The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-21 00:00:00

OLYMPIC.

A new one-act burletta was played at this theatre last
night. It is entitled A Pleasant IVeighbour, and gives
Liston an opportunity of dressing and acting, and of course
looking indescribably ludicrous in the character of a country
cobbler. The whole piece rests upon his efforts and those
of Mrs. Orger ; and dull indeed must it be if it failed to
amuse with such supporters. Its title almost tells the
story, which renders it the less necessary for us to enter
into it, and we are, besides, unwilling to anticipate the
great pleasure our readers will derive from seeing it. The
dialogue is good, and Liston makes the most of it, admi-
rably aided, as we have said already, by Mrs. Orger, whose
inimitable personation of this class of characters is too well
known to require any particular notice in this instance. The
piece was announced for repetition amidst much applause.

Lord Hatherton entertained a party at Neddesley
Park during, Rugeley Races, of which his only son, the
Hon. Edward Richard Littleton, who recently came of
age, is one of the stewards.
The Duke of Buckingham and the Marquis of
of Chandos are enjoying the sport of pheasant shooting at
Avington, near Winchester.
The Marquis of Waterford was not at Vauxhall-
gardens at the ascension of a balloon. The last letters left
his Lordship at Malta.
The Earl of Westmoreland is still in Grosvenor-
square, in improved health.
The Earl of Scarborough has arrived at Sandbeck,
Bawtry, in Yorkshire, from a tour. His Lordship will en-
tertain a party next month,
Lord Seaford is going on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Portland, at Welbeck Priory, Nottinghamshire.

Sir J. Graham, Bart., M.P., and T. Salkeld, Esq.,
hale consented to act as stewards of the Penrith races
for 1837.

On Saturday last, the Royal Company of Archers,
the King's body guard for Scotland, shot in Hope Park for
the pagoda medal, given by Lieut.-Colonel James Spence,
which was won by the Right Honourable Lord Ramsay.

Lord Saye and Sele has left Broughton Castle, Ox,
rordshire, for Brighton.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond have
left Belgrave-square for Brighton.
Lord Gardner and his Lady leave Kinmell Park in
a few days, for Melton Mowbray, where his Lordship keeps
up a large hunting establishment.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol will leave
Ickworth Park, for Kemptown, early in November.
The Countess of Gosford and the Ladies Acheson,
are gone to Worlingbam Hall, near Beccles, and do not in-
tend at present to embark for Canada, where the Earl of
Gosford is Governor-in-Chief.
The Earl and Countess of Camperdown, and the
Ladies Duncan, intend to winter at Bath, where they have
arrived from Cheltenham.
Lord Thurlow, grand-nephew of the celebrated Lord
Chancellor Thurlow, who recently came of age, is making
great improvements at his seat, Great Ashfield, Suffolk.
His Lordship's mother was Miss Bolton, an actress of some
celebrity, who survived her Lord only a few months.
One of the vacant insignia of the Bath has been
bestowed on Major-General, now Sir William Thornton.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 16--The Marquis de Mira-
flores, Grandee of Spain, and the Duke of Ossuna have ar-
rived here from Madrid.

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The contemplated marriage between Peregrine Town-
ley, Esq., of Townley Hall, Lancashire, and Lady Caroline
Molyneux, fourth daughter of the Earl and Countess of
Sefton, is fixed to take place in three weeks. The bride-
groom elect is of a wealthy Roman Catholic facially in the
Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire. Lady Caroline is at
present travelling in Belgium, with her Noble parents, but
the marriage, it is understood, will be solemnized in England.

On the close of the Edinburgh Theatre on last Fri-
day, Mr. Murray addressed the audience, and in the course
of his speech took occasion to advert to the death of Madame
Malibran in the following terms :—" I cannot pass over in
silence the great loss which our profession has sustained by
the lamented death of Madame Malibran de Beric't. She
was to have appeared before you this summer ; all was ar-
ranged, but her fatal illness intervened, and by a sin-
gular and melancholy coincidence, the tidings of her death
arrived in Edinburgh on the very clay which had been settled
for her appearance here."
Mr. Kean has declined the offers of a London en-
gagement made to him by both Theatres ; his immense
success in the Provinces has induced the various managers
to secure a repetition of his visits, thus precluding the
possibility of his appearing before a London audience
during the present season.
This day is the thirty-first anniversary of the Battle
of Trafalgar. It will be commemorated at Portsmouth, on
board the Victory, Lord Nelson's ship. All the naval
officers there will dine together on the occasion. A pot of,
porter, an ounce of tobacco, and one shilling will be given to
each veteran Tar now in Greenwich Hospital who served
with the Gallant Admiral in that memorable engagement.
As it was the fashion to take antique names, our
e*frokipi: tc_,,pk, I believe, the name of Epaminondas, and I
that ofrPtiis, ll
the other members of the committee
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4,-0 m our sittings we could have
followed our example '
made a vocabulary o'f &reek a-4 ilernan names. ' They
have, in a pamphlet, attributed to Napoleott this bgrowed
\
name of 13rntns ; but it belonged only to me. Napoleon
thought to elevate his own name above all those of ancient

THE SUN, LONE!

history ; and if he had been desirous of figuring in such
masquerades, I do not think he would have chosen the
name of Brutus.—Lucien Bonaparte's Memoirs.
SINGULAR STRIKE.—The night watchmen of
Edinburgh have struck almost in a body for a rise of wages.
Out of 160 only 36 did duty. There was a meetinfr on
Saturday, when upwards of 100 assembled', respectable-
looking, clean, clean, and well clad, who conducted their business
in the most orderly manner. The following are the parti-
culars of their case :—ln July the night watchmen peti-
tioned the Police Commissioners for a rise of wages. They
had been paid some time 12s. a week, from which 11d. is
deducted for cleaning their lanterns. They requested 16s.
a week, but it was understood they would be content with
14s. Their petition remained unanswered until Friday,
when a direct refusal was given to their deft-lands. The
men met and passed several resolutions, refusing to do duty
without a rise of wages. These resolutions were sent to
the Superintendent, who, as he could not anewaf them, gave
notice that all who did not resume duty instantly would be
held as dismissed. The object of the meeting on Saturday
was to lay their grievances before the public.
A cannon, constructed upon an entirely new prin-
ciple, was yesterday tried, with perfect sucees.s, m the neigh-
bourhood of London. The novelty of the invention consists
in the facility of charging, and the consequent increased
efficiency as an engine of war. We understand that further
experiments will be made in the course of a few days, when
we shall lay before our readers a full description of this ex-
traordinary machine.

A substitute for steam appears at length to have
been found. A gentleman, whose name, as connected with
philosophic researches, is well known, has, after the failure of
hundreds of experiments, attained the application of a well-
known principle in nature, which costs nothing, to supersede
the use of steam for navigation, machinery, apd the convey-
ance of carriages and waggons on common roads, at a most
trifling rate of tonnage. If this plan be fully realised this
invention will create as great a revolution in the arts as
steam itself has effected.

VISIONS OF HAPPINESS.—Mr. Chorley in his
interesting " Memorials of Mrs. Hemans," which have just
appeared, tells us that—" Throughout the whole of her last
illness, she was visited by vivid and delightful .dreams, to
which, and to the quietness of her slumber, she often thank-
fully referred ; and in answer to the sympathy expressed by
the few admitted to her presence, who were &stressed to see
the melancholy state in which she was lying, she would say
that she had no need of pity, that she lived in a fair and
happy world of her own, among gentle thoughts and plea-
sant images, which were sufficient to her cheerfulness?"
An " affair of honour," which lately took place be-
tween Lieutenants Clay and Davies, R.N., one residing at
Exmouth, the other at Teignmouth, has excited much sen-
sation. The affair was kept tolerably private for a few
days, but has since been the chief topic of conversation.
The gallant gentlemen were each attended by a brother
Lieutenant, and a surgeon was within call in ease of an ac-
cident. The parties (report says) fired intim* ; the Ex-
mouth gentleman received his adversary's hall in the arm,
but the wound was not dangerous, Another report says
that only one fired, and no mischief was done to require
surgical aid. The quarrel occurred at the Yeomanry Ball
at Exmouth, when the epithet " coward" was applied to
the Lieutenant by his brother officer at Teignmouth. The
misunderstanding was understood to have been made up the
same evening, but renewed next day, the result of which
was the challenge and duel.
A correspondent complains of the great insolence
of many of the labouring dustmen, whose coarse and ob-
scene language, when thy get into a house to remove the
dust, is abominable, particularly if they are not supplied
with drink, for which they have no just claim whatever. It
is asked if they are not liable to be punished for abusive
language, as well as a hackney coachman or cabman ; and,
if they are, the fining a few of these gentry would be the
best means of curing the evil, and preventing their insolence
in future.—Morning Paper.
Last autumn the steward of the Duke of Leeds as-
sumed the manorial authority of former times, and set
aside the constable named by the rate-payers, appointing
another in his place. Thursday next is the usual day for
nominating the constables for the ensuing year, but no ves-
try meeting has been called for that purpose. The Duke's
steward, therefore, will have to exercise his power of ap-
pointment, without even a show of opposition.—Halifax
Express.
The clear profits of business in Manchester is cal-
culated to amount to upwards of twelve millions annually.

The elopement from the neighbourhood of one of
the Royal Palaces, of a young lady related to a Noble
Duke, with a person in humble life, which has gone the
round of the Papers, turns out to be no elopement at all,
but a regularly-arranged marriage between litiss Manners,
of Kempton Park, near Hampton Court, and 'Mr. Staple-
ton, the fishmonger, of Egham, whose fine person and good
looks had attracted much notice in the neighbourhood. The
bride is one of the daughters of Mr. Manners, a descendant
of an illegitimate son of one of the Dukes of Rutland, and
has resided for many years at Kempton Park. It is said
that Mr. Stapleton is in a large way of business, to which,
it seems, his fair partner now entirely devotes herself.--
Brighton Guardian.
EXHALATIONS FROM CHURCHYARDS.—When
Caspar Hauser passed, on one occasion, in the autumn of
1828, near St. John's churchyard, in the ,Yreinity of Nu-
remberg, the smell of the dead bodies, of which his com-
panion had no perception, affected him so powerfully, that
he was seized with an ague and began to shudder. The
ague was soon succeeded by a feverish heat,-which at length
caused a violent perspiration, by which his linen was tho-
roughly wetted. When he returned, towards the city gate,
he said he felt better, yet he complained that his sight was
obscured thereby. What would have been the effect pro-
duced upon this being, of so delicate a nervous susceptibi-
lity, had he passed by some of the crowded burial places,
many of which are in the most thickly-peopled districts of
London ? Although such remarkable effects are not pro-
duced upon people in general, yet the same gasses are eli-
minated from the thousands of dead bodies in London, in
all stages of decomposition, which become mixed with the
air, and are breathed by the people, incorporated with their
blood, and thus the very " putrefactions of the dead become
part of the fluids of the living." In the case of Caspar, a
living chemical test was applied, of such e&te sensibi-
lity, that the presence and noxious qualitiesese agents
were demonstrated. The difference between the effects
produced upon him and upon other human beings is a dif-
ference rather of degree than of kind. -The emanations
are equally poisonous, equally destructive' to health ; but
most persons are less sensitive, and therefore they are better
able to withstand them than Caspar. _
A letter of the 10th instant from Cologne states
that the public has just been much occupied with a singular
criminal prosecution. The natural son of the Baron de
Halberg, who distinguished himself in the war against Na-
poleon, became enamoured of the widow of a person who was
employed in a government office. Although the lady was
both old and ugly, and had been imprisoned two years for
theft, she inspired this young man, who is not 27 years of
age, with a passion so violent, that, in a fit of jealousy, he
stabbed another young man of the town. He has been
found guilty and condemned to death. Little hopes aro
entertained of his obtaining a pardon.—Galignani's Ales-

senger.
NERVOUS DEBILITY.—Among the various disor-
ders to which the human frame is subject, those arising
from a debilitated state of the nervous system, are parti--
cularly calculated to produce a general decay, and gra-
dually undermine the constitution. We earnestly recom-
mend to persons thus afflicted the " Alterative" and
" Tonic Powders," prepared by Mr. Wray of Holborn
Hill ; they diffuse a strength and vigour .throughout the
frame, dissipate langour, promote digestion, create an appe-
tite, and restore to a state of activity the debilitated con-
stitution. The cures effected by their potency are innu-
merable.
A PATERNAL MONARCH.—When Frederick
' the Great of Prussia was once travelling through Silesia,
the wife of a peasant near Breslau presented to him a
basket of fruit, and had been so touched by the kindness
with which he received it, that she determined to send him
another on the next year to Potsdam. She accompanied
the offering with the following note :--‘. Most dear and
clement oar Lord the King—as our fruit has not succeeded
better this year than the last, you must condescend to re-
ceive it such as it is. I and my husband have picked out
the best we could find, and we have packed it up as well
as we are able, with straw and hay. We hope you will eat
it in good health. Pray God give you a long life, in order
that you may come and see us for many years to come. I
will always keep the best I have for you. I and my hus-
band entreat you, therefore, to regard us with favour, espe-
cially because our little bit of land produces less than it
did, and that we have a debt upon it of one hundred and
twenty crowns, ten groschen, and six fenins. Moreover,
we commend you to the protection of Almighty God ; and
we shall be, till death, and for ever, of your Majesty the
faithful and devoted subjects, " I AND MY HUSBAND."
To this communication Frederick replied--
" Good Mother—l am much obliged to you for your
fruit. If God grants health and life to me I will return
and see you a year hence. Keep something for me, in or-
der that I may find it when I come to you. With regard
to what you tell me of your little bit of land being charged
with a debt of one hundred and twenty crowns, ten gros •
then, and six fenins, that is really a bad business. You
should be very economical, otherwise your affairs will go
' back instead of advancing. I send you heresvith two hun-
' dred crowns, which I have also packed up as well as I am
' able. Pay your debts with them, and free your bit of land.
L Take care to economise as much as you ape able ; this is a
k counsel which I give you seriously, as your attached King.
—Memoirs by Lord Dover. - " FREDERICK."