The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

BONE MILLS AND PUNISHMENT

WHEELS IN UNION WORKHOUSES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUrv.

Sfa,—That a very many improper transactions are car-
rying on tity4 in some ttnioirworknouses is as clear as that
the houses•have been built. Sir J. Graham expressed
his astonishment at the statements made by Mr. Wakley
in the House of Commons this day week, and said he
c,iuld not believe the assertions ; if what was stated be
true, he must have heard of the cirmmstances before.
L t not the Home Secretary be deceived; he may depend
upon it that in some union-houses transactions take place
which he little thinks of. The c ,untry has paid officers
in abundance, beginning with the poor-law commissioners
and downwards, and yet (even from % hat has been
broached in Parliament during the last six months) we
have most disgraceful transactions carried on in union
workhouses.

It is high time Sir James Graham set about having
those scandalous transactions put an end to.—Your obe-
dient servant, A CLOSE 06SERYEIL
Aug. 8, 1845.

THE BRAZILIAN PIRATES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
Sta,—When the Felicidade was captured by the Wasp,
there being no slaves on beard, was st.e a legal prize and &
British vesiel until condemned by the Mixed Commission
Court at Sierra Leone?

If the Felicidade was not an adjudged legal prize of the
British Government, was a British naval officer justified i°
using the Felicidade, a Braz Tian vessel, in capturing another
Brazilian vessel (the Echo) even having slaves on board?
If the Felicidade was still under the Brazilian Governuteoty
the vessel not having been adjudged to be a legal prize when
the crew of the Echo was placed on board, was not any offence
committed by any part of the Echo's crew, on board the
Felicidade, liable to be adjudicated by the Brazilian Govern-
ment, and not by a British court of justice, the capture of the
Echo being supposed to be illegal, not having been shade by
British officers trom a British ship ?—Yours, &c.,
Ilfracombe, Aug. 8. D.

THE CONDEMNED PIRATES AT EXETER :The
Western Times says that on Wednesday a further resin"
until the 25th November, for the pirate slavers left for Wow/
tion at Exeter, was received by the Governer of the gaol °
that city.
GLASGOW ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—It will be
seen, in reference to the advertisement in another column, that
a singularly interesting work is about to be published, 13.,i,
subscription. It is a republication of the old Glasgol
Courant, from the 14th of October, 1745, to the 13w
October, 1746, which gives a complete detail of the mow
silents and romantic adventures of the Pretender. the
work has been undertaken by William Meikleham, LLD"
solcitor, in Glasgow, and secretary to the University. He jg
the son of Professor Meikleham, and is in possession, we be-
lieve, of the only copy extant. As a record of news, notices,
and advertisements, of the inhabitants of Glasgow 160 years
ago, the work still be a great curiosity, and, there cannot be
the least doubt, that it will be greatly prized by all lovers of
ancient relics, and others desirous of perusing the records ei
their forefathers.—Extracted from the Liverpool Mercers!°
August 8.
of
CAUTION TO ADVERTISERS.—A novel species -
fraust has lately been discovered in connexion with adle"
tisereents, which only requires mention to put the public on
their guard against the system of victimization, which, °
far as it has at present gone, appears to have produced a°
ample revenue for the gang of vagabonds concerned in th 6
affair. The most successful part of this plan has been 113
obtaining payment for advertisements supposed to be ,in
in small weekly and monthly periodicals, but which
periodicals have really no existence, the names of substaty
tial booksellers being given as the publishers to prevent eel;
picion or inquiry. Of course persons advertising under such
circumstances have only themselves to blame for not exe; • 1
cising proper caution in seeing that their advertisements
appear before they pay the money, and a little experience may' °
perhaps, teach them wisdom. But the system extends further
than this. The same parties have expressed their willingness t°
relieve their friends who have honoured them with orders of th_ti
trouble and inconvenience of taking their regular advertisement .
to the daily journals. stating that they are allowed a commission
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of 2-i per cent., which, if the advertiser were to go himself'
he would not get. It does not seem that they have done mu':
in this way at present, though the default has not arisen from
their want of inclination, but from want of-patronage- ''',.
cases where they have obtained such orders the advertisements
have never appeared, though they have charged and received
the money for them. The receipts seen for sums ai on till'
system of advertising bear the s:
victuals of two or pthdree ind,r
victuals evidently in disguised hands, and the bills are generaall
made out for amounts of between 2/. and 31.
IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN CATTLE, FRUIT, 84C.---;
A very large quantity of cattle, fruit, and other descriptions of
provisions,
,have again been brought. to this country foes
Holland and other parts of the continent within thew few
days. The Dutch steam-ship Batavier, which arrived at the
St. Katherine's Steam Wharf, from Rotterdam, on Wedge'' t;
day afternoon, had on board the large number of 74 head u"
oxen and c ows, and 60 sheep, all of which were in excellent''
condition, and were landed and delivered with all possible
dispatch. This vessel also brought 646 baskets of curreatst“
besides a large quantity of melons, poultry, yeast, and other',,
articles of Dutch produce and manufacture. The GenerP.,,.
- Steam Navigation Company's vessel, Rainbow, which at'''!`'
rived at the St. Katharine's Steam Wharf, from Havre, 41.1111;-; ,
the following evening, had a large quantity of plums and egg._
besides a variety of other articles ; and the Company's vesselat,.
the Tourist, from Calais, and the Earl of Liverpool, from Or! ,
tend, on the same day, had also a large quantity of poultry'' t,
eggs, and butter, and other articles for consumption in tan'
country. It is remarkable to how extended a period the its ''
pertation of currants are taking place from Holland, from ' :
which country the importation of that peculiar description ,
fruit appears to be chiefly confined, whereas the cherry season, -
having in a great measure ceased, the fruit now brought from t,.., '
French ports consists of plums principally, unripe walnuts for
pickling, pears, &c. In these things the French season appears
to be considerably in advance of ours in the production of such
articles.
SEVERE HAIL STORM.—An immense shower of bail
fell at BoWood, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdowne, e°
Thursday afternoen, by which the glass in his LordshiP.'e
houses and geenhouses was destroyed, to the value, it is esti-
mated, of 5001. Much injury was also done to the bean°.
pines and plants, and many of the trees in the park al
stripped of their leaves. In the neighbourhood the wheat an
the beans were cut down by the hailstones as if by a scythe;
The roaring of the tremendous storm at Bowood was heard e
Caine, which is two miles distant, for full five minutes before
its approach to that town. So loud was the appalling sou°
that the people in the streets stopped to listen to it, not being
able to conceive what was the immediate cause of it. Consi-
derable injury was also done at Rumsey House, the residence
of Mr. Angell, arid at Bowden Park. The hailstones were re-
markably large, some of them being an inch in circumference'
—Devizes Gazette.
TERRIFIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THUNDER STOltg*
—About four o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday, the 316 C
ult., two clouds, like immense mountains, were observed ar
prnaching each other from opposite points, the one cioniel
from the direction of Alelksharn, and the ether from that
Chippenham. They moved along slowly, silently, and rnaie'.l'
',„;-
cally, till they neared each other, over the seat of T. let• S.
Sotheron, Esq., M.P., at Bowden Hill, when, coming into Cati
lision, an appalling noise was heard, as if a thousand pieces°
artillery had been simultaneously discharged, and repeated at
intervals of a second only. The war amongst the element, nevi
became grand in the extreme. The clouds, dividing and recediog
for a short space, instantly returned to the conflict, like s°
many huge and infuriated monsters striving for victory'
As if stunned by the violence of the second charee, they ,It
drew up in parallel masses, pursuing a north. easterly diree-
lion, skirmishing in their sullen movements towards Derrr
hill and Stteiley. Unable to restrain their mutual wrath any
,!,
longer, the contest was renewed with redoubled fury, when
the rain descended in torrents, accompanied with shower'. „,, .
of hail-limes of various forms, and of extraordinary ;
magnitude, tome of them measuring three inches .°:
circumference. The descent of these sharp, anguirf '-
and ponderous congelations, committed such Idisc ule r
among the windows, fields, and gardens of the p.OO
cottagers, breaking their glass in a thousand fragments ; euttief
their potatoes, peas, beaus, and every species of garden ro
duetions, and laying them prostrate • and literal!), thrashing
their wheat in the ear. It is supposed that a hundred pounds
will not cover the loss sustained by Mr. Cole, a small allot'
at Studley. From Studley the storm took a more easterly
direction, and passed over Bowood, where it committed Kea'
havoc. Besides breaking a number of windows in the mansion'
thirty thousand squares of glass were demolished among the
frames and hoi.houses of the Marquis of Lansdowne. Forth_
nattily the tempest did not extend to mucn more than a mils
in breadth, and about three miles in length:l,4l6)lll
Independent.
GROSS CASE OF NEGLECT.—MANSLAUGHTERe--
Last night Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Feathers, Dean'
r
street, Westminster, on the body of James Smith, aged font
months, the illegitimate offspring of Ann Smith. From the
evidence of severel females residing in the same house with. the
mother of the deceased, it appeared that the deceased was oro'
i!
in St. Margaret's workhouse, which place the mother left _n
March last with the deceased, who was then a fine healthy
child. Shortly after the mother was in the habit of lesell •
the deceased alone in the room for the wLole of the day, on!
r. turning home at night intoxicated; and but for the kindness
its
of die witnesses, who were frequently attracted to it by cries
and feint, it would have had no food. For the last six !weeks the
deceased had 'gradually wasted away, and on Thursdayf_en:
last it presented such a pitiable appearance of skin and ?°.b.,
that the police were made acquainted with the case,
and
ite,
deceased, who was four;d alone in the room in a dyingttad-
was removed to the workhouse, in which it expired on
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nesday last. The mother, who was found in a neighbouar.il
public-house playing at cards with some soldiers, was taken
into custody, and remanded by the magistrate to await
result of the present inquiry. Mr. White, surgeon, of Story's'.
gate, who had opened and examined the body, said be could
find no organic disease sufficient to account for his death, and
he attributed its death to atroa, through want of care and
nouns-tin-rent. Ihe jury, after some consultation, returns
Coroner
verdict of manslaughter against Ann Smith ; and the
issueei his warrant (or her committal to Neegate.
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1,17 a i ker,
EXHIBITION OF PUBLIC FEELING.—Mrs.
her
who was acquitted on Tuesday of the alleged poisoning fo
0 et to
son, sells. eed to Lockerbie on Thursday last. We regret in
learn that something like a popular out iire..k has occurredt,
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consequence of this step, which was certainly an imprude:. etj.
in the state of iris leeling. She war hooted by a criL d
Locker'
at Aioffat ; sod similar treatment awaited her at.
_hu,s_
bia, where In r sage was burned b..fore the it.- doer, 0
.. t_.,,,,,,..
day eteriing. Ceesiderable excitement s, ill prev,als it) Itu
bet.-- Duntfiies Cakricr.
ALL A LIN -E. '

-0 ---On Niot,,l. • .'" ;:rticr.
4. 0
Hoyl., surgeon, of Ileighingron, near). Lincoln, the
of whose mystetious tiisappeariice camed so much exci:;:
meet a short time ago, arrived ate his home from a rusticat'?"-
in the neighbourhood of Spilsby, it is said.—ridscvlsghsl.4.
Chronicle.