The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-15 00:00:00

ORDNANCE ESTIMATES.

The following is the result of a view of a comparative ab-
stract of the, Estimate 1837-8, with 1835-7 :
" The' Ordinary' estimate for the present year exceeds
that of 1836-7 by the sum of 9351.
" The total of the Extraordinaries' is 16,511/. less fur
1837-8 than that in the preceding year.
" For the Service of this year there will be required
1,302,0141.—which is more by 38,5651. than was voted last
year.
" The official estimate of the ' Ordinary' charge of the
Ordnance at the Tower, Pall-mall, and Dublin, amounts to
66,9751."

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are
now at Berlin, where they arrived on the 25th ult. from their
tour in the Northern States of Europe.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at Apsley House
last evening, from Strathfieldsaye, to be present at the so-
lemnization of the marriage between Miss Bao-ot and the
Earl of Winchilsea; the ceremony is expected' to be per-
formed to-day.
The Dowager Duchess of Roxburgh and Colonel
O'Reilly have left town for Dover.
Lord Hatherton has arrived at his house in Grosve-
nor-place from Teddesley, Staffordshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury are
expected in Grosvenor-square on Thursday next from
Brighton.
An express arrived at the Clarendon on Saturday
for the Earl of Errol, with the intelligence of the decease of
his Lordship's sister, Lady Harriet Gurney, wife of Daniel
Gurney, Esq. The Earl and Countess and their daughter,
Lady Adelaide Hay, who was to be bridesmaid at the ap-
proaching nuptials of Miss Bagot, left town, on Monday for
Mr. Gurney's seat, Runcton, in Norfolk.
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Lord de Roos left town on Sunday last by the Rot-
terd:lm steam-packet.
Colonel Burdett, son of Sir Francis, has arrived at
Mivart's Hotel from a tour.

The Marquis of Camden has paid into the Bank of
England the sum of 17,2471. 3s. 4d., for his contribution to
the public service for the last year, which sum we have reason
to believe will make the whole of his contribution amount to
273,00a-11/Or :ling Paper.
Lord Castlereagh has arrived in Chapel-street,
Park-lane, contiguous to Holdernesse House, for the season.
Lord Ashley is announced as the Chairman at an
intended meeting to be held in London, on the subject of the
present aspect of the Church of England.
A Brussels journal states that the Queen will leave
for Laeken in the beginning of March, where, it is said, her
Majesty will remain till after her continement,which is expected
to take place about the latter end of April.
The Queen of the French is slightly indisposed._
Galiy nani.
Three failures were on Monday announcA in Li-
verpool. The first failure is of a house engaged in the Irish
trade, and whose liabilities are said to amount to 14,000/. ;
the second of a manufacturing chymist ; and the third of an
individual engaged in the East Ineia trade: The two last
failures were not for any very great amount.

On Monday were presented, by appointment, to
Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs;
Colonel Prince Andriantsithollaina ; Lieut.- Colonel Prince

Ra Harolahy ; Lieut.-Colonel Ramanan Reraisina ; LieuC.:
Colonel Andriantscheno, Officer of the Palace ; Major Ra-
nera ; and Major Rasatranabo, forming an embassy from the
Queen of Madagascar, accompanied by Captain Garnot, of
the French Marine, who recently arrived with theta at the
Havre, from that island ; the latter gentleman having very
lately made an interesting journey to the capital, where he
was presented to the Queen, and who engaged his services to
accompany the above gentlemen upon their embassy to the
Courts of E igland and France, and afterwards to return with
them to Madagascar.
DEATH OF THE EX-KING OF SWEDEN—CARLS-
RUIIE, FEB. 3.—The Ex-King of Sweden, Gustavus Iv.,
known for many years past under the name of Colonel Gus.
tayson, expired suddenly on the 7th inst., at eight in the
morning; in the town of St. Gall. Gustavus was .born on the
Ist of November, 1778. Though under age he succeeded to
his unfortunate father, Gustavus 111., under the guardianship
of his uncle, the Duke of Sudermania. On becoming of age,
on the Ist of November, 1796, he assumed the reins of Go-
vernment, and married on the 31st October, 1797, the late
Queen Frederica Dorothea Wilbelmina, a Princess of Baden,
the daughter of Prince Charles Lewis. Later, he was
crowned at Noukceping. ,After various calamitous events,
both to him and his kingdom,? he abdicated on the 29th of
March, 1809, and on leaving Sweden lived since November,
1813, under the title of Duke of Holstein Gottorp, and sub-
sequently as Gustavus Adolphus Gustayson, alternately in
Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, the three last
years at St. Gall. He has died of a disease in his chest, the
gravity of which he did not suspect.—Carlshrue Gazette.
An entirely new mode of warming St. James's
Church has been adopted, and is now in full operation, pre-
paratory to its re-opening, on the sth of March.
A wild hog has been presented to the Dover Mu-
seum. On its being skinned by Mr. Gordon, of the Canter-
bury Museum, a bullet was found in the loins, and several
swan shot in various parts of the body, over which the skin
had quite healed. Underneath the bristles, and close to the
skin, is a kind of woolly hair. The animal was killed in the
forests of Germany.—Kentish Gazette.
On Monday a public meeting was held in St. Al-
pliage's, Greenwich, for the purpose of taking into considera-
tion the best means of raising a sufficient sum to build a
new church on Blackheath.hill. The Bishop of Rochester
in the chair. A subscription of more than 11,000/. was an.
nounced by the Chairman. Amongst the donations was one
of 101. from her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda
of Gloucester.

We have been credibly informed that, in the district
of Biackwater, in Perthshire, there are two fields of corn
standing► uncut I—Scotsman.
The Oldham Radicals are in communication
with W. Sharman Crawford, Esq., the representative of
Dundalk, on the subject of his appearing as a candidate for
Oldham at the next election.—Manchester Guardian.
On Sunday night last John Minter Hart, the noto-
rious bill stealer and forger, together with twenty-four :other
convicts, were removed from Newgate in the largo van gene.
rally used for the purpose, and which was strongly guarded, to
Portsmouth, and put on board the Leviathan hulk, preparatory
to their bein., transported for life.

Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, when the detach-
ment of the Coldsteam Guards at the Bank of England was
mustered on retiring from duty, one of their number, a stout,
healthy man, aged about forty, who had been in the regiment
upwards of seventeen years and who had been relieved from
duty at twelve o'clock, was found dead in his bed.
There is still such an increase of fever, that the
Royal Infirmary cannot receive another patient ; and a very
groat number of refusals are taping place daily. The mana-
gers of the institution feel entbarraisect for want of 4GCornrog,
dation ; and it is thought that additional wards will have to bF
prQvided,_.►Qks'oio Cbronick,