr. Thomas
liamson, the well-known hairdresser of Bombay. Miss Ch-d.
lon is a pretty child of about fourteen years of age, daughter
to a deceased officer of this Presidency, heiress to about 70,00
rupees, and a ward of Chancery, or rather of the Equity ski,
of the Supreme Court. The gay Lothario numbers about
sixteen summers, and glows in all the dusky beauty of Abys-
sinia. On Saturday night, at eleven o'clock, Mrs. Tadman
returned home, having been absent from noon, and, oppressed
with some secret presentiment of evil, proceeded to the young
lady's sleeping apartment, which she found mysteriously locked
against her. After repeated calls, it was opened by one of the
awakened sleepers ; on entering she beheld with consternation
that the bed of Miss Challon was empty and cold, and a window
which stood open near it told a tale of elopement and love too sure
to be mistaken. A hue and cry was immediately raised, but in
vain— in vain on Sunday morning Mr. Grey searched the elder
Williamson's house, for no lost maiden was there discovered—.in
in avi rit of habeas corpus was issued by the Supreme Court to
th, young Lothario's father. The latter stated that his son
had* .obtained leave of absence from him on urgent private
affairs,
.from noon on Saturday, and still was not forthcoming,
The leave he had supposed referred to a shooting excursion,
and he had in consequence recommended his son, with due
to bring home nothing but 9ame--he had no
Chalon's fate, but had little doubt but she
parternal care,
son, as a strong private attachment had
,:hein. On this
knowledge of MI,
ttichment intelligence the Court
hadlong. eel oxpi
setde
dw withbetween
the exertions of the law, of
issued a sir ong public against the youth, but all
iMrs. Tadman, and of severa, rival aspirants to the . young
"n
vain, as,
lady's rupees,
notwithstanding
she had not yet ben " invented." Such is the
hiStory of this affair as far as it has yet transpired. We have just
learnt that Mr. W. the 'elder, has been taken to gaol under
an attachment of the Supreme Court, issued upon affidavits
tending, it is reported, to implicate Oxi as an acoessarrtb the
Abduction.. Bombay Gaxette,-Feb4 22.