The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-16 00:00:00

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SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN THE RlVER.—Yesterday
an inqUest was held before William Carter, Esq., at the Spread
Eagle, Rotherhithe, as to the death of a man unknown, who
was found dead under very remarkable and suspicious cir-
cumstances. Thomas Craddock, a waterman, deposed that
on Monday last, as he was rowing past the platform at Ro-
therhithe, he perceived the body of a man floating down the
stream, which he immediately got into his boat. He then
discovered that there was a frightful fracture of the right leg,
through the skin of which the bone was protruding. There
was also a bruise on one side'side of his face. He had made
every inquiry, but could obtain no clue as to who the de-
ceased was, or by what means he came to his death. Mr.
Gardner, the beadle, said there were no less than five persons
now missing whose bodies are supposed to be in the river, and
though he had inquired on both sides of the river, had not
been successful in getting the slightest information. The
jury returned a verdict--" That the deceased was found
dead in the river, but there was no evidence to show how he
came there, or by what means his death was caused."
STRIKE.---The sailors of South and North Shields
have turned out. The object of the strike is to get an ad-
vance of wages. The present rates of wages are, in the
coal trade, from 3/. 10s. to 3/. 12s. 6d. per voyage, and in the
American and Baltic trade, from 21. ss. to 21. Ils. per month.
The wages demanded are 4/. for the coal trade, and 31. for
the Baltic. Numerous meetings have been held by the sai-
lorsrew in the Loyal Standard and Good Design Rooms, he
resolution in favour of the strike were passed.—NeTeast/ - e
Advertiser.

LATE ACCIDENT AT BARCLAY
AND PERKINS'S BREWERY•
MEANS OF PREVENTING ITS RECURIZOCE°
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. f
Slll,—Will you permit me, through the medium of
your widely-circulated Journal, to draw public attention
re:
to a plan which, as it strikes me, would effectually ptil
vent the recurrence of such dreadful accidents as l'
which occurred the other day at Barclay and Perkins
brewery, by which two human beings lost their livee":
suffocated by the carbonic acid gas generated in a vas
into which they had descended. The plan I propose
°
to furnish every man, before he descends into one t
these enormous vats, with an Indian rubber, or air-tigha
tube, the length of which should considerably excee,
the depth of the vat. One end of this tube should ha%
affixed to it a mouth-piece and stop-cock,
the workman should take down with him into the be
taking eare to keep it closed by means of the
stop-cock, leaving the other end loose on
outside of the vat. Should the workman during hl
ir
descent have reason to suspect that he was in 211'
danger of inhaling- any noxious gas, he should haul;
diately apply the mouth• piece, and turn the stop-cock'. o 0
as to render the tube pervious, when his communicati,
and this ena,
with the external air would be instantly restored thronf"
the medium of the tube, and he would breathe frela
It would be right that, the person thus situated shli,
draw his breath in through the tube, but should breoa
out through the nostrils, as otherwise the carbonic licit
gas, which is the product of the lungs, and which 15
rid of by each act of expiration, Is ould accumulate
the tube, and probably produce suffocation. -
- I am, Sir, your very obedient servant.
J• C. S.

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111 E FUNDS— PRICE''
(CLOSING
BRITISH FUNDS.
.. .
277iP
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons 974 Ditto Old Annuities...
..„,
34 per Cent. Red IO3A Ditto New Annuities.. .....ra
New 34 per Cent
New 5 per Cent..
..,.put .
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ••"' ......
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 ... 124 Consols for Acct. ....•
FOREIGN FUNDS.
'"'
A t•trinn, 5 per cent.... !Portuguese, 5 per eact. ....,
Belgian b per cent 1064 i Ditto, New Ditto ......•••
...,
Brazilian Bonds 791 'Prussian, 5 per cent.... -
B unos A res 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. ...•'
Cniliati 6 per cent :Ditto, Metallic ..... .. •••• 93
Colombian, 6 per cent l3i Spanish, 5 per cent......
Ditto. 1824 iDitto, 3 per cent ....•••••• 1;1
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93 'Ditto, Deferred....
.....;,
...e.
Danish, 3 per sent French, 5 per cent. f. „.c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent !Exchange ...... ...• -1..... ...e.
llexican, b per cent 34 'French, 3 percent. t;s' i
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 'Dutch, 211 per cent. ,„421
Porovian,lB2s,6 per et. 31 'Ditto, 5 per cent.... tv7.
SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 paid) in 14
Ditto New Shares (25 paid)
Ditto Extension (13s 4d paid) ............
.....
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (.12 paid)
43
London and Brighton (50 pa d)
London and Guildford Junction ( b paid)... 79
London and South Western (41/ 6e 10dpd) 21
Ditto Eighths (15e. paid) "' Ibi
London and Croydon, Railway (Trunk) ... §i
Lancaster and Carlisle (5 paid).....• ....... I. 113
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
....i..,.,.-..- 651
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. . ...
54i
Norwich and Brandon (2 paid) ..... ..... •
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)

COP'
A TRIBE OF SAVAGE DWARFS.--Beyond ~--e th ere
sive wilderness which bounds Caffra, on the seliceed.
the Doko, a pigmy and perfectly wild race, not 7,%100,
ing four feet in height, of a dark olive come oto
and in habits even more closely approxitnerdtbell.,
the beasts that perish " than the Bushmen a ~01.
Africa. They have neither idols, nor teniPl; Or(
sacred trees ; but possess a glimmering idea ° 0,01
preme Being, to whom in misfortune (such es prof:
their relatives being slain by the kidnapper), the' ei,
standing on their heads, with their feet resting tubas
a 'tree, " Yere, if, indeed, thou art, why des.g 0°
suffer us to be killed ? We are only eating area 0
ask neither food nor raiment. Thou halt rnisootri
up. Why dolt thou cast us down ?" The c foest
inhabited by the Doko, is clothed with a dense Coe'
of bamboo, in the depths of which, the peOP' grO
struct their rude wigwams of bent canes 8114 assess
They have no King, no laws, no arts, no arms ; of cal'
neither flocks nor herds ; are not hunters, d°„! koo°'
tivate the soil, but subsist entirely upon fru"-; cb
mice, serpents, reptiles, ants, and honey ; both °' , end
latter they lick, like the bear, from off their allofing
hands. They beguile serpents by whistling, and r theta
torn them piecemeal with their long nails, delpbsnts'
raw ; but although the forests abound with el roes 10
buffaloes, lions, and leopards, they have no e'slle
of destroying or entrapping them. A large tree,too
s
Loko, is found, amongst many other species, „tors
an extraordinary height, the roots of which, when "are tP.;
are red, and serve for food. The yeho and tneYieewell
principal fruits ; and to obtain these, women, as, the
men ascend the trees like monkeys ; and 'lc each
quarrels and scrambles, not unfrequently thr°,,e
other down from the branches. Both se''',;,
perfectly naked, and have thick, pouting ".,x-0-01/1'
minutive eyes, and flat noses. The hair is not "„Baia
and in the female, reaches the shoulders. The men the
no beard. Tho nails, never pared, grow both °el ie,
hands and feet like eagle's talons, and are ernPice
digging for ants. The people are ignorant of the
11 ith •
ex ter
They perforate their ears in infancy ,40"
pointed bamboo, so as to leave nothing, save the tbe
nal cartilage • but they neither tattoo nor PierreW,,
nose ; and the only ornament worn is a Pp,'
composed of the spinal process of a serpent.--
Highlands of 'Ethiopia. do°
A STRANGE VOW.—A singular instance of OD/.
yieiced
devoteeism—a Brahmin from the north—ht&niiiri*
these parts, and is now on his way to Cape.hit
if he has not already reached it. He r°,l
self over and over on the bare growl', to to
three or four miles each day, on his welhstt be
above-mentioned place ; and it is said %rev'
has travelled in this manner all the way from 13e°00att
doing which he has consumed nine years and threet.is boy
He sets out at dawn, with thick cloths tied round :I ~rO,
and temples ; and, having reached the village lil thel
he performs his devotions, and spends the rest oft r
with his family, who travel with him in bulhsk,fof ten °
is fanned, as he rolls along, by his son, a youth
twelve years of age ; while the musicians a the_ongee
which he leaves, or of that to which he is going,!ic4
him with music and shouting: thousands of penAite to
with admiration upon his progress, and applo tom!"
a great soul"—a most religious man. lv nen anal o;i;
a tank, or river, or other places which he e b Ws;
by rolling on the ground, he walks throng..., Ap
on the other side, rolls the same distailliu: Ca,
the bank, and back again. When he res° tliknst
Comorin, he is to set a plaintain, and wait
,tbeworshorrlr
offers the fruit of it to the deity whom 'Leto oest of
after which, they say, he is to roll back again ioslit -
on the other side of the Ghauts, He is a S tont
glilab re'
about 40 years of age, and is said to be not psis% 1,1
jured by his devoteeism. This act, instead ° hest
garded as a waste of time and labour, is g 0,
the Hindoos, generally, as an evidence of t cof it
wisdom and magnanimity, ; and yet s°llleregerl,o
enlightened probably by Christianity', t cer.ogs
as folly ; unless, indeed, which is ritb°o offe..l,itv
he derives a splendid profit from itily
of the people. Certain it is that hie:: is stu",esge
tain a most respectable appearance; but his st;oce
he was a man of property before he set out 010..nia5",40,
pilgrimage. Many will,probably,consider th.serog kilUcleo
of mistaken piety; but, the real cause of it bf. weal; to
will perhaps explain most other instances 0 easy nib
votion. It appears he had no child; and, beintghe sinsdelti
bear this evil—which the Hindoos ascribe t° ,t• be lißich
former birth—made a vow to his god that' ante fistoe
grant him a son, he would undertake the Pf.„,,tbe,obly
he is now performing. A son was born to Wit lisisl3.olose'
who fans him as he rolls along. It is said, butr,er, be
in
bly a tale, that he did not at once begin hislihet WP",ighv
quence of which the child became blind, and child joie'
thee is t
set about his undertaking, a restoration of :055 A. 0
was granted by the deity. Perhaps the buso'tapsai7,bis
rably pleasant to the man by this tirae, effwere nt;toula
he is, by pomp and praise ; but, even if 1:: e gOdto,lllo
fear of losing the child, by the anger of tt;5e.....4
be sufficient to keep him faithful to his prom'
0f th°
•ik
Indian Journal.
NEW MECHANICS' HALT.;.—Th-, 0,-0, ,14.
Mechanics' Institution, in this town, will be be dole
in; of which they will have reason to be no stk.:a,
being calculated for the greatest utility, it w
~„„lVo•
tute of architectural adornment. The lecture to
dO°4 by far the largest and most convenient the
1411 O
tingham Review. 1 A 0
A singular announcement appears
state
AA
th!Aeyr
of some zealous Chartists in this town. It TavThe dee
entitled John Frost will be perfonned on sh_Aroleo,
the Chartist Chapel. Riste-place. The pruc7lg tbs,WtcP"
voted to the fund for defending and
"
made at the " Battle of Maperley
Review.

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BIRTHS. g•P'' j
On the 6th inst., the lady of George IT WO' ,
place, Leeds, Yorkshire, of a daughter the ec'
On the 7th inst., at Hamburgh, the ladyrolia—,gbieiriirt., P.
Dewar, Chaplain to the British residents, 0:
On the 13th inst., at Belinda-terrace, it'll."'
Dewick, of a son.

13001'
• MARBLED. Robert Joe
On the 21st of December, 1843, at Bombay, of
Esq., M,D., to Anna Maria, eldest dauOter
tebeSlrld°C'
Rivett Carnac, Bart., of Rook-cliff, ilittnP'lllr„,e.,al OA— Per
On the 13th inst., at St. Pancras, Henry re--cieorge
Esq., to Amelia, second daughter of the late k,
heard, Esq., of Guildford-street, Russell-Ware'

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DIED. 1 t Wail)
On the 6th of November, 1843, on her arriirt at tbs -
Elizabeth Mary, the wife of Captain C. . Bui" - A.
Bengal Native Infantry. of the Se-.
On the 6th inst., at Boulogne, Bernard, sort - e,
Lyall, Vicar of Godmersham Kent. Gr.
vi 0600
On the 10th inst., Maria, the' wife of George y'r- J.
Es a, of Southernhey, Exeter. .., the Pl'
On the 12th inst., at Rider's Wells, near Le" ef4
Lusntotn,eM.A., Rector of Ovingdean, :WO Stl Ripley', StirreP
Rev
13th inst., at Dunsborough Thuse, •- 41 r
the Rev. George Walton Onslow, aged 76. Ow- e
Queeo 5 f th
On the 22d of December, 1843, on board theAbon, 0 •
off the mouth of the Indus, Captain James W'
9th Regiment Bengal Native Infant% . catch, CSPt°ll
On the 24th of December last, at 1100.1, 1n lict
J• .11,14
ohn Davies, of the Bombay Army. • Altel Rlbt
On the 4th inst., at Clifton, the Hon. Valentla of I
of the late Sir Francis Burton, G.C.11 and sister o.
~
Hon. Lord Cloncurry.

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