The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Mainuis and Marchioness of Bristol, at their seat,
Putney-heath, from Brighton ; Hon. E. Percival, from Lord
Arden's seat, York House, near Epsom, Surrey ; R. C. Yar-
borough, Esq., from Houston, Doncaster; General Trevor,
in Hertford-street, from his seat in Sussex ; Mr. and Mrs. Ha-
Inilton, at the Carlton Hotel, Regent-street, from America ;
Sir John and the Misses Hawkiiis at ditto, from Bath ; Mr.
and Mrs. Barclay, at ditto, from the Continent ; Turkes,
at ditto, from a tour; the Hon. Mr. Plunkett, at ditto,
Li.rem Ireland ; the Hon. Randall Plunkett, at the St. James's
Jermyn-street, from Ireland ; Lord Compton, Knox,
• and Mackenzie, Es. at itt, from Cambride;
Alt and Mrs. Vivian, at the , Pultedneyo- Hotel, Albemarlge-
Street ; Major Eusten, at Wright's Hotel, Dover-street ; Mr.
and Miss O'Brien, at ditto ; William Blissett, Esq., at ditto ;
Mrs. Edwards and family, at ditto ; Wm. Cooper, Esq., at
ditto - Captain and Mrs. Gage, in Brook-street, from
Brighton ; Lady Kinloch, from Brighton ; Lady Frederick
tentinck, from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Hedworth Lambton, in
Mount-street, from the Earl of Durham's seat, Sudbrook-
D•rk, Richmond ; Hon. Mrs. Stewart Mackenzie, in St.
ames's-place, from a Continental tour; R. Mere O'Ferrall,
11" sc•
o in Bury-street, from Kildare ; A. W. Chisholm, Esq.,
'l. P., from the North ; Hon. Lloyd and Lady Harriet Mos-
ia Lower Seymour-street, from a tour ; Lady Mary
Vudyer and family, at Leamington, from their seat, Ayston,
Ppingham ; Lady Darell and family, from a tour; Lord
`Yin. Paget, from the Continent ; Lord Prudhoe, from ditto ;
Col Hamilton, from ditto ; Baron de Rothschild, from ditto ;
Culling Smith, Esq., from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Burgoyne,
from ditto ; Col. Beckwith, from ditto.
DEPARTURES.
S• ir J. Cope, Bart., from his seat, Bramshill Park, Hants ;
tlenry Fox Talbot, Esq., from Sackville-street, for his seat,
Lacock Abbey, Wilts ' • Captain Dixon, from Fenton's Hotel,
St. James's-street, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Clarke,
Item the Pulteney Hotel, for Idsworth Park, Hants ; Colonel
Ltd Mrs. Hunter Blair, from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-
Itreet, for the Continent ; General Finch, from ditto, for
Worcestershire • Groves, Esq., from ditto, on a tour ;
captain
and Mrs.i Gowan, for Brighton.

Haymaking has commenced extensively in the
neighbourhood of Bath, during the past week, both in grass and
lover, and the crops are allowed to be unusually fine and
abundant.
The favourite amusement of the fashionable banditti
in Greece is to cut off their prisoners' ears, and make them
eat them fried in oil
POTATOES.—It is the practice in Lincolnshire to
alt potatoes to prevent their vegetating in winter ; these
Potatoes, if sown, will not root, particularly in wet seasons.
r. On Monday last, an old woman of the name of
Whitcombe, in her 101st year, walked from Beachley
t.,0 Chepstow, a distance of four miles, and returned the same
waY.—Bristol Mercury.
SUICIDE.—A your man who had been appren-
ticed to a surgeon of this City disappeared about two months
go, and was not heard of since, until his body was found, on
Tuesday last, on a mountain beyond Rathfarnham. The body
Was found among rocks, and nearly covered with furze. It
Was by means of the clothes that the friends of the deceased
Were enabled to identify it. A lancet was found beside the
body, and a cut in the principal artery of the right arm was
still visible. From the evidence the jury came to the conclu-
sion, that the unfortunate young gentleman bled himself to
death while in a state of temporary insanity, and found a ver-
dict accordingly. The deceased was entitled to a considerable
fortune, and would soon have succeeded to its enjoyments,
being nearly of age.--Dublin Observer.
EXTRAORDINARY PIG.—A pig was killed on
Friday at Lynn, which measured, when dead, seven feet two
Inches in length, and in girt seven feet ten inches, after the
hair had been removed. Its weight, without the offal, was
1,032 pounds, and the meat very tender.
On Thursday last a sow belonging to the Marazion
Hotel, Cornwall, littered nineteen pigs, and all, with the sow,
are doing well.
An extraordinary influx of mackarel was experi-
thced last week in Weymouth bay. On Monday the supply
Was extremely abundant, and fish of a large size, averaging a
Pound weight, were sold at the rate of three shillings the
lunndred, and bought in immense quantities. Several waggon-
'4(l3 were sent off to distant parts of the country.
Drunkenness, in many cases the cause of fatal
l
ecidents, is so eommon in England, Wales, Scotland, and
reland, that although 40 or 50 different newspapers, pub-
Wished in various parts of the United Kingdom, daily pass
through our hands, there is scat's sly one of them which does
Opt every day in the week contain ari account of some crime
or accident occasioned by indulgence in thin brutalizing` ice.
SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS CAT. —hile
Scott was reading, a sage grimalkin had taken his seat in a
ehair beside the fire, and remained with fixed eye and grave
demeanour, as if listening to the reader. I observed to Scott
tail his cat seemed to have a black-letter taste in literature.
Ah I" said he, " these cats are a very mysterious kind of
folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we
are aware of ; it comes, no doubt, from their being so familiar
With witches and warlocks." He went on to tell a little
story about a gudeman who was returning to his cottage one
eight, when, in a lonely out-of-the-way place, he met with a
funeral procession of cats, all in mourning, bearing one of
tneir race to the grave, in a coffin covered with a black velvet
Pall. The worthy man, astonished and half-frightened at so
strange a pageant, hastened home, and told what he had seen
to his wife and children. Scarce had he finished, when a
great black cat that sat beside the fire raised himself up, ex-
tlaimed, " Then am I King of the Cats 1" and vanished up
the chimney. The funeral seen by the gudeman was one of
the cat dynasty. " Our grimalkin here," added Scott,
sometimes reminds me of this story, by the airs of sove-
reignty which he assumes, and I am apt to treat him with re -
%Peet, from the idea that he may be a great Prince incoq., and
may sometime or other come to the Throne." In this way
Qcott would make the habits and peculiarities of even dumb
animals about him subjects for humourous remark, or whimsi-
cal story _Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey.
CLERICAL VIRULENCE.—Two clergymen, within
the vicarage of Halifax, the one a pastor of a flock in a certain
Wilderness, and the other a shepherd of souls in a fertile valley,
°ll being solicited for their suffrages for Lord Morpeth, gave
Ine following anti-christian-like answers. The pastor said,
I would sooner sign a petition for his transportation ;" and
'Lae shepherd said—
-IVhitwe" I ould sooner subscribe for a rope to
"ang hip "—haven Herald.
LITERARY TAILORS.—The frequent development
of mind among tailors is remarkable. Not to mention living
authors, we had Robert Hill and Henry Wilde, men of great
Classical attainments; George Ballard, the antiquary and bio-
grapher ; John Stow, the well-known historian ; John Speed ;
and J. H. Lambert, the great mathematician and astronomer
of Switzerland ; with many more who were members of the
v°nrd.
A NARROW ESCAPE FROM HANGING.—On
Thursday night last, the feelings of the audience at the Gar-
rick Theatre were painfully excited by the following circum-
stance :—During the performance of Signor Plimmeri on the
slack rope, he suspended himself in the centre of the stage by
forming a noose in the rope, through which he passed his head,
;'o that the whole weight of his body rested on the back part of
his head and chin. That part of the rope which pressed on
the chin accidentally slipped underneath, and on to his throat,
and:,l, having lost all power to relieve himself from his painful
,(1 perilous situation, strangulation was rapidly going on.
The audience, perceiving from the convulsed state of his body,
that a few momenta must have terminated his existence, gave
tent to their feelings. Some shrieked aloud, others fainted,
and the scene altogether may be more easily conceived than
described. In consequence of the difficulty of getting a ladder
at a moment to reach the rope, the unfortunate man's sufferings
:irate protracted for nearly two minutes ; and when he was cut
own, there were scarcely any signs of life. By the prompt
attendance of Messrs. Fairbank and Groves, surgeons, in the
beighbourhood, who instantly bled him, and administered
strong restoratives, he partially recovered, and is now quite well.
MURDER.—There was found at Llandaff last week
Without
mill-stream, the trunk of a fine newly-born infant,
without its head and legs, carefully tied up in a piece of the
skirt of a female's old black hom!,azine gown. The head and
l
enegr,any which have not yet been found, seened to have been
a
chopped off at two strokes by some large a:"lvery sharpt_
etrument—the former close to the shoulder—the lattei
the hips and the navel—tbe child being held at the time by
O'n feet in a bent position, with the hack of its head on a block
janinething of the kind, as part of the skin of the chest close
° the neck was cut off with the head, so that when the body
vtaa_ straightened tbe neck and chest bone protruded bare
position
too must have been thrown back into the chest by the
tleitiou of the body, for had they been in their proper place
ilye must have been cut through, but they were uninjured.
miller's female servant, who was immediately suspected,
-14 been taken into cwitosly.