The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-16 00:00:00

TH ARM Y.

OrdtWS-have been received at the head•lnarter3
of the 49th Regiment of Foot, at Cork, directing
that detachments should be furnished by them, to
do the. du'y at Cove, Carlisle Fort, Charles Fort,
Mooksro,‘ n, Ilauthowling Battery, and Middle.-
ton. in phac- of the several parties belonging to
the 9711, lire iine it, which are ordered to proceed
to Coll: on the arrival of the detachmeuts 'above
enumerated.

The detachment belonging to the 74th Regi.
MUM ot 'Foot, which was stationed ;►t Kllo6kallo,
'has received a route, dit'ecting them to march from
that station, and proceed to. Strabane, the head-
quartet s of the 11 egiment.
The ,97111 Regiment of Fool Miielt has lreei►
doing ditty at Cork this length of time past, re-
velvet! a route last weelt, direcang a division
the Regiment to march from that city anti proceed
'to Tralee, which is to be the head-tivarters of the
'Regiment for the present ; at the same time routes
were also furnished, directing that a part of the
remainder of the Regiment should march from
Cork, -being previously divided into detachments
for the purpose of doing duty in the following
towns, namely, Rossoastle, Bentry, Clonakilty,
Bere-Island, Skibbereen, Whiddy
island, Dingle and Kenmore, where they are to
relieve similar 'detachments belonging to the 81st
Regiment of Foot which are under orders to pro-
ceed to Cork on the arrival of the several detach-
ments above stated.

TYPHUS F.EVErt.
[From the cDublin) Correspondent, Der.

Upon the whole of the statements
.which have
been received from various parts of the country,
the cases of Typhus Fever are rather upon the
decline; not, however, in any degree to justify
the slightest intermission of the preventive mea-
sloes which have been adopted in some places,
anti tvhiclt S110111(1 be Ithiversally practised, for re-
pressing contagion. Some very rash and blameable
attempts have been made to spread abroad a most
unjust and unfounded opinion, that the contagion
had its might in the want of ventilation) occa.
sioned by the shutting tip of windows, in conse-
quence of the severity of the Window Tax. It is
just a possible case, that a sufficient ventilation
may be wanting in houses here and there, in lanes
and in'cluse streets ; but, to say that this had pro-
duced the contagion, is to assert what is quite
opposite to the tact. The Typhus Fever
nate(' in the country. It was emphatically called,
by the medical practitioners belonging to this city,
the country jeuer —lt broke out, not in narrow
lanes aid confined streets, where the Window
Tax exercises its rigours, but in cottages and ca-
bins, and poor farm-houses, which have been
saved from the incleme•:cy of this obnoxious tax,
and its associate, the Hearth Tax. it is where
the light and the breeze may enter in spite of the
vexathoss agent of taxation, and where the fire
ma v blaze upon the hearth, tree of all such
dominion, that the 1 ypnus rever fist began
its desolation; and,•trom the cabin, it spread to
the village, the town; and the city—.and, by no
means Milee constant and certain, titan by the
beggars which flocked in such prodigious swarnis,
_froth the coamtry into populous places.—The•GO-
,vernment,, with parental anxiety, have sent their
'inquiries into the most remote parts of the coml.
try upon this head. They have diffused succour.
wherever it was wanted, or wherever it exceeded
:the powers of local chat ity and benevolence. They"
have distributed aids in money in every: quarter—
'they have given public buildings, to be converted
into places of. refuge and comfort for the sick—
:and their benignant liberality has carried them so
far, and into suck minute details of relief, that
they hare ordered the seitidotys of houses situate
in confined places in cities, which may have been
shut up within a given time, to lighten the IVin-
dow Tax, to be opened, free of Taxation,- They
have, among the rewards to which such conduct
fairly entitles them, the gratitude and prayers of
'the poor, and the reverence and admiration of tire
rich.

' The cold weather which has just set in, pro-
mises to contribute no small aid to the
diminish-
ing, of contagion but very cold weather of this
-sort, generally, brings upon tire pooc its own pro-
-portion of maladies, and should not 'pe disregarded
,the present juncture. The want of bed-cloth-'
Ing'stilliciently warm, daring cold sharp weather,
causes •tr variety of ailments amongst this wretch-
ed class, and this want will be sadly aggravated•
among such of them as may be convalescents after
fever.' We would, theletore, humbly beg to turn
the public benevolence to this object—to the sup-
plying of the. poor With Warm -blankets, with as
little delay as posSible.

,•
• SHI7CKING
,OCCIJRRRNCR.--0111' readers have
seldoni heard of a more horrible transaction
_than
the fhllowing :—A servant woman has lived for
s iaie time in the family of IF. RICHARDSON, •a
inan 'of large fortune, residing in Summer-hill,
and her husband had liberty. to see her occasion-
, ally. On Wednesday night he came to the house
in a state of intoxication, , and the domestics
thought !t expedient to get him outside the door.
He had not been long expelled, when he return-
ed, with . some other disorderly persons, and
created such an extraordinary noise, as induced Mr.
Richardson to interfere.. "'the ruffian made his way
once more into the house, and the effort was to have
Bins again put out. Mr.Richardsou collared him, but,
lie had scarcely done so, when the monster con-
trived to get one of Mr. ltchardson's fingers he-
tweet) his teeth, and bite it completely off I. lie
Was not satistiedwith_this.horrid revenge, but he
afterwards hit the arm of Mr. Richardson,. who is
a; man advanced in years, in a most horrid Ho:M—
uer. The unfortunate sufferer wa's yesterday in a.
Inn alarming state of illness., The savage assailant .
was
,secured,. and Cotnniitted to prison.-(Dublin
Correspondent.,.-

A Sheicking tire broke out at three yesterday,
morning, in Farrel:37rents, Bishopsgate-street, in
a 11011 SC OeC11111.0(1 'by iIIr.„IIARHIS, e6leh-painter,
mud who, Znelancboiy to ielate,- perished in the
flames ; die decea'sed, dug out at 'eight. o'clock,
was between GO and 70 years of age.