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

MISCELLANEOUS.

A meting was held at Gainsborough on
Tuesday for the purpose of forming an association for
the protection of ;Trio:ill i.! ...lison with the other
societies throughout the cou:itry.
CONSUMPTION.—Dr. Ma:ioes remarks that
pulmonary consumption is rarely or ever known to oc-
cur in a butcher's family and the reason he assigns for
this is, that they have always plenty of animal food.
A fine Pike, weighing 301 b. was caught in
Kilkenny river on Wednesday near Mr. Sullivan's
mills. This was the largest fish of that kind taken in
the Nore for many years.—Cork Evening Herald.
A SHORT IMPRISONMENT.—At the Car-
narvon
assizes an individual, named Richard Jones,
who pleaded guilty to a trifling charge of assault, was
sentenced by the judge to be imprisoned and kept in
safe custody for the space of two minutes.
Lionel Cranfield, first Earl of Middlesex,
and a favourite minister of James the First, said, when
a question arose at table, on the best means of prolong-
ing human life, " Let a man get himself appointed
Lord Treasurer, for no one ever died in that office."

EXTRA EXTRAORDINARY.—In the Mysore
country, towards the close of Tippoo Sultan's reign, a
mass of ice fell near Seringapatam of the size of an
elephant. This remarkable fact is well authenticated.
—Morning Paper.
" In some parts of the North," said Captain
Ross to a learned Alderman at the civic dinner, " there
is nothing but night for months together, the sun never
appearing." " Lack-a-day," answered the worthy
London senator. " Exactly," rejoined the Captain,
who is a bit of a wag, " you have hit it—' lack ofclay.'"
THE EARL OF KERRY.--We are requested
to state that a morning contemporary has been misin-
formed respecting his Lordship having entered horses
for the approaching races, i." e., the Derby and Oaks.
The Noble Lord never had the slightest connexion
with the turf.

BANANA TREE.—We understand that there
is now at Chilton Hall, Clare, a very fine banana-tree
in blossom. The blossoms are already set for fruit,
thirty-one in number. This, we believe, is a very rare
and singular occurrence in this country.—Suffolk
Herald.

SINGULAR PRESERVATION.—An elegant-
ly-dressed lady, said to be the wife of a clerk in one
of the Government Offices, threw herself into the
Seine on Saturday from the Pont des Arts. Her silk
gown having spread out kept her afloat till some boat-I
men were able to approach and rescue her. No
reason is known for this attempt at suicide.— Galignani.
THE RHINOCEROS.—One of these extremely
rare animals has arrived in England, by the Emma,
from Calcutta, and is to be deposited in the Surrey
Zoological Gardens in a few days, when a private view
will take place, to which the Nobility and scientific
have been invited, previous to its exhibition to the
public.
A Venetian, who died not long since, made
a profusion of torches for his funeral artificially loaded
with crackers, anticipating to a confidential friend the
hubbub that would result from the explosion which he
had calculated must take place in the most inconve-
nient spot. This posthumous joke verified the most
sanguine expectations of its projector.
LEFT-HANDED PLEA.—A prisoner at the
bar of the Mayor's Court, Philadelphia, being called
on to plead to an indictment for larceny, was told by
the clerk to hold up his right hand. The man imme-
diately held up his left hand. " Hold up your right
hand," said the clerk. " Please your honour," said
the culprit, still keeping his left hand up, " Please
your honour, I am left-handed."
M. Lionne, editor of the Tribune, was to have
appeared yesterday before the Court of Assizes, to
answer for an article, published on the 20th ult., re-
specting the Associations, but applied to the Court to
postpone his trial, on the plea of ill health of his coun-
sel. The Court, however, proceeded to judgment,
and he was sentenced by default, on the ground of its
being a repeated offence, to five years' imprisonment,
and a fine of 24,000f.—French Paper.
FIGURES OF SPEECH.—We find a letter
from Washington, dated the 4th instant, stating that
" Mr. Lane, of Alabama, also addressed the House,
and he is an interesting western roarer, who, if he
stood on the summit of the Alleghanies, might, per-
haps, be heard from Mexico to Maine. And Binney
also spoke, commanding profound attention, hushing
all sounds, and drawing around him thick clusters of
the members of all parties. Clay, of Alabama, figured
a long while to-day, beating out a single idea over a
whole acre of ground."—ew York Paper.
INTELLIGENTJURORS.—At the late Derby
assizes the petit jurors were deliberating over their
verdict in a case of stealing from the person, at Ches-
terfield, wherein Thomas Ash, his wife, and Charles
Wootton, were charged ; and when asked by the Clerk
of the Arraigns whether the prisoners were guilty or
not guilty, the foreman replied, " We find the woman
not guilty, and the men guilty; but we recommend
them to mercy because there is not evidence enough to
convict them I" The consequence was that a verdict
of acquittal was entered for the whole of the prisoners.
Of all instruments, none is so great a
favourite in the Iberian peninsula as the guitar. Indeed
it is on record, that a Portuguese army, being com-
pelled to retreat, left behind them eleven thousand of
these instruments on the field of battle. We are told
also that a Spanish trooper, during the war of the Suc-
cession, having surprised one of the enemy's advanced
posts whilst essaying to tune his guitar, and observed
him bungling sadly over his task, tore it out of his
hand, set it in trim, and then gave it back to him.
" Akoraes templada !" said the trooper, and galloped off.
INCENDIARISAI.—The Romans punished
incendiarism with death, it being one of the nine
crimes which were capitally punished. After the pre-
vious ceremony of whipping, the incendiary was him-
self delivered over to the flames ; "and in this ex-
ample" (says Gibbon, vol. 8, ch. 44,—the celebrated
one on the civil law) " alone our reason is tempted to
approve the justice of retaliation." This is a striking
admission from the passionless Gibbon. The nine
crimes were all punished with different descriptions of
death.

The late Robert Palmer was, in the early
part of his life, a bill-sticker, which circumstance was
pretty generally known to the performers. One even-
ing, being dressed for Sir Brilliant Fashion, he
strutted into the green-room with sparkling buckles on
his shoes and at his knees, and a brilliant ring on his
finger. One of the company inquired if they were
real ? " I wear nothing but diamonds," replied Palmer.
" I congratulate you," said John Bannister, " for I re-
member when you wore nothing but paste." This oc-
casioned a war, which was heightened by Mrs. Jordan
crying out, " Stick him against the wall, Bob—stick
him against the wall."

I Wish, says Mrs. Hemans, in her volume of
" National Lyrics and Songs" you could have heard
Sir Walter Scott describe a glorious sight which
had been witnessed by a friend of his !—the crossing
of the Rhine at Ehrenbreitstein by the German army
of Liberators on their victorious return from France.
—" At the first gleam of the river," he said, "they
all burst forth into the national chaunt, 'Am Rhein !
Am Rhein They were two days passing over ; and
the rocks and the castle were ringing to the song the
whole time ; for each band renewed it while crossing
—and the Cossacks, with the clash and the clang and
the roll of their stormy war music, catching the en-
thusiasm of the scene, swelled forth the chorus ' Am
Rhein ! Am Rhein !"

STOW-ON-THE-WoL D.---The investigation
into the horrible murder is still going on, and three
persons are yet in custody on the charge, but nothing,
we believe, has been brought directly home to convict
the prisoners, yet several persons are bound to appear
against them at the Summer Assizes ; our Spring
Assize being so near, precludes the possibility of their
being tried now, as the necessary preparations cannot
be made before the assize commences. No exertion
nor expense has been spared by our worthy magistrates
and gentry to bring the guilty criminal to justice, for
which purpose they are daily sitting, examining wit-
nesses and investigating circumstances connected with
this horrible affair. A barrister and inspector of police
are still here, aiding our local authorities in their en-
deavours.— Cheltenham Chronicle.

AGED ACTRESS.—A farce called The
Half-Pay Officer, 1)y C. Molloy, was brought out at
Drury-lane theatre in 1720; and to Mrs. Fryer (an
Irish woman who had quitted the stage from the reign
of Charles II.) was assigned the part of an old grand-
mother. In the bills it was mentioned, " The part of
Lady Richlove to be performed by Peg Fryer, who
has not appeared on the stage these fifty years.;' The
character in the farce was supposed to be a very old
woman, and Peg exerted hel utmost abilities. The
farce being ended, sbe was brought again upon the
stage to dance a jig at the age of eighty-five. She
epic tottering in, and seemed much Wiped Ibi 9n

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twenty. She afterwards kept a pukc-iiii)iisoini 4:444'-'-
tenham-court-road, where she residedtiCiiii?
cease, which took place in November, 1;47, ig-Je'd ~,,,”_
years.—Mirror. .
The Marquis of Exeter, with the most
praiseworthy attention to the wants of the labouring
classes, has recently directed that the numerous work-
men employed on his Burghley domain shall be paid
their weekly wages every Thursday evening instead of
Saturday, as heretofore, in order that their wives and
families may be enabled to expend their money to the
best advantage in Stamford market on Friday ; and to
show the fallacy of an objection entertained by some
persons, that men paid on the Thursday will not work
again before the following Monday, but spend the in-
terval in idleness and drunkenness.

IRISH FEROCITY.—" The degree of ani-
mosity in a law suit," said Curran, "is in the direct
ratio of the propinquity of consanguinity." Paul
Kane was charged at the Londonderry Assizes, on
Thursday week, with having stolen a sword from his
brother Michael 21 years ago ! " When did you
swear your information ?" said the learned judge to
Michael. "A month ago," was the reply; on which
the learned judge said, " You may go down,' Sir ; and
you, Paul, are discharged. We have enough of busi-
ness on our hands of the present generation."—" 'Tis,
no use at all at all, to be discharged, please your lord-
ship," said Paul, "that villain Mick will never stop
till he swears my life away."—" Don't quarrel or
meddle with him," said his lordship.—" Aye, but long
life to your honour," said Paul, "as soon as your back
is turned, he'll prosecute me for the scabbard."—
" Paul, darling, your free now, and come home," ex-
claimed his poor wife ; a summons which the husband
hastened to obey, but at the moment Mick rushed for-
ward, with his fist stretched forward, and an assault
would have been committed, if the officers had not
interfered.

DREADFUL INCENDIARY FIRES IN WAR-
WICKSHIRE.—Tuesday evening, a little before mid-
night, two alarming fires were nearly at the same mo-
ment discovered in the parish of Brailes, although
more than a mile distant from each other, the diaboli-
cal work of one or more incendiaries. At the farm of
Edward Sheldon, Esq., of Brailes House, there were
at once blazing eleven stacks, namely, four of wheat,
three of barley, three of beans, and one of hay ; be-
sides the farmhouse, barn, stables, and other outbuild-
ings, the whole of which were totally destroyed. This
property was fully insured in the County Fire Office.
In Lower Brailes, at Mr. Baker's (one of the church-
ward),
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This last property was insured in the Phcenix. All
the rest of these extensive premises, including the
dwelling-house and rickyard, were preserved by the
most active exertions of the whole neighbourhood, who
were called together by the tolling of the bell at
Brailes Church. A parochial meeting was held this
morning, at which it was determined to offer " 2001.
reward for the apprehension and conviction of the
guilty parties." Providentially no lives were lost.
An instance of the carnivorous ferocity of
rats, and the danger of leaving infants exposed to
their attacks, occurred in a family in Dalrymple-
street, Greenock, on the night of Wednesday last.
The mother had gone to rest with her child, an infant
of three months old, in her arms. About one o'clock
in the morning she awoke with the pitiful cries of the
babe, and endeavoured by every means to sooth it to
rest, but all was of no avail. She consequently arose,
ce o;
and while hushing it to her breast on the floor, she
felt the wet blood trickling from the child's hand, and
falling on ber bosom. On procuring a light she dis-
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finger, the skin over the middle part of which they had
also cut severely. It is only in cases of extraordinary
ferocity that rats will seize upon a grown up person-
while asleep, but the peculiar and sweet flavour of au
infant's skin invites their attacks, and renders it highly
necessary that mothers and nurses, having the charge
of infants, should have all such vermin in their pre-
mises extirpated. Had the wounds in tho present
case, which is not a singular one, been on the face,
instead of the hand, the child would have been dis.
figured for life.—Greenock Advertiser.
L A
LITERARY NOVELTIES.— Among the im-
portant and interesting works of thlresent season may
be particularly noticed—l. The Co versatiQ;ls of Lord
Byron with the Countess of Bitszington, now first
published in a single volume. This work is universally
acknowledged to throw more light on the real senti-
ments and disposition of the noble poet than even the
productions of those who had undertaken the ambi-
tious task of writing his memoirs. 2. Mr. Carne's
Letters from Switzerland and Italy ; a volume which
will add considerably to the reputation of this distip-
guished traveller and very eloquent writer. 3. Mr.
Leigh Hunt's " Indicator and Companion," a Series of
Papers deserving a place beside the Spectator and the
Tatler. 4. Memoirs of the Beauties of Charles 11., a
work of considerable interest and importance, as exhi-
biting the dangerously mis-directed influence of the
female sex at that remarkable epoch. 6. A new and
improved edition, embellished with 23 plates, of Mr.
Lloyd's Field Sports of the North, a work which
ought to be found not only in the library of every
Sportsman, but also in that of every one who takes
delight in natural history and books of travel. And
lastly, the History of the Irish Union, and of the prin-
cipal personages connected with that important mea-
sure ; by Sir Jonah Barrington, member of the late
Irish Parliament, a work of paramount interest at the
present moment, as elucidatory of the great and im,
portant question of repeal.
RISE OF RENT, EITHER BY AN ADVANCE
IN THE NOMINAL AMOUNT, OR BY A RISE IN THE
VALUE OF MONEY.—When rent is raised, the profit of
the farmer having previously been barely the common
rate, he may retain his ordinary profit, and pay the
additional rent in One of three ways, First, he may
at once lower wages equal to the rise of rent ; second-
ly, he may discharge a part of the labourers, and thus
save the rent, or a part of it, out of wages, while the
diminished production would raise the price of landed
produce • or, thirdly, he may adopt partly the one at d
partly the other of these plans. Practically the third
is the course generally taken. One labourer out of,
say, ten is dismissed ; labour is then gravely said to be
redundant ; and the unemployed man, having no other
resource, offers to work at lower wages. This forrr s
an inducement to, and is made a pretext for, lowering
the wages of the others, while the choice of labourers,
which is thus given to the farmer, enables him to sti-
mulate them to do more work ; and thus he may pos-
sibly get as much work done by the nine as had been
previously done by the ten men. In this way, the
whole additional rent may be rung from the labourers,
while the unemployed are pointed at as evidence of excess
of population. This is, however, not only a cruel but
a very dangerous course, and cannot be pursued beyond
some certain point without the worst effects resulting.
Stimulants to a given extent may produce greater
exertion ; but, that energy of character, which makes
the labourer highly productive, may be destroyed by
being pressed upon too far, and then all parties must
suffer, the proprietors and farmers, as well as the la-
bourers.—Hopkins' Great Britain for the last 7,419rty
Years.

FALCONRY AT BRIGHTON.—The Grand
Falconer having given directions for his hawks to be
flown yesterday on the road leading to the Dike, a
very considerable concourse of people, with a large
train of carriages, assembled at the appointed spot,
The season of the year precluding the use of partridges,
and pigeons being found little adapted to the sport,
some herons were provided, and were found to answer
the purpose extremely well. The first bird flown was
a pigeon, which was soon struck in fine style by its
feathered pursuer. The second, a heron, was also
struck at a very short distance. Orders were then
togiven
a heronallow amlsoar,eh‘ ‘ad morelaw,asspaitaaisafftearrcrieedd,.gitea.on_nhd,e4srlahoafethird, :
bird availed itself of the indulgence to make for the
sea, and the consequence was both hawk
and
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hria p;lig
for a
con-
siderable time over the heads of the 'spectators, and
evading its pursuer with great dextetitr. At length,
when on the point of being captured, descended ra-
hidly and took refuge in the muff of a lady, who
umanely afforded it shelter, and saved its life. The
fifth, a heron, led a gallant chase of many miles, and
finally effected its escape. Considerable difficulty was
experienced in recovering the hawk, but at length a
pigeon being thrown up, it was lured back and secured.
The sport ended with the capture of a heron. The
entertainment altogether afforded much interest,
the sport was decidedly superior to that witnessed on
previous occasions. At its termination a lari::,:riopdartiny
repaired, by invitation, to their Grace's man!:,ion, St.
Alinn's House, King's-road, where an.elef;ant dfjeuner
a le fourchette was provided; danip,.. followed, and
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