The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-09 00:00:00

two leagues from Alicaza, where was stationed Don Carlo,
from whom he took on the 25th thirty men of his rear-
guard. The Pretender, continuing to flee by steep paths,
has crossed the Duero to effect his junction with Zaratieigui ;
he was on the 27th beyond Aranda, closely followed by
Espartero. The Commandant Bonnett, of the moveable
Arragonese column, has pursued General Moreno, taken
the Chief Rena, 50 Carlists, and 200 muskets ; the re-
mainder have joined Cabrera, who re-entered Cantaviejo on
the 27th, with 2,000 men. Oraa was at Teruel.
" Guergue continues to threaten the villages on the frontier.'
We have no additional news of any interest from
the Peninsula this morning, save an account of the
safe arrival of Colonel Lacy and his two companions
in the Spanish capital on the 27th ult. They had suf-
fered a great deal from the Carlists, and very narrowly
escaped with their lives. Had they not been released
it was the intention of Mr. VILLIERS to have de-
manded their liberation in the name of the British
Government, and to have threatened hostilities in the
event of a refusal on the part of the Pretender.

The number of suicides in Paris becomes multiplied
in a frightful degree. On Saturday evening a man precipi-
tated himself into the Seine from the Pont d'Austerlitz,
and all the efforts made to save him proved of no avail ;
and on Tuesday a young and beautiful woman, handsomely
dressed, was observed near that part of the Pont Louis
Philippe leading from the Isle St. Louis to the Quai de la
Greve. She appeared to have given herself up to the most
violent grief. Her eyes were streaming with tears, and her
cheeks inflamed with weeping. Suddenly she mounted the
parapet, and threw herself into the river. A number of
boatmen having, however, put bff to her assistance, they
succeeded in rescuing her from a watery grave, and removed
her without delay to the Hotel Dieu.—French paper.
The Northern Meeting this season was the most
gay and spirited that has been witnessed in Inverness ft r
ten years. The nobility and gentry were anxious to infuse
new life into a festival once looked forward to with great
anxiety as a true " gathering of the clans," where families
from all parts of the Highlands assemble to participate in
festive amusement arid social interconrse. I❑ addition to
the usual balls, dinner and supper parties, popular games
were instituted on this occasion, and as a proof of their suc-
cess we may mention that from 501. to 1001. are already sub-
eribed for prizes next year. The picturesque shores of the
Moray Frith never looked more brilliant or attractive.—
Inverness Courier.

On Thursday morning a fearful sensation took place
in Rathbone-place, Oxford-street, in consequence of Mr.
Thomas Bird, an extensive livery stablekeeper in the neigh-
bourhood, putting a period to his existence, The cause of
the melancholy event, which has plunged the family of the
deceased into the most poignant affliction, is attributed to
the affairs of the unfortunate man becoming of late very
much embarrassed, and for some weeks before the commis-
sion of the rash act he was in a very low desponding state
of mind, which was the more particularly noticed as pre-
viously he had been a man of remarkably cheerful, social
habits. On Wednesday he was noticed to be unusually de-
jected, and during the day scarcely left his bedchamber.
On Thursday morning he rose earlier than usual, and
took a walk over his premises, which are very extensive.
About eight o'clock, breakfast being ready, one of the ser-
vants made search after her master to apprise him of it.
For some time he could not be found, but at length one of
the stablemen discovered the unhappy object of their search
suspended to a beam in one of the lofts by a rope. He
instantly cut him down, and Mr. Adliug, a surgeon, of Ox-
ford-street, who attended the family professionally, arrived
in a few minutes, and endeavoured, by bleeding and other
remedies, to restore animation, but without success, life
being quite gone. Information of the circumstance was
forwarded to Mr. Stirling, who has appointed an inquest to
be held on the body.
RUSSIAN DIPLOMATISTS.—WC take it for
granted that, except a few of the higher nobility, the whole
of the Russian men of rank who travel through Europe
are, under one form or another, spies. Thus we have Rus-
sian nobles who come over to this country as regularly every
year as the swallows ; some smitten with the love of agri-
culture, others with an unrepressive taste for manufactures,
others so enthusiastically fond of horse-racirr, and hunting,
that they cannot live a season out of Melton and' Newmarket.
They come over with dashing equipages, a strong hunting
establishment, and a full purse. Their bettings introduce
them, of course, among the patricians of the turf ; they
are invited to the clubs, they dine at the houses of noble-
men, the bottle circulates, the conversation flows freely, the
Court and the Ministry, the politics of the country, and
the characters of public men, are talked off without limit
and without disguise. Some of these noblemen, perhaps,
are Ministers themselves, or at least acquainted with the
objects of Government. Familiarity, capital claret, and
long conversation, naturalli let out everything. The even-
ing at length is over, and the club retire to rest, the Rus-
sian retires to his portfolio, writes his despatch, sends it
surcharged with the news of the day to his agent of corre-
spondence in the metropolis, and has done his duty as a
diplomatist for the next twenty-four hours. We name no
names, but the domino will fit a dozen of the best dancers
of the mazurka, best players of ecarte, and best whiskered
Meltonians in the living annals of hunting and horse-racing.
—Blackwood.

COACIIMEN.—" A coachman's a privileged indi-
widual," said Mr. Weller, looking fixedly at his son. "'Cos
a coachman may do vithout suspicion wot other men may
not ; 'cos a coachman may be on the wery amicablest terms
with 80 mile (4' females, and yet nobody think that he ever
means to marry any vun among 'em. A reg'lar coach-
man's a sort o' con-nectin' link betvixt singleness and ma-
trimony, and every practicable man knows it." " Wot you
mean, they're gen'ral fav'rites, and nobody takes adwantage
on 'em, p'raps ?" said Sam. His father nodded. " How it
ever come to that 'ere pass," resumed the parent Weller,
" I can't say ; vy it is that long-stage coachmen possess
such insiniwations, and is alvays looked up to—a-dored I
may say—by ev'ry young 'ooman in ev'ry town he vurks
through, I don't know ; I only know that so it is ; it's a
reg'lation of natur—a dispensary, as your poor mother-in-
law used to say." " A dispensation," said Sam, correcting
the old gentleman. " Wery good, Samivel, a dispensation,
if you like it better," returned Mr. Weller ; " I call it a
dispensary, and its alvays writ up so, at the places vere they
gives you physic for nothin' in your own bottles ; that's
all."—Pickwick.

Died, on the Bth ult., at Campagne Gros Jean,
near Geneva, in the 75th year of his age, lamented and re-
gretted by all his numerous friends and acquaintances, Sir
Samuel Egerton Budges, Bart., K.J., or, as he styled him-
self, " Per legem terra, Lord Chandos of Sudeley." His
disorder, which was a lingering and painful one, he bore with
exemplary patience and resignation. Descended from a
long line of illustrious ancestors, of a kind and generous
disposition, mild and unassuming in his manners, although
gifted with extraordinary talents and brilliant genius, his
loss will long be deeply deplored by all those who enjoyed
his society. The inhabitants of Geneva, among whom he
passed so many years of his long and eventful life, evinced
for him every mark of respect and affection ; numbers of
whom attended his remains to the grave. He is suc-
ceeded in his titlo and estates by his eldest son, now Sir
John William Egerton Brydgcs, Bart., of Lee Priory, in
the county of Kent.

THE DUKE OF YoßK.—•When the Allied Sove-
reigns visited the University of Oxford in 1814, two young
under-graduates, one of whom is now a worthy and re-
spected member of the Church, were closely following the
brilliant cortege, and expressing to each other, in " stage,
whispers," their curiosity and anxiety to identify the various
illustrious personages then and there assembled. This
being overheard by a gentleman who happened to be walk-
ing just in front of them, he turned about, and very kindly
particularised the several royal, noble, and celebrated indi-
viduals, frequently interrupted, however, by the eager in-
quiries of his youthful auditors—" Who is this ?" " Who
is that ?" " That," said the stranger, "is the Emperor of
Russia—that, the King of Prussia. There stands Marshal
Blucher—there, the Heiman of the Cossacks ; that is the
Prince of --, that the Duke of ;" and, after going
through a list of names, now the property of history, he
good-humouredly concluded with—" and I am the Duke
of York."

HYDROPHOBIA.—OB Wednesday evening an In-
quest was held at Guy's Hospital, before Mr. Payne,
Coroner for the City of London, on the body of James
Ward Loring, who died of hydrophobia, which awful
disease was brought on in the following extraordinary man-
ner. It appeared that the deceased, who was a fish-sales-
man in the employment of Mr. Low, of Leadenhall-
market, in returning home from Bethnal-green about six
weeks ago, was tripped up by striking his foot against a
scraper, in a badly lighted part of the road, and whilst on
the ground he was bitten in the left hand by a dog. He
thought nothing about the matter for three or four weeks,
until he felt severe pains and numbness in the arm from the
injured part near the thumb quite up to the shoulder. He
then, for the first time, mentioned to his friends the fact of
his having been bitten. On Saturday last he became much
worse, and although tormented with thirst he found himself
unable to swallow a drop of water. He therefore went to
a surgeon, by whom he was bled ; but as that operation
gave him no relief, he went, by the surgeon's advice, to
Guy's Hospital, where he died in great agony, with the
rnost violent symptoms of hydrophobia, on Monday morn-
ing, at five o'clock. On the post mortem examination no
appearances were observed by which his death could be ac
counted for, nor, according to the statement of the house
surgeon, are any such appearances ever observed in cases of
death from hydrophobia. Verdict, Death from Hydrophobia,