The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-10 00:00:00

WOOLWICH, APRIL 8.

By private letters received here last night from Malta, it
appears Lieut.-Colonel Chesney's company, 4th battalion.
with Lieut. Biand, embarked in the Numa transport ship,
having been relieved by Capt. James's company, 4th bat-
which sailed from the Royal Arsenal here on the
15th of December last. Lieut.-Colonel Chesney's com-
pany has been about thirteen years abroad, having em-
barked for Malta on the sth of February, 1828. Lieut.
Buchanan has the command of the company, and Dr.
Veching, of the Ordnance department, is the medical
officer. A number of invalids have also embarked in the
Numa for Chatham, under the charge of Lieut. Brabazon,
tf the 77th Regiment. There are some of the 47th and
59th Regiments left at Malta, with above fifty women and
one hundred children who were left behind the regiments
that have gone to India. They are waiting for a passage
in the Sovereign transport ship, and have rations, and are
allowed b.irrarAs with bedding, furniture, &c., at Rica-
sole. They are under the charge of Lieut. Peebles, of
the 59'..h Regiment, who returns to England t ) be depot
paymaster. rho depot of the 59th Regiment is et present
stationed at Ternplemore, in Irtland.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. —.The Kite steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander G. Snell, recently employed on the
West India and NA-th American stations, has been con-
demned as unfit to convey the mails, and has been sent into
Antigua to refi, arid then soil for England, where she may
be expected by the end of the month.

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EMIGRATION TO AAlERlCA.—Thursday after-
noon the New York packet ship Quebec, one of tho
regular liners, left the :q. Katharine's Dock with 230
steerage passengers on board, the largest number of emi-
grants which has )et left the port of London in any single
vessel during the present year. The passengers consist
principally of little farmers and agriculturists, with their
wives and families, from the counties near the metropolis.
A great number are from Sussex, many from Kent, and a
few from Surrey and Essex. This fine ship also takes out
30 cabin passengers, a much greater number titin usual.
It appears that the uncertainty respecting the fate of the
President has inducA many respectable merchants,
from
passengers Lon d London
per-
sons of wealth, and others, to prefer the " liner.,s " and
during the last month the New York ships
and Liverpool have taken out as mannymciagbaitrionacross the
before the introduction of steam
Atlantic.
SLEEPING IN CIIIIRCII.—Perhaps the most
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curious things about St. Phillip's Chapel, Winches-
ter, are the ancient stall-scats, now affixed to the wall
of the ante-chapel. These have their seats so fixed
upon hinges that those who sit in them can only rnam-
tain their position by balancingi themselves with care, and
resting their elbows on the
monks who used thetas d scat arms ;so that if the
dropped asleep during divine ser-
vice, the seats came forward and pitched them headlong
upon the floor ; nay,lfthey, only dozed and nodded the
the
least in the world,hard oaken se it clapped against th•
hard oaken back, and made a noise loud enough to bttrsct
the attention of the whole audience. Nothing ever was
people
more cleverly contrived to keep pie awake at church.
On Tuesday last died, at the° Clifton workhouse,
Elizabeth Hill, who attained in October the advanced age
of 108 years, making three persons who in the last four
years have died in that establishment at the age of 100 and
upwards. In the same period four others have died there
whosc ages hate varied from 92 to 96, and Sarah Platt;
who is 94 years old, i 3 still living in the house.—Bristol
Standard.
BOROUGH CF ATAItYLEBONE.—RUNIOURED
RESIGNATION OF LOTH) TEIGNMOUTIL-For some dim
past a rumour has been in general circulation throughout
the borough of Nlarylebone that it is the intention of Lord
• Teignmouth, immediately on the re-assembling of Parlia-
ment, to resign his scat as Member for the borough. In the
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event of this taking place Mr. Bond Cabbell will be the
candidate.—filotniug Post,
PROLIFIC BlRTlL—Thursday mottling a poor
woman named Gibbon, whose husband is a journeyman
batter, residing at No. 47, Lant.street, Borough, was
; safely deli\ e:cd r f three children
,at birth, two girls and
• a boy. The infu
ts are remarkably fine and healthy, and
1 with the mother ito doing well.
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