The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT.

THE ELECTIONEERING SKELETON !
The Americans are indeed a funny sort of people.
The following is one of the many specimens of the
numerous plans adopted by the several newspapers
opposed to the election of Henryi. Clay to the Presi-
dential Chair, and intended in ridicule of him. There
is a cut in the paper from which we copy it, repre-
senting Mr. Clay's coat of arms, with the words
"shoot lower" across it, and " war, pestilence, and
famine ;" at one corner four or five playing cards, and
at the opposite end a cocked pistol. At the head he
is represented firing at his opponent, and a bottle in
the centre of his assailant, marked "brandy."
THE " EMBODYMENT."

" Henry
Clay, the liv-
ing personification
and embodyment of
Whig principles."
Whig address.
IN 1777
born; In
1805 quarrelled
With Col. Davis, of Ken-
• tucky, which led to his first duel :
In 1808 he challenged Humphrey Mar-
shall, and fired three times at his heart :

In 1825 he challenged the great Jo hn
Ran dolph, and fired once at his he art
but without eff,ct: In 1838 he plan ned
the CHILLEY DUEL, by which
A MURDER was perpetra-
ted, and a wife made a ma-

ni ac : In 1841, wk
6 5 years old, and gr
h e a ded, is under 5000
lars BONDS to KEEP T
P EACE ! At the age of
e PERJURED himself t
ecure a Seat in the Unite
S tates Senate. In 1824 he mad
a n infamous bargain with John Quin
Adams, by which he SOLD OUT
for a 1,200/. a-year OFFICE. He
is also well kn own as a GAM-
BLER, and SA BBATB BREA-
KER. HisP OLITICS
are precisely and exactly
those of the Ilartford con
vention fed eralist : op-
posed to e qual rights,
equal laws;
and in favour
of mono polizing
laws and
char tered
privile-
ges. Also
h e sus
tai
the
rod
Alge
in their
BLOOD AND

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dol-
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ay

fe-
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Tines
deeds of
MURDER.

CALAMITOUS FlRE.—Yesterday morning, shortly
before 4 o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises belong-
ing to Mr. Calloway, draper, three doors from Astley's
Amphitheatre. The first discovery was made by the
shop-boy, who was sleeping in the kitchen, and who was
awoke, In consequence of hearing a loud cracking noise,
proceeding from the shop ; he immediately jumped out
of bed, and tried to alarm his master. Finding, how-
ever, that he was unable to accomplish that object, he
rushed up stairs, and broke a square of glass in the first
floor front, and then shouted " Fire," which brought the
police and some of the neighbours to the spot. The fe-
male servant and the lad were taken from the first floor
down a ladder, and thereby escaped uninjured. Mr.
Calloway, however, was not so fortunate, for thinking he
could subdue the flames with the aid of a bucket of
water, he ran down stairs to procure one, but he was
met by a huge sheet of flame and smoke, which forced
him backwards, destroying the hair on his head, and
sadly burning him about the face, neck, and ears. He
managed, after considerable difficulty, to reach the
kitchen area, nearly suffocated ; and, before he could be
rescued, the iron grating over the same was compelled to
be forced. In the meantime, the flames had broken
through the roof, and were extending in the direction
of the theatre. The valuable stud, consisting of 63
horses, were let loose, and turned into Amphitheatre-
row, when some of the animals commenced kicking and
plunging in a most fearful manner. Some mules that
were in the stables, upon perceiving the fire, could not
by any possibility be made to stir ; and, had the flames
reached their stables, they must have perished. The
flames were extinguished by 6 o'clock ; but not until the
buildings and the stock-in-trade, furniture, &c., were
nearly destroyed. The damage is very considerable, and
will fall upon the Sun and Imperial offices.
IRON COLLIER.—Some curiosity has been excited
by the arrival in the Thames of a Newcastle collier, a
fine looking vessel, built of iron, and fitted with a screw
propeller, worked with an engine of twenty-horse
power. She is 139 feet long, 27 feet 6 inches wide, and,
when loaded with 340 tons of coals, her draught is only
11 feet 9 inches aft, and 10 feet 3 inches forward ; her
hold is divided into separate chambers, after the prin-
ciple of C. W. William's water-tight bulkheads, herme-
tically closed felt e floor, into which the water can be ad-
mitted by large taps, for ballast, and when not required
is pumped out again by the engine. Her bows are
sharp and wedge-like, and her stern unusually project-
ing; though low, her counters are so flat that she lifts
with every swell, and it is nearly impossible for a wave
to break over her taffrail.

LEEDS AND LONDON MAILS.—An entire day has
been gained by the merchants of Leeds in their commu-
nications to and from London, by an arrangement which
came into effect on Tuesday last, the sth instant, when a
mail-cart commenced running to Wakefield, to meet the
up-day mail from Newcastle. The mail leaves Leeds at
eleven at night ; the London letters being delivered in
Leeds, at eight P.M., allows three hours to reply; and the
Leeds letters by this mail being delivered in London in
the afternoon, time is allowed to send a reply the same
evening. In this way a whole day is saved in the ob-
taining of an answer.—Doncaster Gazette.
PREVENTION OF HYDROPROBIA.—The Frankfort
Gazette says :—" A gentleman of Saratorf has disco-
vered that the most efficacious remedy for the bite of
rabid animals is the insect called tentania aurata, reduced
to powder, and given to the patient. Dr. Wagner has
tested the remedy, and met with most satisfactory re-
sults."