The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-26 00:00:00

tumbled-in Exeter-street-, is a dreadful one. A
whole family were buried under one of then) ;
and though three unhappy children were (lug out
just alive, the poor mother, and an infant of two
years old, perished, as did an unfortunate man
at work in the street at the moment when the
mass of rottenness was falling. It appears that
these houses were only two out of several in the
same street, which, on a late survey, are describ-
ed to be in the same dilapidated condition; that
the two in question had been condemned seven
ago,—had not paid any poor-rates for five
years past—and were still left untouched by the
owners, in the generous hope that some tenant
might be found so wise as to repair them for the
benefit of the lessors. We will not argue with
selfishness, avarice, and indifference to the lives
of fellow-creatures, but we do say that the Le-
gislature must interfere to protect the subjects of
the realm—that inspectors must be appointed,
and made to discharge with activity and fidelity
the office of determining what house may be
safely left to stand, and what shall, under a severe
penalty, be put in a state of security. The risks
to which life . is exposed through neglect and in-
humanity are shocking to every mind of the least

The Constitntionnel has a long attack on the
military operations of the Russians, in which
they are spoken of as having shown a deficiency
of military talent in the conduct of the campaign.
The Duke of Wellington makes himself master
of all the political science, necessary to govern
an empire, in a day ; but far be it from us to
presume that we understand any thing of the
science in which he has gained .immortality,

though we have had the benefit of perusing ;11
his honinoits despatches. There are some ob-
jections, however, made by the Constitutionnel
to the conduct of the Russians, which it does
not require much military skill to answer. The
Berlin Gazette had observed that the Russians
ought to avoid the mistake committed by Buo-
naparte at Moscow, in advancing too far from
his -resources. Says the Constitutinnnel, the
Russians at Shumla have sterility behind them,
while Constantinople holds out abundant re-
sources to them ; and therefore in hastening on
to Constantinople, they are hastening to their
resources. But supposing the Russians were to
take the advice .of the Constitutionnel, and fill
the trenches with their dead, they have a long
and difficult passage through the mountains to
surmount, before they can enter the land of abun-
dance, every inch of which would probably be con-
tested ; and the attempt to take Shumla by as-
sault,
defended as it is by so numerous a garri-
son, might weaken them so much as to render it
hazardous to advance into Thrace. Again, were
the Russian force before Shumla so large as to
bear the loss sustained in carrying it by assault,
and yet leave sufficient troops remaining for cross-
ing the Balkan, we are met by the difficulty of
provisioning it. We throw out these observa •
tions with the diffidence which it becomes us to
entertain on a subject of which we know so little,
On one subject we can speak more positively,
and that is the proof which these operations of
the Russians have afforded of the idleness
of the apprehensions of those who have been
predicting the downfall of our Indian
Em-
pire, from the invasion of Russian armies on the
side of Persia. Should they attempt such an
invasion, without a previous occupation of the
extensive regions between themselves and India,
any force which could enter India, would be in-
stantly crushed. With regard to further con-
quests in Persia, we suspect the Russians begin
to think they have already advanced far enough
in that quarter—too far for their advantage.—
Morning, Chronicle.

A correspondent, who signs himself " A
Master of a Family," and complains of a deci-
sion hi the County Court, relative to a servant
who had summoned him for her wages, after ab-
senting herself from his house without leave for
eight nights, seems to be mistaken as to the law
of the case. He states, that the servant had
made an agreement with her mistress for a
" month's warning" or a " month's wages" on
leaving the service—and ahhough the servant
quitted the service without giving a month's
warning, the Deputy of the County Court would
not allow him to deduct a month's wages. If
the Deputy had allowed him to make that de-
duction, he would have acted contrary to the de-
cisions in the Court of King's Bench on ques-
tions of this nature—and which have been long
recognised by Judges as established by law. We
speak not now (of course) of servants in hus-
bandry, and the servants of artificers, &c., whose
contracts of service are regulated by particular
Statutes ; but with respect to domestic servants
in general the law is, that if a servant has not
been guilty of misconduct, and the master dis-
charges him without .warning, the servant- will
have a claim for a month's wages beyond the
period of actual service, without any previous
agreement to that effect. But for misconduct the
master may discharge the servant at a moment's
warning, although there should have been an
agreement for a month's warning ; and, under
such circumstances, the servant will be only en-
titled to such wages as ate due at the time of her
discharge. The instances of misconduct which
will allow a master thus suddenly to terminate
the service, are such as being absent when wanted,
sleeping from home at night without the master's
leave, or moral turpitude, by which evil example
May be brought Into a family. In our corres-
pondent's case the servant was entitled to the
wages due to her up to the first of the eight
nights during which she absented herself, and by
her misconduct he was saved a month's wages • ,
for if he had discharged her, without such mis-
comluct on her part, he would have had to pay
her for one month beyond the time she actually
served ; but in no such case can he deduct a
month actually due.—Monting Herald.
If the Duke of Wellington is able to settle
the Catholic Question at all, we trust it will be,
as has been intimated, by the simple process of
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reasons why any part of the community should
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and other proud monuments of the arts,b
sculpture, and painting, which are the boast
of past ages, as they are the ornaments
of all. Mr. O'Gorman, and the other second-
rate Catholic orators, seemed terribly alarmed
lest Emancipation be granted upon the
terms of our payine; their pric'st. Such alarm