The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-25 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Earl of Stradbroke, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, for Wiltshire ; the Earl and Countess of Ilardw;eke,
from llill-street, for Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire ; Lord
Leigh, for Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwick hire ; Lord and Lady
Dinorben, and Lady Gardner, from Bute House, for Kinmel
Park, St. Asaph ; Lord Wallscourt, for the Continent.

There have been great rejoicings at Kincardine,
and other parts of Ross-shire, on the marriage of Sir C.
W. A. Ross, Bart., with Miss Ross. After the cere-
mony the happy couple left Edinburgh for the Continent.
THE COUNTESS OF SIIELBURNE.—The ac-
counts received in town, yesterday, from Wilton House,
Lear Salisbury, of her Ladyship's health, were more
favourable, and the medical attendants have pronounced 11:r
Ladyship to be quite out of danger.
HARROGATE.—Like most of the really cele-
brated Spas in England, Harrogate was, at the first dis-
covery of the springs, a mere village; but, unlike most of
them, Harrogate remains a village to this day, though up-
wards of two hundred and seventy years have elapsed
since the first mineral water was tapped on its black heath,
by a Captain WilliamiSlingsby. While Cheltenham and
Leamington have cent erted themselves, in the course of a
few years, from mere villages that they were, into smart
and pert towns, Harrogate has remained a %Maga still.
It has been braahed up a little to be sure, and extended
somewhat, both below and above ; but so wildly and irre-
gularly—so without any design and consistency, and at
such distant periods of time—that pretension to anything
above a village it has none. Its situation is delightful.
For elevation, above the Irish and German cceans, midway
between which it is nearly placed: for position, et about
equal distances from the three capitals of the United
Kingdom (about two hundred miles); and for geological
formation, favourable to human life—Harrogate stands
almost pre-eminent.— Granville's Spas of England.
BRITISH GUlANA.—British Guiana, instead
of hastening to ruin, is prospering beyond the expectation
of the most sanguine:—One plantation Siandvastegheid,
in Berbice, sold in 1840 for 9,0001.; the present owners
would not, it is said, take 20,0001. for it. Plantation Pros-
pect was bought in 1810 by the Hon. Mr. Kirkwood, for
18,000/. ; he has sold one-third of it at a premium of
2,00:11. Plantation L'Esperance ; one half of it was sold
in December, 1840, for the amount paid for the whole
estate two or three }ears age. Plant an Provi-
dence, belonging to Messrs. Rainy and Fraser was
bought two or three years ago for 32,0001. or
33,000/. ; they expected 60,000/. for it the other day in
London. Plantation Ilighbury, in Berbice, made 260 hhds.
in 1836, and 400 hhdr. in 1840; the owners signed the re-
cent petition to Lord John Russell, against any increase
at all to the Civil List of 1836. Plantation Farm, in Ma-
haiccny, the property of Captain Warren, will pay, it is
slid, all its expenses of 1840 with t•.re rum and molasses,
and leave a'l the sugar a clear profit to the owner. This
proprietor represents himself, in his evidence before the
House of Commons, as distracted with fears' for the secu-
rity of property in Guiana. As part owner of plantation
Sparta, he has lately realized a considerable profit by the
sale cf it to Messrs. Bunbury and Booker."—Guiana
Reformer.

LIE LATE TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE AT
MITCIIAM. --The prinaner, whose tame, it appears, is
Thomas Moss, and not Potts, as was stated in the former
account of the proceedings, was en Tuesday brought, in
custody of the police, before Mr. Elyard, the Magistrate,
at hi; residence at Streatham, far final examination upon
the capital charge of shooting at Emma Moss, bit wife,
with intent to murder her. The unfortunate woman was
brought from Mitcham in a fly. Her face was blackened
as ova r from the effects of the gunpowder, and it is feared
that her eyes are very much injured. Tho prisoner, tie
moment he saw his wife brought into the room, turned his
head away, and he never looked up or uttered a word
during the inquiry, and appeared to be almost in a state
of insensibility. Since he has been in the gaol under
remand, his conduct has created an impression that be is
out of his mind. The wife stated that cn Tuesday even-
ing last she hid been to chapel, and was returning borne
about nine o'clock, aid near her own house she met the
prisoner, who said, " Emma, is that you?" She i°'"ed
him, and asked him if he had been to her father's, and be
replied he had not, and by this time they had got te her
mother's house, and just as she raised the latch to go in
the prisoner put a pint, I underneath her borne', eon to
her face, and fired it eft The prisoner had left her about
a month before, and she bad not seen him until that
evening. They had no angry words, arid nothirg more
occurred than she had stated before the prisoner shot her.
A number of other witnesses were called to prove the
main charge against the prisoner, when he was fully cora.
mitted to take his trig! at the ensuing Surrey assizes, for
shooting at his wife with intent to murder her.
THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
AT HIGH LEGIT, CIIESIIIRE. —FINDING OP TILE Bony.
On Thursday afternoon the body of the unfortunate girl
was found embedded in the mud of a marl pit close to the
farm-yard; although she had been nearly three weeks in
the water there was but little alteration in her appearance.
It It was discovered that she had been deliveredp)ruanwdninintablee
and early next morning, the body of a tine fOll a child,
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