The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-02 00:00:00

32 40
40 42

Aberdeen
Berwick.„--
Coldstream
Cupar
Inverness...—
Kelso
Kirkaldy--
Perth

23 31 22 25
30 42 19 21
34 45 1S 20
26 31 20 22
29 30 27 28
30 32 29 30
30 30
34 48 19 ,21
31 23 25 30
25 33 21 "28
Coldstream, Kelso,
,er quarter. The ott
h is per sack of 2801 b

At Berwick,
price is given p
Oatmeal, whicl

16 20
16 20
19 21

24 26
29 32

16 20

17 21
and Mel
ter prices

25 26

3' 42

56 58

36 37

21 26
Nit at Aberdeen, the
are per boll, except

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

' COUNTRY DIARY.....THyRSDAY, OCT. 4.
Ferns, T., Manchester—White's, Manchester
Giblett, S., Shepton Mallet—George, Shepton ll
Hawker, J., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham • la
Hollins, J., Nether Knutsford—Star, Manchester 9
Lockwood, J., Wakefield—Sessions-house, Wakefield
Lovell, T., Olney, Buckinghamshire—Saracen's Head, New-
~

port -Painell
•
Mann, J. Overbury, Worcester—Office of Messrs. Laven-
der, Evesham
Marsden, W., Sheffield—Mr. Smith, Sheffield
Merrell, J., Tewkesbury—liop-pole, Tewkesbury
Robinson, M., Woodhouse Carr, near Leeds—Court-house,
Leeds

HAPPINEss.—That all who are happy are
equally happy
is not true. A peasant and a philosopher
may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. IdlaPPi-
-14" consists in the multiplicity of agreeable conscious-
"eBBes, A peasant has not capacity for having equal hap-
piness with a philosopher. This question was very hap-
pily illustrated by the Rev. Mr. Robert Brown at Utrecht.
C/A small drinking-glass and a large one," said Iw, "may
be equally, full ; but a large one holds more than the small."
—Johnson.
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Considerable excitement has existed in the
town of Blackburn the Miele of the present week, on the
subject of lighting and warming the parish church, and a
poll has been taken to decide, whether the expence inci-
dent to-the necessary apparatus for the purpose shall be
defrayed by the lay-pavers generally, or shall be confined
to the persons who worship. at that church. The contest
has been principally between the Church people and the
Roman Catholics-the Protestant Dissenters voting some
First
t iay (Wednesday)
..........
on one side and some on the other; and the result has
......aii29nst it.
day (Monday)
253
follows : For lighting at
...
public expense. .
4........
......
....
Against
.... .
~5
7
Second day (Tuesday) 317 ............... 248
Third
Last, day (Thursday) 255 ............... 86

1,209 756
Majority on the whole Toll 453, for the motion,—" That
it is expedient
.to air and light the parish church, and
that a eum not exceeding, 3001. be granted, for that purpose;
to be expended under the directions of the Church-wardens."
_—We believe this proceeding is not strictly legal, as .only
those who are assembled at a vestry-meeting called for any
particular purpose, can vote at that vestry ; but though
not legal, it is a fair and candid way of collecting the opi-
nion of the pariahs, and comports very strictly with the
constitutional declaration of the worthy Vicar of Black-
burn, that when the parishioners are to be taxed they
should tax themselves.—Leeds Mercury.

Sadik Beg was of good family, handsome in
person, and posSessed of both sense and courage ;
but he was poor, having no property but his sword
and his horse, with which he served as a gentleman
retainer of a Nabob. The latter, satisfied of the
purity of Sadik's,descent, and entertainiug a respect
for his 'character, determined to make him the hus-
band of his daughter Hooseinee, who, though beau-
tiful, as her name•implied, was remarkable for her
haughty manner and ungovernable temper. Giving
a husband of the condition of Sadik Beg to a lady
of HoOseinee's rank, was, according to usage in such
unequal'matthes, like giving her a slave, and as she
heard a good report of his personal qualities, she
offered :no objections to the
.marriage, which was
celebrated soon after it was proposed, and apart-
ments were assigned to the happy couple in the
Nabob's palace. Some of Sadik Beg's friends re-
joiced in his good fortune, as they saw, in the con-
nection he bad formed, a sure prospect of his ad-
vancement. Others mourned the fate of so fine and
promising a young man, now condemned to bear
through life all the humours of a proud and capri-
cious woman; but one of his friends, a little man
called Merdek, who was completely henpecked, was
particularly rejoiced, and quite chuckled at the thought
of seeing another in the same condition with himself.
About a month after the nuptials, Merdek met his
jo
y
of and with malicious pleasure wished him
of his marriage. " Most sincerely do I congratulate
you, • Sadik," said be, "on this happy :event !"
, " Thank you, my good fellow, I am very happy in-
deed; and rendered more so, by the joy I perceive it
' gives my friends." " Do you really mean to say you
are happy ?" said Merdek, with a smile. " I really am
so," replied Sadik. " Nonsense," said his friend;
do we not all . know to what a termagant you are
united ? and her temper and high rank combined
must make. her a sweet companion." Here he burst
into a loud laugh, and the little man actually strutted
with a feeling of superiority over the bridegroom.—
Sadik, who knew his situation and feelings, was
amused instead 'of being angry. "My friend," said
he, ".I quite understand the grounds of your appre-
hension for my happiness. Before I was married I
had heard the same reports as you have done of my
beloved bride's disposition; but I am happy to say
I have found it quite Other Wise ; she is a most do-
cile and obedient wife.". " But how has this miracu-
culous change been wrought ?" " Why," said Sadik,
" I believe I have some merit in effecting it,
but you shall hear. After the ceremonies of our
nuptials were over, I went in my military dress, and
with my sword by my side, to the apartment of
Hooseinee. She was sitting in a most dignified
posture to receive me, and her looks were any thing
but inviting. As I entered the room a beautiful cat,
evidently a great favourite, came purring up to me.
I deliberately drew my sword, struck its head off,
and taking that in one hand, and the body in the
other, threw them out of the
.window. I then very
unconcernedly turned to the lady, who appeared in
sorne alarm. She, however, made no observations,
but was in every way kind and submissive, and has
continued so ever since." " Thank you, my dear
felloW," said little Merdek, with a significant shake
of the head—" a word to the wise ;" and away be
capered, obviously quite rejoiced. It was near even-
ing when this conversation took place; soon
'after, when the dark cloak of night had en-
veloped • the bright: radiance of day, Merdek
entered the chamber of his spouse, with something
of a martial swagger, • armed with a cimetar. The
unsuspecting at came forward as usual to welcome
the husband- of her mistress, but in an instant her
head was dilvided from her body by a blow from the
hand which had so often caressed her. Merdek
having proceeded,so far courageously, stooped to
take.up the dissevered members of the cat ; but be-
fore he could effect this, a blow upon the side of the
head from his incensed lady laid him sprawling on
the floor. The tattle and scandal of the day spreads
from zenaneh to zenaneh with surprising rapidity—
and the wife of Merdek saw .in a moment whose
example it was that lie imitated. " Take that," said
she, as she gave him another cuff; " take that, you
paltry wretch ; you should," she added, laughing
him to scorn, "have killed the cat on the wedding
day."—Sketches of Persia. _ •

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How TO POSE A PROFESSOR,._" I say,
Mr. Cripps, I understand you're a great bottoinist V—
" Bottomist, Sir ! I don't know what you mean." " Not
know what I mean ! why, they tell me von knows all about
things as grow at the bottom of the ;ea, and such like,
you know."—" Oh ! a botanist, you mean ; well, Sir,
do profess to be a bit of a botanist.' " Well, then, cal:
you tell rue what this is ?"-:—." Whv, Sir, that is what i,
called " I don't want to know what it's calk,/
—I want to know what it is."—" Well, Sir, then it is
portion of the marine plant conferva." " Then give in,•
leave to tell you, Mr. Cripps, it is no such thing; it i•
neither more nor less than a picce of sea-weed, for I pluck-
ed it up myself, On tl‘e sands yonder, not many minute'
ago !" What more could be said ? Mr. Cripps. turned
upon his keel with a " Pshaw I" and the :locust went
home to breakfast, and boasted how cleverly he had posed
a professor.—" I knew .1 should pose him !" said he ;
"and I did it on purpose; for I like to take the shine out
of these ere professors, as they call themselves !"
should have added, " Yet nature might have made me eves.
as one of these, therefore I will not disdain.".—A Scene ai
Margate.

• ,
•
• -
- OITERNO74PIr
In the recent discussion at the East India
House on the subject of a grant'of 20,0001. to
the family of the Marquis of Hastings, very er-
roneous representations of the value of the dif-
ferent grants to former Governors-General—the
Marquisses Cornwallis and Wellesley—were
made by several of the speakers. The merits of
both these Noble Governors, compared with the
Marquis of Hastings, were, however, fully ac-
knowledged by all parties.
We think public grants by far the most desi-
rable mode of rewarding services of great public
men in a pecuniary way ; but without wishing
to undervalue the services of the late Marquis
of 'Hastings, we cannot help observing, that the
present grant of 20,000/. and the former grant of
60,000/. are double in value to the annuity given
to Lord Wellesrey.
At the time the pension of 5,000/. per ann.
was voted to his Lordship, we will say for his
life, as it was subsequently -extended to that
period; had the Noble Lord accepted the
100,0001. which was tendered to him by -his
Majesty's Government and the Court of Direc-
tors, .to be taken from the prize captured at Se-
ringapatam (but his Lordship, to his honour,
declined to accept of any money drawn from
such a fund, which he considered to be the
right and property of the gallant army who had.
achieved the conquest, and who were entitled to
the whole without any deduction), and had that
sum been laid out in the purchase of an annuity
for his Lordship's life, residing, as he then did,
in India, it would have produced at least 12,000/.
per annum payable and well secured on ample
freehold property in England, or it might have
been laid . out m the purchase of Company's
Bonds, then: bearing interest at 12 per cent. and
at a discount of 4 per cent. An annuity at that
period of 5,0001, might have been purchased in
England for 40 or 45,0001.
The family of the Marquis Cornwallis, we
believe, receivol 40,0001. as a donation from
the East „India Company, which, added to
45,000/. the value of the annuity when granted
to the Marquis, makes up 85,000/. for his
services in India—just 5,000/. more than has _
been granted to the Marquis of Hastings.—
The value, therefore, of the grants to the dif-
ferent parties may be stated-45,0001. to the
narquis Wellesley, 85,000/. to Marquis Corn-
wallis, and 80,Q00/. to the Marquis of Has-
tings. But it ought to be borne in :mind that
the Marquis di-Hastings's representatives, or cre-
ditors, will shortly 'receive, perhaps, upwards Of
150,000/.,"liis share of the prize-captures during
the late war, by the armies of Madras and Bom-
bay, seven hundred miles distant from the situa-
tion where he was posted, and that during the
time of his command in India, he never saw the
face of an enemy ; that the Noble Marquis,
while he was in India, received not only the salary
of Governor-General, but likewise of Com-
mander-in-Chief, which was never received by
the Marquis Cornwallis, and never could by the
Marquis Wellesley.-
It was said t!lat the grant of prize-money was
from his Majesty ; no doubt it was, but this grant
could never have been made had he not been
Governor-General.
We do not make these remarks in any hosti-
lity to the memory of the late Marquis of Hast-
ings ; far from it, we always considered him as a
high-minded, able, and valuable public servant,
to whom the country is much indebted for bril-
liant and useful services, ls th in Asia, America,
and Europe.—Morning Chronicle.

We learn with astonishment, that upwards of
sixty horses, in the parish of Horetowu, in the
county of Wexford, have fallen victims lately to
some unaccountable malady that at present pre-
vails amongst them. Some of the horses, which
appeared in the best health at night, were found
dead next morning. It is something, we pre-
sume, of a contagious or epidemic nature, and
not, as is supposed, any thing in the air.—
Dublin Evening Post. -
A COQUET.—A coquet is one that is never
to be persuaded out of the passion she has to
please, nor out of a good opinion of her own
beauty. Time and years she regards as things
that only wrinkle and decay other women ; forgets
that age is written in-the face, and that the same
dress which became her when she was young
now only makes her look the older. Affectation
cleaves to her even in sickness and pain ; she dies
in a high head and coloured ribbons.—Bruyere.
Pope,
One would not sure'be ugly when one's dead,
And Betty, criyi•thie cheek a little red.
Satire on Women.

gauwalalyy puttingl:l
PEDANTRY.--A man who has been brought
up among books, and is able to talk of nothing
else, is a very
we call a pedant. But we should enlarge the
title, and give it to every one that does not know
indifferent companion, and what
how to think out of his profession and particular
mere man of the town ? Bar liim the playhouses,
a catalogue of the reigning beauties, and you
way of life. What is a greater pedant than
strike him dumb. ' The military pedant always
e s t mtil. speaksil ai
snte‘ ra-
talks of a camp, and of storming towns, making
tliol
I(
elgr
ym lodgments, and
him,fightingiie
has
ll battles,o t a from
wo otiole
say
yd
fox
thecases,
n:msee
sslyi:selraf.eropfteoTagtthitin,le,igpelotaiwlolvetdlpieyterreorad.:unaisi:afiEtpcytoivoisloelurntpyhsteaetrkolpifeienwt
most indifferent
and not to be convinced
ar-
h circumstancesall, wrangling with you
life,
of the distance of a place, or of the most trivial
point in conversation, but by dint of argument,.
The state pedant is wrapped up in news and lost
isioilpthoelrit,icas.melren
ssehhoorlat,r, aa mmeerere caolulyrttiiieirn, a niero
g,
is an
insipid, pedantic character, and equally ridiculous.
—Spectator.
FEMALE COURAGE AND SAGACITY.----.
About one o'clock yesterday morning, two daring
sound.
burglars entered a gentleman's house near New-
haven by a window, and proceeded up stairs to
in the
commence their work of plunder. They first
entered the lady's bed-room, and proceeded to
apartment, who
rifle the drawers. The lady was awake, and very
soon guessed the dangerous character and pm..
pose of her unwelcome visitors, but in place of
screaming and
„falling into the vapours, as a
thousand would have done in the same
aand would un-
doubtedly circumstances,blte d
out an
and
she
locked lay q utileite,
maraudersapp arently
irlaisniatodyhesr
bed
-room,
husband'soon ,
asleep, till an opportunity offered, when sli
room.
hastened Sto his promptly rose, prepared a lethal implement,
have robbed Jack liKe c t of his "law-
ful prey," hid not the robbers •the interim,
in
tying sheets and table cloths together, effected
their escape by the window. Some trinkets
were found outside, which
the delinquents had.
dropped or thrown out, and they got nothing
with them but a small gold h *
e am.-.Scotsman.