The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

NEW SERIAL BY HARRISON AINSWORTH.

With the Magazines, Price One Shilling, No. VT. (to be completed
in Twelve Monthly Numbers)

MERVYN CLITHEROE, by HARRISON
AtNswonxn. With Illustrations by Phiz.
London : George Rontledge and Co., Farringdon-street.

COLBURN'S N•EW MONTHLY
. MAGAZINE.
The JANUARY Number will be published on the 31st.
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

1110tLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE
Ai—. for JANUARY, 1858. No. DVII. Price 2s. 6d.

CONTENTS.

linnger and Thirst. •
What will he do with it? By Pisistratus Caatoa. —Part VILE.
The Bells of Botreaux : a Legend.

Debit and Credit.
The Scottish Universities.
The Poorbealt Mutiny— The Punjab.
Berangtr.
The First Bengal European Fusiliers in the Delhi Campaign.
Note to Article " The Company's Raj " in November No.
William Blackwood and Sons. Edinburgh and London.

1858 NOTICE IS lIEREBY GIVEN.
• Many of the Editions (above 100 at
from 6 pence 'to 14 sbil'lngs each) of LETTS'S DIARIES being
scarce, Regular Subscribers should no longer delay to purchase. In
the event, however, of a change being necessitated, it should be
borne in mind that the gradations of difference are se small as often
to render it a bona fie advantage. Prepaid orders, post free.
LETTS, SON & Co., Stationers & Mapsellers, 8, Royal Exchange.

Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth,
FEIST'S RACING RECORD.
Edited by ALBERT FEIST,
Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re•
porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers.
In addition to other useful information, it will contain a complete
Record of the Racing and Steeplechase Season in England, Ireland,
and Scotland from the let of January up to the day of publication,
Deity Lots for 1858, and Nominations for all the Principal Races
for next year ; forming one of the most copious works of reference
ever published.
W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood'a Rents, Hol-
born, London.

ARETIRED PHYSICIAN, whose sands of
life have nearly run out, discovered while in the East Indies
a certain cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds,
and General Debility. The remedy was discovered by him when
his only child, a daughter, was given up to die. He had heard
much of the wonderful restorative and healing qualities of prepara-
tions made from the East India Hemp, and the thought occurred to
him that he might make a remedy far his child. He studied hard,
and succeeded in realising his wishes. Ills child was cured, and is
now alive and well. He has since administered the wonderful re-
medy to thousands of sufferer; in all parts of the world, and he has
never failed in making them completely healthy and happy. Wishing
to do as much good as passible, he will send to such of his afflicted
follow beings as request it, this recipe, with fall and explicit direc-
tions for makin rit up and successfully using it. He requires each
applicant to enclose hits six stamps—one to be returned as postage
on the re. Ipe, and the remainder to be applied to the pavment of
advertisement: advertement: Addreae to H. James, 111. D., 14, (;Dell-street,
Strand.

Bonne in Permanent
Polley _.•
Sum addition Bonus in Re action of
taken Age. Cash. Annual Pre-
out in : Assured.
Assured. to Sum
row, DARING AND DESPERATE BURGLARY
--1-- -- • --- NEAR BIRMINGHAM*.
---- ----
x £a. d. £s. d. £s. d.
1838 55 • 3,000 867 7 424 1 4 56 3 8 •
18'41 48 4,000 749 17
4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4
1845 $9 2,000 932 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0 A burglary was committed at ono o'clock on the
1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 6 10 15 2 morning of Thursday last, ql Mr. Henry Beck's,
1851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7
near Long Bridge toll-gate, King's Norton near

The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter-
national Life Assurance Society:
The Society was established in MR.
Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the_assured every
five years..
Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand pounds.
Its investments, at the date of the last annual report, amounted
to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds.
It. annual income is ninety thousand pounds.
' The number of policies now in torte exceed six thousand.
About ole thousand new policies are added every year.
Since its'eommencement the Society has paid in claims upwards
of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair
man, 142, Strand.
142, Strand, Landon, W.C.

LEDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman,

OYAL FRED' HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Rd —The AID of the benevolent is earnestly solicited.
John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane, is Treasurer, by whom
donations will be thankfully received : also by the following bankers:
3lessrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co.: Berries and Co. ;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smyth, Payne, and Co.;
Glynn antiantiCo. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay anpleo. ; Denison and
Co. ; Deacon, and Co.; Overewl, Gurney, and. Co. ; Mos-
terman •anil Co.; by NI es.rs. Nisbet and Co., Burners-street; and at
the Hospital from Ten till Five..
By order,

S. S. SMITH, Secretary.

•
OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSLT ITUTION —Th'e Committee of this Institut•on would
earnestly call the attention of the public to the great and extra-
ordinary exertion which the Society is now making to supply ex-
posed points on the coast with efficient e-boats, and which will
involve an expenditure of more than £3.000: they therefore earnestly
APPEAL to the benevolent for ASSISTANCE to enable them to
ntinue, With unabated vigour, their hitherto successful exertions
In the cause of humanity.
T 80MA.% PARINeI, Chairman.
Oct. 27, 1857. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following additional
contribution.:—
The Misses Frends,don. £5O 0 0 James Taylor, Esq., a £ t 1 0
S. Poyntz; Esq., 2nd don. 50 0 Admiral Sir Eaton Tra-
Lady Tones Parry, don. 50 0 vers, annual . .
Sir I ohn Maxwell, 'tart., a 5 0 0 Lord Shelborne, don 2O 00'
Donations and snhscriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs.
Percival, and Co ; Coutts and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; by all the
metropolitan and country hankers ; and by Richard Lewis, Secretary,
at the °trice of the Inst tution, 14, John-street, Adelphi.

NO v!ORE I'ILLS NOR ANY OTHER MEDICINE
amtga ( a ithout Physic) of Indigestion (Dyspepsia),
Flatulency, Phlegm, all Nervous, Bilious, and Liver Complaints,
Constipation,
Hysteria, Neuralgia, Dysentry, Diarrhoea, Acidity, Palpitations,
,
Heartbnr,, Headache. Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Seam
Nausea, and Sickness (during pregnancy or at sea),
Sinking Fits,
Cough, A•ahrna, Bronchitis, Consumption, also Children's Com-
' plaint; are effected by
delicious REVALENTA
U BARRY'S
,1, ' Al. ARICA FOOD, which restores health without purging,
nconvenence or expense, het s:tves fifty times its eost in otner
remedies. It is, moreover, h best food for infants and invalids
generally, as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach, nor inter-
feres with a good liberal diet, hut imparts a healthy relish for lunch
and dinner, and restores the faculty of digestion, and nervous and
muscular energy to the most enfeebled.
We extract a few out of the many thousand expressions of grati-
tude from invalids :—Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia, from tbe Right lion.
the Lord Stuart de Decies. " I have derived considerable bene
due tfio
t
from Da Barry's, Revalenta Arabica Food, and consider it
yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines.
Stuart do Decies."—Curl, No. 49,832. " Fifty years' indeseribable
cough, constipation,
agony from dyspepsia,. nervousness, asthma, stipation,
flatulency, spasms, and sickness at the stomach and vomiting, have
been removed by Du Barry's excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham
L ig, near Diss, Norfolk."—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs,
of Hazing Vicarage, Waltham Cross, Harts, a cure of extreme ner-
v rasness, indigestion, gatherings, low spi near Liver
rits, and nervous ies.—
Cure No. 48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre,
part : a cure or ten year's dyspepsia, and the horrors of nervous irrita-
bility. Cure No 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspep-
sia, • emits irritabi. Cnro . 34,210. . Shorland of ropsy
ebility. Cue'
N tyo. 36,212.N0 Dr
Captain Allan ef epileptic fits.
Canu.l re,No
. 42.116 Major Edit, of enlargement of the liver andtotal
prostration of strength. Cure No. 36,418. Re v. Dr. Minster of
cramps, spasms, and daily vomitings, Cure. No. 26,418. Dr. Har-
vey of diarrhoea and debility. Cure No. 39,62 Dr.
8. . Wurtzer
of consumption. Cure No. 32,883. William Hunts, Esq., barrister,
of paralysis. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. .Tames Roberts, wood merchant,
of thirty years diseased Tangs, spitting of blood, liver derangement,
partial Deafness. Cure No. 4 ,814. Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester,
of two ye ll's' diarrhoea. Cure No 52,612. The Dowager Lou
of Castlestuart, of many years' nervous irritability, bile, and iodi-
gestion. Cure No. 54,812. Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured of con-
sumption, after her medical advisers had abandoned all hopes of
con-
stipation, indigestion and debility, recovery. Cure No, 180. Twenty-five yearsi'ncrvousness,
atristry and which no medicine could
Reeves, 181, Flee4-street, London." remove or relieve, have been
o. which have suffered great
-
effectually cured b 3 Du P.arrv's Foodcramps, in a very short time. W.
No. 4 208 • "Fight years' dis-
furquiries. ispasms, and nausea,
which Orly servant had consulted the advice
effectually cured by I) Barry's le advice of many, have been
.
healthlev .
joreheansrtsoF,rfianfe i Ff, ofoadd. f i
nlg
tsohna 11 hhappy to answer any
Rec-
tory, Norfolk." No. 22,836. " Three ,
with pains in my neck and left arm, and generalexeSeshslivi e nervosness,
debility, which ren-
dereid frty life very miserable, has been r adi' cally removed by Du
Barry'' health restoring Food. Alex. Stuart, Archdeacon of Rots,
Skibbereen." Cure No. 3,906. " Thirteen years' cough, indigestion,
and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent
Revalenta Arabica Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth."
ampartant Caution against the fearful clangors of spurious imita,
tation tt —.
The Vice-Chancellor Sir William Page Wood granted an injune-
tian ,:n the 10t1r March, 1854, against Alfred Hooper Neville, for
anal:ling "Du Barry's Ilevalenta Arabica Food."
.
Suitably paced for all climates, ard with full instructions. .In
canisters, lib 2s ad ; 21h 49 6ti ; 51b lls , 12Ib 225. The 121 b car-
riage free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry En Barry and
co., 77, Regent-street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., pur-
veyors to her Ai-Westy, ltia, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Clracechureh-
street ; 330, 430, and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 10, b
street; and 150 Pod 158 03.1bra-511'001 •

A burglary was committed at one o'clock on the
morning of Thursday last, at Mr. Henry Beck's,
near Long Bridge toll-gate, King's Norton, near
Birmingham. llor some years past Mr. Beck has
been farm bailiff to Captain Sheldon, of the Comb,
situate about a quarter of a mile from the toll-
gate. Mr. Beck's residence was at a cottage about
100 yards from Long Bridge-gate, , and stood a
little distance from the main New Bromsgrove-
road. The bailiff had given notice to leave Cap-
tain Sheldon, and on the morning of Thursday had
with him at the cottage, besides his wife, hisbrother
Thomas, a man 65 years of age. Retiring to bed
as usual, Henry Beck was awakened by a loud
noise, and heard the front door kicked violently,
and at last burst open. Jumping out of bed, and
running to the front bed-room window, Mr. Beck
saw a man standing in the turnpike road, who im-
mediately threw-a large stone at him, which came
through the window, but did not hurt him.
Alarmed at this, and hearing the footsteps of men
inside the cottage, Bock called his brother, and
direetly jumped through a back window into the
garden, and ran off to the toll-gate for assistance.
His brother, Thomas Beck, seizing hold of two iron
bed-rods, and in his shirt, went to the top of the
stairs, where he saw two fellows in the act of coming
up. h) at once, with nianly courage, attacked the
burglars with the bars, and kept them at bay. In a
minute or two afterwards a pistol was fired at
him, and then a second, third, and fourth discharge
followed,..at short intervals. Nothing daunted,
however, the old man plied his iron weapons with
such effect that, escaping the pistol shots by turn-
ing behind an angle of the stairs, he forced his
assailants, two in number, to retreat. According
to his account these villains kept their head down,
so that he had no opportunity of seeing their faces.
He says that they had their shirts over their
clothes, but Superintendent Humphries is oflopinion
that they wore short white cotton jackets, which
navvies, &c., wear. Shortly after the two Virglars
had gone, police-constable Harris, who me on duty
near the cottage, entered, and; 'of course, hearing
what hail taken place, set off in pursuit. owever,
the officer was only in time to see the third man in
the road, who had kept up an incessant shower of
stones, take to his heels, leap over a gate into the
fields, and in the darkness he also got off. Police-
constable Hafris states that hearing the cries of
" Murder" and "Thieves" raised by Mr. Beck, he
was going there at speed, when Mr. Cooper, far-
mer, liviesg near, who had also been aroused, spoke
to him from his bed-room window, and asked
what was the matter. This delayed Harris, who
otherwise would have arrived at the cottage whilst
the burglars were there, and Mr. Beck; the toll-
house keeper, also coming up directly after Harris,
it is reasonable to infer that two at least out of the
three might have been captured. The search
which took place disclosed the marks which
the slugs from the pistol had made on the stair-
case wall. Several slugs were found (pieces of sheet
lead cut up), and Harris also picked up a pistol
near the front door of the cottage, which appeared
to have been but recently discharged. Nearly 100
stones were also found on the bed-room floor,
thrown by the fellow in the road. We learn also
that Mr. Beck, who is reported to have saved a
little money, purchased some little time ago a
house and land for the sum of 2001. The usual
deposit, 101., was paid at the time, and by the
terms of the contract, the remainder, 1901., was to
be paid on the 24th December, the very day of this
attempted robbery. Mr. Beck says that during
the preceding week some strange woman called at
the cottage, and after talking for some time on
ordinary matters, asked, " Mr. Beck, you have to
pay your money for the house on the 24th, haven't
you?" and an answer was given the curious inquirer
in the affirmative. This clearly shows that the
gang were well acquainted, no doubt, with the fact,
and it was to gain this prize that the foregoing
daring attempt was made. Old Thomas Beck
says, "Its a bad job the rogues didn't hold their
heads up, or I should have jobed their eyes out."
No trace of the burglars has been discovered. Mr.
Superintendent Humphries and the men under his
orders have been indefatigable in their exertions to
effect' this most desirable object. It will be seen-
that keeping down their heads so that old Beck
coulci not see their features, and all wearing the
common white jackets referred to, no chance oe-
eurre'd of securing any mark of identity as to this
desperate gang.--Birmingham Journal.