The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-20 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dr. Paris was elected yesterday Physician to the
Economic Assurance Office.

His Excellency Lord Burghersh, his Britannic Ma-
jesty's Minister at the Court of Tuscany, was elected a member of
the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, on the Ist of this month.

The Society for the Refuge of the Houseless have
commenced operations, and their two receiving houses have for
several nights been open. During several of the preceding winters,
it rendered but little service, and it was proposed that the 10,0001.
which the Committee have under their management, should be
given up to some great charity, at the discretion of the subscri-
bers. This, however, was strenuously opposed ; and as the re-
ceptacles are likely to be of service this winter, they will, for the
present at least, continue on the old plan.

The beautiful grey cob, upon which his late Royal
Highness the Duke of York is represented in the popular print
lately published, and of which his Royal Highness was remark-
able fond, is, by the order of his Majesty, to be turned out to
graze for the rest of his life.

The Furct says that Mr. Morton's comedy, the
School for Grown Children, is a copy of the French opera by
M. Etienne, the Tour a Paris. The scenes particularly in which
the old nabob assumes the follies and manners of youth, to reform
his son, are taken from M. Etienne's piece. As these arc incom-
parably the worst scenes in Mr. Morton's comedy, he might as
well have avoided the imitation.

A Colonel of a marching regiment had an unlucky
quarrel in a ball-room, with a half-pay Major, who sent him a
challenge to meet him the next morning, which the Colonel ac-
cepted. In the morning, however, he was so ill that he could not
leave his bed ; and the regimental surgeon, after visiting, remarked
to kbrother officer of the Colonel,
Egrotat, aninao, magis gluon corpore.

This having reached the Colonel's— ears, he sent for the surgeon to
call him to account for such an insulting insinuation. The sur-
geon assured the Colonel that he had mistaken the meaning of his
quotation, which he translated thus—Egrotat, he does not care a
groat ; 211agis, for theNajor ; animo, any more; quam Corpore,
than lie does for the Corporal. The Colonel of course was fully
satisfied at this explanation.

A giree is exhibiting now at Marseilles, which
attracts so much attention that all other affairs are neglected.
Le Furet.

A gallant Correspondent of ours observes, " that
it is remarkable that Sir Wm. H. Clinton, now commanding the
British troops in Portugal, is probably the only British General
personally known to Ferdinand VII. It was at the quar-
ters of Sir William, then commanding the Anglo-Spanish army,
forming the blockade of Barcelona, that his Most Catholic
Majesty alighted on his return from France, in March, 1814
after a fatiguing journey from Girona. The King expressed him-
self very flatteringly to the British General, whose courtly man-
ners are always acceptable with the great. General Sarsfield, now
spoken of as the officer appointed to the command of the Spanish
army on the frontier of Portugal, was, during 1813 and 1814,
acting in immediate communication with the British forces, and
in some degree under the command of Lord William Bentinck,
and subsequently of General Clinton. General Sarsf.cld, although
born a Spaniard, speaks English with fluency, and, having learnt
lit from his Irish relatives, with as fine a brogue as if he had neve7
left the shores of Killarney. He is directly descended from
the General Sarsfield who makes a figure in the Irish
campaigns of James the Second. The present General
Sarsfield distinguished himself highly at the defence of
Tarragona against Stichet, and had his counsels and example been
followed, that place would not have proved so easy a conquest to
the French arms."