The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

A LOST STOMACH.

A gentleman who attended a late house-warming in
Hereford, was heard on the eve of the festival to la-
ment that he had " lost his stomach,' the days having
gone for ever when he could play as good a knife and
fork as most men. It not having been our usage to re-
port these dinners, we can only allude to this one, in order
to show that our friend found a small part of his long
" lost stomach ;" nis bill of fare will prove that his
gastronomic capacity of " other days" must have been
of a dimension that makes us in these times of high-
priced provision, bless the good fortune of the state,
that it has not " troops" of such subjects, and also
pray, for the sake of this city, that our friend's lost sto-
mach may be,
" Like the lost Pleiad, seen no more below."
The dinner was sumptuous, our hero comfortably ad-
justed his " bib and tucker," cast a look on the viands
that smoked upon the board ; he safely deposited under
his waistcoat—

2 plates of soup.
1 heaped plate of cod-fish, veiled by halt a pint of
oyster sauce.
2 full plates of soles, scarcely visible through a
blended covering of melted butter and anchovy sauce.
2 handsome slices out of a splendid boiled leg of mut-
ton, with an addendum of caper sauce.

1 wing of a fine fowl, with a slice of a delicious
tongue.
1 wing of a giant goose. '
1 haunch of a large hare, with a luscious slice out of
his back.

1 wing of a Well-fed pheasant.
1 " mountain" of pudding.
2 jellies.
2 custards.

A series of bread, cheese, celery, water cress, &c.
The above was seasonably seasoned with div, rs jugs
of fat ale, and sundry glasses of wine challenges ; the
whole of the before-mentioned " agitated mass " was
lulled to peace by a bottle of fine old port, and our friend
of the " lost stomach" then quickly departed ; when
our hero took up his hat and walked, a Scotchmau
ironically exclaimed —" He's nae belly-god, that's ae
blessing ;" though responded a neighbour, " he could
eat a horse behind the saddle ;"—" Poor fellow !" cried
a third, "he has this day sent both fowls of the air
and fishes of the sea down his throat in search of his
long " lost stomach."—Shrewsbury News.

HALF-Y EARLY PUBLIC EXAM

NATIONS AT SANDHURST.

The usual half-yearly public examinations of the offi-
cers and gentlemen cadets studying at the Royal Mi-
litary College took place on Tuesday, Wednesday, and
Thurs lay, the sth, 6th, and 7th inst., on which occi-
ston the in,titution was honoured by the presence of his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. At the
close of the examinations, the following officers were pre-
sented with the usual certifica..es of qualification ;
Captain R. Kinuers
Captain M. W. Smith lsth Hussars.
Lieutenant A. H. Russell
Leutenant A. Barton 9th Regiment.
Lieutenant H. D. Fanshawe
In consequence of the very superior acquirements
displayed by Captain Smith, Lieutenants Barton and
Fanshawe, and Captain Manners, in the highest
branches of mathematical science, a special honorary
addition was made to those officers' certificates. The
high qualifications of the first three of these officers, viz.,
Captain Smith and Lieutenants Barton and Fanshawe,
in military surveying, were also particularly noticed ;
and the following gentlemen cadets, who had completed
their qualifications for commissions. were recommended
to the General Commanding in Chief for appointment.
to ensigncies in the line, without purchase ;

1. John H. Dickson
2. Robert E. Stratton.
3. Robert Carey.
4. William Crawley.
5. Denis Gadley.
6. Henry Rice.
7. Augustus J Roberts.

10. Edward W. Donovan.
11. Hugh G. Colvin.
12. Robert. Portal!.
13. John L. R. Pollard.
14. Hon Percy E. Herbert
15. George R4b.tu.
16. Robert N. Clarke.

8. Arthur Oakes.
9. James Woods.

17. Charles H. eillet;.

By the result of the examinations about fifty other
young gentlemen were declared to have made various
steps towards qualifying themselves for commissions in
those branches of the mathematics which are applicable
to military purposes, in permanent and field fortifications,
and the attack and defence of fortresses, in Latin and
general history, and in the modern languages ; and
nineteen had also during tile half-year completed the
course of professional education in military surveying,
and twenty-six in the actual construction of entrench-
trints and saps in the field, poutooning, &c.

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A 80,. S—An inquest
was held on Friday night before M Higgs, at St.
Gt orge's Hospital, on the body of Edward Lyne, aged
eleven, who committed suicide under very extraordinary
circumstances. It appeared that the deceased was in
the employ of Mr. Goodson, poulterer, of Jermyn-
street. who is also cook to the Benchers of the Temple.
On Thursday the deceased, who was very attentive to
bussiness, was sent with some sweetbreads to tbil
Duchess of Bedford's, in Belgrave-square, but in an
hour from leaving home his body was found in the re-
servoir in the Green-park, and the basket of sweetbreads
and his c.ip filming on thi, water. When tmken out he
was quite dead, and he must first have got over the
rails and placed the basket on the water, otherwise it
would have been upset if he had jumped in with it on his
head. Since the last prec:pition from the Monument he
had frequently asked Nhat sort of suicide was the easiest
death, and slid he should like to be talked about as the
boy Hawes had been. At no one was present who saw
the deceased get over the 44, the Jury were obliged
to return a verdict of round drowned, and how the
deceased got into the Water there was no evidence to
show,
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THE WEATHER.---DUBLIN, SATURDAY.--
bas kaen raining ever since our last, with short inter-
vals, heavy, close, constant rain. The turf is deStroyed
for the present season, we fear, and the potatoes terribly,
if not irretrievably, injured.—Dublin Paper.
The preparations are progressing with consider-
able activity for carrying into effect the popular project
of a general penny post, at the commencement of the
new year. This plan, besides other good effects, will
occasion a considerable number of persons In-be em-
PI" yeti in the Post-office es,ablishment, in addition to
those already employed.