The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-04 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE CHANGES.

Sir James Hope, fOr Liver Pool ; Rev. M. Goff and family, from
this to-cm for Weymouth; Capt. and Mrs. F. Laye, for Ireland ;
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, for Staffordshire ; Mrs. and Miss Longworth,
from Aberystwith to Cotswold House, in this town, 84e.

PUBLIC DINNER TO MR. WOLRYCHE WHIT-
MORE, M.P.—A public dinner was given yesterday, at the
Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, to Mr. Wolryche Whitmore,
M. P., by the gentlemen interested in the success of the new
colony of South Australia. About eighty gentlemen sat down
to dinner, among whom were J. W. Childers, Esq., M. P. for
the County of Cambridge ; Rowland Hill, Esq. ; J. W.
Buckle, Esq. ; J. Montefiorc, Esq. ; Capt. Gover ; Dr. Blun-
dell, M.D. ; Osmond Gilles, Esq. ; Dr. Wright, M.D. ;
Colonel Walker, C. B. ; Robert Gouger, Esq. ; P. Peachey,
Esq. ; J. B. Denton, Esq. ; D. Wakefield, Esq. ; Henry
Gouger, Esq. ; and W. M. Higgins, Esq..—J. P. Childers,
Esq., M. P., in the Chair. Several toasts were drunk, and
the party did not separate till about twelve o'clock.
MANCHESTER CHURCH RATES.—MANCHES-
TER, TUESDAY EVENING.-At the close of the poll this day,
the declaration was—For the rate, 4,851 ; against it, 4,112 ;
majority on the gross poll in favour of the rate, 739. Placards
were widely distributed by the opponents of the rate during the
day, appointing public meetings to be held in particular town-
ships in the course of the evening, in order to arouse the feel-
ings of those who had not up to that time polled, and to induce
them, if possible, to record their votes against the rate to-
morrow, the last day for polling.

CENT. PER CENT.--At Barnstaple butter is Bd.
a pound ; in London just double that price.
Meyerbeer is at this moment at Paris, whence, after
a stay of three or four days, he will go to Boulogne for sea-
bathing.—Galignani's Messenger.
A poor woman of the name of Sarah Parker, of
Barnsley, was brought to bed on Tuesday of three fine bays,
all of whom are likely to live. They have been named Abra-
ham, Isaac, and Jacob.—Leeds Intelligencer.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday last, at Ship-
ton-upon- Stour, as Mrs. E. Barber of that place was drink-
ing some beer, a wasp, which had got on a piece of toasted
bread in the cup, stung her in the mouth ; she cried out, " 0
Lord ! I shall die !" and immediately expired.

Dog stealing is now carried on to an unprece-
dented extent, and is greatly encouraged by the very high
rewards sometimes offered for very valueless animals. It is
no uncommon thing to see 5/. offered for the restoration of a
pet which is not worth ss.

Malcolm, in the supplemental volume to his " His-
tory of London," asserts, as his full and decided opinion, that
London was burned in the great fire by Government to anni-
hilate the great plague ; and he states that he has had " more
than cogent means of judging" the fact.
An extensive failure in the woollen trade was an-
nounced on Thursday. The firm is that of Hicks Brothers,
near Stroud, established upwards of forty years. The total
liabilities are stated at about 80,0001. or 85,0001.—Liverpool
Albion.

The farmers in the neighbourhood of Bourn have
adopted the novel mode of ringing a bell morning and evening,
before and after which the gleaners are prohibited from enter-
ing the fields. The gleaners in many parts have carried their
plundering to a serious extent.

A variety of ancient British vases, human skeletons,
bones of various animals, such as sheep, hogs, calves, boars'
tusks, &c., and funeral urns, containing the calcinated ashes
of human bones, were dug up last week by some workmen,
who were employed in excavating some ground in a field at
St. Ann's, Lewes. The VcSOS were of rude workmanship.
The Journal des Landes of the 24th instant, has
the following :—" We learn that in the forest of Laumagan,
half a league from Tartas, upwards of eight hundred hogs,
and a great number of colts, have perished by an inundation.
When the waters overflowed, these animals retired to their
sheds, but everything was carried away."

Last week the tower of the church at St. Michaud,
in the Same-et-Loire, was struck with lightning. The
churchwarden, who had hastened to ring the bell, which, ac-
cording to the popular belief, would chase way the storm, was
killed 'by the shock, and the church sustained considerable
damage.

INFLUENCE OF CHEERS ON A PLAYER.—We
once heard Mrs. Siddons give what Mr. Campbell may think
a very prosaic account of the beneficial influence of cheers on
a player. Some one remarked, 4, They give one heart."—
~ Aye," said she, " and they do what is still better—they give
one breath."—Quarterly Review.

SPRINGING A LEAK.—A Welsh sailor on his re-
turninalome, related to his mother the dangers of the seas.
" An' mother, when. we were right in the middle of the wide
ocean, the ship sprung a leak." " Sprung a leek, my dear,
sure it was Got's own mercy, for a famous vegetable it is ; but,
my dear, was there only one leek for all the ship's crew ?"
INVERNESS.—In the rivers on the north-west coast
the salmon fishing has this season been as favourable as in the
southern streams. In the mouth of a small river near Barvas,
in the Lewis, 200 salmon were taken one morning ; and every
where the people expressed themselves tired of salmon, and
anxious for herrings.

TIIE SHREWD FARMER.—" My good friend,"
said Lord Kaimes to a farmer, " such are the wonderful disco-
veries in science, that I should not be surprised if, at some
future time, one might be able to carry the manure of an acre
of land to the field in our coat pocket." " Very possible,"
replied the farmer, " but in that case I suspect you would be
able to bring back the crop in your waistcoat pocket."

We were yesterday gratified with the sight of a great
curiosity-14 pines growing on one stalk. The large one,
which grows from the centre, is surrounded at its base by 13
others of tolerable dimensions, and the whole presents a beauti-
ful appearance. Mr; Derlow, on whose property it was raised,
advertises his intention of exhibiting it for a few days.—
Jamaica Dispatch, July 1.

_
A New Orleans paper states that a duel was fought
on the side of the river opposite the city, a short time since, at
which several hundred amateurs were present as spectators.
We understand (says the same paper) that the proprietors of
the steam ferry-boat offer a premium of 100 dollars to every
individual who will kick up a row and decide it by burning
powder on the same spot.—New York Paper.
Professor Porson corrected nearly all the proof sheets
of the " Grenville Homer," whilst he resided at his chambers
in Essex-court. The late Mr. Heber was the intermediate
person that usually carried the sheets from Lord Grenville to
Porson, and vice versa. The professor held very little per-
sonal intercourse with Lord Grenville during the period the
.4 Homer " was in the press, which was printed at Oxford.
KINGSTOWN RAILWAY.—DREADFUL ACCI-
DEN r.—Thursday morning as a number of workmen were en-
gaged in the erection of a rampart, at the rear of Lord Clon-
curry's house, near Seapoint, the windlass, from which an im-
mense stone was suspended, broke, by which one man was
killed on the spot, and another was so severely injured that he is
not expected to survive.—Hibernian U. S. Journal.
NEW MODE OF TELEGRAPH.—Mr. Coad, the
proprietor of the oxy-hydrogen microscope now exhibiting in
.Liverpool, had suggested to us that the brilliant light ob-
tained-by the combined combustion of oxygen and hydrogen
gasses on lime, might easily be used, by day and night, as a
mean of rapid communication from place to place, however
distant. For instance, a lighthouse on the French coast thus
lighted, is visible (it is said) at a distance of 60 miles. With
what ease, by preconcerted signals, might a communication be
thus instantly made between London and Liverpool. The

light could be thrown into jets so as to represent a star a
semi-star, a crescent, a point, or even the present arms of the
telegraph could be made transparent and illuminated, so as to
afford a more extensive series of signals. We understand Mr.
Coal will probably institute some experiments of this kind on
the Cheshire coast.—Liverpool Journal.
The principal part of the reaping is now over in t'

upper ward of Penfrewshire, and a ireit deal of grain has al-
ready been safely housed, of a finer quality than the oldest
farmers recollect of having seen raised in that quarter. For
the last few days the demand for shearers at the Cross of Pais
ley has not been equal to the supply, and the wages have ac-
cordingly fallen.
George Finch, Esq., of Burley-on-the-I-lill, and
M. P. for Stamford, at his audit held on the first of August,
liberally and unsolicited, made a permanent reduction of 10
per cent., in the rents of his numerous tenants, and returned
an additional 10 per cent., with a promise that it should con-
tinue during the existence of agricultural distress.—Boston
Herald.

On Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of
Michael Ryley, who died in the General Hospital in conse-
quence of being shot at on the sth ult., near the Fighting
Cocks at Moseley, by a person named Catterns, who, there is
reason to believe, is insane. No provocation having been
given, that could render the offence committed other than
murder, a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury
against Catterns, who awaits his trial far the offence in Wor-
cester Gaol. —Birmingham Gazette.
A singular affair was last week carried before the
Royal Court of Montpelier. The Procureur du Roi of St.
Affrigne, in the Aveyron, having set up the pretension to
make the advocates take off their hats when they met him, the
Council of Discipline protested against it, upon which the
Procureur appealed to the Royal Court. This Court having
dec;cled against the pretension of the Procureur, the advo-
cates of St. Affrigne celebrated their victory by a grand din,
ner.—French paper.
On Saturday, the 77th regiment, under the cor

maud of Major Wilson, landed at -Newhaven from the Romney
having embarked at Portsmouth. Four companies of the
regiment marched to the Castle, and the remaining six to
Greenlaw barracks, where they are to remain until the 68th
regiment, now in the Castle, who are under orders for Gib-
raltar, have embarked in the Romney, which they are ex-
pected to do in the course of the week.—Edinburgh Evening
Courant.

An Irishwoman, complaining of her parish priest,
said he was not like the old one, Heaven rest his soul ! who,
though the finest of scholars, was not above sitting down in her
cabin and taking a draught of buttermilk. The mass did her
no good now ; it was better (she added vehemently) to hate
his grave in the place than the living body of the one who had
come after him, who did not know the faces of her children,
and called her " honest woman," as if her lawful name was not
Mrs. O'Leary ! On how slight a thread hangs allegiance
A NEW FASIIION : A HINT TO TIIE LADIES.—
The Turcoman women are discreet and shut or open their ears
at pleasure. When men are talking together, and a woman
is sitting by, she draws up a small piece of cloth from her
bosom over her mouth, to signify that she takes concern only
in her own occupation. Perhaps, in the dearth of ingenuity
for the invention of a new fashion, our Victorines and our Ma-
randans might take a hint from the Turcoman ladies. Fichu
a la Turconzane, we think, would sound very pretty, it might
be ornamental—even useful.
EMIGRANTS.—The number of emigrants arrived
at St. John's, up to the 12th instant, amounted to 3,6 lo—since
that time 404 adults, 61 children between seven and fourteen
years of age, and 70 under seven years of age, have been en-
tered—making a total of 4,152, exclusive of those on board
the vessels at quarantine. At St. Andrew's, also, a large
number of emigrants have arrived this season ; the total num-
ber has not been published, but we observe by the arrivals at
this port last week that three vessels from Ireland brought out
371 passengers.—American Paper.
In- Ireland, it appears, according to the latest re-
turns, there are only 132 towns with a population above 2,000;
while in Great Britain the towns containing more than 2,000
inhabitants nearly equal 750. In England, according to a late
census, the agriculturalfamilies, in proportion to those engaged
in trade, manufactures, and handicraft, only rate as seven to
eleven ; while in Ireland, at the same period, that part of the
population engaged in agriculture alone averages more than
three times the number of the latter class.— Gale on Irish
Corporate Reform.
An oak tree was dug up in the moor of Hatfield

Chase, Yorkshire, about 1808, Which was 120 feet long, 12
feet diametrically thick at the great end, ten feet in the
middle, and six feet at the small end ; so that by a moderate
computation the tree must have been as long again. In Fred-
ville Park (Kent) are three oaks called Majesty, Beauty, and
Stately. The first, at eight feet from the ground, is 28 feet
in girth ; the second, rising straight and clear in the stem to
the height of 70 feet, and ten feet in girth four feet from the
ground ; the last at the same height, more than eighteen feet
in girth.

ABSORPTlON.—Absorption, in like manner, takes
place from the lining membrane of the lungs, as we have seen
it do in the skin. When a person breathes an atmosphere
loaded with fumes of spirits, of tobacco, of turpentine, or of
any other volatile substance, a portion of the fumes is taken
up by the absorbing vessels of the lungs, and carried into the
system, and there produces precisely the same effects as if
introduced into the stomach. It has occasion ally happened
that a person has unwarily become intoxicated in this way, and
the lungs thus become a ready inlet to contagion, miasmata,
and other poisonous influences diffused through the air which
we breathe. -

OPTICAL EXPERIMENT.-Place on white paper
a circular piece of blue silk, about four inches diameter, m the
sunshine, place on this a circular piece of yellow three inches
in diameter, on this a circle of pink two inches in diameter, on
this a circle of green one inch in diameter, on this a circle of
indigo half an inch in diameter, making a small speck with
ink in the centre—look on this central point steadily for a
minute ; and then closing your eyes, and applying your hand
at about one inch distance before them, so as to prevent too
much light passing through the eye-lids, you will see the most
beautiful circles of colours the imagination can conceive, not
only different from the colours of the silks above mentioned,
but the colours will be perpetually changing in kaleidoscope
variety as long as they exist.—The Analyst.

The storm of the morning of the 20th has done
considerable damage. Some land outside the town was co-
vered with sand and shingle. The hamlet of La Rose would
have been completely inundated had not a wall fortunately
given way, and thereby afforded a free passage to the torrent.
The bridge of the Jardin des Plantes, which is fifteen feet
above the level of the stream, was overflowed. On the road
of St. Joseph the water was four feet high. A gentleman
who had persisted proceeding in his cabriolet, soon found
that his horse had no longer foot-hold, and that his cabriolet
was floating : he would probably have been lost had he not
received prompt assistance. A thunderbolt fell on the Hotel
Dieu, in the quarter of St. Charles. No lives, fortunately,
were lost. A young peasant girl was slightly scorched by the
electric fluid.--Marseilles Paper.

SPECIMEN OF THE ANCIENT SQUIREARCHY.--
He was a country 'squire of the genuine brown-stout kind—of
that class which the wide spread of cheap books and cheap
claret has nearly swept from the halls of their fathers. All
about him was inherited. His house, his port, his dress, his
jokes, were as old as Elizabeth. His ideas ever moved in one
unvarying circle, of which the centre was himself; with poli-
tics he troubled himself little. The Whigs he hated, as his
father had done before him ; and was perfectly sure that he
should be burnt alive in his own house if the bigotted bloody
Catholics came in. He was charitable—that is, he gave much
bone soup to the poor, though continually complaining of their
ingratitude. He slumbered in church every Sunday morning,
for the sake of setting a good example to the lower orders, and
made the parson drunk every Sunday evening, to show his
respect for the cloth. —Monthly Magazine.

On Wednesday the diligence from Rouen to An-
delys having stopped at Bonsecours, the bridles were taken
from the horses' heads to allow them to bait. The conductor
entered the coach, when the horses, alarmed by a sudden
flight of pigeons, set off at full gallop. The man got to the
front, and in endeavouring to seize the reins, became en-
tangled in them and fell. He was dragged in this manner
to Boos, a distance of two leagues and a half, in half an

lour, sometimes thrown under tie feet of the horses, some-

times whirled into the air, and then dragged down again by
the reins under the wheels of the carriage, till he became a
most horrible spectacle, and life was extinct. While the
coach was in its full career, a garde champetre of Bonsecours
attempted to seize the horses' heads and was thrown down,
but fortunately fell in such a direction that the horses and car-
riage passed on without touching him.—French paper.

A disturbance occurred on Sunday afternoon, near
Bermondsey old church, during which Chesney and Slow, the
beadles, were severely handled by the rioters. An Irish fune-
ral, accompanied by a number of persons, arrived at the church-
yard, about half-past four o'clock, and the bearers of the coffin,
as well as the mourners, having been admitted, the beadles,
according to their instructions, closed the gates to keep out
the crowd. Efforts were, however, made to burst open the
gates, which were resisted by the two beadles, and they were
at length forced out of the church-yard into the road, when the
mob began to beat them. Chesney received a severe cut
along the side of the nose, and his fellow-beadle was also se-
verely beaten, before they were rescued. It is affirmed that
most of the people who followed the funeral were drunk, and
that that was one of the principal motives of keeping them out
of the churchyard. None of the rioters have yet been taken
into custody.

THE LUCKY NUMBER.—Some time ago as a mer-
chant of this town was meditating upon the cares of business
before his parlour fire, he saw, or fancied he saw, the outlines
of a number of figures amongst the burning embers in the
grate. The more he gazed, the more apparent was the vi-
sion.. He called his lady, and, after having taken a little
pains to point out to her, she saw the same identical figures.
He pondered upon the mysterious occurrence a little, when it
suddenly struck him that the figures typified the number of the
ticket that was to win the 30,0001. prize in the ensuing lot-
tery. No time was to be
.lost ; the ticket must be procured.
cltitl:-Issinnotthteolbinegmdoemt wvltehremsetahrechtox. The various towns and
and the identical ticket
was secured by the happy merchant ; not the sixteenth, but
the entire ticket, for who would divide a 30,0001. prize, when
within his grasp ? With sore anxiety the result of the draw-
ing was awaited, and with no little nervousness did the mer-
chant wend his way down to the office to learn the fate of his