The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

M. G. W. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, was expected
to arrive in town last evening from Windsor Castle, where his
Excellency has been staying on a visit to their Majesties.
Viscount Palmerston was expected to return last evening to
town from a visit to their Majesties at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Co-
lonial-office for Sir W. Nicolay, the Governor of the Mauritius.

appear to be exceedingly complicated and difficult. He has
given proofs of this faculty, of an extraordinary, indeed, of a
most laughable desCription. Upon one of the very few occa-
sions on which he missed a Government contract, he said to a
fellow-citizen, immediately after the successful party was de-
clared, D—n it, Sir ! I missed it only by fourpence in
three pigs !" and upon examination of the accounts, his calcu-
lation was found to be correct. Sir Charles has left behind
him property to the amount of 550,0001., about 400,0001. of
which he has bequeathed to his eldest son. To Mrs. Perci-
val, his eldest married daughter, he has left 31,000/. ; to
Mrs. Goodwin, his second married daughter, 20,000/. ; to
Mrs. Magnay, his third, 20,000/. ; to two of his unmarried
daughters 30,000/. each, and to the third unmarried daughter
430/. a-year. Observer.
WORTHING, SEPT. 19.—This place is now quite
fall to an overflow. The following arc amongst the latest
arrivals :—Lord Byron, Lady Burrough, Sir James Riddle,
Lieut.-Gen. Clarke, Mrs. Augustus Jessup, Capt. and Mrs.
Crofts, &c.

ST. LEONARD'S, NEAR HASTINGS. -- This
newly-established and flourishing little watering-place is quite
gay at the present time. Lord Lyndhurst paid us a visit last
week, and we number amongst our recent arrivals Lord So-
merville, Sir John Eustace, Sir George and Lady Harrison,
Sir Augustus and Lady Frazer, Colonel Dacre. Mr. and
Mrs. Fuller, Lady Augusta Baring, Hon. .T. Ashburnham,
&c. Our races take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next,
and on Thursday there will be a meeting of the St. Leonard's
archers.

THE QUEEN OF Po RTUGA L.—While it is stated
in London that the Duke de Leichtenberg seems to decline.
the honour of espousing Donna Maria, we "%din sthabitk:
Mercury the following, under date Of 18ith, Sept-- 9
We learn from good authority that tW- governments of
France and England are no longer opposes to the marriage of
Donna Maria with Prince Augustus of,Xeichtenberg, and
that negociations for this union have been filtered upon at the
Castle of Isinanning, where the Duke's fairily now are."
Sir Charles Wetherell is at prose o at Wisbaden.
The facetious knight went to Ostend byte steam-boat, and
from thence to Bruges, in " one of the setty packet-boats
that navigate that noble canal," as Mrs. Ttollripe observes, in
her entertaining tour. Sir Charles departed' from thence in
his own carriage, attended by an English servant ; he stopped
a few days in Brussels, took a peep at Spa and Aix-la-Chapelle,
places he had not visited for many years. 'He embarked on
the Rhine at Cologne, and if the time permits lie will visit
his friend the Duke of Cumberland, who, accompanied by the
Duchess, and the ex whipper-in of the Heise of Commons,
are at present at some of the watering places in Germ-any..--

ROBBERY AT LORD SPENCER'S, AT ALTHORP.

—lnformation was received at the police-offices on Saturday
of a daring robbery committed on the Sunday night preceding
at Earl Spencer's seat, Althorp, Northamptonshire, by two
men, who broke into the porter's lodge, and plundered it of
wearing apparel, an old-fashioned gun, and a sword, a quan-
tity of loaf and moist sugar, tea, bacon, soap, bread, cheese,
butter, &c. The robbers got hold also of five bottles of
wine, which they drank in the house, and proceeding to the
bed-room of Mr.. Sturman, demanded money. They ob-
tained two sovereigns and 17s. 6d. in silver, with which, and
the other articles already mentioned, they made off, leaving
behind them two calico shirts, a plough hammer, and an old
knife. A reward of 101. has been offered for the discovery of
the villains.

MR. COBBETT.—The Hon. Gentleman arrived in
town to-day ; but disappointment of Sunday, and the unfavour-
able state of the weather combined to prevent his public entry
being very numerously attended. The procession consisted of
a very few vehicles of different descriptions, and some horse-
men, headed by Mr. T. Reynolds. Mr. Cobbett was accom-
panied by Sir G. Cockburn, Mr. Finn, and some other gentle-
men. Passing the Bank, Mr. Reynolds halted the procession,
and addressing Mr. Cobbett, he pointed to the building, say-
ing, that was formerly the House of Representatives of the
Irish people—that it had been changed into a den of money
changers—but, by the blessing of God, it shall be the people's
House again. Mr. Reynolds's address was loudly cheered,
and the procession moved on to its destination, Dodd's, in
Sackville-street, where an address was to be presented to Mr.
Cobbett.—Dublin Evening Post.
THE MAID OF KARS.—The new Romance—
Ayesha, the Maid of Kars, by the author of " Zohrab," has
attained a more extensive popularity than even the latter ad-
mirable story. This has fully met our anticipations ; for, the
hero being an Englishman, his many strange adventures come
home to the hearts and feelings of the reader. We follow
him, as it were, through the varied scenes in which he figures.
Having exhausted the wonders of Europe, he travelS into Asia.
At Kars, the frontier town of Turkey, he sees Ayesha, and
falls in love. The story now becomes intensely interesting.
The subsequent imprisonment and trial of our hero—his ad-
ventures among the frontier banditti, the' abduction of the
Maid of Kars by Cara Bey—his escape with Ayesha to Con-
stantinople, where he has no less a personage than the Grand
Seignior himself for a rival, are among the leading attrac-
tions of this delightful picture of Turkish life.
BURSTING OF THE BOILER OF A STEAM-
ENGINE AT THE LONDON DOCKS.--011 Saturday, as J. Lloyd,
engineer in the employ of the London Dock Company, was
stoking the fire of an engine at work in pumping out the water
from the upper Dock, to allow the workmen to hang a new
pair of dock-gates, the boiler suddenly burst with a tremendous
explosion, and overwhelmed the unfortunate man with boiling
water. He was found lying in a state of insensibility, scalded
in a most extensive and dangerous manner, and was directly
conveyed to Guy's Hospital. The accident is attributed to
some defect in the bottom plate of the boiler.

HYDROPHOBIA.—A few days ago a girl about
twelve years of age, named Ruse, residing in the Fcn, about
two miles from the village of Soham, in this county, was
taken ill. She, as well as three or four other children, was
bitten by a cat in May last, and, notwithstanding the part
was excised and cauterized freely at the time, symptoms of
hydrophobia appeared on Wednesday, the 10th instant. The
child complained of headache and thirst ; but on drinking
soma water she shrieked out, and fell into convulsions. Se-
veral medical gentlemen attended her ; but she died, after
much suffering, in forty-eight hours. The inhabitants are
greatly concerned for the safety of the other children bitten.
Cambridge Press.

INFLUENCE OF THE STOMACH.—The emotions of
the mind have a powerful influence upon the stomach. Let a
person who is going to sit down to dinner with a good appetite,
receive a piece of news, either exceedingly joyful or exceed-
ingly distressing, his appetite goes in a moment. Children
who are about to set out on a pleasant journey, it is well
known, cannot eat. This, when I was a child, used to be
called being " journey-proud." On the other hand, a blow
upon the stomach will sometimes take away life instantly ; a
drink of cold water, when the body has been very hot, has
often had the same effect. Attend to your companions when
on a journey afoot ; as their stomachs grow empty, how sullen
and silent the whole party becomes ; let a crust of bread, a
little cheese, a glass of ale or wine be taken, and cheerfulness
immediately reigns, even long before any nutriment had time
to reach the general circulative system. These things all
show the general sympathy between the stomach and every
other part of the body.—Carbutt's Clinical Lectures.
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ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS.--The most
affecting details of a recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius have
reached us. In a former account we stated that in August an
eruption had taken place, which on the evening of the 25th
began to subside. On the 27th, 28th, and 29th, new craters
opened, and produced ravages awful to contemplate. Thou-
sands of families were seen flying from their native land, old
and young, dragging through heavy masses of heated ciad!rs.
The writer of this article passed twenty-two hours in the midst
of piercing shrieks. Fifteen hundred houses, palaces, and
other buildings, and 2,500 acres of cultivated land, have been
destroyed by the fire. The eruption, which had been previ-
ously expected froiti the drying up of the fountains, surpassed
everything which history has transmitted to us. The first ex-
plosion destroyed the great cone situated on the top of the
mountain. The abundance of inflamed matter produced flashes
which darted through the mountain's flanks. A new crater
burst open at the top of the great cone, and inundated the
plain with torrents of lava. The King and the Ministers
hastened to the scat of the catastrophe, to console the unfortu-
nate victims. The village of St. Felix, where they first took
repose, had already been abandoned. The lava soon poured
down upon this
.place, and in the course of an hour houses,

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1834

churches, and palaces were all destroyed. Four villages, some
detached houses, country villas, vines, beautiful groves, and
gardens, which a few instants before presented a magnificent
spectacle, now resembled a sea of fire. On the 3d inst., at
the time of forwarding this account, nothing but stones and
cinders were ejected, and every prospect existed of the erup-
tion being soon at a close. The palace of the Prince of At-
tayauno, and 500 acres of his land, are utterly destroyed. The
cinders fell during an entire night over Naples, and if the lava
had taken that direction there would have been an end to that
city.—French Paper.
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The Exhibition of Wax Figures by Madame Tas-
saud, is removed to Grove House, Camberwell, where it will
remain a fortnight longer. Those who wish to visit this unique
collection will thus have an opportunity of so doing.

We understand that a requisition is in course of sig-
nature among the Reformers of this city, to invite the Earl of
Durham to a public dinner. It has been suggested, and the
suggestion, we believe, is acted upon, that the requisition
should be placed in the bar of both Coffee-Rooms, to remain
there till one o'clock this day, to give an opportunity to the
friends of liberal principles to subscribe it.—Scots Times.

The number of persons who ' have died of the
cholera, at Madrid, from the 28th of June to the 2lst of
August, amounts to 4,867. In the last three days of June,
the deaths from this disease were 21. During the first fort-
night in July, they were 372 ; during the second fortnight of
that month they were 3,495; during the first fortnight of
August they declined to 802; and from the 15th to the 21st
of August they were 170.
~LAW CHANGES IN SCOTLAND.—Lord Cringle-
'dieS state of health has led to his resignation, and the Solici-
tompeneral (Mr. Cockburn), succeeds to his vacant gown.
Although Mr. Cockburn's successor is not yet appointed,
wejilelieve that we run little hazard of error if we name Mr.
Johl Cunninghame, Advocate, as all but nominated to his
offie:t. We highly approve of this nomination, and certain we
are that it will be warmly applauded by every man who loves
intetrity in public and private character, and appreciates the
known and professional talent which adorn the gentleman of
whnin we now speak. Let Ministerial patronage be alwals
thuebestowed, and our rulers will find that the people will
rarely quarrel with their exercise of power and influence.—
Scots Times.

GREENOCK..—Among the many proofs of the
prosperity of this. town, the yearly increasing number of valu-
able vessels owned by its inhabitants is one of the most gratify-
ing. A few days ago, the Perfect, a large and handsome ship
intended for the East India trade, arrived here from Quebec,
where she was built, and is now fitting up in a style of great
comfort and elegance. Her main cabin extends, athwart ship,
the whole breadth of the vessel, and there aro, besides, nine
comfortable state rooms. The Perfect registers upwards of
650 tons, and is the property of Messrs. John Maclellan and
Co. On Saturday another large ship intended for the same
trade arrived here from Ayr, where she was- launched a few
days before. She is named the Tamerlane, and is the pro-
perty of J. and W. Stewart of this town.
Mr. Bennett's fortheomino•t, " Narrative of his Wan-
derings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore
and China," comprise, besides a record of his travels and ad-
ventures, his journal f a Naturalist in those countries. This
will be found to contain many interesting particulars relative
to the Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war, the monkey bread
tree, and the gigantic boabat, the manna and tulip trees, tree
hoppers, the lyre bird, the kangaroo, the fly-catcher, alligators,
the areka or betel-nut, the tea shrub, the ungka ape, the cam-
phor tree, the pitcher plant, and other subjects of the highest
interest to the inquirer into natural history.
CURIOUS PUBLISHING ACCOUNT.—CadeI and
Davies have sent me my account. The expenses of printing,
paper, &c., are exorbitantly increased, and I had near 5,0001.
to pay for expenses, besides all the booksellers' profits, partly
in consequence of my having given more for the money than
any book that had lately appeared. As you know, books do
not sell in proportion to their intrinsic value, but to their size.
I was vexed to see Miss Smith's " Fragments," excellent as
they are, and Mrs. Montagu's " Letters," two shillings a set
more than " Ccelebs," though there is not much above half
the paper and letter-press. I do comfort myself that I have
sold an honest, if not a good, book. Notwithstanding these dis-
advantages, you will be glad to hear that I cleared within the year
2,0001., to be paid by instalments, 500/. a quarter. I have had
the first,quartcr. That Walter Scott's two-guinea poem should
produce 2,000/. is not strange ; but that a trumpery twelv
shilling one, so cavilled at, and abused too, should prodUce
the same sum so soon, was what I had no reason to expect.
The copy-right is still in my hands.-.-Mrs. H. More's Life
and Correspondence.

A LARGE SPIDER.—As some men were sawing a
piece of logwood at Prestwich near Manchester, on Saturday
week, they surprised a huge spider, which crawled out of its
hole. It is supposed to be the great American spider. Its
body is about two inches and a half long, and about an inch
thick. Colour a dark brown. It has ten legs, of great length,
and eight eyes ; its nippers arc black, horny, and sharp, but
not serrated. They were scarcely discernible, until a piece of
quill was inserted, and then we found them to contain a small
house-fly, which the insect must have caught after its exhuma-
tion. There are no antennae visible. Its body is partially
covered with a soft down, and partly with a very long and
strong red hair. It weighs within a few grains of half an
ounce. But the great singularity is the habitation which this
insect has occupied probably for years. Mr. Eames purchased
the logwood in which it was found two or three months ago at
Liverpool, and be thinks it not unlikely that the wood may
have been two or three years in England.

ANECDOTE OF DR. YouNG.—neing in a prosing
humour just now, and supposing you to be fond of literary
anecdote, I will give you the story. I was dining in a par-
liamentary party with Lord Castlereagh, and he produced, for
our amusement, in the evening, some volumes of original let-
ters, curiously preserved by Lady C . Perhaps you
know of, or have seen the collection, which her ladyship de-
rived (through Lady Buckinghamshire, I think) from the
Duchess of Suffolk, to whom they had all been addressed.
When this lordship showed us the index, comprising the
names of all the wits and great men of the last age, my
curiosity was immediately fixed by that of Dr. Young. I
professed my enthusiastic admiration of his ' Night Thoughts,'
and begged to see and admire as a relic, the original letter of
such a man. My request was immediately complied with,
with a significant smile ; and what had I the mortification
to read? Horresco referens It was the most fawning, ser-
vile, mendicant letter, perhaps, that ever was penned by a cler-
gyman, imploring the mistress of George the second to exert
her interest for his preferment l It was of course laughed at
very heartily. But I had the consolation to find in the letter
among his mean pleas of former adulation to the Royal Fa-
mily, in his works, &c., a notice of his being fifty years old ;
and to recollect that the ' Night Thoughts' were written many
years later, with confessions of former ambition, and prefer-
ment-hunting, which he professed, I dare say, sincerely, to
have abandoned, and to look back on with shame I—Hannah
More's Letters.

On the 30th ult., as Mr. J. Negus, farmer, of
Flitwick, was walking down the village, he was accosted by a
person named Adams, one of a gang of poachers who infest
that neighbourhood, who asked Negus to drink with him.
Negus, however, declined the invitation, and a conversation
ensued, during which Adams said, " It is a foolish thing of
you farmers to interfere with us poor fellows, who go on your
land to shoot a few birds---you may have some injury done to
you." Negus made some remarks in allusion to societies for
the protection of property, to which Adams replied, " But as
yet there is no society to protect a man's life - I would as soon
shoot a man as a bird." They then parted, Adams going
into a beer-shop opposite. When Negus came back, in about
three-quarters of an hour, he stopped and spoke to Joseph
Billington, at the gateway of his house, about 30 yards from
the beer-house. A few minutes after a gun was fired from
the inside of the doorway, and Mr. James Negus, Mr. Joseph
Billington, and Mr. Jonathan Abbott, were all struck by the
shot, the two former were seriously wounded, Negus being
still confined to his bed. From the testimony taken before the
Justices, there seems to be no doubt that Adams fired the gun
from the inside of the beer-house. Every exertion is making
to capture the villain.—Cambridge Chronicle.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT THE STEAM-MILLS,
CIIESTER.—The steam corn-mills of the Messrs. Frost, which
are, perhaps, among the most commodious and complete in
the kingdom, have been, we regret to say, the objects of de-
struction by fire. About a quarter-past three o'clock on Sun-
day afternoon, Mr. Thomas Frost, in crossing the canal over
the Union-bridge, discovered some smoke issuing from the
mill. He immediately proceeded thither, and the flames di-
rectly afterwards burst through the windows. Four engines
were promptly on the spot ; but such was the combustible na-
ture of the interior, and the rapidity with which the flames
had spread throughout, that nothing could resist them. In
about half an hour, the roof fell in, and the whole of the mill
became one mass of flame, extending to the engine-house at
the west side of it. The origin of the fire cannot be otherwise
accounted for than as proceeding from friction of the ma-
chinery. The building, the stock in it, and all the machinery,
are totally destroyed, with the exception of the engine, which
is only partially insured. The loss will probably amount to
between 5,0001. and 6,0001. During the consternation which
prevailed, some injudicious persons broke open the counting-
house in the yard, which was in no danger, with a view to
save the books and prpers. This afforded an opportunity to
persons with less disinterested motives to break open the iron-
chest also, which they did effectually ; and the consequence
was, that some seven or eight pounds in silver, and some cop-
per, disappeared in the melee.—Chester Chronicle.
SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.—Ort Saturday.lTlOrri-
ing, about six o'clock, a young woman, of very interesting ap-
pearance, named Mary Wilson, committed self-destruction by
cutting her throat, at her lodgings in Castle-street, Westmin-
ster. The young woman having been found weltering in her
blood, with the deadly instrument by her side, was conveyed
with all possible speed to the Westminster Hospital, York-
street, and had every surgical assistance, but notwithstanding
she died two hours afterwards in the greatest mental anguish.
The deceased, who was a discharged lady's maid, had been
seduced by an officer of the 17th regiment of Lancers, with
whom she had been cohabitin' in the same house in which she
committed the melancholy and fatal act. The circumstance
of this officer being ordered to join his regiment, now in India,
preyed heavily on her mind, and his departure threw her into
a state of frenzy. To support herself she became a nymph of
the pave, and her miserable mode of life produced a very
visible effect upon her mind. She went to several chemists
and druggists in Westminster to purchase laudanum and
prussic acid, but her wildness of manner caused suspicion,
and her applications were refused. The deceased, who was
twenty years of age, was the daughter of a respectable trades-
man residing at Chelsea.