The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

by the exertions of a few individuals, inhabitants of
the parish, has been rescued from oblivion. By ap-
peals to the inhabitants generally, which were most
liberally responded to, sufficient funds have been raised
to renovate and improve the building, and to form a
subscription library.
The Rev. Sir Henry Dukenfield, Bart., the vicar,
consented to act as President, and, with others,
largely contributed many volumes of modern scienti-
fic, historical, and biographical works, and donations
in money. The library rooms are now well supplied
with newspapers and all the best periodicals, to which
any one resident or employed in the parish can have
access, by paying annually the small subscription of
10s. 6d., being less than any other institution of the
kind in the metropolis. The present number of mem-
bers is upwards of 500. The title by which the
ground for the erection of the library was held for
the vestry, shows that the library was for the use of
the public. It is as follows :—" Dr. Thomas Tenni-
son having considered that, in the city and liberty of
Westminster, there are great numbers of ministers and
other studious persons ; as also that there is not in the
said precinct any one shop of a stationer fully fur-
nished with books of various learning, nor any noted
librarie except that of St. James (which belongs to
his Majesty, and is not easy qf access); that of Sir
Robert Cotton (which consisteth chiefly of books re-
lating to the antiquities of England), and the library
of the Dean and Chapter of St. Peter's Church,
Westminster," &c. The library contains between five
and six thousand volumes upon all subjects, but prin-
pally upon theology, and amongst them are many
valuable manuscripts. The library is deposited in a
new building near the church.

DEXTEROUS CAPTURE OF
POACHERS.
A very short time ago, consequent upon a well-laid
train, two of the most audacious poachers in this dis-
trict were captured at Washington, in this locality.
Information having been obtained by the constituted
authorities here, that two of the most notoriously des-.
perate characters that have infested this range for some
time past were prowling about near at hand, their lurk -
ing-place was ferreted out by our active rural policeman
and assistants ; but from the daringly reckless charac-
ter of the gang it was deemed advisable to delay any
attempt to capture until a strong force was mustered,
for which purpose a messenger was dispatched with
the intelligence of their being found out, and, at the same
time, a request was made to the agent of the Perthshire
Game Protection Association here that a strong force '
might be dispatched without loss of time. Accord-
ingly, the recruiting party of the 93d Highlanders,
stationed here, consisting of a sergeant and three pri-
vates, were sent off to the scene of action without a
moment's loss of time, and very soon thereafter joined
the policemen. After stationing a part of the force
round the house to render futile any attempt at es-
cape, the sergeant and his men went in and demanded
if those they were in pursuit of were within ? and
were answered by the inmate in the negative ; but, of
course, discrediting this statement, their warrant
was produced, and a search determined on, which
proved unsuccessful in the first instance, but on
their entering another apartment, in which was a
closed-ln bed, and on casting a glance in that direc-
tion, there the two delinquents were seen snugly
ensconced, enjoying a very sound and no doubt
refreshing sleep, as it appeared from the head
of game stowed in a closet in the room that they
had had a pretty hard, as it was certainly, a suc-
cessful day's sport. The soldiers went close to the
bed, presented their fire-arms, and demanded them
to sit up in bed and allow themseives to be handcuffed.
which they had no alternative but to submit to,
although accompanied by a good many threats and
shrugging of the shoulders. On their being hand-
cuffed, a search was made in the room ; and in the
closet above referred to were found two double-
barrelled guns, both barrels of each gun loaded,
six pheasants and five hares, procured of course by
illicit means. On their being secured, they were
ordered out of WI, unshackled, and requested to dress,
which they did, and were then marched off to this
town, where they were kept in custody all night, and
sent off to gaol next morning.—Perth Advertiser.
In Scotland, therefore, where, as we learn from the
report of the Renfrewshire meeting, people must starve
or break the law, poaching seems by some classes
to be considered tantamount to murder. If these
men, instead of having killed a pheasant, or snared a
hare, had slain a fellow-creature, what stronger lan-
guage could be used than that of this paragraph, and
what more vigorous measures could be taken than to call
out the military to apprehend them. Does the Com-
mander-in-Chief tolerate such an employment of
soldiers ? Does the community submit to an income-
tax that an army may be kept up for the protection of
the landlords' pheasants against starving men? We
have not of late met with many paragraphs more
pregnant than this with the conviction that there is
something essentially wrong in our political regula-
tions.—En. Sun.

The Semaphore of Marseilles contains the follow-
ing article :—" Barcelona, Dec. 4.—The treaty of
commerce has just been signed by Espartero. The
English 1-nd him 160,000,000 reals, and he gives
them in exchange the entrance of the port of Barce-
lona for the introduction of their goods, with which
they will soon inundate all Spain. French editors
are verily a strange people.
On Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a middle-
aged married female, named Margaret Ryan, fell down
in convulsive fits in the Blackfriars-road. She was
conveyed, by 156 L, (who was near the spot) to Mr.
Jones's, a surgeon, who found her in a dying state,
and ordered her to be taken to Guy's Hospital, but

she expired on the way.
Fara, or A GRANARY.—On Thursday evenir
about twenty minutes past seven o'clock, the people
residing in York-street were startled by an extraor-
dinary crash, accompanied by a simultaneous shock,
as if produced by some subterraneous convulsion. On
inquiry, it turned out that the alarm had been pro-
duced by the fall of a grain store, situated to the rear
of the elegant and substantial bonding warehouses in
York-street. The building which was thus unexpec-
tedly levelled with the ground, was of considerable
extent, being four stories in height, and about forty-
six- feet-in length, and, at the time the casualty took
place, contained a large quanity of grain. The loss
we have heard estimated, altogether, at between 4,0001.
and 5,000/. ; upwards of 2,0001. will, it is stated, be
required, to restore the building. Fortunately, no
person was injured.—Glasgow Paper.
A few evenings since Lord Bridport's keepers, at
Monckton Wylde, were disturbed from their sleep by
hearing noises in the adjoining copses; on going to
the spot, there were no less than eight poachers, seven
of whom had fire-arms, and one of them a tremendous
bludgeon. A conflict immediately ensued, and guns
were fired, the report of which brought three of the
neighbours, Copp, Collier, and Salter, to the assistance
of the Richmonds (the gamekeepers), but they were
soon overpowered, and Collier was so dreadfullv
beaten on the head, &c., as to have been nearly killer.
The elder Richmond, also, was severely, wounded ; his
gun was wrested from him, and a large slug was
lodged on the temple, near the left eye, which has
since been extracted. As the poachers left they fired
their guns, several of the shots of which pierced the
legs, &c., of farmer Copp. Collier's wounds have
been dressed, and he is now able to work. Richmond
was able to recognise one of them, of the name of Ber-
ridge, who has been committed to Dorchester gaol by
J. Hussey, Esq., of Lyme.—Sherborne Journal.
ANOTHER SIGN OF THE TurEs.—Speaking with an
acquaintance, a pawnbroker, on the long-continued
and deep distress which prevails throughout this dis-
trict, he invited us to an inspection of his returns of
pledges taken by him, and we found, that in the
years '1833 and 1834 he was days without taking in
one pledge ; while in the years 1840 and 1841 the
.number averaged for every day in those years 125
per day, or 3,750 for each month.—Bolton Free Press.
REDUCTION OF THE SUGAR DUTIES.—TIIE TRADE
WITH BRAZIL —For some time the West India inter-
est have been labouring to secure as good terms as
possible for themselves in that change of the sugar
duties, which has now become inevitable, and, accord-
ing to the account given by the Manchester Guardian
of the future rates of duty on plantation and Brazilian
sugar, they have succeeded even beyond their hopes,
so far as their own produce is concerned, whatever they
may have done with regard to Brazilian. The future
duty on plantation sugar, it is stated, is to be 16s. per
cwt., which is less than what the West Indians were
willing to have bargained for, namely, 2d. per lb ; and
that on Brazilian is to be 30s. The former is a re-
duction of Bs. on the existing duty (which is 245. per
cwt.), and also on the duty under the Bill proposed
by the Whigs; and it will cause an immediate loss
of upwards of a million and a quarter to the re-
venue. The expected duty on Brazilian sugar
is a reduction of 6s. per cwt. beyond what was
proposed by the Whigs; but as it will open a new
branch of trade, and reduce the selling price of
sugar to about 50s. per cwt., it will probably give
such a stimulus to consumption as will very soon
make up for the loss in the duty on plantation sugar.
The substitution of a duty of 30s. per cwt. on ,Brazi-
lian sugar will doubtless be a great improvement on
the present prohibitory system, though even that rate
of duty is much too high, as it will compel every
person who buys a hundred weight of sugar to pay a
premium of 14s. to the West India planters, in addi-
tion to the 16s. which he pays for the purposes of
revenue, and the 18s. or 20g. which he pays to the
grower and importer of the article. So fully do the
West India planters reckon on an important altera-
tion being made in the sugar duties in the next session
of Parliament, that at the opening of the Jamaica
Legislature last month a Committee was appointed to
endeavour to obtain a suitable differential duty in
favour of British plantation sugar. They will hardly
have the conscience to ask more than Government
appears to disposed to give, which is a differential duty
of no less than 14s. on a duty of 165., that is, 87 per
cent.—Leeds Mercury.