The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-01 00:00:00

HAMBURGH MAIL.

FIIONI THE DANUBE, DEC. 18.—Merchants' letters
received by way of Bessarabia have brought intelli-
gence that the Russian fleet on the coast of Circassia
has lately captured a Turkish slave-ship, on board of
which, besides a quantity of ammunition, there were
several chests of English arms for the mountaineers.
The Russian army had gone into its cantonments, and
the precaution had been taken of placing an unusually
strong force in the places most exposed. There was
already much snow on the mountains, which, how-
ever, did not hinder the mountaineers from paying an
occasional visit to the Russians.
DANTZIC, DEC. 16.—1 t has been resolved very
strongly to fortify the Vistula at N eufahr, and the
erection of a fort will shortly. commence. The
making out of the plan for this fort is already com-
menced, the plan having been approved by the King.
These works will be the key of the fortifications of
Danz c, Pillau, and Konigsburg, and protect the
whole of the fertile country about Danzic against an
army. An attack on Danzic by gun-boats cannot
stand, if to the works a flotilla of flat-bottomed iron
gun-boats on the staff is added.
GIESSEN, DEC. 18.—The whole town is in a state
of fermentation, on account of an event which is quite
unparalleled among us. At the beginning of this
month the wife of William Nagel, a locksmith, was
delivered of a son. At the incessant representation
of the Rev. M. Hartnagel, the locksmith, before he
married, in February this year, was induced to say
(his wife is a Roman Catholic) that his children
should be brought up in the Roman Catholic religion.
As a means of compelling him to this declaration,
Nagel, who hoped to contract an advantageous mar-
riage, says that M. Hartnagel assured him that he
would not give his absolution if the promise to bring
up the children in the Roman Catholic religion were
not fulfilled. The wife, who was delivered in
the beginning of this month, agreed with
her husband that the child should be brought
up in the Protestant religion, but no ar-
rangement had yet been made. On the 4th inst. M.
Hartnagel came to the smith's house, and vehemently
urged the wife that she would have to pay a penalty
five dollars if the child were baptised by a Pro-
testant clergyman. He sent for the husband from
his shop, and urged him to the same effect. He re-
plied that the child should be baptised, but that it
did not suit him to-day—that nothing was ready, any
that he had to go out on business. He accordingld
withdrew. Returning in an hour, he learned that
M. Hartnagel, in his absence, without his consent,
and in spite of the tears of his wife, who objected, had
actually baptised his child, making a student in the
Gymnasium stand godfather. Universal indignation
prevails here, and it is much regretted that the cull
authorities have not interfered. We are very tolerari.!.
in Giessen. However, everything has an pid,
and
matters go on in this manner, some mischief will
occur.—Hamburgh Papers, Dec. 27.

SAGACITY

CHILD LOST ON WIMBLEDON-COMMON.—n,_
OF A Doc.—On Friday morning, about bIX o clock, Mr.
Goddard, a farmer at Wimbledon, kwas out on the
common, with his dog, searching for some sheep that
had wandered from is lan, when his at.tention was at -
lhar actidons of the animal, which re-
tracted to the singu
peatedly ran to and from a clu,inp of bushes. The dog
barked, took hold of his masters coat, and showed other
manifestations of a desire to lead his master to the
bushes. Mr. Goddard, thinking that one of his missing
sheep might be there, went to the spot. and was sur-
prised to mid a boy not more than six years of age lying
asleep uncler the lee of the shrubs. Mr. Goddard awoke
the poor child, who was benumbed with cold, and with
some difficulty ascertained that his name was Sleptoe.
the son of a labouring man at Wimbledon, and that
in crossing the common on his way from Roehempton
to his house, on the previous afternoon, about four o'clock,
the fog came on so dense that he lost himself. lie wan-
dered about for hours, but did not call out much, being
frightened of the gipsies. At last, worn out with fatigue,
the poor fellow laid down and cried himself to sleep. Mr.
Goddard conveyed him to bis parents, who were in a
dreadful state of alarm at his absence, and had been up
all the night, searching for their lost child.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE LOVERS OF SPRING.—It iS a
certain fact, that when we have very early and severe
winters, like the present, the succeeding spring is in-
N sdably early and genial.—Leicester Guardian.