The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-09 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. Bland, embarked in the Numa transport ship,
baring been relieved by Capt. James's company, 4th bat-
talion, which sailed from the Royal Arsenal here on the
15th of December last. Lieut.-Colonel Chesney's corn.
pany has been about thirteen years abroad, havirg 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,
of 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 passPge
in the Sovereign transport ship, and have rations, and are
allowed barracks with bedding, furniture, &c., at Rica-
sole. They are under the charge of Lieut. Peebles, of
the 59th Regiment, who returns to England to be depot
paymaster. The depot of the 59th Regiment is at present
stationed at Templemore, in Ireland.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCIL --The Kite steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant- Commander G. Snell, recently employed on the
West India and Minh American stations, has been con-
demned as unfit to convey the mails, and has been sent into
Antigua to refit, and then sail for England, where she may
be expected by the end of the month.

t is reported that Mr. Macready has made an
offer to rent Drury-lane Theatre for the ensuing season,
but such a one as, it is feared, the Committee cannot
accept, it being too low even to admit of a hope that the
shareholders will obtain a dividend.
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
whose ages have varied from 92 to 96, and Sarah Platt,
who is 94 years old, is still living in the house.—Bristol
Standard.
BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.—RUMOURED
RESIGNATION OF LORD TEIGNMOUTII.--FOr some days
past a rumour bas been in general circulation throughout
the borough of Marylebone that it is the intention of Lord
Teignmouth, immediately on the re-assembling of Parlia-
ment, to resign his seat as Member for the borough. In the
event of this taking place Mr. Bond Cabbell will be the
candidate.—Morning Post.
SLEEPING IN CHURCH.—Perhaps the most
curious things about St. Phillip's Chapel, Winches-
ter, are the ancient stall-seats, 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 main-
tain their position by balancing themselves with care, and
resting their elbows on the seat-arms ; so that if the
monks who used them dropped asleep during divine ser-
vice, the seats came forward and pitched them headlong
upon the floor ; nay, if they only dozed and nodded the
least in the world, the hard oaken seat clapped against the
hard oaken back, and made a noise loud enough to attract
the attention of the whole audience. Nothing ever was
more cleverly contrived to keep people awake at church.
Several meetings have been held in the dif-
ferent districts of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn's estates,
in Wales, to make arrangements for the celebration of
the coming of age of the worthy Baronet, in the ensuing
month.

Lord Ward, after leaving Mivart's Hotel, pro-
ceeded to Himley Hall, Staffordshire, and has since gone
to inspect his recently-purchased estates in Aberdeenshire,
formerly in the possession of the Marquis of Huntley.
The Lord Mayor has appointed the Bishop
of Ripon to preach the Spital sermon on Easter Monday,
at Christ Church, and the Rev. Dr. Stabbing to preach
the Spital sermon on Tuesday, at Christ Church.
THE QUEEN'S GARDEN.—It is not generally
known that in the garden attached to Buckingham Palace
there is a mound of earth upwards of eighty feet high, the
summit of which commands an extensive view of the surround-
ing district, with the Surrey hills in the distance ; her Ma-
jesty having expressed a wish to enjoy the view from the
top of the hill during the summer, workmen have bees, for
the last week, actively employed in forming a gravel walk up
the side, and when that is finished a small pavilion is to be
erected for the accommodation of the Queen and her Royal
Consort on the summit.

THE ARMY.-The 14th Light Dragoons, now
on the march to Canterbury, will embark for Bombay about
the 15th of May. The tenders for shipping will be opened to-
morrow at the India House. About 500 rank and file from
Limerick district are ordered to join their corps on foreign
service. The Queen's Bays leave Piershill, Edinburgh, this
week, for Sheffield ; and the 29th move shortly from the Castle
for Glasgow barracks. The Bays will be replaced by the 4th
Dragoon Guards, and the 29th by the 56th Regiment.
We much rejoice to find that the staple trade
of our city, upon the prosperous state of which so large
a portion of our working classes depend, continues to
receive the countenance and patronage of the highest per-
sonages of the Court. Mr. Lillington, of the Clogs,
lately forwarded to the Queen Dowager, pursuant to or-
der, a large parcel of gloves, of various sorts, the mate-
rial of the whole being of the best description, and the
cutting and make generally most excellent. A like order
has also been just executed by Mr. Lillington for our
most gracious Queen.— Worcestershire Chronicle.

Lord Charles Russell, M.P., and Viscount Al-
ford, M.P., have consented to act as Stewards of the Bedford
Races of the present year.
SUICIDE.—On Tuesday morning about five
o'clock, as a labouring man named Adams, in the employ of
Mr. Wise, of Hendon, was proceeding across one of his mas-
ter's fields, he observed a man suspended by a new rope from
a tree ; he cut him down, and conveyed the dead body to an
adjacent inn, when a surgeon who had been sent for gave it
as his opinion that life had been for many hours extinct; it
subsequently turned out that the deceased, who appeared to be
about 50 years of age, was a Mr. Leach, who for some time
past had resided in Coppice-row, Clerkenwell ; he left his home
on Monday morning, and his family heard nothing more of
him until made acquainted with the discovery as above de-
scribed.

BANKRUPTS' ESTATES-OFFICIAL ASSIG-
NEES.—On Monday, the House of Commons ordered to be
prepared, a return of the amount of monies in the hands of
each of the official assignees of the Court of Bankruptcy, be-
longing to bankrupts' estates on March 1, 1841 ; also a re-
turn of the names of any of the official assignees yam have
been defaulters, or have absconded with money of bankrupts'
estates in their possession, and how much ; also a statement
of the amount of security the official assignees give before
receiving office.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo, accom-
panied by the Earl of Altamont and the Ladies Brown, are
expected to return to this country, from Naples, at the close of
this, or early in the onsuing month. The Hon. Colonel .and
Lady Louisa Knox return with the Noble Marquis and Mar-
chioness from Italy. The i\larquis's health is completely re,
stored.

The Lord Mayor has appointed the Bishop of
Ripon to preach the Spital Sermon on Easter Monday,
and the Rev. Dr. Stebbing to preach the Spital Sermon
on Tuesday, at Christ Church.
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On Tuesday the Orwell steamer made one of
the most rapid voyages between London and this port she
has ever yet accomplished—leaving Londor-bridge et
eight o'clock and arriving here at half-past three. Some
parts of her passage $i ere performed at the rate of twenty
miles an hour I—lpswich Express.

The quantity of minerals conveyed along the
North Midland Railway is almost outstripping the accom-
modations of the Company. _

Another railroad (the second) is about to be
commenced in the iEland of Cuba.

In 1840, 115,20 G persons arrived in the United
Sta•es by sea. The average immigration may be stated
at 120,000 a-year.
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An English surveying corps is now exploring the
shores of the Dead Sea. It is not unlikely that the Sy-
rian war will lead to the profitable export of great quan-
tities of the asphaltum which has given a name to this
strange inland sea.
FOSSILS.—It is stated that the British Museum
will shortly receive a valuable addition in Air. Gilbertson's
extensive and curious collection of fossils, now at Preston,
in Lancashire, and which has been recently secured to the
nation. Applications had bcon made for them both from
Paris and Vienna.

The Honourable Horace Pitt, and Colonel Mev-
rick, have left for Suffolk.
A man lately died in Kentucky, so tarnaciously
tall, that it took two clergymen and a boy to preach his funera
sermon.

WINDOW DUTIES.—A return recently moved
for by Captain Peellell, M.P., is before us, from which it ap-
pears that the total amount of window duty charged on hospi-
tals in England during the year 1840 was 1,2211. 7s. 2d. '1 he
duty on windows assessedfor the 12 following towns in England
(which contr:bute the largest amount) is as follows :—via.,
Bath, 18,8561. ; Birmingham, 7,905/. ; Brighton, 11,8231. ;
Bristol, 12,3461. • Cheltenham, 5,3321. ; Clitton, 5,3771. ;
Leeds, 5,6021. ; Liverpool, 22,551/. ; Manchester, 12,983/. ;
Norwich, 4,8701. ; Plymouth, 7,9421. ; and York, 4,5031.
MUSSELS POISONOUS. Last Wednesday
evening Mrs. Sedgwick, of Upper Nile-street, in this
borough, ate not more than halt a dczen muscles for sup-
per, but had scarcely concluded her repast before her
throat, face, head, and limbs began to swell in a frightful
manner, :which so impeded her breathing that she eat
almost suffocated. An emetic being promptly adminis-
tered, the stomach was soon relieved of its poisonous con-
tents, and the patient is now in a fair way of recovery._.
Sunderland Herald.

It is reported that Mr. Macready has made an
offer to rent Drury-lane Theatre for the ensuing season,
but such a one as, it is feared, the committee cannot ac
cept, it being too low even to admit of a hope that the
shareholders will obtain a dividend.

BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—We
have been informed, on good authority, that the line from
Bristol to Bridgwater will be ready to oxen for traffic on
Whit .Monday, 31st May.—Bristol Standard.

HURRAH FOR OUR BRITISH

TRUE BLUE.

A song, with this title, written by a gentleman
who chooses to conceal his name, has just been
published by D'Almaine and Co., Soho-square.
It is after the manner of llibdin, and will be a
favourite we doubt not with the admirers of such
national airs. The style is free and energetic,
and well suited to a tenor Or soprano voice. The
accompaniment for the piano is suited to the
words, full of spirit, and when well played, pro-
duces a brilliant effect. The following verse we
think will show that the author has no reason to
be ashamed of the composition :
Now the banner of Britain we'll hail,
May it ever for right be unfurl'd,
While around it bright honour and justice provail,
Revered shall it be through the world.
Then if urged on the right to maintain,
(Still rememb'ring the deeds of their sires),
Jackets blue, red, or green, their renown will sustain,
These a spirit heroic inspires.
Let us cheer, then, our patriots all !
To their country devotedly true,
Should she signal all hands, soon they'll rush to the call,
Then hurrah for our British true blue !