The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS;

A rumour of Lord Amherst's recall from India comes
into circulation rather oddly, at the moment when his
Lordship has terminated, in a manner, say the friends of
Government, "so triumphant," that unhappy war, the
ambiguous cause of which, its alarming events, and incal-
culable issue, had furnished the chief arguments for a dis-
trust of the Governor-General, and given countenance to
the former anticipations of his dismissal from office. It
seems a curious policy to retain a public officer so long es
his trust was Apparently compromised, and to send him
about his business the minute it was known to.be released.
There is one supposition on wind; Mr. Canning, as the
friend of the Governor-General, might select this period
for his retirement from the Company s service. He might
have said, 0 While the terror of the contlict is uncertain,
and the animadversions upon Lord Amherst both general
mad premature, I will not consent that my protege shall
run away from India; but wait until this affair shall be
decided ; then, if the result shall prove him to have erred,
he will not All a victim to injustice. If, on the other hand
he subceeds in his policy, I. still wish my noble
friend to come home, that he may enjoy a well earned
triumph." What truth there may be in the supposition
that a certain noble Marquis has been already
named as successor to Lord Amherst, we cannot take
upon us to decide. Is it to economize the public money
that his Lordship has been wanted? A former noble
Marquis, not long since returned, was said to have had,
his peace and patronage exhausted, by a long train of de-
pendents, male and female, annually consigned to Calcutta
during his Government, to feed on the rich pastures of
the Last. The Company ought, if possible; to check this
practice, by stipulating against it, while the reins are in
their power ; that is, before " His Excellency" has set
his foot on board ship. Needy men, unless when closely
watched, are apt to prove expensive servants.—Times.

The answer of Mr;liuskisson to the manufacturers of
Bolton, praying for a law to: enforce an equalization of
journeymen's wages in the Cotton manufatture, will be
found, with some additional correspondence on the sub-
ject, in a succeeding 'column. 'ln expressing, a few days
ago, our own sentiments on this erroneous project of the
weavers, we felt no little shame at being called upon to
argue ie inexpediency of meddling with the wages of
labour, fifty leers at least after the radium* of the ques-
tion had been settled by the first writers of the day, and
after the mind of every practicarstatesman bad formed the
same conclusion as the folly of such an interference. Mr.
Huskisson's reply to the manufacturers is distinguished by
his usual good sense. 7 The Right Hon. Gentle Man tells
the petitioners, that even were it possible (which if de-
cidedly is not) to establish a minimum of wages against
the British manufacturer, it would. be obviously impracti-
cable to force the same restraint upon the master maiM-
facturers of other countries; the consequence of. which
must be an overwhelming advantage to foreigners in the
.general market, and it necestiary dismissal from work of
great numbers of English journeymen. The fact, how-
ever, is, that a reduction of wages cannot be prevented
by any law—beeause we cannot by an act of mere voli-
tion prevent a reduction of price to that point at which
our goods can enter into ageneral competition with those
of other countries. In order to secure for themselves
high %vageS, our working class must prevail upon Parlia-
ment to re=enact in full vigour the prohibitory laws,
thereby uhuiting out all foreign rivalship-rbut shutting in,
at the same time; all domestic articles, and creating a
larger price of labour by such a,limitation of the market to
home consumption, as would throw out of bread and re-
duce to the purist half or two-thirds of the cotton la-
bourers now in employment throughout England. No
attempt indeed of the kind now proposed can ever be sac-
(medial; but if it could, the effect would be to check the
improvement of mechanical sciatica hare, and to transfer
it, with the commercial profits and manufacturing ascen-
dancy which spring from it, to other quarters where the
Government, may be less disposed to trifle with trauma.-
tions which tourialt only when they are free.—lbid.

A Rev. Doctor, remarkable for his suavity of man-
ners, finely situated in a country parish not 100 miles
from George Buchanan'a monument, was one Sunday,
very lately, exhorting his beloved flock, and describing
in the strongest and most glowing terms the happiness
of Heaven. He said he could compare it td nothing
but the blessings of matrimony, and the pleasures of ,
the happy fireside, graced by a lovely, loving, and duti-
ful wife. He took oceasio»from this, to descant on
the duty of young men mart7ing soon, and relieving
the dreariness of their situations by a young and hand-
some bride. , He said, that though they possessed all
the wealth in the world, and, were masters of all the
yens in the East Indies, and all the jewels of the
Wo...st Indies, yet, if they were not married,' they still
wanted the most valuable gem of all, an agreeable wife.
He said, that there was a popular song at present,
called, Home, sweet home, which he had often admired
for its touching simplicity and exquisite pathos. It
was so appropriate to the, subject, as describing so well
the happiness of donostie enjoytnent, and, by analogy
and aeticipation, the happiness of Heaven, that, al-.
though he could not sing it to them, yet lie would take
the liberty of repeating a verse or two of it, for the
benefit of the younger part of his hearers. Accord-
ingly, he began, and actually repeated the following
Mid pleasures aull palaces tho' we may roam,
Be it ever so bumble, there's no place like home ;
A charm from thisskies seem to hallow us there.
Which search through' the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home, home, sweet sweet home !
There's no place like borne!
There's no place like hotne Glasgow Journal..
Quere. Is not the Rev. Ddetor a bachelor ? If so,
his ideas of matrimony must be as correct as a blind
man's ideas of inghland scenery.
RECORDErtSIIII, OP BillSTOL—Thie situa-
tion was hold by the late Lord Gifford. A Lo»don
paper having fu.+ated that the emoluments amounted to
2,000/. per annunt, the Bristol Journal of Saturday
last has the following' statement upon the subject :
" The gratuity, we arc' credibly informed, is ;WO
guineaa for the gaol delivery, which takes place only
once in the year, a present of it pipe of port and a
hogshead of Madeira wine, and free quarters at the
Mansion-house during his stay in the city. The si-
tuation being now vacant, we cannot omit the oppor-
tunity of reminding the Worshipful Body, the Alder-
men of our city, who appoint his successor, of a me-
morial, with nearly SOO signatures affixed to it of the
most respectable of tlteirfollow-eitizena, presented to
them more than a twelvemonth since, but to which they
have deigned no reply, requesting them to use their en-
deavours to procure for the city two gaol aeliveriem, and
two Nisi Prms Courts, in the course of th„, year. It
surely might, with much propriety, be now stipulated
with the new Recorder, that he should hold two gaol'
deliveries of the importance and humanity the
alteration no one can doubt ; nor leave we heard
, nor
can we conceive, one valid objection. that can be urged
against such an improvement in ouremulate) jurisdiction.
CORONER'S INQumsT.---On Wednesday last, an
Inquest was held on the body of John Scott, who Was killed 1.;t,Y
an explosion of hydrogen gar, at High Ifeworth Main Coal Pit,
in the minty of Durham. After a minute investigation of the
facts, the Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.
On Monday evening MI Inquest was held before
.E 411., at the Triumph tt lutriot, in gclubroke Mews,
Vpper Groorenor Place, le oftwpwien fruit% aged 13,
who died in Attmostquet g ecifkld,—Verdict,
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ALPINE IiAIIITATION.

The following curious description of a'winter habitation
in the, Alps, is taken from,a new bizarrie, rambling, but in
many respects clever wcirk, entitled " Le Mamiserit de fee
M. JeroMe,'' 'supposed to be written•by M. Franeois de
Nantes; who figured in the early part of the -Frenchßevo
Intion. • M. Jerome,• who is travelling in company with a •
metaphysical abbe, a botanist, a' mineralogist, and a young
and fashionable Parisian, taken shelter in a chalet -in the
Alps, of N'shich he-draws the following picture :
" The ',winter habitation, which you -are pleased to call
Chalet, though it is known in the cottiennes Alps only by
the name" of " Las. Strablas or l'etabla," is a parallelogram
of• from four hundred' fp six htmdred feet square. This
building, :which is ' open only to the south, and carefully
closed up, at all the other points, is usually constructed of
upright firs, stript of their bark, fixed into the earth and
calked with mosses and lichens. The roof is according to
the materials to be found in the country, either of boards,
, 1 L,"
Oaten, or nag stones; and, as it has to support, during
several months, the weight of a mass of snow of fifteen, or
twenty fc;et thickbess,'-it offers a slope or declenSion of
sixty. degrees. • Between this roof and the ground-floor, is
a loft Where hay, Wool,' and other articles, not liable to be
~
itoured by the frost, are kept. The groun&floor is alone
inhabited; It ;spayed, anti traversed in its greatest length
by a rapid mountain stream, that keeps the habitation
constatiq „elem. It •is divided into compartments by
partitions ,of boards or osier work breast high. 'At the
lower end tire placed the cattle, according to their rank and
value; each species having - a separate apartment. Their
order is generally as follows,,--horses, horned cattle, asses,
mules, sheep, and goats. ~At the. other end; which' I call
the uppe , from its being towards the head of the stream,
yi•
are thirt , or forty beds, each occupying a space of., thirty-
six-feet, and separated from each .other by little passages,
two feet
the
the women's beds are on the left rode, and
those of the men on dig. opposite. The thalweg of the
stream 4rais the line of demarcation ; its neutrality is
always respected, and its, waters are never troubled by
skirmisheii between the amazons of the left bank and the
pandoursi of the right. . Immediately below this dormi-
tory are the workshops, furnished with looms; lathes, tools,
and instrinnenti for turning wood, carding anti spinning
wool, matting stockings, and weaving clothes.—There is
also 'a If4ary, consisting of books of devotion, practical
medicine,' veterinary science, natural and civil 'history,
together Ivith some volumes of old stories. There is no
spot upot, the face of the earth where reading, writing,
ciphering and die elements of Latin, are better taught
than heres • The snows which keep them prisoners during
six montlls of the 'year,'render both masters 'and scholars
patient, and accustom them to a studious mid sedentary
life. Do you want to people your counting-houses, your
factories, Or your public offices—do not lose your time in
the plains but at the first melting of the snows, climb up
to Las S rablas, and there you will find a race of faithful,
1
intehligen ,- and laborious men, writing a fine hand, and
whose pees will never tire. Should you have a certain
hankering after nobility, nowhere - will you find more
ancient families-than amongst thii pastoral and Alpine
race. Six generations of these honest folks will extend
backwards five centuries; with seven or eight generations
more, yoU shall be beyond the Crusades ; and if to them
you add a score of forefathers, who have attained a similar
age in thise mountains, you would arrive at the Creation,
where yoh not stopped by ,the Deluge. The Montmo-
reneys and the Fezensaes may be looked upon as people.
of yestertiay; in comparison with these truly ancient stocks.
But I betir you ask me, how can this noblesse; surrounded
only by their cattle, get through the six winter months,
without neva from, thel world below—without foreign in-
telligence without gazettes, museums, •or theatres, thus
sequestered as they are from mankind. and buried in a
kind of I'A Trappe ? You wish to know if they sing,
donee, and pray, and lead any thing like a Christian • life
in that seclusion. To. which I have the honour of an-
swering, That they .do above there' pretty much the same
that we.tio below here; they live in the midst of. beasts
(hat e ily 44d are not annoyed by the circumstance, because
' the beasts they have. amongst them are useful 004
They exercise their families and make stockings, baSktiti
butter, and cheese ; and all these things are better matte , .

than in the, plains, because the. mountaineers have more
time on their hands, and take greater trouble with them.
There they are not incessantly broken in upon by idle
visits, nor troubled 'with letters of imitation; they are
not obliged to run the chance of being stifled at a wedding,
or catching cold at a funeral. When a birth or a death
takes plate in the,ctubla, the stream is near for the first
ease, and in the second they have only to go outside the
door to find a Pere la Chaise—everY thing may.be done
Without- putting. themselVes Out. of their way. If
.yr6u
should be inclined to walk you may do so in the space.
around the building from which the snow has been clear-
ed away ; and if a desire for more distant excursions
should seduce you, you have only,. during a sharp north
wind, to put. on a pair of large snow-shoes, and fly over
the abytules covered with frozen snow; but if, during

this perilous excursion, a puff from the south should coma
upon you, the abyss yawns anti swallows you.—You may
easily suppose then, that doting winter there is no lack of
. _ _

bag-pipes; Mites, arid fifes, among shepherds who make
use of them all the summer. Unlike 'Horace in his old
age, they'do not hang up their lyres upon the wall—they
play upon them, but only at stated intervals. They do
not give balls and concerts every day; they know that trite
enjoyment results from the Alternation of labour and re-
creation, and. that it is no more permitted to shepherds
than to princes to spend their lives in listening to eternal
symphonies. As to their food, it is the same for all ; an
immense copper beiler fixed in the middle of the e*bla is

in a state of eternal ebullition ; it contains mutton,york,
the salted flesh of the chamois, cutlets of thti mountain rat,
and pulse and vegetables of various kinds. From 'this en-
eyclopedieal nutrmeit may be procured seven or eight very
succulent dishes, that stimulate the appetite by their sa-
voury odOur.' 'As to prayer, they' are never neglieted,
neither in the morning .when rising, nor at night when
lying down;, I have never seen them sit .to table nor rise
up from it, without returning thanks.. These unsophisti-
cated people believe in God, and bless him in the simplicity
of their hearts---they read t,te gospel of.the day, rest from
labour on Sundays and festivals, and sing psalms. With
regard to their morals, these people are unexceptionable;
there is probably no, instance of libertinism to be found in
the annals of the etoblas. Voluptuousness finds eternal
snows a very uncongenial abode; its absence is the prin-
cipal cause of the health, vigour, tranquillity, and happi-
ness possessed by these people ; besides, they are all-con-
tinually in the presence of each other. Should modesty
ever disappear from the plains, she will be found in the
winter habitations of the Alps,"—Tediabtith Evening
Courant.

BLIND TRAVELLEIL-1 here is now resident at
Plymouth, a man named Philip Davies, •32 years of
y
age, who has been blind from the age of six ears, o_ f
whom many remarkable feats are narrated.. ffe lately
visited Bath, without a guide and returned to. Ply-
mouth, not having once gone out of his way. He had
a letter to deliver to an individual in Bath, whose re-
sidence he discovered without any difficulty, solely
from the directions given him at Plymouth. He walks
the streets of Plymouth, with the utmost confidence,
and has for many years supported himself by his trade
as it basket maker. He has offered, provided he can
situate in
obtain sufficient patronage, to discover any house,
sistanee only
any town or city in England, with such as,.
Possessed of the
as would be required by any person who
know hi
confidently,
powers of vision and those who
accomplish the task. The • that he will be able to
avert '
Animal
principles on
are true to nature, though his mode of ratiocination is
which he acts
peculiar to the blind.
sensibility is his chief
dependence; sense of touch, o and so exquisite is his f
hearing., and of smell, that
Lbody may be said
to receive impressions from the exterma world.