The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-11 00:00:00

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

A County Court was held yesterday at Hick's Hall. There
were but few Magistrates in attendance, the more important
business having been withdrawn or postponed.
Sir J. GIBBON, Bart., was voted to the Chair, in the ab-
sence of Mr. ROTCH, M. P.
The Report of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum declared there
were 556 pauper inmates, of whom 326 were capable of em-
ployment.
The House of Correction was stated to contain 1,080 pri-
soners, and the New Prison 217, generally healthy, orderly,
and quiet.
A penny rate, to produce 21,907/. 17s. 4d., for the next
quarter, was unanimously agreed to.
Some routine business having been disposed of, the Court
adjourned.

TILE ARllY.—Yesterday afternoon Lord Hill, as
Commanding-in-Chief, held a Levee at the Horse Guards,
attended by General Sir George Nugent, Commissary Gene-
ral Pipon, Major General Le Mos, Sir Robert Kennedy, Earl
of Moray, Colonel Westburton, Colonel Young, Colonel
Cooke, Colonel Anderson, Major General Sir Thomas
Reynolds, and about thirty other distinguished officers.

The Berlin State Gazette gives the following de-
tails upon the monument about to be raised to the memory of
Guttenberg :--One of the bas-reliefs of the pedestal will re-
present Guttenberg showing to Faust the moveable types he
had invented, with an inscription underneath in Latin and in
primitive-shaped letters, of the sublime sentence from Genesis
—" God said let there be light and there was light." Another
bas-relief will have engraved on it a representation of the first
printing press established by Guttenberg and his two partners.
On a third bas-relief will be represented the distribution of the
Holy Scriptures to the people.

The steam-coaches are about to begin running re-
gularly between Glasgow and Paisley. Preparatory to their
commencing upon Wednesday, the three coaches which the
company have here at present, were this afternoon, by way
of trying their speed, taken half-way out upon the Paisley
road. In going out they were not put at their full speed,
but ran at the rate of one mile in about eight minutes. In
returning, however, a part of the road, to the extent of two
miles, was selected, upon which the whole three coaches
started at one time ; one of them performed the distance in
ten minutes and a half at full speed. The two which were
last made, and upon which the greatest number of experi-
ments were tried, were slightly beat by the one first built, and
upon which the least alterations have been made. As the
roads were in the finest possible condition, it yet remains to
be tried hew fast they can go when the roads are wet or
undergoing repair. When the first coach in returning ar-
rived at the bridge-toll, the Barhead coach, which was pass-
ing at the time, ran against the toll-gate, and broke the pole;
but no person present ascribed the accident to the appearance
of the steamer.

A suicide, extraordinary from its cause and the per-
severance with which it was persisted in, took place, last
week, at Valenciennes. A young man, named Hector G-,
apprentice to an apothecary, took it into his head that he never
should succeed in learning his business, though, in the opinion
of others, he showed no common talent, having written a
treatise upon lodine, approved of by Caventon. This sinister
idea had so fatal an influence on his mind, that on the 28th of
June, 1833, he took a large dose of arsenic, from the effects of
which he was saved by powerful antidotes. On the anniver-
sary of this attempt, the 28th of June, 1834, he took a quantity
of prussic acid, which deprived him of all appearance of life for
some time, and from the results of which lie with great diffi-
culty recovered. However, still determined on putting an end
to his existence, he, on the 2d of this month, quitted Valen-
ciennes towards nightfall, and at a little distance from the
gates shot himself through the heart. Two letters were found
on his person, addressed to his parents and his employer, in
which he stated that his sole reason for committing suicide was
his conviction that he could never become a good apothecary.