The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-30 00:00:00

surance.

The sum already expended in carrying on the
works (including disbursements for Parliamentary
expences, purchases of property, machinery, &c.)
amounts to about 130,0001., and it is calculated that
a further sum of 150,0001. will be necessary for the
completion of the Tunnel. This money it is pro-
posed to raise under the authority of a Bill, which,
we believe, is at present before Parliament. It
should not be forgotten, that the original estimate
of the expense of the undertaking was only
166,000/. From what has occurred, however, it is
manifest the Tunnel cannot be completed for a sum
much below 300,000/. Even with that expendi-
ture, hopes are entertained that the Shareholders
may look for a fair remuneration; and the Directors
have expressed their opinion, that there can be now
no reasonable doubt of final success. To this opi-
nion we are disposed to subscribe, so far as physi-
cal impediments are concerned. No doubt they
may be surmounted, provided the scarcely inferior
difficulty of obtaining the requisite funds be got over.
We are not surprised that an undertaking of so
bold and novel a character should have excited a
vast deal of interest, not only in this country, but
on the continent of Europe. If completed in ac-
cordance with the original design it will be a splea-
did monument of the ingenuity and enterprise of the
present *we._ Though, unli4 that magnificent struc::
ture, Waterloo Bridge, it will not form a new artery,
through the mighty heart of London, it may be ex-
pected to become an important channel of commu-
nication between the extremities. We have only to
add our sincere wishes for the success of this grand
subaqueous bridge.

A Roman tesselated pavement, in good pre-
servation, was discovered a few days ago at Lancing Hill,
about three miles from Shorebam.—Brighton Gazette.

A man named DUNNING, who has resided
some time in this neighbourhood, was returning from a
walk, when he was stopped about half-way between this
city and Bache Pool, by two men, who seized him,
knocked him down, blindfolded him, and tied his legs
together, and his hands behind his back. They then
carried him into an adjoining field, and placed him be-
hind a hay-stack belonging to Mr. KEARSLEY, of the
Nag's Head Inn, Foregate-street, where they stripped
him of his coat and rifled his pockets of five sove-
reigns, a five-pound Bank of England note, and a silver
watch. 'I hey then produced some liqUid in a cup or other
small vessel, nearly the whole contents of which they
compelled him to swallow, under a threat of being in-
stantly murdered if he refused ! They then laid him on
his back, so that he could not rise without assistance, and
left him, taking their way, as he supposes, towards Liver-
pool. He soon fell into a sound sleep, and did not awake
till the next afternoon, when he was discoiered by a young
man named SANDRACH, in the employ of Mr. W. COLE,
the architect of the new Lunatic Asylum, who untied his
hands and legs, and took the bandage from his eyes. He
is unable to give any description of the robbers, from the
suddenness of the attack upon, and one of them having a
mask or piece of crape over his face.— Cheiter Courant.
UNWRAPPING OF A MUMMY.--About
thirty gentlemen were present yesterday afternoon, at the
unwrapping of a mummy, in Ssraux's Rooms, Thistle-
street, under the superintendence of that collector of curio-
sities, JOHN HOWELL. It had lain for some time past in
his shop in Howe-street, for the purpose of wooing stab-
scribers, who were to have a vote in the disposal of it,
after witnessing the unwrapping. As far as we could hear,
from the conversation among the by-standers, the history
of the mummy was—That it had been originally sent,
along with another, from Alexandria, to be presented to
the University of Gottingen. The vessel which carried
them was, however, wrecked on the coast of Holland ;
and the materials and cargo that were saved, being sold at
Bremen, the.present male mummy was purchased by a
Jewish merchant of Hainburgh. The other, a female, had
been almost wholly destroyed. The former was sold to a
gentleman of this country subsequently, who, after having
kept it for some time, thought proper to dispose of it by
subscription. The case which contained the mummy is in
a state of excellent preservation, with the exception of one
side. A good deal of disappointment was experienced,
when on proceeding to unwrap the body, it was discovered
that this must have been done before, and that the cunning
Jew had reclothed it with the ancient habiliments. The
proofs of this were evident in the'modern Bhaa, awl
Wing, used in attempting to restose its form. When the
outer covering wa4 rpmqcd, the trunk was a good deal
Pltilated-r:rohably by those who had formerly taken off
the wrappings, or from the immersion of the mummy in
the salt water for eight or nine days, before it was ri,..eor
vered from the wreck. The hole which is c.om,trionk Oir;
served in mummies, was pieree4 on the soft Bide, an ot large
eziough to idinit a airtail covering from the
chesf t)eiirg eat away, the inside was found filled with
small pieces of the same cloth with which the whole had
been wrapped. It was thought that the good people of
Hamburgh had, however, put. these there in
at
had been used by the embalmer. A bone of na? <414
legs resembled one that hqu gaivy •C',l: ww
wrecks but it gpec*
and the teeth of the upper jaw were merely
discoloured..
The teaia, whiskers, and hair retained their natural
ypar;i. The 114 Oil: 09, feet were in good Ple
preservation,6sv h
strength, but seemed to have had their colour changed by
into the body. Flour
gold which is used irt adornina 44,0 TlqirlY
4 quantity of flne grey sand' Wa,-1
the process of embalming. Some
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about Olighs
and
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.ti
ilenginr
which parttihi
et,oef:4tipoeberp:d!.aly:.
the
ed
itnnoisible to account in 014 C9lr fikiai4ity and the
ina'the di~ cult of eplaining its amarance, however, it is
attention. It was wonderful bow few of the
, leArned of the city attended so tpicommorl and interestiyz
an opfratiori- We observed ail advocate, a doctor of-laws,
'a secretary of an, Antiquarian Society, and it few medical
en, the other spectators were attracted solely by curio
sity or itileness..--Edinbrfrph Observer,
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