The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-15 00:00:00

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Ditto Walker 21) 6
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Primrose Main 93
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Cowmen
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27 0
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Shipcote sina 1 IS 0
Wortley 15 6
Whetton Park small 4(1 0
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HULL MARKET—Sept 13.

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Foreign —s• 545. 56,.

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Last Friday three weeks, as Capt. Niswe,TT,
of Iltettenham-hall, late of the Guards, we,s trying a horse
in harness down the North Hill, at Colchester, the animal
set off at full speed, an:), the reins breaking, Captain Nis-
BUTT, in ttempting to get out, was thrown down, and
severely injured. His face and head were cut, and he was
a good deal bruised ; but the injury inflicted on his knee-
pan was the ultimate cause of his death, which was so
dreadfully shattered that mortification ensueci, and he died
on Friday last, just three weeks after the accident occurred.
He was in the habit of driving at a furious rate, and it is
almost a matter of surprise that no accident sooner oetairred.
This gentleman, it will be in the recollection of our readers,
married Miss Motto.% UNT, of Drury-tuna Theatre; he was
but 21 years of age, and his widow is barely yet 19.
RUSSIAN MiLITAItY COLONIES.--The re-
ports which have reached this country, o a revolt among
the Military Colonies in Russia, have: created some attention
to an article on the i„).l:.;.ian Army in the United Service
Journal fe.r the present month. In this paper a masterly
sketch is given of the Origin, progress; and actual force and
composition of that vast ,Military Power, which excites the
jealousy of Europe, and has possibly ere now crashed the
heroic Polca. The system and admiaistration of the
Military Colonies form of course a leading feature of this
able article, which is the original production of a foreign
scientific ofAccr, aid presents the most authentic and c>ain-
plete view extant of the army and military ware of Russia.
was born in JUNOT, Duke of Abrantc-s,
Bur-
gundy, and enlisted ca a private soldier in a conapazy of
volunteer caanoniers of his department. At the siege of
Ti'ollloll, he was admired for an instanoe of intrepidity that
has seldom occurred since. The redoubt, called " Les
Bans Culottes," defended by the English, had been attacked
for several hours, but its fire was still very troublesome to
us. General BONAPARTE ordered a battalion to take it
by#storm. Although did not belong to that hat-
talion, he rushed firat of all into the ditch, climbed up the
scarp, jupped into a redoubt through a battlement, killed
two cannoniers at a post, and lay that means gave his com-
panions time to join hirn. The redoubt was taken amidst
Cites of "The Lepablic for ever !"
.General. BONAPARTE
made hint se rjeant, and his hand-writing being clear and
neat, he made use of him as beet secretary during the re-
mainder of the eatnpalgn When I met hien I:,e the first
time he was a Colonel, and had been welt:ruled at the battle
of Castiglione. Ju NOT added tie great courage much na-
tural
shrewdness. After having served during twenty
years, and passed through all, military ranks, he coded his
life in a deplorable manner. The cold lie antr-red in the
Russian campaign disordered his mental faculties. The
glittering
rin hisg dyr(euathin, h
ofe fortune‘A.a s
unhappy roan died under his paternal roof. His reason
returned a short time before he breathed his last, alai seeing
himself again in the humble chamber in which he had
enablaeinld jugs iolyryt.o.i,
splmreeoiaitre his
of
Lavcdlette.

N7W ISLAND in the MEDITERRANEAN.

A BRIEF N 0 TICE of Me PRESENT STATE
of GRAHAM ISLAND,
A RECENT VOLCANO ON THE COAST OF SICILY.

On the 19th of August we lost sight of Graham
Hand in the afternoon ; it is about 27 miles from
Sciacca on the southern coast of Sicily, lat. 37 deg.
II I N. :Ong. 22 deg. 44 E. It appeared two hum-
nocks, united by a lower neck of land; and from
the southern extremity e►nittad a column of smoke
it vapour of uncertain density and magnitude. On
the 20 h, after diligently working to windward all
nigh-, we approached the island considerably; and
he breeze springing tip favourable from the S.E.,
we we-c enabled to heave to within one mile dis-
•ance, at ten o'clock, A.M.
On ocr approach to the island we observed
im-
mense shoals of perpoises, and multitudes of sea
(owl, chiefly gulls, attracted no doubt, by the fish
which may have been destroyed, by the late volcanic
eruptions. It was very remarkable what a regular
distance these voracious tribes kept from the land,
►bout four or five miles, not one being observed near
the shore on our visit to the volcano.

The island appeared about 160 feet high, p•e-
senting a various aspect, as the bearing by compass
altered ; but in general, that of two longitudinal hills
connected by intermediate low land, sending up
smoke or vapour in abundance.
On the western and highest part we observed the
Union Flag of England waving majestically over
this new and appalling scene of danger and desolation.
At ten AM. the boats were lowered down and
manned ; and, in pursuance of previously concerted
arrangements with the Commander-in-Chief, all
officers impelled by curiosity or science, desirous of
witnessing the phenomenon, took their places in
them accordingly.
We pushed eff from the ship, made sail, and
landed in a little bay on the north-east side of this
sombre, lonely isle. A boat from the St. Vincent
preceded us a few yards, and the bowman, an officer,
prepared to be first ashore, touched the ground with
•he boat-hook, laid his weight upon it, pushed it
clown the second time firmly, with a kind of appa-
rent misgiving of terrestrial stability, and jumped
upon the beach.

We were all on shore in an instant, scampering
up the hill to the tiqg-staff, through a dense, op-
pressive vapour of carburetted hydrogen gas.
The ti4g-staff is on the highest point of the island,
bearing the name of Lieut. Colem.o. of his iaje,ty's
cutter Hind, and from it we had a bird's eve view of
the wonderful scene.

In the centre of the island, to the eastward of us,
was a circular basin, of about ninety feet diameter,
of boiling salt water, of a dingy red colour, from the
peroxide of iron in solution. The active ebullition
from the centre, and emission of steam from the
whole surface were evident to every one. From the
summit where we stood, this basin appeared like a
funnel a quarter full, the bank shelving down in the
same intigitiary proportion.
The vapour here was oppressive to most of us,
affecting the digesdve, more than the respiratory
organs, producing nausea and faintness, without any
sense or feeling of suffocation.
The pulse was not affected in the least; mine
was 86, accelerated by the exertion of quickly as-
cending the hill, breathing a highly rarefied atmos-
phere, not a little augmented by the internal caloric,
emitted copiously in vapour from the earth, as well
as the heat Ufa scorching sirocco sun, which was ex-
tremely fervent this day.
on the S.W. &de of the island, adjoining the
principal crater, was a terrific ebullition and agitation
of the sea, evidently the commencement of a new
crater, with constant ascension of dense white steam
impregnated with the carburetted hydrogen gas,
which blackened ►he silver and watches in the
pockets of the observers.

•
That this vspour was not impregnated with sul-
phur, I infer, first, from the absence of that peculiar
fetor, and its not affecting the lungs ; secondly,
from the colour of the water in the crater, which, by
coming in contact with sulphuretted hydrogen gas,
would have been changed to a protoxide, and !Ken
black in place of red. This last chemical test, I
consider conclusive on this point ; but it has been
the custom to speak of sulphurous smoke; which
by-the-bye, may have been ejected in actual com-
bustion, during the violence of previous eruptions,
but certainly not now, in form of gas.
On our descent, passing the margin of the crater,
where it was not more than twenty feet to a boiling
surface, I threw off my jacket, and jumped down, to
the astonishment of all present, anxious ~like, to
procure something from the cauldron, and try the
temperature of the water.
I plunged my hand into the margin, hut quickly
withdrew it, futding it about 190 of Farenheit ; the
reduction of twenty-two degrees being easily ex-
plained on reflecting on the extended surface be-
coming exposed to the atmosphere in a basin, as
before mentioned, of two hundred and seventy feet
in circumference.

The water was excessively sal:, owing to the con-
tinued evaporation, since the direct communication
with the sett has been closed (probably by the last
eruption), and appears something lower than the
sea, leaving evident marks of decrease on the co-
loured masses of scoria around the margin.
. .

The island is about a mile in circumference, nearly
round, or perhaps an imperfect spheroid, indented at
the ends, where the great crater was at different
periods connected with the sea. It is about one
hundred and fifty, or sixty feet high
The substance of which the island is composed,
;s chiefly ashes, the pulverised reina'ns of coal de-
! Fired of its bitumen, iron scoria, and a kind of fer-
ruginous clay or oxided earth. The scoria occurs in
irregular masses ; some compact, dense, and sonorous,
others light, friable, and amorphous with metallic
lustre, slightly magnetic,barely moving t he load-stone.
I only procured one native stone, a piece of lime•
stone about two pounds weight thrown up with the
incumbent earth, having no marks of combustion.
There was no trace whatever of lava, no terra
puzzolana, no pumice stone, no shells or other marine
remains, usually found at -Etna and Vesuvius.
Around the island, where Neptune makes his
advances, the sides fall down in abrupt precipices ;
and we could discern every stratum, ejected by each
separate eruption ; the water evaporating, left an in-
crustation of salt, which now appears a white, fiirn
layer, plainly marking the regulat: progress, and for-
mation of the island.
The surface of the island is likewise covered with
a similar incrustation, in same places so thick as to
be visibly white some distance at sea.
From the nature of this island, there being no
Wald of coherence in its heterogeneous particles, and
from the precipitous falling down of its sides by the
action of the sea, I am inclined to think that there
is not the stability of permanence in its composition.
The insatiable ocean will encroach upon its base;
the winds of 'leaven will scatter the dusty surface
to the four cardinal points of the compass; the rain
will dissolve the saline bond of union, and the
crumbling ruin will gradually sink and extend its
base to a bank barely above the level of the sea.
Its loss will not be deplored; for the screaming
sea-bird instinctively wheels and directs his flight to
a distant part of the ocean, to avoid the dark and
desolate spot: and even the inhabitants of the deep
seers, to avoid the unhallowed shore.
Malta, Aug. 20, 1831.

The Reverend F. COBEALD was, on Wed
nesday last, eleeteii, by a majority of 38 over the Rev. Mr
Howoivrii, perpetual Curate of St. Mary Tower, Ipswich

Private letters from Constantinople, dated
July 26, say—" The SULTAN has not renounced•his in-
tention of reducing Greece, but merely wislie4 to delay the
execution of lis plans till a more favounble season. A
Continental war is here deemed inevitabe, and th a it is
%opposed will divert the attention of the Eur,pean Powers
from Greece. Tie expetiues iavi.hed by the Poeaa upon
its Navy cannot be aceotinrett-for upon any other grounds..,.,
It 1, remarked that, of all the dip!omaintts now at Constan- .4.
tinople, the Russian Ambassador has the greatest infttrence, '
Nothing is done without his being cormaiwi.,
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