The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-02 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Mrs. Fitzherbert, in Tilney-street, Park-lane, from the Con.
tinent ; the Hon. Lord James O'Brien, at Symmons's Hotel,
St. James's-street, from the Pavilion, Brighton; Captain
Douglas, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Woburn
Abbey; John Bentley, Esq., at ditto, from Brighton ; Admiral
Sir I'. Baker, K.C.8., and the Countess Augusta and Miss
Baker, at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, from their seat,
Walmer, Kent ; Captain Hickman, 15th Hussars, Hon. C.
Howard, H. Todd, Esq., and J. Kynaston, Esq., at ditto, from
a tour; Henry Reeves, Esq., at Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street,
from Cheltenham ; the Earl of Stair, in Seymour place, Curzon.
street, from Paris; Sir George Shee, Bart., at his new residence
in Grosvenor.place, from Viscount Palmerston's seat, Broad.
lands ; the Hon. George Sackville Germain, at the Duke of
Dorset's, in Harley.street, from Drayton-park, Northampton.
shire; Lord Auckland, in Grosvenor-street, from Bowood ;
Viscount Melbourne, in South-street, from Brocket Hall,
Herta; the Earl and Countess Listowell, at Kingston House,
Knightsbridge, from Brighton; Captain Woolmore, R.N., in
Bruton-street, from ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris and
family, in Portman-square.
DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Norfolk, for Little Hampton, Sussex ; Baron
Stockmar, for Claremont; Colonel Long, for his seat, Bishops.
thorpe, near Windsor; Colonel Peel, for his seat, Buckingham
House, Norfolk ; Lord Lilford, from Great Stanhope-street,
for his seat, Lilford, Oundle, Northampton ; Mr. and Mrs.
Morton, from Park-lane, for Bath; the Rev. R. O. Tylden
and family, from Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar-square, for Canter.
bury ; J. H. Marsack, Esq., from ditto, on a tour ; Captain
Jackson from ditto, for Dover; Captain Raymond, 7!:.1d High.
landers, from ditto, on a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie, from
Raggett's Hotel, Dover.street, for Dublin ; Wm. Knowles,
Esq., from ditto, for Cambridge.

The Duke of Wellington and Lord Forester
proceed to-morrow on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at
advoir Cistle, where a magnificent entertainment, in
honour of the natal day of the Noble Duke, trill be given
on Saturday next.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have
returned from a visit to their relatives, the Earl and Coun-
tess of Home, at Him!, near Coldstream, and are passing
the holydays with a party of fashionable visiters, at their
ancient palace at Dalkeith, where the accouchement of the
Duchess is expected to take place in the course of the
month of February.

The fashionable party assembled at Apthorpe
to partake of the Christmas festivities of the venerable Earl
of Westmoreland, comprise the Duke of Wellington, and
his Grace's almost constant companion, Lord Rosslyn,
Mr. and Mrs. Arbuthnot, Lord Forester, and Sir Alex•
ender Craig Grant, Bart. A fete was to be given yester-
day at Apthorpe in honour of the natal day of the Noble
host, who then completed his 75th year.

The Earl and Countess Cadogan and their
daughters, one of whore was stated, sonic months back,
to be under a matrimonial engagement to the Hon.
Sydney Herbert, have been making a continental tour,
and are now in Paris on their return to this country.

We regret to state that the answer to the in-
quiries yesterday after the health of the Hon. George
Lamb was very unfaveurab'e. The Hon. Gentleman
continues alarmingly indisposed, at his residence in White-
hall-yard, formerly occupied by Mr. Secretary Stanley
and his family. In consequence of Mr. Lamb's indivosi-
tion, his official duties as Under-Secretary for the Home
Department devolve on his colleague, Mr. March Philipps.
Viscount Melbourne remains in town in unremitting
attendance on his suffering relative.

Some further appropriation of the large ba-
lances in the hands of the East India C.rmpany is made
known by an advertisement, which announces the repay-
ment in full of the 4 per cent. stock of the Carnatic loan,
which amounts altogether to 1,604,544/. There will only
remain then unliquidated tLe 3 per cent. stock of that tran.
saction, amounting to 1,081,603/., but that, it is supposed,
will be redeemed also within a very short period. The
balances out of which these extensive payments are made
appear to arise chiefly from the converting into money of
the assets of the Company, and to the discontinuance of
their commercial operations, which retains at hocre the
capital heretofore employed in the trade to China and the
Indian Presidencies.— Times.

An ordinance respecting shipping and com-
merce in the Island of St. Croix, dated " Copenhagen,
6th June, 1833," has recently been promulgated at St.
Croix, declaring that island a free port. With regard to
shipping, it is wade known, that " all vessels, without ex-
ception, Danish or foreign, either from Danish or foreign
ports, shall, in virtue of this ordinance, have free admi'-
tance at St. Croix, and may discharge or load cargoes in
the port of Christiansand or the road of Frederikst
On the importation of goods, Danish or foreign, the fol-
lowing exemptions from duty are directed,
Cor !meal, Indian corn, rum puncheons, staves, heading
and hoops for sugar hogsheads, and rum puncheons, cop=
per nails, hoes, bills, utensils for boiling sugar and distil-
ling rum, firebricks, mules, and asses. Provisions and
fresh fruits, such as yams, cassava, bananas, oranges, &c.,
brought from foreign West India islands ; West India
colonial produce, with the exception of coffee and to-
bacco, on which the duty will be paid."

THE ARMY.

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.
General Edward Stack.

L'eutenant.General Walter Ker.

MAJOR-GENERALS—John B•ntinck ; Webber, East
India Company's Service, England ; I3owness, ditto,
Wiltshire. _ _

Colonel H. P. Thomas, late b. p. R. Wag. Tr. Soleure,
.n Switzerland.

Lieut.-Col. Hart, Insp. Fd. Off. R.c. Dst. Dublin.
CAPTAINS—D. Campbell, 47 F. ; 111`Clintock, '74 F.
Drumctr ; Peach, 38 F. ; Sm,th, A•lj. Smith Lincoln
; Appleton, R. Mar. Malta ; Dadd, ditto; Crawley,
Pet. full pay 11. Art. Driv. Woolwich ; John Grant. Li e
ti R. Vet. Bn., Edinburgh; Fenton, h. p. 55 F., Had-
lersfield ; Page, h. p. 60 F. ; Armstrong, h. p. 88 F. ;
['Vicar, h. p. 69 F. ; Tuck, h. p. Steele's Rec. Corps,
Kenn;ngton ; Bla7r, h. p. Independents ; Edw. Fitz
4erald, h. p. Unatt.
LIEUTENANTS—Carnish, 3 Dr. Gds. on passage from
India on board the Hindus ; Lardy, 4 F. ; Flay, 22 F.,
Chatham ; Berridge, 30 F., Ctstlebar ; Boyd, 55 F. ;
Rein!, 62 F., Poonatnallee, Madras ; Blencowe. '75 F.,
drowned in the Keiskamma River, near Fort Wiltshire,
C.pe of Good Hope; Jolliffe, h. p. 3 F. ; Lynam, h. p.
52 F. ; 111'1.,?an, h. p. 52 F., Upper Canada; Jones, h.
p. 8 W. I. R. ; Leeky, Unatt.
ENSIGNS AND SECOND LIEUTENANTS--SCOtt, SG F. ;
Locke, h. p. Ceylon Reg. ; Andros, h p. 37 F. ; Kirby,
h. p. 97 F. ; M'Cartie, h. p. 4 Irish Briz., Glountaw.
Paymaster Peter Cockburn, h. p. R. R. York Rangers.
QUARTER-MASTERS—Donohoo, b. p. 8 Dr. ; Coined,
h. p. 16 Dr.
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Dep. Assist. Coln.
Gen. Watson ; Dep. Assist. Com. Gen. Wyllie.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—Assist. Insp. of Hosp. Wal-
ters, b. p. ; Surgeon Rutledge, 54 F., India; Assist.
Surg. Heonen, 57 F., India; Assist. Surg. APlsaac, h.p.
30 F.

(From the Limerick Chronicle)
The first division of the 28th regiment, from this
garrison, arrived in Dublin on Tuesday morning, and
embarked same evening on board the William the Fourth,
one of the St. George Steam Packet Company's steamers,
for Liverpool.
In consequence of a mistake in the order from the
Quartermaster-General's office, in Dublin, requiring a
wing of the 28th regiment, arrived at Naas, to he in
Dublin, the detachment arrived at the Royal Barracks at
two A. at. instead of two v. at. on Tuesday. No prepa-
ration was made for their reception at that unusual holm ;
but the Scotch Fusileer Guards turned out of bed instantly,
much to their credit, awl gave them every accommodation
and comfort that circumstances would permit. It is satis-
factory to hear the mistake was productive of no incon-
venience to the gallant corps, as testified by Colonel
Miles, the men having been so well provided for on their
arrival in barracks by the Guards; and by their prema-
ture arrival, they had fourteen, instead of two, hours to
prepare for embarkation for England. Sir Guy Campbell,
Quartermaster-General, fearing that the women and
children of the regiment might have suffered inconve-
nience by the night march, generously sent 201. to be
divided amongst them, which was returned with due
acknowledgments by the officers of the regiment as quite
unnecessary.
We have received letters from the 9th regiment at the
Mauritius, to a recent date in September, from which we
extract the following :—" This colony is quiet enough
just now; there are five of the principal inhabitants in
confinement, and to he tried. A change of quarters takes
place the latter end of this month as follows :—The 9th
(now at Port Louis) move to Mahebourg, to relieve the
29th, who came here, and at the expiration of six
months the 9th return to Port Louis, to be relieved by the
99th, who are distributed all over the island on detach-
ment. On the removal of the 99th, the 87th move out
and take ull the detachments. The troops are very healthy.
The Voyager, with detachments for the 9th, 29th, and
99th regiments arrived here from Cork on the sth instant,
all well."

There will be no further reduction in the army esta-
blishment, save by the partial cessation of recruiting which
was lately ordered. We have this upon the authority of
Lord John Russell, Paymaster-General of the Forces.

An active correspondence has been for some weeks going
on respecting a contemplated reduction in the Irish Staff ;
a consolidation of the Departments of the Deputy Adju-
tant-Gmeral and Deputy Quartermaster-General is in
some of its branches very likely to be effected, and the
Government will reduce every situation the duties of
which can be performed by a transference to any other
' office. If the military branch of the Board of Ordnance
he handed over to the Horse Guards, the Royal Artillery
will, like all other soldiers, he under the immediate corn•
mand of Lord Hill and the Generals of districts. As the
Master-General of the Ordnance is not an Artillery officer,
but reared in the line, this arrangement will have no other
(fleet (except a large saving) than of placing the Royal
Artillery under the same general command as the rest of
the King's forces.

The Lord Bishop of Exeter, with Mrs.
Phillpotts, attended divine service on Christmss Day at
Sr. Martin's. It is with deep regret we add that his
Lordship's state of health prevented his assisting in any
part of the service for the day, which was performed by
the Rev. George P. Cosserat.— Western Luminary.

The Earl of Jersey, previous to his departure
to join his Count ss and family at Paris, deposited his
proxy with his noble friend the Duke of Wellington, who
is godfather to one of the Earl's daughters. The Marquis
of Westminster, at the close of the Session, gave notice that,
on the reassembling of Parliament, he should submit a
motion on the subject of the Peers reviewing their privi-
leges of voting by proxy.

DREADFUL AcciD EN T.— Yesterday morn-
ing a dreadful accident occurred at the house of Mr. Chalk,
of No. 9, Queen-street, Storey's-gate, Westminster, which
caused the greatest alarm in the neighbourhood. It ap-
peared that Ann Fagan, a fine young woman, about 20
years of age, servant to Mr. Chalk, was employed about
eleven o'clock in the morning hanging some clothes to dry
at the kitchen fire, when unfortunately, as her back was to
the fire, her clothes caught the flames, which soon com-
municated to the clothes on the horse, and she was almost
instantly in a blaze. The screams of the poor girl alarm..d
the whole house, and the engines were sent tor. Fortu-
nately, however, the flames were subdued, but the unfortu-
nate young woman was moat dreadfully burnt, her face,
breast, and arms presented the most dreadful spectacle we
ever beheld ; but there being signs of life she was conveyed
on a shutter to the W,stminster Hospital, without the
slightest hopes of her recovery.

THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
—No precedent exists of so rapid an increase of population
Hs what has taken place in the United States during the
last 60 years. Beginnivir from the year 1770, when it
was estimated at 1,500.000, we find it successively rising
to 3 929,226 in 1794 ; to 5 319,782 in 1800 ; to
7,329,903 in 1810 ; and to 9,654,415 in 1820. Nor
had it slackened during the Kubsequent ten years, for it
appear• that in 1830 the number of inhabitants had risen
to 12,856,154, consisting of the touierment oriel classes.
Males. Females.
Free Whites 5,358,789 5,167,299
Slaves 1,014,345 996,284
Free Persons of Colour 153,495 165,972

6,526,529 6,329,555
The number of individuals of the age of 100 )ears and up-
wards was proportionably far greater in the case of the free
coloured and slave population than in that of the whites;
inasmuch as in the instance of the former, in a population
of 2,330,096 souls, they amounted to 986 males and 1,329
females, or, in all, 2,015 individuals; whilst in tint i f
the latter (the whites), on a population of 10,526 058,
they did not exceed 508 in all, or 274 males and 234 to
males—a singular contrast in the pr.iportion—it being• 1
individual in 20,720 in the case of the whites, 1 in 1,450
in that of the blacks, and 1 in 510 in that of the free
people of colour.

THE OUTA SNAKE.—Before we quitted
Chun mr, our dandies, who had kindled a fire on the bank
of the river, were dressing their rice and curry, when a
small snake approaching the place where they were sewed
one of them arose and despatched it with a piece of barn-
boo. It was about 25 inches long, entirely white, except
the top of the he<d, which was a deep shining black.
This particular species is called by the natimes the Outs
Snake. It is very rare, and of peculiar ha!iits. Those
creatures always go in pairs, and it is remarkable, that if
one is killed either by man or beast, the survivor will fol
low, until it is either destroyed, or obtains i•ti revenge by
biting the author of its bereavement. It has been known
under such circumstances, to keep up time pursuit witii
.the most patient perseverance, far upwards of three hun-
dred miles. The little creature, whose mate was killed by
one of our boatmen, was seen alter we had pushed from
the shore, gliding along the bank of the stream in a direct
line with our boat, and when we reached Cawnpoor, tiers
we found it ready to deal its vengeance upon the wanton
destroyer of its conjugal felicity. It was despatched before
it could put its evil intention into execution.— Oriental
Annual.