The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

WEDNESDA

TIMES:—Tne executive is undoubtedly the weak
side of the ultra-democratic theory of government. It
is very well to tell us that the people are the only
source of legitimate power, and that all functions—
legislative, ja and executive, are only delegates
to individuals of the inherent might of the body poli-
tic. This resolution of all questions of government
into the relation of principal and agent works pretty
well so long as the matters in question are compli-
cated, and such as the masses, though claiming the
right, have not the power to manage for themselves.
But in the simpler acts of popular sovereignty there
is always danger lest the ruling democracy should
sweep aside its delegates, and exercise the powers of
government in its own person. This we presume to
be the theory upon which the acts of Lynch law, now
so unfortunately associated with the name of Cali-
fornia, are defended by the thousands who give their
presence and approval to their perpetration. Some
such sedative to the conscience there must be, for it is
impossible to conceive that thousands of persons who
have been instructed, however imperfectly, in their
duties as citizens and Christians, should applaud
the perpetration of a gross insult to popular sove-
reignty and a wilful and deliberate murder, did they
view the matter in that light. Yet what sophism can be
more transparent ? The people who make the law
and appoint the Executive are the whole population
of the State, legally convened and solemnly delibera-
ting, The people who set aside the .Executive, and
take the law into their own hands, or rather abrogate
it altogether, are a multitude casually collected, led
on, as all multitudes are, by a few persons actuated
by furious passions and gratifying the love of ven-
geance and the thirst of blood under the abused forms
and hollow masquerade of justice. If it be true that
no power less than that which founded a constitution
can abrogate it, the sovereignty of the people itself is
trampled under foot by proceedings which, however
great the number of accomplices in their guilt, can
never attain the solemnity or authority of the acts by
which it is sanctioned. The practice of this model
republic presents a curious application of the favourite
principle of competition. In order effectively to
prevent dangers to life and property, two rival
executives are called into existence, and set to work
independently of and in hostile opposition to each
other. " Him that escapeth the sword of Jehu
shall Elisba slay," might be adopted as the
motto; of the - Californian Vigilance Committee.
There it is not " statutes that glean the refuse of the
sword," but rather the sword that gleans the refuse of
the statutes., When a crime has been committed the
law punishes all that it can, and the Vigilance Com-
mittee, the antitype of the law, wreaks its vengeance
on the remainder. This competitive and concurrent
jurisdiction is a new feature in the dreary annals of
the Draconic code of Lynch. Formerly we were ac-
customed to consider Lynch law as a remedy only to
be justified on the tyrant's plea of necessity, in cases
where such summary measures could alone prevent
the escape of some great criminal from justice. But
in California, Lynch law bears to the established
jurisprudence of the country somewhat the same re-
lation as courts of equity to their sister tribunals of
the common law. It permits the ordinary tribunals
to proceed so long as they proceed according to its
wishes; and only interferes to correct their errors or
to, supply their defects. Of each of these kinds of ju-
risdiction our late accounts from California afford
striking and terrible instances. At San Francisco the
Vigilance Committee had obtained possession of the
persons of twocriminals, and was about to execute jus-
tice upon them after its own summary fashion. The
Government fell into the error of considering that
such matters were not exclusive the province of the
Vigilance Committee whenever it chose to act,
rescued the prisoners, and placed them in the gaol of
the city. They speedily found out their mistake. In
the open day, with overwhelming force, the criminals
were recaptured, and hung with every circumstance
of publicity in the presence of the whole population
of the city. The coroner immediately held his in-
quest on the bodies, and the jury found a verdict
which clearly implied that the law against murder
has no application when life is taken away at the
bidding of a multitude. There was tolerably brisk
competition between the two Executives; the popular
demand for blood exceeded the regular supply, and
the Vigilance Committee undertook to make up what
was wanting. The second case was at Sacramento,
where three persons having been condemned to
death, the Governor respited one and left the law
to take its course as to the other two. After
they had been executed under the authority of
the Sheriff, that official withdrew and left his place
to be occupied by the self-appointed ministers of
popular vengeance, and in the same place, on
the same gibbet, the criminal whom law had
respited, but whom lawless force condemned, met the
same fate as his companions. Thus, in this so-called
free community has arisen an arbitrary power engros-
sing to itself the vindictive and terrible, unrelieved
by any of the mild and conciliatory attributes of
royalty. Law, the protection of the weak against the
strong, of the individual against the mass, of the ob-
noxious against the popular, of the minority against
the majority, exists only in California as an occa-
sional and exceptional rule, liable to be bent or snap-
ped asunder at any time by the hand a supreme and
irresponsible power, which assumes to execute jus-
tice while it knows not mercy, and unrelentingly pu-
nishes in others the infraction of statutes of which it

is itself the most daring and conspicuous violator. It
is remarkable that the tyrant's plea of necessity does
.. .

not apply to either of these cases, which have, as we
have before said, much more the air of a race in cruelty
between the lawful and the unlawful Executive, than

of stern and deliberate justice forced from unwilling
hands by an overpowering apprehension for the
public safety. In the first case the men were
recaptured by the Vigilance Committee before it
could possibly be known what fate awaited them
at the hands of the regular judicial and executive
powers, and in the second a crime, for the expiation of
which two lives were sacrificed, could give no colour

for illegal violence in order to augment the number
of victims. In this the republican inquisition is only
following in the steps of all bodies which have con-
trived to raise themselves to a similar pitch of arbi-
trary and uncontrollable power. The necessity on
which the assumption of that power was founded is
soon lost sight of, and gradual encroachments are
made, till tyranny and cruelty become their own pre-
cedent. The country where such things can be done,
and done with impunity, may be rich, but has no
claim to the title of free. That hardy plant will
not flourish on its golden soil. What matters it
under what name the tyranny is disguised ? The man
whose life can be taken from him at any moment by
a stretch of arbitrary power is a slave, whether his
serfdom be concealed under the name of citizen of a
republic, or paraded under the badge of the subject
of an autocrat. It will be vain to look for order
or to hope for tranquillity in a society where every
mind is full of the spectacle of such wild and
frightful excesses. The same code of public morality
which sanctions the knotting of the halter in public
will find no greater difficulty in reconciling itself to
the use of the knife or the pistol in private. Human
nature, to use the words of Thucydides, having con-
quered, the law will eagerly show that she is intem-
perate in anger, and au enemy of her superiors. If
no other consideration could restrain these fearful
outbreaks of vindictive passion, it ought to have oc-
curred to those who thus create and stimulate a po

pular taste for sights of blood and scenes whose at-
tractions consist in huinan suffering and the fierce
passions by which it is surrounded, to consider how
easily such a craving for the stimulus of horror is
created, and how constantly it must require fresh
victims. The elegant and philosophical Roman found
no sight so alluring as the deadly combat of gladia•
tors. The lovely daughters of Spain could smile and
flirt over the horrors of an auto dale just as their
fair descendants do now over the sanguinary brutali-
ties of a bull-fight. Man, the paragon of nature, has
lurking about him something of the tiger, and woe
to that State and that people where this deeply-seated
instinct is stimulated and encouraged instead of being
repressed and subdued.

HERALD. _.We are the last persons in the world
who would be disposed to encourage a too prying ex-
amination into the affairs of the Continent of Europe
—or who would seek to sow distrust among states.
In the military organization of Europe we take no
very great interest—for this organization affects us

in a very subordinate degree. With the naval organ-
ization
of Continental Europe, or the efforts of any
obtain a
state to seaboard, it is, however, different.
These efforts, be
they
great or be they small, affect m
us intimately, and may
first haveantb
influence
ue nacpep
evaerryv
much\
greater than would at a
the e
b
hold it to be the usiness of British statesmen and
politicians to seethat the
maintainedpreponderan,cfner otfhiaGprreea,t
Britain on the seas is always
ponderance is not alone necessary to the maintenance
and extension of our
eoe
commercial and colonial system,
well-being—nay,n y t o t h ouri
n
nn anything
but it is indispensable to our
very existence as a nation. itisthat a
that has a tendency to alter the relative maritime
to
forces of Europe oughtimemediately engage
our attention. Most certainly we have no desire
to exaggerate the power of
r Russia, or to cre-
ate suspicions in reference
e to the Govern-
mf til ent of the Cr.Czir. 'llya' power of
Russia we have no dread EC, long as the empire is
confined within its present maritime limits. But
re when we find the Government of t
ersburgh en-
deavouring to extend its maritime frontier
at one and
the same time on the banks of the Caspian end on the
confines of the Baltic and German Ocean, it becomes
our duty to drew the attention of Englishmen to efforts
so restless and so ambitious, and, we may add, so'o Its
'rn
consistent with that settlement of Europe as the :
basis
of the treaty of Vienna to which
Russian authorities
so often refer. We are not in the least disposed to
deny the obligations under which our neighbours the.
Danes lie to the ittliiii4ll Government in a recent pas-

sage of Danish history. But the friendliness exhibited
by Russia was no greater, in a public sense, than was
exhibited by England end F: erica. England and
France both protested against tbe,unjust and spo!iat-
ing war which the Germans waged,-and which Prussia
fostered. We cannot, therefore,eisle in what respect
Denmark is more bounden to Russia than to
her two more civilised and mare powerful allies.
It is true there is a family connexion be-
tween the Houses of Rorhanzoff and Den-
mark, but as there is neitheit.`f kith nor kin in
trade," according to the provertveso is there among
monarchs little consanguineous affection when in-
terests diverge. We cannot suppose that it is from
any feelings of mere consanguinity that Denmark has
exhibited such a marked deference for the Court of
Petersburgh and such a willingness to meet its wishs.
The two Cabinets have few or. an interests in com-
mon, and the Danish people have certainly no liking
for the Russian Government orssystem. How is it,
then, it may be asked, that for the last three months
there have been such frequent interchanges of couriers
between Copenhagen and Petersbargh, and that so
many as five Russian ships of war have, during that
period, anchored in Danish waters ? If we are to
believe the Weser Zeituny, thew, circumstances have
arisen from the eager desire of Russia to purchase the
island of Bornholm of the Court of Denmark, with a
view to make in it a harbour of-the first rank. Now,
though the Russian navy has Dever been formidable,
notwithstanding the immense maths lavished on it, and
though probably it never can be in our day formid-
able to even any second-rate naval power—yet it
is the duty of England to site that the maritime
condition of Europe is not etlisturbed, and that
a great military monarchy is not by these—or by any
other means whatever placed :in a condition to be
nearer the British shores by alraost,approximating to
the German Ocean. Such a position gained by Russia,
whether by purchase or by influence, would greatly
diminish the importance of a maritime kingdom like
Denmark—might occasion serious inconvenience to
Sweden—to Hamburgb, to Mecklenburgh, to Bel-
gium, and to Holland, and even to England and
France. These considerations are more than sufficient
to excite the vigilance of Great Britain, totally irre-
spective of the injury which such an acquisition on
the part of .Russia would inflict on Denmark itself. It
is no answer to say that the Baltic is closed for six
months in the year—that a tideless sea, with light
nights, can never produce thoroughly-good sailors.
Though we know the fact to her so, and that the
maritime system of Russia is ,thoroughly lubberly
and inefficient, and can never be formidable
by itself, yet with the aid and assistance of
Danes and of Danish harbours, it may accomplish,
in combination with others, purposes now wholly
without its reach. Besides, it is not so much as a
naval as a military power that the possession of Born-
holm would give Russia influeripe ; and of such ag-
gressive influence she has no need whatever. Under
the circumstances to which we .allude doubtless ex-
planations have been asked of the Cabinet of Copen-
hagen. These ought to be clear, and explicit, so as to
satisfy the reasonable anxiety of ,the principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs. Independently
however, of the most frank and.pordial explanations,
it were well that a British warliteamer and a frigate
should be detached for the purpose of giving our
Government more accurate inforanation than it may
be possible to obtain from mete civilians at Copen-
hagen. If, instead of keeping
„so many of her Ma-
jesty's ships rotting at our port!, one, a steamer, was
designated for the Baltic, a national—indeed a Euro-
pean—service might have beenxipportunely effected,
for this question concerns England, France, the North
of Germany, and all the mihrtr maritime powers of
the Baltic and the North Sea.

BRADFORD ELECTION.

EYENIN&, OCT OBER 22, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, Or:. T. 21.
Her Majesty end his Royal Highness P 6,riem Al-
bert went out on horseback yesterday after noon into
the park, attended by the Hun. Miss Seym our, Cul.
Buckley, end Col. P. H. Seymour.
Tne Marquis and Marchioness of Aberec rn, with
Lady Harriet Hamilton, Earl Granville, and Vis-
count Canning, arrived yesterday evening of 2 a visit
to the Queen.

The Royal dinner party last evening included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the. Marquis
and Marchioness of Ahercorn, Lady Harfiet Hamil-
ton, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness Evet.h, Earl
Granville, Viscount Canning, and Sir G. Couper.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended ,during
dinner, and performed the following pieces :
Fackel Tanz
March de la Carawanne, from " Le
Desert"
Duettino de Is Nuit, from the Opera
" Les Montenegrina" Linxnander.
Osterur Polka
Selection from " Cenerentola"

Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in
the Castle after dinner, and played the following se-
lection :
Overture, " Die Genueserinn"
Pas de Schal, " La Bayadere"
Marche du &lore, "Le Prophete" Meyerbeer.
Sinfonia (No. 1), Adagio molto, Alls
con brio
_ _

This morning her Majesty was driven out in an
open carriage by his Royal Highness Prince Albert
into the Park, attended by Colonel F.H. Seymour on
horseback.

The Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal Family took their usual walk-
ing and pony exercise.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, arrived at her residence,
Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past twelve
o'clock yesterday from Frogmore. Her Royal High-
ness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon
left town on her return to Frogmore.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope.

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON,

The election of a Member in the place of the late
Mr. Busfield, M.P. for the borough of Bradford,
took place this day, in the yard adjoining the Court-
house.

The proceedings were of a formal character; Mr,
Robert Milligan, a Liberal in politics, and an emi-
nent local merchant, being the only candidate.
Mr. Milligan and his friends went in procession
from the Exchange to the hustings, and was there
met by between one and two thousand persons,
though the apparent paucity of attendance cannot be
taken as an index of the public feeling in favour of
Mr. Milligan, who was solicited to become a can-
didate by the most numerously-signed requisition
of electors ever before presented to any gentleman.
Few gentlemen are held in higher esteem, or have
rendered more essential service to the Liberal cause.
Mr. JOHN RAND, the mayor, officiated as return-
ing officer, and briefly introduced, with the usual
formalities, the necessary preliminaries.
Mr. Tirus SALT, who two years ago filled the office
of Mayor of the borough, nominated Mr. Milligan.
He said he was happy to say Mr. Milligan required
no introduction to a Bradford constituency, having
for forty years carried on a very successful career
amongst them. His high integrity and unimpeach-
able honour were well known to them, as,well as his
political views, which were liberal and progressive.—
(Loud applause.) He bad ever been ready to aid
every good work in the borough, and it was a grati-
fying circumstance that those amongst whom he bad
so long and so honourably lived, had now the privi-
lege of sending him to represent the interests of the
borough in Parliament.—(Cheers.) He begged to
propose Robert Milligan, Esq., as a fit and proper
person to represent them in Parliament. (The nomi-
nation was received with loud cheering.)
Mr. Alderman S. SMITH seconded the nomination.
He spoke of the late Member in terms of great eulogy,
and also referred in most honourable terms to the ca-
reer of Mr. Milligan.
No other candidate being proposed, the Mayor,
after a short pause, declared Mr. Milligan duly
elected.

Mr. ROBERT MILLIGAN then presented himself,
amidst great cheering, to acknowledge the honour
conferred upon him. He spoke but briefly. He
thanked them most sincerely for the distinguished
position in which they had placed him. He should
not have ventured to occupy the position he now did
had he not been requested to do so by a large number
of his most intimate friends; and also by a requisition
presented to him, respectably and numerously signed
by his fellow-townsmen.—(Loud cheers) A seat in
the House of Commons had never been an object of
his ambition ; but, from the spontaneous and generous
way in which it had been proposed to him, he had
considered it his duty to comply with the request to
offer himself to them for election.—(Applause.) Hav-
ing resided in Bradford for the greater part of his life,
and having taken his share in nearly all the the great
questions of the day, his political principles must be
very well known to most of them. He was therefore
sure they would not wish him to detain them in order
to explain his political views in detail.—(Hear, hear.)
He was now, and ever had been, a firm friend to free-
dom, to order, to progress, and to good government.—
(Loud applause.) After again thanking them for the
honour they had conferred upon him he concluded his
remarks amidst loud cheers.

After a few questions had been asked by a Chartist
named Lightower, which were apparently answered
to the general satisfaction, the proceedings termi-
nated.

THE KAFIR WAR.
(FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.)
CAPE TOWN, SEPT. 10.—In consequence of the
non-arrival of the mail steamer Sir Robert Peel, due
on the 26th ult., and owing to important dispatches
from Sir Harry Smith, her Majesty'a steamer I3irken-
head will start from Simon's Bay this evening, at five
for England, under full steam, with her M
iis-
jesty s mails. She is expected to make the passage n
32 days. The following is a short summary of events
since the. departure of the Hellespont :
Affairs both in the colony and beyond the frontier
have assumed a more gloomy aspect than they have
ever worn; since the commencement of the war, for
while the enemy have sustained no important check
in. Kafirland, they have continued to lay waste exten-
sive tracts, sweeping off thousands of head of cattle,
sheep, &c., while the loss of life on the part of the
colonists in the different skirmishes has been consi-
derable. The strength of the army has in the mean-
time received a considerable increase by the arrival
from England of her Majesty's steamers Birkenhead
and Cyclops, and the freight ship Sumner, with the
2d Queen's Royals, a company of Artillery, and de-
tachments for the different regiments in the field, to-
gether with the return of her Majesty's steamer
Hermes, with the 12th Foot, from Mauritius, making
an addition of 56 officers and 1,455 rank and file.
The 12th Lancers and the 60th Rifles are hourly
and anxiously looked fur.
At the Sovereignty affairs are in a bad state. Two
companies of the 45th Foot, under Captain Parish,
and some Cape corps, have been sent by Lieutenant-
Governor Pine to Major Warden's relief. It is,
however, stated that Moshesh and Molitzane have
joined and are marching on the colony. If this re-
port be correct, they will prove our most formidable
foe; at all events it is stated that the news from this
quarter has had the effect of hurrying off the steamer.
The frontier post, due yesterday, has not yet, arrived.
The Birkenhead, however, brought a
single Graham's
Town journal of the 6th inst., which is the latest
intelligence we have, from which the following are
extracted:—

" Fort Peddle, Sept. 1.
" To .day we were aroused to arms by heavy firing
between Breakfast Valley and the mountains near
Committees Drift. An express arrived trom a patrol
that was out bringing intelligence of an affair with
the enemy, and requesting waggons, sc., for the pur-
pose of conveying the killed and wounded to Fort
Peddle. The detachment of the 91st Regiment, under
Lieutenant Rae, with SO Fingoes, immediately left,
and reached the Camp on the morning of the 2d. It
appears the 2d Royals fought like Britons, and had
they known a little more of the Kafir character, would
have taught the enemy a lesson they wound not soon
have forgotten.
" Return of killed and wounded—Royal Suppers
and Miners, 1 killed and 1 wounded ; 2d Royals, 1
sergeant and 1 private killed and 5 wounded • Cape
Mounted Rifles, 1 wounded ; Armstrong's Horse,' 1
wounded. One of the wounded men died after his
arrival at Port Peddie.
" The conduct of the 2d is very highly spoken of."
Another hand writes as follows :

" Semr 4th.
" Colonel Burn, 2d Royals, had a sharp be
affair Wit
Monday near Breakfast Valley, in the Fish River
Bush, with Stock's Botman's, and Seyolo's Kafirs,
conjoined with a lot of rebel Hottentots. The killed
and wounded were sent in here-3 of the former and
twelve of the latter. The killed were buried yester-
day ; the wounded are doing well under Dr. O'Con-
nor. Colonel Burn returned to King William's Town
by way of Old Fort Wiltshire, and on his line of
march the Kafirs attacked him again, as we heard
very heavy firing in that direction, but have not yet
learnt the results. The Kafirs appear to have plenty
of ammunition."
Dates from East London are to the 2d of Sept.
The Dee had arrived with troops and levies.
The Journal, in its summary for the week, ob-
serves :
" We are unable to record any improvement in
frontier affairs since our last. From all parts of the
country we have intelligence of the maraudings of
the enemy. In Albany, although defended by nearly
800 troops and a strong provisional force, there still
continues to be extensive aggressions committed.
Scarcely a day passes without tidings of disaster.
The loss of cattle has been ruinous. Tne rebel Hot-
tentots are still in the Kurraa, at Oliphant's Hoek,
and in the Fish River Bush. In the latter place they
have already given evidence of their strength. In the
Bavians River and surrounding country matters are
unquestionably in a fearful and distressing state."
The following has been the first document issued
since the arrival of Major Hogg and Mr. Owen :
" GOVERNMENT NOTICE].
"King William's Town, Sept. 1, 1851.
" His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief having
submitted to her Majesty's High Commissioner and
Assistant-Commissioners the proceedings of a Court
of Inquiry, held in Graham's Town, to investigate
the causes that have led to the recent desertions of
certain soldiers of the Cape Corps, and the report
thereon, that such desertions have been caused by
rumours having been spread among the men that they
were to be disarmed and given over to the Fingoes
and Settlers, they doem it necessary to notify to the
Hottentot classes generally, that determined as the
Government may be to punish the guilty, it will not
fail effectually to protect from injury and oppression
the loyal and innocent; and they are further advised
that rumours of a contrary tendency can only have
been framed for the purpose of involving them in the
same disastrous consequences which await those of
their fellow-subjects implicated in rebellion, that they
are entirely groundless, and if traced to their authors
will subject them to condign punishment.
"By his Excellency's command,
"Jones GARVOCK, Lieutenant-Colonel."
The distribution of the army at the Cape is as fol-
lows :—The 6th Royals and 73d Foot at King Wil-
liam's Town; the 2d Queen's Royals in Kafraria ;
the 45th Foot in detachments between Natal and
the frontier; the 12th Foot and 74th Highlanders are
at present attached to General Somerset's division;
91st at Fort Hare ; and the Cape Mounted Rifles in
the field from Natal to British Kafraria ; the 60th
Rifles, when they arrive, are to be attached to the
Ist division ; and the 12th Lancere, it is said, will
proceed to th Sovereignty, but this is uncertain.
The war vessels in Simon's-bay are her Majesty's
ship Castor , Commodore Wyvill, and the Hermes
steamer, Captain Fishbourne. The Dee is at East
London, and the Cyclops and Radamanthus steamers

are en route to that port with troops and stores. Her
Majesty's ship Penguin sailed on the 2d inst. for the
east coast on a cruise.

The amount received by the Cape-town Committee
for the relitf of the destitute on the frontier is up-
wards of 2,000/.—Times.

A GLOUCESTER GHOST.
Notwithstanding the reputation which ghosts have
of only honouring the earth with their ghastly pre-
sence at the midnight hour—
" the witching hour, when churchyards yawn,
And graves give up trier dead,"
many seem to think them capable of breaking through
their usual etiquette on this point, and visiting
" the glympses of the moon,
Making night hideous,"
at other and earlier hours. Nortbgate street, in the
neighbourhood of the Black Dog, was, on Wednes-
day night, all agog at the awful presence of au un-
mistakable ghost at the top window of an empty
house now undergoing repair. Yes, there was the
awful visitant, "all in white," looking like the trou-
bled spirit of some young girl just risen in its grave
clothes to scare poor mortals. The news flew; the
panic spread ; and upwards of 2CO persons soon col-
lected, and stood gazing up intently at the apparition.
Two lads, more bold than the rest, determined on
satisfying themselves and the multitude ,'as to the
substantiality of the poor ghost, and furnishing
themselves with a lighted candle, made their way
through the back of the premises into the haunted
dwelling. Boldly ascending the stairs they reached
the room which afforded a resting place to the grisly
phamtom, and picking their way across the rafters,
for there was no flooring, they found the ghost, as
most of its speci2s turn out to be, a very harmless
and unsubstantial creature, being nothing more nor
less than the light of the street-lamp reflected by the
swing window, which was open, upon the white-
washed wall of the room. The lads presented them-
selves at the window to assure the spectators below
that they were uninjured, and the ghost " all my
eye," when the gazers dispersed, laughing at their
own and neighbours' credulity.
On the following
night, however, the phamtom again appeared, about
fifty persons collected, and could not persuade them-
selves but that after all it must be a real ghosts !
Gloucester Journal.
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prepossessing appearance. 'l'o ever inquiry of the buyer
rfaevspoeucrtaihnigetirieepirtitestf the horse,' the Frenchman gav a
always commenced his commendation
with the deprecatory remark, " He's not look ver good."
The Yankee, caring little for the looks of the horse, of which
he could judge for himself, without the seller's assistance, and
being fully persuaded, after minute examination, that the
beast was worth the moderate sum asked for him, made the
purchase, and took him home. A few days afterwards he
returned to the seller, in high dudgeon, and declared that he
had been cheated in the quality of the horse. " Vat is the
mattaire?" said the Frenchman. "Matter!" said the
Yankee, " matter enough—the horse can't seo!—he is blind
as a bat !" "Ah !" said the Frenchman, " Vat I vas tell
you? I vas toll you he vas not look ver good—be gar, I
don't know if he look at all !"—Boston Post.
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