The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-09 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

One tronp belonging to the 3d Light Dragoons has been
ordered to march from Sheffield to Barnsley.
Detachments belonging to the 18th and 85th Foot, and
the Ist battalion of the
.Rifle Brigade, arrived at Ports-
mouth on the 6th instant, from Plymouth, when they will
embark, together with detachments of the 51st, 90th, and
95th Infantry, for the purpose of joining their respective
service companies in the lonian Islands.
Detachments belonging to the 10th, 1 1 th, and 88th
Regiments of Foot, are ordered to Cork, to embark for the
above destination.

A Detachment belonging to the 7th Regiment of Dra-
goon Guards is ordered to march this morning from Lon-
don, for Ipswich.

(From the Limerick Chronicle of Saturday.)

Major Drew arrived at Falmouth on Saturday, from
Gibraltar, on his way to take the command of the depot
73d regiment, at Spike Island, Cove of Cork.
The 68th Light Infantry depot, arrived at Buttevant on
Saturday ; the 74th and 66th depots are also at Buttevant
barracks.

An order is issued that Port and Sherry wines are only
to be drank at regimental messes.

The. mortality in the 26th regiment has been severe
since its arrival in India.

Capt. Tretlennick of the 70th regiment is likely to he
promoted to a Majority in that regiment, vacant by the
premature death of the late worthy Major Green. Capt.
T. has been 17 years a Captain in thatcorps. Lieut. Gold-
frap succeeds to the company.
The Londonderry Recruiting Station is given up as a
depot, and Lieut. Hill, 9th Foot, is removed to Ennis-
killen.

Lieut.-Col. T. Harris is appointed Brigade Major on
the watiof Major-General Sir C. CAmpbell, at Portsmouth,
vice Lieut.-Cc!. Lord G. Lennox.

Lieut.-Col. C. Aliddleton is appointed Commandant at
the Maidstone Cavalry Depot, in the room of Lieut.-Co!.
T. Harris.

Lieut.-C:1. I'. S. Tidy is appointed Inspecting Feld
Officer of the Recruiting Department at Glasgow, in place
of Lieut. Col. Hastings.
Lieut.-Gen. Samuel Hawker is appointed Captain of
Yarmouth Castle.

A very great reduction has been made in the Medical
Staff of the Army, especially ou foreign stations,

Last night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, a fire
brobe out in the apartments occupied by a Mrs. GRANT,
at the corner of a little court, densely inhabited, close to
the Mitre public-house, immediately facing the entrance
into Sergeant's Inn, Chancery-lane. This court is known
by the name of the " Rookery" (from there being a humble
family in each room) ; and the fire burnt backwards from
Chancery-lane with a fury that threatened the whole
neighbourhood with destruction. Most of the inhabitants
in the court or " rookery" were at home, but from the
alarm of fire, and all the houses being built of wood, they
fled for their lives into Chancery-lane. In a little time the
Assurance Office engines arrived, but at first the water
was not by any means equal to the requisite demand. The
firemen, however, with great intrepidity, took out a large
portion of the little furniture belonging to the poor people,
and placed it for sal,ty in Serjean't's Inn. The fire con-
tinued burning backwards until after one o'clock, and did
great damage to the back premises of some of the houses in
Fleet.strcet. Indeed it burnt so far before being got
under, as to damage the rear of the well-known Cock
Tavern, facing the Temple. We are sorry to say that
three women and a child were missing at one o'clock ; but
hopes are entertained that they were out at work, and are
therefore safe,

This ex-monarch, who now leads a philoso-
phic life on the Banks of the Delawar, not far
from Bourdon Town, was lately visited by Sir
R. Ker Porter, on his way from South America,
by the United States, to Europe. The ci-devant
king received with great hospitality the English
traveller, who found him living in a commodious
and even splendid dwelling-house, constructed
out of a large suite of stables, which had formerly
been appended to a magnificent mansion, repre-
sented as quite a palace, which had been burnt
down a short time before. " Many fine pictures,
and other valuable property, were consumed ;
but enough remained, saved from the fire, to
furnish the present residence in a noble manner
with some of the best works of the Spanish and
Flemish masters. One of the saloons is parti-
cularly
,dedicated to sculpture portraits of -the
Bonaparte family ; and Sir R. K. Porter, ins
speaking of the collection, describes the bust of
Charles Bonaparte, the father of the family, as
the most impressive of them all, from the striking
beauty and character of countenance ; it_ strongly
resembles.that of the celebrated Antious. Joseph
Bonaparte (who has assumed the title of Count.
Survilliers), il,,slo:4'ing these things, did it with
unaffected dan,i,loilptif comment on the extraor-
dinary destinieSief The living or dead originals of
these marble portraits ; and Sir Robert remarks,
that the same manly sincerity and good sense
prevailed in his occasional observations on his
own past and present manner of life. He has a
large domain round his house, purchased by him ;
and he spends vast sums of money in promoting
cultivation of all sorts, agriculture, and planting
to a great extent every description of tree, even
from foreign countries, that can be raised in the
climate. He has redeemed thousands of acres
from the waste ; erecting villages, and encouraging
artificers, and persons of other useful talents, to
inhabit them. He is universally respected ; and
must be, what he seems, a much happier man in
his present expatriated home,—the benefactor of
all round him,—than lie could possibly have
been when seated on a contested throne, however
brilliant. He is fond of literary pursuits ; and
having read all that has been published 'in the
shape of memoirs relating to his brother Napo-
leon, he devotes his leisure hours to writing a
commentary on the subject, wherein, with the
impartiality of strict justice between the late Em-
peror of France and historiographers, he means
to set the true statements on the one side, and
the false ones on the other ; and so furnish pos-
terity with, he trusts, a really fair account of that
marvellous man. This, he says, he owes alike
to the memory of his brother and to the verity
'of history. Whenever such a work is given to
the world, it will certainly be worthy of atten-
tion ; and as it will probably come out while
many witnesses of the times it tells of still exist,
its accuracy must be subject to the same ordeal
by which. he tries his contemporary biographers ;
and the free voice of the public, weighing all the
evidence, will be the ultimate pronouncing-judge
of the real character of the deceased Napoleon.—
, From a Correspondent of the Court Journal.

WINDSOR CASTLE.-SEPT. 7.

Changes—like some others which have lately
taken place in this best of all possible countries—
not "all for the best," continue to occur here.
The Royal entrance to the corridor at the south-
east angle of the quadrangle has been the sub.
ject of very general admiration, as it, indeed,
well deserved to be, for it was tasteful and ap-
propriate to the massive uniformity of the build-
ing. Its glories, however, if they are not to be
eclipsed, are, at least, destined to be obscured.
A sort of portico, or covered way, is erecting
directly in front of it, which, whatever may be
its conveniences as a stand for a carriage, wiil not
only destroy the uniformity of the quadrangle,
but will also completely intercept the view of the
corridor entrance from the interior of the great
court. The general opinion of this new muta-
tion is, that it is the very acme of accomplished
bad taste.

The state apartments have recently received
an addition to their furniture, and that, too, not
of the most taking or ornamental description.
His Imperial Majesty, the Czar of Muscovy,
bath been graciously pleased to present unto our
excellent Sovereign, George the Fourth, a very
awkward sort of a model of the Saloon in the
Palace at St. Petersburgh. This is elevated on a
platform, the legs of which are concealed—as
many other questionable legs frequently are—by
a species of petticoat, or drapery of crimson
silk ; the whole possessing pretty much the out-
ward appearance of a mummy-case. Of the ar-
chitecture of the aforesaid room I shall say no-
thing further than that there- are at least 100
better apartments in that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called
England. But this is not the only article of
household furniture that has been introduced
within the last few weeks. It will be recollected
that in the Royal closet, which adjoins the
Council-room, there was a marvellously stiff and
starchy full-length of the late King, the curly
appendages to the wig of which were not very
unlike pieces of lead piping, of an inch bore,
and the legs like any thing but humanity. This
has been removed, and a splendid full-length, by
Sir Thomas Lawrence, from St. James's Pa-
lace, substituted in its stead.

The works at the Round Tower, or Keep,
,f progress" very slowly. The exterior has little
changed in its aspect since the period when it
afforded shelter and a prison to the captive
Kings of France and Scotland, and the standard
of England continues to float right royally from
its battlements. A new private gateway is con-
structing at the south-west angle of the qua-
drangle.

A►~nongst other " doings," on Saturday, I took
a walk amongst the farmers in the market, and a
more jolly and contented set of men need not
be seen. There is only one report prevalent
amongst them as to the harvest, and that is, it is
very good, both as to quantity and quality. IL
may be information to some of your agricultural
readers to learn that a good bone dust dressing
for ten acres of turnips will cost 30/. Farewell.
" Behind the Arras." TIMOTHEUS QUAINT.

A new building, to be called « The Pitt
Library," is about to be erected at Cambridge, out of the
surplus of the fund subscribed for a statue to that distil:-
guisbed orantieent of the University,