The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-16 00:00:00

MXSCMLZANEOUS.

The growth of grass is gvat in several parts of the
centre of the road from;gawtry to Doncaster ; on the
road between Stamford a4di-grraithamithe road for seve-
ral miles forms a noble.gieen.larte

About three weeks age Ensign John Bendyshe, of
the 35th Depot, stationed at Portsmouth, left his quar-
ters with the intention of paying a visit to a friend near
Tichfield, .and has not since been heard of. Fears are
entertained that he has been robbed and murdered. A
reward of 2001. and a free pardon, have been offered, ex-
cept to the actual murderer.
On Wednesday afternoon a " young man of fash-
ionable exterior" did the landlord of the Bull Inn,
Chelmsford, out of a " handsome dinner, wine and des-
sert." The same absent-minded gentleman also walked
off, in the hurry of business, with an " excellent black
mare," valued at twenty pounds: Of course he has been
invisible ever since. The moral we deduce from these
facts is, that " a fashionable exterior " is a most success-
ful eletrient in swindling.
We learn from the Nottingham Mercury, that on
Sunday last a large congregation assembled in the parish
church of a rich rectory, in order to hear divine service
read. " After the bells had rung a considerable time,"
says our Contemporary, " no clergyman made his ap-
rearance." Inquiry was made as to the cause of his ab-
sence, when it was found that the minister of God had
goon out on a shooting excursion! What will Sir An-
drew Agnew say to thin?
The Tories are gi iring and taking public dinners in
all quarters. They have been dining at Ashford, in East
Kent—at Honiton—at Shaftesbury—and at Stirling—
evidently imagining tha t their present position is one that
justifies their wildest exultation. At the East Kent din-
ner, Sir E. Bering, the Chairman, congratulated the
company on the " unity of purpose" that would be sure
to distinguish the—proximate Tory Ministers. In one
respect the Tories will certainly be united—that is to
say, in an unflinching determination to take all they can
get for themselves, and to do no more than they can help
for the people.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

FRANCE.

The Paris news of Friday has been received in London
by Express.
The Marquis de Pastoret, in a letter to the Journal
des Debats, denies that the state of the Duke de Bor-
deaux was so serious as reported by that paper ; but the
Debats repeats its previous statement.
No French news of importance has reached us. The
crime of incendiarisrn appears to make fearful progress
in the South. The Debats, speaking, it was believed, the
sense of the Government, regards the proposed union of
Customs between France and Belgium as calculated to
give maritime supremacy to France, and the command of
the three seas which wash the Continent of Europe and
the new world. _

The French Funds were languid at the beginning of
business on the Bourse on Friday, but they soon reco-
vered. The weather had again become fine.

PARIS, AUG. 13.—Three per Cents., 77f. 50c. ; Spanish
20 to
1.

SPAIN

Accounts received from Madrid of the 7th inst. state,
that on the sth inst. General Palafox, Duke of Saragossa,
resigned the command of the Royal Guard, and was re-
placed by Don Pedro Chacon.
The Madrid papers of the 7th instant contain no other
news. The most perfect tranquillity continued to reign
in Madrid.
A despatch from the Island of Cuba stated, that the
election of General Espartero to the Regency had been
received with satisfaction by the inhabitants, and with
enthusiasm by the army.
The postscript of our Madrid letter of the 7th adds,
that the two sons of General Bilboa had been arrested.
The General himself had escaped. All the persons com-
posing the Queen's household hadeither resigned or been
dismissed. The Duchesses d'Alba and Medina Celi, and
the Marchioness Gracia, Reald, and Malpica, were
amongst the latter.
The capitalists who had been jnvited by the Minister
of Finance to lend 81,000,00 had iot agreed to his
terms. Active, 23k cash. r 4.
• h4->r .;

• ,
MONTHLY STATE OF THE
LETTERS DELIVERED 7THE -UNITED
KINGDOM.

Week ending July 25th, 1841 . ' 3,746,008
Ditto July 19th, 1840
4. 3,222,923
Ditto Nov. 24th, 1839
Increase since 1840 on the week's letters 523,085
Ditto 1839 Ditto

During the progress of a case tried a few days
since at Warwick, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn gave the fol-
lowing curious illustration of special pleadings :—" With
regard to the plea of justification, he hardly knew how
it came to be pleaded ; but his client ought not to be
made answerable for what the special pleader had done.
It was well known that special pleaders had in their
offices a lot of little boxes like pigeon-holes, wherein
were contained pleas to serve as defences to all sorts of
actions. He (the Learned Sergeant) perfectly well recol-
lected a scene that occurred upon the Home Circuit,
ii
when the celebrated Mr. Topping, being engaged t
plaintiff, was perfectly indignant to find that a P Ift bad
that
tic put upon the record alleging his client wasaegluhat
na•
tic ; but Sir W. Garrow accounted for it by saying
the case had been sent to a special pleader, and he, rush-
ing to his pigeon-holes, pulled forth a plea of lunacy,
and so it came upon the record."
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The fo _
milestion of the last weekly return of 33 Fair
wil ,
I,INI-oaysitsi,nlg,2o3
1 we believe,
in length, given in our present number
be of interest :—Number of the week must be
296,1401, consequently the totfaolr
passengers on 33 rail-
above 400,000. The receipts
passenfogreers on 22 railways,
: , for goods on 25 railways,
751. 14s. Id. This is an
ways, 77,848/. 15s. 9d. ; dit.o
per 93,9 week. The traffic, there-
more than three millions
16,1261. 18s. 4d. ; total,
average of 781. per mile
,;t.
fore, is certainly at the rateeen
millions of passengers,
a year, and carrying Ili'

Rciihrag Magazine.
ICER.--On
DEATH OF AN OLD POLICE OFF
Saturday, Mr. William Edwards, who for more than
thirty years was attached to the police establishments of
Bow-street and Hatton-garden, died of dropsy, which
had but a few weeks made its appearance. He had been
out in the early part of the day. lie was one of the
good old school of " traps" that were turned adrift on
the coming into operation of the Metropolitan Court Bill
to make room for the new police, and the sudden change
from active life, it is considered, hastened his death.