The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-11 00:00:00

AMERICA.

Superficial extent 24,000 Sq. M.
Population
To a Square Mile 2

" German square miles are doubtless meant, being about
four and a half English ; a German square mile will be
equal to about twenty English.

CARLOW ASSIZES.

(From► the Carlow Morning Post.)

Murtha Byrne was indicted for stealing on the 17th of
March, two ditches of bacon, the property of Hugh Gahan,
of Newtownbarry.
Gahau proved his having found his bacon at Mr. Byrne's
;
house identitied his bacon by a particular mark.

Cross-examined by Mr. lrrl;xr.—Witness knows no-
thing of the farce called " The Fl:tch of Bacon ;" prisoner
is no relative of his; prisoner's father-in-law and witness'.
wife are half-brother and sister.—(Laughter.)
Mr. BETHEL--" Then you and he are relations by the
button-hole.—( Loud laughter.)
The COURT intimated to prisoner that be might interro-
gate the witness.
Prisoner—" When did you go to bed that night ?"
Witness—" I went to bed early."
Prisoner—" Early ! and when did your wife go to bed ?"
Witness—" When she put a piece on my breeches."—
(Loud laughter.)
Murtha—a Do you live in peace with your wife ?"
.8.--" Aye, as good as any couple from this to Banagher."
.--(A laugh.)
The JUDGE—" Prisoner what has this to do with the
case ?"

Murtha—" I'll soon chew your Lordship. Come, Mr.
Gahan, wheel about again.—(Laughter.)—Did your wife
propose to get her portion back from you, and go home
again?-(No answer.)—Come, Sir, wheel about.—
(Continued laughter.)—Did your father-in-law come with
horse and car to bring her home?"
Wituess—" Yes, he did."

Alurtba—" Now, my Lord, is that pace at home ?
(Roars of Laughter.)—To Gahan—Pll work you tight my
Loy.—(Peals of laughter.)—l have plenty more questions
to ask by and bye."
The COURT interfered.

Sergeant Maynard of the local constabulary, proved that
the prisoner bad freely acknowledged to witness that he
had stolen the bacon, and had an accomplice.
The prisoner's daughter was called for the defence ; but
she proved that prosecutor had offered to take the prison-
er's note for the value of the bacon.

The prisoner insisted that prosecutor's wife wishing to
turn a penny, had stolen the bacon, which she had, ten
days before his (prisoner's) apprehension, offered to sell to
him. He went on to say that, on Patrick's day, he (pri-
soner) had gone to Newtownbarry, that he went to Chapel
first to hear and say his prayers--(laughing)—he then
went to the Church to hear what the Minister had to say
for himself—(continued laughter,)—and that, when re-
turning, he met the women carrying away the bacon, And
he helped them.
Sergeant Maynard, recalled by the Judge, said the pri-
soner was a notorious character, and that he got many a
blessing for taking him.
His Lordship, finding that the prisoner had been for eight
mouths in confinement, previous to trial, sentenced him to
four additional months of hard labour in thY House of Cor-
rection.
A SKETCH OF COMFORT.

On the Ist of April 1796, a daughter was born
unto Mary the wife of William Stephenson, Ely-
place, Holborn, which daughter, from that blessed
hour to the present, has never once ceased talking.
She has got the gift of tongues in the most exube-
rant manner you can possibly conceive. Stentor
was a fool to her: he, it is true, was noisy, she is
absolutely deafening: his loquacious thunder knew
at times repose, her, s is the perpetual motion which
even the grave would have hard work to stop. The
very first thing she did when born was to experi-
mentalize on her lungs, and I think I may safely
add that the experiment will stick by her to the last.
As she grew up this amiable weakness grew with
her; at six years old she would talk at you by 'the hour
together, no matter to whom or to what, whether to a
man, a woman, a pug-dog, or a bed candlestick.
She once talked her grandmother into fits, and when
an apothecary was sent for, she chatted him too into
such confusion that the worthy man forgot to take
his fee.* Her father thought a school might pos-
sibly cure this distressing malady, so dispatched her,
one Midsummer, outside the Rumford stage, to Mrs.
Thompson's Seminary. Mark the upshot : on the
road, she got into conversation with the coachman,
who in attempting to check her prattle, dropped
his reins, whereupon the horses bolted, upset the
vehicle, and jirked an Alderman, in white cotton
stockings, head-foremost through the ceiling of
a pig-stye. As for the coachman, luckily, he only
broke his neck. After a year's schooling, our
prattling Miss returned home a more desperate
prattler than ever. Nothing came amiss to her.—
Did a Politician, ,a Poet, a Patriot, a Parson, a Phy-
sician, a Polemic, did any or all of these happen by
ill-luck to dine with her father ? no matter, his daugh-
ter would still set to ; talk—talk, tittle tattle, now
on dress, now on balls, now on theatres, now on
puppet-shows, now on novels, now on—Heaven help
me ! the calendar is really too distressing, a complete
Newgate calendar in short, so I hasten to dismiss it.
In the year of our Lord 1814, this good lady took it
into her head to marry : I suppose with a view of
talking her sponse to death. The Gentleman she
selected for this experiment, was a good-na-
tured harmless little fellow, and one who adored
taciturnity ;
judge then what a prize he must
have gained ! For the first month, however,
things went on tolerably smooth—a newly mar-
ried husband will pardon much in a good-looking
wife—even,
should add,
which never wears out by constant use.
For a full her tongue—the only edge-tool, I
calendar month, therefore,
i no very des-
perate quarrel took p lace—nothing further than a
perpetual buzz, on the part of the wife, and resig-
nation on that of the husband. But since then
both parties have become sadly changed. The wife's
buzz has
but " linguaruni," and deepened into a thunder-clap ; the hus-
band's resignation has become despair. And who
can wonder at it ? The dear lady's tongue night
and day is perpetually at work; she even talks in
her sleep throuhusband, gh her nose, makes speeches to every
chance visitor, and not only prattles her servants
into rebellion, but even details their conduct to her
'till the poor man grows black in the face
'
with the exertion of listening. The loquacity of
the whole female creation, past, present, and to come,
seems centered in her single person. There has
been not a lapszis linguce,
it has fallen upon her. She stands alone, like Porn-
, an unadulterated lo-
quacious And who is this garrulous cu-
pq'eiopuislla ar nom in
atlyhe wilderness
riosity
human--flothod is
unprecedentedlinguist--this monument of talkativeness—this
of egotist—this assiduous
verbia g ethis
Niagara
This is the only good that ever resulted from her lo-
quacity. of nonsense ?
Reader, is my wife !

The Marquess Camden,.K.G. Lord Lieute-
nant of the county of Kent, has, with his Majesty's ap-
probation, taken the command of the West Kent Regiment
of Militia,....Dated 8d April, Gazette.

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Secretary
Peel had audiences of the KING yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, accom-
panied by the Princes, Carlotti, left their residence in
Bushy Park yesterday morning, for the King's Palace,
Kensington, where the Duchess and the Princess alighted,
on a visit to the Duchess of Kent. The Duke proceeded
to his temporary residence, in Charles-street, Berkeley-
square.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess no-
(lore visited the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Feodore and
Cariotti, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at her
residence in the King's Palace, St. James's.
The Lord Chancellor visited Mr. Secretary
Peel on Monday.
The Earl of Westmorland and Viscount
Grenville transacted business at the Foreign Office yester-
day.
The Earl of Liverpool continues much in the
same state.

Mr. Krause, the King's Messenger, arrived at
the office of the Secretary of for Foreign Affairs on
Monday night, from Constantinople, bringing despatches
from the Right Hon. Stratford Canning.
The Dowager Lady Abdy entertained the
Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and a select party at
dinner on Monday at her house in Savile-street. In the
evening her Ladyship gave a Concert, which was splen-
didly attended.
Countess Poulett gave a grand dinner on Mon-
day, at her Ladyship's superb mansion, Hyde Park Ter-
race. Among the company were—Lord Forbes, the Hon.
Captain Poulett, Sir Philip Roche, Mr. and Mrs. Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. Gosling, Mr. and the Miss Knights, and
several other persons of fashion.
The Marquis of Hertford had a grand musical
party yesterday evening, at his house in Piccadilly, which
was very numerously and fashionably attended.
The Earl of Sefton entertained a distinguished
party to dinner on Monday, at his house in Arlington-
street, among whom were Count Mortrand, Lard Foley,
Sir:TolmShelley, Mr. Greville, Scc._

The late interview of the Duke of Rutland
with his Majesty is said to have been the result of a special
invitation from the King, and that it had reference to the
kindness shown by his Grace to the late Duke of York.—
The King, it is further said, presented his Grace on the
occasion with a diamond ring worth 10,0001.

The Subscriptions for the Monument to be
erected in Edinburgh, to the Memory of the Duke of York,
are going on prosperously. Since we lad noticed the
subject, the 21st, or Royal Scotch Fusileers, the 71st,
79th, and 93d Highland Regiments, and numerous indivi-
duals, have subscribed to that laudable object.
Mr. Broughton, of the Home Circuit, is ap-
pointed to the vacancy amongst the Police Magistrates,
made by the death of Mr. Osborne.

The Earl of Derby's stab hounds are appoint-
ed to meet on Saturday at the Hundred Acres.

The son of Marshal Soult is 110 W making a
tour of Cornwall.

Air. Francis Baring has arrived in the packet
from Rio Janeiro, after having visited Mexico, Peru (upper
and lower), Buenos Ayres, and Rio Janeiro. Mr. Baring
made the journey from Lima to Buenos Ayres on horseback.

Lord Plymouth has subscribed 251. in aid of
the fund for the celebration of the birth of Shakspeare, on
the 23d inst., at Stratford. Mr. Lawlev, M.P., Mr. Shir-
ley, and the corporation of Stratford, have also subscribed
towards the above object.

The Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, (Archi-
bald Reed, Esq.) has issued cards of invitation to a grand
dinner, to be given at the Mansion-house In that town, on
the 23d inst., (St. George's Day) in honour of his Ma-
jesty's Birth-day.
THE LATE EARL OF SIIREWSBURY.—We
understand the following to be a correct statement of the
will and property of this venerable Nobleman. All his ex-
tensive landed estates, as well as his town residence, plate,
furniture, &c., devolve on his nephew, John, the present
Earl, who is also residuary legatee to an accumulation of
personal property, valued at upwards of 400,0001. The
legacies do not amount to 30,0001., but annuities to the
extent of 6,4001. per annum, are left between the Dowager
Countess and the younger branches of the family. There
are bequests of 500/. each to two of the London Hospitals,
and 2,000/. in other charities.

DINNER TO RICHARD SHELL, ESQ.—On
Thursday evening, this talented and patriotic Gentleman
was entertained by the friends of Civil and Religious Li-
berty in Clonmel. The Dinner was given at the Royal
Mail Coach Hotel, in very excellent style. The Chair was
was ably filled by Edward Phelan, Esq. M.D., and several
excellent speeches delivered in the course of the evening.—
Tipperary Free Press.

A dinner is to be given next month by the
Cabinet-makers' Society, when it is expected that a certain
Learned Lord will take the Chair. His Lordship is sup-
posed to have great knowledge of the craft, and to have
bestowed much attention on the turning-loom. It is said
that he can even turn coats, and that ebony is his favourite
material. He is anxious to turn out some very splendid
specimens before the holidays.

Miss Foote and Miss Jarman will play alter-
nate nights during Easter week at Covent-garden.
- Mr. C. Kemble will play Romeo on Easter
Monday.
Mr. Young is re-engaged at Covent-garden,
and will play Brutus on Wednesday, and Mr. Beverleg, in
The Gamester, on Friday next.

Miss Foote is engaged at Covent-Garden for
four nights, to play Letitia Hardy, Violante, Lady
Teazle, and Rosalind.

The new Melo-drama for Covent-garden, to
he brought out on Easter Monday, is to be called Peter
Wilkins ; or, The Flying Indians, founded on the
fanciful popular adventures of the same title.

The receipts at Covent-garden, on Saturday
evening, for the benefit of Mr. Fawcett, exceeded 700/.,
being the largest receipt of any night during the season, the
King's visit excepted.

CONVERSION OF PROTESTANTS.—Five per-
sons, three men and two women, were received into the
Catholic Church, by one of the Curates of St. Andrew's,
Townsend-street Chapel, in the course of last week, after
having duly renounced the errors of Protestantism. Three
more are receiving instructions previous to their admission.
—Dublin Morning Register.
A profound observer of human nature, the
author of " Gil rilas,”
asserts, that little men are com-
monly decisive and oracular in their opinions."
John 11., King of Portugal, having one day
refused a favour to a gentleman, was surprised at the
warmth of his expressions of gratitude. " What do you
thank me for?" demanded the King. " For not having
kept me in suspense, which would have ruined me," re-
plied the other.—There are great men now living, to whom
the study of this little anecdote might not be without profit.
from
himselflV Worthing, t) n
haveg, whobeenwa was
employed examined
at
In the cause, Smith v. Toler, tried at the
tbilly:Nrtsribmr a.
emßi onl Assizes,
7 ds,sotnaa tleid
flaying
dog-fish (to which ha assigned
some local name) for his dinner. One of the Counsel
stated the fish to he a species of the shark. " Yes' my
Lord," said Mr. Bolland, bowing to his Learned Friends
round the table,_" we are all stated to be of that tribe I"
—This produced a roar of laughter from the gentlemen of
the long robe.—Maidstone Journal.
A jeu
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prthas ANECDOTEIateIy beenOFissupedlif.r.F.otßhePmYeCtrE;
—olitan press,
under the appellation of Nugas Conorre, which
reral lively epitaphs on, and anecdotes of, celebrated medi-
cal characters from which we have gleaned the following
l
singular one of the late Dr. Fordyce :—" This celebrated
ecturer dined every day, for more than twenty years, at
Dolly's chop-house. His researches in comparative ana-
tomy had .'.ed him to conclude, that man through custom,
eats oftener than nature requires, one meal a-day being
sufficient for that noble animal the lion. At four o'clock,
his accustomed hour of dining, the doctor
regularly too.,
his seat at a table always reserved for him, on which were
placed a silver tankard full of strong ale, a bottle of port
wine, and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of
brandy. The moment the waiter announced him, the cook
put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and
on the table some delicate trifle, as a bonne bouche, to
serve until the stake was ready. This was sometimes half
a boiled chicken, sometimes a plate of fish : when he had
eaten this, he took one glass of brandy, and then proceeded
to devour his steak. When he had finished his meal, be
took the remainder of his brandy, having, during his din-,
ner, drunk the tankard of ale, and afterwards the bottle
of port. He thus daily spent an hour and a half of his
time, and then returned to his house in Essex-street, to
give his six o'clock lecture on chemistry. He made no
other meal until hie return next day, at four o'clock, to
Dolly's,"

ITALIAN LOVERS.

A letter from Milan, gives the following account
of a double suicide, which has recently taken place
in that city. The circumstance has created a very
deep and general sensation in a country where self-
destruction is of very rare occurrence.
Marco Uronn, a shopkeeper of Milan, married his
daughter, Laodina, about three years ago, to a young
man named Teranza, who was his ward, and who
was, like himself, engaged in trade. Laodina brought
her husband two children; she was equally remark..
able in the neighbourhooc for her modesty and piety
as for her beauty. In crossing the Piazza del Duomo
she was pointed out to me as one of the prettiest
of the rich shopkeeper's wives who still persevered
in the old custom of passing a part of the day be-
hind their counters. I never afterwards failed, when
in that neighbourhood, to stop before the shop-wins
dows, and endeavour to catch, through the shawls
and muslins exposed in them, a glimpse of her charm-
ing face. Laodina was of middle stature, had fair
hair, a mild and downcast eye, and an extremely pale
complexion; her features wore a mingled expres-
sion of tenderness and seriousness. About six months.
ago, her husband began first to suspect that she ed-
tertained a passion for a young shopkeeper named
Valterna, whom she had known for a long time.
Fired with jealousy, Teranza not only forbid Val-
terna his house, but caused him to bo severely cud-
gelled by two Buli or hired bravoes, and some time
after applied to the police to prohibit Valterna from
passing before hit windows. On the 18th January,
Laodina went to the theatre de la Canobiano—the
performance was Paolo e Virginia—her lover was
in the pit, and kept his eyes constantly fixed on her.
Laodina appeared to be gayer than usual; but it
was remarked by one of the persons with her, that
at a certain part of the performance, she said, as if to
herself, and in a tone of melancholy foreboding,
" Ah, such is the fate of all true lovers." Lao-
dine had that morning sent her children to pass
some time with her mother. On returning borne
towards midnight, she handed her husband a
glass of agro di cedro (a kind of lemonade), in
which it would appear she had put a little opium,
and took another herself, in which there was
poison. Laodina and her husband retired to bed;
and it seems as soon as she perceived that he
was asleep, she arose, quitted the room, which she
locked upon him, and admitted her lover, with whom
she shut herself in another apartment. About throe
o'clock in the morning, some of the neighbours were
awakened by the report of pistols, but hearing no
further noise, they paid no more attention to the
circumstance. The next morning, the young man
who opened the shop, surprised at not seeing Te;an-
zu appear, at half-past ten o'clock went to his room,
and after knocking for a considerable time, succeeded
in awaking him. Transported with jealousy at not
finding his wife by his side he burst open the door
of his room, and finding the door of the other room
locked on the inside, he also broke into it, and to his
inexpressible horror saw his wife and her lover lying
dead close by each other. They had provided them-
selves with two pair of pistols, but had made use only
of one. Laodina was but little disfigured by the
explosion ; she seemed to have placed the muzzle of
the pistol as far back in her mouth as possible. She
wore suspended roiled her neck her lover's portrait,
and had on her fingers the rings he had given her ;
she held in her left hand a second pistol, loaded and
cocked. Teranza, without saying a wo.• of the
horrible event to any one, closed the door, and went
to inform the police. His jealous disposition being
well known, he was kept in confinement until the
physicians had made their report of the state of the
bodies, and the cause of their death. As the Ger-
man authorities have their Werther by heart, they
allowed the two ill-fated lovers to be buried toge-
ther in the Campo Scelerato. Two nights after, a
dirge was played over their graves, whether by Ita-
lians or Germans is not known—most likely the lat-
ter. It appears by their letters which have been
found, that Laodina had remained faithful to her
marriage vow, and that it was a struggle between
her virtue and her love that forced her to adopt the
fatal resolution of putting an end to her existence.—
It also appears that Laodina and her lover had de-
termined on self-destruction on the 25th of October ;
but several domestic circumstances, amongst others
the death of Valterna's father, had retarded its exe-
cution until the 18th of January. In many of the
letters Valterna endeavoured to persuade his mis-
tress to elope with him, to which she always replied
by reproaching him with his want of courage. In
one of her letters she says, " Should we fly, poor as
we both are, we could not avoid falling into distress,
which might lead us to the commission of some more
shameful action ;it is better to die." Laodina's
letters are said to be admirable; it is probable they
will be published."

THE LOVER'S SONG.
What are the summer skies to me,
Though bright and beautiful they be ?
What are the garden's freshest flowers,
And the kissing breeze of its greenest bowers ?
Though beauty and fragrance mingle there,
And sweet is the kiss of the amorous air,
Yet flowers were never so glowing and sweet,
As my lady's blush when alone we meet,
And what is the kiss of the softest breeze,
To my lady's lips in such nights as these ?
And never so bright were the summer skies,
As the living light of my lady's eyes.

A PERSIAN EXECUTION.—When we halted
I found myself inclosed in a dense ring of spectators, in the
midst of which eteod a great brass mortar, raised on a mound
of earth, and beside it, stuck in the ground, was a bitstock
with a lighted match. The nussukchees ranged themselves
on each side of this horrible engine ; and it was not with-
out some difficulty that I succeeded in gaining a position
which appeared to me to secure me from the danger attend-
ing the explosion, and its consequences when it should take
place. Having taken my station I began to look around
me, and saw the officers of justice still pow ing into the
circle, which was widened for their reception by dint of
blows. After them, or rather between two of them, came
the prisoner. She was enveloped front head to foot in A
black robe, which also covered her face. Her step was
firm, and her carnage stately. She frequently 'Poke a few
oalnout
Fide,
words to an eunuch who accompanied her; but the noise
lAvisiesnh she
haep approached crh edatnlide
was so great that I could hear nothing of their discourse.
intelligible to all. The officers, per-
ceivingcosPeemptaostlrse thatbe camasetomniosrheedquevieetrY one,and
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multitude, here interrupted her. She made no attempt to
proceed, but resigned herself into their arms. They
led her in front of the mortar, and yet her step never
faltered ; neither did she speak or implore, as it is
common for even men to do in her situation ; neither
did she curse, as some do : neither did she weep. They
told her to kneel down with her breast against its moe.
zle, and she did so. They put cords round her wrists,
and bound them to stakes which bad been driven for the
purpose; still she showed no signs of emotion; she laid
her head upon the mortar, and waited her fate with a corn-
posure which a soldier might have envied. At length the
signal was given; the match was raised ; it descended
slowly; and, at the moment when it was about to touch
the powder, an audible shudder ran through the crowd.
The priming caught Are; a moment of sickening sucpense
followed ; a groan burst from the spectators ; the r moke
passed away; no explosion followed; and the unfortunate
wretch raised her head to see what had happened. A faint
hope glimmered in my own heart that perhaps this was a
device to save her life, but it was not permitted to live long.
It had scarcely begun to rise within me, when I saw the
priming • renewed and the match raised again. The con-
demned wretch laid her head once more on its bard pillow,
anti uttered a low groan as if her,spirit had parted. It
had scarcely been uttered when the explosion took place,
and the smoke covered every thing from nay view. As it
gradually
cleared away, it drew a veil from over a horrid
and revolting spectacle. The two bodiless arms hung,
with their mangled and blackened ends, from the stakes to
which they had been bound; and a few yards distant lay a
scorched and shattered foot and leg. No trace of body or
of head remained, and a few tattered remnants of clethee
were all besides that were left. The arms were unbound
from the stakes ; and two women, who had issued from the
ark at the sound of the explosion, rushed to the spot,
seized them up, and, concealing them under their veils,
hurried to the Harem with these proofs that the dernends,
ofjotict bed been fulfilled.." Visit; to the Ilarwri;