The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-15 00:00:00

THE KRAKEN.—Letters from Arundahl, in
Norway, state that a large sea-snake has frequently shown
itself this summer in Rods and Sondelor Fjorden, and has
been seen by many individuals. Evident traces had like-
wise been observed of its creeping for several years over
the fields.
JEWS IN THIBET.—The lost 10 tribes of
the Jews have been found in Li Bucharia, some of them
attending the last Leipsic fair as shawl-manufacturers.
They speak in Thibet the Hindoo language, are Idolators,
but believe in the Messiah, and their restoration to Jeru-
salem ; they are supposed to consist of ten millions, keep
the Kipour, and do not like white Jews, and call out like
the other tribes, "Hear, 0 God of Israel, there is but
one God ;" are circumcised, and have a Reader and Elders.
—Anglo- Germanic Advertiser.
The new History of Scotland, by Mr. ROBERT
CHAMBERS, whose works of this nature are in such high
public estimation, will, we understand, be the only concise
history of that kingdom which brings the subject down to
the present time. Some of the most interesting events in
the Scottish annals have occurred within the lasteighty or
ninety years, and as these have furnished the themes of
many of Sir WALTER SCOTT'S tales, Mr. CHAMBERS'S
history becomes almost a necessary companion and illus-
trator of the fictions of the greatest of modern novelists.
The work in question is printed and bound uniformly with
the new edition of Sir WALTER'S Tales and Romances.
Mr. M‘T- went in the Earl of Marr
coach with Mr. COBBETT to Glasgow. He did not know
him, and sat in his usual dignified manner, until they
came to Cumbernauld, where a gentleman went into
the coach who knew Mr. M'T--. " What news
from your quarter, Mr. APT— ?" " Oh, nothing but
they had that cursed rascal COBBETT lecturing to them at
Falkirk last night ; but I did not go to hear the black-
guard." " You have the honour of being in his company,
Sir," immediately responded Mr. COEBETT. Silence en-
sued for the rest of the road.—Edinburgh Observer.
An accident, which very nearly proved of the
most fatal description, occurred to Lord SEAHAM, at
Mount Stewart, on Monday, the 29th ult. A great
mastiff dog at the kennel flew at him and got him down,
and, but for the timely and providential interposition of a
labourer and his wile, would have torn him to pieces.
Lord SEAHAM fortunately escaped with the marks and
scores of the mastiff's teeth all down his back.
A WIFE IMMURED.—TiIe Dunkirk Journal
gives the following from Hondschoote :—A magistrate of
this canton being lately called on to affix seals upon the
effects of a person who had recently died, was with his as-
sistants making the usual examination of the apartments,
when he came into a dark room of only a few feet square,
and there found, alive, the wife of the deceased, who bad
not been heard of for upwards of 15 years, during which
time she had been shut up in the place where she was dis-
covered.

DIGGING FOR PINES.—Some few years
ago, an honest Hibernian, a son of Mars, having been or-
dered to join his regiment, then in the West Indies, on
arriving at head quarters, he found there were no Barracks
for his accommodation, consequently was obliged to hire a
house, to which was attached a garden, containing many
tropical fruits, amongst which was a bed of Pines. It so
happened, that, during the very extreme hot weather,
this Hibernian's wife, who was in a delicate state, ex-
pressed a wish for a pine; a fruit at that period scarce to
be had. Pat wishing to gratify his wife's desire, and
knowing that there was a fine bed iu the garden, sallied
forth with his trusty servant, armed with hoe and spade,
and instantly began digging for a pine ; after labouring
for a long time, under the influence of a meridian sun,
without success, he at length returned to the house quite
exhausted : on his wife's entering the room, and seeing
him in such a state, she good naturedly inquired the cause,
when Pat in reply, said he had been digging for a pine
for her; at which the Cambrian lass burst into a roar of
laughter, which so discomposed Pat, that he swore " By
Jesus, that he never would dig for a pine again for her, as
he believed they had all run into stalks."— IVelshman.
SNEAKS.—There is a boy now in the Peni-
tentiary, who was under sentence of death for stealing 531.
from a till, with which he got off. When he knew where
there was money, he would be sure almost of it; such was
his talent and determination. In this latter case, the money
was stolen from a corn-chandler's till. The boy went into
the shop, and, by asking for some articles, contrived to
send the master some little distance from the counter, when
be suddenly reached over, took the money, and ran off;
his confederates being near the door. The loser of the cash
ran after the boy, when he was, as it were, thrown down
by accident, and the boy got off. As they were afterwards
going down the Hackney-road, one of his companions
called out, in a joke, " Ding ! Ding !" meaning, throw
away ! throw away ! This was done to alarm him, and
have a laugh at his expense. The boy, however, took the
call as being a serious one, and threw the bag and its con-
tents into a garden, and ran off; finding his mistake, be
went back at night to recover it, when he was taken into
custody ; the owner in the interval having been found.
If a born thief lives, and is at large (what they call being
on the town) till he is twelve years of age, he draws, on a
moderate calculation, ten others into crime annually, who
are his neighbours, not the sons of thieves, or of those who
would have them thieves, but the offspring of parents who
have neither time nor means of putting any restraint on
them, as to their associ rtes, during their own absence from
home, which is generally from morning to night. From
twelve to twenty years of age he will seduce each year
four or five of his own age, heretofore quite unused to
crime, besides the encouragement he the whole time gives
to the body of sneaks ; putting away, perhaps twenty an-
nually of those in which he had no participation in making
criminals, further than the encouragement he gives to the
general body of sneaks, from whence he draws his auxilia-
ries,—.Fraser's Magazine.