The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-25 00:00:00

IHE ARMY.

DIALOGUE.---" Pray, where have you been ?"
" I went to Kilone !"—And where are you going ?"
" going to Kilmany !"—" And then ?"—" I'll be
going to Kilmore !"—" Ay ? and then ?"—" Why, then,
I'll go to Kilenall !''—The catechist ran away.—Neto
Monthly Magazine.
On Saturday last a lad passing up a lane,
near Iford, was saluted by a gipsey with—" What's
the time, my lad ?"—" We don't know what time it be
now-a-days," replied the boy.—Then be if we don't
see," replied the fellow; and whistling he was immedi-
ately joined by four more, who threw him down, robbed
him of his watch, and immediately made off.-.--Brighton
Gazette.

BARBARA OF ANNAN.—The fate of this
vessel` is now ascertained. Part of her stern, with the
name painted on it, was picked up last Thursday, in
Kirkandrews Bay, and sold by the man who found it for
the trifling sum of 2s. Nothing farther has transpired
respecting the crew ; but we hear they will never he heard
of alive.—Deenfrics Courier.
On Friday last, as the workmen of the New
Gas Company were excavating the ground a little to the
eastward of the Battery on the King's Road, they disco-
vered an entire human skeleton, two feet beneath the sur-
face of the earth. About 40 years ago a Dutch valliot
was wrecked near this spot ; many of the crew were lost,
and this skeleton is supposed to have belonged to one of
them.—Brighton Gazette.

LORD ANGLESEA.—VariOIiS reports are in
circulation, in the London as well as iu the Dublin papers,
of the intention of Lord Anglesea to retire from the go-
vernment of Ireland. We think we can with confidence
assert, that there is no truth whatever in the rumours.—
, We contradict them, too, with pleasure—for, although we
would not so insult the Noble Lord's understanding and
taste, as to sully his name with the gross 'renal adulation
of the Castle papers, which disgrace him by sordid praise,
we accord to his intentions the manly and independent
tribute of our respect. We believe, surrounded as he is
by underling treachery, he has, in spite of it, done much
good ; he has averted much mischief, and we would con-
sider his retirement or removal a great calamity to Ireland
at present.—Pilot.
THE WEST-PORT BODY-DEA LERA.--Tile
interest excited by tine approaching trial of Burke and hie
wife, which takes place to-morrow, is intense. The most
extraordinary rumours have, since the committal of the
prisoners, been current in the city; and it is anticipated
that a very atrocious scene of iniquity will be disclosed.
Be that as it may, the trial will calm the public mind one
way or another,—either by proving the accusations which
the pannels are called upon to answer unfounded or exag-
gerated, or by consigning them to condign punishment.
We are not aware, that among the multifarious atrocities
that our Justiciary annals, record, there is a crime of an
exactly similar nature.—,Burke, we believe, is a native of
Ireland.—Edinburgh Observer.
The wood disposed of at Garmouth is grown
in large forests in the Highlands, about 60 or '7O miles
distance from Garmouth—to which place it is brought by
the river Spey. The quantity of wood, partly in planks
and partly in trees, which is floated down such a distance
of the course of this 'circuitous, impetuous, and rocky-
bedded river, is sometimes as large us SOO solid feet, with-
out any other management than that given by two men,
carried en the float, as it is termed, and whose duty it is
to steer as clear as possible of any formidable obstruction.
To witness one of those floats gliding down the Spey, a
stranger could scarcely'help trembling for the safety of the
two pilots; and yet, dangerous as the voyage appears, it
is comparatively seldom that any lives are lost.—Glasgow •
Chrouicle.

There is at present residing in Saltmarket,
Glasgow, a man named Thomas Widdriff, who has attained
to within a week of 102 years of age. He was born on
Christmas-day, 1726, in the town of Preston, Lancashire.
Notwithstanding his extreme Gld age, this individual re-
tains in a great measure the activity sad hale appearance of
a person in the vigour of life. He walks erect, and with
a tolerably firm step, arid in his looks there is nothing of
that listlessness and stupor so often observable in aged
people ; but, on the contrary, a sprightliness rarely to be
met with in advanced years; His sight and hearing are
alight!), impaired; and his right arm a little palsied. In
1745 he was called out to join the militia of his native
town, and was engaged in the battle of Preston betwixt
the King's troops and those of the Pretender. The body
of militia with which he was connected was afterwards
formed into a regular regiment, and served in. Flanders in
1753 and following years, Where Widdriff, who accom-
panied it, fought in several battles, and, among others,
was engaged on the plains of Minden, where the French
were so signally defeated by the Allies. He was also a
considerable time in America, and fought in the bloody
action at Bunker's-hill en the 17th of June, 1775. Se-
veral wounds in various parts of the body were received by
him in the course of his soldiership. After receiving his
discharge, which took place in Ayr, about 45 years age, lie
came to Glasgow, where he has remained since:with a pei.-
siim of Is. a-.clay._Edinburgh Pape►.

VIRTUE IN POVERTY.—A writer, one of
the must gifted of the present day, has told the narrator of
this history, that no interest of a high nature can be given
to extreme poverty. We know not if this he true ; yet, if
we mistake nut our own feelings, there is nothing to us so
exalted or so divine, as a great and brave spirit working
cut ite end through every earthly obstacle and evil ;
watching through the utter datknuss, and steadily defying
the phantoms which crowd round it ;—wrestling with the
mighty allurements and rejecting the fearful.yoices of that
want which is the deadliest 11134 surest of human tempters;
nursing through all calamity the hive of species and the
warmer and closer affections of priVate ties; sacrificing no
duty, resisting all sin ; and, amidst every horror and
every humiliation, feeding the still and bright light
of that genius which, like the lamp of the fabulist,
though it may waste itself for years amidst the depth
of solitude and the silence of the tomb, shall live and
burn immortal and undimmed when all around is in rotten-
ness and decay. There are some whom the lightning of
fortune blasts only to render holy. Amidst all that humbles
and scathes, amidst all that shatters from their life its wen-
(lure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their
pride, and in the very heart of ex►stence writeth a sud-
den and " strange defeature," they stand erect, riven, not
uprooted, a monument less of pity than of Lawe.—The
Disowned.

To-morrow morning a detachment of the 20th Infantry
will leave town to join the Depot stationed at Canterbury,
in consequence of the recruiting parties of the regiments
on the East India establishment being called in.

It is reported that his Grace the Duke of
Richmond rec&ved the Order of the Garter on Friday last.
—Brighton Gazette.
Partridges and pheasants are at present selling
in our market at'a lower price than domestic fowls, and
grouse not much higher.—Edinturgh Advertiser.
A parish overseer at Holderness having to
make an affidavit last week, and finding it inconvenient to
attend, actually sent another person, as his substitute, to
take it for bins. This is equalled only by two Irish-
women at Stockport, who the other day ranted to take
an oath, because they were pregnant !Brighton Gaz.
Highway robberies continue, we regret to say,
increasing in this, and indeed in most other parts of the
coentry.—Briglaon Gazette.
The female figure on which Nollekens chiefly
plumed himself, was seated with her arms round her legs.
This was purchased at his sale by Lord Egremont, who
engaged Rosti to execute it in marble, with strict injunc-
tions to make no alteration. Though defective in many
points, the attitude was a natural one, and acquired by
mere chance, as good attitudes often are.
If literary rumour is to be credited, Lady
Morgan is about forthwith to produce a work of great
originality : the sohjeelt has not yet transpired.—Dublin
Morning Register.