The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-03 00:00:00

DEPA RTURES.

The Earl and Countess of Onslow, from Albemarle-street, for
their seat in Surrey; the Earl and Countess and Lady E. Cow_
per, for their seat in Hertfordshire ; Sir W. E. Tomline, Barr.
from Flutlyer.street, for 114 seat in Surrey; Major Keate, for
Brighton; Captain and Mrs. Nelson, from Harley-street, for
Northamptonshire; Sir George Pocock, Bart. from Charles-
street, Berkeley-square, for his seat, Twickenham House; Mr.
and Mrs. C. Power, from the British Hotel, Jermyn.strcet, for
the Continent; Captain Sherwood, from ditto, for Brighton;
Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, from Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brock_
street, for Brighton ; J. W. Taylor, Esq. from ditto, for Bath.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND has been indis-
posed with a slight cold during the last two clays, at his
residence at Kew.

Despatches were sent off by a messenger yes-
terday evening, from the Colonial Office, for Sir FRE-
DERICK ADA3Ii the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islandf. • The mesenger took also despatches from the
Admiralty, for Admiral Sir PULTENEY AIALCOLSI, in the
Mediterranean; and from the Foreign Office, for Lord
ButtaitEasti, our Minister at Florence, and the Right
HIM, AUGUSTUS FORSTER, our Minister at Turin.

Lord ELLENBOROUGII and the Right Hon•
STRATFORD CANNING transacted bu:inesi yesterday at the
Foreign Office.

Mr. VESEY FITZGER ALD has arrived at
Sudborne-hall, near Woodbridge, on a visit to the Mar-
quis of HERTFORD.

Despatches were sent off yesterday evening
from the Colonial Office for Sir CHARLES COLVILLE, the
Governor of the Mauritius.

A marriage in high life is talked of as about
to take place immediately. The eldest daughter of Mr.
HOPKINS NORTUEV, to the Honourable Mr. litari son
and heir apparent to Lord Bocrox : the young lady's
smalcit accomplishment is a fortune of 20,0001.--Boston
Gazette.

Florence Autumn Races seem to present a
sort of Italian Newmarket, except that the parties who
contribute to these sports being principally English Noble-
men and Gentlemen, consider pleasure rather than gain
the object of their contention. Lord BURGHERSH, Lord
NORMANBY, Mr. PERRY, Mr. THELLUSSON, Mr. KER-
RICE, Mr. Sr. JOHN, CohMei3GASCOIGNE, Mr. Ilor.r,
and two or three foreign Noblemen, managed this year to
get up three days' admirable sport. Thasea, the pride of
Tuscany, regularly bred, and riders of everience, some
of them from Newmarket, powerfully contended fir the
vicious stakes and deposits. Lord NOE:HANBY and Mr.
PERRY, however, seem to have been the owners of the
best blood, for their horses were generally the winners.
We understand many parties came from Naples, Rome,
and Milan, to be present atlthis meeting. Lord BURG-
HERS/I and Sir B. WILLIAZISON were the Stewards.
ANECDOTE OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY.—
On his MAJESTY'S return from his late visit to Hanover
he was waited upon at Rothenkirchen by a deputation of
the miners of the Hartz. The deputation begged permis-
sion to present the KING with a goblet, out of which they
said GEORGE L, and also GEORGE 111., had drank. The
Knrcr immediately remembered the latter circumstance,
and that when in his youth a deputation of the miners had
come into England to wait on the KING, his father. His
MAJESTY drank out of the goblet, and, three old miners
having been presented to him as having been among those
that brought it to England, he said good-humouredly,
" Do you still frequently sing the song you sang at Windsor,
Gestern Abend war Vetter Michael do?'" As this song
was national in the Hartz it may easily be imagined how
pleased the honest miners were with his MAJESTY'S excel-
lent memory and pleasantry.

The friends of the Siamese youths, with a
proper regard to their health and comfort, have taken a
commodious house, with gardens, in the vicinity of the
Regent's Park, and have engaged a carriage solely for their
use, so that they may have the advantage of air and exer-
cise. They have also placed the care of their health under
a skilful surgeon.

A Mut& BISHOP..—The following account is
given in the " Annals of King George the First," year 4th,
under the head of " An Odd Motion in the Irish House of
Peers :"—" A very surprising tnotion (says the historian)
was made in the House of Lords by an Archbishop,
namrly, That for the honour of religion, and for propa-
gating the Reformation in Ireland, he was willing to divest
himself of part of the revenues of his Bishopric, to aug-
ment the incomes of poor livings in the country, aiid for
the encouragement of the inferior Clergy to do their duty ;
but it was coolly seconded, and very artfully lost in a few
days." This was a strange Archbishop! Lord MOUNT
CASHEL may look a long while around him before he ends
such another to second him in his plans for providing an
efficient working clergy.—Liverpocl Albion.

NEW SPELLING BOOK.—Mrs. WILLIAMS,
the intelligent authoress of the " Conversations on Gram-
mar," has, we observe, just published a fourth edition of
Ler work, called, " Syllabic Spelling, or a Summary
Method of Teaching Children to Read." We do not often
think it necessary to notice books of this very elementary
description, but the one before us is so superior to every
thing of the kind we have yet seen ; it is so original in its
principle and arrangement, so admirably adapted to advance
rapidly the infant mind, by beguiling it on its tedious way,
that we could not but feel we should neglect the performance
of a part of our duty to such of our readers as bare a grown
up offspring about them, and are interested in their mental
culture, if we failed to introduce this book to their especial
notice. It is withal most elegantly got up ;it contains in-
numerable copper-plate engravings, forming little galleries of
pictures, very tastefully executed, with a set of excellent
copies for the youthful aspirant in the " noble art,"—so
our old schoolmaster Tss'wAcx'ESl used to call it—of pen-
manship.

Whether the much-talked-of science, phreno-
logy, be true or false, one thing is certain, that the practice
of it frequently places its professors in a questionable and
ludicrous predicament, as the following little anecdote,
which happened a few days ago in Edinburgh, will show :
—A lady standing in need of a nursery-maid, a girl called
at her house as applicant for the situation. She was shown
into a room, where she was left alone, and by and bye the
husband entered. Ile requested her to seat herself, and
then to t die off her bonnet and undo her ringlets. With
this the young woman hesitatingly complied ; but, when he
followed it up by proceeding to poke with his angers all
round and round her head, she, with the instinctive deli-
cacy of her sex, started up and " demanded an explanation,"
which not proving intelligible to her uninitiated mind, she
lost no time in quitting;tbe house, and expressed in no mea-
sured terms her sewe of the rudeness of the philosopher.

A young lawyer, boasting of his readiness to
undertake the defence of any person accused of crime, de-
clared lie would as soon undertake the cause of a man
whom he knew to be guilty as one whom he believed to be
innocent. An aged Quaker being present, he appe-iled to
him for the correctness of his views—" What say you to
that, old gentlem in ?"—" Why, I sty," replied the Quaker,
" that if thee lived in my neighbourhood, I should keep
my stable locked—that's all."—Berkshire American.

The remains of the late General GARTH
were removed at an early hour on Friday morning, from
his mansion in Grosvenor-place, for interment in a vault
under St. Martin's Church. The funeral was strictly
private, consisting of a hearse drawn by six horses, followed
by two mourning coaches, containing the relatives and
friends of the decease,l. Captain GARTH was chief
mourner.—Morning Paper.

GRAVITY OF J3REAKFA ST.—Whether break-
fsst is the most serious and silent meal, because it is the
first, or because it is the soberest, it is difficult to say ;
but it generally does pass without much talk, or, at all
events, without much talk that is worth recording. Pun-
sters very seldom pun at breakfast, and the narrators of
long-winded stories are at that time more sparing of their
tales. There is then seldom I.ny argumentative discussion
or any play of wit. Breakfast is altogether a matter of
business, an affair of life and death, because, if people did
not break their fast, they could nut live. Dinner is quite
another thing ; that is, more a matter of pleasure than of
business ; and they who speak of the pleasures of the
table, are supposed to allude to dinner, and not to break-
fast. A man may dine with Duke Humphrey five days in
the week ; but it is a much more serious matter to break-
,fast with Duke Humphrey.