The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-23 00:00:00

EFFECT OF PASSION.

Two men, in the service of Mr. T.:tract-1-, at.
Douglas Mill, had for some time eyed each otlu
with a suspicious look—one was married, and the
other single. It would appear that the unmarried
man had been suspected of being in the habit of py-
ing attention to his neighbour's wife; in a na
which did not at all tally with his feelings; and an
occurrence on Monday last led to a rencontre, which
most miraculously was not fatal. The husband had
observed his wife go into the toll-houstPthere, to
which she was soon followed by the suspected man,
not dreaming that his footsteps had been watched.
*Keenly alive' to hia,enca and his wife's honour, he
quickly followed, for the purpose of an explanation ;
but having found the paramour in company wit!► the
partner of his bed, his mind was ill able to expostu-
late, and from high words blows ensued. a
paroxysm of rage, the married man ran out for a
paling-stub, with which he returned ; when the un-
married man (the waiter) armed himself with either
the tongs or poker in defence. Unfortunately he
hit the other man (the ostler) a severe blow, which►
is said to have fractured his skull.
We have since learned that the affair is not so
bad as has been represented; and that the ostler's
wife, whom fame reports not to have been the most
chaste of her sex, was in the habit of washing for the
waiter, and that upon this occasion she had merely
gone into the toll-house, in broad day-light, with her
charge, whither the waiter followed to shift himself,
being just about to leave the place. The ostler and
she, it is said, occupied different beds, sat at different ,

boards, never rode the same horse, and lived any
thing but happily. The
.envied dulcineu has already
seen ten " lustres," alias 50 years.—Glasgow Free

Press.

EXTRAORDINARY ANINIAL REMAINS.

Some two or three years ago, the newspapers
from the South-west announced the discovery,
in the valley of the Mississippi, of the remains
of some huge animal, such as eye had never seen
nor ear heard of, and in comparison of which,.
even the Mammoth must have been but a pretty
small concern. The story was altogether too
great for belief. But still it was true, as we had.
ocular demonstration yesterday—a gentleman
having requested us to examine some of the
bones, now exhibiting at 330, Broadway, a few
doors above the Masonic Hall. The largest is
one side of an under jaw-bone, which is 20 feet
long, by three feet wide, and weighs 1,2001b5.
There are a variety, of other bones, including 10
or 15 feet of the vertibrte, or back-bone, which
is 16 inches in diameter, and the passage of the
spinal marrow, nine by six inches. The ribs are
nine feet long, and the other bones in proper=
tion. As to the size of the animal which has
left such extraordinary remains of its physical
structure, we are not sufficiently skilled in Osteo-
logy to determine. It must, however, have been
of a magnitude of which we can scarcely form a
conception ; and in a zoological point of view,
it is much to be regretted that the whole skeleton
was not extracted from the earth in which it
must have been so. many thousand years em-
bedded. But the labour of disembowelling the
bones now here was herculean, as they were
buried seventeen feet below the surface
.of the
earth ; and the water made upon the excavators
so fast, that a steam-engine must have been pro-
cured to discharge it. The discovery was owing
to one of the bones protruding above the earth.
Until the discovery of these bones, those of the
Mammoth were the largest of any land animal
of which the relics now remain. The tradition
of the Indians, respecting the Mammoth, as
related by Mr. Jefferson, is well known. "In
ancient times," said the Delaware Chief to the
Governor of Virginia, " a herd of these tre-
mendous animals, came to the Big-bone licks,
and began a universal destruction of bears, deers,
elks, buffaloes, and other animals which had been
cl3wroeaanteed enraged,
abf the
goi
tel :ltohuoasit! of i
nhge
down
e seized
this, war
GreatNNa
de-
scended
on earth, seated himself on a neigbour-
ing mountain, on a roe of which his seat and
the print of his feet are still to be seen, and
hurled his bolta among them till the whole were
slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting
his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as
they fell ; but missing one, at length it wounded
him in the side, whereon springing round, ho
bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the
Illinois, and finally over the, great lakes, where
he is living at this day," It is probably the
Indians' " big bur who left the huge bones
which we have been attempting to describe, and
which the curious will find it worth while to go
I examine for themselves.-IVery York Parer,

The town of Spalding has, within the last few
days, been highly excited by a discovery Which shocks the
feeliugs to contemplate. Two children, the eldest not
more than six years old, were left as orphans, (the father
emigrating to America, and the mother dead), to the care
of their aunt, a woman living at Pinchbeck, whose name
we at present forbear to mention. A considerable suns
of money was left by the father for the Support of dies,'
children, but they soon fell ill, and the boy was released
from his miserable situation, by a humane gentleman of
Spalding, who, much to his credit, took the child
home, arid procured medical advice. The other child
was. so dreadfully emaciated that A' surgeon pronounced
her incurable. For two months the poor little sot:-
ferer was not allowed to, rise from its bed. At length
distressing rumours got abroad, some of the neighbours
went in, and, when they examined. the child, found she
was actually confined to the hed by ropes tied round' her
kegs This account spread rapidly, and the infant was taken
to Spalding, a dreadful object of commiseration, scarcely
bearing the appearance of a human being. She was co-
vered with plasters from held to foot, partly, it is thought,
so conceal the blows of ber inhuman relatives. By kind
treatment, however, she rapidly recovered, and is now
nearly restored 0. health. The uncle and aunt of the child
were imprudent enough to visit Spalding yesterday, but
were glad to make a hasty retreat amid the hootings and
;evilinp of an,inoensed populace,._—Boston Gazette.,

ST. PETERSBURGH, MAY, 1829.

The " Mining Corps," or College, is another
of the colossal establishments for which the
capital is so celebrated. This building is on the
Wassiliostrof, fronts the Neva, and commands
an extensive view of the whole southern side of
the river, from the new navy-yard to the winter
palace ; the portico is supported by 12 enormous
Doric columns, and is a fine appendage to a part
of the city by no means remarkable for architec-
tural splendour; the interior is admirably ar-
ranged, not only as a repository for models, spe-
cimens of minerals, and other things connected
with the mines of Siberia, but as a museum for
many other curiosities well worthy the traveller's
attention. I was fortunately accompanied by a
gentleman who was an excellent mineralogist,
and well acquainted with the mines of Siberia,
which it is well known are now worked on a
most extensive scale. In the vaults beneath the
building are the models of the principal mines ;
bore the position of the lodes of metal, the me-
thod of working, and the machinery used, are all
faithfully described ; in the rooms above are like-
wise smaller models of these mines, of some of
which the section is given ; there are also work-
ing models of a variety of machines used in
mining and for other purposes. The collection of
minerals is exceedingly rich, some of the speci-
mens are enormous, large enough indeed for a
cart-load ; amongst them I remarked a mass of
native copper, weighing about half a ton ; I un-
derstand the ore contains 95 per cent. of pure
metal, and a large piece is cut out to shew its
purity ; there is likewise a single chrystal, at least
four feet thick, and a piece, or rather rock, of
Malachite, which, from its size, must be of im-
mense value. There is also a specimen of native
gold, discovered in Siberia. the weight of which
is 221bs. ; the Russians imagine this to be the
largest specimen ever found, but they are mis-
taken, the Museum of Madrid is enriched by a
lump of native gold from the mines of Peru, the
weight of which is 271bs. The gold mines of
Siberia are rapidly improving, one mine, belong-
ing to Count Demidoff, yielded last year forty
ponds, or 14401b5. of metal. In another depart-
ment of the Mining College are specimens of
arms, and of a variety of implements of Russian
metal and manufacture ; I particularly admired
a sword, on the blade of which a military triumph
is richly chased ; the workmanship is most beau-
tiful ; there are likewise some small castings, the
execution of which is admirable. In a small
circular room, the ceiling of which is painted to
represent the solar system, is a collection of
coins of different ages and nations ; in other
rooms there are objects connected with natural
history, and a fine collection of philosophical
And mathematical instruments. Amongst the
miscellaneous objects of curiosity, I remarked a
block of wood, in the heart of which some hu-
man bones were discovered; the wood is cut open
to shew the extraordinary way in which the
bones are imbedded. Each visitor is required
to inscribe his name in a book kept for that

purpose.
In our way to the Museum we passed the
Academy of Arts and Sciences, an edifice of ex-
traordinary dimensions, and built in the form of
a hollow square ; as it is well known that the
Arts in Russia are in their infancy, it must be
confessed that the fostering care of a maternal
government has provided a cradle of the most
colossal proportions. We could not procure ad-
mission to the interior, but I understand there
is nothing particularly worthy the traveller's at-
tention. The colour of this edifice is of a deep
yellow, and the architecture fine, but the northern
side is not yet finished ; altogether the Academy
is a splendid building, and forms one of the most
prominent features of the capital.
The Museum is exceedingly well worth see-
ing, and is entirely in character with the other
public establishments of the metropolis; the col-
lection of minerals is extensive. Amongst the
objects of natural history is the skeleton of the
celebrated mammoth, discovered in a mass of ice
on the coast of Spitzbergen ; this antideluvian
monster must have been considerably larger than
any known animal of the present time ; by the
side of the mammoth is exhibited the skeleton
of the largest elephant ever brought to Europe,
there is a considerable resemblance in the con-
struction of the two skeletons. Amongst a va-
riety of curiosities are the skins of two gigantic
human beings stuffed ; the appearance of these
objects is most revolting and quite unnatural, as
the face and figure of a man are scarcely percep-
tible ; each is a gross caricature on the human
form. Numerous as the objects are, the ar-
rangement of the Museum is bad throughout,
anatomical preparations, minerals, and natural
history, are mingled together, with scarcely any
classification or
.order. By far the most inte-
resting part of the Museum,is the exhibition of
the working tools, apparatus of different sorts,
models of vessels, and other things relating to
the pursuits and adventures of the Czar Peter,
who was great in every sense of the word, being
(according to an admeasurement in the room)
of the gigantic stature of six feet seven inches ;
in one room is a wax model of the Czar in a
chair of state, and (if the exhibition is to be be-
lieved) clothed in the very dress he wore when
living. So much veneration have the Russians
for the memory of their great Reformer, that no
object, however trivial, is excluded, provided it
has some reference to the life and adventures of
their idol. The Emperor Alexander, when at
Portsmouth, having heard that there was a pub-
lic-house in that town, which bore the sign of
the " Czar of Muscovy," actually purchased the
sign, which was soon transferred from its ignoble
station to grace the walls of the Imperial museum.
Near the museum is the Exchange, which is
not only a point of union for commercial men,
but the general auction-mart of the capital ; the
building is square, somewhat resembling the
Parthenon in the style of architecture, but the
columns are unfortunately defaced by water-
spouts, which project about a foot from each
pillar, and materially interfere with the classical
designs of the architect. The eastern entrance
of the Exchange fronts an open space or glacia,
where are two elevated rostra' towers, which,
however, are more extraordinary than beautiful ;
from this spot the view is remarkably fine. Im-
mediately opposite is the long line of palaces and
the Admiralty ; on the left is the i‘ fortress,"
and the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, the
lofty spire of which forms the most prominent
object in this view. We next visited the " For-
tress," which is the " Tower" of the Russian
capital, and within its narrow precincts are the
mint and the church of St. Peter and st. Paul,
which contains the mausoleum of the Imperial
Family ; the only beauty in this church is the
exceedingly lofty and richly gilt spire,—the in-
terior, with a degree of inconsistency I cannot
account for in this age of improvement, is allowed
to fall into decay ; there are no pictures or de-
corations worth notice. This religious edifice
appears, above all others, reserved as a repository
for the standards taken in the Persian and

Turkish wars ; in the cathedral church of Casan,
a few only of these trophies are introduced,
merely as an accompaniment to the French and
Polish banners, but in the church of St. Peter
and St. Paul the numbers are incredible. Un-
fortunately, we could not procure admission to
the mint, where great activity has prevailed for
some time past.