The Sun. — 1836-09-08 (London, England)

ACCIDENT FROM INTOXICATION.-AnOtii' l those fearful accidents which originate in that debasingftbe drunkenness, occurred on Tuesday evening to a Man ° 05r name of John Gibbon, a bricklayer by trade, residing haft Blackhart-yard, Westminster. The man and wife bad nit, abroad all day, squandering in drink the money which theA,o hour of the preceding week had procured, and had left for protection of the house their daughter, a little girl betviree'ss the ages of five and six, in order that by their return hent.teil night a fire and other necessary comforts might be prer in for their reception. Gibbon, upon entering the apartnien:mf the evening, in which was burning a brisk fire, with a Pd, thrust between the bars of the grate, seized the poker' "dot wielding it with all the carelessness of inebriety, swore he would murder his wife if she would not fetch hint 9°o more gin. The woman, herself intoxicated, had yet just see 4 easnoaugr leftehdh ot poker t oper in ceivet b e the hands dangerof a of sodr formidableuaken ira roan, a awnedacre tempted by main force to wrest it from him. In the strugslllo which ensued the heated iron was passed across the fib, dreadful face,rea fui entering manner.one i of his waseyes, immediatelyand scorching conveyedhitn in 06 to a I 1 ei.ool bouring surgeon's, where his wound was dressed, but, the peculiarity of its position, and the highly dancierous 46 racter of the injury received, it is more than probable tbas,lo poor fellow will not eventually recover ; at all events the ' of his eyesight is too certain. delaid6 On Thursday afternoon, the ship Royal A oith, sailed from Greenock, for St. John's, New Brunswiel/44,00 317 adults, and 23 children passengers, belonging to the le'seot of Skye, and the other districts of the Highlands at Sir the suffering from distress. They are most unquestionaloar poorest class of emigrants that have left the Clyde this 46 of and, let what may befal them in the interminable Loa America, cannot be worse off than they appear to have beep in the land of their nativity. The poor creatures hay father either lazy beyond measure, or rack-rented, .which we _ 000 suspect, by the Highland chieftains, their landlords, to dreadful extent, else they could not have made such a rable appearance.-Glasgow Evening Post. ip The brig Sisters was lost by fire off Gorgon is the bay of Leghorn, on the 13th of August. The 4,1'00 supposed, was caused by the self-ignition of coals, wilt boor' vessel was principally laden from Liverpool to Pecagr see The heat from the coals was first felt on the 15th, %° sica ; and although the Captain and men made every for two days to keep the fire under, it proved allap'o, They did not quit the ship until she was totally in flan d llr a few hours after they took to the boats, they were Pnlcadeheie by an Austrian vessel, and brought to Leghorn."---4"f-.. Journal. rs tgl‘es. A correspondent of one of the French papa of some pains to prove that all the manufacturing wealth" to too land and citizen prosperity of London is to be trace fit popular custom of advertising. By his account there eij: species of fabric, from pinmaking upwards, thati,..icsi: 1)102; without a systematic operation of advertisement. `-'i/e-elcf,e ing-maker (he says) not only inserts several in the "- 01 l" 1400 he sends his men to chalk the walls within forty great cities. One publisher pays 8,0001. a year foil.; thl his new works, and one great auctioneer expends less 201. a day for making known to the public the Iola?! estates he has to sell. The writer then goes into a ea, otts.„" to show that the newspapers which contain those, 6"1,11S ments are mines of wealth to the proprietors, and a° d to !I_,d all Frenchmen who are devoted to their country's every tb,,a're vertise every thing they have to dispose of, and for t 0 pi,. they want, by which their fortunes will be made, benefited, and the press, the great support of their liv` enriched. cle4 One of the most important discoveries connecter, 110' with the science of geology has been the recent onto. be Hopkins, with respect to the phenomena of elevnoont, yst the mineral veins of Derbyshire, according to his ace eiy, bo result of his examination had been to this effect-41°0d g 4 the direction of the axis of dislocation which had north fissures in them filled with mineral matter was true rloagaeo south, while that of the structure of the work scas betsee north and south ; thereby showing the connection magnetism and the theory of mineral veins. (