The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

LORD PRESIDENT HOPE.

1 A few words now upon the matter of fact. The decline in
the late Lord President's powers
,for the last three years has
been too notorious to be denied by any person in this city. He
was not only lame, and deaf to a serious extent, but his mind
was observed to wander from the question bef_re him, and
sleep was occasionally seen to surprise him for a few minutes
though his natural temperament was remark-
ably These infirmities were not wonderful in a man of
on the
active. Bench,
his advanced age, and they were familiarly known to all
persons in the Parliament-house. It was equally known
—and there are . few Tories who would have denied it—
that he lingered on the judgment-seat after his use-
fulness was gone, in the hope of his party returning
to power, and enabling him to make his own retire-
ment the means of securing the advancement of his son. If
.a
doubt existed on the subject, the tendering of his resignation
in 1835 must remove it. To the people of Edinburgh, the
attempt made in Parliament to conceal such patent facts seems
not only vain, but ludicrous. Mr. Maule's statements are true
au pied de la lettre ; and if, keeping a judicial situation under
the gathering infirmities of age, for niere party and family
purposes, constitutes a job, we have assuredly here a palpable
job before us. In one point we differ from the Member for
Perth. We deny that the Lord President's judgment in the
Strathbogie case " excited deep and irrepressible dis-
gust in the public mind of Scotland." On the contrary, it
seemed to us that the opinion he delivered on that occasion
displayed the clearness and vigour of his better days, and we
believe it accorded with the sentiments of nearly all the sober-
minded and well-informed part of the nation. The word
" thimble-rigging" attributed to him, if really spoken, was
well bestowed ; but we do not justify its use from the Bench.
His Lordship, indeed, like many men of an open, fearless, and
passionate temper, was often indiscreet in his language when
right in his sentiments.—Scotsman.

FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.
RARE FEDITS.—A MODEL KINGDOM WITHIN THE MODEL
REPUBLIC.—A lady of our acquaintance from the East, has shown
us a lemon, of large size, which she plucked from the tree at Zoar,
Tuscarawas County, Ohio, while passing through by way of the
Ohio canal. She saw hundreds of the same kind of fruit in the
various stages of growth, besides oranges, figs, and other productions
of high southern latitudes. The trees on which they grow, are
planted in large truss-like half hogsheads, which being placed on
wheels, can be conveyed into the air when the temperature is suffi.
ciently mild, and deposited in the hot-houses during the cold
weather.
The village of Zoar lies on the canal, and is owned and inhabited
exclusively by a singular community of Germans, who, on account
of difficulties', growing out of their peculiar religious faith, emi-
grated to America, cast their wealth into a common stock, ap-
pointed their leader.king, who for a number of years has governed
his little community with absolute authority (so far as possible
without interfering with the laws), much alter the manner of the
ancient patriarchs. He holds the title to the soil, assigns to all,
men, women, and children, their appropriate labour, exercises an
absolute control over all property, superintends all business trans.
actions with the outward world, keeps the treasury, settles all
difficulties without legal
,forms, admits or expels members at his
pleasure, and exhibits, though on an humble scale, a picture of
absolute sovereignty. There, as in Russia, the "one man power"
has full sway, but there is no veto.
To givegrace to this picture, and render such a state of things
tolerable in this Republican country, this despot is one of the most
wise, just, and benevolent of men—perhaps the beau ideal of the
whole race of " the Lord's anointed." He is loved as indeed the
father of his little flock, to the promotion of whose happiness he
devotes himself with pious zeal. He is their priest as well as their
king, and conducts their religious ceremonies. Under his super.
vision, this singular community has become famous for its indus-
try, its well cultivated fields, its manufactories, its dairies, its gar-
dens of valuable roots, plants, fruits, and flowers of every variety,
climate, and species; for its neatness sobriety, good morals, and
regard for the laws. He is now very old, and has a son who is to
succeed him ; but his people are becoming too Democratic to like
the idea of having all their toils fall into the hand, of a wayward
young fellow, who, according to the title which will descend to him,
can, under the laws of Ohio, legally claim the whole concern. So
when the present beloved ruler shall be " gathered unto his
fathers," a small rebellion may be looked for—or, a suit in Chan-
cery. So much for lemons, oranges, figs, and a kingly government
in the interior of Ohio, in spite of a climate and institutions deemed
so little congenial to their growl h. —From the Louisville Advertiser.
ABSURDITIES.—There are so many courses which people pursue,
that, with a little reflection, will appear absurd to every man of
common understanding. The individual himself who is looking
t'or absurdities, is generally the one in whom they ate first found.
A man wants to see the person against whom he has thew eatest
reason to guard himself. Let him take a glance at the looking.
glass, and he will see a very fair likeness of the individual he is
searching for.
It is absurd to despair when the clouds lour. We should look
earthnpw atd
underfor comfort.
our
feet
is W
sure hen
to the
b e heaven over our head is dark, the
It is absurd to lend money to a man whose friendship you are
desirous to preserve.
It is absurd for an, infidel to tell you to abandon your bible.
Tell him you will do so when he will bring you a better book.
It is absurd to exhibit violent passion in your family, foaming
and fretting at every little annoyance that may cross you, and at
the same time expect them to be placid.
It is absurd, if you have half a dozen children, all of different
dispositions and capacities, to give them all the same education,
with the expectation that they will all shine in the same sphere.
It is absurd not to go to bed when you are sleepy, because it is
not a certain hour- •
It is absurd to see a man professing Christianity bristling up with
anger twenty times a day like a hedgehog.
It is absurd to suppose that a Leghorn hat, loaded with flowers,
will cure the headache.
It is absurd to suppose that a gold watch will cure the consump-
tion.—Bosturs Transcript,
AWFUL CALANITT.—A private letter received yesterday de-
tails an accident at the town of lackson, Louisiana, which
appals one's very soul. It is one of the most curious as well
as heart.rending we have ever heard of. A dray loaded with
several kegs of powder was being discharged, when by the care.
lessness (some say, drunkenness) of the drayman, one of them
was suffered to fall. A scissor-grinder was near, busy in his avcs,
cation, and his rapid wheel emitting, a shower of sparks. These
fell upon the spilled powder, blew up the man, scissor-grinder,
horse and dray, and killed four negroes belonging to Mr. Seth
Parker. The shock was felt all over the town, anti many win..
dows were broken. One leg of the drayman and his hat were found
several hundred yards off. The mangled remains of the scissor.
gt inder were collected and decently buried. His wheel, it Appears,
had been sent about sixty yards, and lodged on the balcony of a
neighbouring house. When will people learn to be careful with
powder ? Crescent.
A COLD WATER GALLANT.—Joe Sykes, a dry chap, who is
writing letters to time New York Commercial from the Southern
counties of the State, immortalizes a wag by the name of Manrow,
a contractor on the New York and Erie Ranked, who owns a
waggon, the fore wheels of which are as large as the hind ones.
One of his horses he calls Fanny, the other Ellsler ; and he swears
that " Fanny Ellaler is a whole team." One day he stopped to dine
and feed his horses ; a pretty damsel waited at the table, and came
to fill his tumbler whenever he rang the bell to call her from an
adjoining room. He was smitten with her beauty, and drank his
glass dry as quick as possible, that he might have the pleasure ofsce.
ing her fill it again. His desire to see her, however, exceeded his
capacity to hold all the water she poured out, and, seeing a jar of
pickles its the room, instead of drinking the water he poured it into
the jar, repeating his calls for the damsel to fill his tumbler till he
had filled the jar to overflowing. His reputation for drinking
water, of course, soon spread over the neighbourhood ; and the
secret was not found out until the good landlady discovered that the
liquid in her jar had been diluted, and her pickled cucumbers
thereby destroyed.—Montreal Courier.
DIET Or THE ANCIENTS.--The difference between the diet of
the ancients and that of us moderns is very striking. The ancient
Greeks and Romans used no alcoholic liquor, It being unknown to
them; nor coffee, nor tea, nor chocolate, nor sugar, nor even
butter; for Galen informs us he had seen it but once in his life.
They were ignorant of the great number of our tropical spices, as
clove, nutmeg, mace, ginger, Jamaica pepper, curry, pimento.
They used neither buck.wheat tor French beans, nor spinach,
nor sago, tapit•ca salep arrowroot, nor potatoe, or its varieties;
nor even the common, but a sort of marsh. grown bean. Nor many
of our fruits, as the orange, tamarind, nor American maize. On
the other hand, they used substances which we now neglect—the
mallow, the herb ox-tongue, the sweet acorn, the lupin. They
used greatly caddish, lettuce, sorrel. They liked the flesh of wild
asses, of little dogs, of the dormouse, of the fox, of the bear. They
are the flesh of parroquets and other rare birds, and of lizards.
They were fond of a great many fish and shell-fish, which we now
hold its no esteem. They employed as seasonings rue and assafee.
dita.—Boston Paper.
RANKING !—A dying banker thus addressed his eldest son:—
" You may suppose you are going to inherit a large fortune, but
you are mistaken. I have no property, and the bank is insolvent
to the amount of 200,0001. On the death of my father, who died
of a broken heart, I found the bank was hardly solvent. I at first
resolved to close the concern, and pay off the creditors, but I after-
wards determined otherwise. I proved my father's will for a
quarter of a million, and set up a large establishment. This gave
the the reputation of wealth, and increased the business of the bank.
I have lived in splendour, as you know, for many years. All your
brothers and sisters are handsomely provided for, and to you, as my
eldest son, I now leave the bank. I have appointed you sole
executor to my will. You have only to prove my property for any
amount you think proper to name, and if you manage your affairs
prudently, the tank may last out your time as it has lasted out
mine."—Montreal Courier.
A country practitioner, who attended a wealthy farmer in a
serious Illness, thought it necessary to restrict him to very low
diet. One evening he called in quite unexpectedly, and found his
patient very busy discussing a large tankard of home-brewed ale,
and- what was worse, evidently affected • by his previous potations.
Row are you Doctor ?" said the farmer. " How are you, I
should rather inquire?" replied the medical man, "is this ad-
hering to-the regimen I prescribed ? did not I tell you that you
assist drink nothing but barley water ?" " I know you did," re.
plied the patient, "and I have followed your directions; for what
is ale, I should like to know, but bet, ley water ?"
SWIFTNESS OP MAN —.lt is said that men who are used to it,
will outrun horses, by holding their speed longer. A man will
also walk down a horse, for after he has travelled a few days,
the horse will be quite tired, but the man will be as fresh for
motion as at the"beginning. The king's messengers walk to
Ispahan, 108 miles in fourteen hours. Hottentots outstrip lions
in the chase, and savages who hunt the elk, tire it downtake
it ; 'they are said 'to have performed a journey o , m ,
cs
in less' than slit Weeks.
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November last,
Church.
The THE WESLEYANS AND THE CORN-LAWS.--
from the various Dissenting
Several petitions against the Corn-la,'",
menthoelreswohfolietsofOtwhnat
denominations of Mansfield, have, within the last few days, been
receiving signatures; each from the
The Wesleyan petition was, with the exception of three members,
and the two resident ministers, signed hY
paper.
Christians, at Mansfield.—Nottingham
a return laid before
FLOGGlNG.—According to
Parliament, the number of civilians flogged during the past year,
being disorderly, with four months'
FOR SAVINGS.--
of the age of twenty and upwards, has been seven :—viz, two fur
imprisonment, at Norwich and
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blasting, that
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ST. MARYLEBONE BfbArisin
IL Spry, D.D., in the Chair.
Thursday, the 17th of this month, at
of this Institution was held on
eicglectof service.
the Office, No. 76, Welbeck_
street, Cavendish.square, the Rev. J.
g, that the
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this
Bank
k severalcontinues Rep otrot sb-
or which no less than 8,322 held balances averaging less than
1n,004 deposit accounts remained open no less than 2,512 new deposits having been made in the last year :
41. 12s. Id. each, Upwaids of 266,4071• was then invested with
the Commissioners fur the reduction of the National Debt; this
amount has since risen to 269,7071, and is rapidly on the advance.
The continued evidence this affords of the strong and growing dis_
Position of the working-classes to provide against the casualties of
life, will prove a source of grati .
ficacon to all reflecting minds.
,
CORONER'S INQHEST.—An inquiry, which
lasted seven hours, took place on Wednesday, before Mr. Carter,
at the Hero of Waterloo, 'Waterloo-road, Lambeth, concerniny the
death of Ellen Gunton, aged fifty, of No. 20, Francis-street, Ne cut, who wad w-
knocked down and killed on Monday night last by a
horse, ridden by Mr. Henry Fownes. The particulars have already
appeared in The Sun. Three witnesses said that the horse was go-
ing at the rate of not less than fifteen or sixteen miles an hour, and
that both before and after the accident he struck the horse's sides,
and gave it rein,-as if to urge it on. The rider was taken into cus-
tody, and. We thename of Henry Fownes, before the Magistrates
at Union.han, the next day. Mr, Fownes (who had found bail to '
answer for his appenEimbefore, the p4:4ls+rate) told the Jury that
the horse took fright, and that he-was unable to stop it. The Jury
returned a serdiet-,of-:-AeCidental death, Vitt- a derniand of 204
upon the horse, and were:of opinioli that Nr. roWneS had not exer-
cise due ce whilst riding