The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-14 00:00:00

TII F. ARMY.

On Sunday se'nnight the flank companies ,of the 3il Royal
Veteran Battalion, arrived at St. Helier's, Jersey, un board
the Fanny transport.
A very heavy firing WAS kept -up the whole of Friday fore-
noon in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, in consequence, we
understand, ()fan order issued by his Grace the Duke of Wel-
lington, Master-General of the Ordnance, to make t trial of
the new-invented cast-iron
.gun-carriages and. of their quali-
ties as to standing the effects of a long anti, rapid
.cannonade.--
(Kentish Gazette.)

[From•the LoainoN GAZETTE of Yesterday.]
Commissions signed by the Lord-Licutenant of the County of

Dum fries.

James M'Alpin I.eny, Esq7iobei)eput), Lieutenant ; Geo.
Scott Elliott, Esq: to be ditto ; John Staig,. Esq. to be ditto ;
Christopher Maxwell, Esq. to be ditto.
Duntfriessliire,4e. Militia.—John Morin, Esq., to•be Cap-
tain, vice Ogilvie, promoted ; Younger, Esq. to be
ditto, vice Gordon, resigned ; Thomas Beattie, Esq., to ditto,
vice Ilorthwick, deceased ; Ensign Thos. Alackie •to be •Lieu-
tenant, vice Swanson, appointed to the. East Witt Company's
Service; Syme, Gent.. to be,Ensign,-.vice Mackie, pro-
moted; Andrew.2.ll,lntosh, Gent., to ,be ditto, view Itrenmer,
promoted; A. S. Singer, Gent. :to be ditto, viee3lorin, pro-
moted; William Scott, Gent. to be ditto, Tieeinger, appoint-
ed to the. East India Colopnoy'll
Dumfriesshire Yeomanry Cavalry.—Wm. Thomson,
.(itent.
to be Lieutenant, vice Caverbill, resigned ; Sir W. Jardine,
Bart. to Cornet, vice 'Thomson, promoted.
Commission in the Reginientof Ilerwickslfire Y.eonlanry Cavalry:
William Scott, thnt..tobe Cornet, .sice:PAirbairn.

EXTRACIit DINART EVENT. - About five-and-
twenty years since Mr. W. Ntwstax, of forest-row, Lewes,
recovered from a very severe illness, but with the total loss of
his speech. After beiog .subjected to repeated attacks of des-
pondency, a few weeks back Mr. Npv.,m ax masagain•confined
to his bed with a malady that menaced his life. nurse,
on the first night of her employment„perceiving her patient
somewhat uneasy, took a position-4y the Aide of the bed.; his
eyes. were directed towards her—but , great indeed was her sur-
prise on hearing him distinctly .articulate the following. words :
" I have been visited by an angel !"—andthe.wick man scented
to tremble with alarm at the:sottnd .of bis,own• voice. From
that time, though entirely losi.during the long period-Above
specified, his .speech, has been, restored to - him ; arid. it is the
opinion of his medical , attendant, that, in tlie event ofhis:recO-
very, which is anticipated, will.not.agairr desert him. The
above singular event has been coninkunicated,to us from ~a
source so ttuly respectable, that. we:entertain doobt, whatever,
in skibt,t;:ec,.., its accuracy.--($11:8eX JUL:b.-Our.)

.* the Six Pock,s in the. Port of• Londo—
n (which have had a monopoly for twenty ,yoors).pay
dividend abovefive per cent.
floe pay a diy,identl.,of4i•per.Cent.
One pays a dividend of 3,8 per Cont.
To Par no dividend 411 all.

alone the sufferers, but they contrive to escape;
as they see the storm before it comes on,—are
see daily that innocent people are ruined; and
women and children reduced • to want by takitig
shares in these concerns; if it is asked, why .dO
they take such shares ? the answer is ready;
they wished to better their income, and have
been so ill-advised as to try to do so in this way ;
there is nothing improper in this way ; there is
nothing improper in the wish, or that merits•se
heavy a penalty, end it stirely, is extremely de.
sirable, and well worthy your Lordship's at.eto
Lions to try to check the increase of such trap
for the Unwary and confiding.
Rut the contemplated increase of such specits
late concerns is, at the present moment, beyond
belief. The St. Catherine's Dock, although of
great extent and full of mischief, is nothing to-
what is in contemplation—indeed, I may say; it
is something beyond contemplation ; for will it
he believed there are no less than two large
Docks, on the :oath side of the river, so far hi
progress that the ground is surveyed, the esti-
mate of expence made, and the whole nearly
subscribed for. As to getting the authority of
Parliament, that is not for a moment doubted,
for they say, if the SI. Catherine's Dock Bile
I passes, Parliament cannot refuse us. Thus we
see one false step leads to others—it is a wise
maxim, " beivare of the beginnings of evil."
The first Dock on the south tide is proposed to
be at a place called St. Saviour's ; and is to em,
brace about 25 acres of a district pretty much re,
sernbling theta s St. Catherine's, end will be attend,
ed with most of the evils of the other. No sooner
was this arranged than an active surveyor, and a
few enterprising individuals, planned and made
arrangements for a second Dock at Bermondsey,
in the immediate vicinity of the other. It is to
consist of no less than thirty-five acres ; this too
s subscribed for—such is the extent of this sort
of mania, at the present moment, unexampled
even in the times of the South-sea bubble...es-
Surely, my Lord, the evils of that grand financial
delusion are not so entirely forgotten as to induce
• Government to shut their eyes to projects of a si-
milar tendency. Are they to give the sanction of
their approbation to plans likely to bring ruin on
thousands? If such are to be the effects of our
having a liberal Ministry, we shall not, by and
bye, have cause to bless them.
%V hear much of Foreign Despots, and of the
little regard they slew to the happiness of their
subjects., Let me ask. what we should say if we
heard of a Foreign Sovereign driving suddenly.
from their homes thousands of people,—we
should he struck with horror, and we should
thank God we did not lire under such despotism._
But, my Lord, What name am I to give to the
conduct of the British Parliament who authorize
a few cold calculating and covetous individuals to
act in a way extremely similar—turning thou-
sands of families adrift at a few weeks notice, and
applying the Capital and energies of the Country
in such a way as not only is not called for, but
even extremely destructive in a thousand different
ways. We may be told that property is not
taken without compensation in money being
made ; in some cases the one may be an equiva-
lent for the other, but, generally speaking, it
not so. I rpeat, my Lord, that nothing but the.
• making out a clear case of public benefit can au-
thorize the sacrifice of private property. This
has Cot been done, nor can be; but even
if it could, the indecent and violent haste with
which this measure has been brought forward,
cannot be got over. That a measure, affecting
most seriously upwards of six millions of Dock
Property, affecting all the Private Wharfsl Suf-
ferance Wharfs, and Legal Quays; destroying
a Church and two burial grounds, and more than
1,100 houses and warehouses ; turning 10,006
inhabitants out of their homes ; that a measure.
of this immense magnitude andimportance is matte
public only in the month of February, instead of
the months of August or .September previous, in
contempt of the standing orders of the House of
Commons, hitherto always enforced in similar
cases of new and opposed schemes, ought to te
alone sufficient to stop it for the present session;
Lord Tikurlow said, " Forms are the fences of
Justice," and I trust that your Lordship will see
the weight of this objection, and will (if on this
ground alone) refuse to it the sanctions of your
great name.

I have the honour to be, my
.Lord,
Your Lordship's very hutuble Servant,
7th April, 104

It is mentioned in a communication from
Vienna, that a great number off Staff Officers in
the Army have been ►wised by the EtdPEROIL to
the honours of the Austrian Nobility. _

FRAUDULENT BACON.--Certain Manufacturers,
of Bacon in this County, have been for some time,
in the practice of washing it with a .solution of
quick lime, after having lightly salted it, and
then exposing it on a hurdle over a strong turf ~fice
for ,twenty-four or .forty,eight Ifotirs. Thit
process gives the Bacon the appearance of;hav_
lug been .thoroughly dried and seasoned, nod it
is then either forwarded to the Dublin Alarkot
for sale, or offered to our house-keepers here for
domestic consumption. The
.avaricious kna.yes
who carry on this traffic, do not consider that
few detections in the metropolis, of their •frau-
dulent manufacture, will totally destroy the,c4a-
racier %Odell this County has so long sustained,
in foreign markets, for superior excellence in Ba-
con and ,Butter-,-and
.they .themselves Would
all probability, be the first to suffer by such a
.loss of character. These observations are itt.
.tended to apply only to petty manufacturers, ptil
not at ail
.to•the extensive exporters for foreign
)
con stifilption,--(Gatha, Morning 'Post, 4rif Y 3: