The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

(From the Limerick Chronicle.)
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of each rank annually, till all are promoted, probably 300.
Lieut.-General Sir Hussey Vivian inspected the 74th Re-
giment at Belfast on Friday, and expressed his gratification at
their appearance and discipline.
On Wednesday, the depot of the 25th Borderers, at Ar-
magh, was inspected by General Macdonnell, who expressed
to Major Priestley, in the field, his entire approbation at the
excellent appearance of the men under arms, and after-
wards at the cleanliness and regularity of the barracks, books,
school, &c.
The depot companies of the 76th Regiment are now in
camp near Eyrecourt, county Galway.
Major Eden, of the 56th has joined and taken command of
the depot companies of that regiment at Cork.
Ensign Wetherall, of the Ist battalion Ist (or Royal Regi-
ment, has received permission to do duty with the 2d battalion
in Dublin. _

Colonel Holloway, C. 8., Ordnance Department, arrived
in garrison this day from Cork, on a tour of Barrack and
Ordnance duty. . _ _

A general Courtmartial, composed of officers, Royal Ar-
tillery, 7th Dragoon Guards, 60th Rifles, and 91st, in this
garrison, has assembled at the New Barracks—Capt. Lavers,
91st, President.
Major Nugent, 7th Dragoon Guards, joins here from leave,
on Wednesday next.
Lieut. Siborn, of the 47th regiment, has returned from
England, and resumed his duties as Assistant Secretary to the
Lieutenant-General Commanding in Ireland.
The depot companies of the 59th regiment have arrived at
Chester, and the service companies remain at Haydock Lodge,
Lancashire, preparatory to embarkation.
Captain Wilson, of the 96th, has joined the depot compa-
nies of his regiment at Kinsale, from the senior department of
the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.
By the return of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Barnes to
England from Calcutta, that officer's Staff establishment, com-
prising Lieutenant-Colonel Churchhill, 31st Foot, Lieutenant
Deverill, 16th Lancers, and Lieutenant Barnes, 26th Foot, is
dissolved.

THE MISER PUNISHED.—Under the reign of the
first caliphs, there was a merchant in Bagdad, equally rich and
avaricious. One day he had bargained with a porter to carry
home for him a large basket of porcelain vases for ten paras.
As they went along, he said to the old man, " My friend, you
are young and I am old—you can still earn plenty—strike off,
I entreat you, a para from your hire."—" Willingly," replied
the porter. This request was repeated again aid again, until,
when they reached the house, the porter had only a single para
to receive. As they went up the stairs, the merchant said,
iIC If
1, you will resign the last para, I will give you three pieces
of advice."—" Be it so," said the porter. " Well, then," said
the merchant, " if any one tells you it is better to be fasting
rthouanndfastintg,edo not believe him ; if any one tells you it is
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better to be poor than rich, do not believe him : if any one
tells you it is better to walk than to ride, do not believe him."
—" My good sir," replied the astonished porter, " I knew
these things before, but, if you will listen to me, I will give
you advice such as you never heard." The merchant turvied
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main unbroken, do not believe him." Before the mini' could
reply, the porter made his escape.

Lord A. Fitzclarence, for the Continent ; the Marquis of Lans-
downe, for his. seat, Bowood Park, Wilts ; Viscount Sandon, for
Gloucestershire ; Sir John and Lady Cathcart, for Scotland ; Lady
Acton, from Hitchcock's' St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street,
on a tour • Mr. and Mrs. Baker, from ditto, for their seat, in
Harts ; Mr.i and Mrs. Turner and family, from the St. James's
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Southampton ; Captain Blackett, from
ditto, for ditto ; Le Comte Tolstoy and his brother M. de Tolstoy,
from Crawley's Hotel, Albemarle-street, on a tour, for Manchester
and Liverpool ; Mrs. Rotchfort, Mrs. Sneyd, and Miss Burgh,
from ditto, for Ireland; Lord Carbery, fiom Ellis's Hotel, St.
James's-street, for his seat, Layton Hall, Wansford ; Mr. and Mrs.
Edmund Jones, ;
from ditto, for Rotterdam T. B. Ricketts, Esq.,
from ditto, for
Combe, near Leominster ; Mr. and Mrs. William
Hawkins, for their seat, in Norfolk ; Captain Knox, from Raggctt's
Hotel, Dover-street, for Brighton ' • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Wm.
Robert Clayton, Bart., M.P., and family, from Gloucester-place,
Portman-square, for Harley-ford, Marlow ; Colonel and Mrs.
Campbell, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Green-
wich ; Miss Wolfe from dititi, for ditto; the Rev.. Charles Simeon,
from ditto, for Cambridge ; Captain Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, from
the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, for Southampton ; Thomas
West, Esq., Mrs. West, and Miss West, from ditto, for Brighton ;
E. Tallent, Esq., Mrs. Tallent and family, from ditto, for the
Continent ; W. C. Colvill, Esq., from Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-
square, for Dublin; T. Fox, Esq., from ditto, for Dorchester; H.
Potts, Fsq., and family, from ditto, for Brighton.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, AUG. 15.

The Court was occupied during the morning in hearing
petty cases of assault. In the last one tried it was disco-
vered there was no legal tribunal, Mr. ROTCH, M.P., the
Chairman being the only Magistrate, on the Bench, and
two Justices being required to form a Court. After a
delay of two hours Mr. HALSWELL, a county Magistrate,
entered the Court by chance, and a verdict of Not Guilty
was returned. The Chairman then said that Mr. Halswell
was compelled to attend his duties as one of the prison
committee, and therefore the remaining cases must stand
over to the next session. After a discussion between
counsel, and a protest from several prosecutors, the Court
adjourned.

The West Indies are 177,140 square miles ; they
contain 74,240 white, and 884,600 coloured inhabitants; their
revenues amount to 541,500 L, and their expenditure to
551,6001. ; their imports are worth 5,806,4001., their exports
9,932,500/. ; the property yearly created is 21,972,5491., and
the whole existing property, moveable and immoveable, is esti-
mated at 126,690,0001.

Mr. Holcroft was an excellent reader of his plays,
and always believed he would have succeeded as an actor.
Asking Lewis if he remembered him on the stage, and what
was his success,—" I remember him," said Lewis, " only when
acting with him as the original representative of Figaro, in
his own play of the 6 Follies of a Day;' on which occasion, at
the fall of the curtain, old Harris came up with great good
humour, and, shaking him by the hand, said, " I give you joy;
the play has got over your acting, and nothing can give a
stronger proof of its intrinsic merits."

MECIIANICAL TRlFLlNG.—Boverick, who made
chains to " yoke a flea," must have possessed exquisite pa-
tience. Besides a chain of 200 links, with its padlock and
key, all weighing together less than the third part of a grain,
this indefatigable minute artificer was the maker of a landau,
which opened and shut by springs ; which landau, with six
horses harnessed to it, a coachman sitting on the box, with
a dog between his legs, four inside and two outside passengers
besides a postillion riding one of the horses, was drawn with
all the ease and safety imaginable by a well trained flea. The
inventor and executor of this puerile machine bestowed on it,
probably, as much time as would have sufficed to produce
Watt's steam engine.-117echanic's Magazine.
KEEPING A PLEDGE.—Mr. Clark Irish, of La-
fayette, in this state, shot himself a few days since. He had
been intemperate for some years past, and was recently in-
duced to join a temperance society. Within a short time,
however, he returned to his old habits, and, on being told that
he had broken the pledge given on joining the temperance
society, he replied that he should never do so again. Imme-
diately after this he took his gun, went into his garden, and
blew out his brains—American Paper.

HARVEST.—Harvest-labour commenced last week,
and is now pretty general in all our earlier and more fertile
districts. The stock everywhere falls well to the sickle, and
although the weather is rather unsettled, a great deal of work is
done " between hands." Stooks are rife enough in the vallies,
and before the lapse of many days will be seen dotting the bleakest
hill-sides. With the single exception of early-sown barley,
all the grain crops are beautifully pickled, awned, and eared ;
and we hesitate not to say that wheat, quality and all things
considered, is a full average, and oats, as near as may be, a
crop and a fourth. Rain necessarily leads to retardation, but
should the elements prove propitious, as the glass seems to
indicate, great will be the joy a month hence—inviting the
appearance of every barn-yard, and most exhilarating the
sound of harvest-home. The pasture, turnip, and potato fields
profit by all the rain that falls ; and viewing the truly bounteoue
corn-fields which woot he husbandman on every hand, the stets
of the revenue and the country altogether, it would be difficult
to name a season during which were set more prominently be-
fore the eyes, hearts, and gratitude of tliF British people the
inestimable blessings of peace and plenty.—Dunifries Courier.
DREADFUL FIRE IN ASIILIN'S-PLACE, DRURY-
LANE.—Last evening, about seven o'clock, a dreadful fire
broke out on the premises of Mr. Howard, an extensive cow-
keeper in Ashlin's-place, a narrow thoroughfare running from
Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, chiefly inhabited by the poorer
Irish. The flames made such a rapid progress that it was with
the greatest difficulty that the cows could be removed. On the
arrival of the engines the cowhouse presented one immense
sheet of flame; but, by the great exertions of the firemen, it
was got under. There is great reason to fear that this
fire has not been unattended with the loss of human
life, as it was reported that two children have perished in the
flames. The shrieks of the persons who had escaped from the
house were truly horrible ; from the combustible nature of the
building, and the quantity of straw, &c., on the premises, the
flames spread with incredible swiftness, scarcely leaving them
time to reach the street, much less to save any article of fur-
niture. A person is in custody on suspicion of having set fire
to the house, but whether from design or accident remains to be
ascertained.
POISONOUS SNAKES.—The death, or deaf adder,
is an ugly creature, and is considered highly dangerous. A
case of death caused by the bite of one was communicated
to me by a very respectable person, who had the account
from the comrade of the deceased; and, if it be correct, of
which there is sufficient reason to believe there is little doubt,
the death of the unfortunate man must have been peculiarly
dreadful, as blood gushed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and
ears. Immediate decomposition commenced, and in a very
short space of time, the body was in such a state, that it was
with difficulty removed to where the grave had been dug.
Aly informant, who had been twenty-two years in the colony,
emphatically added, that when a person is bitten by a death
adder, he has scarcely time to say, " Lord have mercy upon
me 1" before he becomes a lifeless corpse. It is affirmed that,
in Africa, there are several, the bite of which will cause a
most horrible death. The person bitten feels drowsy, and
the form melts at once into a mass of putrefaction. The
burning snake of India can cause instant death, the blood
flowing from the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, and exuding
from the pores. An American serpent, called de la crux,
is said to kill in the same manner; finally, the bite of the
naja is represented to be so fatal, that a person bitten by
one will die in the course of half an hour, his flesh falling
off his bones in a semi.rdissolved state.—Excursions in New
South Wales.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On the arrival of the
Telegraph coach from London to Exeter at Deptford Inn,
Wilts, on Wednesday last, the passengers were shown to the
usual room for taking refreshments, when one of them who
stood at the head of the table seized a carving knife, and in-
stantly cut his throat in so dreadful a manner as to nearly sever
the head from the body. He had stopped the coach and got up at
Staines—expressed a wish to go to Honiton—gave the guard
a sovereign—said he was very short of cash, and requested an
inside place ; he spoke little during the journey, and nothing
transpired to induce the other passengers to think he was con-
templating suicide. He was a fine black whiskered man,
about thirty years of age, and five feet eight or nine inches
high ; had on a dark green coat with velvet collar, black
waistcoat, grey trowsers, and a shirt which appeared quite
clean, marked with an Hebrew character (Mem. ) and No. 2,
his boots having been lately vamped, his hat light and nearly
new, no maker's name to it. He had a watch with a tortoise-
shell case, with only one hand to it, to which are attached,
by a black ribbon, three seals, one of which is very small,
having the impression of a swan. On the little finger of his
right hand he wore a gold ring, with a white stone, bearing
the name of Eliza : in his pocket was found a red silk purse,
containing six shillings and sixpence ; he had no luggage, nor
was there found upon his person either letters or papers to
indicate where his friends may be found. Mr. Whitmarsh,
one of the Coroners of the county, held an inquest on the bcdy
on Friday. Verdict accordingly.