The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-12 00:00:00

THE ARMV.

The King has been pleased to approve of Major-General
Sir E. Blakeney, K.C.8., being placed in command of the
troops serving in Ireland, with the rank of Lieut.-General
in that country from the 26th ult.
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, M.P., of the 71st
Light Infantry, has returned from leave of absence, and re-
sumed the command of the regiment in Dublin garrison.
The Prince Regent transport, having, on board the head-
quarter division of the 42d. Royal Highlanders, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Middleton, arrived at Ports-
mouth on the 28th ult. from Corfu, and sailed with the
troops on the Ist instant for Leith, where they will be dis-
embarked, and will occupy quarters in Edinburgh. The depot
companies of the 42d have already arrived in Edinburgh
from Stirling Castle, and the regiment will be stationed in
that city during the approaching winter.
The depot companies of the 76th Regiment, under the
command of Major Clarke, have arrived at Stirling Castle
from Edinburgh, and have replaced the depot companies of
the 42d Regiment.
The service companies of the 19th Regiment, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Roper, arrived at Buttevant
from Cork on the 2d and 3d instant, The company of the
19th, recruiting at Killaloe, arrived at Buttevant on the 6th
inst., and the three remaining companies, with the head-
quarters of the depot, under the command of Captain Stir-
ling, will arrive this day from Nenagh.
The depot companies of the 87th, under the command of
Major Magenis, arrived at Nenagh on the 3d and sth inst.
from Cork, and have detached one company to Killaloe.
The depot companies of the 88th Regiment, under the
command of Major O'Hara, left Buttevant on the sth inst.
for Cork, where they arrived on the following day.
Lieut.-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.8., arrived
in town this afternoon to resume the command of the army
serving in Ireland. This appointment is one which gives
the most general satisfaction.

On Friday evening, as the Ebor coach was return-
ing from Leeds to Wakefield, one of the horses fell down
near the Proprietary School, and died from over exertion.
While the harness was being taken from the dead horse, a
young man named Lockwood rode by at a very furious rate,
and coming in contact with a cow, was thrown to a consider-
able distance; his collar-bone was dislocated, and he was con-
siderably bruised.—Halifax Express.
REPRESENTATION OF BA the event of
a vacancy occurring, there will apparently be no lack of can-
didates. According to the Bath Herald of this day, the Mayor
would be supported by the Dissenting interest, if he could be
prevailed on to come forward. Mr. Bridges also ranks high in
the estimation of the same respectable and influential class.
Mr. Bruges, as we stated on Friday, is adopted by the Associa-
tion which we designated a factitious body, although we do not
dispute their claim to the other title which a misprint conferred
on the members. " Active interest also," says the Herald,
" we know, will be made in the most respectable quarters for
the eldest son of a distinguished Peer who has resided many
years amongst us, and who will undeniably support the present
ministry, if in power, and their principles, if they should be
displaced."

On Friday the long pending question between the
parish of Greenwich and the Commissioners of the Royal Hos-
pital was brought forward in the Vestry-room, but in conse-
quence of the number of persons who attended, an adjourn-
ment took place to the Parochial School-room. Mr. Church-
warden Smith was called to the Chair. He briefly stated the
object of the meeting, namely, to receive the report of a Com-
mittee appointed on the 25th of March last, to carry into effect
the award of the Hon. Charles Evan Law, on the question of
property in the Royal Hospital which should be subject to
parochial rates. The report having been read, thanks were
voted to the Committee for their exertions, and the meeting
adjourned for three weeks.

The fever, says the Missouri Salt River (Bowling.
Green) Journal is prevailing in our country. After repre-
senting the disease as becoming less fatal than usual, the Salt
River Editor gives us the symptoms from which we guess it
is somewhat contagious in our own city and neighbourhood.
The symptoms are a great restlessness, and inclination to se-
cure all the land round about them, accompanied with fever,
to procure the notes of certain tracts of land lying in the
neighbourhood, and generally followed by a dumb ague and
sweat, if the patient is anticipated by some more lucky friend
in his visit to the land office.

According to the tables which have appeared in the
State Gazette of Prussia, the whole of the births in that
kingdom were, in 1835, 533,215; and the deaths, 380,943.
The increase of the population amounts to 100,000 souls, thus
distributed through the different provinces : Prussia Proper,
870 ; Silesia, 891 ; Brandenburgh, 967; Poien, 1,270 ; Po-
merania, 1,273 ; Westphalia, 1,285 ; Prussian Saxony,
1,325 ; and the Rhenish pravinces, 1,372. The entire popula-
tion of Prussia, on the Ist of January, 1835, was 13,509,917
Bouts.

AMERICAN WAGGERY.—Two individuals who
went over the Niagara Falls in a small boat some days since,
excited more sympathy than the case really called for, as there
was very little personal agony in the catastrophe. The suf-
ferers in this affair were merely a couple of stuffed effigies of
humanity—mere men of straw, who had been manufactured by
certain wags for a little funny sentimentality on the part of the
beholders. These certain varlets who could find it in their
hearts to provide such a display of fictitious distress, ought, by
all means, to be well sponged under the falls or elsewhere, for
their pains.—New York Paper, July 23.
ALARMING FlRE.—Between three and four
o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in the public-house
called the Duke of Kent, and occupied by Mr. King, Peter-
street, Southwark-bridge Road. Notwithstanding the hydraulic
force of water on the flames, from eight or nine engines, be-
longing to the London Establishment, before they were ex-
tinguished the premises were burned to the ground. The
damage done by the devouring element exceeds 6001. Mrs.
King, the landlord's wife, is not expected to survive many
hours, owing to the injuries she received in precipitating her-
self from the second fl or window into the street. Unfortu-
nately the parties are not insured one penny.
On Friday last, the neighbourhood of Thames Bank
Chelsea, was the scene of considerable bustle and excitement,
in consequence of the completion of the buildings belonging
to the " United Kingdom Beet-root Sugar Association."
Early in the morning the premises were decorated with nume-
rous flags, and at twelve o'clock the ceremony of laying the
first stone of an immense shaft took place. The premises,
covering an extent of 50,000 square feet, were completed in
the extraordinary short period of six weeks, by Messrs. Cubit.
This was accomplished by placing the builders three feet apart
around the premises. The whole of the engineers, carpenters,
bricklayers, &c., to the number of 300, were regaled with
plenty of old English fare. The directors attended to see
that all were properly entertained. The shouts of the work-
people upon the health of the King being given by Sir Francis
Desanges, were heard on the opposite side of the Thames.
It is confidently expected that this Association will be the
means of furnishing employment to many thousand labourers
throughout the kingdom.
Mr. Raikes Currie, the banker, has come forward
on Radical principles for the representation of Northampton,
whenever a vacancy occurs there.