The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-13 00:00:00

EPITAPII ON A"SMUGGLER

SHOT IN AN AFFRAY WITH THE EXCISE OFFICERS.
Here 1 lies
Killed by the Ml's, —American Paper',
An auctioneer having an estate to sell, insert-cc!,
in the particulars glowing descriptions of a " hanging
wood, by which a purchaser was tempted. On e-xplaor
tion afterwards, it appeared that it was a wood wherein
culprits had been " hanged ;" but the auctioneer had t°
pay dearly for his jest ;—the customer brought an action
against him, and recovered damages.
PIG M ES.—The stature of the Pigmies seldom[
exceeded an inch. Their houses and cities wen built d
egg-shells. Hercules was assailed by these I:ttle creature*
while asleep, after defeating ths,,s,iant Antestis. On awal`'
hag, he found one party endeimtring to secure his feet'
while others were mounting on his body, and the Queen'
with the flower of her army was attacking hie head. TO
Greeks seem to hare invented the fable of the Pigmies a 5
a contrast to the Giants, in whose existence they believed'
This, probably, suggested to Swift the notion of the Lily
putians and Brobdignagians.
WONDERFUL RECOVERY OF VISION.--'
Mrs. Pollock, a respectable widow, who resides with hel;
daughter and son-in-law, at Tully, in the with liberties of
this city, became blind twenty-two years ago, from inflal::1
'nation in the eyes, induced by one of them being Mint
by a stalk of flax. During this long period, the book °,l
Nature was a complete blank to her, so completely ba
dim suffusion veiled " those tender organs. Thus g'°'
continued, without the remotest hope of ever discerning all
object, when, about two weeks since, she said to het
daughter, Airs.
/, I think, daughter,
ceire the window—has it bars across it ?" " That were
Stephenson, " I think, my dear, I per
mnse
happy circumstance indeed !" replied the daughter ;
rinuatre„ m. and
Itther wasi exclaimed(nophati •
1 fear it is only imagination, as the window has no bare.
The mother was silelnt fot- ue
n my
had tak
tam ; a kind Piropvirdoevinieleg,w iaisisroestntuocrhin,g
that
tat
shbee
away ; and (coin that moment, the object of his goodotl
ti•ilearblyeedng
been daily
improving,
the different members of the family, Eifi,
walk abroad, without needing, as formerly, one.to*lead b"
by the hand.—Londonderry Journal.
Au 01(1 writer, Fuller, in his " Worthies of,
Cornwall," after describing • the beautiful seat of SAO.
Mount Edgecumbe, near Plymouth, says, " This curio,*
and noble mansion so affected the Duke of Medina Sidosigf
Admiral of the Spanish Armada, in 1588, (though behold"
ing it at a distance on the sea,) as to reserve it for his onso
possession, in the partage of this kingdom, which in hoPe:
and expectations they had already conquered." This brio'
to mind a circumstance which really occulted at an orl
period of the French Revolution, when the leveling 1"113;
ciple prevailed to a considerable extent in this country. ,
party of mechanics, who held their meetings Iss a pubh:l
house in the neighbourhood of Tottenham-court-toad, 111
one evening been making arrangements as to the future uw;
position of the different estates of certain English noble'
and gentlemen, when, unhappily, two of the fraternity bad
each conceived a violent penchant for the mansion 0,
domains of the house of Russell. Each of the candidatf:
had certainly an equal right to the reversion ; and so nests';
nate were they in supporting their claims, that it wag
length agreed that the matter should he decided by comb,
and the patriotic Dares and Entellus, to use modern Pia
lance, actually milled one another for three quarters of s
hour, for the sake of Woburn-Abbey.
A COMPARISON BETWEEN TFIE YEA--
1727 AND 1827.—1 n the year 1727, hackal
coaches were plain, awkward, clumsy things,
110 springs, and their number did not exceed
er
in the whole of London ; at present their nutolii
is ine.:-eased to 1,200. Fashions at that perio;
did not reach any place 50 miles distant Inu
London, until they were nearly out ; now thei
travel down in coaches, diligences, &c. in a fe o
,
hours. Coaches were then two days and 0
nights going down to Dover ; they now perfore,
the same journey in nearly a quarter of. the tirrid
In 1727 meat was only 3d. per lb. ; now it is 10;
or Is. Servants' wages then varied from. '21,• to
41. ; now 101. to 30/.