The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-05 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATION-(TIIIS DA-V.)

CITY OF LONDON.

(Before Mr. CRAIG.)
The Court sat at half-pai't nine o'clock, when the LCarned
Gentleman gave judgment in the case of Mr. John Alphooso
Doxat, which appeared fully in The Sun of Friday last.
He disallowed the claim, on the ground of want of proof
of occupation.
The claims of Mr. C. Davidson and Mr. Mason, which
were made under preeinly similar circumstances, were also

disallowed.
Mr. John Foggo claimed to have his name put on t e
h
Register, as occupier of the house No. 12, Chatham-plac
e.
The claimant proved that he was Secretary to the European
Assurance Company, and occupied the house in ques-
tion in that capacity. He had possession of the first floor,
except for two hours a week, when the Board of Directors
met in it, He was rated for the house, but the ComPanY
paid.the rent and taxes ; he was a proprietor, but did not
occupy the house in that character, but as Secretary.
Mr. CRAIG doubted whether the claim was good ; but
as the case was one, the decision of which would affect se-
veral other cases, he would defer his judgment till theY
were before him.

INSOLVENT COURT.-(THIS DAY•)

This was the last day of the sittings of this Court pre'
vious to November.
Benjamin Hustwayte, who stated that he btal carried. on
the trades of a bricklayer and tobacconist in White low
street, Norton Folgate, was brought up on his petition t°

be discharged. -
The insolvent was opposed in person by two creditors,
named Peake and Wilson ; to the first of whom he owed
upwards of 141. money lent, andto the latter 201. for rep,.
of a house in White Lion-street. From the statements 01
these gentlemen it appeared with respect to Peake, to *4Olll
the insolvent owed 141., he first of all gave him a good bah
which he afterwards changed for one that was good fer
nothing. As to Mr. Wilson, the insolvent had rented 0
house from him, for which he had refused to pay any rent,
and had had the impudence to demand 51. to give up passer
sion. Mr. Wilson gave the insolvent 21., and got posses'
sion of the house. After this, Mr. Wilson received a note
from the insolvent in high-flown terms, concluding by el'
pressinc, a hope' that they would be better friends than ever',
Mr. Wilson said that the insolvent had represented himse:
to be a hard-working man, but he was sorry to say he lia°
found no work in him.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER, on adjourning the case °I
the insolvent to tin 13th of November, said that it was
against his nature apparently to act honestly. He had one°
bfore been through the Court, and he hoped that Mr'
Wilson would be careful in future not to allow his good
nature to be imposed upon.

THE WEATHER—EARLY SNOW.—On Monday'
morning last, the high mountain of Ben Wyvis, in Res'
hills, inthis county,
shire, allot the Strathglass presented
their summits covered with snow. It is scarcely tWe
months since last winter's stock disappeared from their,
surface, and we suppose it still lingers in the clefts and
hollows, untouched by the sun, whence it seldom alte",
gether departs. The new coating is earlier than usual
by six or eight weeks. The season, indeed, proves cerii
unpropitious for the harvest. Almost constant rains an;
stormy winds have staid the hand of the husbandman, ail':
must have injured the grain, in some cases unshorn, but
generally cut and standing in the fields.—lnverness
Courier.
A meeting of the inhabitants of Devonport was held
on Friday, on the subject of applying for a charter of ineor-
poration under the new Municipal Act, when a further ad'
journment took place, to allow time for an inquiry into thea
probable expenses. It is probable that a petition for -
charter will be resolved on.—Devonport Independent.
There is now living at Rustington, near Littlea
Hampton, a person named Richardson, who is in the 102
year of his age, in the retention of all his faculties.
A curious circumstance lately occurred at Gest i"
the Jura. One of the National Guards of Verney was Oa;
demned to twelve hours' imprisonment, and his despair a:
being exiled for so long a period from his home was so great
that he would not go to prison without being accompan°
by his wife, his two children, his cat and dog, who acear
dingly were all very gravely escorted thither by two gen-
) darmes.
e
PROVIDING FOR THE WORST.—The Journa-
Calais states, that an inhabitant of Southampton has re:
cently been amusicsr himself by filling 14,000 bottles Wit;
6,000 copies of an abridgment of " Universal History'
The bottles, well corked and sealed, have, by his order'
been placed in deep cavities in the icy caverns of Grebe
land, in the hope, should a partial destruction of the glebe
again ensue, that they may survive the wreck and enlighteas
future ages, who would otherwise be ignorant cf the eve,c.te
which have come to pass in this world. It is not stated je
what language this bottle-conjuror has chosen to
the knowledge of the present race of mankind.
IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE MOON.-r-riet
Dublin Evening Post of Tuesday acknowledges the reee'P
of a number of American newspapers up to the 2d SePt'
which, in addition to the " Lynch Law " proceedings, Orr
tain a most elaborate account of a series of most maraca.,
peeserr
dinary discoveries alleged to have been made at the Cal°
of Good Hope, by Sir J. Herschell, with a gigantic tel er,
cope, of whose construction a circumstantial descriptiea
given, in which the writer has displayed an intimate
quaintance with optical and mathematical science. Sir vd:
Brewster, Dr. Andrew Grant, and Lieutenant Drumm tie
the present Under Secretary of State for Ireland, are non
to figure conspicuously in the detail of these astonishin,
discoveries, which the American editor professes to c°,l)e);
from a supplement alleged to be annexed to the last nunluue
of the Edinburgh Journal of Science, but for which t'
European readers of that journal will look in vain. Le
The town of New Lanark, with the whole of tP
extensive works in it, are about to be lighted with gas. -de,
COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS.—The
sign (which,- we observe, is on the eve of being carried ire
effect), of re-issuing in weekly shilling numbers the eliel
'„
works of fiction already contained, and to be contained, 7,
the above-mentioned collection, is certainly a most WIPP/
one. Such a Library of Entertainment, beautifully ege;
bellished, and thus placed within the reaeh of all classfeor
of readers, must set all competition at defiance ; for
what lover of entertaining literature can hesitate k,
possess himself of the best fictions of Bulwer, t
Gleig, Ward, James, Horace Smith, and others of greet
celebrity, when he can gradually do so at the trifling. c°:,
intr
of one shilling per week ? The first work to be
duced on the above new plan, is Mr. Bulwer's " Pelhani:
which is announced to appear in six weekly numbers, tb o
enabling the purchaser to obtain that famousproduct°
complete for six shillings.
The following is an extract of a letter from
dated May 4, 1835 :—" Since I last wrote to you we
Pat
our long-promised visit to Alipoot, and were delighted c"'A
our trip. We remained four clear days there, and h!"
splendid sport. Our party consisted of Sir R. W. flort7
Captains Rogers and- Kelson, and Messrs. Mann,
'
and myself. The first day 11 elephants were bagged, 10
second 9, the third 8, and the fourth 4, and one young one
taken alive, besides one shot the first day by a nigger. 4,
the above, Rogers shot 16, Elliott 6, Kelson 5, I\lol°lot
and his Excellency 3. I was the only one who could ;if,
claim a tail. I never saw such a splendid country---;,„
ferent from anything I had ever seen in Ceylon, and cle'ee
like an English park on an immense scale. If we saw erg
elephant, we saw, on a low calculation 200, but fte
says 500. We had four different breakfast bungalows, ele
four or five miles from the sleeping-places. We were °or
each day at day-light, and hunted and shot our way to eig.he
the breakfast places, attended by an army of bowmen. 'id
numbers of spotted deer were quite incredible-1
after
have no conception of it. We had famous galloping _ip
them with greyhounds. Rogers and myself rode down ;el,
including two bucks, in one hour and a half. His EX
Lislf
lency had a narrow escape with his life, being furie.ni.
charged by a rogue elephant, near a place called Dahtnre
There had been a Moor man killed a day or two 17,
Our arrival, by an elephant, at the village of
and the people requested Rogers to go out and sh°,° cora'
as the beast was quite close to the bungalow. f-e tion•
ingly out sailed Sir Robert and Rogers in one (1:11. 1
Mann and Kelson in another, and Elliott by himso 4,14
did not go out. Sir Robert and Rogers took the boat
path, and saw the brute in a thick thorny jungle at 8 co,
nine yards' distance. Sir Robert turned round to Ite6oo,
Kattabto
hvi;
and asked, in a whisper, if he should fire. At that, coo
ment the brute rushed out in the most furious wa3r(ght
can imagine, bearing every thing before hire, Ids
down on his Excellncy ; and when within four Y the
of him, received the contents of Sir Robert's rifle (7 Toost
pound) in his forehead. Rogers fired both barrels aOl
at the same instant, but only succeeded in turning icos
leaving him with a slight headach. We bad the Pi ewore
there, armed with their bows and arrows. They arc Thel
like monkies than men, and are dressed au nature]' of
were horribly frightened when I approached them (Ince
gray horse, as they bad never seen one before. Their rolled
was very curious—perfectly savage. They tossed an"
_cock
themselves about like so many finds, and became e/"lvere
ingly excited ; and, all of a sudden, every one of thetlL,
on their backs, as if by magic, with their limbs (1c1"..a
as if in the last agony. We had archery for prizes, a'retich
markably good practice the Cingalese mode of it ; oring
better than the Nedahs, but the latter excel at a ry The
shot, and, I am told, bring down their deer very often'oible.
colony is extremely healthy, and we are as gay as
11000
The pearl fishery has enriched the treasury to the 3
iiipf nearly 40,0001."