The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

Thep LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
acket-ship Cambridge, Captain Barstow,
I;,.rrived in the river this morning, bringing New
York Papers four days later than those received by
the steamer.
„ The threatened crusade for the extermination of
`" Monnonites had assumed an aspect of immediate
'ger, and we find that the anti-Mormon party of
Ra
m n "ek county, Illinois, had called an armed assem-
b sr, t° meet at that place on the 27th ult. Prompted
47 this movement, and in pursuance of his an-
22tteced resolution, Governor Ford had ordered out
)600 of the State militia for the preservation of the
bli° Peace, and to prevent the violation of the
_con-
stitution andleached laws of the State. The result has not
coin meeting
us„ but it is highly probable that finding
Y,reevernor Ford so determined to quell disturbance,
would not proceed to extremities. Great
tb_lplaints had been made of the delay in bringing
; murderers of Joe Smith to justice. The Go-
_eonor had intimated that he was ready to sustain the
Knper authorities in proceeding with the prosecutions.
tit he unexampled orderliness and freedom from out-
fee which have on this occasion characterised the
vparations for the approaching Presidential election,
at length been disturbed in New York, whereb
and Pit,ig procession was assailed by a Locofoco. mob
,
puci He ill-blood engendered by the collision had
that ced such a great and immediate excitement,
the 'HA parties were threatening to come forth into
armed Public streets on every future occasion fully
res iWe extract the following from a series of
° oases adopted at a meeting of the " Buttend
pielll Hunters,. as they elegantly term themselves :
edaesioyed,—That each hunter keeps his flint
e
of his Powder dry, and when they see the white
.Ye---let split!'
Then aval court-martial at Washington was still
engaged with the investigation of the circumstances
Steamer Missouri.

txtbATISTICS OF THE THEATRES IN GERMANY, COL-
@, nr L. SCHNEIDER, AN ACTOR AT BERLIN.—
dr 'e are altogether 115 German theatres, with
144?°Sa..tie performers (1,870 actors and 1,3
d__ ingers (89 male anpderfsoBrmfeemrs.ale)T. kloteers, 2,089 orchestrala c t actresses),
e s3s, els7)s,
The
el7-I entireprincipal
nu m-
slot °f Persons employed on the German theatres is
0n4,.t 12,769. The most numerous orchestra
..95,isantdhatthoef
and Vienna, the former comprkeints„,of
77
persons.
he ICarthnerthor Theatre) consis
~a mullest orchestra is that of Marburg,
-"IY 12 persons. By adding the singers a
orals dir
rs to the a
deetmheprmisionsgt
041. ectors and stage-manageand
number
abomuatdaratic actors,. theoleiws,ohuolwd properly amount theto.
10„.., .600. This calculation
0,1; me mark, for amongst. the
. 115 theatres, there
atyhehree
pre-
:rl39
21 travelling companies included.
09 ed that there are more than 200 theatres. Amongst
prompters are also 39 female prompters.
engaged, Dresden
e;tue greatest number of leading actors
1.04,-,:l!sg, ioefastszpneursimo.ns; the smallest, comprising only 12
L'4.lBLEr .—STATE or TRADE.—A lthough, as might
know Pectedexseason,
at this that branch of industry
ri as the Paisley trade is undoubtedly fiat, annduat
Eca many operatives are to be
of the country, if we
44; streets ; still, the general trade seen disengaged about
to 3;.i.jUdge by the extensive ormdearsnuwfanhitcuhrewrne hinaveeevseeraenl
iath " hands of our leading
.
can,of
ct:. branches, is so brisk asAstotahff
eorrdaistlheye
weaverprospec t
la ellrable employment..
by j,.1 an hour, convert his loom.
lay, '1,..1'1R up his "harn e a s , " and intrtoodercinmgona purposes,
com m common
Pr-04,--nms, checks, &c., and also gauzes,arefaricsof readily
'and 1;:e°, in lieu of the ordinary local fabrics
the% crets• We are happy to say that the eeodnesmidaenrdahfloer.
The eseriptions of goods is at pre
klajectorsehli:
ki 11n14king Of
branch of our local business.—
Captain has for some time back been Ira-
ildlver tasisear.
Captain
bnlL, i Barclay's annual sale of pure
t short-horn
ury
an :Ives and other stock came off on Tuesday
~.
lel,!ll;lllBg'etts,.°R former occasions, attended by a largeas
°I agriculturists from all parts of the
ecountry.a.
meter, and stock even surpassed its former high h
The '„r_:' a" Was much admired by the judges present.fo-
eloszitanytiie:e_sa:oibtTned for the hull calves (of which the !
showed that it had lost nothing in
8 public
..1: it Lyall, Druinclune 36 15 1 1 Mr. Craighead, Perwinnes 3B, 17 '
'f
Mr. A. Wilkie, Orwiston Mains, 3
near Edinburgh
36.
1.15,
4. -Mr. Moir, Tar g
tie
4 3
5' 147`'. Gow, Raitb, Fifeshire 35 14
6. lir. J. Miller, Ballumbie, Forfarshire 24- .3
7. Mr. S, Gladstone, of Fasque
8. 144 r. Watt, Rannieston, Elton 2l 0
Mr. Garland Cairnton
21 0
10•1 l%'. Walker, Fortlethen 25 4
:rho 1. Mr. Scott, Achath (very young) ..• 16
which was considerable competition for the poll6ledcow s,
varied had been served by a short-horn bull. Prices.
Served tecording to size, age, and condition ; but we ou
„lull , Luat some of them brought upwards of 181. A
in the lunch was laid out fur parties as they arrived
Pained forenoon ; and after the sale the captain entenr:
her ed his friends to dinner in his usual hospitable ma
i., Caledonian Mercury. ie
Ilia „ . ReSTER.—The Lord Bishop of the diocese held
e,,tritiary visitation of the clergy and lay
in the
_the.
dr",Xeditrral church on Tuesday se'nnight, in the Catbe
rei 'eh Pomp and ceremony was observed on the
eticia• The very R the Dean (Dr. Chandler)
ler--med the sermon, Rev,
did not forget to attack the
reYite iof the church for its heresy.—Brighton
4lierdian.
q
„"-orcitoß n OLD SPORTSMAN.—On Monday
.iight . ~P AN
the sp.n inquest was held before Mr. C. J. Canter,
upon
MI Tiger's quest
Inn Lee, next Lewisham, Kent,fupn
dead, of Charles Morton, aged 76,
Reati,, by
from a rafter in a barn belonging
I
who was found
dn
It appears
that tlalan named Russell, residing at Lee.
1).:1":::::;ased wits formerly huntsman to the Earl of
1n:35. and that subsequently he kept the DerbyhArms
and ,"oYdon, the Magpie Inn, on Hounslow- eath,
Bars
-ro was landlord of the Leaping Bar, Black-_
aeo . a ,Where he was robbed by his.housekeeper of
asideble sum of money, siace which he had
l'olved •
let, , himself in a lawsuit, which ended in his rui.n. Of
he ti a had become very eccentric and strange in his mhan._
ebarl
The following evidence was adduced :—Ric Richard
deposed es Mullett, auctioneer, of No. 8, Blackfriars-road,
a
mat that he knew the deceased as an innkeeper for .
ehs4ett ma hat
years ; had seen him frequently of late, and
r. 'red hat be had become singularly strange in his
-same
that ekra. Rosa Howard, of Camden Cottage, Lee, deposed
in the
barn she
was walking with her aunt, and on
aeitil his observed observed the deceased suspended bPyasas halter,g
is knees nearly to the ground. It was about one
and
cfel°alt on Saturday. She was exceedingly frightened,
I,,,,frave information of the circumstance. John Covill,
k:tn*•de-rnaker, Lee, deposed that he was called by last_
ess, and cut the deceased down ; he was a powerful
it an, of about eighteen stone weightt. Mr. Mullet was
reecalled, and said that deceased had lost a great sum of
at°ll°Y in the public-house trade ;he had since become
I,:clagely eccentric. During the last year and a half he
t. been amply supplied by Mrs. Tattersall with pecu-
tiarY Means, &c. That lady having died, his circum-
-4,,,a4ces got worse. Deceased had written a letter to the
til'rtY with whom he was at law, threatening to destroye-
d,Tos,l. He was, however, by no means in want.
. 11.3
wire",.3ln He
and hounds. Mr. Tattersall, since hi
death, had assisted and served him much. The.
bee_ landlord
of the Tiger is a son of the deceased. This
11,, Lig the whole of the evidence, the Coroner summed
ar, and the jury returned a verdict--" That the deceased
I.".,e!traYed himself while labouring under a fit of temp
‘rY derangement."
laellW ROYAL EXCIIANGE.—Every precaution has
.oentl taken to secure efficient ventilation in the rooms
4-__ nected with this edifice, and Day's Patent Wind-
-1"11,,,1,1 has been called into requisition for such purpose.
a __"t HE MEDICAL BlLL.—Yesterday, in pursuance of
direearlution passed at the aggregate meeting of the me-
de pr.ofession, held at Exeter Hall on the 29th ult., ft
putation of the medical practitioners of the metropolis
irt-Ittnded at Apothecaries' Hall, for the purpose of hold •
..."R a conference with the Master and Court of Assist-
the' of the Company. The Master and Court stated,
tie'lZ bad given this subject their best and undivided at-
kidri", and, in the course of a few days, would again
repo ess the profession, and explain the plan of medical
e_LtYra which they would' recommend. This plan was
princeo ceived in the most liberal spirit, and conceded the
ePle of self-government to its licentiate, for which
vue_..putation were such strenuous advdeates. The de-
pro'no.n,
nut considerable length urged the necessity
.of
tion"°
that
illegal practice by summary convic-
prof! and that the welfare of the public, as well us of the
p,r ajsion, demanded it. They also submitted the itn.
a College
necessity which existed for the establishment of
ti, unege of medicine and surgery for general practi-
, _rs, whose manifold acquirements and utility really
coostitt►''al
eipi, ''-. - the , profeasion. In this fundamental prin.-
eeafe' a" e'r:g• In many other details considered in the
,rene...
eeasideratit- the tit.tuost u.nanimity revailed. Further
oft Low , on of tho quotton was adjourned
until the
geelaration of the Court *UM appear,

LITERATURE.
IRELAND AND THE IRISH.
Duffy, Dublin, 1844.
We have here a translation from the German of
, Herr J. Venedey, who took a trip to Ireland during
the memorable " Repeal year"—as Mr. O'Connell
loves to call the year 1843—and wrote down his
im-
pressions of what he saw and heard at the moment
when they were fresh in his mind. He seems to have
entertained warm feelings of sympathy
.for the agi-
tators, and more than once takes the opportunity of
stating that—so far as he could discern—Repeal was
a far more momentous question than it was supposed
to be, in England and on the Continent, aid that the
movement in its favour did not lay merely on the
surface, but proceeded from the very heart of Ireland.
Of course, while resident in that country, our author
made a point of getting introduced to O'Connell;
and he relates, with considerable animation, the parti-
culars of a delightful day which he spent with the
great Liberator and his fad= Achates, Tom Steele, at
a retired cottage on the sea-shore in the neighbour-
hood of Dublin. He visited also the Earl Roden, the
Corypheus of the Irish Orangemen, at his splendid
estate, Tollymore Park, and gives the heads of a con-
versation which he had with him on the subject of
the Repeal agitation ; of which, as may be surmised,
his Lordship was no very reverent idolater. We
quote our author's graphic sketch of the Noble Earl's
park, with whose various scenic beauties he appears to
have been quite enraptured :
" I made a circuit around the castle, and following the
noise of the waters, I soon came to a wood-stream,
which is the ornament of this park, and this park itself
is one of the finest in Ireland. I must own, that never,
either in Switzerland, nor on the Rhine, nor in the Hartz
mountains, did I see anything to equal the unparalleled
beauties, which ono half hour's walk presented to my
eye, all clustered hero together. An artist might dis-
cover, in every step he took, scenes that if truly depicted
could confer immortality upon him. The flood which
played through the rocks, was one that had wantoned
with them, for a thousand years, and had moulded them
according to its capricious fancy ; hero it had scooped
them out into a deep bed • there it had formed them
into a bubbling cauldron ; further on it had fashioned
them into a cascade, and then made of them a bath, in
which a giant might lave his limbs—and these rocks !
white and naked in the stream ; yet 'when they rise
above the surface but a few feet, covering themselves
with soft moss, and wild flowers, and bold plants ; whilst
over all, and as if stooping down to gaze upon them
were the trees springing up on every side, and crossing
their great palmy branches, as if they struggled to de-
fend that sacred spot, from one ray of the sun, which
might by its heat interfere with the temperature of the
cool bath beneath. Oh lit was beautiful I—how very
beautiful I There are a few spots in this landscape, that
are of unparalleled loveliness. An old arched bridge forms
one point of the back-ground of the picture, and to this
there hangs a sort of iron bridge that leads under the
arch. Here the flood tumbles wild, foaming and furious
over the rocks, whilst the trees form a sort of concave
roof over the entire scene, and through this roof the
sun has but a narrow space here and there to shoot down
his rays, and send them playing amongst the waves,
whilst the trees form a sort of concave roof over the
entire scene, and through this roof, the sun has but a
narrow space here and there to shoot down his rays, and
send them playing amongst the waves, whilst the
coquettish, kissing, ever dimpling waters boldly reflect
back his beams, or send them sparkling with a thousand
variegated colours, amid the tender moss, the vivified
herbage, and the grand parti-coloured flowers. And
then around the trees, there climb up with unrestrained
strength the rebelly-green parasitical plants, giving to
the scene the perfect character of original and natural
wildness. Ah I when looking upon such a spot, I can
well comprehend how St. Patrick must have longed for
his own wild mountains and brooks in Ireland. They
are so wonderfully beautiful. Here indeed might be
founded a holy hermitage, such as all the rest of the
world c mild not equal. The scene that I now describe is
always the same, and yet but one step further and it is
changed ; a new tree—a new light—or a new shade cast
upon it, and it produces a totally different, but still
equally beautiful aspect. Here the water assumes a blue
appearance, there yellow, soon black, and then brown, and
a step further on, it is of a grass-green colour, but in all,
transparent to the very bottom I Again say, that
whatever of beautiful scenery I have looked upon in
Switzerland, or in the Hartz, or at the Rhine, is not
equal to that which, in half an hour, I beheld in Lord
Roden's park."

OUR ISRAELITISH ORIGIN, OR BRITISH
CHRISTIANS A REMNANT OF THE TRUE
ISRAELITES; with a Reply to the Rev. E. Bicker-

steth. By J. Wilson. Nisbet, 1844.
This is rather a startling title, but there may be
more in it than meets the eye. The subject of the
lost tribes has occupied the attention of numerous
writers. Their fate is certainly mysterious, and cal-
culated to excite curiosity and give scope for conjec-
ture ; but the greater difficulty is to believe that they
have been irretrievably dispersed or destroyed, than
that they may be found in some of the remaining
nations of the earth. Many have supposed that the
red race, or American Indians, are the descendants of
the ten tribes, an opinion entertained by the Rev. Mr.
Bickersteth, and other eminent divines, but to this,
we think, there are several decisive objections; others
have indulged in different conjectures, but no
one, to our knowledge, has taken the same
original and rational mode of accounting for
their disappearance, and discovering their exist-
ence, as Mr. Wilson, or supported their views
with more confidence and ability. He has brought
forward many curious and striking facts, which he
maintains to be plainly coroborative of prophecy, and
he has with great ingenuity availed himself of ety-
mology to trace the descendants of Abraham and fol-
lowers of Moses in their chequered peregrinations.
He shows that the tribes which so entirely lost their
nationality were removed northward in the Assyrian
captivity, and that, increasing greatly in numbers,
they passed into Europe, and spread abroad towards
the north and west. In proof of this, he cites Scrip-
ture higtiiri very copiously, and refers to the religious
belief and Israelitish manners which lingered among
the nations of Europe. The 'local appellations of
Hebrew aspect are also adduced, and the immense
number of tombs, and other remains similar to those
in Judea, which are scattered throughout the region
north of the Kuban and along the back of
the Euxine, indicating a numerous population,
where there is now but a scanty num-
ber of inhabitants, altogether offer to our author
a convincing proof that a powerful stream of Israel-
itish emigration flowed westward. In short, the
Gothic races who broke up the Roman empire are
asserted to be the descendants of the tribes of Israel,
whose seed has been multiplied so exceedingly, ac-
cording to Divine ordination, and who, by the con-
currence of repeated prophecies, are to be ultimately
" brought from the north country and gathered from
the coasts and isles of the earth." The Europa Israel-
ites, to adopt a 'term, are destined, it is observed,
to re-civilise the Asiatic nations, and the English are
" the grand producers of good to man and its most
liberal distributors." Israel, or the house of Ephraim,
is not to be confounded with Judah or the Jews. In
the course of our Saviour's ministry all his movements
were to the north. "It is through Samaria," observes
our author, "that we trace the course of his journeys,
and it is round the coasts of Galilee that he went
preaching the glad tidings, and it was when in his
furthest journey in that direction on the coasts of Syro-
Phenicia that he pronounced the important words,
I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.' His mission promised to Israel in the north
country was more fully carried out by his apostles."
Paul, it is observed, uniformly wrote and travelled
northwards, and passed into Europe, to Rome itself,
with the intention of proceeding into Spain. " Paul
and his fellow-disciples all followed out the course
indicated by the great " shepherd of the sheep, and
that being uniformly north-westward, directs our at-
tention to our own part of the world, as being that in
which the lost sheep of Israel may be found." Pp. 60
—7O. The work is written in a forcible and unosten-
tatious style, and it displays great knowledge of an-
cient history and depth of research and original
thinking, with a zeal and earnestness well calculated
to excite the respectful attention of the reader,
although he may refuse his assent to all the points
on which Mr. Wilson has fixed his own conviction.

are
IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEAM-ENGINE.—WO
informed that the greatest improvement made in the
steam-engine since the days of Watt, is now about being
patented by Mr. Samuel Moyle, of Bosvigo House, in
this county, civil engineer, which, it is said, will effect a
saving of at least 50 per cent. in the consumption of
fuel. Great as the advantage arising from this improve-
ment will be to the mining interests of this county,
equally great will it be to railroads on the atmospheric
principle, and still greater to steam navigators, who will
thereby be enabled to perform voyages twice the distance
they are now enabled to accomplish.-- West Briton.
ST. ANDREW'S.—A MISTAKE.--The schooner Snow-
drop, from Stockton, coal laden, bound for Dundee, came
into our harbour on Monday morning at three o'clock,
in a manner unexpected both to the crew on board
and the people on shore. The master, guided by the
lights on the pier-head and at the corner of Mrs. Bell's
tavern, came slap into the harbour, mistaking it for the
river Tay, and did not know his mistake until at the
pier-head (having been there seven or eight years
before), when immediately heaving back to stop the
vessel's way, she struck upon the cross pier, displacing
several tiers of masonry.; and immediately getting clear
of that, she came right into the harbour, against one of
the fishing boats, causing a good deal of damage, and
tearing a plank out of another one. Sh logat last got
safely moored alongside the quay, ha done no
-damage to herself during her headlong career. Happily
no person was injured Caledonian Mercury.
SCILLY.—During the storm with which we were
visited on the 9th inst., the Mary and Eliza, Tregarthen,
master. from London, with a general cargo for Gibraltar
"and Cadiz, was driven ashore, and has become a complete
wreck, the fragments of the hull being subsequently sold
for 91. 10s. The greater part or the cargo has been
saved, but all in a damaged state, having beep someee time
under water. This is the first occasion on which Capt.
Manby's apparatus has been used on the islands. Just
before dark a line was fired over the vessel, by which a
hawser was conveyed to the shore from the mast head,
over which the crew, five in namber, were saved from
perbliing.-- West Briton.