The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-30 00:00:00

THE JANUARY NUMBER OF THE

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
contains

Among a variety of other interesting articles :-
1. The Chartered Booksellers, alias the Society for the
Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
2. Magpie Castle, by the Author of Sayings and Doings.
3. German Studies, by Mrs. Hemans.—No. 1. Goethe's
Dramatic Poem of Tasso.
4, Songs of Spain, by the same Writer.
5. Progress of Music to the Present Day—Velluti,
Sontag, Rte.
6. Irish Fools, by T. C. Grattan, Esq.
7. Taxation in England—The House and Window
Duties.
8 Authentic Account of an Unreported Meeting.
9. On the Prose Writings of John Milton.
10. The Story of Helen Gillet.
11. Backgammon v. Chess.
12. Monthly Commentary on Men and Things, for
January.
The New Monthly Magazine will commence the new
year with a great accession of talent, and those who desire
to avail themselves of the present opportunity for com-
mencing it, are requested to forward their orders to their
respective Booksellers immediately. Several Nos. having
been reprinted, complete sets may be had, or any odd N
and
oa.
Published for H. Colburn by R. Bentley; ll
Bradfute, Edinburgh ; and John Cumming,

ELEGANT ANNUALS FOR 1834.
Handsomely bound, 21s. ; large paper (India Proofs),
525. 6d.,
HEATH'S BOOK OF BEAUTY.
with 18 beautifully-engraved Portraits of Females
Edited by the COUNTESS of BLESSINGTON.
In silk, 21s. ; large paper (India Proofs), 525. 6d.,
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Containing 17 highly-finished Line Engravings, executed
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London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Co.

PATRONISED BY HIS MAJESTY.
With a Portrait of the late G. F. ROBSON, Esq.
On the 31st December will be published, No. 3, Vol. 111.
ARNOLD'S MAGAZINE OF THE
FINE ARTS.
CONTENTS.-Memoir of the late Mr. Robson—Living
Artists ; Wilkie—Vision of an Artist—Painted Statues—
Antiquity of Opie—Neglected Biography—Posture and
Attitude—Necrology—Royal Academy—Anatomical Lec-
tures—Lambeth Palace—Romsey Abbey—British Mu-
seum—Study of an Artist—Distribution of Prizes, Stu-
dent's Dinner, and Address—Composition in Tainting—
On Wood Engraving—British Institution—A Critic Cri-
ticised—Letters to the Editor—Elaborate Reviews of a
variety of Works—Artistical Chit Chat, &c. &c.
M. Arnold, 21, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden.

PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN ROSS.
FRASER'S MAGAZINE No. XLIX.
for JANUARY, 1834., price 2s. 6d., contains :
I. The State and Prospects of Toryism, January 1834.
11. A Dream.
111. The Wanderer's Romaunt.
IV. Ensign O'Donoghue's Last Communication.
V. Men and Manners in America.
VI. Gallery of Literary Characters, No. XLIV. Cap-
tain Ross.
VII. Members of the Northern Union, No. 11. W.
A. Mitchell, T. Hepburn, T. Doubleday, Charles Larkin.
VIII. Present Condition of the People. By the Au-
thor of " Old Bailey Experience." Class I. Labourers
in Cities and Towns.
IX. The Irish Policy of Ministers practically examined.
X. Extraordinary History of a Border Beauty. By
the Ettrick Shepherd.
XI. Men and Manners. A Series of Satires. Satire I.
XII. Notes written on the Last Day of the Year Thir-
ty.three.
James Fraser, 215, Regent-street, London.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND NEW
RECORD 0 FFlCE.—Arrangements have just been con-
cluded between his Honour the Master of Rolls and the
Secretary to the Record Board, under which the records
now at the King's Mews, Charing-cross, will be trans-
ferred to a new Record-office to be built on the site of the
Rolls' garden, so that there will no longer be any obstacle
to the progress of the National Gallery. The portion of
the Record-office at present intended to be erected will not
cost more than 14,000/., which, like the expedses of the
buildings for the other Chancery records, will come out
of the Suitors' Fund. A Bill will be brought in as soon
as Parliament meets to effect this object, and also for the
better regulation of the Record-offices, and more especially
to give access to the records to literary persons, under
certain restrictions, without fee or gratification. This
Bill will effeet also a considerable saving to the Consoli-
dated Fund, as, following up the principle adopted in other
cases, it will charge the salaries of the Chancery record-
keepers and their clerks, and the expenses of repairing the
records and making calendars, upon the Chancery funds
exclusively. The saving yiill be several thousands per
annum, and was first suggested by the Lord Chancellor, in
his evidence before the Salaries' Committee.

A young lady, or a wealthy family of Bologna,
was executed on the 6th inst., for murder. Impelled by
jealousy, she succeeded in poisoning two very lovely young
women, one of whom was her own cousin. She was
married, and suspected her husband of committing infi-
delities with her two victims. The proceedings against
her bad continued for two years, and her husband finding
that her fate was inevitable, as there were no hopes of
pardon from the Pope, on account of the enormity of her
crime, died of despair a very short time before her
execution.

MAD ITCH .—A disease called the mad itch
prevails to a great extent amongst cattle in Indiana. The
disease attacks the head, where it causes an intolerable
itching, for which no remedy has yet been discovered.
The animal keeps rubbing the place against any hard
substance till death ensues. A sow, attacked by the
di'ease, was found dead with her head in a stream of water,
where she had probably drowned herself in endeavouring
to obtain relief. Previous to death she had rubbed one
ear off.—Baltimore Patriot.
EXTRAORDINARY ABDUCTION.—A young
and interesting lady, daughter of a chief constable of
police, who is also a captain on half-pay, lately stationed
in the county Clare, and at present in the county Galway,
has been recently on a visit at a friend's house near Bruff,
in this county, where a young gentleman, a tithe commis-
sioner, has also been staying. On Saturday night last,
after the young lady had retired to her room, it was an-
nounced to her that her presence was required by the lady
of the house ; upon which she left her room, and was in
the act of proceeding down stairs, when the young gentle-
man (the tithe commissioner) seized her is his arms and
put her outside the hall door, where two men with their
faces blackened, who were in waiting, forced her into a
chaise, which was prepared to convey her away. Infor-
mation of the circumstance was at once given to Major
Vukes, who despatched a mounted policeman towards
Tipperary, that being the supposed route which the fugi-
tives took ; but no trace of them could be found, nor have
they since been heard of. Shortly after the mounted
po-
liceman arrived in Tipperary, two of the county Tipperary
police, who were on duty, returned ; and as one of them
was removing the pistol belonging to the policeman who
was despatched from this out of the holster, it unfortu-
nately exploded, and shot his comrade in the cheek. The
ball was lodged in the upper part of the head, and little
hope is entertained of the sufferer's recovery.—Limerick
Herald.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28.—The following is an extract
from the letter of our Mediterranean Correspondent
" VOURLA BAY (GULF OF SMYRNA), Nov. 2.
" We are expecting the Barham here ; when she
arrives, the whole squadron will be united, except a few
of the smaller cruisers. Our present impression is, that
we shall be detached on various services for a short period.
It is understood that the Malabar goes to the coast of
Italy, and that the rest will be distributed in the lonian
Sea, the Archipelago, and the coasts of Syria and Egypt.
We have been fo rsome months here watching events, and
nothing worth notice has yet taken place. Constantinople
is quiet, but the inhabitants of Samos hold out against
the Turks, and the people of Candia do not relish
the dominion of Mehemet Ali : that scourge of
the human race has, by means of presents to English
and French officers, contrived to get himself puffed
off in the papers, but, be assured, that he is neither
more nor less than a -detestable tyrant. He will never
found a Dynasty or consolidate an Empire, for he is
equally hated by the inhabitants of Egypt, and those of
the provinces he has conquered. The French Admiral is
at Smyrna with part of his squadron ; he has lately been
dangerously ill of a fever, but is recovering. Our
squadron has been upon the whole healthy, though there
has been a good deal of dysentery, and a few losses by
fever. The Malabar gave a ball at Smyrna to the Cap•
tain Bey and the Turkish authorities, at which also were
present the French Ad!ntral„_and officers of-the Reeool.--
squadron, the Austrian officers, and all the beauty and
fashion of the place."
It appears to be necessary, for the information of some
of our readers, to state, that the indications which appear
if warlike preparations directed towards Turkey, would
seem to have been excited by the ratification of the treaty
which the Porte made with Russia in July last, by which
it will be the duty of Russia to come to the aid of the
Sublime Porte whenever " a case of need shall occur, and the
Porte then engages that it will close the Straits of the Dar-
danelles, that is to say, it will not permit the entrance of any
foreign vessels, even under any pretence whatever." It
has been proved too frequently within a few years past,
that the Grand Seignor is incapable of defending him-
self against the attacks of either foreign or domestic
enemies. This point being indisputable, and that, under
this treaty, it will be the duty of Russia to come to his
aid whenever a case of need shall occur, there is every
reason for believing that such cases will happen fre-
quently ; until, in the end, it will be found easier for
Russia to take sole charge of the Ottoman empire than to
act under a power of attorney from the Sultan. The issue
of this connection between these two Powers can hardly
be considered as even doubtful.
Extract of a letter from an officer of his Majesty's ship
Hyacinth, dated Mauritius, September 12 :—" We ar-
rived here on the 3d instant from England, last from Rio
Janeiro, whence we had a very good passage. We passed
the Cape of Good Hope on the 9th August; the wind
blowing a-head of us, prevented our making for that port.
The Talbot, 28, Captain Dickenson, is the only ship of
war here ; she has been lying in Port Louisa Harbour
for protection. The Undaunted, 46, Captain Harvey,
from the Cape of Good Hope and Trincomalee, and the
Alligator, 28, Captain Lambert, from Pondicherry, arrived
at Madras on the '7th August. The Curacoa, 28, Capt.
D. Dunn, and Harrier, 18, Commander Vassal, were at
anchor in Negapore Roads at that date. The Magicienne,
28, Captain Plumridge, is daily expected here to relieve
the Talbot, when she will proceed to the Cape and Eng-
land. Having undergone a speedy refit, we sail to-
morrow for Trincomalee and Calcutta, having despatches
both for the Commander-in_Chief (Sir John Gore) and
the Governor-General (Lord W. Bentinck). The ship's
company are healthy."
We are gratified to learn, by a letter which we have
received from an officer of his Majesty's ship Curlew, that
the desperadoe Master of the Panda piratical vessel, which
the Curlew some time since captured, has been surrendered
by the native authority at Cape Lopez, and 683 dollars,
which he plundered from a Mexican brig. We subjoin an
extract from the letter :••••••
" His Majesty's ship Curlew, off Cape Lopez, Oct. 1.
" We arrived here on the 18th ult., from a cruise, in
search of slave traders, having fallen in with the Isis, 52,
Captain Polkinghorne, off the Bonny, where she is still
cruising. My last informed you of our capture of a pi-
ratical vessel, the Panda, up the river Nazareth, and of the
escape of the Captain and two of his crew. I have now
the gratification to state, that we have succeeded in reco-
vering them. As we approached Cape Lopes on the 18th,
we hoisted Spanish colours, upon which the King of the
settlement (the same who before refused to deliver them
up), not aware of us, sent his son and two other natives
off to the ship to trade. On their coming on board we
made them prisoners, telling them that they would be
detained until Don Pedro, the Captain of the Panda, and
the two Spaniards, were delivered up. They consequently
sent on shore and acquainted the King with their situation,
requesting him to send the men off. A flag of truce was
thereupon despatched to the ship, with a note from the
King to Captain Trotter, telling him, that if he would
send his boat ashore for the men, he should have them.
Captain Trotter went on board himself, with his boat's
crew, and on landing perceived a crowd at a small dis-
tance, and in the centre Don Pedro. Captain Trotter
immediately drew his sword, rushed up to him, and suc-
ceeded in bringing him to the boat. The other men were
sent off the next day, and our prisoners were released.
We received only 683 dollars from Don Pedro (which will
be returned to the Mexican, the brig he plundered), but
the villain told us that he had buried 5,000 more at about
20 miles from Cape Lopez. We accordingly proceeded
thither, and Captain Trotter despatched the cutter, with
Lieut. Mason (acting) to search the place, when, to his
disappointment, the treasure had been removed, but the
ground had evidently only just been dug up. The other
piratts of the Panda whom we captured, are at Fernando
Po, but whether these will be taken there is uncertain.
The Britomart, 10, Lieut. Quin, has not arrived yet ;
when she does we sail direct for England."
The Britomart arrived at Ascension on the 12th of
October, from the Cape, on her way to Sierra Leone.
On Thursday, the Sparrow, Lieut. Riley, arrived from
Lisbon ; and the Racehorse, 18, Captain Cotton, sailed
for Falmouth and Plymouth, to be paid off at the latter
port.
On Sunday last arrived at the Motherbank, the
schooner Prudence, J. Patterson, jun., reaeter, from
Chisme, in Turkey, laden with fruit, bound to London,
in distress, having encountered a gale of wind on the 16th
instant, which carried away her foreyard and sail, and
shipped a sea, which washed away part of her bulwarks,
binnacle, and completely swept the decks. She spoke on
the 3d instant, off Malaga, the Antelope, of Jersey, from
Tarragona, bound to Rio Janeiro, all well. The Prudence
left at Chisme the Lightning, Legett, and William Malvey,
Canney, loading fruit, for London. The Prudence pro-
ceeded on Wednesday for the Thames.
On Monday, the American- ship Sarah and Caroline,
Russell master, from Havre, board to New Orleans, arrived
here.
The Romney, with the depot companies of the 51st and
94th regiments on board, sailed from Portland Roads, on
Wednesday, for Cork.
The Conway arrived at Pernambuco from Bahia, on the
2d of November; the Arachne at Barbadoes from St.
Vincent, Nov. '7.
The Prince George from London for Bombay, and
Charles Eaton for Van Diemen's Land, put in here
yesterday, with foul wind.
The Lynx schooner, Lieut. Huntley, will proceed to join
the squadron under Rear Admiral Warren, on the west
coast of Africa, the moment the wind will permit. The
latter
end of Jan
Mercer, wuialr.
l ybe ready for the same
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ThearYb dLieut.
at
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at Chatham, is ordered to be got ready
for commission.
At Spithead.—Lynx, and Mary, and Sylvia transport.
In Harbour.—Victory, Royal George, Excellent, Edin-
burgh, Belvidera, Blonde, Rainbow, Sparrotvhawk, Jupi-
ter, Nautilus, Charybdis, and Sparrow.
It is intended that the Semaphore signal station at the
Platform, in this town, shall be continued. It is now
undergoing a thorough repair.
(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
Devoieroax, DEC. 28.—His Majesty's sloop Racehorse,
Commander Cotton, arrived here yesterday from Ports-
mouth, last from Falmouth, where she landed 25,0001. in
specie for the packets, and will come into harbour to be
paid off.
None but widows of boatswains, gunners, and carpenters
in the navy, are now required to appear before the Chaplain

Qs, Captain I..anibara, A* New South
An experiment is about to be made, to ascertain whether
bread can be better preserved in warm climates when en-
closed in iron tanks than in bags. The Belvidere, 42, and
Blonde, 46, are each to take out an iron cask filled with
bread, which are to be returned to the Royal William Vic-
tualling-yard after they have been abroad twelve months,
to undergo inspection.
The Messenger steamer arrived here on Thursday last
from Portsmouth, and will proceed to Falmouth to wait
for orders. The Messenger, on the evening of Wednesday,
while off the Nabb Light, ran on board and sunk the
Thetis, pilot boat, but by great exertions every one on board
was saved.
The complement of the Excellent, at Portsmouth, is
ordered to be increased by three Lieutenants, five Mates or
Midshiptnen of five years' standing, and two ordinary sea-
men, making her complement 234.
We hear from good authority, that owing to the ill state
of Captain B. Yeoman, he will resign the command of his
Majesty's ship Andromache, which is waiting at this port
for orders, and has not sailed for the East Indies, as erro-
neously stated in the last United Service Gazette. The
same paper also erroneously stated that Captain Samuel
Pym has commissioned the Canopus, 84—this ship was
commissioned by Lieut. Hathorn, several weeks since, and
it is at present understood is to be commanded by Captain
the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, of the Malabar.
Sir Amos Norcott, the newly-appointed Lieutenant
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces at
Jamaica, arrived with his suite at Elliott's Royal Hotel
yesterday, and will take his passage in the Cruizer, Com.
M'Causland.
Remaining in Hamosse.—San Josef, Canopus, Endy-
mion, Andromache, Ringdove, Cruiser, Dee steamer,
Leveret, Rolla, Saracen, Scorpion, Lyra, Athol, Industry
N.T., and Messenger steamer.
In the Sound.—Orestes and Marquis of Huntly
transports.
The police force, now enrolling for the protection of
this yard, is to form part of the regular dockyard establish-
ment, and the expense of its organisation and support
will be included in the estimates for the 6,000 men voted
by Parliament. We understand that it is intended to
retain some of the most able-bodied of the present wardens
as inspectors and sergeants.

TRANSMISSION OF LETTERS FROM
BOLTON to LtvEarooL.—Great complaints are justly
murmured by the commercial and manufacturing popula•
tion of this district, that whilst we have a railway from
Bolton to Liverpool, we are deprived of the advantages
which would result trorn the conveyance of the mail bags
through so excellent a medium. Letters posted in this
town before the box closes in the evening, might, if an
arrangement could be effected between the conductors of
the Post-office and the railway proprietors, be in Liver-
pool by ten o'clock on the following morning, whilst,
under the present system of forwarding them to Man-
chester, the delivery is protracted to the late hour
of four o'clock in the afternoon, and we have heard of
instances of the non receipt by persons to whom they are
addressed before the following Monday morning.
We are informed that au attempt was made some
time ago by the Post-office authorities to afford the very
necessary accommodation which we have suggested, but
that the charge by the railway proprietors was considered
to be too high to justify their pressing the bargain to a
conclusion. We are, however, of opinion, that a strong
memorial to the Postmaster-general, from the principal
trading inhabitants of this opulent and populous neigh-
bourhood, backed by the influence which our Parliamen-
tary representatives are known to possess with the Govern-
ment, might speedily lead to a renewal and consummation
of the treaty. We trust that those who have so long con-
sidered the matter in the light of a grievance, and vented
their dissatisfaction in complaints " not loud, but deep,"
will at once openly meet and discuss the propriety of such
a memorial, and of requesting that assistance which we
believe the members for Bolton would cheerfully and we
may say anxiously afford.—Bolton Chronicle.

•
The inquiry into the nature and proceedings
of the Leeds Corporation took place last week, but was
very short, ittid elicited nothing that was not already no-
torious. Our Corporation has bad two great safeguards
to virtue—first, absolute poverty ; and, second, the absence
of the temptations presented to other corporations by
borough elections. When there are no funds and no
patronage it would be bard indeed if the corporation
were not honest. We do not mean in the slightest degree
to insinuate that the Leeds Corporation is not composed of
honourable men—we believe it is so; and when we say
that they have as a corporation been virtuous because tb•r-
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fund. and large patronage would corrupt any corporation
on earth. As far as the Leeds corporation could display
the evil tendencies of the close system, it bas done so. It
has been characterized by the most rigorous exclusion of
all persons differing in politics or religious creed from the
favoured few, and the offices of alderman and common-
councilman have run greatly in family connexions. All
the weight it possessed has generally been employed to
resist every kind of improvement and reform.—Leeds
Mercury.

During the recent repairs of Bath Abbey
Church doors, a number of musket-balls were extracted
from the wood of which they are composed.
ABDUCTION.—The daughter of a small
farmer, named Power, at Kilmeadcu, in this county, was
forcibly taken off by a mounted party on the night of the
13th. When going away, they left sentries to keep the
inmates from giving the alarm before the party had got to
a distance.-- Waterford Mirror.