The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-28 00:00:00

Chairman of their committee.

Fishmongers' Hall, standing at the north end
of London Bridge, now presents a finished exterior, and
may be considered one of the best buildings in that part
of the city, so rich with aspect to the works of Sir
Christopher Wren. It is a spacious edifice, built of atone,
with a handsome front to the water. The external walls
are adorned with lonic columns. Over the east front

the Fishmonger's arms are well sculptured, upon a large

scale.

The exportation of the precious metals has
much diminished since the last report. By the official
returns, the quantity sent out from the port of London
from the 13th to the 19th inst. inclusive, was 17,000 oz
of silver coin, and 27,183 oz. of silver in bars, to Cslais,

and 957 oz. of gold to Hamburg.
INTERESTING TO THOSE WHO HAVE A
311 ND FOR A CHANCERY SUIT.-About five years ago a
large quantity of oak, ash, and elm timber was felled a
Sunningwell and neighbouring parishes, when an injunc-
tion was obtained from the Court of Chancery to preyero.
its being removed till the right in the property W 49 decided
by the Chancellor. We observe that 335 of these trees
are at length advertised for sale; and it is reported, upo❑
respectable authority, that not less than from 400 t-) 500
loads of the original quantity have disappeared.--Oxford
Journal.

COCKROACHES.—A gentleman has recently
discovered that spirits of turpentine are an effectual remedy
against the depredations of cockroaches. He recommends
to put a little of it upon the shelves or sides of book cases,
bureaus, armoire, or other furniture in which they take
shelter, and these troublesome insects will soon quit, no
only the furniture, but the room. The remedy is simple,
and is easily obtained by every person who wishes it. It
is not unpleasant to the smell, soon evaporates, and does
no injury to either furniture or clothing.—American
Paper.

BOOKS FOR PRESENTS, JUST PUBLISHED.
—The Oriental Annual, containing twenty-five engravings
from drawings of Scenes in India, by W. Daniell,El
R.A., superbly bound in Morocco, price 215.-2. Lives
and Exploits of English Highwaymen and Pirates from
the earliest times, in 2 vols. bound, with sixteen engra-
vings, price 21s —3. The Geographical Annual, and the
Biblical Annual for 1834 in Morocco, price 21s.
" These two beautiful and most useful volumes form a
family treasure."—Literary Gazette.-5. Macfarlane's
Lives of Banditti and Robbers in all parts of the World,
in 2 vols. with 16 plates, price 21e. 6d.—Landseer's
Illustrated Edition of Neel's Romantic Annals of England,
just completed in 3 vols. with twenty-one engravings,
price 18s. " They are valuable illustrations of manners."
Times.

Letters from tile Mauritius, dated September
10, mention the arrest of six individuals on a charge of
high treason—viz. Messrs. Brodelet, Keating, A. Ro-
billard, Fennouillet, Grandemange, and Regnaud, in
consequence of an investigation which was going on befoi e
the Executive Council. The papers seized on the occa-
sion are said to implicate some other persons, and tl,e
vigour shown by the local Government had encouraged
the colonists to come forward with a mass of further

evidence against the accused. The prisoners had been
recognized as the leaders of that armed force clandestinely
enrolled in the year 1832, and which assumed the title
of Volunteers. Their trial, consequently, was expected
to throw great light upon the former designs of that body.
By the same accounts, it appears that the steady but firm
application of the laws by Sir William Nicolay had at
last broken the spell of intimidation which had hitherto
embarrassed the local Government in all its measures ;
and the moderate part of the press could at length venture
to expose the opinions of those journals which for a long
time had been suff,red to mislead the colonists. The nor-
approval by the Government at home of the penal code
framed during the disturbed state of the colony would, it
was expected, enable the Attorney-General to carry his
plan of reform into the law department, and make the
principles of English jurisprudence the basis of any new
code that might be promulgated.

HEREFORD WAGS.—The Hereford Times
vouches for the truth of the following :—A young man o
respectable connections, who took his whiskerless cheeks
much to heart, was persuaded by five of his companion,

that if any portion of another man's whiskers could be
transferred to his cheeks, the hairs would take root and
grow there, but that his cheeks must be punctured with a
needle, in order that the foreign hair might be firmly fixed.
A labouring man was persuaded, on consideration of a
shilling, to have halt of his huge pair of whiskers cut off,
and the following operation was then commenced. The
simpleton was placed in a reclining posture on a sofa.
One of the operators held a basin of warm water, whilst
the other, with a finely pointed needle, slightly punctured
his cheeks. The application of the warm water caused
the blood to flow, and in the blood the hairs were regularly
planted. After a good breadth had been covered with
hair, some oil was poured over, and a broad band or
rilaand passed over the whole. His head was then en-
closed in a night-cap, and the gentleman was safely put to
bed. The catastrophe need not be recited. A little
water on the following day washed away the incipient
nursery, and thus were wrecked the aspirant's high-
formed hopes of whisker conquests.
SIR JONAH BARRINGTON'S MEMOIRS OF
IRELAND AND THE UNlON.—Among the numerous other
remarkable and important matters contained in this
Work, it furnishes the most graphic and exact details per-
taining to the " Reign of Terror" which desolated Ire-
land during the rebellion of 1795 ; and recounts, in vivid
colours, the stormy proceedings in the Irish Parliament
which prefaced the establishment of the Union. Preced-
ing scenes of an animated time are also vividly at'd strik-
ingly portrayed in the book before us. We see the
Bishop of Derry enter Dublin with his splendid guards,
and the gallery of the House of Commons filled by the
graceful beauties of the vice-regal court; while in the
strong and living delineation of the celebrated characters
of the time—Ponsonby, with his cool collectedness ;
Grattan, with his drawling energy; Curran, with his
quaint vivacity, and Fitzgibbon, with his towering pride
—the Author has been retnarkably successful.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ASSAULT AT
THE WESTMINSTER SESSIONS YESTERDAY.-1.011193. Bur-
nett, a young woman of respectable appearance, with an
infant in her arms, was indicted for assault;ng Peter
Burnett, her husband, on the 21st ~fDeceinber instant.—
(This case has recently appeared in The Sun, in detail,
under the head of " Police.")—The Chairman wished the
husband would make the matter up, and not let the case
go to a jury.—No overture being made, he summed up,
and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty.
EXTENT OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.—Iii
no age, nor in any record of by_gone nations, is a parallel
to be found for the almost boundless extent of the Russian
dominions, as they exist in the present day. This colossus
of power forms a connected whole, which is dislocated by
no seas, and intersected by the possession of no intervening
sovereignty. There is not any part of it which lies at all
disjointed from this congruous mass, save that which lies
in America, and is severed from it by a narrow strait.
This portion, after all, does not amount to a fifteenth part
of the Muscovite territory, which of itself is larger than
Europe and Australia put together. It stretches over three
quarters of the world ; occupying the larger portion
of the north of Europe, the whole of the north of Asia,
and part of the north-west of America. The connexion
of the latter with Russia in Asia is maintained by a chain
of islands which run from the Peninsula of Kamtschatka
in Asia to the Peninsula of Alaslika in America. The
Russian empire comprehends nearly two hundred and fifty
degrees of longitude—consequently nearly two-thirds of th.-
circumference of the whole globe; and about forty decrees
of latitude—for it extends from Pyzdry, the last station
on its Polish frontier, to Queen Charlotte's Sound in Ame-
rica. When it is 12 o'clock at midnight at its westernmost
point, it is 16 minutes past 2 o'clock at midnight at its
easternmost. It comprises a seventh part of the habitable
earth, and a five.and-twentieth part of its superficial ex-
tent, land and water. It is 75 times larger than Prussia,
70 times larger than Great Britain and Ireland; 68 times
larger than Italy ; 64, times lager than Sweden ; 37 times
larger than France; and 31 times larger than Austria.
The climate of this immense sovereignty is as varied as its
component parts; here we have the heats which ripen the
grape, the almond, the fig, and olive, the pomegranate
and orange in the open air ; and there, the excessive fri-
gidity which reduces mercury to the state of hardness in
which it may be hammered ; at one extremity the bear
housed amid eternal ice, and at the other the camel pass-
ing over a hotbed of arid sand ; spring blooming along
the Caucasus, whilst life and vegetation are entombed
along the frozen strand of the Vistula and Neva. Yet in
all his greatness, the autocrat scarcely counts twice as
many lieges as the King of England ; and lord of
scarcely as many cities and made;-towns 43 the single
Emperor of Austria.

THE THEATRES.

GARI?ICK.

The proprietors of this theatre appear determined to
keep pace with the " March of Intellect," and vie with their
competitors in the production of variety, novelty, and
amusements for their friends and visiters. Thursday, after
the tragedy of Othello, durinz the performance of which
the excellent acting of Messrs. GOMERSALL and FREER,
Mrs. POPE and Mrs. GOMERSALL, kept the boisterous
part of the audience in tolerable order, an excellent
pantomime, entitled, The Sleeping Beauty ; or, Earle-
pin Night and the Enchanted Forest, commenced, and
all eyes and ears were fixed in delighted attention. The
opening, which is written by Mr. LAWRENCE, the comic
scenes by Mr. You no, and the splendid and beautiful
scenery by Messrs. CUTHBERT, LEWIS, and SCHINOTTI,
do infinite credit to their taste and talent. Many of
the changes were dexterously managed, and elicited much
applause. The introduction of a patent man-trap, in
which appropriate baits worth biting at, for Lawyers,
Aldermen, Maids, Wives, and Widows, is placed, and
in which each is respectively caught in endeavour-
ing to get a nibble, excited much laughter. Signor
GRAMANI (late of the Surrey), was a most efficient
Clown, and contributed in a more than ordinary degree to
keep up the delight of the audience. Messrs. FEATHER-
STON, LEWIS, and FRAMPTON, as Pantaloon, Harlequin,
and Periot, acquitted themselves most creditably ; and
Mrs. CONQUEST was all that could be expected as Colum-
bine—her attitudes and dancing were at once graceful and
appropriate, and drew forth loud applause.