The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-08 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

surer of the King's Household, advising him that his Majesty
has ordered him to be paid a gratuity of 300 fr., for having
saved the lives of three mariners near Ambleteuse last winter.
—Boulogne Journal. [Henie is the man who, it will be re-
membered, behaved so courageously at the time of the loss of
the Amphitrite female convict ship.
.1
Yesterday afternoon, between one and two o'clock,
the following melancholy accident occurred to Richard Bay.
, cock, a labouring man employed on the London and Bir:
mingham Rail-road, Harrow-road. The unfortunate man was
attending a train of cars laden with the excavated earth, and
having cast off from the others, the one on which he was riding
was in the act of putting down the break with his foot to stop
the car when he slipt off and fell underneath the wheels, which
passed across the body and over his right leg, the bone of
which was smashed in a shocking- manner : he also sustained
some internal injuries of a most serious nature. The poor
fellow was conveyed on a litter to St. George's Hospital, where
it was found necessary immediately to amputate the injured
limb above the knee. He has a wife and two children de-
pendent on his labour for their support.
A new steam-vessel, superbly fitted up, built ex-
pressly by order of the Russian Consul-General (Chevalier
Benkhausen), was launched on Monday. It is intended for
the conveyance of the Emperor to the distant ports of his
dominions, and a Captain and two Lieutenants of the Russian
navy will take the command of her. An elegant dinner was
served in the saloon of the vessel to a party of -sixty, including
the Prince and Princess Von Wittgenstein, Prince and Prin-
cess Galitzen, Count and Countess Schwaloff, Countess Czer-
nichoff and two Counts Tolstoy, Capt. Quadreski, and other
subjects of his Imperial Majesty, who took a trip to the Nore
in the steamer, and returned in the evening. The Countess
Czernichoff, Lady of the Russian Minister of War, on quitting
the vessel, left 101. for the crew to regale themselves.
KITE CARRIAGES.—This unique and ingenious
invention of Mr. G. Pocock was witnessed by many of the
members of the British Association, last week, on Clifton and
Durdham Downs, and called forth their unqualified admira-
tion. The car, containing four persons, was drawn by two
kites—the pilot kite ten feet in length of standard, the draft
kite twelve. The general pace was about ten miles an hour.
On Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock, four carriages were
on the Downs ; two of these were in constant use for several
hours, and during the day about one hundred ladies and gen-
tlemen, many of them foreigners, had an opportunity of riding
in these novel vehicles. In the morning, when the wind was
active, the pace was about twelve miles an hour. From this
discovery many judicious remarks were made on the various
uses to which these kites, or buoyant sails, might be applied.
Ideas, new even to the author of the invention, were sug-
gested. The general impression was, that it was peculiarly
adapted for:sea service, especially in case of shipwreck, as life
preservers, as auxiliary sails, and also for the making of sig-
nals.—Bristol Journal.
The harvest is nearly got in throughout the agri-
cultural districts, with the exception of some parts of the
north. It has commenced in Scotland, with every prospect
of a good crop, and the accounts from Ireland are also satis-
factory,

ARRIVALS.
sea the Duchess Cannizzaro, in Hanover-square, from her
lip , Wirnbledon-common Surrey; Lord Acheson, at Wor-
1,
12all
guani Hall, from a tour ; E. Arbuthnot, Esq., at Newton-
tiot, Newbury, from a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Bass, at Fenton's
el, St. James's- street, from Ramsgate ; William Goff,
sscl., at ditto, from the Continent ; Lord James O'Bryen, at
-a4vnrn°r's's Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour ; Dr. and
prolniss
favvt.rey, at the St. George's Hotel, Albermarlc-street,
astings ; Hon. Mrs. Tolleniach, at Huntsmore Park,
from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs, Morris and family, at Batt's
gad to ; Lady Hotel
a , Dover-street, from Brighton ;J. W. Harding, Esq.,
Lady Hawkins Whitsted and Miss H. Whit
C)lat Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and Cork-streets, from Hol-
c ; ev. Dr. Colston, Mrs. and Miss Colston and Miss
e, from Italy.

DEPARTURES.
. .Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, for Dover ; Hon. Cap-
'fain Fitzgibbon, for Bognor; Hon. Captain Poulett, R.N.,
~11; Exmouth ; Lady Burdett and family, for Southampton ;
Charles Tufton Blicke, Esq., for Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs.
kit:ier, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for the Continent;
Captain a Mrs. Austin, from Brook-street, for Worthing;
bui Macleod, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street for
Cork .'"n Lady Henniker, from Nerot's Hotel, Clifford and
....streets, for Essex ; C. Hyde, Esq., from ditto, for
tiyde-end, l3erks • the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Dublin,
and
Mr• and M'rs. O'lfrien, from th.e Brunswick Hotel,
-ern)
f., Yn-street, for Leamington ; Captain and Mrs. Waugh,
ce,oosttnersdhitirtoe, for Kent • Miss Cameron, from ditto, for Wor-
9tntinent ; Baron Kleuze and Mr. Pauli, from ditto, for the
; NI. le Compte and Comptesse d'Hohentahl, from
1.1! to, for ditto , Le Comte de Lalisse, from ditto, for ditto ;
FCo de 'Maltzan, from ditto, for ditto ;La Princesse
Itiron, from
fro • ditto, for ditto ; General Sieasdoff and family,
in ditto, for ditto.

4 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
ttended by Lady Caroline Legge and Capt. Stephens, Aide-
cle.r
f -anip to the Duke of Cambridge, on her route to England
•r 0
ilium. Hanovfr, stopped a few days at Homburg, to visit her
strious sister, the Dowager Landgravine, who resides in a
Rini of the Landgrave's Palace.
The Earl of Pembroke, we are requested to state,
eurarso
nneooy
tu:ieft Fenton's Hotel for the Continent, as had been
stated.
Prince Paul Lievcn has sent over to Paris a set of
beautiful grays, which are to be forwarded to St. Petersburg,
or his father, Prince Lieven.
The Russian Charge d'Affaires, Baron Maltitz, has
1,-/kell a urnnal months.
mansion in Wellington square, Hastings, for the au-
The Baroness de Keverberg and children, Dr. So-
tna,eryille, Messrs. Byng, Moreno, Robertson, Montgomery,
ierdl •, were among the passengers yesterday morning for Rot-
ani, in the General Steam Navigation Company's fast and
ayourite steam ship the Ramona.
sex
Lord and Lady Rivers have left Mistley Hall, Es-
join a party of fashionables assembled at Auberies, the
neat of Colonel and Lady Louisa Meyrick, in Suffolk.
A The Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Lords Alvanley
me Roos, and Henry Seymour, are on the Rhine.
liaSir Horace Seymour and Lady Clinton, have left
Mpton-court Palace, on a tour.
Lord and Lady Stanley and their eldest sons are ex-
ZPected to remain at Ballykiston, county Tipperary, for a month
six weeks longer. His Lordship will occupy the Earl of
erbY's house in Grosvenor-square, next season.
. Mr. Labouchere, the Vice-President of the Board
of Trade, is making a tour in the Belgian provinces.
Admiral Duncan's address to the officers who came
On board his ship for instructions, previous to the engagement
:wi„th Admiral de Winter, was both laconic and humourous:—
u eatlemen you see a severe Winter approaching, I have
"11,1 to advise you to keep up a good fire."
ItiLord and Lady Chelsea have arrived at the Bruns-
eckmliotel! Hanove-r-square, from Seaham-house, the seat of
since .tbare9irtuins
aorfriaLgoen.donderry, where they have been residing
The fa
their beautifulrs of Jersey have lately been robbed of
extent, by thieveAsl,
dwerney cows, and also of horses to a great
quay as th • ho have deliberately led them down to the
steamer. eil
Own Property, and put them on board the English
• REPUGEts
FROM SWITZERLAND.-The follow-
Z;Yg' frnai Neufchatl, appears in a German Paper : " Strno-
eecir, formerly editor of the Friend of Liberty, has been co - Psane
petinder an escort of gendarmes through Neufchatel to
have • Fifty other fugitives, escorted in a similar manner,
assed through our canton.
4:20..; ea ,tetyiperanee tea and coffee room was last week
P no at
las
TReading, with an abundant supply of (temperate)
wsPapers
wasbtles.da.y afternoon a boy, scarcely 14 years of age,
hen, Leafing some of his little brothers and sisters, in the neigh-
e'nd of Saffron-hill, when his mother interfering, and
stabbedurine to save them from his brutality, he suddenly
'n.her ''in the abdomen with a knife. Medical advice was
It
li'eulately obtained, but at present fears are entertained as
eight° er recovery. She is the wife of an Irish labourer, ond has
4.,_ children besides the young monster who committed
"Is ct. '
ZeOn Tuesday morning last a gray mare, the property
~.-"rge Battie, of this' town, hairdresser, was found in
ott;rlMPsall, dead, in a shocking mutilated state. It is
theconjec-
ithit the animal had been attacked by a cow in the course
night —.Lancaster Gazette.
.. f 4°re strangers. are said to be sojourning at the dif-
seetne.nt. stations in the Lake District of Cumberland at the pre-
Itnne than has been the case for some years past.—New-
urn"stle'lo 1
Pp,_a .
411.(vne National says that an English physician, just
altat his
at Paris, having lost all his money at a gaming-house,
is ~..is throat with a razor the same night, at an hotel near the
Royals.
tiExperiments of growing hops, both in Wiltshire and
thearetn; this year, have succeeded so well, that an article hi-
' %al - "known in those counties is likely to become a staple
kodity in each.
is s'ai;,triore than usual proportion of autumnal illness
111,t! to prevail at this time. Persons anxious to avoid it
v.!, Id abstain from too muchexposure in light clothing to the
anitbi_
to, e state of the atmosphere, and from indulging in the
prevalent practice of eating unripe fruit.
!is'the ursday William Welburn, an old man above 80,
hung ,!rnPloy of Mr. Smallwood, of Middlethorpe, near York,
tratuntiself in a stable. He was brought before the maads-
to mr.en the 20th ult., on a charge of threatening to set fire
Aftli, Srnallwood's premises ; but it appearing the language
lrow de use of in liquor, and the old man expressing his sor-
ake h• Was discharged. Mr. Smallwood, however, did not
lag a.,'ln back into his service ; since that he has been wander-
hoont without any settled place of abode.
.Z.kilawl,
an ai,, ON ON LOVE.-A certain old bachelor, who
130dy. ."°st in his dotage, suddenly became a Benedict ; every-
'' Levexpressed their surprise but Dowton, who observed,
,t4llv Pressed
is like the small-pox ;if you don't take it natu-
late' ar'Y in life,never safe from its infection to your
ss de..
~ you're
The I. --New Monthly Magazine.
tree in salaries of Paymasters to the Constabulary
of 1007 Ireio
Ireland have been raised to 2001. per annum, instead
41'Britt the Pay of sub-constables is increased from 25/. to
tsh currency.
tAildertleinisatlril'atinonE A LlNG.—During Sir Robert Walpole's
when bribery was common, if not universal,
Ille Hens one Particular question which ho wanted to carry in
teat epae,°f Commons, to which he knew there would be
elldelAnsiti°ll, and which was disliked by some of his own de-
, thet 8' As be was passing through the Court of Requests,
til.l,e,e,a,
~would of the- opposite party, whose avarice, he ima-
,47_?." seep not reject a large bribe.. He took. him aside, and
i,,7' her ; " a question comes on this day; give me your vote,
171.0 hiaeh's al bank bill of two thousand pounds," which. he put
I.l,o!:4,ot%s3,awhi;a,4;_eiy,The member made this answer—" Sir Robert,
served some of my particular friends; and
her nit
which 'Le was last at Court the King was very gracious to
Intoere, think have happened at your instance. I should,
pleased
his po kink Myself very ungrateful (putting the bank bill
eased tn e`,et) if I were to refuse the favour you are now
Ad., INbjkaSil rne.”----Book of Table Talk.
.;‘..10...
tie. ago,
ithtlßE.R—Who would have thought, some
tie iterme a en this curious substance was merely used to
s ~Sree the Pencil mark, that it would become in no small
iNioas ? means raising human beings into the aerial
Illprincipaii the varnish which covers the new Vauxhall balloon
NIA e wheYn rip?sed of caoutchouc, which, being perfectly
the
sto which 17, is eminently fitted for the purpose. The
441_ the grappling-iron is attached is also made of
', material.
cb
44xtr, Wand,
e,d-street, i purveyor of turtle to his Majesty, New
Of 6001 tun', ...a happy
bs
• possessor of an extraordinary fine
, Ilona the island of Ascension, weighing upwards
tsr.nest week
.Peter Henin caved the lives of two
) h
4thin gentlemen ..
off t edge n one
of men, named Jules and Lemaitre, who were
Pll el)h and r. Mancel's machines. They had got out
,:tPat eff his' clothes one was calling out for assistance. Heflin
iltiier, and
es (which he lost) and rushed into thdr
ellp has eirnecued both from drowning One of the gentle-
letile .testial e presented him with 10.01 r. We are glad to
41,11 "Y to the
srewpaeyat;ed successful exertions which
in thi
terk'as
us, of the
"eforernade
and we this moment have a
date of the 27th ult., from the Trea.

A field of two and a half acres and twenty-one
perches, in the occupation of Mr. William Dombrain, Canter.
bury, has: produced this year twenty-two quarters and five
bushels of white wheat.—Kentish Gazette.
A Toulon letter announces the arrival of the King
of Naples in that town, at eight in the morning of Sunday
last, accompanied by General Gourgaud. His Majesty was
received with a royal salute, and afterwards went to mass in

the small church of La Misericorde. He has taken up his
abode at the Hotel de la Croix d'Or, where he received visits
from the Maritime Prefect, Admiral .Massieu, and the officers
of the navy and of the garrison. The King was to honour the
theatre with his presence in the evening, when Mme. Dorval
was to perform in " Angelo, Tyran de Padoue," and on Mon-
day review the troops of the garrison, and the 17th Regiment
of Light Infantry, which arrived on Sunday. Another letter
from the same place states that the steamer Vautour, which
sailed the same day for Algiers, with troops and 300,000 f. in
specie, took out despatches relative to the enrolling of troops
for the legion in Spain. The Government has ordered that
not more than 2,000 men shall go to Catalonia, who are to be
replaced by others from the depots of the African regiments.
An admirer of all good inventions or improvements
for the benefit of the public, suggests to the proprietor of the
new patent cab carriages that the door should be placed at the
lack with spring locks to pull backwards with pleasure, both
inside and outside the doors, and the passengers to sit, one on
benches each side the carriage as in an omnibus. This might
admit of glass fronts if preferred, and would relieve the pas-
engers from all apprehensions of a runaway restive horse or
sipsy cab-boy.

The Barriere d'Enfer seems an appropriate place
enough for earring on the hellish practice of duelling.
CocIIIN CHINA.--We learn that the insurrection,
and consequent disturbances, which have prevailed here for the
last three or four years, had at length been quelled. The
country was quiet, an in a good state of defence. It was
rumoured that the King of Siam was about to give his
favourite daughter in marriage to Chan-Fab, and elevate him
to the rank of second King. The new crop of sugar was
beginning to come in, but prices remained high, 91 to 91
ticals per picul being asked. The market for imports con-
tinued unaltered.

OLD OAK.—A large oak in the forest of Cerisy,
known under the name of the Quenese, at a little distance to
the right of the great road to St. Lo, is supposed, by com-
paring data, to be eight or nine hundred years old. In 1824
it measured 36 feet in circumference, just above the soil, and
was about 55 feet high. The trunk is now hollow, and will
hold from fourteen to fifteen persons.
FEMALE UNIVERSITY.—The Scottish Institution
is the name of what a Scotch paper calls an " enterprising
University for young ladies, which is," it says, " we under-
stand, increasing in prosperity and usefulness." The names
of the teachers who conduct the fifteen different branches of
education are sufficient guarantees to the public that the
duties will be discharged in the ablest manner. What with
languages and literature in all its branches, and the lighter
elegant accomplishments, and the sciences, the young ladies
attending it should come out with no superficial acquirements.
We need not point out what superior recommendation an esta-
blishment possesses in point of economy of time and comfort
where all the different branches of education are carried on

under one roof.—Fife Paper.
In the middle of last month a mason, living at
Geler, in Saxony, threw into the shaft of a mine behind a
vitriol-manufactory, 175 feet deep, his three daughters, re-
spectively aged two, five, and seven years. Their bodies were
taken out in a horribly mutilated state. The motives for this
atrocious deed are not known.

It is in contemplation to make a new road through
Kensington or to widen it near the church, where it is so nar-

row as to occasion many accidents to the carriages passing to
and fro. The latter plan would be attended with much ex-

pensc, as many houses must be rased to carry it into effect.
The amount of the customs and navigation dues
received at the port of Havre during the last month was
1,548,833 f. le., being 123,404 f. 55c. more than in the cor-
responding month of 1835.
The beautiful Rotunda of Louisberg, at Aix-la-
Chapelle, was totally destroyed by fire in the night of the
27th ult. There had been a ball in the evening, but the com-
pany had retired, the lights were put out, and the proprietor
and his servants had all gone to rest. They were, however,
soon roused by cries of " Fire," which, it appears, broke out
in one of the rooms of the dwelling-house, and in less than
two hours the roof fell in, and the whole was reduced to ashes.
MILITARY COURT-MARTIAL.—Yesterday a dis.
trict Court-martial was held upon John Bolton, one of the Pay-
sergeants of the Ist battalion of Grenadier Guards. The inquiry
was held at the Wellington Barracks, St. James's Park, and a
great deal of interest was excited in consequence of the high
character which the accused had borne in the regiment. The
proceedings were strictly private; Lieut.-Col. Lyster was the
President, and it seems that the Sergeant had embezzled up-
wards of 40/. with which he had been entrusted to pay his com-
pany. In spite of every exertion to get at the evidence, we
have only been able to ascertain that the prisoner was sentenced
to three months' hard labour at Brixton, to be reduced to the

ranks, and that half of his pay should be applied until the de-
falcation be fully made up.
NEWS FOR THE BRIEFLESS.--An advertise-
ment appears in a New South Wales paper, which interests
some parties in this country. It begins—" Wanted imme-
diately, some barristers, called to the bar of England." It then
goes on to say, " Seriously, the advertiser begs to acquaint
the numerous gentlemen of high talent and legal knowledge,
with whom the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
abound, that there is here an ample field for the exercise of
those labours which circumstances render almost unavailing
in the mother country, owing to the irresistible effect of all-
powerful competition. The practice of the bar of New South
Wales is at present monopolized by some half-dozen gentle-
men, who sometimes join in an application to the presiding
Judge to postpone the business of the day, on the ground of
over-exertion and want of rest; and it must be clear, there-
fore, that it would further the administration of justice, bene-
fit the suitor, and abridge the labour of the Judges, if there
were a greater number of gentlemen duly qualified to manage
the business of the Court. We, therefore, cordially invite
the presence of this colony of some dozen of English bar-
risters of talent and independence." The invitation is a cor-
dial one, and it has been supposed by some persons on
'Change, interested for the colony, that England might spare
so many as a dozen lawyers, without great risk of an alarming
scarcity of the article being immediately felt in the home
market.

ORIGIN OF PRIVATE BOXES.—During the O.P.
war the number of private boxes was reckoned a great source
of grievance. Incledon attempted to defend their existence,
but failing in his argument, he at last exclaimed, " My dear
boy, d—n me, antiquity, Sir, antiquity ; there have been pri-
vate boxes these 3,000 years." " Where ? when ?" burst
simultaneously from all the company. At the deluge, Sir,
when, to the exclusion of all the public, Noah, d—n me, had a
private box for himself and family."__Records of a Stage Vete-
ran, in the New Monthly.

Yesterday morning the following accident came
under the cognizance of the surgeons of the Westminster Hos-
pital :---About eleven o'clock, Mrs. Mary Singleton, the wife
of a tradesman residing in Hyde-place, Tothill.fields, had oc-
casion to leave her home upon an errand, and unthinkingly left
her child, aged two years, shut up in a room. Shortly after
the absence of the mother, the screams of the unfortunate
child caused one of the lodgers in the house to enter, who
found the child lying upon the hearth in the most excruciating
agony, and scalded in the most dreadful manner. Medical
assistance was immediately called in, and she was removed to
the above institution, where every attention was paid to her,
but no hopes are entertained of her recovery.

TILE SUN, LONDON, THMISDAY. SEPTEMI3ER 8, 1536.