The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His MAJESTY, attended by Colonel BOWATER, left the
Palace at St. James's, ahout'lo minutes past 5 o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon, for the Palace at Windsor, in a car-
riage and four, escorted by a party of Light Dragoons.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to his residence at
Kew on Wednesday evening.
Despatches were sent off on Wednesday evening from
the Colonial-office for Sir WILLIAM HOUSTON, the Lieu-
tenant Governor of Gibraltar, and also for the Lieutenant-
Governor of Malta,

Air. Bußcr, the agent for Jamaica, transacted business
yesterday o.t the Coloni,Ll-office.

Lady BYRON is still here, but will take her
departure in a day or two. The Countess Gurccrou is
among our arrivals, and has bee❑ an object of much inte-
rest on the promenades. S►he resides at a hoarding house
here.--Brighton Gazette.

The Rev. LUNDY FOOT having preached a
sermon at which a very small collection was made, a wag
remarked that it must have been owing to his hearers not
being "up to snuff."

It is singular enough that Great Britain should
be at this time the residence of the only two parties who
ran ever be likely to dispute the throne of France with
Louts PHILIP; yet so it is—the Duke de BOURDEAUX is
in Edinburgh, and NAPOLEON'S R-presentative in London.

There;is little doubt, we believe, that CHARLES
X. and his companions in exile will quit Holyrood-house
and take up their residence at Gratz ; but we hear that it
«•ill he required as a condition from them, that the
DuchNs of BERRI shall remain quietly at home with her
family.— Globe.

BILLINQSGATE OUTDONE.—The language
of the East, says Captain SKINNER, at all times figurative
and extravagant, exceeds anything that can be imagined in
the metaphor of its abuse ; and the torrent of words that
an enraged woman can pour upon the ear of her opponent
is frightful indecd.

In the village of Dropii, in Bessarabia, the
wife of a man named DEMIAN PLOSON was lately delivered
in one day of six dau4hters, none of whom lived more
than a few hcurs. The mother suffered for some time
afterwards, but is now perfectly recovered.—French
Paper.

THE GIBBET AT JARROW SLAKE.—Late
on Friday night, or early on Saturday morning last, the body
of JOBLING (the murderer of Mr. FAIRLES), which has
teen suspended from a gibbet at Jarrow Slake since his
execution, was stolen away. Suspicion is attached to the
relatives of the deceased. The body im supposed to have
been sunk in the river or buried in the sand.

A young hair-dresser, in North-street, in this
town, who was married only on the preceding Thursday,
attempted to drown himself in the river, Priory-fields, on
Saturday. He was rescued by some persons in the vici-
nity, and, by the aid of medical attention, brought to life,
and, we true, his senses also. Differences with his pa-
rents i❑ respect to the marriage are supposed to have led
to the suicidal attempt.—Sherborne Mercury.

DEAR AT A GIFT.—A gentleman in this
neighbourhood received a box from Scotland last week, ha-
ving been four days on the road, the carriage of which
amounted to 18s. 6d. On raising the lid, a brace of
grouse presented themselves in such a state of putrescence,
that they were very offensive to the olfactory nerves, and
were deemed unfit for the spit, to the no small chagrin and
disappointment of the gentleman to whom they were sent
as a present !
REMARKABLE EPIDEMIC.—The effects of
epidemia are infinitely varied. I remember, at Oxford,
some years afro, seeing a case of an epidemic, which con-
sisted in the mortification of the thumb to the first j'tint,
and attacked nearly a whole village. * -" The pesti-
lence which began about A. n. 169 was characterised by a
loathsune g ingrene of the feet, probably similar to the
mortification of the thumb which I saw i❑ Oxfordshire.—
Forster on Cholera Morbus and Epidemic Diseases.

,
A PHILANTHROPIST.—A philanthropist is
a being whose zeal in the cause of humanity engrosses his
every thought; he loves all men by profession, more espe-
cially robbers and assassins, and this he takes every ad-
vantage of making known through the public journals...—
He never goes abroad without the plan of a penitentiary
system in his pocket, and is always ready to accept, at the
cost of humanity, any sinecure place of about 10,0001. per
annum, with an indemnity for travelling, pnstage, ex-
penses, &c.—Theatrical Critic in Le Nouvelliste.

A CAPTURE.—On Wednesday last (so says
a correspondent) some monster of the deep was espied in
the offing, opposite to Carsethorn. Stake nets and sand-
banks formed no obstacle to its progress whatever ; but, as
sailors are always on the outlook, Captain BLAIR manned
his pleasure-boat, immediately gave chase, and, after a
lengthened struggle, captured a whale of the bottle-nose
tribe, which at present lies upon the beach, an object of
curiosity to the whole country round. In length, it mea-
sures 19 feet, and in girth 13 feet.—DurnfriesCourier.
SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE By A
LADY.—A widow lady of fortune, residing at Clifton,
made an attempt on her life last Saturday week by shoot-
ing herself with a pistol. The ball entered below the
right ear, and is lodged below the left eye, where it now
s. But faint hopes ate entertained of her life. She is
the daughter of a wealthy Dublin merchant, and is the
widow of a Colonel. Her family and friends are of the
first respectability, and no known cause exists for the horrid
act.—Bath and Cheltenham Gazette.

SINGULAR DEATH BY SUFFOCATION.--
An inquest was held yesterday, at the Rose and Crown,
Ehury-street, Pimlico, on the body of JAMES LUFF, aged
24, shopman to Mr. PHEASANT, grocer, of Ebury-street.
The deceased, who had retired to rest in his usual spirits,
was found on Tuesday morning lying in bed o❑ his face,
quite dead. Two medical men were of opinion that the
deceased had rolled over upon his face, and being over-
come with sleep, could not turn again, whereby he was
suffocated.—Verdict, " Died by Suffocation."

A freeholder of the county of Stafford has
sent in the following notice to the overseer of the parish
in which he resides :—" To the Overseer of --- I
hereby give you notice that I disdain to be inserted in the
list of voters for the Northern Division of the county of
Stafford, and that the particulars of my place of abode you
need not, but my disqualification is stated below. Dated
this 18th of July, 1832. Nature of disqualification
Contempt.
Where situste —ln my abhorrence of this
despicable attempt, not only to give trouble, but to pick
the pockets of the renting tenants and freeholders of a
shilling. Signed —."—Stafford Advertiser.
MEHEMED SALIK EFFENDI, Cadi of the
city of Molova, in Anatolia, writes that an extraordinary
birth has taken place there. The wife of an individual,
named Yaltia, has been delivered of a sort of monster,
having two horns on his forehead, each about eight inches
in length. Its eyes were circular, and very large, its arms
slender, is elbows and knees without joints. Itntnediately
after its birth this deformed being gave signs of life by its
convulsive movements, but expired almost immediately, in
the presence of several of the neighbours who had as-
=embled to assist in the accouchement.—Moniteur Otto-
man, Aug. I.

A RAT—A RAT !"—A friend from West
Hartford (Conn.) informs us, that a drove of nearly 2,000
rats were seen early one morning last week on their way
from this city. They had been driven away, doubtless, by
chloride of lime, the smell of which these long-tailed in-
dividuals seemed particularly to abominate. The gardens
and roads about the city were " tacked up" with these
four-legged pedestrians, which have fled from before the
case of a cholera preventive. Similar facts are recorded
in a Providence R. I. Paper. ‘. Rats and mice, and
such small deer," have vacated barns, cellars, stables, and
houses, where chloride of lime has been F prink! ed --Hart-
ford Mirror.

ARREST OF R. BARRETT, ESQ., PRO-
FRIETOR ec THE PILOT.—In consequence of an intima-
tion, sent to him from the Head Office, that a warrant
had been issued against him, Mr. BARRETT, the proprietor
,f the Pilot newspaper, attended before the Magistrates,
when he found that :the Government had commenced a
presecution against him fur the article in his Paper so fre-
quently referred to in the proceedings in the Commission
Court relative to the Comet newspaper. Mr. 13,311E7
entered into bail, himself in 2001., and two sureties in
1001. each. There has been a warrant for the same ar-
ticle issued also against the printer of the Pilot.—Dublin
Morning Register.

PHYSIOGNOMY.—A year or two after the ge-
❑eral peace of 1815, the present Emperor of RUSSIA, then
the Grand Duke NICHOLAS, paid a visit to England, and
made an excursion through part of Scotland. I❑ the
course of military duty, we chanced to be among the offi
cere appointed to escort him through Stirling castle, after
passing through the formality of an introduction. But little
did we then think that the personage in whose presence
we stood was in future years to figure as the Great Goth
of modern times, and to out-Herod Ilerod—frir instead
of a fierce and truculent Tartar, such as fancy might paint
him to those who have seen him only in hie works, we
beheld in the present Emperor of Russia. " a marvellous
proper man," very tall and handsome, with a form to

fascinate a female eye, and a face, pale, Urecian, fine, al-
most effeminate. LAVATER, himself, we verily believe,
could not have detected the shadow of evil in the coun-
tenance of NICIiOLAS ; and we never think of him now
without feeling the force of the sarcastic maxim in the
" Man of Feeling"--namely, that we should look into a
man's face. to see whether his nose be a long or a short
one.—Edinburgh Observer.

GALVANISM.—The spectacle was truly hor-
rific. When I entered the room where the experiments
were to take place, the body of a man named CARTER,
which had been cot down from the gallows scarce half an
hour, was lying on the table ; and the cap being removed,
his frightful features, distorted with the agonies of suffo-
cation, were The crime he had been hanged for
was murder; and a brawny desperate ruffian be looked !
None of his clothes were removed. He wore a fustian
teket, and drab knee breeches. The first time that the
galvanic shock wis conveyed to him will never, I dare say,
be forgotten by any one present. We all shrank from the
table in consternation, with the momentary belief that we
had positively brought the man back to life ; for he sud-
denly sprung up into a sitting posture—his arms waved
wildly—the colour rushed into his cheeks—his lips were
drawn apart, so as to show all his teeth—and his eyes
glared at us with apparent fury. One young man, a me-
dical student, shrieked violently, and was carried out in
a swoon. One gentleman present, who happened to he
nearest to the upper part of the body, was almost knocked
down with the violent blow he received from the left arm.
It was some time before any of us could resume our expe-
riments.—Diary of a Physician.

THE NAVY.—The survey of the ships of
war in the Medway is still in progress, and, if we are cor-
rectly informed, some of the line•of-battle ships are much
in want of repair. The Rowe (which has been launched
16 years) has many defective parts about her. The Mo•
nareh, a beautiful 84 gun ship, now on the stacks in this
dock-yard, has been completed, with the exception of
caulking and painting, for three years past. Orders have
lately been received from the Admiralty Board to finish and
launch her as soon as possible. The Phocion steam-vessel
is also again being proceeded with. She is built in a dock,
there being no slip vacant at the time of laying her down.
She is, without exception, the most beautiful vessel of the
kind ever seen at this yard ; she is 159 feet on the keel,
and a'out 198 feet over all. The Coorageux, of 74 guns,
built in 1804, is now in dock, in order to he taken to
pieces. She has been a lazaretto at Standgate Creek for
some years, and is replaced by the Ramilies. A singular
circumstance is related of this ship. On her settling on
the blocks in the dock, she altered the line of her form at
least two feet; to use a sea phrase, she has hogged two
feet. She is one of the last ships constructed on the old
system of wood knees and riders. Ships built on the mo-
dern system introduced by Sir R. SETTINGS present a con-
trast to the Courageux, as we are assured in many cases
of docking vessels of this description not the slighte-t alte-
ration of farm has been percep!ible.—Chatham Paper.

BYRON'S LOVE OF HIS RANK.— BYRON
came to see us to-day, and appeared extremely indisposed ;
after an hour's conversation on indifferent subjects, he at
length broke forth with, " Only fancy my receiving to-day
a tragedy, dedicated as follows: From GEORGE
to GEORGE BYRON !' This is being cool with a venge-
ance. I never was more provoked. Haw stupid, how
ignorant, to pass over my rank ! lam determined not to
read the tragedy, for a man capable of committing such a
solecism in good breeding and common decency can write
nothing worthy of being read." We were astonished at
witnessing the annoyance this circumstance gave him,
and more than ever convinced that the pride of aristocracy
is one or the peculiar features of his character. If he
sometimes forgets his rank, he never can forgive any one
else's doing so ; and as he is not naturally dignified, and
that his propensity to flippancy renders hisu still less so,
he often finds himself in a false position, by endeavouring
to recover lost ground. We endeavoured to console him
by telling him that we knew Mr. GEORGE a little,
and that he was clever and agreeable ; as also that his
passing over the title of BYRON was meant as a compli-
ment; it was a delicate preference shown to the renown
accorded to GEORGE BYRON the poet, over the rank and
title, which were adventitious advantages ennobled by the
possessor, but that could add ❑othing to his fame. All
our arguments were vain ; he said, " This could not be
the man's feelings, as he reduced him (Load BraoN) to
the same level as himself. —(Lady Blessinton in the
New Monthly.)
EXISTENCE OF GoD.—Therc is a God !
The herbs of the valley, the cedars of the mountain, bless
him—the insect sports in his beams—the elephant salutes
him with the rising orb of day—the bird sings him in the
foliage—the thunder proclaims him in the heavens—the
ocean declares his immensity—man alone has said, " There
is no God !" Unite in thought, at the same instant, the
most beautiful objects in nature; suppose that you see at
once all the hours of the day, and all the seasons of the
year; a morning of spring and a morning of autumn ; a
night bespangled with stars, and a night covered with
clouds ; meadows enamelled with flowers, forests hoary
with snow ; fields gilded by the tints of autumn ; then
alone you will have a just conception of the universe.
While you are gazing on that sun which is plunging
under the vault of the west, another observer admires him
emerging from the gilded gates of the east. By what in-
conceivable magic does that aged star, which is sinking
fatigued and burning in the shades of the evening, re-
appear at the same instant fresh and humid with the rosy
dew of the morning? At every instant of the day the
glorious orb is at once rising—resplendent at noon-day,
and setting in the west ; or rather our senses deceive us,
and there is, properly speaking, no east, or south, or west,
in the world. Everything reduce& itself to one single
point, from whence the King of Dmy sends forth at once
a triple light in one single substance. The bright
splendour is perhaps that which nature can present that is
most beautiful ; for while it gives us an idea of the per-
petual magnificence and resist'ess power of God, it ex-
hibits, at the same time, a shining image of the glorious
Trinity.— Cliateaubriund.
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SWAN RlVER.—lndependent of our agri-
cultural resources, we have, says the Weston Aus'ralian,
(a new paper started at Freeinantle,) an unfailing supply
of the very best description of fish the Swan River, in
fact, teeming with them, and easily to be caught; not-
withstanding which fish keeps up a comparatively high
price, which we are surprised at; there are certainly not
m ►ny nets in the colony at present, those that were origi-
nally brought out having, from constant use, become rot-
ted. We have no doubt that a man would repay himself
all expenses incurred by one week's fishing with a goad
net. We have not been successful with respect to shell-
fish; crabs are to he had in great quantities, and very
delicious the crab is here; but although the bed of the
r►ver is strewed with large oyster-shells, we have not dis.
covered where they are, nor have we as yet any other shell
fish save the crab. When the colony becomes more thickly
inhabited, we shall no doubt find out the localities of those
delicacies, the existence of which somewhere in the
neighbourhood there can be no doubt about. The flies at
this season (December 17th) are perhaps the greatest tor-
ments we have ; the perseverance with which they attack
the eyes and lodge themselves there, is beyond any descrip-
tion we can offer—and there appears no remedy but a veil,
which last season seemed to be very much the fashion
amongst gentlemen, although this season we hove not seen
one. The large yellow-bodieel By is also a great nuisance
to the housekeepers, as they actually blow the provisions
as they are brought from the kitchen to the table ; and
what is more disgusting, they blow the maggot actually
alive. These annoyances, however, do not last long, and
may cease altogether when the country becomes more
thickly inhabited.

POLYGAMY.-Yesterday, RICHARD PREN-
DERGAST was brought up before the Magistrates at the
Police Office, Dublin, in the custody of peace-officer
Cows, charged with polygamy. It appeared that a war-
rant had been issued from the Mallow Petty Sessions,
county Cork, signed ADAM NEWMAN and THOMAS
HARRIS, E.qrs. against PariNnEaoasr. Upon the ar-
rival of the warrant, it was given to the peace-officer
Cows to have it executed. He knowing a police con-
stable, CALLAGHAN, who once resided in Mallow, asked
him if he knew such a person as he was in want of ; and
finding that he was an acquaintance of his, COLLIS
trumped up a story, and said he had a warrant against a
person named FLYNN, a friend of the prisoner's, and
wished to enjoy the honour of an introduction. Accord-
ingly, they set. off to a house in Johnson's Court, kept by
one SHANNON, and awaited quietly the arrival of their cus-
tomer, who soon arrived, and having taken some refresh-
ment, agreed to go to the watch-house with Comas, to sign
"the book," CALLAGHAN being in uniform. They sallied
out together in high spirits, he first whispering " the
wife" to have the kettle boiled, as he would be back soon.
But alas ! how delusive are all mortal dispositions! The
man of many wives no sooner arrived at the watchhouse
than the warrant for his apprehension was exhibited to his
astonished gaze, and he resigned himself to the " luxury
of woe." It further appeared that the wife who lodged
the informations for polygamy against him, charged him
with rape previous to their marriage, and he, in order to
save his neck, tied the knot of matrimony with her,
throegh the instrumentality of the Chaplain of the county
Cork gaol. Her maiden name was FINN. He is married
to his present wife, HANNAH HAYES, about seven weeks
Upon this statement of facts he was removed to Kilittain_
ham, for transmission to Cork.—Dublin Morn. Register.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAT TER SAL L' S.

The subjoined quotation is principally regulated by the
betting at Warwick, where nearly all the men of business
are assembled : scarcely any thing wa% done here yesterday.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
II to 2 agst Lord Kelburne's Retainer
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave (taken)
9 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Brother to Maria (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Nicotris (taken)
12 to 1 aget Mr. S. L. Fox's Julius (taken)
12 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Fang
13 to I agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Birdeatcher
13 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Ludlow (taken)
15 to 1 agst I,ord Exeter's Byzantium (taken)
20 to I agst Lord Cleveland's Trustee
27 to I agst Lord Sligo's Daxon
40 to I agst Mr. Chifney's Emiliana (taken)
40 to I aget Mr. Powlett's filly by Figaro (taken)
It is generally understood that Beiram will not go. It
I, reported that 4,000 euineas have been offered for Lud-
low, and the same for Nicotris.

Mr. Crockford had his pocket picked at Warwick, on
Wednesday, of 115/. in hank-notes, and some cheques.

WARWICK RACES, SEPT. 6.

Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for 3-yr.-old colts and fillies.

One mile heat:

Mr. Yates's Vagabond
Mr. King's Lucy
Mr. West's Creeper
Three others started, but were not placed. A good
race. Won by a neck. The others were well up.