The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-15 00:00:00

EDINBURGH.

DEPARTURES FROM GIBSON'S HOTEL (LATE
BARRY'S), 8, PRINCES-STREET.
Captain Scott, R.N. ; Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas M'Dou.
gall Brisbane of Brisbane and Mokerstone, K.C.B. ; J. Hays,
Esq. and lady, Durham; Nathaniel Barton, Esq., London;
Benjamin Clarkson, Esq. and Lady, London ; the Right Hon.
the Earl and Countess of Buchan, Animondell House ; the Right
Hon. the Earl of Mar, Altos Castle; 0. Hilliard, Esq. and E.
Hilliard, Esq. Hungerford, I3erks ; Mettie Ronzar, E.sq. and
Cesaire Olivier, Esq., New Orleans; W. Smith, Esq., London ;
E. Newingham, Esq., Ireland ; Robert Lindsay, Esq. ; the Rev.
F. Roberts, and family, Ranndon, Ireland; Colowel Feran Dor-
set-square, London ; Peter Cochrane, Esq. and J. Cochrane,
Esq., O'Gorman Mahon and family, Clare, Ireland; John 11.
Plunkett, Esq Mount Plunkett, Ireland; Charles Gautier,
Esq., Lyons • F. H. Bradlie, E-sq. and lady, Boston, United
States; G. l-teathcoate, Esq., Connington Castle, Huntingdon.
shire; the Rev. Henry Feran, Clickfield : the Rev. Charles Gor.
ring, Minehead, Sussex G. Shaekrah, Esq., Robert Shaekrah,
Esq., Helsham Place, Middlesex; Misses Baxter, Forfarshire ;
Hugh Davidson, Esq. of Cornsary ; Josiah Field, Esq. and
lady ; and John Stockdale, Esq., LOndon.
A i
RRIVED AT THE SAME PLACE,
John Elphinstone, Esq. and lady, from London ; John Par-
nell, Esq., Avondale, Vs cklow ; and Rev. T. F. Ellis.

ISLE OF WIGHT.—The population of this
i.land, as tar as the returns, which are from 27 pariohr.,
are made up, amounts to 31,928 persons. The returns of
the two pariehee not made, Wading and St. Helen., are
estimated at 3,325 ; making a total of 35,253.

Mr. GALLOTT arrived a few days since in
the river, by the Hannibal, from New York, having in
charge the elephant, which had the honour of " pleasin
a learned nati •n's eyes" at the Adeiphi Theatre. The
trip on the whole has been a successful One. On the pro-
prietor (M. Huauxr) going into the place where this
huge animal was deposited, he was much disconcerted to
find himself
minutes,selfevi(letalyi,efofirgxeod her
ttenbeyyebsers—te:,db,:ity on him, and, in the course
of a
after standing motionless a considerable time, uttered the
most extraordinary sounds, lashed her trunk about, and
raised her master from the ground, broke the bars by,
which she was surrounded, and evinced the most extra-
vagant joy. Nor did M. Huourr appear less delighted—
be rewarded his huge favourite with a pound of loaf.
sugar, and expres.ed himself as pleased to find that Gm.-
LOT bad not entirely weaned her affections from him.

"AN AFFAIR OF HONOUR."-DEATII
07 Ma. BERKELEY BOND, AT BOULOGNE.—Thie fatal
occurrence took place on Thursday, the 11th inst. Mr.
BoNn met his adversary, a Belgian Officer, of the name of
Essr, at four o'clock in the morning, in the neighbourhood
of Capicure, about a mile divant from the town of Bou-
logne. He was shot in the groin, the ball pissing nearly
through the body, and lodging near the back-bone, whence•
it was cut out by a French surgeon, notwithstanding
which Mr. B died in great agony at eleven o'clock on
Thursday morning, seven hours after the meeting. The
dispute, out of which this melancholy affair arose, origi-
nated in a debt at cards, which being claimed by Mr.
Ease, was denied by Mr. BOND. The• " lie direct" was
given by one of the parties, retorted by a blow from the
other, and an offer of honourable satisfaction. Mr. ESSE
having no friends at Boulogne, called upon a British
naval officer to attend him. The parties first (on
Wednesday evening) met at the Colonnade, on the
heights, but were disturbed by the police. They then
niet at the place already mentioned, and the man-
ner• of settling the duel is represented as remark-
stile. The parties were placed at 20 paces distance, and
sticks were p'anted in the ground between the combatants,
ten paces from each ether,-with liberty to the principals to
advance upon each other, keeping within that limit. Mr.
ESSE, pointing his pistol steadily at his adversary, from the
moment of the signal, did advance till he reached the pre
scribed limit, and then fired with fat 11 effect. Mr. BOND,
as our informant believes, did not fire at all. As the wound
was instantly pronounced mortal by Dr. ALLATT, an Eaglish
physician called in on the occasion, the survivors instantly
fled, the principal to England in an open boat, and the two
seconds in a carriage and fur for the Belgian frontier.
The deceased was a man well known in this country. fie
had an attachment and a family of five children by the sister
of an English actress, who ha lately figured in two elope
meaty, and been the subject of a divorce bill in the House
of Lords. Independently of this connection, it is alleged
that Mr. BOND has left a whims• to deplore his untimell'
end. The death-lred Beene, with his live children and their
mother asseinbied to a erases the last agonies, was 14 a most
distressing nature. And this is what in " Worshipful
Society" is called " an affair of honour !"