The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-30 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM.

The Earl and Countess of Waldegrave, Ladies Read and Ward,
Colonels Langton, M.P., Eyre, and Thoyts ; Revds. Duck, Al-
lies, Wiggett, Benson, Parry, Wegol and family; Captains Jeff;
Coulthard, Huntley, and Wharton; Messrs. and Mesdms. Peck,
Bolton, Wood, Staunton, Myers, Hazeldine and family, Hinck-
ley, and Jenkins; Messrs. Smythe, Stafford, Martin, Harold,
W. M. Gablett, Christmas, Charters, Young, Tudor, Dowell,
Evans, Murray, Turner, H. Cox, Brandon, Stewart, Stevens,
W. Chadwick, Wickens, J. Martin, Walsingham, Grant, S hew.
Entwisle, Armefield, Hunt, Prosser, Stanley, Pemberton, Long-
ney, Binning, Sadler, Staveley, M.P., Loveridge, and G. Wex-
ford ; Mesdms. Fowler, Webb, Barry, Johnson, Glover, Col.
Weston, Grace, and Gilbert ; Misses Thornhill, Robinson,
Quinton, Laing, H. Rowley, Randell, Goodyer, Prockter, A.
Jennings, Crofton, &c. &c.

Duke Ferdinand of Wirtemberg, uncle of
the King, died on the 20th inst., at Wisbaden.
The Duke and Duchess of Gordon have ar-
rived from Gordon Castle for the season. His Grace,
who occupied part of last season Lord Bruilenell's man-
sion in Carlton Gardens, has taken a residence in Bel-
grave-square.

The grand banquet at Apsley House on Mon-
day next, it is expected, will he confined chiefly to Oppo
sition Peers. It was originally intended to invite 45, but
it was found that several Noblemen, including the Duke
of Northumberland, Earl Bathurst, &c., would not arrive
at their respective residences in time to be present.

The Earl of Darlington, Earl and Countess
of Wilton, the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Arbuthnot, the
Hon. Miss Courtney Boyle, Count Matuszewie, Mr. Irby,
&e., arrived at Burghley House, Lincolnshire, last week,
on a visit to the Marquis of Exeter. For the entertain-
ment of the party, Earl Fitzwilliam's pack of fox hounds
threw off at Burghley Park on Thursday, and, after a run
of about two miles, killed at Whitewater. Lord Burghley
and Lord Brownlow Cecil, on their ponies, joined in the
chase, and were up a few minutes after the death. In
honour of the two juvenile sportsmen, Seabright, the
huntsman, presented the brush to Lord Burghley.

The Earl of Lonsdale having been applied to
to further the design of building a new Nation-i 1 Scotch
Church, in Carlisle, generously presented a piece of ground,
his property, in Lonsdale-street, on which the building is
be erected, and the work, we are informed, wilt be com-
menced imrnediately.—Lancaster Gazette.

The Mayor of Bristol gave a grand dinner, at
the Man•ion•house, in that city, on Thursday. Amongst
the guests were his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, the Mar-
quis of Worcester, Lords Aps!ey and Ellenborough, Sir
R. R. Vyvyan, M.P., Captain Codrington, P. J. Miles,
Esq , Wm. Miles, Esq., the candidate for the representa-
tion of Somerset, &c.

It is asserted that so far from Lord Forester
having been marked in his attention to Madlle. d'Este
during her recent visit at Belvoir Castle, and that a mar-
riage was on the tapir, his Lordship was unable to parti-
cipate in the festivities in consequence of his recent accident
while hunting. Lord F., after a short sojourn in town left
Charles-street, Berkeley-square, on 'fuesday, to resume
the management of the Belvoir Hunt, which he undertook
the expense of keeping up when his noble relative, the
the Duke of Rutland, relinquished it three years ago.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel are visiting the
Duke of Rutland at BelvoirCastle, where they arrived from
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at
Burghley-house. The Right Hon. Baronet returns to
Drayton, from Belvoir, and next week he comes to town
to attend his Parliamentary duties.

Lieutenant General Sir Colquhoun Grant, of
the 15th Hussars, has lately come into possession of a large
fortune, bequeathed to him by a gentleman in Dorsetshire,
not in the most distant degree related to him.—Limerick
Chronicle.

We hear that the enormous wealth of the late
William Mellish, Esq., of Dover-street, will come into the
possession of his two daughters, the eldest of whom, four
years ago, married Lord Edward Thynne, the fifth son of
the Marquis of Bath, and brother to the Duchess of Buc-
clench. Alias Mellish, the other daughter, is said to have
been on the eve of marriage with the Earl of Glengall at
the time of her father's decease. Mr. Mellish acquired
the greatest part of his fortune by contracts for provision-
ing the navy during the war; he was also in extensive
business as a shipowner, and had taken, shortly before his
demise, the residence of Mr. Long Wellesley, in Dover-
street. Lord Edward Thynne came to town yesterday, in
consequence of the death of Mr. Mellish.
ORIGIN OF TARTINI'S " DEVIL'S SO-
NATA."—Tartini had pondered long and anxiously on the
composition of a sonata, on which he could rest his fame,
and which he ardently wished might excel all his previous
conceptions. In this state of mind he retired to his rest,
and dreamed, that the Devil, coining to his bedside, violin
in hand, played a sonata of such ravi.hing sweetness and
exquisite melody that his whole soul was filled with de-
light. Enraptured at having thus been favoured with the
completion of his wishes, he started up, and found it all a

drepm. The imprettiion, howeyer,:was: so vivid that he
insrat.ty ior a light, and proceeded to note down a.
much of the strdn as he co4l tecolfect. Tartini's
" Devils S •tia,a" is still well known amongst musicians as
a work exhibitinz great taste, genius, and science ; hut he
was often heard to declare himself, that, could he hay.• re.
called it perfectly, as he first heard it, no ear'hly composi-
tion could have at all approached it in grace and sublimity.
—A thenceunt.

The volerable Mr. Coke of Norfolk has ex-
pressed his intention to he present at the grand dinner to
he given to Lord Western at the Shire Hall in March
next._ Colchester Gazette.

THE TYLNEY ESTATES AND THE HON.
WM. LONG WELLESLEY. —in November next this gen-
tleman's eldest son will come of age and into possession of
fourteen thousand pounds per annum. There is a talk of
cutting off the entail, and thus en titling the father to com-
pound with his creditors.

We learn with sincere regret that the Rev.
Dr. Chalmers was taken suddenly ill on Friday morning ;
the answer to the inquiries yesterday was, that he was still
very unwell. The cause of his illness is ascribed to the
great exertion that was required in the delivery of his very
longspeech in the Presbytery on Thursday, whit.% occupied
upwards of three hours, and at the conclusion of which he
appe red much exhausted. We trust that a few days of
relaxation will restore the Rev. Doctor to his wonted
heal t h.—Edinburgh Courant.
We have heard of the death of the Rev.
Samuel Madden, sen., of Kilkenny, occasioned by what
would appear a most mysterious providence. While ad-
ministering medicine to a favourite pony, he in some way
caught the disease (glanders), which in a short time de-
prived his family of a kind and affectionate husband,
father, and brother. Mr. Madden was eldest son of the
late Major Madden, of Kilk9nnv, and nephew of Sir W.
Gordon Cumming, Bart.—Dublin .111;iil.

The premium on gold at Paris is 71 per milk,
which at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. lOid. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25. ;
and the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25. 27i., it f.,llows that gold is 7-25 per cent. dearer at
Paris than in London.

The forthcoming " Excursions," by John
Maddos, E.g., " in the Holy Land, Syria, Egypt," &c.,
will include many valuable illustrations of Scripture, par-
ticularly as re2ards Jerusalem, the scene of the Conversion
of St. Paul, near Damascus ; the grand events in Syria,
and the dominion of the Pharoahs in Egypt. The above-
named traveller was absent thirteen years from his native
land, during which time he was employed in making notes
in those regions which holy writ has stamped as the most
interesting in the world. His work will immediately appear.

THE OUTWARD-BOUND.—The wind having
at length shifted to the northward, it is calculated that at
least nine hundred vessels will have simultaneously set sail
from the various ports in the Channel and from Bristol,
the Welsh ports, Liverpool, and Ireland. Many of these
outward-bound vessels have been detained since the middle
of November, and the loss by detention will be very great
to the merchants, and also to the shipowners.

That mankind have in all ages been subject
to similar infirmities may be inferred from the remark of
Cicero, who says that every client who applied to him
fur legal assistance uniformly misrepresented his own case.
The Garde National of Marseilles states that
on the 19th ins'ant, at 8 o'clock in the evening, about
fifty workmen of that town assembled in front of the
Gendarmerie barracks, in the Fauxbourg Sr. Lazare,
and attempted to create a disturbance by shouting
" Vive la Republique !" " Vivent les Polonais !" " A bas
les Gendarmes !" but were soon dispersed by the appear-
ance of a party of the military. A short time afterwards
four or five of the rioters returned, and had the audacity
to recommence their cries ; consequently, they were all
arrested and sent to prison.
We have reason to believe that the incident
of the Mayor of Shuttlework's dressing himself in the
Marquis's clothes which occurs in the story of " Snow-
don," in Mr. Hook's last work of " Love and Pride," is
founded on fact; indeed, we have heard the story nar-
rated with the real names of the performers in it, but with
this exception, we also know that the events which so
frequently occur to the magnificent hero of the tale are
all imaginary.

A few days ago, at Howden, a child acci-
dentally set fire to its clothes, which its brother having ob-
served, endeavoured to extinguish. In this attempt his
own clothes became ignited, and to check the progress of
the flimes, he ran out and rolled himself over at the fout
of a haystack, which in consequence took fire. It is still
further remarkable. th it a gentleman who went in pursuit
of a surgeon to attend upon the children broke his leg.—
Manchester Guardian.

Mademoiselle Michelot, a young chorus
singer of the Opera Comique, had been long teased by the
urgent suit of a young musician belonging to the hand at
the same theatre, hut whose advance+ she had uniformly
repulsed. On Thursday she received a note from him,
intimating that if she did not accept hia tenders of love
he should he driven to some act of desper,tion. This
rendered her very uneasy, and she became so alarmed that
on Friday morning she remained locked up in her room in
the Rue des Filles St. Thomas till two o'clock, when some
one knocked at her door. Her excited feelings made her
imagine that it was the musician come to carry his threats
inio execution, and so overpowering was her terror, that
she rushed to the window, precipitated herself into the
street, and was killed upon the spot.— Galignant's Mes-
senger.

HISTORY OF THE NOBILITY AND LANDED
GENTRY.-We are requested to state that the fifth part of
Mr. Buike's History of the Commoners of the United
Kingdom, a Companion to the Peerage and Baronetage,
with the Armorial Bearings of the sever tl Families, is now
ready for delivery at the various booksellers in town and
country; also the fourth edition, with all the new creation.,
of Mr. Burke's History of the Peers and Baronets of the
United Kingdom, the only complete work of the kind
extant, in 2 vols., Syn., with upwards of 1,500 engravings
of the arms, incorporated with the text on a new plan, and
a portrait of the King, after Sir Thomas Lawrence, beau •
tifolly printed in double columns, so as to contain a quan-
tity of matter equal to twelve ordinary volumes. This
work comprises three times the number of Families that
have ever before been presented to the public in any one
put,lication of a similar description. It embraces every
family in England, Ireland, and Scotland, invested with
hereditary honours, and every individual i❑ the remotest
degree allied to those families : the whole revised from
authentic communication, made to the author by almost
every noble family in the kingdom.
CAUSES OF INSANITY.—Much of the
mental ai men' of the present day is to be traced to that
kind of debility in the brain and nerves which semi-learn-
ing, and false refinement, and ambitious feelings, and
querilous habits occasion. The substitution also of vapid
articles of diet, in place of more nutricious support, may
have an influence in deteriorating nervous energy, and
thereby tending to the induction of mental disorder; but
it is questionable whether the use of China tea is in itself
so productive of insanity as some have conceived. Spirit
drinking, both indirectly and directly, is a decided saurce
of nervous disorder and derangement. False notions of
religion tend to unhinge the mind, depress the feelings,
and occasion general misconception ; and it is a curious
fact, that religious insanity is less common among a Ca-
tholic population, inasmuch as when implicit faith is to be
put in dogmas, the mind is not permitted to doubt and to
inquire, and is therefore kept free from that restlessness
and wavering on points of belief', which is the state and
time that severe doctrines gain an admission among the
thoughts, and give rise to dreadful hallucinations. All
circumstance, however, which calls with more than com-
mon force on the feelings is likely to dislodge reason from
is seat.— Uu,,ins on Mental Disorders.
IGNORANCE OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS.
—Toe Romans neither improved their calendar, nor were
even in a condition to erect a common sundial. The
latter fact is so striking, that it would seem wholly incre-
dible without express and circumstantial mention. We
shill, therefore, give a rapid sketch of the history of the
Roman clocks. In the year 402 of the town, no other
means were known for facilitating in some degree the
calculation of time to the Humans than to set up a pole
to tnatk the shortest shadow, by consequence of the hour
of noon only. Of sun-dials, properly so called, no one, as
yet, had any idea. In Sicily, splendid sun-dials were
discovered, of which one was brought from Catana to
Rome, and set up, without its occurring to any one to
adapt its position to the meridian of Rome. It was soon
discovered that nothing could be done at Rome with a
clock which had gone extremely well at Catana ; and the
censor Quinctus Marcius had another set up. This, how-
ever, soon proved altogether as useless as the first. That,
however, a method of reckoning time might not be en-
tirely wanting, the renowned water-clock of Scipio was
set up in lieu of a sundial towards the close of the fol-
lowing century, as the suitable arrangement of the sun-
dial was despaired of. In later times, indeed, Rome was
amply provided with sun-dials. —Lardner's Cabinet Cy-
elopadia ; History of Rome,