The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-25 00:00:00

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

The following general order has just been issued. for
the gni:lance of the Commanding Officers of the R iyal
Artillery on foreign stations, relative to the men dis-
missed from the regiment with Ignominy :
"The Master• General having directed that soldiers
of the R .37-s1 Artillery, dismissed with ignominy, instead
of receiving their discharge abroad, shall be sent ho lie
as prison,ra (but not in Moss confinement on their pas-
.age), for the purpose of being discharged from the ser
vice in Engine', Commanding Officers are apprised that
such men w,ll, of e..urse, not b- entitle I to pty as sol-
.li rs, while .airing for a passage, or on the passage
home, but only rations, or subsistence ; and with a view
to prevent such men from becoming burdensome to the
pariah in which they may be discharged, an allowance,
to take them to their re: Teethe places of sniistment, or,
if the expense be not greater, to their intende.l plac-s of
residence, will hereafter be granted, at the rate of one
penny per mile, but that money is in no case to be paid
to the man, if a conveyance can be furnished.

ROBBERY OF PLATE.—On Tuesday information was
received by the police of a most daring robbery of plate hav-
ing been committed on the night of Saturday last, at the
house of Mr. Morgan, hosier and glover, No. 173, Strand.
Amongst the articles stolen, which were taken from different
rooms in the house, were 12 large silver tablespoons, 12
smaller ditto, 10 de-sert spoons, 8 si ver table forks, 2 sauce
!wiles, 2 soup ladles, a S,h slice. 6 salt spoons, 2 silver castor,
2 pair of sugar tongs, a butter knife, mustard-pot, marrow-
spoon, also a quantity of valuable wearing apparel. It
is nut known how the thieves effected an entrance.

NEGRO Boys.—A South American pape- publishes
an advertisement fit the sile of a variety of goods and
chattels, and among them the following " lot" of human
beings, who are desibtnat d boys :—" Nelson, negro boy,
aged about 38 years ; Michel, negro boy, aged about 33
years ; Thornton, negr i boy, aged about 38 years ; Jerry,
negro boy, aged aiana 40 years ; Charles, negro boy, age('
about 3.3 years ; Sheppe d, negro boy, aged about 22 years;
Alexis, negro boy, aged about 46 years ; Auguste, negro
toy, aged about 43 years ; and Crawford, negro boy, aged
aliout 33 years."

HAND IN-11AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.—A public
meetitr, wAs hell at the Literary Institution, Leicester-
square, on Wednesday last, to explain the plan on which the
Hand-in-Hand Building Association is founded. The chair
was taken by J. E. D. Bethune, Esq., one ef the trustees of
the society. The Chairman opened the proceedings by allud-
ing, in general terms, to the many fallacious schemes that
had been put forward, professing similar objects. He in-
formed the meeting, that before he became a trustee, he had
closely examined the plan of the association, and the calcu-
lations on which it is based, and had no hesitation in de dar-
ing the society could fulfil the prumises,it made to those who
joined it. Mr. Kruse, of Old Swan Wharf, Chelsea, in a
forcible speech, impressed on the meeting their duty to pro-
vide a comfortable home for their lama' s, and stated that
the greater part of a tradesman's life was spent in workingot,
for rent and taxes, which labour, through the a.i.dra..,.1 this
society, might be turned to his own be nefit. Several other
the course....n!-An,,,,td
speakers moved various resolutions, and in
1 to give great sitis-
observations, explained the details of the Hand 1
Association, which explanations appear:.
faction. Mr. J. R. Macarthur, of th
que.ti„ns. with the
.„,i.fi -d, and an-
Briti..h Investment
Society, was present, and askeid several
answers to which, he
a shareholder in the new
nounced his intention of becom
professe i
ghimself
ass ,ciation.
AT EDINBURGH
seven o'clock on SaturdaY--A b, sIitDETERMINED SUI.CI,DnE
mg a respectable looking mall, whose
name is at present unknown,. precipitated
himself from the top of
Salisbury Crags, and was killed on the spot. ills body,
, Willett is
t fell on the Radical-road, al I
dreadfully disfigure, ~ 1( afterwards rolled
.clivity to the Queen's Park, w •
1 wit the steep de, . hcre It was found,
' '
•d to the Infirmary, but ha
and remov, 8 not yet been claimed
Th
unfortunate man appears U. be about thirty-five Year s of age, is
about five feet nine or ten Inches in height, with a
round full face and
fair hair, and his head bald in front, lie was i
• resse
t d in a brown
top coat with a velvet neck, a green and blue satin vest, black and
white , necked trousers, and a black stuffed
lining the letters„hat, having irside the
"A. G." with the figures
5 •
31. -5 " There were
found in his pocket a penny and
Ile bad thrown off his coat and
map of the c.,unty of Edinbuigh.
and one ot his shoes before throwing Inm-
self over the precipice, as
these parts of his dress were found at the
top ot the crags. Caledonian Mercury
Th.. apo •
rehension so f,miliar to the London publ7e,
that the mass of railway projects now pressing on the attention of
the Legislature will
prove a serious embarrassment to the money
market, is clearly described In the circular of Messrs. Gibson, Ord,
and Co., of Manchester. They remark, that although there is now a
certainty of obtaining the new corn law, with every pr.,spect of an
abundant and early harvest, and a large supply of geld In the Bank
ot England, there s a Crag on the commerbe of the wimpy, attri-
butable solely to the alarm which is felt ,t the prospect of an en,ln
absorption of capital. A dissolution o." Parlian.ent, so tar as it will •
lead to a sudden stoppage of the schemes, they regard as a beitent
to be earnestly desired, and there are many persona connected Kitt},
the London money market who are entirely of the Mille opialott,,,
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