The Sun. — 1829-08-31 (London, England)

APPARITIONS.  The philosophy of our age seems entirely to have banished the faith in apparitions which was so prevalent during the last age. As Dr. Johnson remarked, however, it is a question which the experience of nearly six thousand years has not been able satisfactor►ly to settle. The following narrative, we are assured, is founded on fact, and is believed with implicit confidence in that part of Scotland where it is said to have occurred. On this point we can speak with perfect certainty, as we are ourselves well acquainted with the localities, and have no reason to doubt the veracity of the individual who is the subject of it. Between thirty and forty years ago, a shepherd in one of the southern counties of Scotland, whilst tending his flock on the-side of a beautiful green bill towards gloaming, saw, or fancied he saw, a child running from the pursuit of an enraged mother. The appearance, we may be sure, appalled him, and he stood for some time mute with terror and astonishment, and undecided regarding the course he ought to pursue on so momentous an occasion. The screams of the child pierced his ears and filled his heart with agony. No human breast could have beheld the innocent victim of a relentless mother's unnatural rage imploring aid without emotion. The cries of " nnther, dinna do't," rang for weeks after in his cars, and for some days his acquaintances observed a very perceptible change upon his appearance. Whether he had resolved to succour the child we have not heard, though we think it more probable that, in his agitation and anxiety, he would meditate a retreat. At this moment the appearance suddenly vanished. When he came home he went early to bed ; his friends saw he was labouring under some mighty anxiety, though he persisted obstinately against disclosing the cause of his suffering. A few days afterwards, a person traversing the same spot, found a child lately murdered, with some large pins stuck into its brain. This discovery spread among the neighbourhood, and soon reached the shepherd's ears, who from that moment to the present, had no ' doubt in his own mind that he had seen the wraith of the murdered infant. Every effort was made to discover the mother, but in vain. Many a woman in the neighbourhood was examined, but no trace of the delinquent could be dis covered. Suspicion no doubt did attach to an individual, but nothing definite was ever proved against her ; and thus the most unnatural crime, and one of the most destructive which one member of society can perpetrate against another, passed without punishment ; and a wretch more cruel than Medea, animated by the passions of a fiend, was allowed to prowl among the haunts of men in undisturbed security, and, it may be, was afterwards united to a man of decent character, a►►d enjoyed the external comforts of a Scottish matron. But within there must have been an agent at work to blast her happiness, and freeze her soul with horror—the harbinger of " the worm that dieth not."—Glasgotu Free Press.  The Colombian Minister had a long conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN, on Saturday morning, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. After the conference, the Earl of ABERDEEN visited Mr. Secretary PEEL previous to the Right Hon. Gentleman's departure for Windsor, to attend the