The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

To-day is the anniversary of the death of Canova,
the sculptor, at Rome. in 1822. Also the anniversary
of the death of Murat, ex-King of Naples, who was shot
in 1815 on the coast of Calabria.

A contract has been entered into by the Charity
Trustees of Bristol, to supply to the poor the quartern
loaf, consisting of fuur pounds of good household bread,
for the next six months, at 6d.
On Thursday last, a lady named Johnson took her
place in one of the train carriages from the Harrow
station to London, having in her possession Bank-notes
to the amount of a thousand pounds ! When she
reached Broad-street, she found her reticule was want-
ing, and having made her mitt known, immediately pro-
ceeded to the Euston terminus in company with her
brother, when, to her great joy, she found the money in
the same position in which she had left it in the carriage.
An American Paper remarks that there are 4,500
languages throughout the world, besides the language of
the eyes.
The heirs general of three Royal families of
Plantagenet, Tudor, and Stuart, at this day, those
of the Princess Henrietta Maria, daughter of King
Charles 1., and Duchess .of Orleans—viz., Fran
Ferdinand, hereditary Prince of Modena, conjointly were
his maternal aunts, the Duchess of Laces, au& the Em-
press of Austria ; and but for the Act of Settlement in-
troduced a safeguard against Popery, that , Prince, as
eldest heir of the body of King Charles 1., would now
have filled the Throne of these realms.
The Bankers' Circular calculates that there is a suf-
ficient quantity of wheat in the country to last till Oc-
tober, 1842.

The Times says :—" It is now, we believe, definitively
settled that Lord Cowley will succeed Lord. Granville as
her Majesty's representative at Paris, and that Sir R.
Gordon will proceed in the same capacity to Vienna.
The Embassy at the Court of St. Petersburgh has been
offered to Lord Ye.Sey Fitzgerald, and in case of his.de-
dining to accept the appointment, the pest.will be ,tilled
by Lord Stuart de Rothsay."

The subject of the Ramsgate bathing exhibitions was
brought under the notice of the Ramsgate Commissioners
of Pavement on Tuesday last, when after a short con-
sultation, the subject was ordered to be referred to the
Police Committee. _ _

The highest inhabited place upon the face of
the globe is a farm-house situate 13,500 feet above
the level of the sea, or about two miles and a half
above that level. This lofty and elevated habitation is
situate on a peak of the Andes, in South America, Chim-
borazo, which rises to 21,440 feet above the level of the
sea. It may be truly said that the dwellers in this farm-
house are accustomed .to move in "high life."

NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS.

Extract from a Return of the Number of
Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng-
land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of
April to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive;
ordered by the House of Commons :
Average Daily
Circulation.
SUN 314,000

Globe

Standard 250,000
Courier 48,000

A Return of the Amount of Advertisement
Duty paid by each Newspaper from the sth of
January to the sth of July, 1841:
SUN £673 17 6
Standard
G!obe 582 9 0
Courier