The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-18 00:00:00

UNION-lIALL:

Yesterday a print old lady entered the office after
the night charges were disposed of, and, addressing
one of the officers, said that she wished to have in,
interview with the Magistrate on a subject of much
importance.
Upon being introduced, the Magistrate (Mi.
WEDGWOOD) asked her what assistance or advice
she requited ? The old lady could scarcely gie.
utterance to her feelings for some time, owing ti,
the tears that gushed from her eyes, and when tol,i
to compose herself, and promised redress for 1,,,
grievances, she then said," I have been basely robbed
of a bird that I would not have parted with for an)
consideration; I have had much trouble in the rest-
ing of it, and now that I have taught it every thing,
to be deprived of it is too bad."
Mr. WEDGwooD—I presume the bird you lament
the loss of so deeply was a parrot ? " No," said
the old lady, shaking her head, " it was not
parrot, Sir, for I was never fond of parrots in my
life ; they are too noisy a description of birds to suit
my taste."
Mr. WEDGWOOD—Then what bird was it, madam,
may I ask you ? The old lady (with a deep sigh)—
"It was an owl." (Great laughter followed this
announcement.)
Mr. WEDGWOOD then desired her to describe the
particulars of the manner in which her favourite cml
had been taken, a request with which she complied
without much hesitation, by entering into a
lengthened detail of the way in which it first came
into her possession, the trouble she had in rearing
it and teaching it various little tricks, which no
other owl was ever known to have been taught, awl,
lastly, after all her trouble, to be deprived of it by
her neighbour, who declared that he should not re-
store it.

Mr. WEDGWOOD—You shall have a summobt,
granted against the individual, to show cause why
he detains the owl.

The old lady said that she did not mind the ex
pense, so that she got her owl back; that was all
her trouble.

A poor Irishwoman, with three children, who
was waiting in the office for the parish officers to re-
lieve her, on hearing the old lady make such a splut-
ter about the owl, exclaimed, " Faith it's I tha'
would wish that I had nothing but an owl t,
trouble me. If the ould lady had four or five suet.
childer as mine to look after, troth she'd know will
trouble was."

The interest of Mr. COOPER'S new novti
turns on the remarkable and prolonged hostility, attended
by many incidents of a stirring nature, between a Gern an
B,ron and the Abbot of a Benedictine Convent. "We
are exceedingly pleamed," says the Editor of the Literacy
Gazette, "with this novel, and think that the ' Heiden-
maw.' (' The Heathen's Wall,' not to suffer this name to
be a puzzle to our readers,) is a spirited picture of those
feudal times in Germany, when the burghers were begin-
ning to feel, rather than to know, their influence, when
the uiurpations of Rome began to tremble to their fall,
and the doctrines of Luther first to awaken the minds•
of men. Certainly Mr. Coors& loses no attraction on
new ground."

THE HARVEST.—The present harvest is con-
sidered the finest ever known in France; and, thank
Heaven, a similar report reaches us from all parts o
Europe.—Macclesfield Courier.
ELOQUENCE IN CLARET.—In the debate
about the prosecution of Lord Treasurer Danby in 1679.
we are told of a very peculiar speech spoken by the Earl of
CARNArtvoN, a Peer who it said never to have spoken be-
fore in the House, who, having been heated with wine,
and excited to display his abilities by the Duke of BUCK-
INGHAM (who meant no favour to the Treasurer but onl)
ridicule) was resolved, before he went up, to speak upon
any subject that should offer. Accordingly, he stood up
and delivered himself thus :—" My Lords—l understand
but little Latin, but a good deal of English, and not
little of English history, from which I have learned the
mischiefs of such kinds of persecutions as these, and tla
ill fate of the persecutors. 1 shall bring many instances.
and those very ancient. But, my Lords, I shall go n.
further back than the latter end of Queen ELIZABETH'S
reign, at which time the Earl of ESSEX was run down b)
Sir WALTER RALEIGH, and your Lordships know very
well what became of Sir W. RALEIGH. My Lord Baco::
he ran down Sir W. RALEIGH, and your Lordships kno.'
wha: became of my Lord BACON. The Duke of 'lnca:-
INGHAM, he ran down my Lord BacoN, and your Lord-
ships know what happened to the Duke of BUCKINGHAM
Sir Thos. WENTWORTH, afterwards Earl of STRAFFoRD,
he ran down the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, and you al;
know what became of him. Sir HARRY VANE, be ran
down the Earl of STRAFFORD, and your Lordships know
what became of Sir HARRY VANE. Chancellor HYDE,
he ran down Sir HARRY VANE, and your Lordship: know
what became of the Chancellor. Sir THOMAS OSBORNE,
now Earl DANBY, ran down Chancellor HYDE, but what
will become of the Earl of DANBY your Lordships best
can tell. But let me see the roan that dare run down the
Earl of Datiar, and we shall soon see what will become
of him !" This being pronounced with a remarkable hu-
mour and tone, the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, both surprised
and disappointed, after his way, cried out " The man's in
spired ! and claret has done the business."
ALLIGATOR HUNT AT MANILA.—MA-
NILA, OCT. 14.—The knolness of a friend enables us to
pub!ish an account of the carure of an enormous allligator
at Jala-jala by a Foreign Resident at Manila, in the follow-
ing Extract of a Letter from that place:—" I hunted deer
with much success, besides frightening wild boars, and
bringing down snipe by the dczen in the morning before
breakfast; but my feat extraordinary, on which I found
my claims to admiration in the eyes of posterity, was kil-
ling an alligator, which hay been the scourge of a vill tee
for one or two years past, taking off cows and horses with-
out making any inquiry for the owner, and, in one
instance, marching off with an Indian, who attempted
to argue with him while crossing a river. As an alli-
gator had never been taken at Jsla-jala (the place where
I was residing), and my host had never seen one of any
considerable size, I readily engaged hint in the enterprise ;
and, hearing that the alligator had killed a fine horse, and
taken him into a small river, we proceeded to the spot on
the other side of the plantation, and placed very strong
nets, three deep, across the mouth of the stream. We
then sent Indian', in boats, to drive him from his lurking-
place at the bottom of the river, which they did with
long poles, and a battle commenced according to the moo,
approved system of modern tactics. His first movement
was to make for the lake ; but finding the entrance closed,
he ascended the river, and being repeatedly driven down,
endeavoured to escape by land. I gave him his first wound,
just behind the fore leg, as he came out of the river within
a few feet of me ; and immediately after two mare balls it,
the neck (if be can be said to have a neck) and body.
Being driven back on my side, he made for the other,
where my companion received him with two more balls.
He then rushed to the mouth of the river, forced his way
through two of the nets—but got entangled, and a nne,t
active warfare commenced with guns and lances, dui ing
which he showed himself true game, and managed hi-
tail and teeth with amazing grace and agility. His move-
ments were somewhat impeded, however, by having dined
on nearly the whole of a horse, three entire legs of whirl
we found in him, besides a quantity of stones, some ot
them weighing several pounds. We finally managed, with
the assistance of every man, woman, and child that could
he mustered, to drag him on shore, and dispatched him
with spears and bul!ets. Ile measured 20 feet in leng•li,
and 11 in circumference. The head weighed 275 1b...
and we estimated entire weight at nearly 3,000110.

(From the Times%)
My former information of the existence of a re•
volt in a part of Lithuania is daily gaining ground.
The exasperated people have made_ the large forest
of Bialowics the abode for their security. The
body of insurgents is mostly composed of the inhabi-
tants of thesurrounding country, who, being the con-
stant objects of Russian persecution, oppression, and
deportations toSiberia saw in the revolt the only means
of rescuing themselves from the cruel fate impend-
ing over them. Among their number are many citi-
zens of wealth and respectability, with their fami-
lies, and the peasantry of wijoining v;Pages. The
Russians themselves do net conceal the existence of
the fact, but seem to exaggerate much the number
of the insurgents, which they give out to be 20,000
men. It is not long since a. whole regiment of cos-
sacks was cut to pieces in an engagement with these
desperate men. They are said to posses twelve
pieces of cannon, which they had captured from the
Russians, but to be in want of am-
munition. They give no quarter to the
Russians ; the terror, therefore, is great, and their
number is increasing by deserters from the army.
The Russian army in the kingdom of Poland, and
particularly their troops stationed in the palatinates
of Cracow, Sandumir, and Lublin, are in to most de-
plorable condition. From want and ill treatimnt,
diseases are spreading .amongst them, and the
country is nearly covered with hospitals.
—The forest of Swietokrzyz is full of de-
serters, who live there concealed, and attack the
travellers on the road; but they take nothing except
food. To avoid danger, the travellers therefore lay
in a stock of eatables. The Russian tioops, be-
sides, shift constantly their quarters from one pala-
tinate to another, and it is affit.med that those sta-
tioned in the kingdom will be every six months
replaced by others sent from the interior of Russia.
Russian officers composing the garrison of Warsaw
are prohibited all intercourse with the inhabitants.
The patrols are making their rounds in the ,treets even
in mid-day, and are redoubled after sunset. Theprin-
cipal patrol has always a piece of cannon in its train,
in order to strike terror. Russia already appropriates
to herself the revenues of the kingdom : her army
is paid from the Polish treasury, and the Poles have
further to defray the expenses of the new fortifica-
tions erected to keep them still more in bondage. Up
to this time upwards of 10,000,000 florins have been
disposed of in this was, and considerable sums have
also been drawn on the bank, in the shape of loans.
All vestiges of our nationality, even in the most
trifling particulars, are every where put down, and
made to disappear before the cruel jealousy of the
public enemy. Turnpikes and posts on the roads,
for instance, which formerly bore Polish colours, are
painted at present with the Russian. Lately
art order was issued which enjoins to public
offices that in future all public and private
documents should be stitched with threads com-
posed of the Russian national colours. The late
Polish decoration of the white eagle has undergone
some alteration. So much the better; the Polish
white eagle upon a star makes room for a Russian
black double-headed eagle bearing the Polish eagle
in a diminutive form at its breast. The color of
the riband is no more sky-blue, but dark blue. Ge-
neral Kossecki was the first that was honoured
with this new fashioned order. The journal of law,
arid all the ordinances of the administrative council,
are henceforth to appear with the Ru sian text be-
side the Polish. This method is to be ext-riled to
the whole administration of the counzr! ; and would
already have been put into execution, liut for want
of a sufficient number of Russian functional ies, ac-
quainted with the routine of the Polish administra-
tive system, which is founded upon the Code Na-
poleon, complicated as it is, besides, in some pro-
vinces, with the Austrian and Prussian laws. The
principal functionaries of the different civil depart.
*tents are all Russians, the inferior only are Pule,:
and these even only purified ones according to the
Russian notion'. The latter, not being araptainted
with the Russian language, are allowed the favour
to make their reports either in French or Getman,
but never in Polish, it being the national lan-
guage of our unfortunate country. By an or-
der recently published, the veterans tiod inva-
lids, in fact, the only Polish troops at present, are
enjoined to alter the crimson trimmings and facings
of their uniforms for the red Russdati ones. Tae
Polish cockade has long since been laid aside. The
military order of Virtuti Afilitari, which was insti-
tuted as a high national reward for valour and bra-
very displayed in the battles for the independence of
Poland, is now worn by every Muscovite soldier
who was led to the war of Polish destruction. On
the order being offered to the Russian General RI..
diger, he is said to have indignantly exclaimed,
" C'est une carte blanche pour recevoir a cnaque
pas un souffiet dans l'etrangsr." Tile trial of the
Polish patriots who are excluded from the amnesty
has already commenced, but is conducted with great
eerecy. The same ukase which orilates the trial,
prescribes also the mode of sent, rice that is to be
pronounced on the accused. The Russian General
Witt presides. Three Poles and three Russians are,
besides, the Judges in that Coert. Tire names of
these Polish Judges are—Sziniaweki, laic Head
Censor of the Press; Alexander Potocki, Grand
Ecuyer; Wyczechowski, the public aceuser of the
patriots at the famous state-trials before the Senate
under Constantine; Poklenkowski, an informer of
the Secret Police, is appointed Public Accuser,—
all persons of infamous notoriety, the two first of
whom, foreseeing what they had to expect from the
popular feeling at the approaching storm of the re-
volution, made their escape iti time to Austria—the
wo latter preserved their lives at the hands of the
known mild and forgiving disposition of the Po-
lish people. On the 12th of May last, one of
the Russian G-nerals, ascompauied by the Vice-
Pres:dent Gierltcz, visited both the prison and the
brtdewell in the convent of the Fran( iscsns. It was
re•o'ved, that the common criminals confined there
should be sent to the fortress of Z inaose, anti that
the state-prisoners, ministers, deputies, lied all those
excluded from the amnesty, should oeeupy their cells.
There also the examinations will take place, to avoid
pub is excitement. The out-works of the citadel are
proceeding rapidly; the first edifice erected in it is
the state prison. Up to this moment, not inure
than 150 Polish soldiers have voluntarily entered the
Russian service; the rest were enruhed by Coin-
pulsion, or by holding out to them promises which
will never be realized. They were immediately
marched off into the interior of Russia. The volun-
teers, however, were introduced to Field-Marshal
Paskewitch, which was done on account of the sin.
gularity of the case; on which occasion each received
two Dutch ducats from his own hand. A levy of'
25,000 recruits has again been ordered, which will
considerably thin the young population in Poland.
become prisoners of war, did riot all returns from Rue_
They Those ol%f'itil all beheP
Polish t riot t among
ops w o hadsin regiments.
the a
misfortune
to
sia, and all those who were either deluded by the am_
(testy solemnly promised them by Nicholas.,, or com.
pelted by force or deception to re-enterfrom Prussia o
Austria their country, were immediately eon hictedr
into the interior of Russia, where they will also be
embodied with Russian regiments. Their number
amounts to 50,000. The appearance and the popu-
lation of Warsaw has undergone a complete change.
The eternal parades of the Russian military, the
shrill voices of the bearded Russian coachmen driv-
ing furiously through the streets their haughty and
starred miss ers, the oriental gr_rgeeustiess dazzling
the eyes and stunning the ears—they have altoge-
ther given other features to the cipi.al, which not
long since was the charming abode of simplicity,
elegance, and harmony, and represetred as tt were
a single united family. Warsaw is noes crowded
with Russian fang lies, which can scarcity deserve
the name of European population. In every house
the first floors are monopolized by them. Dirty un-
couth Russian dealers and victuallers, with:herrin
stacveesd. long
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King Sigistnund and the statue
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