The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-18 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, AUGUST 17.

We, cannot behold the evening pastime of 100 and music at
the two establishments on the Marine Parade without being
forcible struck with the change as regards the number of our
visitors as compared with former years. The proprietors of
the respective libraries do everything they can by way of fur-
nishing amusements, but nothing seems to answer, and the loos
arc scantily filled. Some six or seven summers ago these re-
sorts of the gay were thronged with elegantly dressed females ;
but now, alas 1 the falling-off is too perceptible,
Our arrivals are by no means numerous; the hotels seem
to be the only places doing any business of consequence.
The lodging houses are not yet in very great request ; too
many of those ominous bills, " To let," appear in the
windows.

The Earl of Westmoreland and Lady Georgiana Fane
arrived at the Bedford Hotel on Friday evening.
The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron Joy, with his family,
is recently arrived from Ireland. Lord and Lady Louth con-
tinue to occupy apartments here.
The Earl and Countess of Sheffield visited Brighton yester-
day, and returned in the evening to Sheffield Park.
Lord Northwich, after a short stay at the Albion, has taken
his departure. The Earl of Buckinghamshire remains.
Sir John and Lady Becket are numbered with our arrivals.
Sir John Chetwynd has recently purchased a residence at
Bognor, _ .

The Countess of Darlington is among our arrivals.
Sir T. and Fady Fellowes have taken a house in Kemp
Town for a lengthened period.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Col. and Mrs. Doveton, in St. James's-street, from Madras ; T.
Chamberlayne, Esq., at Cranbury Park, Hants; from a tour ; Col.
Rowley, at the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Naples ; Major-
General Sir Arthur and Lady Brooke, in Albemarle-street, from a
tour ; Hon. Sir Charles Gordon, in aville-street ; Rear-Admiral
Sir William Parker, at his new residence in the Admiralty, from
Portsmouth ; Lord Graves, in Albemarle-street, from the Conti-
nent ; Col. Burdett, at Sir Francis Burdett's, St. James's-place,
from ditto ; General Sir Edward Stopford, at the Royal Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from the Continent; C. Hanbury Tracy, Esq., M.P ,
in Dover-street, from Cheltenham ; Sir Andrew Barnard, in Wil-
ton-crescent, from Windsor Castle ; the Hon. Capt. Trefusis, in
Jermyn-street, from Portsmouth.
DEPARTURES.

General Finch, from the St. James's Hotel, for his seat, near
Coventry ; Mr. and Mrs. Broughton, from the Royal Hotel, Jer-
myn-street, on a tour; A. B. Drummond, Esq., and Lady Eliza-
beth Drummond, from Bryanstone-square, for Cadlands, near
Southampton ; the Earl and Countess of Warwick, for Warwick
Castle ; Lord Gardiner, from George-street, Hanover-square, on a
tour ; Hon. E. R. Plunket, on a tour ; Mr. Poulett Scrope, M.P.,
and Mrs. Poulett Scrope, for Castle Combo, Wilts.

Miss Fanny Kemble, now Mrs. Butler, has sent the
manuscript of her journal, kept during her residence in
America, to Mr. Murray, for publication. We shall wait with
peculiar anxiety for the perusal of this book.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.--OR Saturday, a Court
of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, and was attended by Al-
derman Wood, Venables, Key, Sir C. Marshall, &c. Fifty-
three omnibus, cab, and hackney-coach drivers were summoned
for furious driving, insolence, and impediments to other ve-
hicles in the City, and they were amerced in the penalty of
20s. each, and costs. Another batch of summonses against
similar offenders for like offences was granted. They will be
disposed of on Saturday next, to which day the Court
adjourned.

THE MAN OF HONOUR.—This very singular
novel is said to delineate the career of an English Don Juan
of the present day, who resembles not so much Lord Byron's
notable hero of that name as the reckless selfish libertine of the
old legend. Such men are more common in moral England
than may, at first sight, be imagined ; and the public will be
glad to see them indignantly exposed—what adds to the
curiosity of the present work is, that it should be the un-
doubted production of a lady of high rank, who has nobly vin-
dicated the honour of her sex, by holding up to scorn one of
its most insidious enemies.

i lie Hamburg. Correspondent mentions that th..:
Russian fleet has been performing manoeuvres under the orders
of the Emperor Nicholas, and in the presence of the celebrated
Captain Ross, before his departure from St. Petersburgh, in
which there were engaged eighteen ships of the bee: fourteen

frigates, two sloops of war, and several smaller vessels. This
is an equivalent to the united fleets of England and France in
the Mediterranean. All this number of ships aro greatly de-
fective in their crews.
THE EARL OF DUNDONA-LD.—The Noble Earl
left town on Tuesday last for Paris, to take out a patent for a
new piece of machinery which he has invented, and up6n which
he has expended a thousand pounds a week for many months.
LAFAYETTE'S TOMB.—A simple slab of black
marble in the little burying-ground of Picpas, in Paris, marks
the spot where repose the remains of Lafayette. It bears this
inscription :—" Here lies M. P. J. R. G. M. de Lafayette,
Lieut.-General Deputy; born at Auvergne, in 1757; mar-
ried, in 1796, Mdlle. de Istoailles ; died in 1834.--Requiescat
in pace."

HIS MAJESTY FIFTY-ONE YEARS AGO.—EX-
tract of a letter from Gravesend, July 31 :—" On Sunday last
his Royal Highness Prince William Henry, and his attend-
ants, arrived here in a yacht, and remained for some time.
The curiosity of the town led men, women, maidens, and
children on board to see the young Prince. Some ladies,
who dined at the White Hart, sent a melon to his Royal
Highness (the only fruit they had), and the Prince returned
them the thanks of an obliged seaman for their present. The
Governor of Tilbury Fort made his offering, a basket of goose-
berries and currants, being all that Tilbury Fort afforded."—
St. James' Chronicle, Aug: 2, 1783.
THE LATE CONSUL GENERAL IN EGYPT.---
" The Memoirs of Mr. Salt (remarks the Observer) is one of
the most valuable biographical works which has lately made
its appearance. Mr. Salt had the best opportunities for ac-
quiring correct and important information respecting Abys-
sinia, and, consequently, these memoirs add much to our
knowledge of that country. The result of Mr. Salt's re-
searches amid the ruins of the land of the Pharaohs and the
Ptolemies was a valuable collection of antiquities, &c. Alto-
gether Mr. Salt's Memoirs contain a great deal of interesting
information respecting the ruins of ancient Egypt and also as
regards its present state, are of great value and importance,
and their entertainment is equal to their value."
ECCENTRICITY.—Mr. John Dicker, 36 years of
age, late a resident in St. Sitwell's, but a native of Upton
Hellions, near Crediton, was taken hence to be buried at that
place on the 2d inst. The conductor, Mr. Back, of this city,
was mounted on a black horse ; two undertakers also were on
black horses; the two mutes on gray ; the hearse also was
drawn by four gray horses, and three mourning coaches by 12
black horses. The gray horses, which were a special direc-
tion of the deceased, are understood to have been in honour of
Earl Grey's administration, of which the deceased was an
ardent partisan. It is said that he was in Paris in the revolu-

tion of the three days, and (as may be supposed) that he sided
with the people. He appeared to have a strong presentiment
of his death, and gave the most minute directions as to his
funeral. He has bequeathed the greatest proportion of his
property to aged poor relatives.—Lxeter Flying Post.
DRAWING THE BADGER.—.An inn at the town of
N—, in which a learned judge and several barristers took up
their abode for a night, was the scene of a curious adventure
a week or two ago. The counsellors, having thrown aside the
wig and its wisdom for the bottle and its folly, became ripe
for fun and frolic, and missing a temperate brother, who had
stolen out of the room unobserved, they resolved to make him
the victim of their cacoethes flareuppi. " The sly old fox has
slipt out to secure the best bed," said one. " Let us turn him
out of his nest," exclaimed another ; and every one cried
" Agreed !" Then commenced the hunt ; up stairs and down
—along every passage—scampered the learned troop, examin-
ing every bed-room in their eccentric orbit, to discover the
lair of him whose name may be found athong the prophets.
At .ength their zeal had its reward—the long-headed fugitive
was traced to his retreat, which, as had been opined, was
" the best bed." The unwitting victim was asleep—the
whispering train gathered round, and Sergeat A., gently
drawing.aside the curtains, and lifting up the clothes at the
foot of the bed, said, " Now, G----, draw the old badger I"
The learned joker, nothing loth, seized his sleeping brother
by the legs, and in another moment would have stretched him
on the floor ; but his hand was arrested by a Johnsonian voice
from the head of the bed,—" Why,—Brother G—_, surely—
you--are—not—going—to—pull—me—out." An unexpected
clap of thunder could not have been more startling to the fro-
licsome group—helter skelter they retreated from the room,
leaving to the undisputed possession of " the best bed" the ve-
nerable Father of the Bench !—Leicester Chronicle.

THE DIVERS IN THE DECCAN.—Lieutenant
Taylor of the Madras cavalry, has furnished the following in-
teresting particulars regarding the divers in the Deccan. He
had dropped a diamond ring when swimming in a tank in the
Deccan, and was advised to employ a set of divers to recover
it, and though he had no hopes of success, yet they recovered
it after about seven hours' labour, The head of the set of
divers whom he employed was a celebrated diver in that part
of India. He wore a beautiful bangle on his right arm, a pre-
sent which he had received from the Peshwa Bajee Row, for
having recovered a valuable emerald from the Taptee river. He
assured Lieut. Taylor, that though it was a laborious and pain-
ful trade, yet he had generally found it a lucrative one. Their
mode of going to work is as follows :—A set of divers consists
of three persons, two of whom dive by turns, while the third
sits on the bank. The two divers wade to the place pointed
out, each carrying with him a circular wooden dish about seven
inches deep and two feet and a half in diameter. With this
he descends, and having scooped into it as much of the mud
or sand as it will contain, ascends with it to the surface, and
sends it ashore, where the third person carefully washes and
examines its contents. If the water be not deep, when one
man has descended the other keeps him down, by placing one
foot on his neck ; upon a given signal, the foot is removed,
and the diver ascends. Where the water is deep, the diver
sinks a heavy stone, which is fastened to a canoe by a rope,
by the aid of which he descends. In this way they continue
to work many hours, each diver descending in turn until they
have examined the whole surface of the mud in the place
pointed out. If the information given them be correct they
seldom fail of success. They remain under water from one to
one and a half minute each time, but oftener longer, if the
water be deep. Their remuneration depends solely on their
success. The ordinary allowance is one-third of the value of
the article lost, if they succeed in finding, and this is divided in
equal portions among them.
GRAVESEND SUNDAY STEAMERS.—An extra-
ordinary scene of confusion was presented esterday morning
at the steam-wharf by London-bridge, where were congre-
gated thousands beyond what could possibly be accommodated
on board the'six steamers appointed to start from that wharf.
A large proportion of the assembled crowd consisted of per-
sons who had purchased tickets during the past week, and who
were loud in their complaints of the trick which they consi-
dered had been played upon them. It seems of late the two
rival companies whose boats start from this wharf have lowered
their fares to ls., Sunday included, provided the ticket is pur-
chased the previous week, or day, of the appointed agent on
the wharf. The ticket on its face gives a right to the buyer
to go by any boat belonging to the company by which the agent
is employed, and on any day, or hour of the day, at which any
one of the several packets enumerated in the ticket is to start.
Au immense number of these tickets had been sold by the
agents of both companies during the past week, and, as it
turns out, to parties most of whom had determined to render
them avail .ble yesterday. The consequence was that the
shoals of persons which were momentarily arriving at the\
wharf far exceeded the means of conveyance provided by either
company. The rush to get on board was tremendous, nor
was it hardly possible to prevent the boats from being over-
loaded to a dangerous extent. Each of the six boats started
considerably before their appointed time, and they were com-
pelled to drag away the platform leading from the wharf to
the deck of the boat, when the platform itself was crowded
with a dozen or more persons. The Mercury is estimated to
have had at least 1,200 persons on board, and even the little
Pearl is said to have had 600 on deck when it put off. The
following are the boats that started, all crammed choke full
above and below :—The Brilliant, the Pearl, the Emerald,

the Star, the Mercury, and the Medway. The Gravesend
folks complain that the reduction of fares does them no good,
especially on Sundays, as it keeps away the respectable, and
brings down for the most part only a class that has little money
to spend beyond the purchase of beer and tobacco. Their
provisions they bring with them.

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