The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-15 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Mr. and Mrs. Bacon, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-
street, for the Continent ; Mrs. Lane Freer, from ditto, for
Southampton; Lady and Miss Simeons, from ditto, for the
Isle of Wight ; the Bishop of Llandaff; for St. Leonard's ;
the Hon. R. Cavendish, for Sussex ; Sir John and Lady
Campbell, from Capel-street, Grosvenor-square, for Brigh-
ton ; the Earl of Howth, for ditto ; Captain and Mrs. Austen,
fur a Continental tour ; Sir George Wombwell, for Sussex ;
the Earl and Countess cf Somers, for Cheltenham ; the Bi-
shop of Hereford, for Tunbridge Wells ; Count do Wipe,
from Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, fur Paris; Lady
Musgrave, for Rutlandshire: Sir A. Vincent Corbet, for
-Hastings; Sir George Staunton, from Devonshire-street, for
Cheltenham ; Lady Elizabeth Duttcn, for Hastings ; Hon.
Mr. Do Saumarez, for Tunbridge Wells; Lord Hill, from
Belgrave•square, for Chatham; the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Pel-
law, for Leamington Spa.

The Countess Zichy, late Miss Strachan, has re-
ceived from the Marquis of Hertford, her guardian, the stun
of etirty thousand Pounds as her fortune, in addition to some
of the splendid family diamonds to that amount. with this espe-
cial proviso, however, that en coming to the title the Earl of
Yarmouth is to have the privilege of redeeming the jewels on
paying the above-named sum.
It is stated that Mr. Justice Moore is about to re-
tire, and to be succeeded in the Common Pleas by Mr.
Attorney-General Wolfe. Baron Foster is confined to his
11-;use with a severe fit of gout. Chief Justice Bushe has not
at,en.l, d Court since the melancholy death of his daughter-in-
law. —Dublin Paper._

A certain witty Count has reported that all the old-
fashioied eurr:cle drivers arc about to burn their vehicles, in
conseguet.ce of having seen his superlatively beautiful machine.
T 'Tuesday evening an inquest was held on the body
of Joseph Benjamin, aged eleven, of the Hebrw persuasion,
who dropped down dead on the morning of Monday last while
on his way to school with his brother. Ile was immediately
taken to the shop of a neighbouring surgeon, and on examina-
tion life was found to be extinct. Vardiet—" Died by the
visitation of God."

Yesterday an inquest was held at the Charing. cross
Hospital on the body of John Daffy, aged 42, silo committed
suicide by taking a large quantity of oxalic acid. The evi-
dence went clearly to show that the destitute state of the de.
ceased's family had induced him to destroy himself, and the
Jury, without hesitation, gave a verdict to that effect.
As William Mandy, gamekeeper to Hu ,h John-
ston, Esq., of Danson House, near Bcixley, Kent, was passing
through a hedge at Halfway-street, in the above parish, on
Tuesday afternoon, having his gum in a careless position, it is
supposed the trigger was caught by a twig in the hedge, which
caused the gun to go off; the contents lodged i❑ the abdomen
of the unfortunate man, who fell and instantly expired. The
deceased was very much respected in the neighbourhood. On
Sunday next he would have attained his twenty-first year, and
that day was fixed for his being married to a respectable young
woman residing in the place.
On the 30th of last month died, in the parish of
Dyrham and Hinton, Thomas Chandler and Mary, his wife,
bath aged eighty-two years. They had been married fifty-
six years—were both born in the same year—both died on the
same day—and were buried together in the church-yard of the
above parish.—Bath Guardian.
On the 31st. the inhabitants of Waldkircb, in the
canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, had accompanied to her last
abode a woman of the district, who was supposed to be dead.
The interment being ended, the clergyman was preparing to
return home, when he heard groans proceeding from the
grave. He immediately called the grave-diggers, and caused
the coffin to be taken up and opened. Unfortunately, it was
too late—the ill-fated woman had c,‘ased to exist. In her
despair she had turned round on her face, and had torn off all
her nails. _

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The preserved olives, which are so touch admired
as a dessert, are the green unripe fruit, deprived of part of
their bitterness by soaking them in water and then preserved
in an aromatised solution of salt. Several varieties are met
with in commerce ; but the most common is the small French,
and the large Spanish olives. Olives ala pieholine have been
soaked in a solution of lime or alkali.
A vile outrage, just discovered in Cork, has caused
much astonishment, and excited the utmost horror. A number
of holes, bored with an auger, were discovered to have been
perforated in the Waterloo and Lee steamers, while lying at
the quay, on Monday or Tuesday night. Had the vessels
proceeded to sea before the discovery was made, and had they
been overtaken by the gales of Thursday and Friday, there is
no knowing how many lives might have been lost. These fine
vessels had undergone a thorough repair only a short time since.
The tile wretches who perpetrated this horrid deed are sup-
posed to be well acquainted with the use of shipwright's
tools. This, it is now said, is part of the riband or combina-
tion system.
On S'aturday evening a hawking fisherman, well
known in Romford as " Suffolk Jemmy," nearly forfeited his
life by an act of fally committed while in a state of intoxica-
tion. A man was exhibiting snakes and adders in that town,
when a question arose as to whether one of these reptiles was
an adder, and Inowiiig that an adder would attack anything
red, the fistn.rman put out his torgue to decide the dispute.
The adder instantly bit him under the tongu. The poor
fellow has since been in a dreadful state : his body was ama-
zingly swollen, his tongue protruded from his mouth,
and the
medicine administered - to him seas obliged to be forced down
his throat with a syringe. Elopes are now entertained of his
recovery.
On Thnrsdavlast when the passengeis of the dili-
gence from Toulouse were at dinner at an inn at Chate.auroux
one of them, who was seated at table between two ladies, sui-
clenly look a knife, stabbed himself, •and immediatelyexpired.
The table nas covered with bleed, to the no small alarm of the
assembled guests.
The Messager of Monday nigdit hives specimens of
the manner in which literary works purchased by the French
Government arc disposed of ; and among which (as the Na-
tional observes) there is this curious item :—" The iEneid
translated by Barthlemy, to the Lunatic Hospitals of Nante .*