The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-13 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Lady Harriet Drummond and Lissomrmmod, at the
Hyde-park Hotel, Hyde-park-place, r Albury Park ;J.
Curtois, Esq., at ditto, from Paris ; NV. Thompson, Esq , at
ditto, from Brighton; Sir Robert and Lady Peel, in Privy Gas.
dens ; Lord George Bentinck, at Harcourt House, from a
tour; Viscount Melbourne, in South-street, from Brighton;
Count and Countess De Salis, in Lower Brook.street, from
Rokeby Hall, Louth

DEPARTURES.
Lady Harriet Manners Sutton and family, from the Hyde-
park Hotel, for Brighton; Thomas Thiselthwayte, Esq., from
ditto, for his seat, Southwood Park ; Thomas Tindal, Esq.,
and family, from the Blenheim Hotel, Bond-street, for Bucks ;
Mrs. and Miss Achmuty, from ditto; T. Watson, Esq., from
ditto, for Dover ; J. Ellis, Esq., from ditto; G. Hoskins, Esq.,
from ditto, on a tour ; Rev. A. Wilkins, from ditto; Mr. and
Mrs. Shepherd, from ditto, for Bath ; Walter French, Esq.,
from ditto, for Dublin; James Toinkins, Esq., from ditto; Wm.
Jenkins, Esq., from ditto, for Brighton.

he formation of a Conservative Club, purports that several
noblemen and gentlemen have resolved upon forming
themselves into a Society of a similar nature, upon liberal
political principles.
The Gaultee mountains are covered with
snow. In Tipperary there was a heavy shower of snow
on Thursday.
A Norman cross is said to be the form of
the monument in contemplation to be erected to the memory
of Sir Walter Scott.
Mr. Hook's new work, just published by
Whittaker and Co., " Love and Pride,' by the author of
" Sayings and Doings," in three volumes, pronounced by
the Literary Gazette to be " two stories in Mr. Hook's
best style," and by the Alhemtum, " just what every
reader would expect--gay, pungery, and delightful."
A Company has been just established, we
learn, to run steam coaches in various parts of England.
The capital of the Company exceeds 300,0001. They
have ordered fifty coaches to be built at Birmingham and
six at Matulslay'e. Sir H. Parnell is likely to be Chair-
man of the Company.
Viscount Combermere and his daughter, the
Hon. Miss Cotton, have taken their departure for Naples,
where they will winter. His Lordship, since his return
from India, has received an enormous addition to his for-
tune from his share of the Bhurtpore prize money. The
Nob'e Viscount has been heard to say that it was too much
for him, when the few years he was in India was taken
into consideration.
The venerable Duke de Grammont, father of
the Duke de Guiche and of the Countess of Tankerville,
subsequently to his return to France, instituted law pro.
ceedings for the purpose of establishing his chain to the
property of the citadel of Blaye and its dependencies. This
cause has at length, we hear, been tried by the Cour Royale
of Bordeaux, and it was decreed that, at the expiration of
three years, the State shall pay to the Duke an annuity of
106,000 francs, or reinstate him in the possession of the
citadel. The French Government has appealed against
64 decree in the Court of Cessation.
A large party is now assembled at Strathfield-
saye, enjoying the sport of shooting. Among the com-
pany are—the Prince and Princess Lieven, Prince Ester-
hazy and his son, Prince Nicholas, M. Dedel (the French
Charge d'Affaires), M. de Bacoort, M. de Wessenberg,
Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothsay, Lord Rosslyn, Sir
Henry and Lady Emily Il irdinge, and Colonel and Mrs.
Maberly.
We have learned that, in reply to an intima-
tion from Vienna that the Austrian Government might be
requested by his Sardinian Majesty to send troops into
Piedmont, it was answered by the Duke de Broglie, that
if an Austrian army entered Piedmont, the French must
take possession of Savoy and Nice. We are sorry to see
our old friends the Austrians submit to be the cat's-paw of
their ambitious and designing neighbour, but if they per.
gist in that service they must expect to have their fingers
burnt for their folly.
The following is an account of the exporta-
sion of the precious metals from the port of London from
the 29th November to the sth inst. inclusive :
Siver coin to Calais.. 179,000 r z.
Smyrna
Colombia river
Gold coin to Rotterdam
By the advices from Hamburg, the price of
gold is 133 per mark, which, at the English Mint price
of 31.175. 1 Oid. per ounce for standard gold, Rites an
exchange of 13 9, and the exchange at Hamburg on
London, at short, being 13 S, it fellows that gold is
29 61 per cent. dearer at Hamburg than in London.
REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS.—The office
occupied by Mr. Macaulay being in the gift of the East
India Company, and not of the Crown, its acceptance does
not vacate his seat for Leeds, but he has intimated his
intention to resign before the sitting of Parliament. The
Tories have, as we stated last week, their Mr. Sadler in
the field ; but the Whigs have not yet announced their
candidate. Mr. Fawkes, of Fernley Hall, is understood
to have declined. Mr. Baines, of the Leeds Mercury, is
said to have been solicited, and to have also declined the
honour. Some of the Radicals have been looking to Mr.
Joshua Bower, of whom they Bey that he is " every thing
except a grammarian !" They had a meeting at the Black
Lion, Mill Hill, on Tuesday evening, to consider what
they should do. After a good deal of palaver the votes
were taken, and they were—for Mr. Bower, 36 ; Mr.
Sadler, 19 ; Mr. Baines, 3 ; and Mr. Fawkes, I.—Hud-
dersfield Express.
SALE OF SHIPS OF WAR.—Yesterday a
sale took place at the Admiralty Office, Sourer-et-place,
of several of his Majesty's ships of war. The Echo
steam-teasel, coppered and copper-fastened, was put up at
3 5001., but no purchaser was found at the reduced price
of 1,900/., at which she was bought in. The Supply
transport was offered at 1,7001., and taken in at 9801.
The Philomel gun-brig was put up at 1,2001., and sold
at 6901. Toe Cordelia gun-brig was offered at 1,2001.,
and sold at 7101. The Plumper gun-brig was put up at
7001., and sold for 400/. The upsetting price of the
Manly gun-brig was 800/., and she was purchased for
5501. The Barracouta gun-brig was put up at 1.2001 ,
but no buyer was found at a reduction of 6404, at which
she was bought in. The Zenobia brig was put up at
1,6001., and bought in for 890/. The sale was fully
attended.
THE RUSSIAN SOLDIERY.—The Russian
soldiers will bear great fatigue, and endure hunger and
thirst for a long period. Desertion is scarcely known
amongst them. They are born slaves, and as soon as
they are conscious of knowing any thing, they learn that
they have a master, whose will must be always a law to
them. Familiarized with this idea, the only one which
occupies them, passive and absolute obedience is a natural
consequence. The order of the Sovereign brings under
his colours thousands of his soldiers ; those upon whom
the lot fills receive the adieus of their relations and
friends, which they will never again receive, and stupidly
go to confront death. They are placed before a battery
as they would be placed in the front of a corps de garde
in time of peace. Their religion in this respect makes
them very submissive, the Russian peasants generally
being believers in predestination, and, like the Turks,
fatalists.— The Polonals.
LIEUTENANT BOWERS'S NAVAL ADVEN-
U ILES. —Besides a variety of wild and wonderful adven-
tures, this autobiography opens up some striking views of
the chequered life and strange character of a true jack-tar.
We see him, now exposed to the nautical risks and bitter
weather of the Greenland fishery ; now broiling beneath
the burning line, or sacrificing health, and too frequently
life, on the tropical sta'ions ; in one trip luxuriating in the
delicious climate of the Mediterranean ; in the next doub-
ling the Cape, where topsails are never set, to engage that
leviathan of the deep, the sperm-whale of the Pacific; one
day he is rolling on the spacious deck of a first-rate, the
" hugest that ocean swims ;" the next he is " cabin'd,
cribb'd, confined," in a boat, without room to stretch his
limbs, without conveniences for sleep, or for change of
raiment, and night and day exposed unsheltered to the
pelting of the pitiless storm.
REDUCTION IN THE All7,ll.—We men-
tioned, last week, that the contemplated reduction in the
army would amount to viral in each infantry, and thirty
in each cavalry, regiment. We have since been informed,
from an authentic source, that each company and troop is
to be reduced by eight men, which would leave the aggre-
gate reduction nearly the same as already stated. The
reducion will be gradually effected, recruiting being, for
the present, altogether suspended. It should be remarked,
that the reduction does not extend to officers. The Go-
vernment should be very hotd pushed in the way of
retrenchment, when th,,y would lay their hands upon
any portion of the aristocracy. In the civil service the
sinecurist is secure. while the poor hard working clerks
are dismissed. In the army, the officers are to be retained
and the soldiers disbanded. This is English; Whig eco-
nomy ! —lf it continue as it has been begun, we shall soon
have none but titled officials, to manage our domestic
concerns, while our land forces will be distinguished for
their rich uniforms, their rich laces, and their weak arms !
—Dublin Morning Regis'er.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Friday night, as
the six o'clock coach was passing over 13arshaw.hill, the
coachman met a cart without a driver, and a little further
on saw the body of a man lying motionless on the road.
Having no one on the coach with him to hold the reins,
he was unwilling to leave his horses without a guide, and
passed on till he met an omnibus coining westward with
Mr. Cunningham's band to a ball, when be communicated
to the driver the above particulars. The driver of the
omnibus stopped his carriage when he came up, and found
the man lying with his head in the track of the road, a
great quantity of blood around him, and dead. He drew
his body to the aide of the road, and brought the intelli-
gence to Paisley, when Dr. King immediately set out, but
found the man quite gone. A cart was sent from Paisley
to bring the body home, when it was found to be that of
James Ritchie, carter, Smith hills. lie had been to Glas-
gow for a cart of fire-bricks, and it is supposed had fallen
trove his cart while asleep, and the wheel had evidently
passed over his head, as it was shockingly mangled. He
has left a widow and four children to lament his untimely
loss,—Paisley Advertiser.

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