The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-18 00:00:00

LONDON.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the
Princess Vicroala honoured Covent-garden theatre with '
their presence last night to see the pantomime, which
commenced at an early hour of the evening owing to its
being the juvenile night.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at two
o'clock at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl
GREY, Lord DURHA', Viscounts MELBOURNE, PAL-
MERSTON, GODERICH, and ALTHORY, the Earl of CAR.
LISLE, the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Lord HOLLAND,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Duke of RicnstoND, and Mr.
STANLEY.

The Ministers remained in deliberation till past four
o'clock.

The Bishop of LONDON and the Bishop of SODOR and
MAN had interviews yesterday with Viscount GODERICI-I,
at the Colonial-office.

The Spanish Minister visited Viscount PALMERSTON on
Monday, at the Foreign-office.
The ➢Marquis of LANSDOWNE arrived in town from his
seat at Bow-wood, Wilts.

The son of one of the new Peers of France,
it is said, demanded the hand of Mademoiselle TAGLIONI.
He was attracted by the fortune of this young lady, and
pressed by a position which was not at all in harmony with
the elevated rank to which his father had just been raised.
The fair artiste, however, after having learnt that the
Noble Father of her lover had been arrested, and was about
to visit the Pelagic, judiciously broke off the connection.
Paris Paper.

It has been remarked, as a singular coincidence,
that the present overseer of the estate of Dunsinane, in the
neighbourhood of Perth, should be Mammal—a family
name now almost extinct i❑ this country.—Glasgow
Evening Post.
Most of our readers are aware of the unfor-
tunate circumstance of the failure of the Bangor Savings
Bank to a very great amount, and to the very serious loss
of the industrious poor of the neighbourhood. A subscrip-
tion has been entered into to alleviate the distress arising
to the poor contributors. To this fund the Marquis of
ANGLSSEA, though in no way whatever connected with
the town, has subscribed the magnificent sum of 5001.
Several others have also come forward in the most liberal
manner. Carnarvon Herald.

THE LOST MENIBER.—An old pensioner,
named Jour; Dxxxis, who has for many years carried a
basket of small wares about the neighbourhood of Newport,
Gloucestershire (which was his head quarters), and at-
tracted a good deal of attention and pity, from his having
lost a hand at the battle of the Nile, was taken suddenly ill
in the village of Newport one day last week, and died soon
after he was removed to his lodgings; when, to the
astonishment of all, and particularly of those who had
known him for thirty years past, his precious members
were all perfect, and the pitiful stump was a good fleshy
hand, fastened back round the wrist with a tight ligature
—York Courant.

ItiamAROLE.--The following somewhat ver-
bose description of a somewhat common offence appears in
the Police Gazette of Saturday :—" THOMAS JOHNSON'
with unlawfully putting his hand into the coat-pocket of a
man whose name is unknown, in the Strand, with intent
the goods and chattels therein being feloniously to steal,
take, and carry away."

SYMPTOMS OF A DETERMINATION NOT TO
B E TRIFLED WITH.—At Nottingham and Derby purchases
of muskets and other arms are yet male by the working
classes, and by persons in the middle ranks of life. A
new weapon has bees introduced, and from its superior
contrivance is much sought after. It is a gun consisting
simply of a barrel, without any stock or external lock. A
ferule is screwed into the bottom, and a cap on the top,
and when painted, it has all the appearance of a moderate
sized walking stick or cane. It carries a half-ounce ball :
it is fired with a percussion hammer. The weapon carries
as well as a musket, and is as convenient as a pistol, and
we are assured it is peculiarly adapted to street fighting. It
may be used from windows, and through loop-holes, without
the slightest exposure of the person. The prices at which
these weapons are sold are from thirty shillings to three
pounds, according to the workmanship. The majority, how-
ever, prefer the musket, which they understand, and which
is sold, in very good condition, bayonet and all, for
Examiner.

On Wednesday morning a cruel and diabo-
lical murder was committed at Templemore. The victim
was a young man named SHORT, apprentice to a brazier in
that town of the name of GUNNING. While on business
he was waylaid and murdered within a mile of Temple-
more. His body was found soon after on the public road,
with a deep wound over his temple. Same day JAMES
CORMICK and Mrs. GUNNING were apprehended on sus-
picion of being concerned in the murder, and on Thursday
an inquest was held on the body, when it appeared that the
evening before the murder, CORMICK was heard to say he
would take SHORT'S life, and that Mrs. GUNNING had re-
quested another apprentice of her husband to fill a large
stick with albs. of molten lead, the instrument with which
it is supposed the fatal deed was effected—that Coitmlcx
slept with the apprentice, and rose early in the morning,
was absent some time, and returned to bed again. The
Jury found a verdict of Wilful Murder against Mrs. GUN-
NING and CORMICK, who were sent off yesterday morning
to Clonmel gaol, under an escort of the 74th Regiment.--
Limerick Chronicle;

STATE OF THE ATMOSPHERE IN LONDON.
—lt is recorded in the Journal des Connaissunces
(huelies et Pratiques, that M. DARCET, in the course
of his recent journey to England, having discovered effects
in London, with reference to the buildings, which he con.
sidered could only be produced by sulphuric acid in the at- -
mospheric air, he attached to his hat every morning be-
fore going out a piece of paper made blue by turnsol,
which was very soon changed to red, whilst similar
pieces, that were exposed only for a few moments to the
influence of the air, became studded by a great number of
small red points. During the whole of his stay in Lon-
don, M. DARCET renewed his experiments every day,
which were invariably attended by the same result, and he
carried with him to Paris, on his return, a great number
of the small pieces of paper alluded to. The sulphuric acid
is, of course, attributed to the coal, and M. DARCET is
stated to be at this moment occupied in analysing the Eng-
lish coal, in order to discover the quantity of sulphuric
acid circulated in the air, which is supposed to have a great
influence upon the health of our metropolis.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.-Last night an in-
quest was held at the King's Arms, King-street, Camden-
town, on the body of Mr. JAMES BROWN, aged 25, late
of Queen-street, Camden-town The deceased was a
young man of great talents and respectability, and was a
clerk in the house of Messrs. COTTAM and ALLEN, of O:-
ford-street; he was possessed of a great knowledge of ana-
tomy and medicine. On Saturday morning he was found
dead in his bed-room, and on examination it appeared he
had taken a quantity of Prussic acid. He was veryin-
timate with Professor DEWHIJAST, surgeon, of 8, Gower-
street, Bedford-square. For the last five weeks he had
complained to his friends of a violent singing and noise in
his ears; remedies were applied, but had no effect. He
at times behaved strangely, which he afterwards said was
occasioned by the state of mind to which the noise in his
ears drove him. A few days before his death the Pro,
fessor gave him an ounce of Prussic acid, for the purpose
of destroying cats. He had then no suspicion of his in-
tellects being deranged, but on considering his conduct for
a week before his death, he was convinced he had not b en
in his right senses. He was a young man much respected,
and his accounts were perfectly right.—Verdict, Mental
Derangement.

The Gazette des Tribunaux contains the fol-
lowing singular history :—" Madame DASSY had lived
for some time on bad terms with her husband, when the
revolution of July broke out. On the 4th of August she
presented hsrslf in tears before a Commissary of Police,
and made a formal declaration that M. DASSY had left his
home on the 27th July, and had been killed at the attack
of the Louvre. With a certificate of this fact, she pre-
sented herself at the office of the Constitutionnel, and ob-
tained a sum of 50 francs. Soon afterwards, the Com-
mittee of National Rewards being established, she obtained
as a widow a provisional grant of 250 francs. But when
the Commission came to decide upon her application, on
behalf of herself and daughter, for the pensions allowed to
the widows and orphans of the victims of July, her case
was more a t ntivtly examined ; and suspicions were
conceived, which were soon confirmed by a report from
the Police that the pretended dead husband was still living
in good health, and exercising his trade of shoemaker at
Petit Montrouge, where he had resided since the 23d of
July, 1830. A prosecution for fraud was instituted
against Madame DASSY, who appeared before the 6th
Caan bT, accompanied by her little girl. Both cried bit-
terly, wid the mother, for her justification, pleaded tier fl
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