The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

A POPULAR TRADITION.!---DEVIL'S WALL,

It is that famous wall which formerly separated England froin
Scotland, many parts of which still exist, and which even time
has not injured. The strength of the cement and the hardness of
the atone have persuaded the inhabitants of adjoining districts, that
it was built by the hand of the devil ; and the more 'superstitious
amongst them are very anxious to collect the irnallest remains of
it, which they mix with, the foundations of their houses, in .order
to give greater solidity. A Scotch gardener, on digging in the
soil of his garden, fouud a atone of a considerable size, upoh which
was an inscription, in the dialect of the period, purporting that it
bad been placed there for the security of the walls of the castle and
of the garden, and that it had been brought thither from a great
wall, of which it had formerly constituted a part; but that there
would be as much danger in moving it, as there would be
advantage in leaving it in its place. The owner of the estate,
who was less credulous than his ancestors, wished to have it
transported into another spot, in order to expose it to public
view In an ancient monument. .Workpien were employed to
raise it from the ground by memo,' of machinery, and they suc-
ceeded, as they would have done with common stone. It re-
mained upon the edge of the hole, while curiosity induced seve-
ral Perim* to anseend into the cavity, amongst the rest, the gar-
dener, several servants, and the two soot of tbe proprietor. who
amused themselves for sorei time in digging in the hole. Thi
fatal stone, which had not beeri paced in • a just equilibrium,
chose that Moment ferjellitig to the bottom of the cavity; and
crashed all thole, that were in it. This, was but a prelude of
the misfortunes which this stone was to occasion. The
young wife of the elder of the two brothers soon learnt, what
had *med. She hurried to the garden, with the wild
transports of a woman who has ,nothing left in the world to
care for ; and she arrived there at the lame when the workmen
were using their utmost efforts to raise the 'atone again, in the
faint hope of 'finding some remalon of life-In the Unfortunate air-
fare," Whom it covered. They had. half raised it, and it wan in
fact perceived, by certain movements,' titer they still breathed,.._.
when the imprudent wife losing all care for herself, threw herself
supported
the stone, Precipitately on .the body of bet basb,sodi that the workmen,
idbylw liar action,,
k:
Unfortunately let go the nutehines-which
and burled her with the others. This mei-
" dont still further confirmed the superstition of the Scotch.; they
failed not to attribute it to' sent, power established for the pre-
' servation of the wall cif Scotland, and of all the stones which have
i been detached from it.---Afaidetone

from Copen-
By lettera reeeiveennTuesdaymornilig
hagen, of the date of
,October 19, we find a consider-
able advance had takeo place in grain :—Oata were
quoted from 19a. to, 21a. per quarter; and wheat 245.
free on board. ;

It is a remarkable fact, that the Cost of a daily
newspaper, and a daily advertisement, for a whole year,
in the United States, is only about 81. while in this
country ib is above 4d1.-..Liverpool 411140 n.