The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A large bonfire was made last week at Bally-
macarret, in Ireland, near to Mount Pottinger, in
honour of Sir Henry Pottinger, under whose auspices
the British army have achieved their glorious vic-
tories in China. Mount Pottinger is his native place,
and receives its name from the family.
Harmony Hall, the head-quarters of the Socialist
Community in Hampshire, was erected at a cost of
30,0001. It is not yet half-furnished, but most of the
rooms are handsomely fitted up; the inhabitants are
clean, and the workmen industrious. The quantity
of land is 1,000 acres, held on lease of 99 years, at a
rent of 15s. an acre, and is considered by judges
well worth 3/. an acre under cultivation.

WILLIAM KENNEDY, ESQ., AND THE " HULL.
ADVERTISER.''—WiIIiam Kennedy, Esq., recently ap-
pointed her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Galveston,
in the Republic of Texas, sailed from Liverpool for
Texas, accompanied by Mrs. Kennedy, on Thursday,
the 24th ult., to enter upon his official duties. Mr.
Kennedy was for many years editor and part pro-
prietor of this journal ; and to his unwearied assiduity,
rare talents, and undoubted genius, is due the high
position which the Advertiser holds among the Pro-
vincial Press of this country. Upon his successor de-
volves the painful task of announcing that Mr. Ken-
nedy has withdrawn from the proprietorship, and is
no longer in any way connected with the Hull Adver-
tiser. As few men are so rarely gifted as to supply
his place, his loss will be long and painfully felt by
our readers in the East Riding, and more especially
in the metropolis ; but his successor trusts that time—
the worker of so many miracles—will reconcile them
to a change which undoubtedly implies no abandon-
ment of Liberal principles. He cannot flatter himself
that he has the "ability" to serve the Liberal cause,
but he is not less sure that he has the wish to do so;
and that the honour of succeeding so distinguished a
scholar, t.,0 eminent a poet, and so able a politician as
Mr. Kennedy, will prove an unceasing, as it always
must a most generous, incentive to a career of local
usefulness.—Hull Advertiser.
DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.—
Last evening Mr. Gill held an inquest at the King's
Head, King-street, Park-lane, on the body of Sarah
Wheeler, aged 39. It appeared that :t e deceased had
held the situation of cook, .in the se of Mr. Bod-
dington for the last three years. Sh ;:buffered much
from spasms and indigestion, and was {in the habit of
taking laudanum to alleviate her sufferings, but which
was unknown until Friday night 144 .by her fellow-
servants. After eating her supper on that evening she
complained of being sick, and became very ill. The
housemaid gaive her an emetic, consisting of mustard
and warm water, but without effect. Mr. Sawyer,
surgeon, of Park-street, was then sent for; and pro-
nounced deceased labouring under the effects of
laudanum, which she afterwards admitted, and said
she had not taken it to destroy life, but to remove her
pain. She was bled, and the stomach pump and other
remedies were applied, but she never recovered, and
died on Saturday afternoon. Two phials, one empty
and the other half full of laudanum, were found in
her room. Verdict, " Died from the effects of an over-
dose of laudanum, imprudently taken."
WIND.—One of the cattle waggons at the North-
allerton station of the Great North of England Rail-
way, was shifted, a few days ago, by some mischievous
person, from the side rails to the main way, and the
wind blowing tremendously from the north, it was
forced forward in`h southerly direction at the rate of
twelve or fourteen miles an hour, and was not stopped
until it reached the Alne station, a distance of twenty
miles from its starting point.— Great Northern Ad-
vertiser.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—Two pic-
tures, one of Ghuznee, the other of the Bolan Pass,
from Atkinson's sketches, have just been added to the
dissolving views at this place, and the new microscope
was yesterday used for the first time publicly.