The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-14 00:00:00

THE WRIT OF ERROR.

We (Dublin Pilot) subjoin a copy of a notice served
on the attorneys of the traversers. We shall only say,
in reference to reports, that no one is acquainted with
the opinions of the Judges, but on the result we, from
our knowledge of ministerial intrigue, maintain our own
opinions:—
(Copy.)
O'CONNELL AND OTHERS U. THE QUEEN.
I beg to acquaint you that the above causes will be
taken into further consideration on Monday, the 2d of Sep-
tember next, at ten o'clock, and the Judges are then to
attend to deliver their opinions upon the question of law
propounded to them.—l am your most obedient servant,
EDWARD PARROT,
Clerk of the Journals.
House of Lords, 10th August, 1844.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.
SECOND DAY-CIIAPFER OF ACCIDENTS.

At 10 a.m., the following yachts of the Royal Yacht
Squadron started for the second•sol. cup :
Brilliant schooner, of 393 tons—G. H. Ackers, Esq.
Galatea schooner, 190 tons—C. R. M. Talbot, Esq.
Xarifa schooner, 185 tons—the Earl of Wilton.
Georgian schooner, 168 tons—Wm. Lyon, Esq.
Zephyretta schooner, 180 tons—Henry Hope, Esq.
Fairy schooner—Wm. Peareth, Esq.

COURSE ROUND THE ISLE OP WIGHT.
On the signal-gun being fired from the Royal Yacht
Squadron-house, each vessel was got before the wind and
sail made with all possible dispatch ; there was a fresh
breeze from the westward, and Mr. Hope's yacht shot a
head, closely followed by the Earl of Wilton's, the Bril-
liant being the last, there not being at that time wind
enough for her, but, on getting outside, the wind fresh-
ened, and when off Shanklin, the Brilliant got foul of the
Zephyretta, and carried away her jibboom. She then
bore up, as did the Fairy ; both returned to Cowes
roadstead about half-past four, P.H. The Ruby steamer,
with a number of ladies and gentlemen on board, at-
tempted to follow the yachts, but these pleasure-seekers
Wight, found no pleasure outside the and when off the
Culvers there was a pretty scene on board, and, by the
general voice, the steamer returned. Some of the Royal
Thames yachts tried the Needles passage to meet the
yachts, but the white salt spray gave them a white
feather, and they put about and returned.
At the back the Galatea was more unfortunate ; she
carried away her foremast, alid the Brilliant has towed
her down in sight of Cowes, where she is now at anchor.
The Brilliant is beating down to the Roads. At twenty
three minutes to five the Georgian came in, winning the
cup to the no small surprise of the knowing one's, who
had put her down as the whipper-in; " it's an ill wind
that blows no one good ;" other people's misfortunes
were her gain. The Tarifa came second at sixteen
minutes to five.

The Royal Thames yachts sail to-morrow, nine have
entered,they sail in the good old course round thebuoys.
This will be the finest sight this season, and, all the
time, in view of the town. They start at eleven.
The Roads are crowded with yachts ; the inns with
company ; but a great many houses are defaced by ill-
looking papers of " Lodgings," " This house to let," and
such like.

EXECUTION OF THE MURDERER, WEET;S.—BOD-
MIN,
TUESDAY,—The execution of the murderer, Weeks,
took place, yesterday, at noon, at the county gaol here.
The unhappy man was reported several times to have
died since the passing of the sentence dooming him to
his miserable fate, and in a state of unconsciousness
chiefly the time has glided away with him from that
period to his final hour. Thousands of persons, men,
women, and children, were on the spot in front of the
drop at an early hour, and continued to increase until
the miserable being was brought forward to be sacrificed
to the laws of his country. He joined the felons in the
prison yesterday in religious exercises, and appeared- to
pay attention as much as his mind enabled him to ex-
hortations for repentance and to hope in Christ. At
twelve the final hour had arrived, and, everything being
complete,: the wretched man was hanged.
PORT OF GLOUCESTER.—The great influx of vessels
into this port, which we have had for some weeks past,
has somewhat subsided, still the basin is nearly full at
the present moment, and large arrivals are said to be ex-
pected. The activity at the docks has not diminished,
and as the warehouses there are quite full, every avail-
able building is being secured by the merchants ; one or
two stores in the island, with the round house in Wor-
cester-street, and part of Mr. Help's premises at Barton
turnpike, having been taken for the storage of corn. The
latter premises have received the sanction of the Com-
missioners of Customs for the reception of grain under
bond. The haulage and warehousing expenses in these
localities at so great a distance from the basin, must
prove very considerable. The quantity of wheat in the
bonded stores is estimated at 40,000 quarters, and
duty at 17s. a quarter was paid a few days since
on 7,000 quarters. The Gloucester and Berkeley
Canal Company are making a very manifest improve-
ment opposite the arm of the basin, excavators being
now at work in the removal of the projection at
Mr. Hunt's yard, which will increase the entrance of
the canal at that part 50 feet in width, and the same in
length. The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway's
swing-bridge across the basin-locks, of similar construc-
tion to the one belonging to the Canal Company, is also
nearly finished ; by this bridge the line of rails will be
continued alongside the warehouses on the north-west
side of the docks ; and should the Railway Company
decide on continuing these rails to Baker's-quay, and
other parts contiguous to the basin, we may look upon
their enterprising undertaking to establish a direct com-
munication for the quick dispatch of goods from the
docks to their depot at the station, for transit along the
line, as successful and complete. With regard to our
port generally, there appears to be a decided and praise-
worthy desire for useful improvements, amongst which
may be enumerated the erection of a new custom-house,
which fine edifice is progressing rapidly towards com-
pletion ; and should the sanguine expectations enter-
tained by others as well as by ourselves be realised, as to
the advantage that will accrue from the reduction of the
canal rates, it must be admitted on all hands that the
prospective aspect of things, both for the port and the
city, is very cheering.—Gloucester Chronicle.
TDB -11TEATIIER.—It has rained almost incessantly
for the last eight-and-forty hours ; an d although there
was a shift of wind this morning, and it has con-
tinued to blow from the eastward during the whole of
the day, the weather does not, by any means, present a
settled appearance. The mercury roso in the barometer
last night, and we must hope for the best. The rain
that has already fallen can do no injury, except to the
heavy wheat crops, which wind and sun would soon re-
store ; but, on the contrary, it will prove highly benefi-
cial to the potatoes and aftergrass, as well as to the small
cultivated patches containing the poor man's harvest—
his oats.—. Dublin Paper.

THE LATE GALE.

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS AND LOSS OF

LIFE AT TENBY.

On Friday night and part of Saturday a terrific gale,
attended with most disastrous consequences, blew from
the eastward, veering round from that quarter to the
south and south-west, and raging with tremendous vio-
lence, accompanied with frequent torrents of rain. The
aspect which the ocean presented during its continuance
was truly sublime and awful, but terrible in its destruc-
tive effects. About day-break the Tenby pilots observed
a large brig which bad been windbound in an open part
of the roadstead apparently in great peril, and endea-
vouring to gain the shelter of Caldy-roads, which were
comparatively safe. She was known to be the Richard,
of Sunderland, Cook, master, laden with coal, and bound
from Cardiff to London, as she had been spoken with
the day previous by one of the pilots, who advised the
captain to anchor in a more secure position than that ho
had chosen ; but apprehending no danger, the latter
did not attend to the caution. Indeed, so awfully sud-
den was the rising of the tempest, and so fine had been
the preceding day, that there might have seemed little
cause for apprehension. The vessel was now evidently ix
great distress, and continued at intervals firing sie 'nal guns
for assistance, which it was impossible to afford her from
the shore, the increasing fury of the storm rendering it
impracticable for any boat to put to sea. About
four o'clock she lost her rudder, and ran aground
on the whiteback, a bank of sand near Gillar, and where,
had she gone to pieces, every soul on board must inevi-
tably have perished. As the 'tide advanced, however,
she was again afloat, but having no helm, she was per-
fectly unmanageable, and at the mercy of the wind and
see. She had thrown out her anchors, but drifted from
them, and at length, just after seven, she was driven
ashore on the Tenby Sands, upon a flood tide, opposite
the South Cliff, and within view of crowds of spectators
assembled on the cliffs, and at the windows of the
houses on the summit, all watching with intense and
painful anxiety the result of the catastrophe. At this
time the breakers were rolling with indiscribable fury
over the sands, and in less than a quarter of an hour the
doomed vessel began to part, becoming a heap of dis-
jointed wreck in a very short space of time. During
this interval the ill-fated crew were seen clinging to the
rigging and other parts of the vessel, while the waves,
breaking frightfully over them, threatened them every in-
stant with destruction. Lieutenant Guillet, of the Coast
Guard, and his crew, were on the cliffs above her, with
Captain Manby's apparatus for saving shipwrecked lives,
and every exertion of skill and intrepidity was made to
rescue the unfortunate men by the Coast Guard, aided
by the pilots and fishermen and many of the townspeople,
while the most eager and breathless interest pervaded
the spectators. It was some time before the attempts made
with the apparatusprovedsuccessful ; but at length a shot
with a rope attached reached the wreck, and one man was
able to avail himself of it, and was safely brought on shore.
Another, after some interval, was saved in the same man-
ner, and a third, by means of a scaling ladder thrown
over the cliff, which two men descended, and, at the im-
minent hazard of their lives, succeeded in dragging, the
drowning man through the surf, and rescuing him from
death. The other four unhappily perished. Two were
washed from their hold utterly exhausted, and soon sank
amidst the tumult of waters. Another had leaped into
the boat as she was washed from the vessel's deck, and
with the help of an oar, contrived for a short time to
scull towards the shore, till thrown down by a sea break-
ing over him. He soon regained his feet and resumed
his labour, but another tremendous billow succeeded, and
swept him and his frail craft from sight. The circum-
stances attending the death of another poor fellow, sup-
posed to be the captain, were most affecting. He had
secured himself to a rope thrown from the cliff by means
of the apparatus, and was drawn some distance towards
land, when his progress was suddenly impeded by the
other end of the line having got entangled in the wreck,
whence he was unable to disengage it. He had, even in
this terrible extremity, presence of mind to search his
pockets for a knife to sever the rope, but could not find
one, and death was now inevitable. The unfortunate
man struggled fearfully for life, but was drowned by the
incessant burst of billows sweeping over him.
The scene altogether was most heart-rending, and
can never be forgotten by its horror-struck spectators.
The three men saved were promptly conveyed to the
Brig public-house, and the usual means were resorted
to to restore them to animation. They were provided by
the Shipwrecked Mariners' Relief Society with clothing
and the means of returning to their homes ; and a sub-
scription was set on foot, in the town, for the relief of
the widows and orphans of the ill-fated men who perished,
which (to the amount of upwards of 461.) has been for-
warded to the Mayor of Sunderland for that purpose.
The poor fellows left on Wednesday by the Phoenix
steamer. The cargo of the brig has been partially
saved ; but much of it was unavoidably lost, from being
washed away and buried in the sand.
Another melancholy accident occurred on the same
day, on board a fishing-vessel, of Brixham, belonging
to Mrs. Lewis, whose son, a lad of seventeen, and an
apprentice, were washed overboard off Caldy, during
the gale, and drowned. The masts and part of the
rigging of a vessel have been picked up by one of the
fishing-boats, and it is feared that several vessels have
foundered in the Channel. A number of small craft
have taken refuge in our harbour in distress, and vari-
ously.damaged. Much damage was also done by the
gale in various parts of the town ; the church, and a
vast number of houses being partially unroofed. Such a
hurricane at this season of the year is unusual, and its
mournful effects have created the most painful sensations
in those who witnessed them.

A beautiful little yacht, belonging to Trevor Roper,
Esq., was driven from her anchorage in the bay during
the storm on Saturday, and totally beaten to pieces on
the shore. There were providentially no hands on
board at the time.

Along the whole of the Welsh coast the effeAs of the
hurricane were dreadful. Carmarthen Bay, Cardigan
Bay, and all the bays and inlets in the Bristol Channel,
were strewed with the wrecks of coasting and other
vessels. In Carmarthen Bay, in addition to the total
wreck of the Richard, we have to record the total loss of
three vessels near the Worms Head. They were endea-
vouring to enter Llanelly, but failed, and were com-
pletely destroyed. On Saturday forenoon the body of a
female was picked up on Pembrysands ; she was sup-
posed to be the wife of the captain of one of the lost ♦es-
sels. These three vessels are supposed to be a schooner
called the Mary, of Bridgewater, laden with hay and
reeds—crew saved, with the exception of one man ; the
smack Julia, of Chepstow, laden with bark—one man
lost ; the Triton, of Plymouth, laden with copper ore
for Williams, Forstor, and Co.—the master was saved,
but three of the crew were unfortunately lost.

The brig Friends, of Ilfraeome, Fry, master, went
down in Carmarthen Bay. All the crew perished,
together with the master's wife and family, who were on
board. The Wave, of llayle, laden with copper ore for
Neath, made for Forth Cawl ; but it being so very
rough, she could not enter the harbour without doing
much damage to the vessels lying there, consequently she
was deserted, and she ran ashore in the bay, where she
sustained no damage except the splitting of sails.—
lVelelunan.

IfoLynEan.—During, a strong gale from S.W., on
Tuesday last, the sloop Peggy, of Carnarvon, with slates,
put into the bay, disabled in her sails ; the anchors were
dropped, and a boat, with four men from the harbour,
boarded her. Seeing her perilous situation, a distress
signal was hoisted in the rigging. The life boat was
being prepared to go out, when the cables parted. No
alternative being left, the crew of the vessel contrived to
set what shattered sails remained, and, for the safety of
their lives succeeded in running her to a creek called
llenborth, to the eastward of Carnel's Point. The
vessel remains there much damaged, and her safety is
doubtful.

SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE.—On Saturday last,
as the schooner Catherine and Mary, of Port Madoc,
William Owen, master, was proceeding on her voyage,
from Port Madoc to Ipswich, laden with slates, at half-
past two, A.m., Dungeness bearing N. by E. by compass,
distant 9 miles, wind about S. by E., standing to the E. by
S., on the starboard tack, she perceived a large brig ap.
proaching them on the larboard quarter, apparently bound
down the Channel. She bailed, but received no answer,
and, immediately after, the brig struck her, and
carried away all her stein to the water's edge. The crew
immediately cleared the boat, and it floated off, but got
foul with the yards, and was stove; when, melancholy to
relate, two of the crew, Cadwallader Williams, the mate,
and W. Kenider, the boy, were drowned. The master,
William Owen, and a seaman, named William Richards,
clung to the boat, and were picked up soon after by the
smack Defence, from London to Portsmouth, and landed
at Ramsgate. The brig was painted black, and copper
bottomed ; and, although the crew begged their assist-
ance, she proceeded on her voyage. The schooner was
insured at the Port Madoc Mutual Insurance Company.
The crew were relieved at Ramsgate by Lieutenant
Grey, the agent of the Shipwrecked Fishermen's and
Mariner's Society.— Carnarvon Herald.
BEAUMARIS.—An accident, attended with loss of life,
occurred under Trecastle, near this town, during the
sudden gale of Tuesday morning. Four men from
Llandegfan had gone out in two boats, for the purpose
of dredging oysters, when a sudden gust of wind struck
one of the boats, and instantly upset it. One of the poor
fellows sunk immediately, and then another clung to an
oar until assistance was 'rendered from the other boat,
which rescued him from his peiilous situation. The body
has not yet been found.—Carnarvon Lieruld.

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clay boats that ply between Poole and 'W.
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largest of them was <ll feet in length, and 6 feet 6
inches in girth ; the tail, which is horizontal in the por-
poise, measured two feet four inches. These animals
are most numerous on the coast in the mackerel and her-
ring seasons, and will pursue these fish up the bay as a
dog does a hare ; they also dig the bottom of the rivers,
as a hog would with its snout, for eels. The fat which
surrounds their bodies yields excellent oil ; from this
fatness and their rooting like swine, they are in many
places called sea hogs. The porpoise was considered
a dainty for the royal table in the tune of Henry VIII.,
and even so late as Elizabeth was considered good eating.
—Sherborne Mercury,
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an
inquest at the Duke of Wellington, Sussex-street, Tot-
tenham-court-road, on the body of William Maxfield,
aged thirty-seven, foreman to Mr. Ernest, builder, of
Newman-street, Middlesex Hospital, who committed
suicide, by cutting his throat with a chisel. The de-
ceased's mind was affected, having lately lost his wife,
who left behind three young children. Verdict—" Tem-
lorary insanity."

CELTS AND SAXONS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—When:any particular excellence of the British
character is brought under notice, it is by no means
unusual to find its existence attributed altogether to
some generic superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race,
and to hear the merits of " our Anglo-Saxon an-
cestors," as they are called, extolled upon every such
occasion ; and as you have at all times evinced a rea-
diness to remove erroneous impressions, and to be-
friend the injured, I trust you will allow me to offer
a few remarks upon the subject. As, however, this
idea of Anglo-Saxon superiority may have gained pos-
session of some minds, I am persuaded that when the
subject is duly investigated, the whole will be dis-
covered to he nothing more than a mere groundless
fancy, and that evidence can be adduced sufficient to
show the fallacy and injustice of the assumption, and to
prove that the Anglo. Saxon blood is not predominant
in this kingdom, nor its virtues so efficacious as to
warrant any idea of its superiority, but, on the con-
trary, that the Celtic is the predominant race.
When the Saxons and Angles first invaded this
island, there can be no doubt that their numbers
were so considerable, that along the eastern coasts they
became the predominant race; and as on their first
arrival they waged a war of extermination, it is pos-
sible that in some districts they were lett sole pos-
sessors of the soil ; but according as they extended
themselves towards the interior, it became a war of
subjugation, and not of extirpation ; so that, in those
parts, the bulk of the British inhabitants, having sub-
mitted to the new dominion, became mixed up with
the invaders, and, in a few generations, the subjects
of the heptarchy having become blended together, no
trace remained of any original distinction. Of the
subsequent Danish invasions but few impressions re-
main, as that people afterwards almost entirely quit-
ted ie island. But with the Normans the case was
different. They settled in the country, and never left
it ; and being at that time more Gaulish than Scans
dinavian, the blood they introduced was, in a great
measure, Celtic. So that here we find another deducs
tion from the amount of Anglo-Saxon predominancy.
It must also be recollected that a great portion of the
island had always continued in the possession of the
original Celtic inhabitants, as Cornwall, for instance,
Wales, Cumberland, and the chief part of Scotland.
Such was the state of Britain previous to the union
of its several divisions in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Since then, the Celtic race has been pouring into
England in such copious streams, as to render it
doubtful whether there is in the whole kingdom a
single drop of Anglo-Saxon blood, except in an ex-
tremely diluted state. In the town of Liverpool, out
of its 200,000 inhabitants, there are, by birth or ex-
traction, 60,000 Irish, 40,000 Welsh, and 20,000
Scotch. In Manchester and Birmihghatn the propor-
tions are not greatly inferior. Chester, Shrewsbury,
Worcester, Hereford, and all the towns bordering on
the principality, have had their population continually
replenished from that country; and Bristol, which for
ages has been a kind of metropolis for South Wales,
abounds with families of Welsh extraction, and has
of late received a vast accession of Irish: Indeed, the
latter are in an extraordinary degree supplanting the
old inhabitants of England. Every English town
has its Irish population; and in harvest time, tens of
thousands of new adventurers come over from Ireland
and disperse themselves over the country, of whom
multitudes settle there and never return. The En-
glish labourer, unable to bear up against the difficul-
ties of the times, emigrates to another hemisphere,
and the more pure-bloo led and hardier Celt occupies
his place. If we add to this the continual influx of
the upper classes from the Celtic countries, and their
pessnanent location in England, we can come to no
other conclusion than that the great mass of the
people of England is much more Celtic than Saxon,
and that there are but few families in the kingdom
who do not possess some portion of Celtic blood. In-
deed, the Throne itself acknowledges such admixture
of kindred. The Tudors and Mortimers of Wales,
and the Stuarts of Scotland, each claim their portion,
and that, too, much less remotely than the Anglo-
Saxon dynasty.
Following up the same train of argument, I think
it may be shown that Britain is as little indebted to
the Anglo-Saxons for its energies and spirit of enter-
prise, as for its population. The most distinguished
characters of the present day have certainly much
Celtic blood in their veins ; whether they have as
much Anglo-Saxon remains to be proved. It re-
quires but a single glance over the intellectual state
of the country to be convinced of this. Whether in
the peaceful pursuits of domestic life, or in the more
stirring and martial occupations of foreign lands, we
continually meet with confirmations of this truth.
Ask those gallant men who have lately achieved such
glorious enterprises in the East—ask Sir Hugh
Gough and his Connaught Rangers if they are
Saxons; I doubt whether they would not resent the
question as an insult. Look at those whose daring
stood pre-eminent even amidst the concentrated valour
of Europe. Of what race were they ? The dauntless
Picton and his "fighting division"—did they acknow-
ledge a Saxon origin ? Even those intrepid and enter-
prising men, who have so lately encountered the
perils of the frozen seas, and explored the unknown
regions of either pole, are they Anglo-Saxons ?
Quite the reverse. They are both of them genuine
Celts, Parry and Ross; the one a Welshman, and the
other a Gael.

I shall not pursue the argument any further at the
present moment; but I trust I have adduced facts
sufficient, at least, to shake the confidence of those
who may Nava been led to adopt the unfounded
notion of Anglo-Saxon superiority; and, when I recur
to the subject, I hope to be able to show, in a manner
equally conclusive, that it is well for Britain that the
Anglo-Saxon blood is not predominant, but than, on
the contrary, that sluggish stream has been so much
quickened by the vivifying impulse of Celtic energy.
A CELT.

STATE or THE NAVY.—The navy, as at present
constituted, is not of sufficient strength for all the pur-
poses for which its services may be required, and the
reason is very obvious. Ten years ago it could scarcely be
said we had a man-of-war steamer. We have now a steam
force in actual commission of 13,941 horse power, arid, as
we calculate that for every three horse power a man is re-
quisite, it follows that 4,600 marines and seamen are
required by this arm of the service only ; and it clearly
appears to us that, however necessary this force may be,
it is entirely an additional one. We do not observe that
the steam force displaces any sailing vessels, or, if
it does, only in a very small degree. It follows, there-
fore, that if we had, in 1837, 38,500 seamen and marines
in our votes, and only 34,000 in 1844, our sailing navy is
actually lessened by 4,500 men in the interval ; to this
also must be added the extraordinary additional call
which the altered state of the political world creates
upon our navy. The French, for instance, restless to a
degree, have a strong force in powerful ships in various
unaccustomed quarters ; and, though we have in reality
at this moment 36,000 men on our naval victualling
books, we cannot honour our friends with that
complimentary attendance which the prudence of
a good Government would suggest ; in plain
terms, we should have an addition to our canvass navy
of at least 6,000 men, and these would find enough to do
on the coast of China, the islands of the Pacific Ocean,
the western shores of North America, in the contiguity
of the Oregon territory, the increasing colonial posses-
sions in the New World, and more particularly on the
east and west coasts of Africa, where we have under-
taken to do more than our present force will enable us
to do ; even though we have denuded the Brazils, the
West Indies, and the North American stations, to a
dangerous extent, of the ships that should belong to
those quarters. We ought, at least, to have an additional
force of four sail of the line and six razeed frigates ;
and we will venture to assert that such a force could not
be manned under a period of at least six months. So
much for the boast that Government have seamen to any
amount always ready. The thing is impossible ; for
very subsistence, the seamen, the moment they are dis-
charged from one ship, whether national or mercantile,
immediately seek a new employment, and it is only as
seamen get disengaged from present employment that
men of war can expect to pick them up. It should be
borne in mind also, that the naval officers will only take
the best men, and therefore reject at least three-fourths
of those who offer.—Hampshire Telegraph.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT LONDON-BRIDGE.--Lagt
night between ten and eleven o'clock, a fatal accident
occurred at the City pier, London-bridge, of which the
following are the particulars :—lt appears that a young
man of the name of Thomas Harris, one of the
at the City pier, was attempting to pass from the dumb
lighter lying then to the contiguous, or Old Shades pier.
In consequence of his being near-sighted, and the lighter
being moved for the purpose of effecting the im-
provements ordered by the Lord Mayor to widen that
part of the river above bridge, where so many steamers
embark and land passengers throughout the day, he
mistook his step and fell overboard under the bows of
the lighter close by the piles' which during the night are
being driven for enlarging the area of the river. Every
effort was made to recover the body without success.
In China no fees are paid for the administration of
justice. The judge, whose office costs him nothing, and
who has his salary stated, can require nothing of the
prrties at law, which empowers every poor man to pro-
secute his own rights, and frees him from being oppressed
by the opulence of his adversary, who cannot be brought
to do justly and reasonably because the other has not
money.—Capt. Pidding's Chinese Olio.
SUNDAY AMUSEMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES.—
(From a New York paper.)—We copy the following ad-
vertisement from a New Orleans paper. They greatly
need a reform mayor in that city:—" Bull Fight.—A
fight between a ferocious bull and a number of dogs will
take place this day, Sunday, at five o'clock p.m., on the
other side of the river, at Algiers, opposite Canal-street.
After the bull fight a fight will take place between a
bear and some dogs. The whole to conclude with a
combat between an ass and several dogs. Admittance—
boxes, 50 cents ; pit, 30 cents. Amateurs bringing dogs
to practise in the fight will be admitted gratis. Doors
open at half-past three o'clock. The spectacle will be
repeated every Sunday, weather permitting.,-PEPS
LLVLLA.*
PARIS AND STRASBURGH RAILWAY.—The com-
pany formed for working the line of railroad from Paris
to Strasburgh, the council of administration 0' which
had become incomplete by the resignation 0. fount
Mole and M. Ganneron, has just been re-lambed, Ittd
General Cubiires has accepted the office of a:resident.

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