The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-28 00:00:00

LAMBETH STREET.

Yesterday Mr. N. Canstall, a medical gentleman,
residing in Bury-street, St. Mary-axe, attended be-
fore the Sitting Magistrate, and stated that he had
on that morning, while pas,ing through Rosemary-
lane, seen exhibited for sale a quantity of fish, which
was in an absolute state of putrescence, and was
not fit for food. In two cases of cholera which he
(Mr. Canstall) had attended in the neighbourhood,
and which proved fatal, he had distinctly traced the
cause to the use of unwholesome fish, such as that
which was then exposed for sale. He hoped the
Magistrates would interpose their authority and de-
stroy it.

On looking over the Acts of Parliament it ap-
peared that the Magistrates have no jurisdiction in
such cases. and that the only remedy is by indict-
ment, as a public nuisance.
Mr. HARDWICK, however, said that as the evil
complained of was, particularly at the present time,
one of serious consequence, they should, to accom-
plish a great good, do a little wrong, and gave di-
rections to the police to -proceed at once and seize
ad the fish which they found exposed in Rosemary-
lane, which did not appear fresh and fit for use, say-
ing that they, the Magistrates, should take on them-
selves the responsibility of the act.
The police at once proceeded to act on the advice
of the Magistrates, and in a short time returned to
the office with several baskets of cod, place, and
mackerel, all of which was in so putrid a state that
the Magistrates gave directions that it should be at
once buried in the Tenter-ground.

Mr. JOHN ANGERSTEIN, of Woodlands,
Blackheath, has come forward for the new borough of
Greenwich ; he declares Le has always been friendly to the
objects of the Reform Bill, and that their furtherance will
be his aim if elected one of the Representatives.

The Duke of DEVONSHIRE has in his pos-
session the rosary worn by HENRY the Eighth. Upon
the four sides of each bead are four circles, within which
are carved groups ; the subject of each group being taken
from a different chapter in the Bible. Nothing can sur-
pass the exquisite beauty of the workmanship of this relic
of other days. Every figure is perfect, in spite of the ex-
treme minuteness of their size ; and the whole is from the
design of that great master, HOLBEIN, who has painted
HENRY in these identical beads. The rosary is inge-
niously preserved from injury, while it is exhibited to full
view, from being suspended within a bell glass.-- Town.

EDUCATION (IRELAND).—Further to illus-
trate the Government plan of education for Ireland, there
have been ordered to be laid before the House of Lords,
" Copies of the titles of all books or tracts edited, printed,
or supplied for the use of schools by authority of the Board
of Education, Ireland." Also, " Lists of all books or
tracts employed in any school, whether in the combined,
mural and literary instruction, or in the separate religious
instruction, with the sanction or approbation of the board,
or any member or members of the same."
POWER OE MACHINERY.—In one branch of
the cotton trade, some spindles, which, before the new im-
provements were projected, used to revolve only fifty times
in a minute, now perform six, seven, and in some cases
eight thousand revolutions in the same short space of time.
In one establishment at Manchester there are 136,000
spindles kept in incessant motion by steam power, by which
they are enabled to spin one million two hundred thousand
miles of cotton thread per week. The weekly produce of
this article, when the machines are in full work, is about
four hundred millions of miles ; or enough to encompass
the earth one hundred and sixty times !—Caledonian
Mercury.
A DETERMINED TIPPLER.—Mr. RICHARD
P. FOLLET examined—l live at Dover. I have lived at
Bruges. I kept there the Hotel de Flanders. I know
Mr. GLOVER very well. He was in the habit of coming
to my house three or four times a day. He has come in
a morning as early as seven. He came to drink. Some-
times he would drink brandy or boll Inds, or a strong
Flemish liquor. He told me that he had married the
tidy he was living with when she was 16 years of age,
against her father's consent. I have often carried him
home drunk. He would get tipsy three or four times a
day. He was not very nice in what he drank. He has
taken home gin at night for the purpose of drinking before
he got out of bed. fie his told the that he could not come
down stairs without drink. He told me he descended the
stairs back yards, because he could not look down without
apprehension. He associated with persons of the very
lowest grade.—House of Lords—Moffat's Divorce Bill.

LORD AND LADY CONYNGIIAM.—Lady
CONYNGIIAM, since becoming so celebrated in England,
was then in the full bloom of her charms. In this re-
spect she was entitled to a brilliant reputation ; but I con-
fess, I could never admire beauty so totally devoid of ex-
pression. lam not surprised at the Venus de Medicis
not returning my smile, because she is a statue, and
nothing but marble; hut, when I approach a beautiful
woman, I expect a look and expression of animated
nature. This was not to be found in Lady CONYNGIIAM.
She was very elegant, took great care of her beauty,
dressed well, and carried the care of her person so far as
to remain in bed the whole day until she dressed to go to
a ball. She was of opinion, that this preserved the fresh-
ness of her complexion, which she said was always more
brilliant when she did not rise till nine at night. She
was a beautiful idol, and nothing more. Lord CONYNG-
HAM, her husband, might be called ugly. The Duchess
of GORDON, who, in her frightful language, sometimes
uttered smart things, said of Lord CONYNGHAM, that he
was like a comb, all teeth and back."—From the Me-
moirs de la Duchesse d'Abrantes.

THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.--SOMething
like what it would have been judicious to have done while
the Ectrick Shepherd was among us in London, is now
proposed—namely, to publish a volume of his poetry by
subscription. Messrs. AJURRA 1- and DUNC.AN have hand-
somely come forward to conduct this undertaking, and have
chosen the Queen's Wake fur republication, at the charge
of a guinea- We learn with sorrow, from the prospectus
they have issued, that Mr. fitsoc has been plunged into
severe pecuniary distress in consequence of the failure of
his booksellers; so that a liberal support is now absolutely
requisite to save him and his interesting family from ruin.
Sure we are that, even in these agitated and hard-hearted
times, such an appeal on behalf of a man of genius will not
be made in vain ; and we call on the hundreds of high
rank and great wealth, who enjoyed the Shepherd's
original and entertaining society whilst in the metropolis,
to help him in the hour when all his humour and hilarity
must he turned to grief and bitterness. A more deserving
case could not occur. Misfortune has overtaken not only
an honest and worthy man, but a favoured son of song,
who has exalted himself from the lowest rank of life by the
force of his native talent, and reflected honour on the last-
;rig literature of his country. Few such examples are
found in the history of any people: let us not suffer the
reproach of permitting want and unhappiness to cloud the
latter days of the rare individual whose claims are now
submitted by and to the friends of worth and genius
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