The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-18 00:00:00

HOME CIRCUIT.

WINTER GAOL DELIVERY, 4th TVur.
IV., 1E133.

HERTFORD—Thursday,2Bth of November, at Hertford.
EssEx—Saturday, 30th of November, at Chelmsford.
KENT—Monday, 9th of December, at Maidstone.
SUSSEX—Saturday, 14th of December, at Lewes.
SURREYWedReSday, 18th of December, at Kingston-
upon.Thames.
The Hon Sir Stephen Gaselee, Knt., one of the Jus-
tices of our Lord the King of his Court,of Common
Pleas, and the Hon. Sir John Vaughan, Knt., one of the
13arons of our said Lord the King of his Court of Ex.
chquer, Justices,
JOHN CLARK, Deputy Clerk of Assize.
Sessions-house, Old. Bailey, London.

Workmen are at length employed in pulling
down the house at the corner of Coleman-street and
Lothbury, by means of which that much frequented
access to the City will be greatly improved.

GREENWICH TIME.—The following notice
has been issued from the Admiralty The Lord.
Commissioners of the Admiralty hereby give notice, that
a ball will henceforward be dropped, every day, from the
top of a pole on the eastern turret of the Royal Obser
vatory at Greenwich, at the moment of one o'clock p.m.
solar time. By observing the first instant of its down-
ward movement, all vessels in the adjacent reaches of the
river, as well as in most of the docks, will thereby have
an opportunity of regulating and rating their chronometers.
The ball will be hoisted halfway up the pole at five
minutes before one o'clock, as a preparatory signal, ant
close up at two minutes before one."—Mcchanics'
Magazine.

The potatoe crop in Ireland will this year fall
short by at least one-third of the usual average. This
failure of the food of the peasantry of that country may
possibly lead to another appeal to the charitable feelings of
the British public ; and the anomalous spectacle may be
exhibited of a peasantry begging for the means of sub•
siste❑ce with one hand, whilst with the other they are
straining to raise a princely income for an individual who
would almost seem to feed upon their discontent.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.--.Mr.
Hamilton read an extract from a letter from Sir W. Gell,
mentioning the arrival of Mr. Wilkinson in Italy, on his
way home from his long sojourn in Egypt, and announcing
a fact of great interest to the philosophical inquirer. Mr.
Wilkinson bad procured means to ascend the famous statue
of Memnon, the musical wonder of more than 2,000 years,
and the subject of so much ingenious speculation ; and
Le had discovered that all these learned theories were like
that of the different effect between live and dead fish i❑ a
vessel brimful of water, i. e., without the fact on which to
raise the hypothesis. In short, Memnon has not emitted
sounds in consequence of the rays of the sun falling in any
direction nn his morning head ; but in his mighty breast
there is inlaid a sonorous atone, and by it a concealed niche,
in which was placed a man with an iron rod to strike the
stone, which consequently emitted those mysterious and
priestly sounds which helped to uphold the solar adora-
tion, and the wonder of an ignorant awl idolatrous people !
The statue itself bad been broken, probably by Cambyses,
and afterwards repaired ; but the secret was taken good
care of.

" BUMPER."—When the Catholic religion
was in the ascendant in England, the health of the Pope
was usually drank, in a full glass immediately after dinner
—au bon Pere—hence the word " Bumper."
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Nov. 16.
—We have bad a very dull market this day ; the sales are
about 500 bags, prices nominal.

A WAR CRY.-By way of a good story, it
is told of Lord Beresford, that on his first formation of
the Portuguese army, and getting some of the regiments
under fire, he cheered them with the animating war cry
of "Fogo !—meas filhos logo !—mias bacalhao a mania !"
Anglice—" Fire ! my sons, fire ! more salt fish tomor-
row !"

POLITICS OF THE EDINBURGH NEW
TowN COUNCIL.—The Weekly Chronicle of the 9th gives
an analytical list of the new Councillors, from which the
following result appears:—

Whigs.
Conservative Whigs 2
Radical Whigs 3
Radicals 9-33
Established Church supporters 2l
Voluntary Church supporters l2-33
We have put Dr. Macauley into the class of Whigs and
Established Church Supporters, without knowing much of
his sentiments. We are by no means sure that the gentle.
men of the Council will acquiesce in the designations as-
signed to them by our intelligent contemporary.
REGISTRATION SHILLING.—A questio❑
having arisen whether or not freemen, as well 101.
householders, are required by the Refortn Act to pay Is.
for registration, Mr. T. Frith, one of the overseers of
Stafford, wrote to Lord John Russell, who replied as fol-
lows:

" Woburn Abbey, Oct. 28.

" Sir,—Any opinion that I can give you will he unpro-
fessional, and therefore worth very little ; but it appears
to me that the overseers are, by the Act, to collect from
every elector whose name is on the register; but what he
collects is to be in addition to the poor rate. I should,
therefore, say, that the oversee! ought to collect from every
freeman rated to the relici of the poor, but he cannot
originate a rate for these who are not rated. Your obe-
dient servant, J. RUSSELL.
—Nerihampten Mercury.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR HERBERT
SAWYER, K.C.B.—This gallant officer departed this life
or Wednesday last, at Bath, where he had been residing
since he left this neighbourhood, to which he was much
attached, in consequence of the health of Lady Sawyer.
He was the son of Admiral Herbert Sawyer, and served
under his father during the war with our Transatlantic
Colonies, at the conclusion of which he was in command
of the Porcupine sloop, at Jamaica. He was made
Post-Captain in the early part of the year 1789, and in the
following year appointed to the Pegasus, 28, on the New-
foundland station. In 1793, when the war with France
commenced, he commanded the Ansphion frigate, from
which be was subsequently removed (1795) to the Nassau,
of 64 guns, and cruized with the North S-a Fleet till
1797, when be was appointed to the Saturn, 74, attached
to the Western squadron. In 1799 he succeeded Sir Henry
Trollope in the Russel, which he continued to command
until the spring of 1801, when he joined the Juste, of 80
guns, and accompanied Sir Robert Calder to the West
Indies. On his return to this country he who appointed
to superintend the payment of ships at this port, and
which appointment he held until promoted to the rank of
Rear- Adi ritl,
Herbert Octobersaw y
e2r,
was appointed
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n partc omo f.
1810 s
mand at Portsmouth, and in the latter part of the same
year was promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral, and ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief on the H tlifax station, which
he held until 1813; and when about to leave that station
was presented with an address from the Consul, merchants,
and inhabitants, thanking him for his gallant and unceasing
exertions in the protection of the colonies from the attacks
of the Americans. In the same year he hoisted his flag
as Commander-in-Chief at Cork ; and on the 2d of
January, 1815,
he was nominated a K.C.B. At the
time of his death Sir H. S. was an Admiral of the White,
to which he was promoted in 1825.—Devonport Tele•
graph.
EDINBURGH CORPORATION.—Mr. Spittal,
after having declined to be examined as to his opinion on
particular points connected with the town's business, was
unanimously elected Lord Provost. The Baillies and
other functionaries being appointed, the first point which
came into consideration was the Provost's salary. A mo-
tion being made that it should be fixed at 5001., Mr.
Aytoun moved an amendment, that no salary whatever
should be allowed. The original motion was carried by
a majority of 22 to 8. Another atnendment, that the
allowance should be 2501., was lost by a majority of 17
to 13. From these divisions it will be observed that the
party in the Council which is against extremes measure,
forms a decided majority.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

FASHIONABLE INtELLIGENCF,

ARRIVALS.

The Earl of Sandwich, in MiYunt.street, from Hinchinbroke;
the Hon. General Capel, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.
from a tour ; the Hon. Mrs. Fane, in WinZle=arreet, from
Fulbeck ; Sir Charles and Lady Grey, at the Oaks, Epsom,
from Brighton ; LOrd Abranley, in Charles-street, Berkeley-
;quare, from Brighton ; A.dthifal Cir John Wells, Lady Eliza.
beth, and Miss Murray M`Gregor, in DOV6r.street, from Wor-
thing ; Lord Ramsay, in Albemarle-street, froirt Oxford ; J.
Hardy, Esq., M.P., and family, in Portland.place, from tl:cir
:eat in Yorkshire; Mr. Charles and Lady Mary Wood, in
Richmond.terrace, from Hinckley, near Doncaster; Right
Hon. Edward Ellice, in Cleveland.square, from the North,
Nathaniel Barton, Esq., and family, in Guildford-street, from
Corsley House, near Warminster.