The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1850.

Ayerags Amount.
Pease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and
Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 40,673
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten awl Co 11,112
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank Peter-
borough—M,n-‘rs. Yorke
Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson

and White —
Pemorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and
W. Walters
Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and
Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven.

and Co
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 29,004
Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and
Co 27,990
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and C 0... 5,300
Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and
County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.. Ledgard
and Sons
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds. .5,415
and Co 5,415
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson B,lll
Royston Bank, Royston}—Fordham and Sons 9,868
Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son ll,OBO
Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co.
Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy-
don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and

Co
Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard
and A11P.T...7 4,587
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron
Walden—Messrs. Gibson
Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and
Co 11,241
Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall
and Co. 24,185
Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and
Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons.
and Co
Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourno
—Valiance and Son 3,573
Southampton Town and County Bank, South-
ampton —Maddison and Pearce 13,021
Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co.
Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie
Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and

King
Southampton and Ilampshire Bank, Southamp-
ton—Atherly and Fall
Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,225
Stoarbridge Ban's, Stourbridge —Rufford.
Wragg, and Co
Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 10,613
Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton,

Cayley, and Co.
Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and
Robins
Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury
—Beck, Downward, and Co.
St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib-

son and Stuart
Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 21,864
Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and
Co
Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and
Parslow
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns-
ford and Barne 8,861
Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton-
shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 11,164
Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But-
cher and Son
Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S
Percival
Union Bank, Cornwall, Helaton—Vivian and
Co. 10,659
Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, smith,
and Co.
Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt &Co 7,109
Warwick and Warwickshire Bauk, Warwick—
Greenway and Co.
Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox
Brothers . 5,513
West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract
Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co 41,968
Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap-
man, and Co 10,625
Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win-
chester—Bulpett and Co.
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester
—Wickham and Co 5,904
Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Ban',
Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse
Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,

Wirkesvvirth—Arkwright and Co.
Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech—
Gunny and Co.
Wiveliscwicbe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and \V
Hancock
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good-
ricke and Holyoake.
Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender,

and Co. 8,321
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank,
. _

Worcester--Berwick, Lechmere,;.nd Co 75,567
Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley _ . _

and Turner
Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and _ ___

Sons
Warminster and Wiltshiro Bank, Warminster—
Everett and Co.
Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—
Messrs. Fryer
Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney,
Birkbeck, and Co.
Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great
Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,499
Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten
York Bank. York—Swami, Clough, and Co 42,808

SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.

COMMANDER PULLEN'S BOAT EXPEDITION,
The following are extracts from a letter of much
more recent date than the interesting narration we
published a short time since, of the proceedings of
Commander Pullen's party, in the Hudson's Bay
Company's territories of North America. It is from
the same gallant officer, Lieutenant W. H. Hooper,
and is addressed to his father, in the City :

June 27, 1850.
My dear Father,—l have not time now to detail
at length our proceedings, but can merely say that
we endured a sufficiency of discomfort and some
danger, and should, without our customary caution,
have been " scooppered" by the E'quimaux, with
whom we had considerable trouble and a slight
brush. At the end of August we entered Mackenzie
River, and in a few days reached a post of the Hud-
son's Bay Company, on the Peel (a branch of the
former river). Here Mr. Pullen left me with half
the party to winter, himself proceeding with the rest
to Fort Simpson, he head-quarters of the district on
the Mackenzie. In less than a fortnight I found
that my party could not be sustained at Peel's River,
and therefore set off after Mr. Pullen, but was only
able to reach Fort Norman (the post below Fort
Simpson), where I decided to remain, having had
one man frostbitten on the journey. The
party and myself went across to Bear
Lake, and there wintered, subsisting on fish and
water. At the breaking up of the ice Dr. Rae came
down from Fort Simpson, and I set off for Fort Simp
son with the party, being soon followed by that
gentleman (a most delightful man). 0o the 20th of
this month we started from Fort Simpson with the
outward goods (i. e. furs), and were proceeding on
our way to the sea, there to embark in the company's
ship, and return to England, when we encountered—
two days since—a canoe, containing Admiralty dis-
patches, among which was your letter ; and now I can
show you why my time for writing is brief. We are off
to the coast again to look after poor Sir John Franklin,
of whom, it is needless to say, we have seen no trace ;
so that, instead of returning home next October
and relating our proceedings in the good cause, I
shall, in a few days, be off again to the sea, to assist
in another search—and may God grant not again un-
successfully—and shall not see you until October,
1851, when, please God, we shall return to England
in the company a annual ship from York Factory, in
Hudson's Bay.
We are now in Great Slave Lake, accompanying
the outward boats to a fort near, whence, having
obtained provisions for our voyage, we return to Fort
Simpson, hasten our preparations, and be off to the
sea down the Mackenzie as fast as we can. This
slight sketch will also explain to you the
elegant irregularity and crinkum-crankum style of
my epistle, which is being indited in the boat while
pulling through the Great Slave Lake.
Your letter of the 24th of January arrived in Mr.
Barrow's letter to Captain Pullen, and sure I am that
if that gentlemen could have witnessed my joyful
emotions on the occasion of its receipt he would need
no more eloquent expression of thanks for his favour.
The receipt of the (to me) most ardently desired
gifts, viz., your letter and the news of my promotion
in May, 1849—the latter, by the bye, conveyed by
their Lordships in a message of satisfaction at my con-
duct before leaving the Plover. • • •
As for this journey, I must tell you plainly that,
however grieving it is to be disappointed of returning
home, yet I am, nevertheless, delighted to go again,
and think that we do not hopelessly undertake
another search, since our intended direction is con-
sidered the most probable channel for finding the mis-
sing ships or crews. We go down the Mackenzie,
along the coast eastward to Port Bathurst, and thence
strike across to Wollaston or Ihnks's Land. The
season will, of course, much influence our proceed-
ings, but we shall probably return up the hitherto un-
explored river which runs into the Arctic Ocean frogs
Liverpool Bay, between the Coppermine and Mac-
kenzie.

I shall write to Colonel Sabine if I can. I wish
you would call upon him and give my respectful re-
membrance of his kind courtesy to me. Say that
we have got the magnetic dip along the coast, and that
the Fox goes with us on our second trip, and he may
rest assured I will use my best endeavour to obtain
complete observations wherever possible. You might
also allude to my great grief at the accident which
befel the instrument in May, 1848, of which I did
not before tell you, but that I have endeavoured
to correct its effect as much as possible by
obtaining numerous sets with the instrument in
every mode I can think of, and noting as fully as I
could any def.ct or otherwise that I observed. At
k ort Simpson Captain Pullen' as well as myself, took
numerous sets, and I think that that position will
serve as a base, particularly as we shall probably
wioter there in 1850 and 1851.

When at Bear Lake I made such observations on
the aurora borealis (which was there magnificent) as
was possible, and have formed a theory on it which I
Ahall submit to him either now or when we reach
England. Unfortunately, I had not a single instru-
ment, so could not observe the influence of the phe-
nomenon upon the magnet, as it is asserted to have,
but which I do not think.

I am much grieved to learn of the death of pcor
Sheddon, the owner of the Nancy Dawson yacht; his
kindness and assistance to us cannot be sufficiently
expressed. Captain Pullen is very good and very
kind. lam as happy with him as I could be with
almost any one ; he is, I believe, a truly religious
man • has seen much and suffered much ; his real
goodness of heart is evident in his actions and fatherly
care of those placed under his charge ; and I long to
see him put a crown instead of a star over his anchor.
Captain Moore does not appear to have been promoted.
I should like to see him get his step very much.
_ _

As for my health I never was better, I think, in
my life than I have been since I left you, and par-
ticularly since I wintered in this country. The cold
I feel but litte, and am now not the least hardy of the
lot and have never had any illness.
We shall not have many delicacies in our trip,
pemmican and dry reindeer flesh being our only food
(the latter having from its particularly inviting qualities
been nick-named "waistcoat pieces ' by our boys),
and as much of the pure element to imbibe as we
please. But do not you tbink that this will break
my heart. I have been nearly one winter with
nothing but herrings, and if I cannot go a summer in
a rather improved condition, I ought to be anywhere
but here, and so say we all. When we return
from the sea the party will probably winter at
Bear Lake. I shall, most probably, be at Fort
Simpson • "' • I place implicit con-
fidence in my gallant commander's advice and
intentions. This, as you may suppose, is a very com-
fortable state of affairs, and when I add that our men
are good, hard-working chaps, and evidently well
satisfied with their captain, whota we'd follow to the
death, and apparently also with me, I think that we
may be considered a united and devoted (as we have
been called "a gallant") little band. So hurrah!
for the coast once more, and then to our loved homes.

Friday, 28th—We have to-day been stopped by
the ice in Slave Lake, and are going to turn back to
Fort Simpson at once, so I have no time to say much
more. Ido not think that you will get another let-
ter or even news of us until April, 1851—if so early
—as there is no other mail till December next.

Believe me, &0.,
%VILLIAM HULLS HOOFER.

DAVIS' STRAITS WHALE FISHERY
ABERDEEN, MONDAY.—Yesterday afternoon our
two whalers, the Pacific and the St. Andrew's, arrived
here from Davis' Straits. They report a very un-
favourable season and a very unsuccessful fishery. In
the month of July seven vessels got beset in the ice,
and were so closely packed that it was for a time
concluded that they would have to winter in the
Arctic regions. Having provisions only for a single
voyage, the idea of passing the winter there was a
terrible thought. A consultation was, therefore, held
amongst the commanders, and it was agreed that it
should be put to the men whether any of them, and
how many, would volunteer to remain in each ship,
while the others would make the best of their way to
open water, and disperse themselves among the ships
that were clear of the ice. From twelve to fourteen
men volunteered to remain in each ship, it being
considered that that number would be sufficient to
manage her ; but if the provisions would have
served for more through the winter, there
would have been no difficulty in, getting ad-
ditional volunteers. The Jane, of Bo ness, was the
nearest ship in the open water, and towards that vessel
150 men proceeded, the parting from their comrades
being, in many instances, of a very affecting charac-
ter. The whole of these men were received on board
the Jane, and Captain Walker proceeded without loss
of time to apportion them among other vessels. This
was done in the course of a few days, but soon after
indications appeared of the ice giving way, and, to
the gratification of all, it speedily broke up. The ice-
bound whalers were then soon at liberty, and lost no
time in gathering their men and proceeding with the
fishery. The breaking up of the ice, however,
.had
the effect of making the fish very bhy, and it being
found impossible to get through Melville Bay to the
west land, few whales were killed.
The ice continued open up to the time the Pacific
and St. Andrew's left for borne on the sth instant ;
but the weather had been so stormy that most of the
other
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composing the expedition in search of Sir John Frank-
lin since the dates mentioned in Commander For-
syth, s dispatch ; but it is the opinion of those in these
whalers, ers, who are able from long experience in the
Arctic regions tojudge that the breaking up of the
ice and clearance of Lancaster Sound would open a
passage round Cape Reilly, where the remains of Sir

John Franklin's encampment were found, and up
Wellington Channel. If so, then it may be concluded
that this channel will be well explored whatever may
be the result.
Tne following is a list of the fishery
ABERDEEN.
The Pacific, 3 fish, Ist of October.
The St. Andrew's, 3 fish, Ist of October.

BO'N ESS.
The Jane, 1 fish, Ist October.

DUNDEB.
The Advice, 3 fish, 40 tuns, Ist of October.
The Alexander, 4 fish, 57 tuns, Ist of October.
The Horn, 7 fish, 86 tuns, Ist of October.
The Princess Charlotte, 5 fish, 68 tuns, lit o.3tober.
HULL.
The Abram, 2 fish, Ist of October.
The Rose, clean, Ist of October.
The Lord Gambier, clean, Ist of October.
The True Love, 3 fish, Ist of October.
The Anne, 2 fish, Ist of October.
The Swan, clean, Ist of October.
PETERHEAD.
The Joseph Green, 1 fish, 15th of September.
KIRKCALDY.
The Chieftain, 3 fish, 30 tuns, Ist of October.
The Regalia, 1 fish, 12 tuns, Ist of October.

UNROLLING OF AN EGYPTIAN

MUMMY IN THE BELFAST MUSEUM.

We announced in our last (says the Banner of
Ulster), that the mummy procured by Sir J. Emer-
son Tennent in the year 1845, and kindly forwarded
by him to this town, was to be unrolled in the
museum of the Belfast Natural History Society on
Thursday. The examination was looked forward to
with considerable interest, a royal name occurring in
the inscription on the sarcophagus, and the hierogly-
phics fixing the date of the individual as connected
with the twelfth Egyptian dynasty. The sarcophagus,
hich is in a state of perfect preservation, was
obtained at Thebes—once "the city of a hundred
gates," the site of edifices without a parallel in
the world—now a heap of ruins—a vast necropolis of
yawning pits and tombs, in which it is calculated
there are from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 mummied
bodies. Thursday, at one o'clock, the members of
the Natural History and Philosophical Society, with
a number of friends, assembled in the museum, for
the purpose of witnessing the operation of unrolling.
Those present having taken their seats, the seals of
the case, which was placed on a table elevated in the
centre of the large room on the second floor, were re-
moved by Dr. Grattan, who, assisted by Dr. Carlyle,
Dr. Stevelly, and Mr. Getty, at once proceeded to
uncover the mummy. The case, which was enclosed
in a sarcophagus of wood, about two and a half inches
in thickness, and ornamented with an immense
variety of hieroglyphics, representing figures of deities,
and their gifts, bore a large number of inscriptions,
the name of the deceased, her gods, her departing
addresses and appeals, &o. It was composed of laths,
covered with canvass, and a layer of some adhesive
compound. The hieroglyphics, both on the outside
and inside, were as legible as if the paint had been
laid on a few months ago. No sooner had the cover-
ing been taken off than it was discovered that the
case must have been opened before, and that some
rude hand, probably of a plundering Arab, had cut
through to the face the thick bandaging which
wrapped the head of the mummy, and that the
swathing bands, which extended in two or three
piles from head to foot, had been carelessly bundled
up and lodged beside the shoulders. A small piece
of gilt wood, rounded, and symbolical of Eternity,
was found on the breast of the individual ; a
large collection of green beads, apparently of
metal, was discovered at the head, and three
little gilt gods, and three gilt plates were taken,
the former from the right side of the body, and the
latter from the left. The unrolling occupied nearly
two hours. The bandages were of linen, the greater
number being about three yards in length, and four
inches in breadth, and having insertion and fringe at
one end. They were of various texture—some spe-
cimens about the chest as fine as muslin—and in a
state of remarkable preservation. During the progress
of the unrolling several pieces of linen taken from the
shoulder of the mummy served, by various stamped
inscriptions, to identify the individual with the coffin,
and to point out her parentage, age, and circum-
stances. Before the mummy had been completely
uncovered, it was discovered that not a tissue
of the body hung together—that the entire flesh,
and almost all the bones, were completely pul-
verised ; and when the last folds were removed little
else than a heap of dust remained. The linen was
not much injured, the sarcophagus and case were per-
fect, the hieroglyphics were apparently fresh, even the
gods were safe ; but the Scripture truth, "Dust thou
art, and unto dust shalt thou return," was unmistake-
ably apparent in the totally decayed members of the
individual itself. Without touching on the infor-
mation to be communicated on Wednesday by Dr.
Hineks, we believe we are correct in stating that
the result of the examination will show that
the individual was of royal extraction—a princess,
about forty years of age, 4 feet 8 inches in height,
and partly deformed ; that the body was preserved
with bitumen, and is at least 3,400 years old—the
oldest, with one exception, ever unrolled. We under-
stand that upon the skull, vertebra, and one or two of
the principal bones of the arms and legs, the flesh and
muscles upon which seem to have undergone some
remarkable changes in combination with the bitumen,
experiments of an interesting character are to be
made, and that the results will be communicated on
Wednesday, after Sir James Emerson Tennent shall
have stated the circumstances under which he obtained
the mummy, and Dr. Hincks shall have communi-
cated the result of his examination.

PEAT CHARCOAL.

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We are now firm believers in the wonderful pro-
perties of peat- charcoal as a deodoriser ; and we should
be delighted to have it tested in our own city, which,
in despite of its title " beautiful," is one of the dirtiest
and nastiest in Europe. Verily we don't believe there
is in the wide world, civilized or savage, a city or
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of cure ? Can nothing be done to guard health
against disease engendered by noxious geses, and to
protect decency from daily, nightly, hourly outrage ?
We feel convinced that modern science has placed at
our disposal a valuable purifying agent, which is
capable of being turned to wonderful account, in a
healthful, moral, and economic point of view. We
believe that peat-charcoal is this purifying agent.
Curiosity induced us to pay a visit to the Cork
Workhouse on Saturday last ; and we must confess
we felt emszed how any man, or any set of men,
could have been so hoodwinked, blinded, we might
add besotted, as to have selected such a site for such
an institution. It is utterly destitute of the moans of
drainage; and, therefore. the accumulated refuse of
4,000 people has nu means of escape through the aid
of water or sewerage. Therefore, every week the
penalty is paid for the original sin of selection in the
partial removal from the premises of that which is
noxious and destructive to health. Tnis operation
was being proceeded with as we entered ; and we can
assert that the atmosphere was literally poisoned; and
that the whole space from the entrance-gate to the
board-room, including that place on which the indus-
trial department stands, and where many hundreds
were at work, was filled with the most noxious ex-
halations, which must be the prolific source of the
most malignant diseases. There is also another
tank, or trap, in the very heart of the main build-
ing ; and this cannot be touched without the most
disgusting results. We had been just after reading a
letter which has been in type some days, but which
may be seen in this day's paper, bearing the signa-
ture " A Citizen," on the subject of Peat Charcoal ;
and we were then forcibly struck by the necessity
which existed for the application of some purifying
agent, some deodorising process, for the purpose of
endeavouring to remedy the horrid grievance which
we then witnessed, and which was so disgustingly
manifest to our own senses. We could not therefore
avoid speaking to the intelligent master on the sub-
ject; and, in the course of conversation, he told us
quite sufficient to impress us with a full belief in the
value of peat charcoal as a deodoriser. We well
know the subject is an unpleasant one, and is liable
to shock many. But really we think there is ten
times more indelicacy in quietly enduring the filth
and the abomination of our streets ; and, therefore,
we feel we should be guilty of a crime if we did not
put this matter before the public. The master told us
that he prepared some turf by baking, so as to convert
it into peat charcoal, which he had then ground into
powder; and that he himself mixed a portion of this
powder in a vessel full of the noxious matter, and that
almost instantaneously it deprived it of all odour, so
that any person coming into the room would have
failed to perceive its presence. Another gentleman
told us of a somewhat similar experiment, though on
a larger scale, where the result was exactly similar.
Surely, then, we thought, here is an agent which it
is the duty of the guardians to avail themselves of,
and which can alone remedy the original evil of
locality. Here is no possibility of drainage, no possi-
bility of establishing a sufficient sewerage , and here
every week—perhaps oftener—these horrid reser-
voirs are opened, and their contents rendering the air
malignant, and destructive to health. Peat charcoal
is in this case the only possible remedy. In the first
place, it would thoroughly deodorise, or deprive of all
smell, offensive or otherwise; and, in the next, it
would convert the contents of those reservoirs into a
valuable fertilising agent, the sale of which would go
far towards defraying the cost of the institution, and
proportionately diminish the burden of the heavily-
taxed rate-payers of the union. And we therefore re-
solved to put the matter before the public without
false delicacy or disguise.
We have frequently urged upon the local authori-
ties the necessity of a proper city sewerage; and the
answer has always been its difficulty, its expense, its
consequent taxation. We admit the fairness of the
excuse ; but we insist that something must be done in
the matter. Our correspondent suggests that Mr.
Rogers be invited by the authorities "to enlighten
them on the virtues and uses of peat charcoal ;" and
really we don't think the advice a bad one—on the
contrary, we think it quite the opposite. The Wide
Street Commissioners expressed themselves ready to
give 10/. for information on the subject of "convert-
ing the manure of the city to valuable purposes."
Why then not bear Mr. Rogers on the subject ?
Hear what he has to say; ask him to give proof that
this peat charcoal is a purifying agent, and a con-
verter of noxious into inoffensive and fertilising mat-
ter; test him in every possible way, through the aid
of scientific and practical men—and if this agent be
proved valuable, then, in the name of humanity that
is afflicted, in the name of decency that is outraged,
contrive some means of introducing it not only into
your great public establishments, but into the dwell-
ings of the poor, where filth is the natural parent of
disease and death.—Cork Examiner.

Yesterday the superintendent of the Rigged SQhool
of Spitalfields attended, anal informed the Aldermen
that the girl had been a. pupil in that institution, and
had deserted it from hatrHl of work.

The girl said that she had stolen the key of the
room and given it to another girl, who stole the pro-
perty, and that she would not go back.
Alderman GH3BB said he would try a little private
imprisonment in the case, and after a nit.nth he hoped
to find the girl improved.
THE HALL OF COMMERCE Murr TRANSACTION.—
A gentleman applied on Wednesday to Alderman
Gibbs for information in what mariner to recover the
sum of 2/. 103., which he had got rid of in the fol-
lowing way :

Applicant went to the Hall of Commerce, and
being in want of a muff he bargained for one which
he was assured was made of sable, and for which he
was asked 2/. 103, As he was not a judge of such
articles, he stipulated with the tradesman that if
the muff did not satisfy the taste of a person to
whom he intended to show it, the money should
be returned ; and he pail the amount and took it
away with him, Upon putting the muff into the
hands of the party who was to decide on its value,
the purchaser was at once informed that his bargain,
instead of being the undoubted sable which it had
been represented to be, was the painted skin of an
American rabbit, and not worth much more than
was generally given for the hide of the English
quadruped of the same name. When he found that
the imposition was one of so gross a nature he
hastened back to the dealer in " sable muffs," and
putting down the commodity upon the counter de-
manded his money. The muffinan affected to be
much surprised at the second visit of his customer,
and refused to return the money, or to have anything
more to do with the skin, and it was therefore thought
right to prevent the former from making any more
traffic of the kind.

Alderman GIBBS, who did not like such a way of
making muffs either of rabbit skins or gentlemen,
sent over to the Hall of Commerce one of the Man-
sion-house officers with a short private communica-
tion, the consequence of which was, that the sum
paid for the "sable" was politely returned to the
gentleman to whom it had been insolently refused a
little before.

Yesterday the officer informed Alderman Gibbs
that the message had been effective, and of course the
Alderman issued no further directions on the subject
of " making snuffs."