The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-09 00:00:00

flow can Holland be impoverished or enfeebled
without detriment to the wealth and power of
Great Britain, which at this moment has no great
reason to boast herself too affluent or too mighty?
And what ultimate advantage do the scribes of
the Treasury expect to realize, were it possible
for them to succeed in their industrious efforts
to render the Government and people of Hol-
land the objects of popular dislike among their
countrymen ? To free the Administration of
Earl Grey from some portion of the odium
which surrounds it ? To raise the character of
the Government of France in the estimation of
the British people ? To prepare this nation to
relish oppression towards the weak, and applaud
injustice when practised by the strong? To
deprive England of the character she has glori-
ously maintained, from the days of Elizibeth
downwards, whenever she has had a wise, ener-
getic, and popular Government, of natural pro-
tector to the smaller States of Europe against
the aggressions of the greater ? To leave this
nation without friends or allies, to fight, alone
and unassisted, its battle with France, when-
ever the latter, actuated either by ambition or
by jealousy, shall choose some propi-
tious moment for assailing its independence
or tarnishing its honour ? This is the final and
inevitable result of those principles and disposi-
tions which the Ministerial Press strives so assi-
duously to inculcate. We sincerely hope that
its toil will be, as it has been hitherto, not less
unprosperous than it is certainly disgraceful.
We hope that the people of England will not
permit themselves to be corrupted and betrayed by
the base Press of a profligate Administration ;
that they will never be brought to delight in
oppressing the weak, or be so far vitiated as to
bestow their applause upon powerful injustice ;
that England will continue to be, what she has
hitherto been, a protector to the feeble and a
check to the strong; that England will yet be
enabled to recover that respect and confidence
which she once enjoyed among the nations of
the earth ; and that whenever it may be her
lot once more to struggle with the power
of France for the preservation of her inde-
pendent existence she will not find herself friend-
less. These are our hopes, and, because we
think these hopes cannot be otherwise realised,
we hope very sincerely that the character of the
present Government of France may remain just
what it is in the estimation of the British
people ; that the Administration of Earl Grey
may not be' rescued from any portion of the
odium that now surrounds it ; that the people
of England may retain the faculty, notwithstand-
ing all the efforts of the Ministerial Press, of
distinguishing between right and wrong ; and
that William of Nassau may long be deemed a
better man and a greater hero than the Citizen
King, and the loyal subjects of the former fitter
objects of British sympathy and favour than the
reckless revolutionists who reared the blood-
stained throne of the latter.— Morning Post.

Files of the Barbadoes Papers were yesterday
received to the end of February. Hydrophobia bad in-
crea•ed there to a fearful degree, and much alarm prevailed.

SUICIDE.—We are sorry to state, that a
respectable merchant in this city, committed suicide yes-
terday, by throwing himself over a window in Lothian-
street. The decent being from the third flat, the unfor-
tunate man was so much injured, that he died a few hours
afterwards. He was a peaceable, sober living man, much
respected by his neighbours, and no cause can be assigned
f ,r his committing the melancholy act. Scotsman.

Stourbridge great horse fair was held last
week; the principal transactions took place, however, on
M.,nday. The show of horses was good, but there was
not that number of the finest description of animals to be
met with which have been accustomed to be shown at this
fair ; and the place of the young nag horse, which the
farmers of the country were used to exhibit, was in a
great measure occupied by the colts of the heavy kind.
For the few of the best horses shown, there was an eager
demand. The London dealers attended in greater num-
bers than customary, and bought at high prices, but their
purchases were understood to be principally for France.
There were buyers of good gigsters and hacks, at fair
prices: seasoned cart horses also went off readily, and
altogether the business done at the fair was to a consider-
able evtent.—Hereford Times.
FEMALE EXPECTATIONS.—The inordinate
expectations of some women really passes wonder. A
lady with 2001. a year writes me word that she will not
marry unless I can procure her an income of 1,5001.
Another with 751. a year, and passee, requires good
looks, distingue manners, and a carriage; her own money
being secured to her. And a Scotch widow, with one
child, ordinary person, and sans sous, desires me to in-
troduce her to a gentleman of ancient family (she is, of
course, descended from WALLACE), with at least 2,000/.
per annum, " that she may regain her former position in
society ;" and, by way of recommendation, she assures
me, that she was so devotedly attached to her husband,
that she will never allow her feelings to be implicated
a!ain. For this 2,000/. a year and a husband, both good
thins in their way, I may reckon on receiving her " beet
thanks ;" and she is at this moment excessively angry with
me, because I do not give her the introduction immedi-
ately. There are others who betray a wilful contempt, or
an innocent ignorance, of orthography, who seriously re-
ply to announcements headed, " A man of hereditary
rank," &c. But these are some of the inconsistencies all
must expect who hazard a public advertisement.— Fra-
ser's Magazine. -

CONSUMMATE VIr.LANY.—Many attempts
having been made to open a friendly intercourse with the
irascible Indians of Newfoundland, the government at
length offered a reward of fifty pounds to any person who
would bring one alive to St. John's. A fisherman con-
trived to seize a young female who was paddling in her
canoe to procure birds' eggs, from an inlet at a short dis-
tance from the main land. This woman was conveyed to
the capital, the fisherman received his reward, and the
captive was treated with great humanity, kindness, and at-
tention. The principal merchants and ladies of St.
John's vied with each other in cultivating her good graces,
and presents poured in upon her from all quarters. She
seemed tolerably contented with her situ ition, when sur-
rounded by a company of female visiters, but became out.
rageous if any man approac' ea, excepting the person who
had deprived her of her liberty. To him she was ever
gentle and affectionate. When this singular female bad
remained long enough at St. John's to be made sensible of
the kindness and good intentions of the Europeans, the
fisherman who brought her was employed to reconduct her
to the spot whence he had dragged her away. The sequel
of this history is scarcely to he credited, yet it is entirely
worthy of implicit credit. The villain who had deprived
this poor savage of her relations, friends, and liber y, con-
ceived the plan of murdering her on ber voyage back, in
order to possess himself of the baubles which bad been
presented to her by the inhabitants of St. John's. By this
dreadful act the assassin obtained articles to the value
of nearly a hundred pounds, and subsequently retired to
England to enjoy the plunder of his unfortunate victim.

'DUNKEI.A.—There died lately at Murthly
Code, a man of the name of JAMES ANDERSON, a com-
plete eccentric both in his person and his manners. JAMIE
was rather more than four feet in height ; a ith legs and
feet which bore more resemblance to those of a water-
fowl than of a man. Fur the last threescore years JAMIE
tilled the post of " fool" at Murthly Castle, and likewise
those of errand-boy and ben-keeper. Although he was a
tool," JAMIE was by no means deficient in talent for
looking after his own interest, as the " substance" he
left at his death testifies; he had likewise read a good deal,
an 1 retained a great portion of what he did read on his
memory. While in the enjoyment of good health JAMIE
was by no means fond of visiteis entering his private do-
micile, but for a short time before his death he was con-
fined to bed, and had to permit some of his servants to
attend him. At his desire they commenced a search
through the room, and found in a box filled with candle-
ends, newspapers, &c., bank notes to the amount of 3001. ;
in a corner of the room, buried among rubbish, they dis
covered a bag containing 20/. in-silver; and about his bed
they found 56/. in banknotes, and a bank receipt for 301.,
which, with 201. in specie got in his great-coat, amounts
to 4261., of which he left by will twelve pounds per annum
to a brother of his own, who has been for some time in a
destitute state, and the remainder to his near relations.•..-
Edinburgh Evening Courant.