The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-22 00:00:00

BLACKTRIARS-BRIDGE PIER.

Deputy HICKS brought up the report of the Thames
Navigation Committee relative to a pier at Black-
friars-bridge.

The report recommended the erection of a pier at
the eastern side of the bridge, upon piles, according
to the suggestion of Mr. Walker, the engineer, and
was referred back to the Committee, to be carried
into effect.

A report relative to steam-boat piers in the river
was also brought up. It recommended that all piers,
in which due provision had not been made for the
security of the public, should be immediately removed,
and that the Corporation should act merely as con-
servators of the river, leaving the pecuniary business
connected with the piers to private speculation. The
report was ordered to be printed, and taken into con-
sideration on a future day.
The sum of 2001. was voted to the Royal British
Institution for the Education of Children.

BETTER SUPPLY OF PURE WATER.
Mr. H. PHILLIPS moved " That it be referred to a
Committee to consider the best means of securing to
all classes of the citizens of London a pure, abundant,
and forcible supply of water, at a reasonable charge,
and that they report thereon." After some observa-
tions upon the monopoly of the New River Company,
the subject was referred to the Commissioners of
Sewers.

Upon the motion of the same gentleman, it Was
referred to the same Committee to consider and report

to the Court the best means of providing for the poor
a better supply of pure water in different parts of the
City than it at present afforded to them.—Adjourned.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Martha Brassinton, the schoolmistress of the Beth-
nal-green Union, was indicted for an assault on Jane
Kingston, a pauper inmate of that workhouse.
The facts of the case lately appeared at length in
The Sun, under the head of our Worship-street po-
lice report.
The jury, after about an hour's consultation, re-
turned a verdict of Guilty, accompanied with a re-
commendation
fined a
ionto mercy.
She discharged upon payingr
Shme was
the sum.

THE FOG.—Yesterday afternoon we were visited
with one of the densest fogs that has occurred in the
metropolis for some years past, which continued during
the whole of the night, and rendered the streets in the
vicinity of the river nearly impassable.
WORRYING SHEEP. —An immense number of
sheep have been worried during the summer in the
vicinity of Haydon-bridge ; and, strange to say, the
depredator has up to this time escaped, in spite of all
attempts to discover him. The sheep are all bitten in
one way, in the windpipe, which is generally torn out,
and some of them clean bled. Many valuable dogs have,
in consequence, been destroyed on suspicion. What is
•strangest of all is, that none of the worried sheep are in
the least eaten or mutilated, which seems to prove that
the love of blood rather than hunger is the cause. Many
years ago a dog, near Wooler, killed great numbers of
sheep, of which he only drank the blood and eat the kid-
ney, which he tore out very scientifically. After many
attempts, he was shot on Cheviot.—Tyne Mercury.
SOMETHING NEw.—Those curious in the contem-
plation of the vagaries of nature may just now have an
opportunity of gratifying their curiosity by seeing a
young dog with five legs, in the possession of Mr. Taws,
skinner, Stobb's Well. This strange quadruped is one
of a fine lively family of five, is of the Newfoundland
breed, and is about five weeks old. The additional leg
is attached to the right shoulder, and both seem to work
in perfect unison.—Dundee Advetiser.
ICHABOE.— The ship Ann, Row, of South Shields,
arrived in this port on Saturday last, with a cargo of
guano, after an interesting voyage. The passage has
taken up eleven weeks. On her way she touched at the
Island of Ascension for water, but none was to be had,
the springs being completely dried up. At St. Helena
she was more fortunate. The weather was delightfully
fine until the Ann made the Azores, after which it began
to be stormy and tempestuous. Captain Row states that
he was seven weeks in procuring and stowing his cargo,
which is guano of the first quality. He has made a chart
and sketch of the island, which are highly interesting.—
Tyne Mercury,
LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.--A report has ob-
tain some currency in the City that the promoters of the
London and York Railway have failed to give the neces-
sary preliminary notices in due time, and that difficulties
must in consequence arise in prosecuting the application
to Parliament for a Bill to authorise the formation of the
line. We are enabled to state that the rumour in question
is entirely without foundation. All the preliminary no-
tices have been given, and the plans will be lodged on
the 30th instant. Every step has, in fact, been taken
to comply with the standing orders, and to enable the
project to be fully and fairly investigated on its merits by
the Board of Trade and Parliament.

A CAPITAL HASH.—A new sauce is advertised
under the title of Sir Robert Peel's Sauce. It has been
concocted, we believe, from his promises that the income-
tax aol last longer that three years.—Punch.

TIIE COMIC ALMANACK. Bogue, London, 18.14.
A copy of George Cruikshank's "Comic Almanack"
for 1845 is now lying before us ; it is illustrated with
twelve embellishments characteristic of the different
months of the year, together with several other plates
hit off in the artist's most facetious vein. A.
" Monster Meeting" is an irresistibly humorous pro-
duction. An unhappy jack-tar is standing at the
edge of a forest close by a river, while a vicious-look-
ing bear is leaping up on his shoulders, from which it
has just snatched a hasty mouthful ; a huge alligator,
open-mouthed, is preparing to make an attack on his
legs; a snake is darting from a tree right down upon
him; and to increase the comforts of his situation, the
head of a tiger is seen peeping out from beneath some
thick underwood hard by ! The sailor's countenance
is full of the most ludicrous bewilderment and affrig:it,
and he evidently inclines to the opinion that it is all
over with him, and it is no use, therefore, to attempt
making any resistance. The "Court of Young Eng-
land" is a good-humoured quiz upon this band of
sturdy Reformers, and represents an infant Queen
surrounded by a set of infant courtiers, all looking
as innocent and guileless as so many lambs. The
" Fall of the Leaf" is represented by the sudden
giving way of the leaf of a dinner-table, just at the
moment when it is crowded with good things, and the
appetites of the guests are duly wetted for the on-
slaught. The hostess, squatted on the floor with the
dish of fish in her lap, presents an image of the most
touching melancholy, and not less pathetic is the
countenance of the host, who seems philosophically
resigned to destiny. The " Horticultural Fate"
shows a party of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen
exposed to a pitiless shower of rain, as usually happens
to be the case when the Society give their annual
fête at Chiswick. We quote the verses illustrative of
this lively design
The morn was beautiful and bright,
The sun, that general adorner—
Was gliding with its glowing light,
The iron rails at Hyde Park Corner.

" The lodge beneath its radiance gleamed,—
Into some curds there shot a ray;
As if within the bowl it dreamed
To find on earth the milky whey.
" Lured by the clearness of the sky,
A party, though the hour was late,
Resolved on ordering a fly,
To waft them to the Chiswick Fete.
" And by those sympathetic chains
Few can describe, but each one owns,
The same idea had struck the Payees,
Brown, Thompson, Edwards, Smith, and Jones,
" Oh, sympathy! thou hast the power
To make twelve hearts in concert throb;
And eke to give, within one hour,
Twelve different liv'rymen a job.
" Thus did thine influence extend
(Explain it, ye who study physic);
Making a lot of parties send
For vehicles, to go to Chiswick.
"No sooner had they reached the spot, -
Than straight the sky is seen to lower;
And, like a curious watering pot,
Pours down a most terrific hower.
" The belles can't save their sati.
Their silks are watered—hov, y scamper!
Fate on that fete unkindly throi‘a
A sudden, but decisive, damper."

HISTORY of the EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Chapman and Hall, London, 1844.
The work before us, which appears from time to
time in separate Parts, is a translation from the
German, and is of a most comprehensive character,
professing to be neither more nor less than a history
of all the leading nations in Europe during the
eighteenth century—and not only a history of their
politics, but of their literature also. The
work, we
understand, has been favourably received in Germany,
and so far as we can judge, from the detached portions
of it which we have yet seen, it is not unworthy of its
reputation. The account of the famous War of the
Succession, as it is called, is given at great length,
and with much apparent accuracy ; and the author
has taken no slight pains in drawing the portrait of
the notorious Count Bruhl, the Saxon Minister—a
clever, dashing adventurer, who indulged in the most
wanton extravagance at the very time when Saxony
was reduced to a state of almost absolute bankruptcy.
The portion of the work which we like least is that
wherein the author passes his opinions on the prin-
cipal literary characters of England during the
period of which he treats ; these opinions are, many
of them, just enough in their way, but they seldom
rise above superficial common-places, and appear to be
less the results of his own critical inquiries, than of
the scores of critics who have preceded him in the
task of investigation.

HEDDERWICK'S POEMS.
.Rutherglen, Glasgow, 1844.
The author of this quarto volume of poems is a
skilful versifier, and puts forth no sentiments but such
as do credit to his heart, but we should be guilty of
egregious flattery were we to tell him that he is a
poet. Taste he has and judgment, and occasionally
he exhibits genuine feeling, but he is deficient in the
imaginative faculty, of which we need no more con-
vincing proof than is furnished us in every page of
his namby-pamby " Ode on Shakspeare." The best
things in the volume are the sonnets, one of which,
suggested by the word "Farewell," contains one or
two touches of genuine pathos.

THE PRICE OF A JAW.
(From Punch.)
One would think that Plutus made most of our
English laws, there are so few of them that are not to
be mended with money, if the breaker can afford the
tinkering. This is, indeed, the true aristocracy of
wealth, and makes a man with gold in his pocket feel
that he is unquestionably one of the superior classes—
in fact, a chartered ruffian, who may knock down his
fellow-creatures like nine-pins, if he have ready cash
sufficient to pay for the sport. Blessed privilege of
wealth! How contemptuously must the rich offender
eye the pauper ruffian, who can no more afford to
enjoy the broken members of his neighbours than he
can afford green peas at Christmas ? Again and again
do Magistrates by their judgments--call upon us to
marvel at the healing principle of gold—the never-
failing aurum potabile of the police-office.
The subjoined case, however, applies, we presume,
to a penniless ruffian :

" .OLERKENwELL.- George Conzbes was charged
with breaking the jaw of an unfortunate girl, named
Anne Gorman.

" The poor girl was standing quietly in the Chalk-
road, when the prisoner told her to accompany him.
She refused, upon which he dealt her such a blow
with his clenched fist as broke her jaw, and felled her
to the ground, where she lay insensible for half an hour
She was then conveyed to a surgeon.
" Mr. ComnE—Will you make this poor creature
some compensation for the grievous injury you have
done her ? Prisoner—l won't give her a farthing.
" Mr. COMBE —Then you will pay 51., or go to the
House of Correction for two months."
" Some compensation" for a broken jaw ! George
Combes could not, or would not, pay for the article,
and—we cordially hope—he is a prisoner for two
months, with the supplementary punishment of hard
labour. If, however, he could have paid 51., he would
have been free to break another jaw the next night on
the same terms.

The Magistrates say they have no discretion in
these matters. If the ruffian have money, justice
writes him a receipt in full of all demands.
It is the men who make these laws who are answer-
able for their injustice.
Well, we will suppose it eight in the evening—the
place, palace-yard. There goes Lord to his seat in
the Commons. A ruffian, thinking that he has a good
quarrel with his Lordship's jaw, with his clenched
fist breaks it. Does his Lordship—the law-maker—
think the fine of 51. a sufficient punishment for the
atrocity ? We think not; but then Lords are so sel-
dom assaulted : such doings generally fall upon the
" lower orders," and they being made of coarser clay,
are—like pipkins—to be paid for when broken. Men
with money can afford it.
We are pretty certain that Mr. Thomas Duncombe
must read the police reports, and equally sure that
the iniquity of this law is wholly worthy of his re-
forming energy. Or where is Young England ?
Wherefore does it not champion the jaws of what
breeches pocket, in its big complacency, calls the
lower orders?

COMMERCIAL LITERATURE. —An advertisement
appeared the other day for a clerk, who was wanted at
Lloyd's, where he would receive a hundred a year, and it
was added that editing Lloyd's List would be a part of his
duties. Lloyd ought to be ashamed of himself to pay his
editor so shabbily. It is true the List does not require a
very imaginative mind, or a very fertile fancy ; but the
editor of such an important paper must be cognisant of
commerce, immersed in the mysteries of mustard, tho-
roughly ground in pepper, and, in fact, a walking price-
current. The man to edit Lloyd's List should be able to
see which waythe wind blows without the aid of a weather-
cock, and to discriminate at a glance between the various
degrees of fresh, squally, and moderate. The noble
sciences of breeze-ology, wind-ology, and tide-ology,
should all be at his fingers' ends. He should be on the
constant look out for bits of vessels washed ashore ;
and, as Hamlet knew " a hawk from a handsaw,"
the editor of Lloyd's List should be able to distinguish a
figure-head from a marling-spike. No blacking-bottle
washed up by the tide should elude his editoral vigi-
lance ; for some of the most interesting articles in Lloyd's
List have been written on the subject of bits of paper
discovered corked up in a former recipient of Day
and Martin's jettest of all jets that ever were manufac-
tured. Such should be the mind that ought to preside
over the putting together of Lloyd's List ; and if our con-
temporary don't strike for an advance, he is a traitor to
the press, a villain to himself, and a wretch to his fa-
mily !—Punch.