The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-28 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The East India Company's ship Farquharson
arrived off Deal on the 26th She sailed from China
on the 29th Nov., an I St. Ii len! nn the lst February.

The annual report of the Savings Bank in
Blomfiehl-street, M orfiebis, made up to November last,
states an increase in th, receipts of 12,8151., compare
with the year preceding; a diminution in the payment.
of 24,3131. ; and au increase during the year, inc'udinv
interest, of 40,740/. The total number of Vie depositot,.
is 18,024, and has increa•ed during the year by 1,491..
This bank has not availed itself of the new act enabling
these institutions to grant annuities, which was generally
the case, the sum allowed for management being con-
sidered too small.

The return of the exportation of the precious
metals from the port of London from the 14th to the 20th
inst., inclusive, is 73,320 ounces of silver coin, and 30,000
ounces of silver in bars, to Calais; 264,250 ounces 01
silver coin to New York.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH
26 —The sales today amount to about 3,000 bags. For
some scarce lots good prices were obtained, and the marke'
closed with an appearance of firmness.

At Hoßingwood, Lancashire, last week, a
etdid four years of age was killed by falling on a needle,
which entered her side, and ran into her lungs.

William Wigley, the Sidcup incendiary, who
was to be executed this day at Alaidatone, has been re-
•pited till the 17th of April.

GOLD.—It is worshipped in all climates,
without a temple, and by all classes without a single by-

pocrite.

At the la,t general annual licensing at Ham-
mersmith, f r the eight extensive parishes west of Piece
dilly, and extending to Brentiord, only one victualler had
his license temporarily suspended out of 256.

A noble lord, once the associate of royalty,
and giving dinners in St. James's square, may be seen
wandering about the Park in a state of almost complete
destitution. So much for fortune, or, as Napoleon said,
destiny ! 1
COMMENCEMENT OF WINTER.—It is an
extraordinary fact that it is not till after we have passed
the vernal equinox that any snow has fillen in the metro-
polis. Such was the case on Tuesday, and the whole of
t e past week has been colder than any thing experienced
during the winter quarter.

Those party feelings which formerly severed
political chiracters, moving in the same sphere of life,
have late y undergone au evident change, and do not ROW
prevent a social intercourse between persons of differen.
political opinions. This remark is illus rated by tha
Friendly intimacy subsisting between Sir Francis Burdett
nd Mr. J. Wilson Croker, who are now constant com-
p *ROMS.

THE KING TAKEN PRISONER.—In an
early period of his present Majesty's naval career, during
the American war, Prince Will.am, then a midshipman,
together wi h two other youngsters, landed on South-Sea
beach, and having passed the lines, after warning given
by the sentinel, the latter, as in duty bound, took them
all three to the go ,rd-house, from whence they w. re
marched before the colonel of militia, then in command,
who, after giving them a sharp lecture, sent them on
board their respective ships.
The remains of the late Viscountess Dun-
cannon were yesterday morning removed from his Lord-
ship's residence in Cavendish-square, to the family vault
at Wimbledon. The funeral was quite private, and
attended only by the nearest relatives. The mem-
bers of her family, and an extensive tenantry in Ire
land, to whom Lady Duncannon was a kind and liberal
benefactress, gave sustained in her death a loss which will
be long and sincerely lamented.
To THE CURIOUS IN ANCIENT WELSH
Customs..--At Whitchurch, near Cardiff, about forty
years ago, and for time immemorial previous to that
period, en Easter Monday it was usual that every married
woman who had never been blessed with issue should
repair to the church-yar,t, being first duly pro-
vided with two dozen tennis balls, one dozen of
which were covered with white and the other dozen with
'lack leather; these were cast by the fair votaress
over the church from the back 'ground, and scrambled for
by the populace who assembled fur that purpose in front
of the edifice. So imperative was this custom that neither
rank nor age was excused until it pleased those destinie,
who are wont to preside over hymeneal affairs to relieve
them by the birth of a child from its annual performace.—
Merthyr Guardian.
At the date of the last letters from the Mar-
quis of Anglesea's family, they were still at Rome, and
had participated in all the gayeties of the Carnival. An
extract of a letter says :—" His Lordship enjoyed the din
apparently as if it had been no less warlike than Waterhio
or Donnybrook. The Lords and the Ladies Paget, et hoc
genus omne, mobbed it for the time as if they bad not
been made of alabaster, but of mud, like the rest of the
people." The Marquis's yacht, the Pearl, is about to
sail for Naples, there to meet the Marquis, who will cruise
in it along the delightful shores of the Mediterranean dur-
ing the summer.

SAVOURY INTELLIGENCE.—Yesterday, in
the Sheriff's Court, in an 'teflon brought by a hors,-
slaughterer against a purchas-r of bones, it was stated that
the reason why horse's tongues were never to be seen
among the choice stock of the purveyors of dogs' and cats'
meat was, ti at they were far too valuable for that purpose,
and that, when properly trimmed, cured, and dried, they
made most excellent rein-deer tongues, and under that
name frequently found their way to the breakfast table of
the rich epicure.

Colonel St. Clair, author of the popular
narrative of a " Soldier's Recollections of the West
Indies, is a gentleman of an ancient Scotch family. The
Colonel was much distinguished by his Royal Highness the
late Duke of Kent, of whom several anecdotes are given
in the volumes. Some of the Duke's letters are also in-
cluded, together with many personal sketches of officers
who have distinguished themselves in the colonies.

Baron Hagel, the Austrian botanist, who
lately visited the Neilgherry Hills. in India, declares that
the unknown varieties of trees and shrubs existing there
alone exceed 10,000. The wild rose runs up to the top
of the highest trees, and grows to the thickness of four or
five inches. A delicious specimen of orange, but not ex-
ceeding a filbert in size, is also found there. In the
orange valley below Kotagherry, about 4,500 feet above
the level of the sea, numerous fruit-trees are found,
amongst which are the wild fig and lemon tree, the latter
bearing fruit little inferior in size and flavour to that of
Spain.

The new novel of " Allan Breck," is by the
Rev. Mr. Gleig, whose appointment to the Chaplaincy of
Chelsea Hospi.al has lately created such a tempest about
Lord John Russell's ears. As a novel writer this gentle-
man is entided to claim a high rank. His powers of
description ore considerable, and the constant activity and
bustle in which be involves hie characters, carry along
the reader with rapidity and pleasure to the close. of his
third volume. " Allan Breck" is the history of a high-
Lind clansman of the list century, and interwoven with
his story we have revived the stirring events of 1745,
which threw all Scotland into a flame. We shall not ao
Mr. Gleig the injustice of giving an outline of his narra- '
tive, but recornm nd its perusa., assuring our readers that
in many of the scenes they will recognize a hand of great
power, that there are innumerable " b.dr.hreadth'scepes”
told with much spirit ; the characters are ably sustained,
end that the story is one of the hest which has appeared
during the last year.—Leeds Mercury.

DETHRONED MONA RC H s.—A strange anec-
dote is told of Charles VII. of France. Our Henry V.
had shrunk his kingdom into the town of Bourges. It j.,4
said that having told a shoemaker, after he had just tried
on a pair of boots, that be had nu money to pay for them,
Crispin bad such callous feelings that he refused his
Majesty the boots. "It is for this reason," says Com.