The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-18 00:00:00

DONOVAN'S BRITISH ZOOLOGY.

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•1 HE NATURAL HISTORY of BRITISH
SHELLS, including Figures and Descriptions of all the
Srcies hitherto discovered in Great Britain; systematically
arranged in the Lin=An manner.
BY E. DONOVAN, F. L. S., W.S.,
.Scc.
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`We stated last week that the Hero Steam Packet had been
launched at 111 r. Balcomb's ship-yard, Frindsbury. This
beautiful vessel, on Sunday, had a partial trial of her powers.
She started a little after ten o'clock, with a great number of
persons on board her. She went round the Nore, and without
being put to the stretch of her powers, returned to Frindsbury
a little before four o'clock in the afternoon, going at eie rate of
ten miles an hour.—(lrvin.)

A Correspondent is surprized that the Port of Ilythe has not
sent in its claim to send two Barons to support the Canopy at
the Coronation, agreeable to ancient custom, and that no Meet-
ing has been convened by the Mayor and Corporation to take
the matter into consideration.—(lbid.)

On Whit Monday, the several Benefit Societies of Maidstone,
according to annual custom, -met to celebrate their Anniversary.
The town at an early hour presented a gay and animated scene,
and as the hour of Divine Service approached, the streets became
thronged with the inhabitants and visitors from the
neihbourhood. At 10 o'clock the Societies, six in number,
assembled in the High-street with their colours and bands of,
music, and after parading the street proceeded to Church in the
greatest order. Shortly ater the doors were opened the Church
in every part was crowded to excess. The Reverend Mr. Mil-
ler 'read the Prayers, and the Choir of Singers from Otham
sang several Anthems in pretty style. The Reverend T. B.
Cole delivered an excellent and apopriate discourse, from
13th chapter of Hebrews, Ist verse, "LET nROTHERLY LOVE
CONTINUE." The Reverend Gentleman with all that feel-
ing and pathos with which he is so eminently gifted, infused
into the soul of his auditors, the excellence of poisessing and
exercising those greatest of all virtues, Brotherly Love and
Charity. At the conclusion of the service the Societies paraded
the streets, and afterwards repaired to their respective club
houses, where dinners were provided for the occasion, and the •
day was spent with the greatest harmony. and good will. The
number of members in the different societies, enumerates 1272 ;
and the money which has been paid to afflicted members, dur-
ing the past year, amounts to 16051. 2s. 2d.

Sir GEORGE BEAUMONT, Bart has reduced- IA Rents
£2O per cent. ; and the Rector has followed the kind example
of his Patron, and reduced the commutation for Tythes, in
the same proportion.—Sir CHARLES HASTINGS has intimated
to his Tenants, that he shall return £2O per cent. on his Lady-
day Rents, usually paid at Midsuminer.—(Leicester Journal.)
We are happy to say, that the silk-weaving trade in Sudbury
is very much increased within the last three years, during which
time two large factories have been'built, which employ a
.great
number of persons, which, in addition to the other factories/of
crape, says, bunting, &c. the inhabitants are quite employed.
The building of houses in that town within the last two Years
has been many. Upwards of 30 houses have been built within
that time. The foundation of a new street is now laid for 60
houses, to be built under that construction that they will admit
of looms for weaving, &c. to be fixed in them.—(lpswich
Journal.)
POPULATION 'RETURNS !—A poor woman in Devonshire
having been called-upon by the persons appointed to ascertain
the population of the place where she resided, returned her fa-
mily six in number, viz-herself and husband, and four chil-
dren. Being questioned as to particulars, she seemed much
confused ; which a neighbour observing, very kindly stepped
forward to explain matters for her. " You must know, gen-
tlemen," modestly exclaimed the matronly dame, " her'th got
three visible and one invisible; that is, her'th in the family
way."-...A person at Plymouth stated his family consisted of
two Guns and three Pistols ; to explain. which, it is perhaps
necessary to state, the man's name was GUN, and his family
consisted of himself, his wife, and three children.

The funeral of the father, mother and child, which were kill-
ed by the recent accident near our Theatre, took place on Fri-
day, when upwards of three thousand persons were.present, and
the Rev. J. Langley addressed them with much earnestness
and:Sect on the subject of the fall of the Tower
.of:
Siloam --
Luke 13; ver. 3,4, 5. The sum collected in St. Chad's
Parish, for the purpose of placing- the surviving children
in suitable situations, as they grow up, amounts to near 00
pounds, exclusive of several sums remitted. We presume
that collections' will also be made by some benevolent persons.
in other parishes. The Magistrates of the town, and the )314-
nag& of the Theatre, have ordered the premises to be surveyed
by Messrs. Bromfield, Birch, Straphen, and Oakley. From
their. report it appears that the walls of the Theatre are secure ;
that the part which gave way had been weakened by a chimney
that had been cut nut of the wall, as stated in our last Paper ;
and that, by erecting a new roof, the entire building will be
.rendered sound and durable.—(Shrewsbury Chronicle, June 15.)

DEST It U criv E FIRE.—We seldorri.had- to record
a more afflicting calamity than that which occurred at Dunmore
East, Waterford, by fire, at the concerns of Mr. NiT.m. CH E ItltY,
publican, on Monday night last. Himself and family (consist-
ing of his wife, who is in an advanced state of pregnancy, his
niece, mother in law, and eleven children) were in bed ; a ser-
vant girl alone remained.up. The servant boy had gone to the
stable, which adjoins the house, with a lighted candle, and there,
by his carelessness, the fire commenced, and he, terrified, ran
away without giving the alarm ; in the stable there was a valu-
able horse. • The girl, finding a strong smell of smoke, alarmed
her master, who ran to the stable, which was all in flames, and
spreading to the roof of the dwelling,:-house, vhich was thatched ;
but his utmost exertions could not force the poor animal to quit
the stable, where it was burned to ashes. .Tne house was by-this
time all on fire, and Mr. Cherry's exertions were turned to the
safety of his family. llis wife had scarcely time to escape from
the house, and in her terror had forgot a child of fourteen months
old, in the bed. Mr. Cherry mounted a ladder that led to a
nieee,,and ten children lay, and
loft, where his mother in law,
taking the old woman in his arms, ran to the trap-door, but
some person having thoughtlessly taken away the ladder, lie had
no alternative but to drop her to the floor below. In the' same
manner he saved seven of his children ; the other three he could
not find in- their beds, being unable to see by reason of the thick
smoke and darkness ; and thinking they might have got down
before, he leaped down, but they were no where to be found.
He again ascended the ladder, and on the instant he got upon
the loft, part of the blazing wood fell in, and by its light he saw
his three little ones in a far corner, huddled together, with their
faces to the wall, and he had barely time to snatch them from
their' perilous situation when the whole fell in. The escape of
the infant was most miraculous ; a foreman of the works at
Dunmore, endeavouring to save some bed-clothes, penetrated
to the bed, in doing which he was much. burned; he made a
hasty bundle of them, and succeeded in bringing them out, when
on laying them down, out roiled the sleeping infant unhurt !
An affecting incident occurred after all 'the -family had been so
providenthdly extricated from the devouring;
.element—Mrs.
Cherry, standing naked on the road, and casting her eyes on
her eleven children -naked also, piteously exclaimed, " Oh, my
God, I had eight new suit's Made for 'my eight boys, and hoped
to see them walk before me to players at Whitsunday, and now
they lie naked on the road."—{Waterford Chronicle.)

MR. EDITOR-At a period when all classes of
the community either experience distress, or look
forward with apprehension to its gradual encroach-
rifents it is lamentable to find that Parliarrient is
likely to be prorogued without having devised a
remedy for the evils which we are enduring, and
even without affording us ground to -hope that
those evils are capable of being materially alle-
viated by any future -legislative enactments. The
little that has actually been done dnring this
Session, has tended rather to change the form
'than to diminish the quantum of distress ; for I
cannot regard in any. other light the operation of
those measures of retrenchment- which the Go,
vernment has adopted, rather, I should presume,
in deference to public opinion, and the vitupera-
tive'speeches of the. Opposition, than from the
dictates of their own judgment. lam far from
thinking that the Government are insensible to
the obligation of introducing every practicable
degree of economy into the management of our
affairs, or that •they would not, of their own ac-
cord, at fit and proper opportunities, have.re-
duced excessive establishments, and have
.endea-
voured to simplify the mode of conducting 'the
'business of the State in all its' branches. But as
the chief source of our distress is evidently trace-
able. to the want of employment .both for.capital
and industry, I doubt whether, for the sake of
reducing the weight of taxation in a degree that
is scarcely perceptible, they would have judged
it wise, under present circumstances, to aggra-
vate the evil above alluded to, by disbanding a
portion of the army, and turning adrift some
scores of poor clerks. Most assuredly the relief
to the community at large is by no means com-
mensurate with the sufferings of those individuals
whose interests are thus sacrificed, in.order to
Conciliate the Country Gentlemen.
Men who have families are utterly at a loss to
'know how to dispose of their sons. Many a pro-
mising youth (I speak feelingly) is, from thiS
cause, either lounging at home, or contracting
dissipated habits. Every avenue to civil occu-
pation is choked up with candidates for employ-
ment, and (as a lover- of peace I would say hap-
pily) the Navy and Army refuse any longer to
carry off this apparent superabundance of active
population.
During the long period of warfare-in which
our country was engaged, we fondly looked
forward to a 'state of peace, for an acces-
sion of prosperity, of comfort, and of ease.
Little did we suspect, when our victorious Gene-
ral dictated the terms of peace at the enemy's
capital, that we should then begin to suffer pri-
vations exceeding any which we had experienced
pending the most arduous contest which our his-
tory records.
You will not suspect that I am an advocate.
for profusion of expenditure, or that I am in-
terested in the perpetuation of abuses. This lam
not—neither, on the other hand, have I any faith
in the efficacy of Parliamentary Reform as a
cure for our evils. "Whatever may be the theo-
retical defects of its constitution, I am firmly
persuaded, that our House of Commons is as well
disposed to promote • the good of the common-
wealth, and as much actuated by that spirit of
improvement' which marks the character of the
age, as any assembly which the Radical Reform-
ers would place within the walls of that House.
Believing, as I do, that the disposition to 're-
lieve our distresses is not wanting on the part of
our Legislators, (for, in truth, the great majority
of them are actually suffering in their own estates,
in common with their constituents) I cannot re-
gard them with any feeling of anger or disrespect
becauSe they have not untied the gordian knot which
thus restrains the exercise of our energies. Btit,
good heavens ! what wonders would these ener-
gies perform could they be fairly called into ac-
tion ! Have we not abundance of land lying
waste, or imperfectly cultivated ? Have we not
free access to the prolific stores of the Ocean ?
nave we not mechanical powers ? Are we de-
fective in scientific skill to direct those powers ?
Where is the want of materials or of instruments
to create wealth ? Britons have astonished the
world with their prowess in arras-; they have en-
riched the nations with the produce of their in-
dustry ; they have illuminated the darkest re-
gions of the habitable globe with the light of
truth ; neither the burning sands of the torrid,
nor 'the icy barriers of the frozen zone, impede
the progress of their researches. Our Philoso-
phers lead the way in every path of knowledge ;
our Poets pourforth the loftiest and sweetest strains
that ever stimulated the soul of man to deeds of
virtue and of glory, or tranquillized his agitated
bosom with visions of bliss. •

With such appliances and means is it befitting
that we should thus languish and pine away ?
Is there not a path through which we may escape
from the difficulties which envisage us on all
sides ? Yes, Sir, there is. " There is a path
44 which no fowl knoweth, and which the vul-
" ture's eye bath not seen :" but which the more
piercing sight of man has discerned.

The sobriety of my introductory observations
will not have prepared you for a declaration
which savors of enthusiasm. You may well sus-
pect that I am fraught with some visionary
scheme, the fruit of an idle brain, and which has
no application to the affairs of this world. I
pray you, strike, but hear me ! Believe me,Sir, I
am not prone to yield my own judgment at the
first summons, and all that I desire at your hands
is permission to explain the reasons which- have
served to convince me, that the grand discovery,
by means of -which we may not only escape from
our present difficulties, but rapidly advance in