The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-18 00:00:00

SPHYNX.

This fine ship, on her passage from Plymouth to
Portsmouth with seamen, run on the Back of the Wight,
near Brook, in a thick fog, on Saturday morning. Her
bottom was stove in on the rocks, as was her stern, and
there is every reason to believe that she will become a
complete wreck. The crew sad passengers landed in
safety, excepting the commander's-lady, who received a
serious injury in the boat, being struck on the head by a
plank which fell from the steamer ; she was conveyed to
the parsonage at Brook, and medical assistance sent for
from Newport. The Sphynx was commanded by J. B.
Cragg, was 1,050 tuns, 500-horse power, and had a crew
of 160 men, besides part of the crew of the Tyne. She
had been in commission only six months. The wind is
off the shore, but there is always a heavy swell on in
foggy weather with the flood tide, and a worse berth
could not have been found for her, nor a situation but to
which assistance could be better given.

A double suicide, under the most extraordinary cir-
cumstances, took place at Gondreville, in the Loiret, last
week, Some time ago, the daughter of a farmer of that
place, only seventeen years of age, and of great beauty,
tell in love with a journeyman gardener, fifty-three years
old, and of rather disagreeable person. On the sth
instant, this man not having joined his comrades at
breakfast, they went into his room, and there found him
and the girl dead in the bed, having suffocated themselves
with the fumes of a quantity of charcoal, which they put
into a flower-pot, which was in the middle of the room.
In different parts of the room were the love-letters
which had passed between the parties, amounting in
number to 183, and which gave convincing proof that
their love had constantly been pure There were also
found a letter from the man, and one from the girl, both
addressed to the parents of the latter. In the man's
letter he reproaches the parents with baying, by con-
fining her, too closely to the house, prevented her
from forming any acquaintance, and an engagement of
the heart with some young man. He bad, he said, re-
sisted her attachment for a long time, and reasoned with
her on its unfitness, but at length, his amour proprc being
excited, he began to love her for the preference she had
shown him, and, by degrees, his love had become as vio-
lent as her 3VIII. Knowing that there was not the re-
motest chance of obtaining the consent of the parents to
their marriage. and resolving that they would not be
separated, they had agreed to commit suicide ; and he
entreated that their bodies might lie in the same grave.
In the girl's letter she makes no reproaches to her
parents, bids them an affectionate farewell, and expresses
the happiness she felt in dying with her lover.
DISADVANTAGES OF POSITION.—The late stormy
weather has greatly interrupted the communication in
the north. Five mails from Orkney were due in Caith-
ness on Friday, and the storm still continued. All intelli•
gence of the island of St. Kilda has been cut off for some
time, owing to the tempestuous weather, and fears are
entertained for the condition of the poor inhabitants.
The whole population of the island is about 120; money
is almost unknown amongst them, at they pay their rent
(about 601.) by means of the feathers of sea birds. Mr.
Wilson, in his " Voyage Round Scotland,"
islanders are frequently very ill off during stormy
says the
weather, or those periods of the year in which the rocks
are deserted by their winged inhabitants. slightTheeirfor
ile
supply of oats and barley would scarcely suffice
maintenance of life, and such is the injurioUstiet
that
spray in winter, even on their hardiest vegetation,flct of the
savoys and German (or curly) greens,
perish
improved by the winter's cold, almost invariablywhichwith us arc
soon after the close of autumn.—lnverness Courier.
of -.three
CANADIAN PRODUCE.—An arrival of twenty-three
barrels of cheese has taken place by d No ar-
Montreal and Quebec, the produce of C
a vessel arrivedY from
an
from Canada
rival of this particular description of
has come under our notice as having
lies of butter
fporeviously taken
place. It is remarked also, that the
which are now taking place from this quarter are much
greater than was previously the case, One vessel having
arrived from the Canadian ports of blontreal and Quebec
board; another
respectively, having 324 package 0
third from the same
from Montreal, 167 packages;
port, the large quantity of 471 eaesk s of butter, and this
cheese; and several
vessel also brought five barrels
of
ve taken place. The
other arrivals of lesser extent.
arrivals of vessels from Americkah,ahlaadveencwomithprgisreadinmaonrde
provisions, during the past wee
3fontreal and Quebec,
than an average number, r
with flour and every description of of provisions the growth
andBRITdI pro
Slluce
PREMIERS, of Canada.
FROMI THE YEAR 1760 TO
1762ar1 ofo
t
1846.---T Hon. George Granvlle,
E
he Right v m. Pitt, 1760
Bute, from 1761 to 1762;
karg,
i 1765 to 1766; Duke
1765 ; Marquis of n
of Grafton, 1766 to 1770 ; Lord North, 1770 to 1782 •
. h
Aliddingtong t on. Win.
Pitt, 1784 to 1801
Earl of Shelbourne,
Hon. Henry
,
. 17821tigk tto 1784; Right
1801 to 1804; Right Hon. Wm. Pitt, 1804 to 1806;
807; Duke of Po
Lord Grenville, 1806 to 1
18rtland, 1808
Percival,
to 1809; Right Hon.
Spencerto 1827; Right liloo to 1812;
Earl of Liverpool, 1812 George
nt Goderich, 1827 ll'
Canning, 1827; Viscount
to 1830; Earl to 1828;
Duke of Wellington,
18Wellington ( Grey, 1830
to 1834 ; Duke of 1835; Sir Robertlr° tem.), 1835;
Viscount Melbourne,
1836 to l Peel,
1835 to
1836; Viscount Melbourne,_ _ _ 841; Sir Robert
Peel, 1841 to 1846; Lord John Russell, 1846.—Il1us-
trated London Alnianack.
....
MEMOIRS or GENERAL "PE.—General Pepe has
been closely connected with
French Neapolitanr affairs, from his
first taking up arms with the against his native
Government in the year 1800 until his final banishment
from Naples in 1821. During that period lie
rose to
high rank in the Neapolitan army under the reign of
the unfortunate Mto a Murat ; was promoted still higher
position after the restoration of Ferdinand, and,
at
last
as the leader of the constitutional movement iinlB
1820,
became Commander-in-Chief of the army, and y, anti held the
fate of Naples in his hands. When to this see add that
he was a brave and skilful commander, that he '
saw much
active service both in Italy anti Spain, that his
bears evidence of scrupulous veracity, and
that, in
of his political views, there is no room to don-, in
spite
in-
tegrity of his character, it may be conjectured that
memoirs cannot be wanting in interest, nor in that his
merit. IL is of suph materials that authentic
chisterling
made up. The book is, in every respect, genuine'ryi
production, and must not be goof ound d '' a
fic-
titious or semi-fictitious military memoirs e with the
ti‘ es that are continually issuing from thers and galls
ties
is, General Pepe s statements a press. Our
and that lie has fairly related the story re trust-worthy,
life.—Britannia. of his eventful
SouTu DEVON.—The price of corn i
cial markets has again advanced to n our provin-
cial
price. Wheat is 10s. to 10s. 3d. per busheln extraordinary
to ss. 6d. ditto ; P qs.
per 201bs. This
otatoes, ls. 6d. to ; Barley, ss.
state of affairs at present is causing great-
stealing is greatly on the increase Talarm. Sheep
many of the manufacturing towns have h labourers in
not half employ-
ment, and numerous 'poor families have food suffi-
cient to exist on. We trust the Legislature willat once
throw open the ports fvr the avls2l§49ll Qforp, fox.

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.
Lord John Russell will give a grand full dress Parlia-
mentary entertainment this evening, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street, to Viscount Palmerston, Sir
George Grey, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, the Right Hon.
Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, as
members of the Cabinet holding seats in the House of
Commons, and the mover and seconder of the Address,
the Hon. C. Howard and Mr. J. L. Ricardo, as well as
the Right Hon. Fox Maule, Lord Edward Howard, Lord
Alfred Paget, and other Members of Parliament con-
nected with the Government. _ _ -

The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord President of the
Council, as Ministerial leader in the House of Lords, will
receive a numerous circle of Peers to dinner
,at Lans-
downe House this evening, including the mover and
seconder of the Address in the Lords; the Earl of Cla-
rendon, the Earl of Minto, the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl Grey, the Marquis of Claricarde, the Duke of Nor-
folk, the Earl Spencer, the Earl Fortescue, the Marquis
of Anglesey, the Earl of Zetland, the Earl Fitzhardinge,
the Earl of Auckland, &c. It will be a full dress party.
As usual, on these occasions, her Majesty's Speech to be
delivered to-morrow at the opening of Parliament will
be read by the Noble Marquis.
Lord Stanley, as the recognised leader of the Protec-
tionist opposition in the House of Lords, gives an enter-
tainment to his political friends this evening at his private
residence in St. James's-square.
In the course of Saturday and yesterday a great many
noblemen and gentlemen connected with either House of
Parliament arrived in town from the country. Among
the arrivals may be mentioned the Duke of Montrose,
Lord George Bentinck, Mr. A. Stafford O'Brien, Earl
Spencer, the Duke of Buccicuch, Lord De Manley, Lord
De Ros, Lord Forester, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl
Fortescue, the Earl of Arundel, Viscount Ebrington, the
Earl of Zetland, the Earl of Eglinton, Mr. Alderman
Thompson, the Duke of Buckingham, Viscount Mahon,
Viscount Norreys, Lord Hatberton, Lord Carew, Lord
Marcus Hill, Lord Alfred Paget, Viscount Villiers,
Viscount Gage, Lord Edward Howard, Mr. Egerton,
Mr. Disraeli, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Gran-
ville, Lord Robert Grosvenor, the Earl of Ripon, Lord
Prudhoe, Colonel Sibthorp, Viscount Combermere, Mr.
R. M. Milnes, and Lord Monteagle.