The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-21 00:00:00

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The following communication was received at
Lloyd's on Tuesday :

OFFICE OF COMMITTEE OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRAM

WHITEHALL, NOV. 16. 1833.

" Sza,—Among the arrangements which will follow'
from the charge of the Island of St. Helena being for 14
future vested in the Crown, it will be necessary that,
measures should be taken for supplying the inhabitants of
that island with prsvi'i ins and stores of various descrip-
tions. The East India Company has hitherto 'wen in the
practice of making annual consignments of tfos • articles,
hut it is und-rstood that they do not intend to forward any
further consignments of this kind, as there is alrtady in
the island a supply sufficient to last to the 22d of April
next; I am therefore directed by the Lards of the C tin-
inittee of Privy Council for Trade to request that you will
adopt such measures as may appear to the C .mmittee of
Lloyd's to he most desirable for notifying the above cir-
cumstance to the merchants generally.
" I am further to acquaint you, that the months of
January and February are the periods at which rho
supplies have hitherto been forwarded by the East India
Company.

" I aaa, Sir, your obedient servant,
" THOMAS LACK.

" To the Chairman of Lloyd's."

Several fresh appointments and promotions
have recently taken place in he office of Secretary of State
for Foreign Afftir.. Viscount Palmerston has appointed,
his n phew, J. H. Sulivan, E q., son of the Hon. Mrs.
Sulivan and of the Deputy S-cretary at War, to be his
Private Secretary, vice the lion. Colonel Walpole, ap-
pointed Consul General in Chili. Mr. Sulivan succeeded
the Hon. Mr. Edwardes, son of Lord Ken•ingtnn, as one
of the junior clerks in his Lordship's detainment The
Hon. John Ponsonby, eldest eon of Viscount Duncannon,
who went in the suite of Lord Durham to St. Peteishurgh
is appointed precis writer in the Foreign Office.
THE AUTHOR OF PELHAIC—We observe
that new and cheap editions of Mr. Bulwer's novels may
now be had bound, as follows:—Pelham, 3 vols. for 121.
Devereux, 3 vols., 12s. The Disowned, 3 vols., 12..
Falkland, 1 vol., 9s. 6d. ; and Paul Clifford, 3 vols, 18s.
The latter work has been universally pronounced as supe—
rior to the rest, inasmuch as it includes within itself the wit
and buoyancy of " Pelham," the pathos of the "
owned," and the historical truth and vigorous delineation
of character which distinguished "Devereux." To these
qualities it adds one peculiar to itself, namely, the trenchant
force of its court satire.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR OF HONOUR.

—A few evenings ago, at a social party who nightly
assemble at a respectable tavern in the neighbourhood of
the Custom House, two gentlemen got into a very angry
dispute respecting some trifling matter. Words succeeded
words ; when one of the disputants (a Yorkshire biadel
offered to settle the affair by a pistol combat, muzzle to
muzzle, on the following morning, at seven o'clock, which
was immediately acceded to by his opponent, a gentleman
from the beautiful city of Cork. The morning arrived,
" big with the fate" of York and Cork—but whether it
Well owing to the dense fog which then prevailed in the
neighbourhood of Falkner-square, or whether the de-
scendant of the Red Rose had thereby fallen into the
New Cemetery, could not be told ; however, after a
fruitless search of an hour with torches, lantern, &c., no
traces could be found of either York, who was " wanted,"
or his friend, a Cockney cove. Oor hero of the Green
We accordingly had the mortification of going home to
eat his porridge without blood sauce, as lie fondly anici-
pated, the strife ending—not in smoke, but in joke.—
Liverpool Paper.

ADVERTISMENT.—INDIA.—Every kind of
eulogy appears to have been passed by our contemporaries
upon that valuable And beautiful publication on India the
Oriental Annual " It is," says the Athencrum, " a truly
elegant work."—" It is the Aurora of the Atinu 'le."
Literary Gazette. "It is much better than an Annual."

—Atlas. " A new and extremely elegant periodic.l.
John Bull. "It is bound in a style of eastern magnifi-
cence.' —Court Journal. "It contains twenty-five
splendid engravings."—Spectator. " Combining the
magnificence of nature and art "—Age. " A most attrac-
tive volume."—Morning Post. " The subjects are so
interesting, so picturesque, and so extraordinary."_
Weekly Paper. "The charm of this volume is cemplete."
—Daily Paper. " The most gorgeous volume we ever
beheld."—National Standard. "An elegant and aurae.
tive novelty."—Globe. " Its external appearance .s as
unique and handsome as it is beautiful within."— Yt,rk
Herald. "It is a superb annual, glittering in eastern
splendour."— York Courant. "In truth it is a rich an I
most splendid book."—Exeter Post. "It is one of th
most animated pictures that has ever issued from the press."
—Atlas.

Yesterday morning, at half-past two o'clock,
a young man of very respectable appearance wis
brought in a hackney coach to St. George's Hospital,
labouring under the effects of several extensive and highly
dangerous wounds which he had inflicted on the inside of
the elbow joints of both arms, in attempting to commit
suicide. He was immediately attended by Mr. Hicks, the
house surgeon, who succeeded in stopping the hemilrhage,
but the patient remains in a highly dangerous state, with
but very slight hope of his ultimate recovery. IC was
afterwards ascertained that the individual in question is
Dumas, the French usher, implicated in the late tragic il
event at Barnes, involving the melancholy and lamentable
death of Miss Mary Watt, the daughter of Mr. Watt, the
proprietor of Byfield Huse Academy at Banes, the par-
ticulars of which have already appeared be'ore the public.
An inquest was held on the body of Miss Watt on Tours-
day last, and Dumas was placed under temporary restraint
Lard the verdict of the jury was known, when he was set
at liberty, and on Saturday evening last he went to the
Crown Inn at Croydon, and rr-quested a bed should be
prepared for him as quickly as pos,ib e. He retired to bed
at nine o'clock, and not making his appearance on the
following morning at the usual time, he was repeatedly
c,lled by the chambermaid, and at len,th, a feeling or
alarm b-log excited, the door id his apartment was broken
open, when he was discovered lying in bed weliering in
his b ood, which was then fl 'wing profus-ly from several
dreadful gashes which he had inflicted roil each arm with
a razor. Five small phials which had contained laudanum
were found try his bedside, and it was evident he had
swallowed the contents—about five ounces. The over.d.3id
however, so excited the stomach as to cause its rejtec.
titan, and the whole was found in the washhand tlit:sio.
By careful attention Dumas was enabled ti be removed on
Tutsday last to the residence
of a Iriend at 22, John-stre,t
Nortir, New Road, Alaryiebortet
Where he was put to bed,
end yes erday inorniod, about one o'clock, it was disco•
vexed that the bandages of hie arms had been removed,
and the blood bad escaped in such quantities that the bed
and bedding were completely soaked through. But slight
hope is entertained of his recovery.