The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

MORNING S

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge has
left his residence in St. James's Palace, for Kew.
Mr. Yorke and' Mr. Handley had interviews with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office.
A messenger arrived in town yesterday from Ancona,
bringing despatches to the Colonial-office from the Right
Hon. Stewart Mackenzie, Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands.

A NOVEL ORDER.—Last week, writes a pro-
vincial editor, a gentleman called at our printing-office,
and requested that we would print for him about two
hundred letters. On handing the copy to us, we were
surprised to read the following contents :

" MY DEAR --, —I hasten to inform you that ml
dear wife Susan presented me with a fine —, at
o'clock —, and that she and the dear babe are doing
as well as can be expected.' You are aware that this
is my —teenth blessing.—Ever yours,

This " novel order" certainly caused us to cast up an ill;
quiring look, as much as to say, " Are you in earnest?'
—for his reply was, "I am really in earnest." " You
know," he continued, " Mrs, has just been con-
fined with the twelfth, and I see no prospect of her
arriving at the end of the chapter. Now, every accouche-
ment I have to write to upwards of twenty friends and
relations. Therefore, if I have a stock of printed forma
by me, all I shall have to do on these interesting occa-
sions will be to fill up the blanks." " Well," we re-
joined, " but now she has completed a round dozen, the
chances are against the number augmenting." " Net
at all," he replied ; " Mrs. mother was remark-
ably fond of strawberries, and she had 19 children ; rtlY
wife is as fond of strawberries, and eats large quantities
every year—so that, like mother like daughter." We
were not learned enough in connubial mysteries to un-
derstand, much less to reply to this logic ; so we took
up the copy and carried it into the printing-office, and
being bachelors, wended our way, much wondering what
mysterious connection there could be between babies
and strawberries, and admiring the philosophy of our
Benedict, who could wear a smooth chin, and a resigned
conntenance, with twelve children, and the prospect of
an indefinite augmentation of that awful number. Our
diary on that day has the following entry :—" Resolved,
never to marry a woman that loves strawberries over-
much."—Hull Advertiser.
Cutttous ATFINITY.=-There are residing in
a cottage at Welton, in the parish of Midsomer Norton,
one great-grandmother, two grandmothers, three mothers,
three daughters, two grand-daughters, one great grand-
daughter, one son, one brother, one sister, one uncle, one
great-uncle, two nieces, one widow, and four fatherless
children, yet the whole amount to but five persons !---
Salisbury Herald.
LoNGEvITY.—There is now living at Belgrove,
near Welling, in Kent, a venerable man, named Reeves,
who was a soldier in the British army at the battle of
Lexington, in America, April 19, 1775. He was then
25, and consequently is now 91. An aged person, who
frequently stands at the gate of Greenwich Park was
also in the army opposed to General Washington in 1780.
He was also on board the Royal George when that ship
sunk at Spithead, and is now, by his own account, in his
90th year. The first of these old men is surrounded by
two generations, his descendants, all located near his
place of residence.
NEWBURGII.—The United' Secession meeting
have got a bell hung on their church last week, Ni bleb
chimed fir service for the first time on Sunday. The
time is not far gone by, when any such noise on a Sun-
day, except the ringing of the parish church bel?, would
have been reckoned a desecration of the Sabbath—but
tempora mutant:tr. We certainly may be ashamed of the
bigotry of our ancestors who attempted to prop up
their
own section of religion by such intolerant pretensions to
rule.—Fife Herald.
PARAPETS ON HIGHLAND ROADS.—We are.
glad to learn that Mr. Grant, of Glenmoriston, is agitat-
ing the propriety of parapets being erected on the most
dangerous parts of our Highland roads. On the banks
of Loch Ness such protection is much required, and we
trust the county will assent to the proposition, when it
is formally introduced at next Michaelmas meeting.
Inverness Courier.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.—The cause of la-
dies' teeth decaying at so much earlier a stage of life than
those of the other sex, is attributed to the friction;
of the tongue upon them. But according to the Hertford
Courier, it is owing to the sweetness of their lips, as it is
a fact (well established by everybody's saying so), that
sweet things rot the teeth.
Barley harvest commenced upon Tuesday last,
the 3d inst., upon a field on the farm of Garronhaugh,
b
parish of Rothiemay, belonging, to Mr. William
_ienln..
grain, and proves to be a most abundant crop.—Abard
Herald.

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WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
enjoyed their usual morning walk this forenoon.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has been
taken out twice to-day, once for a carriage airing.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert went out in a pony
phaeton, the Prince driving; the -Duchess of Bedtbrd,
Lady Olivia Taylour, and the Marquis of Headfort fol-
lowing in a pony carriage and four ; Lady. Caroline -
Somers Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Cavendish in a poll,
phaeton ; and Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Wylde, and
Major the Hon. George Koppel on horseback.
The Duke of Bedford, and the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Clanricarde, arrived on a visit to her Majesty.
In the evening, shortly before six o'clock, the Royal •
party returned to the Castle through the street.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge. and the Lao
Eleanora and Constance Paget, will have the honour of
dining with her Majesty at the Castle, this evening.

The Lord Chancellor arrived in town yesterday from
his residence at Copse Hill.
Viscount Melbourne's dinner to the Cabinet Ministers.
will be given on Saturday next, the 14th instant, at lus
private residence in South-street.

MURDER IN SYDNEY.--The inhabitants in
the vicinity of the Greenhills have, within the last few
days, bt.en thrown into considerable excitement in conse-
quence of a most diabolical murder having been petr"
trated upon the persons of two young people (brother
and sister) named Murkey, son and daughter of a settler
of that name, residing on the banks of the river Mattison,
about five or six miles from the Greenhills. The facts of
the murder, as far as we at present can ascertain, are es
follow :—The children had gone on Saturday, 27th March,
on a visit to their aunt, with the intention of returning
home during the day ,• but as they had not been seen by
their friends up to Monday, considerable apprehensions
were entertained for their safety, and their father pr.°'
ceeded over to their aunt's to make inquiries. On atf
ing there he found that they had left their aunt's, as if;
ticipated, on Saturday afternoon, to return home.
immediate search was made about the neighbourboeu'..,
but up to four o'clock no trace of the missing clor
dren could be discovered. Shortly after that time e
stockman, in driving his cattle to a water-hole, to (14214
found it extremely difficult to induce the beasts to alr
proach the spot. This remarkable fact led him forivar"'
and upon looking among the rushes and weeds, he wee,
exceedingly alarmed at the sight of two apparently
naked bodies lying therein, with a heavy log of wood;
placed across them to keep them under the water. In-
stant alarm was given of the circumstance, and the
bodies, on being drawn out, proved to be those of the
unfortunate Murkeys ; measures were hereupon taken t°
trice the perpetrators of so shocking a murder, and see"
picion fell upon some blacks belonging to a tribe en'
camped in the neighbourhood. These blacks had been
seen with white people's clothes in their possession, and
three of them were apprehended, and are now in custody.
It is reported they have confessed the murder of the WY
and girl from motives of revenge. The three miscreants,
have been conveyed to the gaol at Newcastle, where e'
course they will remain until the trial comes on.—SYdal
Advertiser, April 5.
A FACT IN FAVOUR OF THE BALLOT._-.146
the opponents of protection to the voter,—let th -
shilly-shallyers who think " the time has not yet come,
for the application of the Ballot—read and ponder the
following startling and significant truth. The Duk,e
of Northumberland has 400 tenants-at-will, possessing
votes in North Northumberland, and the polling-boohi
show that out of these 400 the number who voted in
favour of Lord Howick amounted precisely to two
—not 200, but two single individuals ! To add one
word by way of showing the full meaning of this fact,
would be superfluous,—to proceed to argue from it'
would only weaken its force. No man in his senses
would venture to say that there is to be found in broad
Britain a rural parish, or a street of a town, containing
400 inhabitants, 398 of whom are, to a man, of
..one
mind in politics, or in almost anything else, regard-
ing ~'
ing which there can be more than one opinion ; and
honest man will attempt to avoid the inference that not
some, but many out of these 398 of the Duke's tenant;
must have been coerced to vote against their wishes and
convictions. It may be added that those who possess
the best means of forming an opinion on the subject
from acquaintanceship, local residence, and being ell;
gaged in the late canvass—estimate that (plumpers
splits together) 350 out of the 400 were desirous, wed
t
eager, to vote, for Lord Howick. All of these, all but
two suffered their independence to be trampled down
by the myrmidons of the Castle ! High honour to the
two !—the brave and honest two ! The Lord of -4• In:
wick Castle ought to be prouder of numbering anion:
his tenants these two, who, like men and Englishmen,
withstood his tyranny and defended and preserved ta
rights, than of the hundreds of serfs who suffered their
to rob them of their freedom, their honesty, and
self-respect.—Berwick Advertiser.
seen
PICTURE OF A SAVAGE.--I observed a na-
b
tive on the opposite bank, and without being..age
him. I stood awhile to watch the habits of asa
man at home. His hands were ready to seize,
his
teeth
to eat, any living thing ; his step, light and soundl33
e,
as that of a shadow, gave no intimation of his approach.
His walk suggested the idea of the prowling of a beast
of prey—every little track or impression left on the earth
by the lower animals caught his keen eye ; but the trees
overhead chiefly engaged his attention. Deep in the
hollow heart of some of the upper branches was hidden,
as it seemed, the opposum on which he was to dine.
The wind blew keenly through the lofty trees on the river
margin, yet the brawny savage was entirely naked. Had I
been unarmed, I had much rather met a lion than that
Nsinewy biped ; but I was on horseback, with pistols in
my holsters, and the broad river was flowing between
us. I overlooked him from a high bank, and I ventured
to disturb his meditations with a halloo. He then stood
still, looked at me for about a minute, and then retired,
with that easy bounding kind of step which may be
termed a running walk, exhibited an unrestrained faci-
lity of movement, apparently incompatible with dress of
any kind. It is bounding lightly at such a pace, that,
with the additional aid of the warramerah (a short
notched stick), the native can throw his spear with
sufficient force and velocity to kill the emu or kangaroo,
even when at its speed.—Major Mitchell's Third Expedi-
tion into the Interior of Eastern Australia.