The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-19 00:00:00

two ago, he sent up to Thompson's for fruit, and paid as
high as five dollars for five pears.
It will be asked what has become of the proceeds of
these extensive for4eries ? We have given an inkling of
the extravagance of this man, which sufLiently indicatfa
his character in that respect, and we have no doubt that
within the last two years he has been able to squander all
the money that he raised by the means we have described.
He owned two houses in Twenty-secoud•street, costing
probably some 25,000 dollars. These were furnished re-
gardless of expense. In one of them he resided with his
family ; in the other, not a block distant, he maintained
in grand style a lady of beauty and accomplishments, who
was not his wedded wife. He was fond of showy equi-
pages and fine horses, and outshone all competitors in that
line.

It was usual to see his lady driving two in hand, and
himself driving a similar team, side by side. He kept open
house for all his friends, and give them the use of his
whole establishment. He rarely dined at home, but gene-
rally at some of the fashionable restaurants, with some
fashionable ladies. At the watering places his lady out-
shone all others in the splendour of her diamonds. It is
said that on the very day of his arrest she had sent to his
office, from Niagara or Saratoga, a box containing $30,000
worth of jewellery. Her brother took it in charge, and
the officers have not since been able to get at it. We re-
ceived the other day a communication stating that he had
recently bought, at Tiffany's and Co.'s, a piece of jewellery
price $l,BOO, for presentation to a lady. Mr. Tiffany,
however, says that this and other similar statements are
exaggerated.

With such lavish expenditures as these extravagant
tastes and habits imply it need not be wondered what be
came of the proceeds of the forgeries.
Huntington, like many other people in New York, was
determined to live like a prince—no matter who should
eventually have to foot the bill. Even now, when the crash
that was to be expeated has come, and when he can reason-
ably look for no other fate than that of a felon, he does not
lose his recklessness, his indifference. He eats his fine din-
ners and drinks his costly wines in his little cell in the
Tomb's, with apparently as much gusto as when he played
the part of grand seigneur in Twenty-second-street; and
even there the calamity that had befallen the household
does not seem to press heavily upon him. There is the same
" sound of revelry by night" as in times when he was flour-
ishing in Wall-street. But the reaction cannot fail to came

after the giddy excitement of such a life. It is sad to con-
template the end of such a brief career of dissipation. The
wealth which his wife supposed perhaps to be inexhaustible
will not save him from the degradation of a convict's life•
A young man, of pleasing address and good manners, he
might have lived a life of usefulness, and honestly become
wealthy, as ho desired ; but he could not resist the temp-
tation of getting rich in a hurry, and the end will be a
miserable existence in Sing Sing prison. There is a moral
in Huntington's career for all classes of our citizen's.—
Net' York Herald.

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Nov. 18.
Orders for the Court's going into Mourning on Thursday
next, the 20th inst., for his late Serenellighness the Prince
of Leiningen, half brother to her Majesty the Queen, viz.:—
The ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen,
white gloves, necklaces, and ear-rings, black or white shoes,
fans, and tippets.
The gentlemen to wear black full-trimmed, fringed or
plain linen, black swords and buckles.
The Court to change the Mourning on Thursday the 27th
instant, viz. :
The Ladies to wear black Silk or Velvet, coloured Rib-
bons, Fans and Tippets, or plain white, or white and gold,
or white and silver Stuffs, with black Ribbons.
The Gentlemen to wear black Coats, and black or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff Waist-
coats, full trimmed, coloured Swords and Buckles.
And on Thursday the 4th Dec. next the Court to go out
of Mourning.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 14.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Donald Fraser to the church and parish of Fearn, in the
presbytery of Tairn and county of Ross, vacant by the
transportation of the Reverend Donald Mackinnon, late
Minister thereof, to the parish of Strath.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 14.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto Cap-
tain Richard Ashmore Powell, C. 8., her Majesty's royal
licence and permission that he may accept and wear the
insignia of a Knight Commander of the Royal and Distin-
guished Order of Charles the Third, which the Queen of
Spain hash boon pleased to confer upon him, as a mark of
her approbation of his conduct in attempting to rescue a
Spanish vessel, when detached in the boats of the Janus
against the Moorish pirates on the Riff Coast.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 15.
The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto James, Baron Talbot of Malahide, in that part
of the said United Kin_dom galled Ireland, and the heirs
male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style,
and title of Baron Talbot de Malahide, in the county of
Dublin.