The Sun.
London, England, 1830-01-01 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The Colonelcy of the 48th (Northampton) Regiment
of Foot still remains vacant.

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. •

GENXRALS—NicoIIs, Colonel of 66t1r Foot, Chichester,
Dec. 29; Lord C. Fitzroy, Colonel of the 48th Foot,
London, Dec. 20.

LIKUIENANT-GENERALS-..-Bingham, late of 3d Foot,
London, Nov. 18, 1829 ; Sir H. Clinton, G.C.B. and
G.C.H. Colonel of 3d Foot, Hampshire, Dec. 11 ; O'Do-
novan, late 6th ; Dr. Baulahan, Ireland, Dec. 6.

MAJoa-GzNiaar.—Codd, Brompton, Dee. 29.
MaJoxs—Malcolm, 42d Foot, Cork, Nov. 14, 1829 ;
Creice, half-pay, 6th West India Regiment, Jan. 29;
Ricketts, kalf-pay, Unattacked, Nor. 13, 1828.
earranrs—Hall, Royal Marines, Oct. 12, 1829 ;
Bright (Barrack Master), half-pay, Royal Marines, Sept.
1 ; Curzon, half-pay, 24th Dragoons, Nov. 20; Raven-
hill, half-pay, 91st Foot, Nor. Bth.

Lizuneniarrs—Mackenzie, Ist Foot, Demerara, Sept.
18, 1828 ; Alexander, 16th Foot, Fort William, Bengal,
May 9 ; Maskrell, 44th Foot, Cawnpore, Bengal, June 5 ;
Phillips, late Royal Artillery, Wareham°, 25th Sept.,
1828 ; Blair, half-pay, Artillery Drivers, Glasgow, 23d
Nov., 1829 ; Carrington, Royal Marines; Painter, half-
pay, Royal Marines; Averell, ditto; Hawkins, ditto;
Millett, ditto; Hodson, half-pay, 14th Dragoons, 10th
July, 1829; Waters, half-pay, 22d Dragoons, 13th July;
Qaarriers, half-pay, Ist Foot, 4th Dec. ; M'Minn, half-
pay, 15th Foot, 11th June; Bradford, half-ply, 40th
Foot, Ist Dec. ; Thomas Wilson, half-pay, 56th Fost,
12th Aug. ; M'Connell, half-pa}, 6th West India Regi-
ment, Antigua; Falton, half-pay R., Corsican Rangers,
Roscommon, Nov., 1829.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS AND ENSlGNS—Kinsman,
Royal Marine Artillery, 27th Jan., 1829 ; Rogers, late
Royal Marines, 28th June; J. Mackay, half-pay, Royal
Marines ; Bulkeley, ditto ; Thomas, ditto ; Denman,
ditto; Williamson, ditto, 3d June, 1829; Gundry, ditto
sth Aug. ; Greenhorn, late 10th Veteran Battalion, Bris-
tol, 14th Des.; Sommers, half-pay, 38th Foot, 80th
April, 1827; M‘Lachlan, half-pay, 58th Foot, 16th May.
PAYMASTER—Grant, 381 Foot. Ghazeepore, Bengal,
25th May, 1829.
VETERINARY SURGEON—GaaIy, 11th Dragoons, Ben-
gal, 9th June, 1529.

QUARTER-MASTERS—Scott, half-pay, 'llth Dragoons,
21st Oct., 1829 ; Macdonald, half-pay, 7th Dragoon
Guards, 21st No►.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT--Commissariat General
Davidson, half-p.iy, 10th Dec., 1829 ; Young, half-pay,
Scotland, 31st Oct. ; Deputy Commissary-General Singer,
half-pay, Ireland, Dec., 1527 ; Assistant Commissary-
General Hannagan, half-pay, Ireland, Me., 1828 ; De-
pnty Assistant Commissary-General Louis, ha-pay, Corfu,
13th Dec.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT-Surgeon Carter, half-pay,
50th Foot, 25th March, 1829; Assistant-Surma llry-
don, Ist Foot, Fort George, N. IL, 31 Dec. ; Deputy
Purveyor Morris, half-pay, 14th March ; Hospital-As-
sistant Grubb, half-pay, 291 Sept.
BARRACK DEPARTMENT-Barrack Master Kinsey,
Windsor, Dec. 15, 1829.

N.. B. The death of Deputy Purveyor James Mould
was erroneously inserted in last mouth's list.'

Despatches for Lord STUART DE ROTH-
SAY, our Ambassador at Paris, and also for Si: CHARLES
BAGOT, our Ambassador in the Netherlands, were sent off
ye,terday evening from the office of the Secretary of State
fur Foreign Affairs.

TURNIP HOAX.--A short time since, a
man in a state of semi-intoxication, went into a public-
house at Miechinhampton, and announced that the Rev.
-, who had a fine field of turnips in the neigh-
bourhood, had kindly given the whole of the crop to the
poor of the parish. The tidings were received with joy,
and the health of the charitable minister was drank amid
the loudest acclamations ; and on the following Monday,
the field was crowded at break of day by men, women, and
children, who worked with wondrous perseverance in dig-
ging up and conveying home the turnips. About ten o'clock
the worthy clergyman was observed to approach the field in
great baste, followed by his serviutt, both of them on horse-
back, armed with large whips. The poor peasantry
wished to receive this minister of charity with a cheer
expressive of their gratitude, but no sooner had he ar-
rived than he began storming at his industrious Aeighl)urs
in no measured terms, and before they could recover from
their surprise, both he and his servant commenced driving
them out of the field. The confusion which reigned for
some time was inde,cribable, the poor deluded people
scrambling over walls and gates to escape. At last the
equestrians were left sole possessors of the field of battle,
which was literally strewed with hats, knives, and imple-
ments of husbandry, used by the flying foe to ah.tract the
turnips from their mother earth. l utaltbough victorious.
and in possession of the field, they were, alas ! in posses-
sion of very few of the turnips, nearly the whole of which
remained in the bonds of the enemy. As many of th•
offenders as could be recognised were summoned before th,
Magistrates of the district, when the matter being ex-
plained as a hoax, they were dismissed with a fine of on.
shilling each ler the damage done, and the worthy clergy
man, much to his credit, joined in the laugh which had
thus been created at the expense of his turnips.-- Chelten-
ham Chtonicle.

George Wachs, ac the time of committing the
crime only 19 years of age, was the son of it
reputable farmer, and was bound apprentice.to
miller, in which situation he was remarkable Ka'
sobriety and good conduct until the age of 18,
when, all of a sudden, his passions developing
themselves with frightful energy, he plunged into
a course of riot and debauchery, became a kind
of village Lovelace, and, to support the expenses
of this way of life, was led to the commission of .
a theft to the amount of 50 florins, which sum
his father reimbursed the person robbed, to save -
his son from disgrace. .Far from being corrected
by the first warning,
.George Wachs continued
his profligate course of life, and passed the greater
part, of his time in the company of loose and idle
characters. On Holy Thursday Wachs left his
master's house, under the pretence of going to
the neighbouring town to confess himself. Oa
the way he overtook a young countryman of his
acquaintance, who was going to the same town
to have his watch repaired. They entered a
public-house and had some beer ; and the coun
tryman, on telling Wachs the object of his visit ,
to the town, showed him the watch, which
seemed greatly to excite his admiration. He
said it was . the, only article wanted to com-
plete his toilet, and expressed great regret
at not being able to provide himself with
one. After some time they again set out
for the town, but soon entered another ,
beer-house, where Wachs became intoxi-
cated, exhibiting the most boisterous signs of
joy, leaping about, throwing his hat in the air,
&c. Soon after quittiog this second public-
house, Wachs declared that he would put off
his confession to another day, parted from his
companion, and went towards Huber's (the
shoe-maker) house, to have some slight repairs
done to his boots. On entering the house,
Wachs found Huber occupied with a country-
man, and until he could'attend to him sat down, •
and played with the children, amongst whom he
divided a cake. After his boots had been re-.
paired he was about qUitting the house, when
Huber's clock struck four. Wachs asked if it was
correct, and Huber told his wife to bring down his
silver watch, in order to compare them. The wainan,
after bringing the watch, left the house to go to
the market to purchase fish, and the children
went out to play in the garden. Wachs was'
again about leaving the house, when his eye fell.
upon the watch, which lay on the counter. He
took it up and examined it. Hubei told him •
that it cost 14 Grins, and that the silver chain,
belonging to it was- in a room on the second
floor. Wachs paced up and down the shop in
'silence and abstraction : this fatal watch occupied
all his thoughts ; at every instant the desire to
possess himself of it became stronger, and al-
though, as he himself asserted, he for a quarter
of an hour struggled against the temptation, it
at length became too powerful for him.
He suddenly seized a hammer, rushed at the
unfortunate Huber, who was quietly occupied
with his work, struck him a violent blow with the
hammer on his head, and knocked him senses
less off his chair ; then, seizing the watch, he ran
up to the room on the second story, and posy
sessed himself of the silver chain, a pale of
ear-rings, seven florins, and some other ports
able articles. Hearing the (lying groans of his
victim, he rushed clown stairs) took up the body
in his, arms, deposited it in a closet, and was
leaving the house, when, as he crossed the
threshold, he met- the two eldest children re-
turning from the garden, who kindly wished him
farewell. The idea entered his mind that
these children might denounce him as the mur:,
derer of their father. He instantly resolved upon
their destruction ; and first, seizing the boy (a
child of three years old) by the feet, he dashed
his head against the ground and killed him on
the spot. He then, after rolling the body into
a corner, laid hold of the girl and dashed her
also against the earth, but she rose up again
and ran into the house, calling upon her fitthe
for help. The murderer followed her and struck
her with the same hammer which had served
to kill her father. She fell senseless ; and
Wachs, supposing her to be dead, left her,
and was again about quitting the scene of this
bloody tragedy, when he was withheld from
doing so by seeing a peasant with a cart and
horse going by. He waited till this man was out
of sight, and was then again quitting the house,
when he saw Huber's wife returning from the
market. As it was impossible to quit the house
without being seen by her, he resolved to add
her to his other victims. Shutting the door,
and concealing the hammer, he awaited her
coming. On entering the house the poor woman
asked smilingly and in a good humoured tone,
if he meant to make himself a prisoner in the
house. The answer was a blow of a hammer oh
her skull, which laid her,• after muttering the
words Jesu Maria! dead at his feet. After
this series of fiendish acts, strange and incredible
though it may appear, Wachs went to the cradle
where the infant lay, and arranged it with the
greatest possible care lest it should fall from
the cradle, 'or any accident happen to it.
He then closed the door, and quitted that house
into which he had entered but a few mnsnents
before without having conceived the idea of any
crime, but which he left with the guilt of' four
murders on his soul. The little girl (Cathe-
rine) was still alive when the neighbours entered
the house, and named Wachs as the murderer
of herself and her family, Confounded by this
testimony the wretch avowed his guilt, and
gave the foregoing details of its perpetration.
The Criminal Court condemned him to death,
and he was decapitated on the 28th of October
last.

Prince LEOPOLD left the reAdence_Df the
Marquis and Marchioness of SALISiVILY, at 1.1a441,
Hera, (where his Royalness had been • staying for
s..me days on a visit to the Marquii and Marckoness),
yesterday, and proceeded to his re,idenee at eftrumant.
The French Ambassador had., a ion,, confe-
ivrice yesterday aftertrowt with tile'Esti of A.I3I:::DEEN,
id the Foreign Offic,. .•

SHIPPING INTELLIGIiNCE.-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind E.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Espiegle, from Plymouth.
FALMOUTH, Dsc. 30.—Wind E.—Arrived the
Portena, London, from Buenos Ayres; Flora, Wal-
ton, from Smyrna ; and Industry, Selles, from
Seville.

DOVER, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Rising Sun,
Bibcoe, from New Brunswick.
PLYstount, DEC. 30.—Off Port, the Apparence
Pesci, Mark, from Malaga.
CoRK, Dye. 29.—Arrived the Swift, Newton,
from Newfoundland.

LEITH, DEC. 22.—The Mary, Miles, from Go-
thenburg to London, is arrived in these roads ; she
sailed the 19th inst. in company with the following
vessels, after being cut two miles through the
ice, viz. :—The Bedford, Cadenhead ; Industry,
Wood ; Celerity, Horn—all for London ; Anne,
Hutchinson, of Shields; Fenwick, Vernon, of Sun-
derland ; Providentia, Dunlin, for Gibraltar ; and
Trade, Wood, for Wincasset.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 31.—A large brig, the part
above water, painted red, with a black nozzle, a
white 0 in the head, and a cross of two small
at chors, cut in the wood, has been picked up, and
brought here.
Off Holyhead, the Rover, from the Brazils.

The following has been received at Lloyds :
Admiralty Office, December 31.
Sir,—ln return to your letter of this date, lam
commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of
the Committee managing the affairs of Lloyd's,
that their Lordships have directed the Admirals of
Plymouth and Cork, to send out any vessels that
may be disposable to the Chops of the Channel, to
afford supplies to the trade which may be kept out
by the easterly winds.
(Signed) - JOHN BARROW.
To Ur. Bennett, Lloyd's.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

CORN .EXCHANGF.

The supplies of Grain are short, and the frost conti-
nuing, there is no business doing in Corn on board of ship.
The demand for Corn in granary is very limited, and the
trade for Flour is net brisk.: