The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-15 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

IST ROYAL DRAGOONS.—New colours were presented
on Tuesdry to the Ist Royal Dragoons stationed at
Brighton, by Sir Arthur Clifton, G.C.8., the colonel of
the regiment. This is the oldest cavalry regiment in
the service. It was raised in 1661, in the reign of
Charles 11. of •" merry" memory. Three years after it
had been in existence, in 1664, it captured a Moorish
standard at Tangier. At the battle of Dettingen, in
1743, it captured the standard of the Mousquetaires
Noirs. The regiment distinguished itself at Warn-
borough, in 1760, under the Duke of York in Flanders,
in 1794, in numerous engagements with the legions of
Napoleon in the Piniesula from 1810 to 1814, and
lastly, at the great battle of Waterloo on the memorable
18th of June, 1815, were they bore off one of the two
French eagles captured from the enemy.

THE EVER-POINTED PENCIL.—The improvements
made in the black-lead pencil from the period when a lump
of plumbago served the purpose to the present day, would
form a little work in itself. Mordan, Riddle, andlothers have
given their best attention to it, and brought it near to per-
fection. There appears, however, to have been two things
necessary to this almost indispensable instrument; that it
should approach the common pencils in the larger eueetg
lead in the interior, and that the point through which
pencil is refilled should be secured against becoiningJ„l.oee
oo_sse
and being lost, which often renders the pencil useless!
and
two objects are now accomplished by very ni gemouy s
ur.
original contrivances in the new pencils patented b
Stephens, of Stamford-street.
No little excitement prevails in the moed, ijacaalnephreos:
fession at the fact of the celebrated Mr. Lewis,
e ,
ter, having entered largely into the man facture of his
well-known medicines; but it having eou ascertained that
such a course was alone adopted from abdesire to make more
the greater pro-
largely known the benefits of this recipe
portion of the faculty have handsomely extended a helping
that the more they
hand to their dissemination, maref"esetea they will be de.
are dispensed amongst the public! t 1
~.... injurious, medicaments
sired, and inferior, not to
toteoal" • -
Ymer thus auspiciously
will have to give place
introduced.
PROSECUTION OF DOG 'STEALERS
New Bond-
' SOCIETY FOR THE
Bishop, the
Yesterday a general in eetin
AND THEIR CONFEDERATES.--
of the above society at their offices,
..
the chair. Mr.
street, Mr. James GrahamwaB beisald
of the '
treasurer, in referring to the prospects society, con-
gratulatedon thegeneral
patronage
the membersbestowed
subscriptions already
on it, and stated that the sit placed in his
um, warranted
hands, amounting to a large, eA
circular, increased
.. efforts
to stimulate public energy
jects, uses, and general man explaining the ob-
agement of the
jects, uses, and general
be
printed for society, was
agreed to and ordered to general circulation
gentry.
amongst the nobility and
having bee Votes of thanks to the
chairman, treasurer, &c., a Passed, the meeting
separated. •
from the Various
The accounts us continental
Ex-
changes continue wholly uninteresting. Gold in moderate
quantities arrives
from Paris. Advices from Odessa of the
2d inst. state that the recent active demand for grain at that
port had
entirely ceased, and that the tendency of prices was
towards a decline, although
no decided alteration had yet
taken place. Large arrivals of vessels had caused a reduc-
tim in freights. The project far a railway from Charkoff to
Theodosi othe Black sp
St. „„,--a, was understood to have been
abandoned. From retersburgh the dates are to the sth
woreril, bill it. was
.a dull period of the year, and the markets
witimit tin slighte4t altoration. _. - •