The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-13 00:00:00

:VIZSCELLANEOTTS!

Several incendiririfires_, accompanied by threatening letters,
have taken place during the past three weeks in the neighbour-
hood of Havant, Hampshire. The Rector's barn has been
burned down, and a valuable carriage in it. At High y.
combe, Bucks, on Thursday, also, an incendiary fire occurred,
traces of the design being left. •
Lady Wittinghara died a few days since, on her way, with
Prince Paul of Wurtemberg, to Aix-la-Chapelle. She was
the widow of General Wittingham, who held an important
command in Inßa,.and was also a native of Spain, being
to be descended irom the illustrious family of Ximenes. She
was a woman remarkable for her abilities.

We have received from varicu; quartets, lists of.the
Income-lax Commissioners for different parts of the country,
but we cannot find room for them all. On looking over the
list sent from the County of Essex, we find not fewer than
twelve clergymen in the Comraission, and we are not sorry to see
their names, because they ought to be well acquainted with
the means of their parishoners, and may be of use in protect-
ing them against surcharges.
THE 14UMBER Taourtas.—At Guildhall yester-
day, the long-
standing dispute between Mr. Beck, the pro-
prietor of the Dr. Johnson's Tavern, Bolt-court, Fleet-street,
and the Lumber Troopers, was decided to be settled by arbitra-
tion, at the suggestion of Sir Peter Laurie, who advised that
course, in. preference to having recourse to a Court of Law.
Mr. Beck claims upwards of 1001.
LIE INCOME-TAX.—The clerks in the Custom-
house have, like the holders of. Dock bonds, already had a fore-
taste of the Income-tax. Their half-year's salaries were paid
on Friday. minus three per cent.—Liverpool Times.
ADHESIVE WAFERS ON NEWSPAPERS.—By a cor-
respondence in the Manchester Guardian, it appears that a
gentleman received a newspaper sealed with a printed adhesive
wafer or label, and which was charged by the Post-office autho-
rities for having " information on the wrapper. The gentle-
man complained to the Postanatter-GenerJ, and received for a
replythat the newspaper was correctly charged, and the amount
of postage could not be refunded.
I:BE SEASON AND TILE CROPS.—We have had de-
luges of rain since our last in this part of the country, espe-
cially yesterday, when it poured down as it seldom does out of
the tropics.
'the wheat is a good deal laid, but as the ear is
still light, it will rise again if the weather should improve.
Next Friday is St. Swithin's day, and the Saint has supported
his reputation so well during the last year as to make one
anxious about the present state of the weather, though we hope
that no damage iv yet dime, unless it is as to the hay which is
out in the fields. An amateur farmer in this neighbourhood
has, however, di;covered a remedy for this, which is n.sthing
gentleman
than the covering of his haycocks with umbrellas. fie ha
' had no less than tilts. of them made and put on, to the no small
amusement of the neihbourhood•
Ag-
riculture ought certainly to give this gentlean a prize.—Li •
verpo.'l Times. 'rho Royal Society of
GOVERNMENT AND THE STRATHBOGIE MINISTERS.
—We have been kindly furnished with the following extract
from a private letter, on the information of which our readert
may with confidence rely : —" You mill be pleased to learn that
Government have now taken the persecuted members of the
Strathbogie Presbytery under their protection. The Mode-
rator hans
all
letehier rightsveid:tlettearnd privilegesfromSirJam;
and that, in any legal
James Graham, intimating
to the tsajority of that Presbytery that they would be pro-
measures they were forced to have recourse to, they must ap-
ply to the Crown agent, who had directions to do whatever
was requi,ite for their interest." This is quite as it ought to
be ; and we trust Government'will act with equal decision and
firmness throughout.—F'ile Journal.