The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

Total 327 95
RETURN OF THE NUMBER, AND AGES, AND DEATHS OP THE
CASES ADMITTED INTO THE 6SMALL-PDX HOSPITAL, IN
1840.

Whereof
Nurnberg. died.
49 28

Patients under 5 years of age
... between the ages of 5 and 15
inclusive

46 9
Adults 232 58

Total
G. GREGORY, M.D.

Jan. 18, 1841.

SINGULAR COMBAT.—A short time ago a
rather curious circumstance, though not unpossessed of
serious features, occurred among the mountains in the vi-
cinity of Keswick. Two shepherds met on Saddleback
Fell, about three miles from that town, who had some time
previously had a slight dispute relative to the superiority
of the flocks they respectively tended on the mountains,
aggravated, report says, by each having made choice of
the same rosy-checked mountain maid to sharo their bed
and board, and become the partner of their joys and sor-
rows through life. Be this, however, as it may, here,
upon the top of this lonely mountain, with no mutual friend
to appease their anger, did these tsvc guardians of their
woolly tribes up the dying embers of their former
animosity, and resolved to try their prowess in a regular
turn up, unaided or abetted by either seconds, bottlehol-
ders, or bystanders. To work they went in right good
earnest ; they fought hand to hand and foot to foot
through many a weary round ; the lonely mountain bird
was the sole witness of the valour they displayed. The
contest long continued doubtful, till at length, by .the
chance of war, one of them was thrown down upon
the naked rock, and had his shoulder dislocated, and
was otherwise much injured. The victor knew not what
to do with his vanquished companion ; na one was at hand
to lend his:aid, and he could not leave him to perish on the
mountain. As a feeling of generous sympathy has always
a place in a valiant heart, the brave shepherd, actuated by
the best feelings of his nature, set about bearing his com-
panion from the mountain, which he found to be a much
more laborious task than be had even to perform in van-
quishing him. Like the knights of old, whose greatest
care was to provide for those whom they had vanquished
in battle, our heroic shepherd bore his ill-starred opponent
from the mountain with no little labour, presetting him to
his friends in a condition which showed him to be at once a
proof of his valour and an object of his sympathy. If ever
this doughty champion should again go to battle, we arc
apt to think he will calculate the trouble of conveying
home a wounded antagonist with more accuracy than lie
did on this occasion, and fix the scene of his future triumph
nearer the abode of man, and on some less elevated station
than the far-famed Saddleback.—Cantberland Pacquet.
VICTORIA TIIEAT c Proprietors of
this Theatre have reason to rejoice at the extraordinary
improvement of late in thom -anagement of this estaestablish.,
mcnt. Families of :he highest
distinction throng nightly
to witness Ilaines's _.-ar play. Amongst the Noblerneu and
Gentlemen who this week attended the ictona we noticed
M. 13., the lion. G. Ponsonby, Sir
R. Dugdale, Bart., Capt.
Lord Beaumont, Lord Talbot, Lord Adolphus Fitzcla-
Vcsey, and J. liuddlestone,
rencc, G. Byng, Esq.,

Esq.
;ITn
morning
n ifnOg last, K laNt
GE'clinb--lhis gentleman
u, before the'rgh
actCcdAoßnTSEatßu'rdTE
Saturday
Marquis of Lothian, Lord Dalhousie, the Lord Provost,
Lord and Lady Waldegrave (late Miss Brabam), Countess
Wemyss, Lady Charlotte Fletcher, Lady Louisa Forbes,
Lady Suttie, Lord and Lady Belhaven and Stenton, Lord
and Lady Ruthven, Lord ]Ache, Sir George Warrender,
Sir W. Anitrzlicr, Admiral MimAe, &c.

PAN.Wq_ EDIVO

'llll3 Altlt-tr.

Royal Artillery.—The detachment under the commehd
of Captain Palmer, after having embarked in the Litt?*
Ben, Ordnance sloop, on Friday last, to relieve the detach-
ment at Purfleet, were run ashore cn cceount of the quan-
tity of ice in the river, and marched back to the garrison.
On the following day they again embarked, end were able
to proceed to their deatination, the ricer having been con-
siderably cleared of the ice by the thaw which took place
on Saturday.
7th Hussars.—A considerable quantity of snow had
fallen at Montreal, where this regiment is at present sta-
tioned, previous to the 27th November, and, the weather
having cleared up, the sleighing throughout the town is
beautiful. The winter carriages cf the inhabitants have in
most instances been altered agreeably to the ordinance, and
the police were instructed to take up all who failed to com-
ply with its injunctiors. On the abeve-naery i rued day Pis
Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, Lord Sydenliani, hap-
pened to he passing along the street, and, observing that
Captain Warren, of the 7th Hussars, was drising a sleigh
not altered, h's Excellency asked a po!iceman if the sleigh
was not liable to be taken up, and being answered in the
affirmative, he ordered the man to do his duty, and Captain
Warren was instantly stopped.
Coldstream Guards (2d battalion).—The anniversa.7
dinner of the St. Andrew's Society, was held at the Albion
Hotel,
Quebec, on the 30:1 of November, 1640 The
band a:ld
glee singers of this gallant regiment attended, to
the great delight of the company as:ernbled on this oc-
casion.

36th Foot,—The steamer Canada conveyed one hundred
men of the light company of this regin;ent from Ti,vco
Rivers to Montreal on the 27th November last, and tiv
next day they passed over to Point Levy, on their way to
Madawaska. The following arc the names of the officers
accompanying the detachment :—Colonel Eden, Captain
Walmsley, Lieutenant Smith, Ensign L. C. Conran, and
Surgeon Campbell.
64th Foot.—The Charybdis, three-gun brig, Lieutenant-
Commander E. L. Tinling, and the Dee, four-gun steam-
vessel, Commander J. Sherer, K. H., %rem the ves.se!s
employed to convey this gallant regiment from Jamaica to
Halifax, North America, where it is now stationed.
73d Foot—Lieutenant Baker has been appointed Aide-
de-Camp to his Excellency the Governor-General of North
America, in the room of Captain Le Marchant, who has
returned to England.