The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-13 00:00:00

W ORSHIP-STREET.

Stowell, the common informer, has been laying a great
number of informations against the shopkeepers of this
district for hanging goods outside their doors, and has
been causing the greatest annoyance to the respectable in-
habitants by the troublr. he thus entails upon. them. One
of the informations was against a green grocer for hanging
one head of celery over his door.
The Magistrate asked the inarmer how he proved any
obstruction ?—He answered, " A cos it flopped agin my
face."

Mr. BROVOHTON said it was the most trumpery case ever
brought before him, and fined the defendant, one shilling,
without costs.

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A great number of other cases were then proceeded with,
and small fines imposed.

THE NARRATIVE OF THE VOYAGES
ROUND THR WORLD OF H. M. S. ADVENTURE AND
BEAGLE.—We are glad to observe, that public atten-
tion has been directed to the above highly valuable and
important work, by a copious article in the Quarterly
Review, in which is given a most delightful summary of
the results of these interesting voyages, which occupied
the long space of ten years, as detailed by Captains
King and Fitzroy, and of Mr. Darwin's Researches
into the Natural History and Geology of the various
countries visited by the expedition. After pointing out
the peculiarities and merits of the several volumes of
which the work is composed, the Reviewer ends with
the following words :—" Here we close an imperfect
notice of one of the most interesting narratives of voyarr-
ing that it has fallen to our lot to take up, and
must always occupy a distinguished snneo in tlic- history
of scientific navigation."
RUSSIA AND Curt VA.—A St. Peteisburg letter
announces the receipt of intelligence from Orenburg,
dated the Bth ult., that the army sent against the Khnn
of Chiva had made already four days' march through the
sandy plains of the Circassian.; without, any iin'pedirtieut:
Connected with this is the following extract of a letter
from Odessa, dated the 25th ult., quoted by the France
—" A conrier, .who arrived yesterday from. Orenburg;
brings us news that the Kergisi-Kajosks; a 'wanderiog
but warlike people, tributary to Russia, have offered to
join the expedition against Chiva with 10,000 men, well
armed and mounted, and living at their own charge,
leaving all remuneration, till the end of the campaign,
and then to be rewarded according to the appreciation
of their services by the Russian Government. They
will form most valuable auxiliaries, as they are brave
and active, are acquainted with the language and man-
ners of the people of Chive, and habituated to the cli-
mate and the peculiar fatigues of war in that country.
They have also proposed that their movem*nts shall be
directed 'by Russian officers. The Emperor has ac-
cepted their tender, and the Minister of War is about
to send officers to the tribe." A letter from Constan-
tinople, in the Augsburg Gazette, states that the Rus
sian expedition against Chiva has produced a great sen-
sation in that capital.

ELECTRICITY.—M. Rousseau proposes to ascer-
tain the purity of certain substances, and to detect any
adulterations in them, by measuring their conducting
power for electricity. Some years ago be described a
simple apparatus by means of which the purity of olive
oil might be tested on similar principles. He now states
that by these means any adulterations in chocolate or
coffee may be readily detected ; he finds that pure cho-
colate is a non-conductor or insulator of electricity, but
that in proportion to the quantity of farina or fecular
matter with which it is adulterated, the more easily does
it conduct electricity ; and in the same way he states
that coffee is an insulator, whilst chicory, with which it
is often mixed, is an excellent conductor, and hence the
presence of only a small quantity of that substance is
easily detected in coffee by its increased conducting
power. M. Rousseau also considers that this test may
be applied with advantage to the examination of phar-
maceutical extracts and preparations, because they very
much differ in conducting power, and therefore any
mixture or adulteration will be readily discovered.—
Atheneum.