The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-11 00:00:00

DISTANCES IN IRELAND.

Belfast to Armagh is 31 Irish or 40 English miles.
The railway from Belfast to Armagh will be only 36
English miles.

English Irish
Miles. Miles.

Armagh to Cavan, the most southern county
town in the province of Ulster
Dublin to Cavan 69 54

Difference in favour of the West Cumber-
land line of railway and Belfast route

23 18

Armagh to Sligo in the province of Con-
naught
Dublin to Sligo

92 72
128 101

Difference in favour of the above route...

Armagh to Dublin
It will hence be perceived that the whole extent of
the province of Ulster will reap most important bene-
fits by this means of communication. Belfast will re-
ceive the London mails at least 12 to 14 hours earlier
than at present by way of Dublin. Those parts of the
province nearest to Dublin will have the mails some
hours earlier than at present, and the three northern
counties of Connaught, viz., Leitrim, Sligo, and Mayo,
will be similarly benefited. The distance from Sligo to
Armagh is 36 miles less than from Dublin. These
counties, with Ulster, comprise upwards of three milli-
ons of the population of Ireland.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CA
NADA.-A small vessel has been lying in St. Katharine
Docks for s veral days, receiving the luggage of his
Excellency the Governor-General of Canada, and from
the number of packages which have been put on board we
should suppose that he anticipates a longer reign than the
Noble Earl who preceded him.
CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—It appears there
were fifty Liberal electors not polled ; as, when it was
found they were insufficient to turn the scale, it was not
deemed just to subject them to the consequences which
would have followed a conscientious exercise of the right of
suffrage. Mr. Gibson has pledged himself to bring the
bribery before a Committee of the House of Commons, and
expresses a confident hope of being able to unseat his op-
ponent. —Morning Chronicle.
GRATIFYING FACT.—At a recent annual
meeting of the London New Cemetrey Company, the
Chairman " had great pleasure in announcing to the meet-
ing the gratifying fact that the burials in the Cemetery for
the last year were double the number of those of the year
preceding."
FOSSIL REMAINS OF A MONKEY, FOUND
NEAR WOODBRIDGE.-A discovery of very great geolo-
gical interest has just been made at Kingston, close to the
town of Woodbridge. Part of the jaw of a monkey in a
fossil state, with the remains of other animals, have been
found in a brick-field at that place, in the occupation of
Messrs. Cobbold and Colchester.—Essex .Herald.
EVASION OF LAWS.—The Americans excel
in these manoeuvres. An Act was passed to prohibit the
playing at nine-pins (a very foolish Act, as the Americans
have so few amusements). As soon as the law was put in
force, it was notified everywhere—" Ten pins played here,"
and they have been played everywhere ever since.—
Capt. Maryatt.
The other day we noticed the circumstance of
three ladies having each presented her lord with three
babies at n bunch, and a correspondent informs us that a
fourth lady at Gravesend has recently followed the ex-
ample, making with twins before, a goodly family of five in
less than 17 months. Really if it were not for emigration
companies and emigration ships we should hardly be able
in a few years to take a step without having our toes
crushed or elbows jostled.
Of ninety-tradesmen in the neighbourhood of
Clare .market, fifty-two of the most respectable and influen-
tial have agreed to close their shops on Sundays, which
plan they commenced last Sunday morning.
EXTRAORDINARY Esc A PE.—Monday after-
noon a child, between six and seven years of age, the son
of Mr. Bellaso, a fruit salesman in Covent-garden Market,
was running on the stone coping of the wall fronting the
side of Somerset house, in Wellington-street, Waterloo-
bridge, when he fell into the area, a depth of thirty-five
feet, the bottom being paved. Some persons ran to his
assistance, expecting to find him dashed to pieces ; but, to
the astonishment of all, he had got up of himself, and was
enabled to walk to his parents' residence, apparently with-
out having received any serious injury.
COMPREHENSIVE CLAUSE IN THE NEW
POLICE ACT.—It is enacted under the 54th section of the
New Police Act, that " any person who shall lead any
horse, or other animal, on any footway or curb-stone, shall
be liable to a penalty of 40s. ;" and sec. 57 empowers
Magistrates to inflict a month's imprisonment on non-pay-
ment of such fine. It is obvious that the above provision
contains matter of perilous import to every fair owner of a
pet poodle, whose erratic disposition she may find it neces-
sary to restrain by a silken tether.
NEW REGULATIONS OF POLICE MAGIS-
TRATES.—On Monday morning the Magistrates of Bow-
street, Marylebone, and other police offices, took their
seats on the bench at ten o'clock in the morning instead of
the usual hour of eleven. The police constables have re-
ceived orders to have all night-charges ready et the
offices by ten o'clock. This arrangement will prove par-
ticularly convenient to persons in business who may have
charges to make in the morning.
WORKING OF THE NEW POLICE ACT.-011

Monday, at Lambeth-street, in the course of the pro

ceedings, and after disposing of a number of dunk and
disorderly cases, Mr. Hardwick asked the officers in atten-
dance how the clause in the New Police Bill relative to
the closing of the public-houses from twelve o'clock on
Saturday night till one o'clock on Sunday was found to
act ? Inspector Norman replied exceedingly well. The
change occasioned by it was such as few could credit, and
surprising to all who witnessed it. Previous to its ope-
ration many of the principal streets at that end of the town
used to be crowded with drunken persons during the
whole of Saturday night and Sunday morning, and it re-

quired the greatest energy and exertion on the part of the
police to keep them in anything like order ; but at pre-
sent, from one until about six o'clock on the Sunday
morning, scarcely a creature was there to be seen, and
even Rosemary-lane itself appeared to be totally deserted.
Mr. Hardwick said he was happy to find the Act produced
so beneficial and desirable a result.
THIEVES AT THE EGLINTON TOURNAMENT.
—On Monday the following informations were furnished
to the police :—Stolen, on the 28th ult., from the person
of a gentleman at the tournament at Eglinton Castle, 71
in one-pound notes of the Glasgow Union Bank ; a bill or
promissory note for 2421. 175., by Wrighton, Gray, and
Co., payable to Mr. William Henry, Dublin; another
bill for 1231. Is., payable by Messrs. Pasley, Jardine, and
Co. to the same; and a brown leather pocket book : in-
formation on the subject to be given to Captain Miller,
Police Chambers, Glasgow. On the 31st ult. Captain
Charles Francis Maxwell, of the 82d Regiment of Infantry,
was robbed near the same place of a Russia leather pocket-
book, containing tour 101. Bank of England notes, six or
seven 1/. Scotch notes, and several memoranda of
Greek and Neapolitan bonds, &c.
RARE OCCURRENCE.—In a garden in Bridge-
street, in this town (Reading), we have been shown an
apple-tree this day (Friday) bearing on it fruit just setting,
and a considerable portion of the tree also in luxuriant
bloom, a circumstance, we believe, rather unfrequent at so
advanced a period of the year.—Berks Chronicle.
RUSSIAN STATISTICS.—By some recent re-
ports to the Minister of the interior in Russia, it appears
that during the year 1838 there were in the Russian
countries,empi re, not 2 includingthebirths,
,1,9
Caucasian 6333 deaths, a
and 7
ea
ttran s
nd. C aucasian
492,424
marriages. The total number of the population is e-ti.
mated to have been, on the Ist of January 1839, about
60,000,000. The mortuary registers give numerous ex-
amples of extraordinary longevity; 858 persons attained
the age of 100 to 105 years; 125, from 110 to 115 years;
150, from 116 to 120: 111, from 121 to 125 ; 3, from 126
to 130; 5, from 131 to 140 ; 1, 145; 3, from 150 to 155 ;
1 attained 160 years, and 1 reached 165. It should be ob-
served, that, since the keeping of registers of births did not
exist in Russia until lately, there are no very accurato
means of ascertaining the correctness of such a statement
as that of the extreme ages just mentioned.