The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-06 00:00:00

wondering at the size of the grapes, pines, French
and strawberries. At the conclusion of the exhib,"--

there was a great quantity of cut flowers, the gardenel;
prehensive of an onslaught from the ladies, made a virtu
necessity, and freely distributed their gorgeous bouquets •
roses, pinks, and sweet williams.
Two old men of Ilmiuster were on Friday seen r.
tively engaged at hay-making, whose united ages amount 1
167 years.
PASSION.—Last week, at Ihninster, a poor woman
named Turner, being in the act of chastising her child, was
wrought up into so violent a passion, as to bring on a fit of
apoplexy, which caused her death in two hours.
The Jamaica Courants of May are loud in their
unreasonable complaints of the Marquis of Sligo's goveni_
ment. Some of the stipendiary magistrates are likewise vehe-
mently scolded, for fulfilling the purposes of ther appointment.
The Marylebone Vestry have resolved not to re-
commend the Fresent adoption of any of the provisions of the
Corporation Refl.= Bill to their case as a portion of one of
the Metropolitan Boroughs.
A letter from Bologna states that a marriage has
been agreed upon between a daughter of Lord Lucan and the
son of the Polish General, Grabinski, who took part in the
Revolution of 1831. The lady, it is sail, will have a dowry
of 40,0001.

ADVANTAGES OP SCIENCE,,--.Tivo farmers of
New Hampshire, America, having some knowledge of
geology, selected a tract of land containinm the finest grani;e.
They purchased it for 3,000 dollars, and have since refused
500,000 for it!

THE WEATHER.—The weather in this town and
neighbourhood, since our last publication, has been of the
most extraordinary description, having presented continual
changes from winter cold to summer heat, and vice versa in
rotation, sometimes with heavy showeri of hail and rain.—
Barnstaple Advertiser.

LOSE OF A PILOT BOAT.—On the afternoon of
the 27th ult., as one of the pilot boats belonging to Peterhead
was returning to the harbour from a vessel, she was struck by
a heavy sea off the South Head, and immediately went down.
Her crew, consisting of three men anci two boys, we are sorry
to say, all met a watery grave.—Edinburyk Courant.

The Jamaica Despatch. contains two cases of " un-
paralled oppression on the part of the magistrates !" In one a
white gentleman struck his black " apprentice," and was com-
mitted to prison for the assault ; in the other a femi:le,, not
submitting to be physicked to the extent desired by her em-
ployer, the said employer applied a disgraceful epithet to the
young woman, and for the offence was fined five dollars.

Great damage has been done to the growing crops
throughout Lincolnshire, by the late storms. So cold and
ungenial a Midsummer has scarcely ever been known. In
many places the corn is laid quite flat. The violent storm of
Thursday has done great, and we fear lasting, injury to the
crops in the neighbourhood of Spilsby. Many fine fields of
wheat are completely laid down by the fierceness of the wind.
—Lincoln Gazelle.

FARNHAM, JULY 4.—The hops here in general
look bad, a great deal of vermin, and in many places a de-
ficiency of bine. The upper gardens are affected with
what they call the turnip beetle, which jump as well as fly;
there is also the winged fly now in many of the grounds,
covering the small leaves as sJon as they make their ap-
pearance. These are the winged aphis ; they lay eggs
which in twelve hours are converted into lice, and these lice
produce their kind in twenty-four hours after they come
forth from the egg.

MUMMY.--According to -the French journals, a
=nun; brought from Egypt, by a traveller, into a Belgic
town, eras taken by the authorities of that place for the vic-
tim f sonic assassination, baked in an oven. Neither the case
which contain it, the hieroglyphics, nor bandages, could
undeceive them. A surgeon was actually sent for to examine
the body, which was afterwards publicly exposed, and so far
was the error carried o'.n, that the corpse was stated to be
that of one of the miners of the neighbourhood, who is 0 missino•
.
It will be recollected that Mr. Franks was a short
time ago convicted of a libel on 111 r. De Mole, the Secretary
of the Merchant Tailors' Company, and was sentenced to be
imprisoned one month, and to pay a fine of 2001. to the King.
We learn that his Majesty has been pleas,:d to remit the fine,
and that consequently Mr. Franks, upon thC f!xpiration of the
month, which will take place we believe this day, is to be re-
leased from prison without the payment of the money...

" THE TALES OF THE PEERAGE AND, THE
PEASANTRY" is the second work of fiction edited by Lady
Dacre. Her Ladyship's rare talent is universally known, and
" The Chaperon" (the former work which appeared under her
auspices) placed the authoress at once in the same elevated
rank in literature as that held -by Miss Edgeworth. The ge-
nius of the former lady excels in delineations. which illustrate
the female character. To her fine dramatic talent and her tact
in weaving an exciting narrative, are added an intimate know-
ledge of society, and of the human heart;- together 'with. a
tone of perfect refinement and high breeding.
A PATRIARCH.—Upon the Earl of Shrewstnii-y
estate at Alton Towers, in Staffordshire, resides a rriaWcif.the
name of Samuel Salt, who has arrived at the goodebld age- of
96. Five years ago this venerable sire took " for, car and
for worse," his
.fourth partner for life in the person of a steady,
sober spouse, of the age of 78, both of whom continue liVing
together in the full enjoyment of happy unity. The Noble Elfil;'
to signify his pleasure in having so aged a couple of tenarrts,
permits them to live rent free, as well as allowing them half-a-
crown a week, and a quart of ale every other day. The matt
is by trade a walking-stick manufacturer, and lately made
pair for his noble landlord.
On Tuesday last the Polish Literary Association nt
t•aris gave a public dinner to Mr. Thomas Campbell, the poet.
It was numerously attended. Prince Czartoryski was in the
chair. The Prince after dinner prefaced the toast of Mr.
Campbell's health by a recital of all the obligations which the
cause of Poland had owed to the pen and zeal of their illus-
trious guest. Mr. Campbell returned thanks in FrenCh a
speech that produced the warmest emotion. He congratulated
his brave friends on finding that in the depth of their misfor,
tunes they had not abandoned themselves to despair, and lie •
exhorted them still to look forward to the resurrection of their
sacred cause, and to the day of their deliverance. Sir Gren-
ville Temple was present, and his health was drank as a known
and proved friend to the Polish cause.
MR. MAXWELL'S NEW WORK, " My LIFE."—
" A clever novel, three-fourths of which appear to be derived
from actual experience. We have scenes in the Militia, and
scenes in the Regulars, aLroad and at home, contra-temps
without end, lore adventures, and, in fine, all those materials
that constitute an excellent precervative against lowness of
spirits. .We recommend this novel for its varieties—its bon-
hommie—its discovery of a perpetual laughing motion, and its
general talent as a panorama of many coloured life.' It is
as good as the laughine, gas in most places; and in others,
adopting the true mixed' and fleeting spirit of the Irish, its
mirth melts into tears."—Atlas.

A FAMILY FROZEN TO DEATH.—The following
account of the awful death of an emigrant family upon the
Grand Prairie of Indiana is taken from " A Winter in the Far
West : "—Having attempted to cross a broad arm of the Prairie,
with his family, in an open waggon, on a Very cold day,." they
were found," says the writer, "stiff in the road, the horses
frozen iii their traces, and standing upright, as if petrified,
and the man leaning against the waggon, with•a fragment torn
from it in his hands, as it- in the. act of trying to make a fire.
The mother sat erect, with an infant in her arms ; but the
children were curled about , her feet in every Position that an
attempt to skrecn themselves from the cruel exposure would
suggest."

-The following singular affair is related in a letter
from Versailles :—A young man of a distinguished family at
.Paris, M. de M , sought the hand of a young lady, but
her parents were opposed to the match. Ile resolved, there-
fore, witlther consent, to carry her off to VersailleS. A ca-
hrioleti With the two fugitives, was already on the road from
Paris, when • the, brother of the young lady overtook it. A
warm altercation ensued between. the young men, which was
by a duel in which the brother fell. A few days after
.r brother, an officer in a regiment at a distance from
anotn.4
pari§t'ui-,on earing of 'the , came to he caital and
'heh individual Whoevent had occasioned t
so mucph sorrow
challe
to his nged meeting The took place, and the second brother
-,:yd of his adversary, who immediately fled.
perished by. the sy,
A vast :number
of , young men, imbued
.with the
.
nted themselves at the office for the
spirit of adventure, prose..
enrolment of volunteers for the Queen of Spain, during . the
hugthe military ardour of these
tbe following intelligence,
first week of its opening;
aspirants is somewhat damped by
viz. that scarcely any officer's commis,7ions are.
to be obtained ;
secondly, that all who •volunteer into ? gentlemen cadet
corps, are expected to lodge 301. towards t:. `lr outfit, passage,
and maintenance ; and, thirdly, Don Carlos ha exinessed the
very impolite determination of shooting as a spy (witi:out trial
by Court-martial) any foreigner he can find bearing urns in
the kingdom. How far these reports may be true we cannot
answer,. but the impression has been disseminated among those
who have made inquiries-as to the supposed advantages of the
undertaking.
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EASTER,OFFERINGS SEIZURE.---Of all the exac-
tions which- are imposed 'Upon the people of England:, none
arc so preposterous and unjust as those called Easter Offerings.
An occurrence has recently taken place in the borough of
wick, which
,strikingly illustrates the truth of these remarks.
Mrs. Bain, a widow lady, having refused to pay these volun-
tary contributions, after being threatened and harassed by the
. a
part of her
collectors of spiritual' alms and tribute-m 0 was summoned
e)",
to appear before the Magistrates, and finally, bpd
propertyva mahogany card-table, seized and exposed for sale
in the tuarket-place. Only one, among the vast ournber as-
sembled, was found so base as to bid ; 211(1 the degraded en-
derlingS were obliged to carry away this free-will ()prim t 0
some of their infamous Fntizans, amidst the shoutings and
execrations of the populace. It is impossible to find words to
express_ the public Indignation at this extraordiitary display of
clinical rapacity. Many of the inhabitants. of Alnwjek, when
called upon for these offerings, have refused to pay them, and
no legal proceedings were instituted for filch- exaction. Thou •
.c!othing—these self-styled saints, have se.
a taidow,, an industrious.. exemplary widow',
in
a
(Octs ljaet of their pia Mre:c
tit ve
hcd: .Airs.'h .17aPbst',
Bein's conductthroe ;Lout, sv s •
above an, praise. nacre the Magistrates sto
CVlrCeci tr.ch a pro4..mind knowledgeOrthe origin of these offai. .
figs a# ecmilpleely " dumbfounded" the " great unpaid," and '
suveciftliy proved that !ita
ere entirely u asupparted.by coring
_,y
mo,i. Forio,.er cerniTnin jukv.y, c any kr,OWll,luw of Vat kid
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