The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-24 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Sir Davidge and Lady Gould, and Miss Atty, from the St.
James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Herts ; Mrs. and Misses
Kerr, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Brighton;
Messrs. Rutherford, from the Royal Hotel, Jermyn-street, for
Paris; the Bishop of Oxford, from ditto, for Cadeddon Palace,
Oxford; Sir William and Lady Maria Aglander, from Tho-
mas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, on a visit to the Duke of Graf-
ton, at his seat, Euston Hall, Thetford, Norfolk; Captain and
Mrs. Griffin, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover street for Chelten-
ham ; Mr. and Mrs. R. Knight, from Regent street, for the
Continent ; Uvedale Price, Esq., from the Waterloo Hotel,
Jermyn-street, for Worcester; Captain and Mrs. Davidson,
from ditto, for Scotland; Captain Oglevie, from ditto, for
Portsmouth; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Templer, from ditto, for
Scotland.

Count Matuszewic intends passing a fortnight
at the seat of the Earl of Wilton, and thence the diploma-
tist goes to Melton Mowbray.
The Earl of Harrington intends to astonish
the natives by the display of a carriage built upon an unique
and antique plan, but whether Roman, Grecian, Egyptian,
Indian, or Chinese, no one can tell

The Duke of Cambridge has gone from Mag-
deburg to Berlin, and will remain there, it is said, till the
end of the month. The Emperor of Russia gave to the
Duke, when he was at Schwedt, the Order of St.
Andrew.

Her Grace the Duchess of BEDFORD has,
we regret to hear, met with an accident, at her residence
at Rothitnurchus. A dog which her Grace was caressing,
suddenly sprung up, and lacerated ber forehead consider-
ably, tearing off part of the skin and one of the eyebrows.
Inverness Courier.

Lady Mary Fox has arrived on a visit to her
sister, the Countess of Errol. Lord Errol has recently
occupied himself in drawing out plans for the reconstruc-
tion of the ancient chapel at Slains Castle, his Lordship's
patrimonial seat in Aberdeenshire, where schoolhouses are
also about to be established by the direction of the Earl.
The King of Prussia's now ascertained back-
wardness in joining the Un-holy Alliance, may account for
the marked manner in which his health is said to have
been toasted and received at a late royal banquet.
Lord Francis Leveson Gower, with a fortune
of 100,000/. a year, is receiving half pay as an Ensign in
the army ; and John B. Scriven, Esq., a wealthy member
of the Irish bar, and King's Counsel, is also on the half.
pay list as Lieutenant.—Limerick Chronicle.
The Honourable Captain Elliott, Secretary to
the Admiralty, arrived at Newcastle, last Wednesday
morning, in the Comet, Government steamer. The
Honourable Secretary's visit to the north, we understand,
is undertaken for the purpose of inquiring into the alleged
misconduct of the Mermaid revenue cutter, as regards the
Ardincaple steam-boat, during the late tremendous
storm.—Newcastle Journal.

THE ISUCHESSD-EB ERRI IN LA VENDEE,
BY GENERAL DERMONCOURT.-This interesting and
important volume, with portraits of the Duchess and the
General, will be published to-morrow by Messrs. Bull
and Churton, Holles.street, who have also nearly ready
the English translation of " Marshal Ney's Memoirs," in
two vols., with Portrait, Maps, and Plans. On the Ist
day of October they will also publish " The Oriental
Annual, or Scenes in India," containing twenty-five
Engravings from original Drawings, by W. Daniell, Eeq.,
R.A. " The Biblical Annual," a valuable companion to

the Holy Scriptures; and " The Geographical Annual,
for 1834," including the discoveries and changes that have
taken place to the present time.
LIVERPOOL.--111r. Stanley was here on
Friday, and drove through several of the principal streets,
accompanied by Mr. Hardman Earle and two other gen-
tlemen. The Duke of Richmond and suite arrived the
same evening by the railway train from Manchester, and
passed through the great tunnel to Wapping. They after-
wards proceeded to Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby.
Some of the Irish papers express great indig_
nation against Lord Yarborough for having, in his capa-
city of Commodore of the Yacht Flotilla, declined to pre-
sent to Louis Philippe, on his visit to Dieppe, any others
than the members of the English division.
The pictures for the Winter Exhibition at
the Suffolk Gallery, were received on the 9th and 10th
of this month. It is the second season of a novel attempt,
arid consists not only of choice pieces of the dead masters,
but three unexhibited works of any one of the living.
Webster, Stanley, Lance, Davis, &c., have contributed,
and it promises to be a successful speculation.
A correspondent of the Lancet of Saturday
states that the Duke of Buckingham promised :300/. to-
wards the establishment of an Infirmary in Aylesbury, and
that when called on for the money, he refused to pay'
alleging that the institution was a humbug, wholly un-
called for by the necessities of the country.
FirtE.—At two o'clock on Saturday morning
a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Smith? cheesemonger,
of Church-street, Greenwich, which burnt with such fury,
that the house was entirely consumed before the flames
could be extinguished. The houses on each side of Mr.
Smith's were also considerably damaged.
The steam carriage which went to Brighton
on Friday (Sir Charles Dance's), performed the journey
in six hours and twenty minutes, including stoppages; the
time taken, exclusive of delays, was five hours and twenty
minutes. The carriage, with a barouche attached, was to
take an airing about Brighton on Saturday, and then
return to town.
Among the other projects now afloat there is
one for a Joint Stock Company, to be called " The London,
Bombay, and China Shipping Company," who propose to
purchase some of the large ships now engaged in that
trade, and invite the present owners, and the principal
merchants and others connected with the port of London
to unite in the proposed undertaking.
An investigation has for some days past been
going on at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, relative to the
abstraction of the teeth from the corpse of a handsome
young female who died in the hospital. A person employed
in the institution was searched, and two sets of teeth were
found on him. Two other men are said to be implicated
with him. The discovery was first made by Mr. Powell,
the undertaker, of Duke-street, Smithfield.
ELECTORS IN FINSBURY BOROUGH.—
Yesterday the Revising Barristers for Finsbury completed
their labours. There are 8,341 registered electors. Last
year there were 10,537, so that there is a decrease of
2,196. The greatest decrease is in the parishes of St.
James and St. John, Clerkenwell, viz. 1,540. In Gray's
Inn, there is an increase of 31.

THE LATE SIR H. GOODRICKE.—SeveraI
erroneous accounts have appeared in the papers relative to
the late Sir Harry Goodricke's family. He inherited,
from his father, the estate at Ribston, in Yorkshire, which
has been in the family near three centuries. The Ba-
ronetage is not extinct, but on Sir H. Goodricke's death,
devolved upon his cousin, Thomas Goodricke, E.q. (now
Sir Thomas Goodricke), and on whom the Ribston estate
was entailed under a family settlement. There are two
sisters of Sir Harry's father now living, who are his coheirs-
at-law, and one of whom married Charles Gregory Fair-
fax, Esq., of Gilling Castle, in this county, and has several
children.—Yorkshire Gazette..

The following confession from an enlightened
Frenchman ought not to be lost upon his own country-
men or the world :—" No national experience," says he,
" has accrued from the experience of 40 years of revolu-
tions ; which have only brought in their train public or
private misfortune. There is no public instruction—of
national morality nothing."
In reply to a requisition inviting Mr. Wallace
to a public dinner, that gentleman states that it is his in-
tention, before he accepts any such compliment, to have a
meeting with his constituents, in such a place as they may
be able to attend gratuitously, and receive from him an
account of his conduct as their representative. This
meeting would have been held before this, but has bee❑
postponed in consequence of the want of some documents
sent by the smack Earl of Wemyss, and which, though
landed from the vessel, have not yet reached their owner.
Greenock Advertiser.

A PECULIAR BREED OF SHEEP IN THE
NEPAL COUNTRY.-The huniah is a large, tall breed,
with slender, compressed, spirally-twisted horns, and short
narrow tail. Though now naturalized in the Kachar, it
is of trans-Himalayan origin. The colour is almost inva-
riably white. Individuals of this specks are apt to have
three, four, and even five horns. The huniah cannot
bear the heat of Nepal south of the northern division, and
will doubtless flourish in England, where the experiment
is making of naturalizing it. Its wool is superb. —Jour-
nal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Mr. Hayter, set on -by the patronage given
to Haydon by Lord Grey in the City Reform Dinner,
now in a very forward state, has, we hear, started a new
project, similar in subject, but different in its workings.
It is to be a picture of any dimensions—subject, the
Moving of the Address in the first Reformed House, and
to contain as many Members as chose to return themselves
to this Parliament of universal suffrage. Each is to pay
ten guineas, to sit twice, and to have the original sketch,
and all the immortality of a place in the large picture for
his money and his pains. _

A NOTHER. PROJECT.-A question has been
raised at York as to the practicability of improving the
channel of the river Ouse, below that city, so as to admit
sea-borne vessebi, of considerable burden, by aid of the
giant steam. The Merchants' Company of York appear
to have taken the matter up, and there is every probability
of its being carried into effect. At a meeting last week
extracts were read from charters and documents com-
mencing so early as 1118, and coming down to 1726,
which not only proved that York was formerly a port,
but also that it was very extensively engaged in foreign
commerce.

CHOLERA AT SHEFFIELD.-It is with re-
gret that we record that the cholera has again made its
appearance in this town, particularly in the neighbour-
hoods of Newfield and Bridgehouses, where it was on its
former visit so fatally life. A mother and two children
in one family have become its victims in the first men-
tioned place. A severe case has also occurred in the Park.
Our readers and the public will, therefore, do well to
obtain prompt and efficient medical aid on the first appear-
ance of any of the premonitory symptoms, diarrhoea,
sickness, &c., as also to promote cleanliness in their neigh-
bourhoods.—Sheffield Mercury.
There is a certain portion of the cliff' near
Crowlink which has been the scene of several fatal acci-
dents, particularly to the coast guard. A few days since
a gentleman passing that way observed a carpenter making
a coffin, and was informed that it was for the sixth man
who had met his death by falling over the cliff at that
place, while on the look out for smugglers. The descent
is extremely deceptive ; for some distance there is an
inclined plane, on which apparently a man may warx free
from danger, but it terminates so abruptly that tie indivi-
dual who ventures there, while supposing himself secure,
is suddenly hurried into the abyss beneatb.—Brighton
Herald.

On Saturday John Mason, the wretched man
who succeeded in slaying the late lamented Nathaniel
Sneyd, Esq., was removed from Newgate to the Richmond
Lunatic Asylum, where he will be imprisoned for life. A
monument by public subscription is about to be erected to
the memory of the deceased gentleman.
THE GIRAFFE.—This singular and hitherto
extremely rare animal is now, from the increasing desire
to procure novelties of the animal kingdom, likely to be-
come more familiar to this country, as no less than six
have been captured and brought through the Great Desert.
They have arrived safely at Grand Cairo, preparatory to
their shipment for England. One of these beautiful
animals has been procured by Mr. Burton, the architect,
who is now travelling in Egypt, for the Zoological Society
in the Regent's Park, and arrangements are in progress
for shipping a pair of them for the Surrey Zoological
Gardens. Another of these animals has also been captured
in the back settlements of the Cape of Good Hope, and is
now on its passage to this country. It is a private spe-
culation, undertaken by a merchant, and should it arrive
first will obtain a high price. The animals referred to
above are all young, and do not exceed five or six feet in
height.
PARIS THEATRICALS.— Mdlle. Taglioni
crowds the Grand Opera at every appearance. The
Company of the Theatre Francais will commence per-
forming at the Odeon next week ; their theatre is under-
going a thorough substantial repair; all the joists that are
in the least injured are being replaced by new ones, and
the alterations, which are very considerable, are calculated

greatly to improve the appearance of the Salle, and to
contribute to the greater convenience of the spectator?.
Victor Hugo's new drama is expected to be brought for.
ward at the Porte St. Martin on the 16th of the ensuing
month. Mdlle. George is to fill the character of Queen
Mary, supported by Bocage in the leading male person-
age. Wile. Leontine Voln) s returns shortly to the
Gymnase, when the public lose for a time Mdlle. Jenny
Vertpre.

STATE OF TRADE.—The woollen cloth
trade in Leeds and its neighbourhood continues in much
the same state as at our last notice. Business is by no
means brisk, speculation having bee❑ for a time suspended
on account of the critical state of the wool trade, yet an
average quantity of goods has been sold. The clothiers
comp:ain of the reluctance of the merchants to give prices
equal to the rise in wools, and the latter urge as a reason
that as the price of the raw material must decline in value
they will not be able to realise the prices now asked.—
Leeds Intelligencer.
ROYAL POET.—The King of Bavaria, who
has not yet lost his taste for writing poetry, has caused an
ode, or elegy, entitled "Europe in the Nineteenth Cen-
tury," to be inserted in the almanack for 1834. From the
tenor of this production, his Majesty appears to be no
longer animated by the liberal sentiments which he evinced
in his former compositions. He laments the opening of
Pandora's box. The people, given up to delusion, are led
towards destruction. Every where appears a confusion of
language, as of old, at the construction of Babel. The
torrent of passion carries men who are no longer restrained
by sacred ties, &c. This new Jeremiad on the spirit of
the age will, no doubt, be well received at Munchenerata.
The October Number of Mr. Colburn's New
Monthly Magazine will contain, we are informed, among
other interesting Papers :—The first of a Series, by the
Author of Highways and By-ways, entitled " My Travel-
ling Acquaintance ;" also the first of a Series of Sketches
by Miss Mitfurd, entitled, 4, Inhabitants of a Country
Town."—The late Mr. Tardy, a Sketch, by the Author
of Paul Pry—The Ruined Laird, a Tale, by the Hon. Mrs.
Norton—Seasonable Ditties, No. 2, by Thomas Haynes
Bayley—Faganini's Fiddle—The Conclusion of Mi. Grat-
tan's Reminiscences of the late Edmund Kean, &c. &c.—
Orders for the Magazine should be sent to the Booksellers
by the 28th to insure its delivery on the Ist of October.
According to the last official returns, 7,500
French convicts, condemned to hard labour, are now at
the hulks of Brest, Rochefort, and Toulon. The hulks at
L'Orient were suppressed in 1830 ; at that time the
number of convicts amounted to 8,461. The expense for
the administration and surveillance of the hulks, and for
the maintenance and pay of the convicts, amounted to
2,571,566 f. The product of the work done by the con-
' victs, is rated at 2,052,286 f. This wot k consists in re-
pairs, sawing of timt'er, &c. Thus the hulks cost the
State about 400,0001. more than they bring in. At
Toulon the convicts are employed, for the most part, in
works requiring more intelligence, and the product of their
labour generally covers their expenses.
FASHIONABLE TASTE IN MUSIC.—When
people of fashion go to concerts it is not to hear the music
—they do not deign to listen to it. A concert serves as an
excuse to draw them together, and the noise of voices and
of instruments furnishes an agreeable accompaniment to
their conversation. No sooner has the conductor given the
signal by a prelude o❑ the piano, than they break up into
parties all over the rosin ; their clamour soon grows loud
as the din of a public meeting or a market-place, and
lasts till the piece of music is finished. However, one
artist is generally excepted from this mortifying reception.
This fortunate mortal is the singer, or rather the songstress,
"a la mode." As soon as her voice is heard silence is
re-established. By this preference the fashionable world
would mark that it is not insensible to the charms of music,
and that when it disregards the rest, it is because that rest
does not deserve its attention.-111. Fetis on English
Music.

Lord Althorp appears to have been particu-
larly successful at the Annual Show of the Northamp-
tonshire Grazing Society, which took place last week at
his Lordship's farm at Chapel Brampton. To the Noble
Lord were awarded the second prize of three guineas for
five long-wooled shearhogs; three sovereigns for his
Durham steer, three years and three months old ; two
sovereings for a second Durham steers, of the same age;
two sovereigns for the best steer under three years and
nine months old; and three guineas for another Durham
steer, three years and three months old, " bred by himself."
Upon his health being drunk, the Noble Lord expressed
his high gratification at the number and quality of the
animals exhibited, but declined all allusion to politics. lie
had, be said, been for some time past employed upon sub-
jects very different from those they were then met to
discuss; but to those subjects, he was happy to say he
was not allowed by the rules of the Society more particu-
larly to advert.

THE FROLIC OUTWITTED.—A hare some-
times travels a good way after it is dead ; but seldom stirs
far after it is cooked. In this town, however, it some-
times has a different fate. A capital puss was seen in the
larder of an inn, in this town, on Monday, by a party of
youths intent on a frolic and a good supper. They smoked
the landlord to sleep, and engaged the attention of the
domestics whilst three of the party mounted on each
others' shoulders and bore off the prize. In the evening
puss was cooked at another inn, where a hungry party
were met to devour her; but the original proprietor of
the hare suspecting who were the rogues, and having
them watched, dispatched two friends to see what could
be done towards her recovery. They arrived just as the
party had sat down; the cook was dishing up the dinner,
when one of the intruders threw his arms round her neck
to kiss her, whilst the other seized the hare and fled with
the prize to its original owner. The dismay of the
rogues who stole the hare, at finding themselves thus
baulked (and who were compelled to sup on hot potatoes
and cheese), could only be equalled by the enjoyment of
the party who devoured the hare.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
FEROCITY OF A RAT.—A singular instance
of the ferocity of a rat occurred last Wednesday night, in
the house of Mr. Swain, of the Punch Bowl Inn, Thurs-
day Market. After the family had all retired to bed, Mr.
and Mrs. Swain were awoke out of their sleep by the
screams of their three children, who slept in an adjoining
room. Mrs. S. immediately went to learn the cause;
and on entering the room she observed a large rat jump off
the bed. Her husband procured a light, and an unsuc-
cessful search was made for it. On examining the child-
ren, they discovered that the eldest, about six years old,
had one of his hands bitten ; another, about four years
old, had one of his knees so severely bitten, that he was
unable to walk the following day ; and the youngest,
about 11 months old, was so severely bitten on one side
of the neck, a little under the ear, and bled so profusely
that its life was considered in danger. During the time
Mr. and Mrs. S. were in the room, the rat jumped upon
the bed a second time, and seized the youngest child by
the forehead. The ferocious animal kept its hold until
Mr. Swain went and attempted to catch it, but it eluded
his grasp, and finally made its escape.— Yorkshire
Gazette.

AUDACIOUS SWINDLING ; OR, How TO
TRAVEL POST TO LICHFIELD RACES—Stratford-on-
Avon, Sept. 17.--Last week, on the day before Lichfield
Races, a person, calling himself a Bow-street officer, came
travelling post through this town, in pursuit, as he pre-
tended, of four men who had robbed and murdered a
commercial gentleman near London. Two of the mur-
derers, he said, he had apprehended between London and
Stratford. So anxious was this vigilant emmissary of
justice to secure the other two that he drove to the dif-
ferent lodging-houses here in a post-chaise and pair, with
the chaise-door open, that he might the more securely
pounce upon his prey. His search being unsuccessful he
took a fresh chaise and pair from hence, and so keen was
he in the pursuit that he had not time to pay fur it.
Near Lapworth lie took a man into custody under pre-
tence that he was one of the suspected criminals, and then
continued his pursuit of the fourth through Hockley and
Birmingham to Lichfield. It being the races, of course,
he directed the post-boy to drive at once to the race-
course, as the most probable place in which to find the
delinquent he was pursuing. Here, on alighting from
the chaise, of course he was asked by the postboy for pay-
ment. This he indignantly resented, gave the postboy a
kick for his impertinence, suddenly disappeared amongst
the crowd, and has never been either seen or heard of
since. When at Stratford he did not apply to the local
police for assistance; but it was suggested to Mr. Asbfield
the constable, that he ought to assist in the pursuit. Ash-
field, however, thinking that no Bow-street officer would
gallop about from one lodging-house to another in a post-
chaise, with the door open, expressed his suspicion that
all was not right, and declined to volunteer in such an ap-
parent wild-goose chase. His suspicions have been
amply confirmed. The swindler, it appears, at Shipston-
on-Stour contrived to obtain cash to a considerable
amount on a check ; and at other towns also be practised
the same trick, frequently leaving 51. in the hands of the
landlord, if the latter bad not cash to the full amount of
the check, at the same time promising to settle the ba-
lance and pay for the chaise on his return. So adroit and
successful was the impostor that it is confidently said he
netted nearly 2001. by the excursion, besides travelling
post from London to Lichfield, most expeditiously, and
without cost.--Leaminyton Courier.