The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-16 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Earl of Clare; the Dowager Countess and Lady
Isabella Fitzgibbon, for Mount' Shannon ; Lord Uxbridge,
for Cumberland Ledge ; Mr. and Mrs. bode and family,
from the Burlington, for Wilts ; Earl and Countess
Poulett and family, for Wey:nouth ; Lord and Lady
Rendlesham, for Suffolk ; Lord Winehilsea, for East-
well Park.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Brighton Gazette.)
PonTsmourtr, JULY 15.—Her Majesty's ship Pique, 36,
Captain E. Boxer, arrived from the Downs en Sunday,
and remains at Spithead waiting oidcrs, being k:ept ready
for immediate service.

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The new brig Cygnet, 10, intended for the packet ser-
vice, is commissioned at Woolwich by Lieut. Edmund
Wilson.

The Cambridge, 78, Captain Barnard, will leave Spit-
bead about Saturday next for Lisbon, Genoa, and Malta,
taking out the Hon. R. Abercromby (appointed Minister
at Turin), his lady, and a large suite; also marines and
boys for the squadron, and a great quantity of naval stores.
The following ships and vessels are waiting orders to
hoist the pendant, namely, at this port, Madagascar 44,
Bittern 16, and Tweed 20 ; at Plymouth, Champion 18,
and Ferret 10 ; at Chatham, Scout 18, and Pelican 18.

Letters from the Stag frjgate, at Rio Janeiro, report
that the Curucaa 24, Wizard 10,,and Grecian 1 6,have sent
in six slave vessels for condemnation.

The Apollo troop-ship, commanded by Mr. Kerley,
master, has gone to Leith with. the 20th (service com-
panies) Regiment, in which service she is assisted by the
steamer Vesuvius, commanded by Lieutenant Blount. The
former ship will return to this port in a few days.
The receiving-ship "E t na , Lieutenant Wilson, has passed
by for Woolwich, from the north coast of Spain, having
brought home invalids and condemned naval and military
stores.

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The Wasp, 18, Commander Mansell, left the Gibraltar
station for Malt.i, to join the Admiral on the Ist instant,
having been relieved by the Jaseur, 18.
The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant Beaufoy, has sailed on her
return to the Cape and West African station, taking out
supernumeraries and despatches.
A Court Martial has been held in the Mediterranean,
on Mr. Roberts, purser of the Tyne, 26, on charges of
disrespect and disobedience to the senior Lieutenant, for
which he was severely admonished.
The cutter Seaflower, Lieut. Robilßard, will return to
the station at Jersey in a day or two, for the protection of

the oyster fishery.
The Vanguard, 84, Captain Sir David Dunn, is nearly
ready for departure, with the exception of compleling her
crew. It is expected that she will sail about the Ist Au-
gust, for Lisbon and the NlLditerranean.
The supplementary rstimate for the increase of the naval
sea pay, being laid before the Commons, orders are daily
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looked for to carry it into execution.
The brig Pantaloon, 10, Lieutenant Tryon, is cruising
off the Sussex coast, occasionally returning into port to re-
victual, &c.
At Spithcad— Cambridge, 78, and Pique, 36.
In Harbour—Britannia and Victory flag•ships, Van-
guard, Excellent, Royal George yacht, Echo steamer,
and flag tenders.

OPENING OF THE GLASGOW AND PAISLIZY
JOINT RAILWAY.—Today the Directors of the Glasgow and
Paisley, Ayr and Kilmarnock, and Greenock Railway Joint
Companies, accompanied by a numerous party of ladies and
gentlemen, went in a train of nineteen carriages propelled by
two locomotives, the Hawk and Zamiel, from Glasgow to Pais-
ley, and back again, for the purpose of making a formal open-
ing of the joint line to Paisley. The train started precisely at
six minutes past one o'clock from the Glasgow station, and,
although not the least attempt was made to make a quick trip,
the distance to Paisley was easily accomplished in nineteen

minutes.— Glasgow Clironiele.
Of all the instances we have heard of persons
attaining wealth by lucky accidents, none equal the follow-
ing :—A poor aged woman, who had long earned her livelihood
by knitting, one day coining to the end of her worsted ball or
close, found it to be wound on a piece of old newspaper, which
she had the curiosity to read; when, to her astonishment and
delight, she discovered it to contain an advertisement respect-
ing herself, as the heiress of a large property, which, had she
been unable to read, she might never have possessed.—Liver-
pool Paper.
A RUNAWAY RAILWAY ENGINE.-011 Sa-
turday last, through the negligence of the engineer, an engine
left under the care of a boy at Masborough, escaped from the
station there, making the best of its way, at the rate of about
a mile per minute, to Sheffield. 'The boy leaped off when lie
saw the engine moving. Considerable damage was done at
Sheffield through the violence of the impetus with which the
engine rushed upon the station and buildings, and notwith-
standing every attempt to stop its progress, the damage will not
be repaired for much less than' •2tiol. The darsaage would have
been greater had not an old man thrown something upon the
rails, and upset the engine.
ARISTOCRATIC OUTRAGE AT HOUNSLOW.
—At an early hour on the morning of Monday last, or rather
at a late hour on the night of Sunday, the town of Hounslow
was frightened from its propriety by the freaks of a party of
" fashionables" who had passed through the town in a " splen-
did four-in-hand" in the course of the afternoon of the pre-
vious day. It appears that, on their return, these "scions of
noble houses," drew up at the outside of the George Inn, and,
whilst their horses were being refreshed, alighted from their
vehicle, and amused themselves by breaking, with stones, the
windows of the neighbouring houses. They then commenced
pulling down the poles in front of the barbers' shops near at
hand, and wrenching the knockers off the doors, and that be-
longing to the door of Mr. Friburg, a respectable baker in the
town ; they threw, with great violence, through a window of
the house, and it fell on the pillow of Mrs. Friburg, close to
her head! Mr. Friburg instantly jumped out of bed, and,
raising he window, called for the police, when the whole party
mounted their "drag," and drove off at full gallop towards
town, before the police could muster in sufficient numbers to
prevent their departure.
BLOw-UP OF A ROCKET MANUFACTORY.
—The rocket manufactory of the artillery department at Gre-
noble, was blown up a few days ago. It is supposed that the
accident was occasioned by the rays of the sun coming through
a window, and after being concentrated to a focus, igniting one
of the fireworks making for the fetes of July.
We give the following as a specimen of the
nonsense in which even a grave German journal will sometimes
indulge. It is from tl.e Journal de Francfort:—" A few
days ago Lord Granville, it is said, presented M. Thiers with
a magnificent service of gilt plate, valued et 53,000 francs.
Each article was NI rapped up in banknotes to prevent its rubbing.
The Gloucester and Birmingham Railway has
made rapid progress in public estimation. Since the addi-
tional trains have been put on, a proportionate increase of pas-
sengers has taken place, more especially since all the coaches
which used to journey between Cheltenham and Birmingham
are taken off the road, save one which still remains, a solitary
memorial of days gone by. We rejoice to hear that the regu-
lations adopted for the convenience of passengers are so highly
approved of and so well arranged as to preclude any, chance of
delay in the arrival or departure of the trains. —Cheltenham
Examiner.
SUDDEN DEATH FRO'I
Tuesday Mrs. Ann Dickinson, a respectable young married
woman, resident No. 9, Paul street, Finsbury, attended at
the Worship-street police-office as complainant against a person
whp was convicted of assaulting her, and fined for thp offence,
On her return hot* shp ti as exePkiinOY ag:tPte4 and nervously
cuited, and in the course of the evening she expired,
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