The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

£120,000
The whole Cost of the Poor during the same period
has not exceeded

30,000

Balance £90,000
This balance is required for payment or the Commissioners'
Rates, and the Cornor.f;-- with Arrears
and Debts.—f

WONDE
_.ACITY IN
A Doc.--About eight months ago a gentleman belong-
ing to this city embarked at Port-Philip for Scotland.
In the bustle and confusion of preparing for so long a
a voyage, a favourite dog disappeared about a couple
of days before the vessel in which he returned left Port-
Philip ; and, as all 'the inquiry he was able to make
turned out to be fruitless, he was under the necessity of
leaving his four-footed friend behind him. He arrived
in Edinburgh about two months ago, and, wonderful to
tell, within, the last three weeks was surprised by a
visit from the animal he had left in Port-Philip about
eight months before. Upon inquiry it turns out that the
dog had gone aboard of a ship on the eve of sailing for
London ; that, once aboard, he resolutely refused to be
put ashore ; and, by dint of sheer resolution, obtained
passage. On his arrival in London, it is ascer-
tained that he visited the lodgings formerly occupied by
his master, and failing in discovering the object of his
search, immediately disappeared, and was not again
heard of till his arrival in Edinburgh. Familiar as we
are with instances of the affection and sagacity of the dog
this is, perhaps, the most extraordinary example on re-
cord. His going aboard of an English ship many thou-
sand miles from home—his refusal to quit it—his visit to
the former lodgings of his master on his arrival in Lon-
don—and the journey from London to Edinburgh—rank
the subject of this brief notice as one of the most wonder-
ful animals of his species. The gentleman to whom he
belongs is well known in Edinburgh, and is the son of a
gentleman who, within the last, twenty years, has filled
various offices of civic dignity. Scotsman.
The report of observations on the temperature
kept at the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's-park,
gives the following as the minimum temperature of the
last few days. It may be observed, that the task of
hourly recording the external teMperature depends upon
the keeper whose turn it is to watch the different build-
ings at the menagerie during the night. Yesterday
morning. at four o'clock, the thermometer was 25 deg.
F. ; on Tuesday, at four o'clock, it was 22 deg. F. ;
Sunday at midnight, 29 deg. F. ; and four o'clock in'the
Morning, 22 deg. ; and Saturday morning, at four o'clock
the lowest point of temperature for the season was lii
thetemperature
deg.,metropolis, average,
thermometer kept at Nackney, and 3 deg. above one kept
in Aldersgate-street.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
steamer, London Merchant, Captain Valentine Laker, on
her passage from Newcastle to London on Saturday last,
fell in with the schooner Susan, of Guernsey, on fire,
with her hatches battened down, and the crew with dm
long boat prepared to leave her. She Was taken in tow
by the London Merchant, and brought to the mouth of
Sunderland harbour, where a small tug was employed to
take her in, and by assistance from the shore the fire was
got under,

,he Corporation au Police Rates,
Committee Room, Dec. 15, 841.
RFUL 'INSTANCE OF SAG