The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-04 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

LORD HILL'S LRCRE.—General Lord Hill, Command-
ing-in-Chief, held a Levee yesterday, at his office in the
Horse Guards, which was attended by the following Ge-
nerals, and about twenty other officers
Lieut.-Generals Hislop, Blachford, Eden, and Hutch-
inson ; Major-Generals Grant, Anderson, King, and
Watson.

A Detachment of the 6th Dragoon Guards marched this
morning, from London to Manchester. _

A Detachment of the 68th Foot marched this morning,
from London, for Burnley.
A Detachment of the 87th Foot, marched this morning,
from London, for Chester.

Ann Rowbottom, of Dukinfield, Cheshire,
aged 80, is at this time cutting five teeth in her lower jaiv !
Accounts from most of the fox-hunting dis-
tricts describe the sport as excellent, and the season as
having commenced under the most favourable auspices
Bath Chronicle.

The march of refinement has been so rapid
in Norfolk that the poachers there travel in barouches,
and the link boys in Norwich wear gloves.
FALL OF A METEOR.—A few evenings since,
about nine o'clock, a lady, who was looking out of a draw-
ing-room window near the Vittoria Hotel, observed a beau-
tiful meteor streaming through the sky. It came from a
northerly direction, and diminishing as it approached, fell
upon the lawn in front of the Vittoria, where it remained
burning for several seconds. It was about the size of an
egg, and was composed of a pure white flame, but on exa-
mining the spot where it fell, no vestige of its existence
could be found.—Cheltenham Chronicle.

The baboons of Ceylon are large and very
fearless. A gentleman having on one occasion shot at a
young one, the mother came boldly up and wrested the
gun out of his hand, without doing bins any injury.
The 16th inst., Maria, the wife of John Finch,
of Wickham-market, was delivered of a daughter' in the
presence of her mother, grandmother, and great-grand-
mother; therefore herself and infant child made five ge-
nerations, all then present.—lpswich Chronicle.
It appears by the report of the Commis-
sioners for inquiring into charities that the income of
all the charities investigated and reported upon, amounts to
between 480,0001. and .500,000/. per annum.
Not long ago (we are unable to give the pre-
cise date), a singular circumstance occurred at Loch
Harrow, which, although much talked of at tke time
mong the scattered pastoral population of the place, never
found its way into the public prints. On the top of a bill,
an the immediate neighbourhood, either a water-spout, or
a thunder cloud of extraordinary density, burst with such
violence, that the torrent soon forced a passage for itself,
the traces of which are still visible; and, cataract-like, de-
scending to the lake below, produced such a dire commo •
tion, that hundreds of trouts went actually east on dry
land, and the waters of Loch Harrow partially dislodged,
from a position which they have occupied since the era of the
good. Though nobody witnessed the phenomenon at the mo-
ment, its effects could not be concealed ; the first shepherds
who repaired to the spot, could hardly believe their own eyes,
when they saw fishes perched like birds on heather bushes,
and sheep gazing at them with the greatest gravity, as if
• considering whether they should so far violate their in-
stincts, as presume to breakfast, for the first time, on fins.
Nor were the herds, their masters, a bit wiser ; fur while
some talked of the world being near an end, when the or-
der of nature was so completely inverted, others who had
heard of a shower of herrings, insisted that there must be
such a thing as a shower of trouts ! But the gully in the
crag, the enlargement of the loch, and the wetness of the
heath, pointed at last to the proper conclusion ; and we
only regret that no gifted individual, combining all the
qualities of a naturalist, a poet, an angler, and a sports-
man—such, for example, as Professor Wilson—had an op-
portunity of witnessing, and adequately describing the
grand turnwil.--.Dumfrics Courier.

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THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY•

HAY MARKETS--(.-k t per L'ad of 33 Trusses')
ST. JAMES'S.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay ...... ........ .i 2 0 to
Best New Meadow Hay
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay
Clover Hay 3
Oat straw £1 Bto£l 12 Wheat Straw 112 ,01
A good supply, and a very dull trade ; prices as last q"
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 21°3'
Best New Meadow Hay 2 10 0
Fine Uuland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3
Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs Generally 3 3•
Oat Straw XI 4to £1 E6—Wheat Straw I IF,/
Meadow Hay from 3s. to 55., Clover Hay 55., and e`;4.
Bs. per load lower than last; quoted: Supply good. '-
very dull.

PICTURE OF THE COURT