The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1835.

to do honour to the King and Queen. Arrangements are
already in progress for preventing any interruption to the
aquatic procession, and yesterday Mr. Ballantine, one of the
Magistrates, and Mr: Symons, the Chief Clerk of the Thames,
attended at the Home Office for the purpose of adopting mea-
sures to prevent the rapid speed of the steamers on Saturday,
and preventing any interruption to the progress of his Majesty
and the Royal Family. The whole of the Thames police will
be called out, and the Lord Mayor, as Conservator of the
river, will precede the King and Queen.
It is related of a celebrated Divine in the time of
Elizabeth, that he was so devoted to smoking, that when be
could not procure tobacco, he would cut the bell ropes and
smoke the junk.
LONG-WINDED COMMENTATORS.--HallebaCll, a
celebrated Professor of Divinity at Vienna, on undertaking to
expound the prophet Isaiah, read one and twenty years upon
the first chapter, without then coming to a conclusion ; and it
is recorded of a celebrated Jewish Rabbi, that before he un-
dertook to write a commentary upon Ezekiel, he stipulated for
300 tons of oil for the use of his lamp.
At the Collegiate Church at Manchester, last Sun-
day, the bans of marriage were published for 205 couples,
who are anxious to be united in the silken bonds of wedlock.
This is not considered in Manchester a large number, for
sometimes the names of upwards of 400 couples are read on
Sunday in the same church. There are eight other churches
in Manchester where bans are published.
BIRMINGHAM AND LONDON RAILROAD.—Yes-
terday morning an Irish labourer, of the name of Connor, who,
in company with five others, was ascending the shaft No. 4,
had his fingers nearly severed from his hands. He was obliged
to let go hold of the rope, and was instantly precipitated to
the bottom of the shaft, a height of nearly 10 feet. He was
removed to the North West London Hospital, where he lies
without hope of recovery.
THE EUPHRATES EXPEDITION.—The Sultan's
firman for prosecuting the expedition on the Euphrates is
made out and delivered both to Lord Ponsonby and Mehemet
Ali.—Hannan Gazette.

INDIAN FROG CONCERTS.—During a moonlight
night, particularly after rain, these little animals exert their
vocal powers to the utmost, in sounds as loud as the bleating
of sheep. The burden of their song seems to be " Will you
take an egg? will you take an egg ?" which they pronounce
very distinctly.—Asiatic Journal.
CHURCH RATE.—A meeting of the ratepayers
of the Borough of Newport and parish of Saint Woolas, was
held on Thursday last, the Rev. A. A. Isaacson, vicar, in the
Chair. The rate was proposed by Thomas Prothero, Esq.,
and seconded by Thomas Powell, Esq. Mr. Frost moved
that the consideration of granting a church-rate be postponed
to the Ist July, 1836, when a poll was demanded. The sup-
porters of the rate claim a majority of votes on the vicar leaving
the chair. Those who were adverse to the rate, state that, at
the close of the poll, they had a majority of 37.
A considerable number of the Wesleyan Methodist
Preachers have already arrived in this town, most of whom
have been engaged during this week in committees sitting to
make up accounts and otherwise arrange business preparatory
to the General Session of Conference, which commences on
Wednesday. Of Dr. Warren and his case, nothing appears
yet to be known; a few days, however, will decide whether he
intends to present himself in the usual way as a Member of
Conference, or will wait the summons of the body to appear
before them.—Sheffield Mercury.
Mr. Bulvver's Novel of " The Disowned" has been
selected as the next work of fiction in " Colburn's Modern
Novelists." Like its celebrated predecessors, the present cheap
edition is beautifully embellished by the Findens, and ele-
gantly bound in Morocco cloth. It is revised by the author,
who has added a most interesting essay on the different kinds
of prose fiction, with remarks on the writings of Scott, Miss
Edgeworth, the Miss Porters, Miss Austen, Victor Hugo,
Captain Marryat, Mr. Ward, Mrs. Gore, Goethe, Godwin,
Morace Walpole, Fielding, Smollett, Le Sage, &c. Our
distinguished Novelist then takes a review of his own contri-
butions to this most amusing department of Literature.
THE FAST DAY.—The observance of this reli-
gious ordinance on Thursday, passed off quietly in and around
Glasgow--thanks to the good sense of the people and to the
fine weather. Many of the public works being open as usual,
the working population were employed at their wonted avoca-
tions; but business generally was suspended. The traders of
the city were, generally speaking, enjoying the delights of the
country. Never, on any one day, did the steamers carry away
so many passengers from the Broomielaw. The coaches, and
canal passage boats, and railway carriages, were all in like
manner crowded with passengers, and the number of pedes-
trians in and around the city, was immense. In short, as we
before observed, the day was a holiday marked only by the pe-
culiarity of a church service ; and so far as our advices go, the
same remark is applicable to its observance within a circle of at
least twenty miles around Glasgow.—Scots Times.
CEMETERY AT BATH.—It is proposed to form a
cemetery near Bath, similar to the one at Kensal-green. The
projector is a Dr. Wilkinson, a physician of the town, and the
plan has met with general approbation.
HARVEST.—Accounts from Italy state that in that
country the harvest has commenced under favourable auspices ;
and in some parts of France a considerable breadth of oats
and rye has been cut.

MARKET AT ENFIELD.—A corn and cattle mar-
ket is shortly to be open at Enfield. It will be held on
Saturdays. _

SALMON FISHING.-The fishing in the Tay has
been uncommonly successful for some time past, except at the
upper stations. The number of salmon and grilses taken above
Newburgh for the eight days preceding the 22d inst., was as

Shipped for London, 1,424 boxes, averaging 16 Fish each... 22,784
Sold for private use
1,000

Weight, 79 tons 12 cwt 23,784
—Perth Courier

BONAPARTE'S DANCING.--" Went to the Prin-
cess Talleyrand's, who told us some anecdotes of Napoleon
which were amusing. She confirmed the accounts generally
circulated, of his delight in mortifying women. Mon Dieu,
Madame, que vous etes devenue laide,' was one of his ordinary
civilities. She saw him dance very ill at the marriage of the
Prince D'Aremberg with Mademoiselle Tascher, a cousin of
Josephine. A negro, named Julien, one of his band, called
to him roughly, almost every moment, to the right,' to the
left,' set,' lead down,' &c. To see a negro give orders to
the absolute master of Europe made her reflect."— The Life
of Mackintosh.

PERILOUS DlNNER.—During the siege of Oporto
by the forces of Don Miguel, in which 23,000 lives were
sacrificed, " in one of the most exposed angles of the place
(says Colonel Badcock), and where the shot were conti-
nually touching the parapet, I was amused with observing an
artillery officer and his wife dining together, she sitting full
dressed in the Moorish style, with gold chain, ear-rings, and
other ornaments, as if for a grand entertainment."
The death of the Rev. Mr. Long, the brother of
Lord Farnborough, was extremely sudden, and took place
from a fit of apoplexy, while showing the house and grounds at
Bromley-hill, to Prince Esterhazy and a party.
GREAT SHIP.—The following particulars in rela-
tion to the " big ship," Pennsylvania, now on the stocks at
the Philadelphia navy-yard, are copied from the Philadelphia
Inquirer :—" 220 feet lower deck ; 217 feet length aloft ; 190
feet length of keel for tonnage ; 56 feet 9 inches moulded
breadth of beam for tonnage ; 59 feet moulded breadth out-
side of wales ; 23 feet depth of hold ; 51 feet extreme depth
amidships ; 3,306 13-95 tonnage ; guns 140 ; 18,341 yards
duck bags, hammock, boat sails, awnings, &c.; total 32,965
yards; 11 inches shrouds; 16 inches main stay; 278 feet
mainmast-93 yards 1 foot; 110 feet main yards ; 82 feet
topsail yard ; 52 feet topgallant yard ; 36 feet royal yard ;
10,0001bs. sheet anchor ; 25 inches sheet anchor; 1,531 yards
main topsail."—Falmouth Packet.

THE Swiss.—The Swiss Diet has decided that the
militia of all the cantons shall henceforth bear but one and
the same flag and cockade, composed of the colours of the
Confederation, namely, red and white, while hitherto there
have been as many flags as there are cantons. This resolu-
tion has been adopted by all the four States that formed the
Sarnian League, which reject with alarm every measure,
tending to a more close centralization of the institutions of the
country.
Fourteen persons have been committed to Horsham
to take their trial at the ensuing Assizes, for a riot, and assault
on the constables and authorities of the town.

DREADFUL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a
melancholy accident occurred at Tolgooth mine, near Red-
rooth, by the bursting of a steam-boiler. It appears that
while 13 men were changing their dress in the engine-house,
for underground work, the boiler burst, killing three on the
spot, and another has since died from his wounds. The re-
maining nine are all more or less injured, and some of them
arc in a dangerous state.—Falmouth Packet.
FOUND DROWNED.—Near Wandsworth Piles,
early yesterday morning, was discovered floating the body of
a man apparently between 40 and 50 years of age, of re-
spectable appearance, clear complexion, good teeth, hair ra-
ther grey, and scanty on the top of the head, and about five
feet eight or nine inches in height ; had on a black coat
and waistcoat, dark drab trousers, white stockings, and shoes;
had in his pockets when found no money, but various arti-
cles, consisting of a small red pocket case, containing nu-
merous likenesses, seemingly half finished, with other little
pencil sketches, and an eye-glass, bound round with a string,
in his waistcoat pocket. The body is now lying to be owned
at the French Horn, Wandsworth, where it will await the
Coroner's inquest.
FRATRICIDE.—An awful case of homicide oc-
curred on Tuesday, at Tallagh, in this county—that of one bro-
ther by another. The parties were butchers, named Neill,
and had been at a fair the day before. The brother of the wife
of the deceased spent Monday evening in the house, previous
to his starting for Cork, to go to America, on Tuesday morn-
ing. Very early on Tuesday morning this man proceeded on
his way, accompanied a few miles on the road by his sister,
the two brothers being locked in and intoxicated. It would
appear that, during the woman's absence, some dispute oc-
curred between the two brothers ; for, upon her return, she
found her husband lying dead upon the lap of his brother, un-
der circumstances which indicated that fratricide had been just
committed ; and the wretched man was wiping the blood from
the face of his victim. The deceased, James Neill, was the
owner of the house—the surviving brother, John Neill, is an
unmarried man. They lived together, and were always con-
sidered quiet men, aad very much attached to each other, ex-
cept when in liquor, at which time they were apt to be quarrel-
some. John Neill is in custody, a verdict of wilful murder
having been returned against him by the Coroner's inquest.—
Interlard Mail.

HULL ELECTION COMMITTEE.

At the sitting of the Committee this morning, Mr. Serjeant
Spankie, on the part of the petitioner, stated, that he and his
Learned Friend, Mr. Wrangham, had come to the determi-
nation of offering no further opposition to the sitting Member,
as they did not wish to take up the time of the Committee
needlessly, or put their client to any further expense, unless
they saw a fair chance of success. The Committee accordingly
resolved that Colonel Thompson was duly elected for Hull,
and that neither the petition nor the opposition to it were
frivolous or vexatious.