The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-04 00:00:00

constantly obtaining Parliamentary documents earlier
than any body else could get them, and in circum-
stances which left little doubt that they were obtained
at the office of MeWS:-Italisard. The Thnerinysti-
fication is better, as we have said, than that of the
Messrs. llansard, because it is bolder. It consists
in the cool assertion that there has been no bribery
and no breach of confidence whatever. The Messrs.
Hansard know better than this. They know there
has been bribery, and boldly come forward to say so.
But, then, it was the vile and base bribery of servants.
This, however, the Times can by no means swallow.
There was no bribery at all; but if there were any,
it was all arranged by such good fellows that the
Times cannot think of doing anything tending to
their exposure or punishment. What we respectfully
recommend to the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons (to whom this disclosure by the Times ha 3, we
have reason to know, been the source of some trouble
and anxiety) i; to give an order to Messrs. Hansard
to send proof sheets of- all important Parliamentary
documents to each of the morning papers simultane-
ously, and as soon as they can be got from the press.
This, Ve believe, is the only way to put an end to
bribery anti jobbing.—Morning Post.

A PYTHAGOREAN TAILOR.

A man named Castella, a tailor by trade, bat Si
a person of many professions, made his appparan
some time since, before the Correctional Tribunal
Bayonne, on several charges of fraud, the nature
which will appear from the folldwing narrative :
Professing the doctrines of Pythagoras, he taught t
the souls of men. after death, passed into the bodies ce
dogs, cats, and ether animals, in order that they mro
be purified by the humiliation. Forhimself, however.
he maintained that, although in a former state of bum
existence he had fought and gained both glory Pi
gold in the wars of Algeria, and was at length Wile"
in battle, his life had been so free from guile, OW be
was allowed to return to earth and re-assume his pt"
tine form. He professed to have made six notable
discoveries in contemplating the geographical Ing
of France, which he had communicated to the
himself ; at the same time, assuring his 'august'
correspondent that his life was protected from
' all danger, for that he, Castella, watched o°,,
his sacred person, and covered it with
visible armour. To these supernatural power's
our philosophic tailor added, as he professed, that°(
curing every disease that flesh is heir to, by adminis"
tering certain herbs and drugs, unguents and lotions;
plasters and potations, impressing however upon the
minds of his patients, who were not few in Mar-abet'
that they would owe their cure less to his medicament'
than to the influence of good spirits •Nrith whol!
he held mysterious communication. (inc rniracle!olc; .
did perform.. . . . ,
certainly did perform.. On the application of a 04,
woman, whose husband was an habitual
Man ofthe metenips.ychoSis. contrived to keep the I
of liquor, sober for eight.days. This Made. so deep an
Pre4s.i.On. .the wife,: rthat: she to Castello, °
secret sore by- which she .Was herself corroded, and 0;1
his prescription• applied, alt omelette mixed With
PePPerl a.nd parsley,'_ he promising_ to., irwbke
spirits to her aid.: As the. precious, plaste7
gravated the - sore— to 'an insupportable degree'
she declared her intention_ of consulting a 'regall',
surgeon:;;. Upon' this, 'Orkella protested :that i
good-spirits would - becoMe --sO:irritated by her want
of falth anti„perseverance, that. the most :
consequences would
:ensue. , L'pon this albrinii!°
threat, the weak Womann--again gave 6001 e to hi/
empiricism, and (as he required in all 'cases), c°"'
tinned to supply him ""so- largely with fee%_ that sbe,
exhaused family treasury, and was, {rt i
obliged tp,confess to, her.,husband the channel throng'
which it had been drained away. The husba rid, liar
pening'to be in•his sober senses,-applied-to.th. msgis:
trates; •they-sent theirmyrmidons to arrest !the disci'
ple of -,-Pythagoras, who, upon -the 7testimoily of
numerous dupes, was committed to prison, and,
,beio
tried, was condemned to twelVe inonths'
meat. On' an- appeaf, hoWei;er, to the Cbur Royale
Pau, thia-penalty was; at a-hearing-on the 17th ins''
reduced to three 'mOrithS.

LAUNCH of the GREAT NORTHERN..
This immense new steamer, lately built by Captain
Coppin, was launched on Saturday morning last, in
the presence of at least 20,000 spectators -from
parts of the country, and of many froin 'England and
Scotland. - en so ariionswere- the Donegal Grand
Jiiry, assembled at LiffOrd, be present, that they
obtained leave, on a"special application to the, Judge,
for that putpose. The weather Was in the highest
degree favourable.to exijoyinent of the.magni-
ficent._sight. Every. available. spot-.of ground from
which a glimpse .of the beautiful vessel aould he
had was occupied,- as well-. 'as all -the •.bouse-roofs,
and vesseds:-in the:-river. - We counted between 60
andBo boats lying to, at safe distances-from the ves-
sel,: filled witli'ladieS' and their companions. Flags.
and streamers floated in' directions;' and bonds. of
military music greatly enlivened the scene '"At eight
o'clock the'Worlmens hainmers were first-heard, the
wedges Weie driven, and the last obStrUction was re-
moved. at a,uarter to nine,, when'Xiss Reid, eldest..
daughter off, the. late. Rey. cl,ward. ffeid; Of Ranaelton,
and .niece Joseph- Kelso, broke ,the baffle at
her bow, the with the•Nessel s name, " Great
Northern," was hoisted, - and the mountain of wood
Majestically, glided into' the- Water.- :Immediately a
salvo Was .fired froM varlotts piecFesof .cannon. star
tioned on the wharfs, and-the utmost excitement and
e ['congratulation succeeded:.. No accident of any_ land
occurred', :-.Theg*tNOrtherii is 'the largest vessel-
ever built -in this:country. Ver dimensions are 220
feet in length, 37. feet beam, and 26 feet deep in the
hold; burden 1,750 tons, 8.M., she is to be fully
rigged as a 50-gun frigate, the length of mainmast to
_be feetf; and 33' inche' 'diameter, mainyard 79
feet, and22-l'ihcheS,dianietet in the- Slings; foremastB3- feet, and' mizeninast rp feet ;. she Will be able to
spread 6,400 yards of Canvass. There are-three decks,
the upper one to be left entirely clear for action, and
to be pierced for_ 44 grins ; the windlass and capstan
gear willlhe placed betwixt'decks. She is to be pro-
pelled by. `Smith's Archimidean screw, which ;will "be.
12 fat -diameter,- ,and 'l4, feet:'pitob,, but,' •the length
will be only) feed; tty;make'V iTqv.Oluti4ns per
minute ; thee-gearing consists of a cog-wheel 20 feet
diameter, working into a smaller wheel of 5 feet dia-
meter, upon whose axis is the shaft of the screw. The
engine power consists of two cylinders, 68 inches in
diameter, 4 feet 6 inches stroke, and to make 22
strokes per minute ; nominal power.about 370 horses;
there are to he 4 air-pumps, 19 inches diameter, and
4 feet 6 inches stroke, and cylindrical boilers. The
engines are to be placed close abaft the Vessel, leaving
+he midships clear for passengers.—Derry Standard.

FASITIONS—FOIt A.U.GUST.
(From the "London and Parisln'dies' Ifloga,zine DI
Foulards; haregei„balzarines, diaphane, mousseline'
de laMe, pekins, watered and, organdys, are Iliof
now, in .dernandi and ii.Oliqgotes various kinds
batiste are -worn, batiste Valgicienne, batiste,d'Ec'os'
Java and' japan; ','Prettydresses of the latfer glutei
vial are made with short lint full hanging Sleaies r wise 4
to the shoulder by buttons ; this style is termcid 310
Corinne, the corsages of muslin dresses are rot-,llth
la Vierge, with half tight sleeves, ornamented
Crispin of lace ; dresses of organdy are with
tures and buckles, with long ends and very de``
flounces on the skirt. Some have four or five: deep
,
tucks, forming almost a skirt of tucks. Mary have
short sleeve; with revers forming mantille on tb
body or the corsage a coulisses ; watered b3s
been made open at the side with revers of a water
is
silk of another colour, one that harmonizes welJ
it, the sides connected by an echelle of. ribbon, t'd
under skirt of watered silk the same as the reve 113, 111:(
made the width of the hem longer in the skirt. Pre,t'lo
dresses of striped poult de sole are trimmed with,
deep biais vandyked, and the skirt quite plain at,
back. Flowers are very prettily introduced an.T.Ouif
mer toilettes of organdy, in the form of cordc,nsfe
heath to edge the double and triple skirts an d
bottom of the sleeves ; the same style is also ma de in
mignonette, geranium, mysotis ; the coiffure sitrc der l
ornamented to correspond. Embroidery eta sollte,le
,
(braid) is much in favour in Paris for foul ards,! si'";
mousselines de lathe, and even organdys, znd
patterns are being introduced. The cardinal Pele'
rives, the same as the dress, are not made very deep'
the newest among the large camails are of silk filet
in diagonal stripes of white and shaded green 3, with
second pelerine reaching to the waist, small col lar atilt
lt
armholes, the whole of which are trimmed with
fringe matching in colours. Crape bonnets'r bre ve,l
fashionable this month; nothing is prettier Pm 'Tea
divided by several rows of open straw, and or ?men
at the side by a bouquet of moss-roses ;vh ith crape•k.
is mixed with inlets of Valenciennes, divided by pink
Bros de Naples. Wreaths of small wild roses are very
pretty for capotes of tulle bouillonnees ; a new bow
quet has been composed of small leaves of velvet/
shaded green and brown, from which fall red be rriel;
they are intended for straw bonnets trimmed will
velvet shaded with green.

_
MA GA Z INES—(CONCLUDED).
COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
This Magazine, as may be imagined from its title,
is chiefly occupied with the consideration of Colonial
affairs. Among the articles, we find a copy of the
uew Ministerial tariff, unabridged, and printed, as
the editor observes, " with more than common care,
from the third or amended Act." This is a useful
document, and its insertion here is very appropriate.

LONDON UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
A well digested number, containing a variety of
articl?s in prose and verse, some of which—such as
the translaticn from Boccacio's poem of the " Falcon"
—are written with much spirit. We lave no space
for extracts.

THE MARIs.ETS.—(YESTERDAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
The fresh arrivals of English Grain have been small,
but of Foreign Wheat good. The runs of English Wheat
which remained unsold, found buyers, at Monday's
prices, but for Foreign there was scarcely any demand.
Other Grain as last stated, with little done. The top
price of Flour was settled at 555. per sack.
COLONIAL MARKETS.
The operations were few, but holders werd' firm, and
obtained full rates.

TEA MARKET.
There was little business done, but holders were firm,
and obtained full rates. Company's Congou Is. 91d. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices steady, but the demand was limited, at 48s. on
the spot.

FROM THE FRENCH PAPEAS,.
A letter from Vic-le-Comte gives the folio winisoc'
count of disastrous storms in that country7:_3,, O'
the 18th instant, a violent tempest desirovied, ti.ll
a few minutes, the whole of the gr.mtk, o.f tile
lower part of this Commune, in which ~sere 13111.,
finest vineyards, promising an extraordinary' prod/ac'e'
and on the next day another came down upon ".1
and for two hours ravaged the entire upy part
the commune, so that the whole of our crops of
kinds are gone without hope of recovery. N. 7thinfi
was spared. Houses were unroofed and injured
parts by the wind and the flood, and numerous tn3e3
were uprooted and borne to great distances." A few days ago a cart, loaded with hay, c:
to I,t
fire between Les Sales and La Mothe-A.chard, i
Vendee, from the friction of the wheels, and wa.!;

COAL MARKET.
Ships arrived since last market.day, MI
. d.
Chester Main 00000 •••••••••• of. lit 3
Holywell Main........ lB 0
New Tantield 1)1oor.. 0000 l3 6
OldTanfield ..... ........ l3 6
Sidney's Hartley l7 0
Townley ...., 16 0
Tantleld Moor 18 6
West Hartley lB 0
Wylani
Walls End Heaton l9 0
Walls End Hotspur
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Newmarch l7 0
Walls End Wharncllffe lB 6
W. E. Braddyll'sHetton
Walls End Hatwell. :0 3

s. d.
Walls End Hatton 20 6
Wall? End Lambton 20 8
Walls. End Morrison
Walls End Stewart's
Walls End Cassop' ......
Walls End Caradoc 20 9
Walls End Heugh Hall 2O :1
Walls End Kelloc
Walls End Adelaide
'Walls End Bowburn l7 0
Walls Et d Evenwood
11 Wal s Ehd Teeb
'Blythe... 1 -ythe •
Garnant Stone 94 0
Howard s Netherton Main 16 9
1

LLOYDS' SHIPPING
LONDON, AUGUST 3.—Wind this day at nool

fat
Al E. tirely consumed. The carman had his hands 131 J.:,
DEAL, AUGUST 2.—Wind, N.E., moderate.—Sld, in endeavouring to save his horses. He succeed to c1„1"
Giraffe, Sydney; Bombay, New Zealand ; Sarah, Port detaching the leaders, but the shaft horse was ii iii"
Phillip.
cated before he could be unharnessed.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Arrd. off, Edward. M'Kenzie,
ottr
Quebec ; Forester, Kundsen, Bahia, for Hamburgh. Some time ago a mason of Morltdx, named -Pe 1..„e
Arrd. Jane, Baxter, Monte Video. was bitten by a dog which was supposed at i he 1 JP'
' tbe
OFF PORTLAND, AUGUST I.—Care, St. Domingo, for to be mad. The man, after he was bitten, heldi
animal down until some persons came up an :".4 ,
Hamburgh.
.. . OFF POOLE, AUGUST 2.—George, Fenwick, Batavia, sisted in destroying it. Immediately after the !ilccl;
for Amsterdam. dent Peron received medical aid, but at the expi, .--Itl°,
FALMOUTH, AUGUST I.—Wind E. to S.E., light of several days he was attacked with the sym, Wil/ti
breezes.—Arrd. Creole, Baysor, Rio, std. June 3 ; Li-
vonia, Reid, Aux Cayes, std. June 17. Sld. Alchymist, of hydrophobia, whilst at mass at Morlaix, gs
Quebec ; Ladv Mary Wood steamer, Gibraltar. The died last week. During his illness the sight of
w3/18.
i.
Sarah, which was on the Stag rocks, has been brought occasioned severe spasms, and in his delirium h( ire'
into harbour.
I quently exclaimed—" Take away the dog." As s' eti
BRISTOL, AUGUST 2.—Arrd. Coverdale. Fry, Barba-
i.,
as he had become convinced of his condition, he, b ,o -f
does. Sld. Ann, Demerara ; Kate, Grenada. leave of his family, and begged that, as a meantri ' 0
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 2.—Wind S. E.—Sld. Planta. precaution, they would not go near him. •
„le
genet, Calcutta. An officer of the army, who had been for so 'a
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 2.—Wind Southerly, variable, and time on half-pay, having at length acquired, by la 1),,,'
light.—Arrd. Kate, Scott, Monte Video, left May 14, of time, a title to his pension of retirement, came fr ".
Sailed Scotland, Brazil ; Nueva, Yberia, Hava,nnah ;
United States, Auxerre to Paris to make his claim. On Sunday ~,;
Boston ;
and Hibernia,
eth, Ann, and Crescent, Newfoundland New York ; Peruvian, he did not appear fora considerable time after ,A'
Elizab
rwentupto his chamber to ascertain the cause„ .9;iii
Arrived off, Glasgow (supposed from), Bombay ; Vic- went
him dead on his bed, his head dread tAu Vt.,
toxin and Francis, Barbadoes ; Winscales and Eliza,
Luskman. . fractured by the pistol with which he had shot hi rnsi "
OFF CORK, JULY 31.—Arrd. Cassiopa, Hodgson, A letter placed open on the chimney announc ed t: Mauritius. A barque at Hayle, fell over yesterday the landlord that, having become worn out b r the
morning, and received considerable damage. procrastinations of office and spent all his mone\ rp of
BERWICK, AUGUST I.—The John (sloop), from New-
ad too much pride to have recourse to the
purs et 1 a
castle to Arbroath, in running into New Sunderland, his friends, and, therefore, determined to put an ,4 3,1!.
29th ult. (having sprung a leak), ran on the beach, but to his life. The letter expressed gratitude to I'li
is expected off after discharging her cargo (coals). landlord for the kindnesses he had received from h. 1.,"1
June 3, off Adra ; Westchester, of New York, 29th ult.,
VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Tened9s, from Gibraltar,
and craved his pardon for the inconvenience his 1' s''
act would occasion.
lat. 51, lon. 10, by the Vigilant, arrived at Cork. Chid-
.o
In consequence. of the late suicide of the per Ap
mark, Batavia, to London, June 12 ; Young Queen, Rio
to London, 27th ; British Queen, to London, and sup- who threw himself from the top of the,
aAforcri.
,:hgt:o-f
plied with provisions by the Cassiopeia, arrived off Cork. Triomphe, at the Barriere de l'Etoile, th'e Prefect 'er Halifax, of London, New York to Valparaiso, 4th ult., Police has renewed with the utmost
lat. 38 N, lon. 60, by the Liorma, arrived at Falmouth. order, that no one shall be allowed
io ascend to
Majestic, off Liverpool, for Malabar, 15th ult., lat. 39, platform alone.
lon. 19 ; Baltic, Yarmouth to Quebec, June 30, by the
General Graham, arrived in Leith Roads. Orestes, New -

castle to St. John's, 29th ult., lat. 48, lon. 8, by the
George, arrived off'Poole. St. George, Cork, to Prince
Edward's Island, 26th ult., lat. 49, by the Caledonia
steamer, arrived at Liverpool.

a•
v iscoun, ...illwOrtt, Sir Wilt= Pearson, the E. :pere
the
Mr. Mackenzie, %int Reuss, and Count Flahault. ~.0" •
amonging by Vie. r,ehemi
Pas`Lengers that left London yesterday r 24
„.14 '1
Steam Navigation Company's ; '
packet t:cean, Capt. J. C. Hest, for Rotterdam. r
Tk si
.e Marquis of Huntley, Captain Mercer, .
opt
Ttiomas and Lady Trowbridge, Col. Pemberton, Qe
Ir.
and Countess Daniacki. Rev. John Parkin, and the/ W. Parker left the Brunswick Wharf, Bl
.Nackwal/1.. 0,
.)terday afternoon, in the General Steam avigativa (1,(
pany's steam ship Soho, `Capt. Whitcombe, for ..nt ,y 4
en route for the Rhine.

t Kill

MURDER OF AN AUSTRIAN NOBLE.—A Vienna
letter of July 18, says An atrocious crime has just
deprived the Finance department of one of its oldest
functionaries, Baron Philibert de Stramitski, Directer Of
the Accounts of the' AuStrian. Public.l)ebt, a mrAn
nearly eighty years of age' -55 of Which-he had passed in
office. • M. de Straraitskilad a few days ago taken under
his protection a' young Venetian . named Pupella; and
given him a lucrative place in his office. In the evening.
of • the 12th, the Baron, who was. a bachelor, .and
had only two' servants, was alone in his apartment.
when Pupelitycalled upon him, and asked him to lend
him a hundred florins. The old gentleman consented V)
do so, and .went with Pupella to his chest to -take out
the-money. He had scarcely applied the key to, the lock
when Pupella struck him several blows on, the head with
a stone tied up in a silk handkerchief,, and his victim
having'fallen to the-ground insensible, he-was filling his
pockets with' notes -and gold from -the chest, when he
Was disturbed by the valet de-chambre of the flaron,'whO
collared him, and,- galling -to his aid the other servant 4,
kept- him in -good custody. ,Assistance wa, instantly '
given to the victim, but- it was, .too late.. for .
already dead. - The murderer,, wii.only a year ar ,s
herded BO,OOO florins (200,00 E) from relati:vo
all of
which he had lost in gainbling, :instantly
crime, which indeed could-tot be.denied,
cC4P ~ssed his
e- added, that
his only motive was to obtain the me..f..oks.n
paviniwhat
he called some debtaof honour, - -
Until within the last iwo
Yew% there was not a
calf c-xported -from Ireland, while 5
exportation of them amounted tot-. 3,
.n the.year 1840 the
10% and in the last
year to 8,900. •
,
THE lON was stated on Tuesday
about the Houses of P'....rhatneut, that the prorogation,
by the Queen in persimy will
anniglit„ -." - take ielace this day

81. TH S.
On the 2d inst., in Bruton-street, Berkeley•square, the- Vi
countess Newry, of a ion.
On the 31st ult., at Amble, Northumberland, 'Mrs. Thorns
Browne, of a daughter.
On the 31st it, at Clapham New-park, thelidy of Willa al
Thornton Wost,, Esq., of a son; still-born.
On the 4t east., at Norwood, .the lady of George Ha.ske
Esq., of a son. • • -
On the Ist inst., at Nort'nwith-terrace, Maids-bill, Mrs.
1%1. *Reid, of 'a son and train
MARRIED.
0z) ti.ie 2d inst.* at Trinity Church, Bath, &Mien et,
second son of the Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Willi 1
to
umerset, and grandson of • t-Tenry; fifth Duke of Beauf.>rt„
only daughter of the late Captain Donald, of her:ll
jilesen4llTe';94 26thRth"Ulmj, ant. ad
On the Kynner-sley, Sah-p, Thomas Tostnge
ird
E,q., of Hilltrorton Hall, Warwickshire, to Chri:tiani.,
daughter of the late Major-General Andrew Burn, R. hi.
On the 30th ult., John Allen Gillham, Esq..* of Rustplace, Fitzroy-square.
T.
on the 31ht ult., at East Dulwich, Elizabeth, relict of '
Bailey, Esq., aged 85.,

. . .
On the 31st ult., Mr. George Fitch, of Bishopsgate within 0,
On the 31st ult., at Cambridge-terrace, Camden-tow
Elizabeth, relict of the late Licuteuant-Colonel Cleve, of tl
Royal Artillery, aged'so.

London; Printed-and, Published by-MURDO YOUNCI„
No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. H 2, Strark jai G
the County of Aliddiesex, Thursday, August 4,1642