The Sun. — 1863-02-07 (London, England)

GOING TO EXTREMES.—The three points on which, according to a Saturday Reviewer, the middle classes more eminently set their affections are, the destruction of negro slavery, the downfall of great military despotisms, and Protestantism. They hate nigger drivers and the Czar, and Popish priests. Educated men see that none of these points or persons can be dealt with rightly if they are dealt with simply. They see that unconditional and hasty emancipation means anarchy, and degradation of white and black: They can see that a young empire of barbarians like Russia is licked into shape by a Czar, where a milder ruler would only perpetuate barbarism. They can see that Latin Catholicism is intimately bound up with the history of Europe, and that it has satisfied as a creed some of the acutest minds that have appeared in the world.  A high wall, part of a building which was recently gutted by fire, fell upon a cottage at Gloucester, on Wednesday night, and killed a woman and her child. _ _  ----The rising in Poland, there is reason to believe, is of a far more serious character than the offioial telegrams that have reached this country would have us to think it is. There are upwards of fifty thousand insurgents, many of whom are well armed. A meeting of the friends of Polish freedom, in Newcastle, has been held, and assistance is to be given to all refugees wishful to return to Poland. Arrangements are also being made for holding a public meeting to send an address of sympathy to the bravo men now fighting for their country's independence.—Newcastle Chronicle.  A SHARPER'S methods of ascertaining and recognising cards, according to Robert Houdin, are exceedingly various. Perhaps the simplest is the employment of a confederate, with whom a code of signals, which it is impossible to detect, are easily arranged. For it is by no means necessary to call a spade "a spade." If the confederate but looks at his associate, he means a king; if at his adversary's muds, a queen; if at the stakes, a knave; if at the opposite side, an ace. Again, the mouth slightly open means a heart; shut, a diamond; the upper lip pro jetting, a club; the lower, a spade. There are plenty of resources in the absence of a confederate. Sometimes a lightning glance is darted into the pack down a chink kept open by the little finger, while the player talks and gesticulates with the hand which is disengaged. Some Times a small sprin4.- mirror, fitted in a snuff-box lid, reflects the bottom card of the pack during a deal. Then the modes of marking cards are infinite. A single spot on the back may be made tc tell its tale at once by its distance from the top or side. For making such a spot some sharpers actually wear a ring containing ink, which, on pre sure, is allowed to escape at a small opening. A dent with the nail, or the alteration of the surface by a slight bend, is often Sufficient for the required object. The less expert have packs regularly prepared beforehand, and concealed about the person, which are dexterously substituted for the furnished pack before the play begins; but the more The sense they both of accomplished are enabled, by practice and constant observation, to distinguish cards by the slight variations of tint en the card-board of which they are manufactured. Thus, when notfressiegrhvet abnyd alwaysto touch hi s wearingoften required. gloves playing ying at cards;rub the end of their some of them even fingers with acids, which givpumice atone, or dip them in certain are often enabled to extremet sensibility to the akin. They which prevents their cart he court cards by a slight sticking, Sometimes the secret marks so easily as the plain ones, accord with this refinementseofn a prepared pack are made to SUICIDE OF A YOUNG NtBfie senses. inquest was held yeaterd °