The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-31 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The following circular, which conveys very useful infor-
mation to the Officers of the Army, has just been issued
from the War Office. It is accompanied by a schedule,
enumerating all the items of accoutrements and other
articles, with the names and charges of cads tradesman;
from which the average charge is taken, as the total equip-
ment of each branch :

Horse Guards, July 7, 1829.

Sir,—With a view to limit the expense of au Officer's
first appointment, as well as to secure the Service against
the inconvenience which frequently arises from the indivi-
dual not being duly prepared to discharge this amount cn
his appointment, thereby rendering a prolonged leave of
absence often necessary, and frequently exposing the
General Commanding-in-Chief to the repeated solicitations
of the tradesmen who have furnished the supplies, for pay-
ment;

I have received the command of Lord Hill to transmit
to you the accompanying Schedule of each article of the
clothing and present equipment essentially required by a
regimental Officer on his first appointment, together with
the cost, and the names of the different tradesmen who are
prepared to furnish these supplies, at ready-money prices,
on'the terms affixed to their respective address, s.
The object of this measure, in addition to what has ben
stated, is two-fold-Ist, To instruct the young Officers in
the nature and exact amount of the equipments required of
them ; and 2d, To awaken a competition among the trades-
men, and to afford to each Officer the opportunity of pro-
curing his appointments on the most reasonable terms.
It appears from the inquiries made, that the following is
the average amount of equipment in the different branches
of the service, viz.

X s. (1.
Cavalry.—Dragoon Guards and Dragoons 140 0 0
Light Dragoons l4O 0 0
Lancers. I7O 0 0
Hussars, as per returns.— 7th ....... 252 19 4
Bth . 281 13 0
10th.... . 399 7 6
15th........... 253 8 6
Infantry and Light Infantry of the Line,
with Lace 5O 0 0
Infantry and Light Infantry of the Line,
with Embroidery 6O 0 0
Fusileer Regiments, including the Cap 6O 0 0
Highland Regiments
Rifle Regiments 5O 0 0
(Signed) 11. TAYLOR, Adj.-General.

General Lord Hill, Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee
yesterday, at his office in the ilorse Guards.
A few Generals, and about 20 other officers, paid their
respects to his Lordships.

Detachments belonging to the 4th and 13th regiments
of Light Dragoons marched yesterday morning from Lon-
don, for the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone.
On Monday last, a detachment of the 17th (Leicester-
shire) Regiment of Foot, arrived in this town, on their
route to Chatham, where they are to embark for New
South Wales. Yesterday, another detachment arrived
with the band on the same route. The 17th was partly
raised in this county, but at present we believe there are
very few Leicestershire lads in the regiment; mast of
them appearing to be Irishmen. A report was in circula-
tion that their colours, which appeared in a shattered
state, would he deposited in St. Martin's Church, but we
understand without foundation. Head-quarters at the
George Inn.—Leicester Herald.

STOW FAIR.—At this celebrated wool fair,
which was held on Monday last, business was exceedingly
dull, and the best wools were sold as low as I 9s.per tad.
WINCIICOMB FA I IL—The horse fair at
Winchcomb was held on Tuesday last, and numerou,ly
attended. There was a gool show of horses, but not many
sold :—even good ones fetched but low prices.
THE CROPS.—We have conversed with a
gentleman who has, during the last three weeks, travelled
over a considerable portion of the kingdom. He repre-
sents the crops, particularly of wheat, as presenting a very
promising appearance. From a pretty extensive expe-
rience, he is of opinion, indeed, that the wheat crops,
this year, will be abundant. On good lands the grass has
proved abundant, but the poorer meadows are very light.
Barley and oats look well. Potatoes and turnips will be
abundant. Fruit of all kinds is in great profusion, as
well as beans, peas, and every kind of vegetable.—Liver-
pool Albion.

A SIIOPTON WOOL FAI R.--The farmers
and others interested in the growth of wool in the north
of Derbyshire, have determined to establish a fair for the
sale of that article in the Woodlands, about half way be-
tween Sheffield and Glossop. A fair of this kind has long
been called for, not more by the resident wool-growers
than by the manufacturers, who have hither to been de-
pendent upon :the integrity of very improper persons in
snaking their purchases, owing to the difficulty of any
stranger finding his way through this thinly-inhabited
country from one farm to another, or of getting the crops
of wool from the forms to a good road when sold. We
perceive the promoters of this meeting have also united
with it a fair for the sale of their moss welders; to those
who have not an opportunity of meeting heath fed mutton,
it may be of use to be informed that the Moreland sheep
are in the greatest perfection from the latter end of July to
the middle of August. —Newark mars.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.—The speculations in
this article continue with unabated vigour. The following
may be relied upon as being correct with regard to the
state of the growth in the places named. In what is
called the Weald of Kent—that is, in the districts of Can-
terbury, Sittingbourne, Cranbrook, Condhurst, Tenterden,
Marden, Bennenden, Rolvenden, Brench'y, and part of
Yelling, there certainly will not be a pocket to an acre. In
the neighbourhood of Tunbridge and Seven Oaks, there
will be little or no produce. In the Sussex districts—that
is, Staplehurst, Wadhurst, Tic:L.llll.st, Northiam, Bye,
Udimore, Hayden, and Ewhurst, there will not be half a
bag. In the North Clay districts, those of Newark, RR,
ford, Southwell, and Merton, the duty will-not amount
to 1501.,' and they have paid 3,000/. The counties if
Hertford and Worcester will not pay more than 2,0001.,
and they can pay, in what is considere•l a good year,
60,0001. The betting at present is on 30,000/. ; some
will back 32,000/., but that is the outside.—KentishChron.

THE WEATIIER.—Although we have had a
greater pr/:portion of fine days, during the last week, than
the preceding, the weather has been far from settled.—
Many very heavy showers have fallen since our last, and
scarcely a day has elapsed without our hearing the thun-
der rumbling in the distance, even when we have not been
subjected to nearer visitations. Friday night was a very
awful one. From about twelve o'clock to between two
and three in the morning, the rain poured down in tor-
rents, and the lightning gleamed almost incessantly in the
most vivid coruscations, intermingled with the most ap-
palling forms of what is called the " forked' description.
Several of the peals of thunder were alarmingly loud. We
have not, however, heard of any mischief having been done
on this occasion. The hay harvest is nearly completed in
this neighbourhood, and what we have bad the opportunity
of see!ng, of the growing corn, looks remarkably strong
and healthy, and not at all affected by the late partial and
heavy rains. Since writing the above, we have been in-
formed that on the bjore-mentioned night, Friday, the
horses of the Express coach, to London, took fright at the
lightning, about three miles on this side of Peterborough ;
the vehicle was overturned, but happily no injury was
sustained by any of the passengers. The latter represent
the night to have been awful in the extreme.—lial
Packet.

RATS.-_.A remarkable instance of the ferocity
of rats occurred lately at Wigginton. As Mr. HoA a,
jun. of Tring Grange Farm, was returning home about
ten o'clock at night, he saw upwards of one hundred rats
approaching hint on the common ; he threw stones among
them, when they instantly surrounded him, and several
ran up his body as high his shoulders. With much diffi-
culty Mr. H. succeeded in beating them off; both his
hands were severely bitten, covered with Wed, and in-
flamed......Farmers' Journal.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.

The Duke of Somerset and the Ladies St. Maur, for Bulstrode
Pack ; Lard Dundas and the Hon. Miss Dunclas, fur Uske, near
Richmond, in Yorkshire; Lady Hal. s, for Brymore, near
Bridgewater ; the Countess Dowager of Dartmouth and the La-
dies Legge, for Bla,•kheath ; the Earl and Countuss of Arran, for
Bognor Rocks, near Chichester; the Countess Dowager of Chi.
chester and the Ladies Pelham, for Lewes, in Sussex; Lord
Somerville, on a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Brownlow and
family, for their seat, Belton House, Lincolnshire; the Earl of
Thanet, for his seat in Kent; Viscount Sydney, for his seat,
Frognal, Kent; Lord Valletort, for his father's (the Earl of
Mount Edgecumbe) seat, in Devonshire; Dowager Lady Dun-
das, from Arlington-street, for her seat in Yorkshire; the
Countess of Stradbroke, on a tour; the Hon. General Pigot, for
the Manor House, near Mar)ow, in Buckinghamshire; Lord
and Lady Ducie, Mr. and the Misses Moreton, for Woodchester
Park, near Minchinhampton ; the Earl of Mexborough, for
Mikley Park, in Yorkshire; Lady Duff Gordon, on a tour;
Captain and Mrs. Howard, for Paris ; Mr. P. Puncombe, for the
Manor House, Buckinghamshire; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Blake, for
Domesbury, near Welwyn, in Hertfordshire ; the Hon. Berke-
ley Noel, on a tour; General Stopford, from the Royal Hotel,
St. James's-street, for Lord Sydney's seat, in Kent; Sir Robert
Dundas, Bart. and Captain Dundas, for the Dowager Lady
Dundas's seat in Yorkshire; Mr. and Mrs. Lushington, from
Wimpole-street, for their seat in Shropshire.

ARRIVALS AT MACKENZIE'S HOTEL, EDINBURGH.
The Hon. Captain Dunbar, Captain Hay of Mugdrum, D.
Campbell, Esq. Mr. Campbell of Kilduloig, Mrs. Campbell, and
Miss Campbell, Charles Whittaker, Esq. Messrs. James, Wm.,
end Thomas Whittaker, Andrew Simpson, Esq. James Yeats,
Esq. of Uy;o, William Cormack, Esq..- APLean, Misses Ray-
mond Barker, of Fairford Park, Gloucestershire; and the Misses
Roger.

SET OFF FROM THE SAME PLACE.
John Mackenzie, Esq. of Demerara; Roderick Mackenzie,
Esq. of Demerara; Alexander Ross Jamieson, Esq. Andrew
Simpson, Esq. James Yeats, Esq. of Uno, William Connack,
Esq. and - M'Lean, Esq.
ARRIVALS AT GIBB'S ROYAL HOTEL, EDINBURGH.
Their Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Capellen, from
Utrecht; Sir Richard Brook, Norton Priory, Chester; Henry
Brook, Esq., Miss Mary Brook, and Miss Harriet Brook; their
Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Lotzbeck ; John Deans,
Esq. ; Hugh Lyle Oaks, Esq. from Londonderry, and the Rev.
Harvey, Langley Park; George Lloyd, Esq. Kirkby
Hall, Yorkshire, and lady; Miss Serjeantson.

SET OFF FROM TIIE ABOVE PLACE.
The Earl of Harrowby and the Hon. F. D. Ryder, for the Earl
of Rosebery's, Dalmeny Park ; Lord Saitoun and Miss C. A. F.
Cunningham, for Ph ilorth Castle, Aberdeenshire; the Dowager
Lady Saltoun and the Hon. Miss Fraser; the Hon. Edward
Stewart, John Wormeld, Esq. of Bramchope Grove, Yorkshire;
Charles Crewe, Esq. of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, and George
A. Whittaker, Esq. of Mendham, Norfolk; Alex. Crombie,
Esq. of I'hesdo; J. Gilpin, Esq. of Sudberry Hall, Yorkshire;
J. Gilpin, jun. Esq., Captain Willbank ; James Molyneaux, Esq.
Chelwell House, and lady; the Rev. Mr. Garrett, Captain Mac-
pherson, of Cluny ; W. F. Clark, Esq. and lady ; John Clark,
Esq. and Miss Mininick, the Rev. Stephen Creyke and lady,
Miss Ann Creyke and Miss Hotham ; George Parish, Esq., the
Re•. James C. Gordon, Kenneth Macpherson, Esq.
ARRIVALS AT HOWE'S ROYAL HOTEL, MARGATE.
The Hon. P. Pierrepont and lady, Sir Charles Hastings, M.P.
Mr. and Mrs. King, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Fitz-
patrick, Mr. and Mrs. Rucker and family, Major Smith and
sister, Mr. and Mrs. Young and family, Mr. and Mrs. Williams
and sister, Itev. J. Hewlett and lady, Mrs. Admiral Brown and
daughter, Mrs. Biggs and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Chaffers and fa-
mily, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron and family; Messrs. Leslie, Prim-
rose, Hodgson, Daily, Nelson, Jones, Bates, H. W. Beavan
and friend, Smith, Edward Austin, Esq., Mrs. Flanigan, Mrs.
Teel, Miss Drury, Senhor Cavadies, &c.

The Danish Minister transacted business witl
the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday, at the office of the Se
eretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl o
ABERDEEN, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and Mr. VESEY FITZ-
GERALD, visitA the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER
yesterday at the Treasury.

The Marquis of CHANDOS, as Chairman of
the Committee of West India Merchants and Planters, ac-
companied by Mr. INNts (agent of one of the West India
islands), and two other gentlemen of the committee, at-
tended at the Colonial-office yesterday, and had a confer-
ence with Sir GEORGE 'MURRAY.

The Earl of ABERDEEN left town yesterda
afternoon for Tunbridge-welli.

Mr. DRUMMOND HAY (recently appointed
Consul at Morocco), after transacting business yesterday at
the Colonial-office, left town in the evening fur Ports-
mouth, where Mr. HAY Will embark and proceed to
Morocco.

MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—AII the pre-
liminaries being settled for the alliance between the Lady
BLANCH HOWARD, the daughter of the Earl and Countess
of CARLISLE, and Mr. WILLIA3r CAVENDISH, the grand •
son of Lord and Lady GEORGE CAVENDISH, the united
families met yesterday at Burlington House, and were en-
tertained by the Noble Host and Hostess with a sump-
tuous dinner, at which was present the Duke of DEVON-
SHIRE. The Duke of BUCCLEUGII gives to his intended
bride, the Lady ISABELLA THYNNE, the daughter of the
Marquis and Marchioness of BATH, a thousand a year pin-
money, and settles seven thousand pounds more per annum.
The " United Service Journal and Naval
and Military Magazine," for August, will contain, among
other interesting papers, one in particular, entitled " The
United Service Museum," comprising suggestions for the
foundation of an Institution wherein every Officer in the
British service might find valuable and interesting occupa-
tion ; wherein every branch of knowledge that imme-
diately concerns the soldier or sailor might be cultivated,
either as relates to the attack and defence of places, perma-
nent and field fortification, naval and military surveying,
the arcana of artillery, the theory and practice of naviga-
tion, optics, geography, chemistry, and every other branch
of• professional education ; an institution where the young
officer might also resort by way of recreation, and glean
from among its stores valuable and varied information.
MR. SADLER'S SPEECH.—At considerable
pains and expence we published and circulated, gratis,
above a thousand copies of the proceedings at the Town-
hall on Friday. It is to us a matter of great gratulation
that our efforts to meet the wishes of this respectable town
has been received with so much satisfaction, and the gene-
ral accuracy of our report been universally admitted. The
Sass London paper indulges in some lengthened remarks
upon the Hon. Member's verbiage, and calls his remarks
" glittering trash, fustian, and balderdash." The Hon.
Member is not, nor ought to be, held accountahle for the
report of the Nottinghain Mercury, upon which The
Sun has founded its observations. :Nottingham Mercury—
" Knowledge would be strengthened by religion, prosperity
would hourly accumulate, till it arrived on the verge of
time, and touched the threshold of anlity." Mr.
SADLER—" Then should our national prosperity stretch
out even to the crack of doom, and the march of British
greatness and glory extend to the utmost verge of time, and
terminate only en the threshold of eternity." The latter
is sense, the other certainly " balderdash."—Newark
Times.

We understand that the contract for the build-
ing of a Suspension 13ridge across the Avon, at the upper
end of Grosvenor-buildings, on the property of T. PI--
CROFT and T. SHEW, Esq. Was signed on Tuesday last,
and that the excavations for the work will commence in a
few days.—.Buth Chronicle.

The Great Pump Room is at present under-
going some alterations in i!s interior decorations. We
understand that some new regulations is to be adopted re-
specting the plan of bathing in the large bath, by which
separate compartments will be provided for the ladies and
gentlemen. A material reduction is also to take place in
the charges for di inking, bathing, &c. at the Corporation
Baths, and Pump. rooms, from the first of August next.—
Bath Chronicle.

TunKISH WoNrnx.—Turkish women, how-
ever high their rank, can neither read nor write. Dr.
CLAMKE'M account of the ladies writing in the Imperial
Seraglio is erroneous. Most probably the papers he found
in their apartments were written by the bisek eunuchs.
Reading and writing form no part vi the education of a
woman of fashion in Turkey. In all my travels I only
met one woman who could read and write, and that was
in Damietta ; she was a Levantine Christian, and her pe-
culiar talent was considered something superhtunan.—
Madden's Tram's.

AN IMPIIOMPTU.—A servant girl, living in
a reTectable farmer's family at Revesby, having on seve-
ral occasions manifested symptoms of illness, her mistress
persuaded her to take medical advice, and accordingly on
Wednesday, the 22d instant, she was travelling to Boston
far that purpose in one of the market packets, when, to
her extreme confusion, and the surprise of the persons on
board, she added to their number by being deliveted of a
el ild.

EXTRAORDINARY AND NARROW ESCATR.
—A man while undergoing an examination yesterday, be-
fore the Magistrates at the Guildhall, suddenly, and most
unexpectedly, made a spring through an open window
looking into the market, and clearing a wide and deep
area, its surrounding railing, anti a large stall of vegetables,
he made a clever and effectual escape before means could
he put in force for his capture. Had he missed his spring
and fallen into the area, it is probable he would have lost
i hie life."--.llath Chronicle.