The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-12 00:00:00

dente before them to warrant them in returning a ver
diet of--Insanity.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, SEPT. 10.—Wind this day at noon Westerly,
heavy passing clouds, and drizzling rain at intervals.
DEAL, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W., strong breezes.—Arrd.
from thy River, Hendrik Hudson, for New York.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. B.—Wind N. to W., fresh breezes
and squally.—Arrd. Curlew, M•Lea, Havannah, sailed
July 19; Brenda, Tyrell, Port au Prince, left July 18,
and proceeded 'for Antwerp. Arrd. off Robert Scour-
field, Moffatt, Moulmein, left March 10, St. Helena
June 30, and St. Michael's 9th ult., and sailed for London.
MARGATE, SEPT. 9.—The Mountaineer, Heaton, from
Demerara, got on the Shingles Sand during the gale of
the 7th inst., but came off with damage, and proceeded in
tow of a steamer for the River.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—Wind W. to W.S.W., strong
and squally.—Arrd. British. Queen steamer, Antwerp for
New York.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Hartley,
Bradford, Sierra Leone ; Charlotte, Andrews ; and Cos-
mopolite, Webber, Quebec.
OFF THE START, SEPT. 7. vv imam, Guernsey for
New South Wales.

BUDE, SEPT. B.—A schooner laden with grain is lost
on Sharp's Nose, about eight miles northward ; crew
(except one) Lost.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 9.—Wind S.W. to N.W., fresh.—
Arrd. Blana, Callan, Calcutta, left the Cape June 29, and
St. Helena July 12; Mary Pollock, Rye, Bombay ; Ayr-
shire, Moss, Calabar, left June 10 ; Benin, Huntley,
Bauer ; General Washington, Virginia ; Adirondack,
Hackstaff, New York ; William Botsford, St. John's,
N.B. Arrd. off, Abbotsford, Quebec ; Ranger, —.
The Alfred and James, from Lytham to Ireland, with
coals, was driven ashore yesterday near Southport, and
must discharge before she can be got off.
SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. B. The Grand Turk steamer,
bound to Havre, has put back with damage.
MILFORD, SEPT. B.—The Fair Hope, Rees, arrd. here
from Aberavon, passed a smack ashore in Ramsay
Sound, a schooner on the rocks on Skomer Island, and
the mast and part of the hull of a smack, three miles
N.E. of the North Bishop.
MONVINSTON, SEPT. B.—The Caledonia, Peters,
of Arbroath, is totally lost, near here, crew, except
one, drowned.

BRIDGEWATER, SEPT. 9.—The Auckland, from Glon
tester to this port, is totally lost on the Gore Sands, al
hands lost.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO MR. CARTER.—Another
accident occurred to Mr. Carter, the rival of Van Am-
burgh, on Tuesday evening, which has incapacitated him
from appearing on the succeeding nights at the English
Opera House. In the piece called " The Lion King" Mr
Carter had to encounter a lion and other anirnalscon-
lined in a cage. On Tuesday night, on Mr. Carter en-
tering the cage, the lord of the forest made a sudden
spring, and before Mr. Carter had time to prevent him,
seized him by the hand with his teeth. Mr. Carter, al-
though his hand was being severely lacerated by the
animal, commenced striking him with all his might with
the butt end of a whip which he held in the other hand.
The audienee applauded most vociferously, little thinking
that it was a combat in reality. Mr. Carter continued to
deal heavy blows or. the infuriated animal, who at the end
took shelter in one corner of the cage. The scene was
dropped, and Mr. Carter having bound a handkerchief
round his hand, which was much lacerated, left the cage, the
animal growling at him as he went out. He was attended
to by Mr. Braine, a surgeon. This is the second time
Mr. Carter has been bitten by the same animal within
the last week. The lion has only been in Mr. Carter's
possession about three months, and is between three and
four years of age.
ATTEMPT TO MURDER A TRADESMAN'S SON IN
HOLBORN.—The following daring and murderous attack
was made on the son of Mr. William Howell, china and
glass warehouseman, of Holborn Hill, a boy of 11 years
old :—On Friday, about 1 o'clock, he was minding the
shop, when a young man entered with a mug in his hand.
and asked him to drink a drop of beer, which he did, a
small quantity, not liking it ' • the man then left the shop,
and went across the road, and joined another man. His
sister having providentially returned (not having left
him alone more than 10 minutes) when he fell down in
the shop among the goods, but got up again and went to
the door, when he became violently sick awl insensible.
The policeman on the beat carried him home to Mr.
Howell's house in Stonecutter-street, when he and others
thought the boy dead. Mr. 13u11in, the surgeon, imme-
diately came, who considered the boy in a dangerous
state, and administered remedies to bring off his stomach
what he had taken, and he remained insensible for two
or three hours. He is now out of danger, but the doctor
has no doubt that laudanum was given to the boy, and
had he not been sick when his sister returned, he would
have been a corpse, the object of the party no doubt
being to rob the shop.
NEW GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR.—GeneraI Sir
Robert Wilson has been appointed Governor of Gibral•
tar, in succession to Sir Alexander Woodford, K.C.8.,
whose term of service is expired. Sir Robert Wilson
'entered the army in 1793, and served in Flanders and
'Holland in that and the succeeding year ; in the rebel-
lion in Ireland in 1798 ; in Holland again in 1799 ; in
the Egyptian campaign of 1801 ; at the capture of the
Cape of Good Hope in 1806; and raised and commanded

the Lusitanian Legion in 1808 and 1809 in Spain and
Portugal. He aLso served in several campaigns with the
Russian army in Russia, Poland, Germany, and France,
and with the Austrian army in Italy. The dates of his com-
missions are as follow :—Cornet, 1794; Lieutenant, Oct.
31, 1794 ; Captain, September 21, 1796 ; Major, 28th
of June, 1800 ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 27th of February,
.1802 ; Colonel, 25th of July, 1810 ; Major-General, 4th
of June, 1813 ; Lieutenant-General, 27th of May, 1825;
General, 23d of November, 1841. He was appointed Co-
lonel of the 15th Ilussars on the 20th of Ikeember, 1836.
In August, 1821, the name of Sir Robert Wilson was
erased from the army list, in consequence of his conduct
at the funeral of Queen Caroline. He was at the same
time deprived of various foreign decorations bestowed
upon him. Sir Robert will repair to Gibraltar in Oc-
tober in one of the Mediterranean steam vessels.—
United Service Gazette.

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LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND.—The fifth
volume of this admirable work, which is just published,
comprises the lives of Queen Katharine Parr and Queen
Mary, and it is sufficient to say of these biographies,
that they fully equal in interest the former portions of
Miss Strickland's labours. The Lives of the Queens of
England, as they have recently been brought before the
public by the pen of this lady, have certainly created a
taste for historical reading among a large class for whom
history, as it seemed, had previously but few attractions.
This effect, however, is nothing more than might be ex-
pected, from a reference to the pages of this interesting
work, which are unusually rich with amusing details
and curious facts, such as might be sought for in vain in
our ordinary text-books of English history—Goldsmith,
Hume, and Smollett. All, indeed, who are desirous of
making themselves thoroughly acquainted with the pro-
gress of events, and the changes in manners in this
country, must seek the information they desire in Miss
Strickland's delightful volumes, without which, it is but
doing justice to her valuable and carefully written work
to say, that no English historical library can be here-
after considered perfect.
A NEW MODE OF RAISING THE WIND.—The fol-
lowing humorous and extraordinary anecdote, illustra-
tive of the degrading extent to which even Lords and
M.P.'s will sometimes go to achieve pecuniary ends, is
daily furnishing conversational food for the gossips at
the \Vest-end :—Some short time since a scion of nobi-
lity, who recently acquired some notoriety in Paris, being
desperately pushed for a " cool" couple of hundred
pounds, and having ineffectually tried every probable
source to obtain it, at last, as a Bernier resort, applied to
his Noble parent (a Gallant Marquis) for the trifling ac-
commodation; trifling, however, as the sum may appear,
the heroic M.P. is reported to have met with a plump,
and not very courteous negative to his application. Dis-
appointed and enraged at the refusal, and the peremptory
tone in which it was conveyed, he, as a brave son of Nep-
tune, hit upon, and, Proteus-like, carried into execution,
the following eccentric stratagem to effect his purpose:—
It happened that at a crossing opposite the window of the
room in which slept the Noble Marquis, his father, a ment
dican sweeper was in the habit of taking his stand in pursuit
of his daily avocation. To this " knight of the broom'
he hero repaired, and for a small sum bought him off his'
lifehold," or crossing for a day ; and, on the following
morning, about the hour the Marquis usually rose, the
distinguished scion, disguised as a beggar, with a bran-
new broom, was seen industriously employed in sweep-
ing clouds of dust towards the Gallant Marquis's window.
On looking out, the Noble Marquis, to his utter asto-
nishment, beheld a fresh and ill-conducted sweeper, and
incensed at the rude manner in which he was carrying
on his operations, dispatched a servant to know the cause.
The servant having, in the person of the mendacious
sweeper, discovered Lord returned in breathless
haste to his master, and informed him that it was his
own son who was thus occupied in kicking up such a
dust ! " Oh, hang him," said the noble and brave vete-
ran, " that is done to raise the wind, (writing) here, take
this to him—a cheque—tell him to be off and change
his rags—his morals he never can." The command was
no sooner given than obeyed, and the beggar quitted his
post of honour and retreated in double quick time, highly
gratified, however, with his new mode of " raising the
wind."—Sunday Paper.
A letter from Galatz, in Moldavia, which we find
in the Courrier Francais, gives the following narrative :
—" The Count •de L., coming from Russia b3rthe
hotel
Danube, took up his residenco in this town at an
kept by a species of Boyard, named Ventura. The
Count had just baffled an attempt by the Russian Cabi-
net _
to complete an important negotiation with one of the
Indian Governments. In the evening of July 2
he was
assailed in the house itself by about twenty men armed
with sticks and staves. He made a bold and obstinate
resistance, but, having no other means of defence than
a slight cane, ho was overcome by numbers,. and cruelly
maltreated. At last he got clear of his assailants, and
made his way to the house 9f the Austrian Consul, M.
Hubert, where he was confined twenty days by the in-
juries be had received. A complaint was laid before the
French Consul at Galatz, who transmitted it to the
Consul at Yassy. At length an order came from the
Moldavian Government to the Governor at Galatz to ad-
minister due punishment to the offenders ; but he con-
fined himself to giving seven lashes with a whip to only
one of them, though all were equally guilty of the
base
and cowardly attack, which might have ended in murder.
The Count, dissatisfied with this inadequate satisfaction,
has removed to Constantinople, to require interference the-i
Baron de Bourqueney, who, it s to be hoped, will
act on this occasion as the British Ambassador did in the
ease of Mr. Churchill."

STATE OF THE DISTRICT.—There is little change
in the state of affairs in Manchester with reference to
the turn-out. A few weavers have returned to work in
different establishments • but they have been so much
assaulted and annoyed by the turn-outs, that their num-
bers have increased very slowly, and the great bulk of the
hands rttpsin out. 4t sWybridge,)ovrever, vo). are
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