The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-26 00:00:00

CHEESE AMMUNITION..

The strangest ammunition that we have heard of
lately was used by the celebrated Commander Coo, of
the Monte Videan navy, who in an engagement with
Admiral Brown, of the Buenos Ayrean service, fired
every shot from his locker. " What shall we do, sir?"
asked his first lieutenant, " we've not a single shot
aboard; round, grape, cannisfer, and double headed are
all gone." " Powder gone,—eh?" asked Coe. " No,
sir; got lots of that yet.' "We had a plaguy hard
cheese—a round Dutch one—for dessert at dinner to-
day—do you remember it?" said Coe. "I ought to; I
broke the carving knife in trying to cut it, sir." "Are
there any more aboard?" "About two dozen: we
took them from a drove." " Will they go into the 18
pounders?" " Well, commodore, that's an idea.
try 'em," cried the first luff. And in a few
minutes the fire of the old Santa Maria (Coe's ship),
which had ceased entirely, was re-opened, and Admiral
Brown found more shot flying about his head. Directly
one of them struck his mainmast, and, as it did so, shat-
tered and flew in every direction. " What the plague is
that the enemy is firing?" asked Admiral Brown; but
nobody could tell. Directly another came in through a
port, and killed two men who were standing near him;
and then striking the opposite bulwark, burstinto finders.
" Why, that's some newfangled Paixham or other; I
don't like 'em at all," cried Brown; and then as four or
five more of them came slap through the sails, he gave
the order to fill away, and actually backed out of the
fight, receiving a parting broadside of Dutch cheeses.
This is an actual fact; our informant was the first lieu-
tenant of Coe's ship.—American Paper.

DEATH FROM A FRACTURED Jaw.—Yesterday
Mr. Baker, jun., proceeded with an inquiry at the Brick-
layers' Arms, Coßingwood- street, Bethnal-green, relative to
the death of William Barry, aged 46, a plumber and glazier.
It appeared that the deceased had a tooth extracted from
the lower jaw, some weeks ago. Shortly after, he went to
Mr. Colman, Whitechapel-road, surgeon, who found a con-
siderab!e swelling and inflammation of the lower jaw, for
which he prescribed. Deceased discovered subsequently that
his lower jaw was fractured, which he was obliged to tie up,
and from the effect of which he was unable to take any
solids to eat. On the 22d July he became an out-patient at
the Metropolitan Free Hospital, where he continued till the
the sth September. A few days before his death he became
an inmate of Guy's Hospital, where he died on Wednesday
last in a state of great exhaustion. Verdict, " Natural
Death from debility.''
Motte.viAN MissioNs.—A public meeting in behalf
of the London Association in aid of the above missions was
held on Wednesday last at the Guildhall, Weymouth. The
treasurer of the parent association attended, and communi-
cated much interesting information respecting these missions
of an ancient Protestant Church, carried on amongst Green-
landers, Esquimaux, Indians, Negroes. and Hottentots, in
congregations consisting of above 69,000 converts, 40,000 of
whom are British subjects. The meeting was very well at-
tended, and the proceedings were of so gratifying acharacter
that we should think annual meetings will be held hereafter.
The Moravians were the first in the field of missionary la-
bour, and they have wrought so zealously in the good
work as to deserve the warm support of their fellow-
Christians.

THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF ALL.—Roman Ca-
tholic priests are very fond of boasting of their wonderful
miracles; but there is one miracle which they have never yet
been able to accomplish. They have been trying at it for a
wearisome number of years—at least they pretend they have
—but hitherto their holy efforts have not been attended with
the slightest success. The miracle we allude to, as still wait-
ing for fulfilment, is no less than " the pacification of Ire-
land." When Ireland is restored to peace and quietness,
such as England enjoys, and restored, too, by the pious
agency of Roman Catholic priests, we shall look upon the
happy realization as the greateot miracle of all Roman Ca-
tholic miracles, and shall almost be prepared to believe in
winking statues, bleeding pictures, St. Peter's chair, St. Ja-
nuarius's blood, and enormous cabbages—even though the
cabbages may be larger, and have as much heart in them as
Cardinal Wiseman's sanctity.—Punch.
A NEW REGENERATION. —ln Naumberg a man
named Mahner is preaching the necessity of a new regene-
ration, not in the spiritual, but physical sense. He warns a
sickly race that it must return to the lost state of "primitive
health," or Urgcsundheit, as the means of more fully enjoy-
ing life and attaining a patriarchal old age. It is to be
secured by a diet of bread and water, going barefoot, and
letting the hair and beard arow ; in short, making a nearer
approach to man's original state in costume than the decen-
cies or prejudices of modern society will altogether permit.
On this topic he has been lecturing to a chosen few, but his
doctrines do not seem to take, bread and water not being
tempting, even with fourscore years promised as the prize of
self-denial.

MACHINE roll, SALE.—TO be sold, a thrashing
machine, in good working order. Has birch, cane, and
strap barrels. Warranted to lick a school of fifty boys in
twenty minutes, distinguishing their ofences into literary,
moral, and impertinent. Only parted with because the
owner has flogged all his school away, and his sons are too
big to be beat. Apply at the college of preceptors.—ln-
dianapolis Journal.
THE LANCASHIRE MAGISTRACY.—The number of
acting magistrates for Lancashire is 457, viz., 58 for the
hundred of Lonsdale, 22 for Amounderness, 77 for Blackburn,
22 for Leyland, 116 for West Derby, and 155 for Salford.
The three oldest magistrates are the Right lion. Lord Skel-
mersdale, Lathom House, who qualified January '2O, 1800;
Edmund Hornby, Esq., of Dalton Hall, who qualified Oct.
6, 1807 ; and Matthew Wilson, Esq., of Eehtoa Hall, York-
shire, who qualified July 20, 1806.