The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke Duke of Cumberland honoured the Earl of \W.A.
morland with his company at dinner on Sunday evening, at his
residence in Grosvenor-square. . .

The Duchess of Gloucester passed a good night on Sunday
night, and was a great deal better yesterday.
The Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria walked for some
time in Hyde-park yesterday.

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The Baron de Neumann, ;the Austrian Charge d'Affaires,
transacted business with Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the
Foreign-office,
The Commander of the Forces and Mr. Mayers, the Agent
for Barbadoes, transacted business yesterday at the office of the
Secretary of State for the Colonial Department.
The Countess Grey had a very numerous evening pa.ty yes.
terday, at her residence in Downing-street.

The death of the learned and excellent Judge
Lord Newton was announced in our second edition of Monday

last. The circumstances attending his Lordship's demise it
would be equally painful and unnecessary to detail. lie fell a

victim to a disease to which men of studious and sedentary

habits are peculiarly liable.

Lord Newton is known to the

country in two capacities; as Professor of the Civil Law in the
University of Edinburgh, and as a Judge in the Court of
Session.—Caledonian Mercury.

The account in the Government returns of
twelve cases and four deaths at Bailleston, is without founds_

tion. Three cases of cholera have occurred at Perth—all deaths.
They were all poor people.—. Glasgow Chronicle.

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It seems that 120 actions for damages have
been brought Against the city of Bristol in one shape or another,
and the total amount sought to be recovered is stated to be

about 130,0001., as compensation for damage during the late

riots.—Bristol Journal.

TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS.--Tile colliers in
the employment of the trustees of the late Duke of Bridgewater

and the other coal-owners, with one exception, in the Bolton
district, have turned out for a return to the wages from which
they had been reduced about a month ago. Large bodies of them
were assembled in different parts of the country, but we have
not heard of any breach of the peace.

An American gentleman has petitioned Con-
gress for a grant of money, and ten acres of land, on which he
proposes to form a geographical garden, delineating accurately

therein every part of the known world. The beds of ocean are
to be covered with gravel, the land adorned with verdure, and
the mountains furnished with such bases as geology points out,
and the seas; lakes, and rivers so constructed, that they may be
filled with water at any time ; thus giving a miniature represen-
tation of the world in its native eleme.,ts.—Stamford tier's..

The Warsaw Gazette announces that a shep-
herd, named Demetrius Grabousky, died recently at Potorski,
on the frontiers of Lithuania, at the patriarchal age of 169 years.

In a gravel-pit at Branciesburton Barffe was
lately discovered the fossil remains of the tooth of a mammoth,
which is full five inches in length and seven in breadth ; it is a
great curiosity, and is now in the possession of Mr. W. North,
Nelson-street, Hull. _ _

Yesterday the Tribunal de Premiere Instance
delivered judgment in the actions brought by M. PfafFenhoffen
and M. Magon de la Balue against Charles X., and decreed
that their respective demands should be paid out of the personal
effects of the Ex-King.—French Paper.
The following notice is fixed up at a coach-
office in Paris :—" Passengers are desired, if they get down,
not to walk faster than the coach."—Parrot.

Two COMETS.—Dr. Foster calculates that a
comet will appear on the Bth of May, and another on the Tith
of November next.

TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.—In a fashionable
novel the author says " Lady Emma trembled, grew pale, and
immediatelyfainted." The printer putting p instead of f, ren-
dered it " The lady grew pale and immediately painted !"
Stockport Advertiser.

To RESTORE FROSTED POTATOES.—TiIiS
is partially done by steeping potatoes, or any other frosted vege-
table, in cold water till thawsxl. A better and more effectual
method has been discovered by a Cumberland gentleman. This
remedy is simply to allow the potatoes to remain in the pits
after a severe frost, till the mild weather has set in for some
weeks, and allowing them to recover gradually. If once ex-
posed to the atmospheric air, no art will recover frosted potatoes.
DEFINITION OF THE WORD REFORM,
FROM THE DICTIONARY OF AN HONEST MAN.—" Reform—an
adaptation to circumstances and knowledge, demanded as a right
by all who are suffering wrongs, and only decried by those who
are fattening, or have fattened, hope to fatten on abuse."
GOOD NEWS FROM THE FOREST.--All
the men convicted at Gloucester of the riot in the Forest of
Dean have been restored to their families, with the exception
of William James, and it is even said that he will shortly be
enlarged. Trade in the Forest is extremely brisk, and has
been so during the whole winter. The demand for labour is
such that few of the workmen are getting less than from a gui-
nea to 255. per week.—Monmouth's Merlin.

HORSE FOOD AND DRINK.—It is satisfac-
torily ascertained, that three bushels of oats or barley boiled,
and the water given as drink, will keep a horse in better con-
dition than double the quantity in a crude state. Hence the
innkeepers on the western roads in England hove adopted the
practice.
HONESTY AND GENEROSITY.—On Mon-
day week, a poor woman who resides in Skeldergate, York,
being out of Bootham Bar, observed a lady drop her reticule,
which she took up, and following the lady, presented it to her.
She was pleased to receive it very graciously, and having
thanked the woman, and politely informed her that it contained
one hundred sovereigns, she condescendingly inquired of the
place of the poor woman's residence, and terminated the audi-
ence by generously presenting the restorer of the bag and trea-
sure with one shilling for her trouble! !—Halifas Journal.
BEGGING IN STYLE.—An elderly lady (for
we believe there are now no old women) has lately been levying
contributions on the benevolent in this city, on rather a novel
plan. She was wheeled about in a chair, and from the respecta-
bility of her appearance obtained a ready interview with the
mistress or master of the house she honoured with " a call."
She then stated herself to be the widow of a surgeon in Oxford,
with the additional et ceteras calculated to open the purses even
of the most obdurate, and we understand she made what is

called a good spec., as of course nothing less than gold or silver
could be offered to such a parlour mendicant, though there are
numbers of our own destitute poor probably more in want of,
and with stronger claims for, relief.—Hereford Journal.
A LUCKY SPARROW.—In the course of the
present winter, a farmer's man, residing in Pilsworth, strewed
some corn at the barn door in order to entice sparrows, whilst
he lay in wait to shoot them. Four sparrows came to the corn,
and he levelled at them; when, just at the critical moment, a
hawk swept down and took one of them, the other three, of
course, did not fail to disappear as quickly as possible. The
man, disappointed at losing the sparrows, levelled at the hawk,
and brought it down at the distance of fifty yards, and running
to seize it, he saw the sparrow escape from its relaxed talons and
fly away.—Scotsman.
On Thursday, at four o'clock, afternoon, as
had been previously arranged, a general fumigation of the town
of Paisley commenced with chlorine gas. Porters, with chlo-
ride of lime, and large quantities of diluted sulphuric acid, were
stationed in every street, and the visitors under/he Board of
Health took charge of seeing these materials distributed to
every family and place in the confined closes and lanes. About
eight o'clock the fumigation of the streets commenced by the
burning of tar barrels, the hurling of large tubs filled with
chloride of lime and acid through the streets, which were stirred
round to throw off the gas, and chafers placed here and there
through the town, from which it was disengaged from its ori.
ginal source (maganese and common salt) by means of heat and
acid. As formerly stated, the inhabitants throughout all parts
of the town entered heartily into this experiment for the gene-
ral good, with the exception of those who took the management
of the 6th ward ; but, from the conduct of the inhabitants, it
appeared as if in so doing they acted without the general con-
currence, for when those from the other wards went there with
the fumigating materials, they were gladly received by the peo.
ple in almost every tenement, who had these materials distri.
buted amongst them, so far as they would go. What may have
been the effects of this experiment we pretend not to say; but
it is with no ordinary degree of pleasure we state that, with
the exception of those previously remaining, the town has not
been so free of the disease it was intended to check since its
commencement. During the whole night and the early part of
this day there is not a case reported at the hospital, nor did any
death take place except one, and in that case the life of the pa-
tient was despaired of before the fumigation commenced.—
Glasgow Chronicle.
BONES FOR M ANUR E.—The exportation
of bones from Germany to England, say the Vienna Papers,
constitute a singular epoch in the annals of commerce. My-
riads of tons have been already exported without glutting the
market, or causing a cessation of the demand. In the vicinity
of the North Sea mills have been erected to pulverise them.
'This bone-powder, or bone dust, was long ago exclusively ap-
plied to the purposes of hot-houses by German horticulturalists ;
but the English, emboldened by their riches, extend its use to
general objects of agriculture, and fertilize, by these expensive
means, their humid, cold, and poorest land; and have thus
brought the uplands of Nottinghamshire, the western parts of
Holderness, &c. into the highest state of cultivation, both in
point of extent and intenseness of fertility. There is, conse-
quently, a proverb, "that one ton of German bone dust saves
the importation of ten tons of German corn." As Malta for-
merly covered her native rocks with foreign soil, so does Eng-
land now fertilize her clay and sandy heaths with German
bones. Near the sea-coast even the church-yards are robbed of
their venerable relics, which is only ironically excused by ren-
dering the German bone trade popular. An agriculturalist,
being rendered attentive by this vast exportation, instituted pri-
vately some comparative experiments, the results of which
prove that bone dust acts in the cultivation of grain, as com-
pared to the best stable manure In respect to the quality of
corn as 7to 5. 2. In respect to quantity as sto 4. 3. In re-
spect to durability of the energy of toils as 3to 2. It produces
several collateral advantages It destroys weeds-2. It dimi-
nishes the necessity of suffering the land to lay fallow--1- This
concentrated manure, or substitute for manure, is more easy of
conveyance, less laborious to spread, and can with facility be
applied to the steepest vineyards or other Inaccessible lands,
either in mountainous countries or in wet meadow land-4. It
renders agriculture practicable without cattle-breeding, graft-
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