The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

Murray, deceased, to have the local rank of Major in the
Army while so employed; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
John Thomas Leslie, C. 8., Recruiting Officer for the
East India Company's Service at Newry, ap-
pointed Second in Command of the Company's
Depot at Warley, vice Brown, to have the local rank of
Lieut.-Colonel in the Army while so employed; Brevet
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Edward. Alexander Campbell, C. 8.,
on the Bengal Retired List, appointed Recruiting Officer
for the East India Company's Service at Newry, vice
Leslie, to have the local rank of Lieut.-Colonel in the
Army while so employed, July 13.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon Robert Andrew M'Munn,
M.D. from 40th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the First
Class, vice Andrew Fergusson, promoted; Surgeon John
Stewart, from 26th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of Second
Class, vice Copeland Grattan, who retires on half pay;
Staff Assistant Surgeon George Williamson, M.D., to be
Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Mackenzie, ap-
pointed to the sth Foot; Assistant Surgeon Sandford
M'Vitty Lloyd, M.D., from 62d Foot, to be Assistant
Surgeon to the Forces, vice Williamson, promoted,
July 13.
MEMORANDU3I.—Major-General Thomas Charretie,
on half-pay as a Major of the 7th West India Regi-
ment, has been allowed to retire from the Service, by
sale of an Unattached Majority, July 13.
The promotion of Ensign Thomas de Courcy Hamil-
ton, of the 90th Foot, to be Lieutenant in the Cape
Mounted Riflemen, on Ist April, 1847, has been can-
celled.

BANKRUPTS.
James Edmund Pye, miliner, Berkeley-square.
George Harris, tailor, Giltspur-street, London.
John Kinder, painter, Birkenhead, Chester.
Joseph Worters, butcher, Groton, Suffolk.
Samuel Howard Billingay, ironmonger, Commercial-
road East, Whitechapel.
Thomas Henry Holford, grocer, Dudley.
Jacob Legassick, grocer, Tavistock.
Anthony Machin, grocer, Manchester.
William Guyton, jun., merchant, Liverpool.
Arnold Hill, shoemaker, Ipswich, Suffolk.
Joseph Leadbeater Butterell, grocer, Doncaster.
William Dosha, victualler, Snitterfield, Warwickshire

AN ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
On Friday last a foul attempt was made by a man to
murder his wife, at Swinton, a parish adjoining the
town of Nottingham. The event occurred about half-
past seven o'clock in the evening, in a secluded part of
the road called " True Lovers'-walk," leading from
Swinton Church to the Hermitage. The parties, Jacob
Parrott, a dyer, aged 28, and Elizabeth, his wife, have
been married four years, but owing to her inconstant
habits, the man has led a very unhappy and miserable
life. Soon after marriage she began to form illicit con-
nexions, and she has absconded three several times with
three different married men. On the last occasion she
was away with a man for nearly four months, and only
returned to her mother's house in Milk-street, Notting-
ham, a week or ten days ago. Parrott wishing to avoid
coming in contact with his wife as much as possible, on
hearing of her return went out of town, but being pas-
sionately attached to her, he came back again on Thurs-
day evening, and on Friday they were out walking to-
gether. At the time above stated they were in
True Lovers'-walk,
where he drew a razor from
his pocket and inflicted a formidable wound on
the left side of her neck. Being a strong, resolute
woman, she seized the deadly weapon with her right
hand ; and, though she seriously cut her hand and
fingers, she succeeded in wresting it from him before he
could make a second attempt. A violent struggle must
have taken place between them, as her straw bonnet was
very much crushed and broken, and her dress extremely
dirty, as though she had been upon the ground. The
paroxysm of jealous fury seems to have given way after
the deed had been done, to a relenting tone of mind, as
the wretched man assisted his wife a distance of nearly
a quarter of a mile to the shop of Mr. Edward Cox,
druggist, Fisher-gate,
Nottingham, followed by several
persons, who were attracted by her appearance, as her
neck, bosom, and upper part of her dress were saturated
with blood, and she carried an open razor in her hand.
On entering
the shop, Mr. Cox's assistant, not being
aware of the circumstances, desired the man to run to
Mr. Wright's surgery; but the people collected at
.the
door detained him, and ascertaining there had been foul
play, handed him over to Police-constable Dunstan, who
conveyed him to the county police-station. The woman
was placed in a hackney-coach, taken to her mother's, in
Milk-street, and from thence to the General Hospital.
The wound in her neck, though frightful and danger-
ous, will not, it is believed, proved fatal. On Saturday
Parrott was taken before Thomas Nixon, F. Hart, and
H. N, Legard, Esqs., at the County Hall, when he was
remanded for further examination.

THE HOUSE or SCHILLEII.—On the 29th of June
last the small, and now rather dilapidated house in
which Schiller lived at Weimar, was purchased at a
public auction by the corporation of that town, for 5,025
dollars, being nearly double the amount of its actual
value. May we not hope that there will be found as
much patriotism among the inhabitants of Stratford-
upon-Avon?
LOOK AT IT AGAIN.—A labouring man of the
parish of Bradworthy was last week working in a field,
and dug up a coin; he looked at it, and threw it down
thinking it of no value, but from curiosity picked it up
again, and on rubbing it found it to be a guinea of
Tames 11., dated 1698. A few years since a guinea of
the same date was found in a similar way in the same
field.