The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-10 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHED, Du. 8.

Off port, Canadian, from Pernambuco; Palace, from Jer-
sey ; Patience, from ditto.

INUNDATION AT GREENOCK.—WC are happy to
state, that the subscription in aid of the sufferers by the
late melancholy event now amounts to 1,4551. 19s. 3d., and
that it is still going on.

Cockermouth is now the focus of West Cumberland
politics. Mr. Horsman has taken
.his leave for the present in
an address, in which he announces that he has completed
his canvass ; that his election is now " to all appearance".
certain. Another candidate has appeared in the person of
Richard Moorsom, Esq., of Whitby. Mr. M. arrived on
Saturday, and addressed the electors yesterday. Mr. M.
contested Whitby, on the independent interest, but unsuc-
cessfully, against the Tory, Mr. Chapman. We are also
told that
to Henry Christian, Esq., of Unerigg Hall, intends to
make an attempt on the Liberal interest, and that Charles
Manly Browne, Esq., son of the late Sir John Browne,
Bart„ has notified his intention to start on the same inte-
rest.— Whitehaveit Herald._

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH OF A MUTE.—
Yesterday an inquest was held before Thomas Stirling, Esc!
Coroner, and a highly respectable Jury, at the White Hart
Inn, Hammersmith, to inquire concerning the death of
John Dunstan, aged 66 years, who dropped down dead
while standing as a mute at the . door of Thomas Griffith,
Esq., at Hammersmith. Robert Jennings, of Chiswick.,
about twenty minutes past two o'clock on the afternoon of
Tuesday last accompanied the deceased from the house of
their employer, Mr. Featherstonehougli, to Mr. Griflith's
door, where they had not stood above five or six minutes as
mutes, before the deceased said " how this place is altered,"
and directed witness's attention to some large houses oppo-
site. On turning round witness found the deceased had
fallen down without his having beard him fall ; and on
speaking to him, receiving no answer, he became alarmed
and knocked at the door, supporting the deceased's head
with his arm until it was opened by Mr. Featherstonebough,
who immediately directed witness to fetch a doctor. When
witness had done so he returned and assisted in conveying
the body to that house, where the doctor attempted to
bleed him, but very little blood flowed, and he then pro-
nounced life to.be extinct. The deceased, who was a cor-
pulent man, had not, to witness's knowledge, met with any
previous. accident or injury. The Jury returned a verdict
of—" Died by the visitation of God."

The renovations of this noble Hall are now in a very
forward state, and the general appearance is of great
promise as to the effect that will be produced when it
is completed. The beauty of the stone and the ex-
cellency of the workmanship are such as to warrant
rather elaborate details ; were they consistent with the
limits of a daily journal, they could not fail to be
exceedingly interesting to all those who concern them-
selves at all on the subject of our ancient and public
buildings, or with the merits and peculiarities of de
corated architecture; but we must, nevertheless, confine
ourselves to some general descriptions—descriptions,
however; that will well reward all for the perusal. The
ashlar lining of the interior of the Hall, the niches,
and the beautiful sculptured cornice are now com-
pleted. The large South window, and the whole of
the windows on the East and 'West sides are also com-
pletely restored. And great progress has been made
with the ashlar front of the South end, and a door
has been formed to face the North door, and to form a
ready communication with the erections that are con-
templated for the new Houses of Parliament.
It is somewhat remarkable that the Huddlestone
stone used in these repairs was not known to have been
employed upon any former occasion at the Hall, and
the discovery was not made till after the fire at the
two houses of parliament, when considerable progress
had been made with the works. It is now ascertained
that it was used conjointly with the " Caen" stone in
some of the windows on the east side, and in the mas-
sive buttresses ; and that the whole of the south front
was ashlared with it in 1646. This beautiful stone is
from a quarry on the estate of Richard Oliver Gas-
coyne, Esq., at Parlington, near Leeds ; and it was
recently brought into notice by the opening made on
account of the Leeds and Selby Railway.
In examining this beautiful edifice, any person must
be struck with the narrow escape it had during the
conflagration. It appears from undoubted testimony
that the masons in the employ of Mr. Robert Johnson,
the contractor for the works, placed their ladders to
the east windows, adjoining the south end ; and under
the direction of Mr. Allen, the foreman, tore down
the burning lath and plaster, constituting blocked-up
windows, before any assistance arrived, and if this had
not been done, the fire would soon have communicated
with the roof. The merit of the preservation of the
Hall may, therefore, be justly attributed to Allen, who,
curiously enough, is now engaged in superintending
the renovation of the Hall.

It appears to be intended to. lay the floor with fine
York stone landings, in squares of nearly two yards
each way, and they are deposited in great numbers
within the Hall. They will be laid in uniform lines.
Nothing can exceed the beauty of the material—we
mean the stone employed for this work. A gentleman
now living heard its qualities discussed and highly ap-
proved by the late Mr. Flaxman and Mr. Nash, each
of whom were anxious to have it used for the triumphal
arch ; but the quarry had been so long in disuse that it
was reported to be impracticable to provide a sufficient
quantity in the time required.
It is supposed that the attention of Sir Robert
Smirke was drawn to it -during the recent repair of
York Minster, where it has been used for the finer
works to as great an extent as it could then be pro-
cured ; and it it evident that the selection was made
previously to any of the circumstances here referred to
being discovered. Independently of its value, it is re-
markable that the quarry should have remained unused
for so long a time, and be now once more worked for
renovations where the self same quarry had been used
so long ago as 1646.

The— stone found with " 1646" worked in it, Mr.
Gascoigne intends, it is said, to have placed in the
hall of -his mansion.

Toir PAINE.—The famous Tom Paine was a
journeyman staymaker, at Thetford, in Norfolk. From
improving the forms of ladies he tried to improve the forms
of Government. He made but on,l step from corsets to
Constitutions, for which faux pas he was obliged to take
" French leave" of England. He was in Paris during the
fever of the first French revolution ; he afterwards went to
the United States, where he resided till his death.

A murder is reported by a Tipperary paper to have
been perpetrated on Sunday morning in the county of Wa-
terford on a man named Downing. Suspicion has fallen
on J. Brien, as there was some hostility between the two,
on account of a sister of the former, whom he refused the
latter. The deceased was dreadfully mangled, having re-
ceived no less than eighteen wounds of a pitchfork, together
with his head fractured in several places.
JEREMY DIDDLER.—A fellow has lately been
victimising several of the Yeomanry. This Didler appeared
in the assumed character of agent of no less a personage
than. Earl Grey, by whom he described himself as deputed
to purchase a large stock of cider, the Noble Earl being
anxious to supply his cellars with an ample provision of the
celebrated Herefordshire beverage. Mr. Didler poured a
little of the oil of flattery into th ears of his victims, and
found that after he had performed this operation, he might
'lead them by the nose, whithersoever he pleased. Of
course he described Herefordshire as the only place in
the world where the real genuine nectar could be obtained,
and that even in Herefordshire no spot but Mansel Ga-
mage or Ludlam could produce the primest of the prime.
Mr. Didler was even more fortunate than his worthy rela-
tive of dramatic notoriety, for invitations to breakfast,
dine, and sup on the fattest poultry in the farm yards, and
sleep in the best bed in the best room, flowed in upon him
from the right hand and the left. Mr. Didler purchased
freely at liberal prices, and modestly wrote the address of
Earl Grey on the heads of the hogsheads. Mr. Didier
had a little business to transact a little further on, and he
would return and pay cash for the cider, and give directions
for its transmission ; but, passing strange, his Lordship's
agent has not kept his word I—Hereford Times.
PREMATURE PATRIOTISM.—A young stripling,
apparently about fourteen years old, presented himself at
the poll during the recent election at Boston, and the In-
spector asked him if he pretended to be old enough to vote.
" I rather guess I du," says he, " I've shaved at spells for
three months back, or so." This effort of juvenile genius
created a loud laugh, which was finally ended by the In-
spector telling him that he was rather too young a shaver
to shave him (the Inspector), and his vote was accordingly
rejected.—New York Paper.
Louisa Lafosse deserted her husband, and went to
live in a state of adultery with another man, who, some
months ago, abandoned her. Excited by revenge, at not
being able to induce him to renew their criminal intercourse,
she :enticed him a few days ago to her lodging, under pre-
tence of restoring him the duplicates of some of his pro-
perty she had pawnecd. He went, and she renewed her so-
licitations ; but, finding him inexorable, she became furious,
closed the doors, and stabbed herself in several places with a
sharpened file. The poor man in his alarm fled, telling the
people of the house that a woman above had killed herself.
The Commissary of Police was sent for, and on interro-
gating the woman she affirmed that the wounds had been
inflicted on her by her late paramour. The young man was
arrested, and strenuously denied the fact, but was kept in
custody. Fortunately, however, for him, a person came
forward, and declared that he had sold the file to Madame
Lafosse herself. Upon this she was confronted with this
witness and the prisoner, and at length confessed that she
had committed the act herself, and accused her associate, in
revenge for his conduct towards her. The man was dis-
charged, and the woman sent to the hospital.--Paris Paper.
MILITARY FLOGGING.—At Abergavenny Petty
Sessions, on Wednesday last, Thomas Dawson was charged
with deserting from his Majasw's service, in the 34th re.
giment of foot. The prisoner, whose dress was in com-
plete tatters, had the previous day been taken up as a va-
grant. He was probably in great distress, and was there-
fore induced to confess that he was a deserter. Upon his
examination before the Magistrates, he stated that in the
year 1822 he enlisted at Carlisle, in the 34th regiment of
foot, and joined the regiment at Portsmouth ; Le served
till 1835, when he deserted. During the period of his ser-
vice he had repeatedly misconducted himself, and had been
severely flogged. Although upwards of ten years had
elapsed since he suffered this degrading punishment, several
marks are still visible on his shoulders--a testimony of the
cruel laceration which his body underwent. The prisoner,
who was previously examined by a medical gentleman, is
pronounced to be unfit for future service. He was ulti-
mately committed to Monmouth Gaol, there to await
the result of a communication, to be forthwith made to
the Commander-in-ehief.—HeNford Times.

The followincr is an extract fiorn the official ‘.‘ Digest
of the Excise Inquiry Commissioners' Thirteenth Re-
port," which is on Glass—another proof of the injur-
ious tendency of imposing duties that interfere with
manufactures and the progress of improvements :
" The injurious effects of the Excise regulations,
in preventing the application of the various kinds of
glass to some of the most important purposes connected
with the arts and sciences, are strongly pointed out by
the Commissioners of Inquiry ; and the evidence of
Mr. Aiken, the Secretary of the Society of Arts ; of
Mr. Dollond, the eminent manufacturer of optical in-
struments ; and of Mr. Frederick Fincham, an exten-
sive manufacturing chemist—all of them gentlemen
eminently conversant with the subject, are specially re-
ferred to, in proof of the impediments which these re-
gulations interpose, amounting in many cases to a com-
plete bar, in the way of those experimental researches
which are necessary for the adequate pursuit of objects
connected with some of the most important branches
of science.

" Mr. Dollond describes very forcibly, in a letter
inserted in the Report, the difficulties with which he
has had to contend, in consequence of Excise regula-
tions, in his attempts to improve his instruments, it
appearing that he is almost entirely dependent upon
foreign manufacturers for the supply of that. particular
kind of glass which is required for the large telescopes,
and which he is willing to buy at almost any price,
but which, from the extreme care required in its ma-
nufacture, is not always to be procured. Mr. Dol-
lond states, therefore, that it would be a great advan-
tage if it could be manufactured at home ; but he adds,
as I found that every experiment must have the same
permission, and as that could only be obtained through
petition that took three or four months to get through, I
gave them up in despair ; and if the manufacture was
not shackled with the Excise restrictions, which are
essential to prevent fraud, we should be enabled to ac-
complish the object required, and make a superior
article to that of foreign manufacture.'
" Mr. Fincham describes his having been prevented
by the direct interference of the Excise from prose-
cuting his improvements, which consisted principally
in making green or bottle glass of a quality far supe-
rior to any that had hitherto been produced in this
country, such interference having taken place upon the
ground that he produced an article so good that it
could not be sufficiently distinguished from flint glass.'
" The Commissioners of Inquiry justly observe, that
in a national point of view, few things could be consi-
dered as more deserving of encouragement than such
an application of science as that put in practice by Mr.
Fincham, to the promotion of one of the most useful
of native manufactures ; and which in this instance
becomes of the more importance, from the fact of the
green glass being so much better adapted to some
purposes of high importance in the arts, connected
with chemical operations and experiments, than flint
glass, upon which acid operates in consequence of the
oxide of lead which is used in its preparation. The
consequence is, that our chemists are, for many pur-
poses, obliged to have recourse to vessels of green
glass made in other countries,' and that in this instance,
therefore, as in the case of the glass for telescopes, we
are dependent upon foreign manufacture, although
possessing within ourselves the means and resources
of manufacturing the glass required of the best possible
description.'
" The prohibition which the practical effect of the
regulations imposes on the manufacture of the beauti-
ful coloured glass called ruby, is clearly described by
Mr. Bower, of the Huntslet Glass Works, near Leeds."

A Bo NE BREAKER.—Mr. Elliott, who broke
his bone's last year in attempting to go up in a balloon
from New Orleans, proposes to break them over again for
the gratification of the citizens of Charleston, having arrived
in that ciiy with a splendid new balloon, which he calls
" General Hamilton."—New York Paper..

SUSPECTED MURDER.—On removing t'ie soil, on
Thursday, the 27th ult., from the, rock in the Ohl Here-
ford-road, near the town of Bromyard, the skeleton of a
man was discovered about eighteen inches below the sur-
face. The skeleton was perfect, and covered over with a
large flag stone, placed in a sla:-.ting.direction against the
rock. It is supposed that the bones are the remains of a
body deposited there some,twenty years ago. About that
period there was a Welsh drover in Bromyard, wlo car-
ried with him a very large sum of money ; he sojourned in
that town several days, frequenting the public-houses, and
making foolish exhibitions of his money. One Saturday
night he got in a state of disgusting intoxication, and was
afterwards reeling about the streets at a late hour. The
Welshman was never seen or heard of afterwards. That
very night one or two persons heard loud cries of murder,
which seemed to issue from a lodging-house in Sheep-street ;
no particular attention was excited at the time, inasmuch
as the cries were thought to come from a house inhabited
by a man who often beat his wife in a most brutal manner.
There is now little doubt that those cries were made by
the Welsh drover, who was then being murdered, for the
purpose of a safe robbery. The length of the skeleton
corresponds as much as possible to the height of the drover,
and no doubt of identity remains in the minds of those per-
sons who recollect his person and the circumstances of his
disappearance, and have examined the skeleton. Tflis dis-
covery may-lead to a further discovery—that of the mur-
derer, who (if still living) may yet be brought to justice.—
Hereford Times. . .

A- private soldier, in the 85th regiment about nine
months, has within the last few days confessed himself to kg,
a convict under sentence of transportation for life, for
housebreaking, but effected his escape from Chester Castle
-in December, 1834. A reward of 501. was offered for his
apprehension at the time ; but he contrived to elude the
most vigilant search, although he has now voluntarily ac-
knowledged the whole. Measures will, of course, be taken
to place him in charge of the civil power. The offender is
not 20 years of age.—Limerick Paper.
About seven o'clock in the evening of Wednesday
week the town of Alford was again alarmed by the cry of
Fire," from another fiendish act of incendiarism, which
took place on the farm of Mr. Blades, at Saleby, the next
parish, when one bean-slack, containing eight loads, was
fired and totally consumed. There was not the least chance
of saving any part, it burning so rapidly, from the brisk
wind that blew at the time. In this case, as in all other.;
here, the attempt to injure is frustrated, for Mr: Blades is
fully insured in the Protector office.—Lincoln Gazette.

Mr. Meyer relates that a mountain exists on the
banks of the Danube, which, every year, moves from 60
to 80 yards. Six years ago a terrible noise Was heard in
the night, and half of the mountain fell with a tremendous
crash, and buried 16 houses, with their inhabitants. This
detached part, consisting chiefly of fretstone in a state of
efflorescence, could advance when its bed in the spring had
been rendered slippery by the abundant rain anti melted
'snow.

A FARMER SHOT BY A ROBBER.----01 Friday
last, a most diaboliCal attempt was made upon the life of
Mr. James Holland, a respectable farmer, residing at Mill-
bill Farm, Thaxted, and there is reason to fear that the in-
juries he has sustained will prove fatal. During the night
in question, Mrs. Holland was disturbed by the barking of
the yard dog, and, on looking out of the chamber window,
she saw three men standing with their backs against a wall
immediately opposite. She aroused Mr. Holland, who—
having procured his gun, opened the window, upon which
one of the three fired at him, and the contents of the gun
entered his side, penetrating to the lungs.—Essex Herald.
HORRIBLE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.—A very
lengthened investigation took place on Tuesday evening, at
eight o'clock, before Joseph Reed, Esq., a Magistrate of
the county of Surrey, at his residence, Thornton Heath,
into the circumstances of a brutal attack made upon a
young woman, named Elizabeth Love, residing at Croydon,
by a man named Robert Hudson, with whom she had lived.
In consequence of the young woman not being able to bear
the excitement of a public examination, the worthy Ma-
gistrate humanely consented to bear the case at his private
residence. Shortly after eight o'clock, the priSoner, Robt.
Hudson, was brought up in custody of Coleman, one of the
Croydon Police, and evidence was adduced clearly proving
that he stabbed her. A knife was produced. It appeared
to be a new-knife, and very sharp. There was a quantity
of blood upon it. The prisoner, in his defence, said he
was very much hurt at the prosecutrix leaving hiM, but he
had no intention to harm her. He must have been mad at
the time. - He was fully committed for trial at the next as-
sizes for the county of Surrey.

( From the Journal des' Dcbats.)
M. Stcnli, Second Secretary to the State of Berne, has
just destroyed himself. Like Lord Castlereagh, he has
killed himself by cutting his jugular artery with a penknife.
In his bed-room had been found a card, with the following
words written in German :—" The invention is not a new
one." M. Stceli was thirty-three years of age.
(From the &currier Fr•ancais )
It is said that Count de Pahlen, owing to the situation
in which the Journal des Debats has placed him, has re-
commended to the Russians who are at Paris not to fre-
quent the drawing rooms, in order that they may not be
reduced to perform a part which be thinks unsuited to
them. He is the first to set them the example.
By superior order, the departure of the Bonites, which
was to sail from Toulon shortly, for the South Seas,- in
order to convey thither the Consular agents appointed some
weeks ago, has been delayed until the Government shall
have received more positive information as to the state of
the relations with the United States.
In the course of last week a great number of insurances
at all risks of sea and war, have been signed at Paris, either
upon ships proceeding to the United States, or to other
parts. The premium has experienced since the preceding
week but a feeble increase. The same may be said of the
Havre insurances. In London the premium differs but
little from that of Paris. In general our trade seems to
believe in the maintenance of peace with the United States,
but willingly consents to pay a moderate premium for the
sake of complete security.
(From the Constitutionncl.)
A letter from Lisbon of the 27th of November, received
via Havre, states that the 4,000 men whom the Lisbon gar-
rison was to furnish to the auxiliary corps, destined for
Spain, has successively left that capital to join the depot
established in the province of Tras-os-Montes. The last
battalion had left Lisbon on the 25th. The same letter
adds, that immediately after the arrival of those 4,000 men
at the depot, the remainder of the auxiliary corps (about
10,000 men) will cross the frontier.

(From the Ron Sens.)
For the last eight days M. de Talleyrand has been con-
fined to his apartment by indisposition, which increases with
his age. Every evening there in a little comite in his room
round his arm chair. It is said that the head of the State
goes almost every evening by the Tuileries Gardens, and
escorted only by a few officers, to see the old diplomatist,
whose conversation is still young and lively. M. de Tal-
leyraud will shortly enter upon his 83d year.

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