The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-24 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A large detachment of Recruits arrived in town, yester
day morning, from Bristol, on route to join their respective
corps and depots.
Detachments belonging to the Ist, 14th, 40th, and
48th, Regiments of Infantry, and the East India Company's
service, have received orders to embark, this morning, on
board a steam vessel, in the River, for Gravesend, on route
to Chatham.

A Detachment belonging to the 15th Hussars, is ordered
to embark, this morning, on board a steam vessel in the
River, for Gravesend, on route to Canterbury.
Detachments belonging to the 85th and 87th Regiments
cf Foot, are ordered to march, this morning, from West-
minster, for Portsmouth, on route to Albany Barracks.
A Detachment belon:;ing,to the Ist Battalion.of the 60th
Foot, is ordered to march, this morning, from Westminster,
for Portsmouth, to embark there on board a steam-vessel
for conveyance to Plymouth.
Detachments belonging to the 4th, 11th, and 13th Regi-
ments of Light Dragoons, have received orders to march,
this morning, from Westminster, for the Cavalry Depot,
at Maidstone.

The 2d Division of the 82d Regiment of Infantry em-
barked on the 21st inst., on board the Flora transport, at
Chatham, for the Isle of Wight.

One troop of the 9th Regiment of Lancets marched, on
the 19th inst., from York for Beverley.

NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.

Mr. DEANE, in the Chair.

Receipt of Catholic Rent for this week 14/.195. Id.
Several Letters, and some Census Returns were read.
Mr. LAWLESS moved that a Deputation be ap-
pointed to wait on the Catholic Archbishop of
Dublin, to request his Grace's sanction to the Parish
Priests in his Diocese, for ' the giving up one
Sunday's Collection in each Parish Chapel, for the
Relief of the Forty-shilling Freeholders.
The Resolution having been irregular, as no notice
had been given of it, there was of necessity a pre-
.vious motion put and carried, that the ordinary line
of proceeding in these cases be waived on the pre-
sent occasion.
The motion for the Deputation was opposed by
Messrs. Dwyer and M. O'Connell, and supported by
Mr. Redmond and Mr. Costello, and carried with
two dissenting voices.
Mr. SMITRWICX was then called to the Chair,
and the Meeting
adjourned.---Dublin Evening Post.

LOVE AND 51.J1717,i,7,-----":""..
ROMANCE OF
REAL Lir-E.—The following
may be prealieiluol::r,
had, from her
of . loving not
A young lady,
wisely but too well,"
of 11th year, net quite 15 years of age,
all medicine, who
enter-
tained a teuder affection for a student
lately took his doctor's degree. During
icabiodth.
that
reofrst 3
sentimental lissom united these two young
supplied a romantic charm to the studious hours of
on the eve e-
But, unfortunately, after the youth obtained his sled°
gree, he ceased to he love-sick ; and, being
.
eetting out for the country, his young mistress in vain sup_
plicated him to take, as a last favour, a lock of her bac:
• He refused her, at the same time declaring, without any.
regard to the consequences of his hard-heartedness, that he
no longer loved her. Being, however, permitted to exa-
mine his trunks, which were got ready for the journey, she,
in her distraction, took out of them a portion of verdigris,
and with the greatest sang froid put it into her mouth,
sucked and dissolved it in the presence of her mother and
younger sister, who had not the least suspicion of what she
was doing- The latter even ventured to reproach her for
keeping the dainties to herself. On which she replied
(laughing) " This is not for you, my dear ; 'tis only for
myself." Her sufferings were soon at an end. After the
funeral, a series of letters were found, giving a full account
of her Jove, ber disappointment, and the cause of her un-
timely death. It is even said, but we can hardly credit the
report/ that the cause of this desperate act was an unmoved
*hams of the last moments of one who had scaled the con-
. .44ney of her love by the meat* of her life.—South..
Iggniltrold. - •

SCENES ON BOARD A CONVICT-SHIP.

FEMALE CONVICTS.
(From Cunningham's " Two Years in New South Wales.")
" The ship is. fitted up in the same way for the
worsen as the men, excepting the addition of tables
and shelves upon which to iron their clothes and
stow away their tea-ware. No guard of soldiers is
required here, and consequently there is no bulk-
head across the upper deck in midships. Their
rations are the same as those enjoyed by the men,
with the addition of, tea and sugar, for 'the service
of which there is a kettle supplied, to each mess,
and a tin-pot to each female, tea being usually made
night and morning. Their oatmeal I allowed them
to draw as they required it ; always keeping a store
in the hospital for the 'supply of such as wished to
have-gruel for suppei., under which name the mess
of oatmeal slided down their throats like custard,
while at the same mess formerly 'cooked for them
tinder the vulgar sea-epithet of burgou, the whole
of them turned up in aversion their genteel noses—
so much
.for the magic of A name.'
. .

" More accommoCation is alloWed for the women
than for the men, the usual number of convict
women proceeding out in one vessel seldom ex-
ceeding ninety; a separate apartment being usually
fitted up in each ship for the accommodation of the
free women (with their children) going out to join
their husbands who are convicts in the colony, a
certain number annually being forwarded this way
by the Government to those hUsbands who behave
well and can.support them..
" A similar mode of management must be adopted
with the women as with the men, appointing a cer-
tain number of respectable old matrons of Magdalen
Asylums and venerable pave peripatetics to super-
intend
their manners and morals during the voyage,
and to see the prison kept in tidy trim, none except
influentials of this description being capable of mi-
naging the unruly throng.
." The women are more quarrelsome and more
difficult to controul than the men, their tempers be-
ing more exciteable, and a good deal being calculated
on by them in respect to the usual leniency shown
their sex. They are certainly more abandoned in
their expressions, too, when excited; but this pro-
bably arises not so much from greater profligacy of
disposition, as from their having less controul over
their passions and tongues. Forineily they lived
promiscuously with the seamen on the passage out,
and the voyage was then brought to a close much
more harmoniously than now; and (strange as it .
may seem) with greater benefit to the reformation,
cf these females, for the period at least, when the
rules of decency were not outraged in the inter-
course. All reformations, to be lasting, must be.
gradual; for whatever is suddenly done is liable to
be suddenly undone, and by bridling in their long,.
indulged inclinations by sheer brute force,' you pro-
duce no moral regeneration, but rather engender an
accumulation of vice whiCh will break out with over-
whelming impetus when restraint is taken off. By
being suffered to live in concubinage with the sailors
during the voyage, they beconie initiated in themoral
principle of personal 'attachment, unknown to them
before. The great evil of such an arrangement was,
that the sailors often married them at the end of the
voyage ; when Jack,. as soon as tired of the happy
state,' would take to ship again, and leave his spouse
to the exercise of her own free will and meditations;
while the number of females transported' being so
few, in comparison to the men, the former ought
certainly to ne made preserves of, to furnish wives
for the latter. The truly pitiable surgeon who has
hitherto endeavoured strictly to enforce the orders of
the navy beard on this head during the voyage, has
certainly most justly entitled himself to the full.
honour of Catholic canonization on his landing. And
as regards the crew themselves, really poor Jack is:
•planted in a perfect garden of temptation, when
among probably a hundred of such fair seducers,'
and is more an object of pity than wrath. To see
twenty wicked fingers beckoning to him, and twenty
wicked eyes winking at him, rat one and the same
time, no wonder his virtue should sometimes expe-
rience a fall !

" A very ingenious plan,-however (persevered in
from the commencement of the interdictory system
until reported to the Navy Board), afforded free
scope to these amorous flirtations. The swains first
gained over the Arguses in charge of the hospital;
forced up the piece of board nailed over the coal-
hatch, which being under a bed-place, was com-
pletely hidden from view ; then, entering the prison,
puffed out the • rush-light,' and continued there
tete-a-tete with the fair penitents,' until the inqui-
sitive eye of day began to blink in upon them.
" When you do, indeed, detect Jack in a slip,
why can gravely lecture him thereupon, should he
make such a defence as was once made to the captain
in my presence, on an accusation of creeping through
the- coal-hatch Me, Sir !' exclaimed the tar with
an expression of surprise, No, Sir, I hopes I know
how to behave myself better, Sir, than that ere ; if
I was going about a thing of that kind, I would go
about it with economy, Sir !' a defence, the meaning
of which could not be readily guessed at.
"„In speaking relative to each other, the women
always made use of the term ladies, which they do
more in sober earliest than just, and whenever the
frail body' is summoned to attend for their rations,
it is, g Ladies, come up for your biscuits ; Ladies,
come up for your pork; Ladies, the puddings are
ready,' and so forth; yet, while affecting all this
gentility as a body, when particularizing each other,
it is plain Poll, Kate, or Sall ; Miss being very sel-
dom made use of, though Mrs. usually distinguishes
the married and the elderly.

" innocent amusements of all kinds I encouraged
among them. They danced several times weekly in
the evenings throughout-. the voyage; kept up sing-
ing for an hour or two every night before retiring
-to bed, arid had occasionally regular concerts and
masquerades, at which latter, dressed nut in
their gayest plumage, or disguised in fantastic
habiliments, they would prolong the frolic till bed-
time. Some of the passengers in the cabin would
now and then go down into the prison to listen
to the singers, several of whom possessed sweet and
plaintive voices, while the fantastic airs and quavers
of others were ridiculous. A dame of about fifty,
with hair formerly nut-brown, but which time had
turned into a pepper-and-salt colour (when decked
out with a silk bandeau upon her head, a row of
youthful' curls encircling her forehead, and a knot
of artificial flowers stuck, in dandy fashion, above
her ear), would warble forth the false levier that
stole my heart avay,' in a manner most languish-
ingly amusing. This ' ancient of days' had been
driven by necessity to the state of life she had led;
for a more honest creature could not exist when
want was kept from her door, while every word she
spoke possesSed the veracity of gospel. As she
affected very high airs, her sentimentality verged
towards the romantic, and she lectured and re-
monstrated with the others in truly ludicrous style.
" I had a sybil also on board bordering upOn
seventy, who had been, as she declared, forty years
of that period in houses of correction and prisons.
The man with whom she had lived, and whose name
she bore, was the last hung in chains on Pemienden
Heath (I think) for highway robbery. She was a
most trustworthy creature, and abominated a lie so
thoroughly, that all the others were afraid to commit
any misdeed in her presence, knowing old Nanny
would disclose instantly the whole truth and no-
thing but the truth,' if called on. She was so well
known at last, she said, among the Magistrates, as
to be often trusted with the warrant for her own
committal, without even an officer to accompany her
to prison, where she declared she had spent the
happiest days of her life! She kept to a certain beat
in London, sometimes cadging (begging), some-
times travelling about as a timber merchant (match
selling), and meantime picking up what she could in
the cross trade (thieving); falling into good prac-
e in this way, by accostipg gentlemen for charity
whom she saw chirping la the streets to the Pa-
phians, and on their turning about and telling her
to be off, fingering adroitly their watch, pocket-book,
or whatever came' handiest' to her: then gliding
slowly away, grumbling all the while at their not
the poor - old creature From her ehri.

veiled beldame. look, she was accounted a _sort' of
witch by the nymphs of the pate, and none at first
would take her into their mess, from , the opinion
they entertained, that whatever evil wish she ex
pressed was certain to come to pass. When any of.
them strolled out formerly in an evening on profes-
sional pursuits, and etiCouritered . old Nanny at the
outset, they knew if they could not comply with
her charitable demand, they might as well
turn home again, as they would have no
luck for that night ! She had many whim-
sical and facetious anecdotes relative to her ex-
ploits, but the adventure she took most pride to
relate, was the doing of an hospital physician. Being
ill with a cough and wheezing, she proceeded with
a letter of admission to the hospital, when the ex-
amining physician, after having looked at her tongue
and felt her pulse, was called momentarily away,
leaving the gold watch he had been counting the
pulse with upon the table. The sight of such a
gem ticking at a tempting distance before her, made
Nanny's very finger-ends tingle, anti operated upon
her wheezing like a doze of the " Gilead"--so,
hastily snatching it up, she glided with light and
nimble foot out at the door, and'had a thimble of
ruin on credit of her prize, in ten minutes after the
" trump had turned up."
" To the general credit of my female charge be it
spoken, I believe there was but one barefaced pre-
tender to honesty in the whole batch, and this was
a tippling old lady of the bed-chamber,' known
long as a connoisseur in old plate, . who had been
convicted of pawning a couple of silver spoons and
forks, which some plaguey particular' individual
proved a' good title' 'to, and Which she was con-
stantly impressing most anxiously upon me (while
fortifying her plea of Not guilty; by many little feel-
ing appeals,and moral reflections), had come by a sort
of mere accident into her possession, and were pawn-
ed by her solely with a view to their greater security
until she had an opportunity of returning them to the
family out of whose house they had illegally smug-
gled themselves hi a bundle of dirty linen which
she was carrying to the wash. Neither did ally,
except this solitary immaculate, make earnest
appeals to the Divinity as to the innocence
of offences on board with which they were justly
accused, or to attest the truth of falsehoods they were
endeavouring to lull me over with; while there was
not a single Scripture-quotes, such as we find so
liberally abounding in men-ships, although doubtless
the worthy old moralist before spoken of would have
freed the ship from this stigma had she been able to
read. There were it is true, several religiously dis-
posed individuals among them past their grand
climacteric' who conned over their Bibles very sedu-
lously during the voyage, but who doted too
lovingly upon the' ruin' to allow any moral maxims
they might have imbibed profiting them much after
landing. One of these, now servant to a friend of mine
in Sydney (and a most excellent servant in other res-
pects), has never been an hotir from home yet, without
being overcome by the spirit,' and requiring to be
trundled to her domicile on a hand-barrow, or shouls
dered like a sack of potatoes. Indeed, I have observed,
that the very best servants, and• all the moralizing'
and philosophizing classes amongst them, are drunk-
ards. The Bibles with which each female was sup-
plied were taken good care of ; but as they knew
these would be all mustered at the end of the voyage,
this consciousness might have had some effect, for
the greater portion of the religious tracts whieb were.
promiscuously distributed, quick!), disappeared; and
iu what way,by picking up a shred of one of them one
sunny morning in November, when a coterie of these
nymphs were unpapering their curls, satisfactorily
demonstrated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.-JULY 23.

Some Very heavy betting took place to-day. Mameluke
has gone back half a point, and Reviewer has receded two
points, while Granby' has advanced. Nonplus still keeps
his place, and though 12 .to I was taken in some instance.,
yet there still remained takers .at those odds. 11amettike
was barked at 12001. to 10001. against the following :
Reviewer, Matikl3, Litnaria, Lumley, Antiol:4, Sandi:),
Translation, and Moonshino. Nothing was done 00 the
Derby. S2nie little was done on the- Brighton Cup, and
the 30 guineas stakes at York. At half-past the betting
closed as tollows

ST. LEGER.
7to o ag3t. Itiameluke (taken) 2510 1 agst Luinley's
13 to 2 agst cirisuby 31 to I agst Antiope
12 to I ag3t Nonplus (taken) 1000 to 30 agst Sancho
17 to 1 agst Matilda 1000 to 25 agst Popsy
17 to 1 agst Reviewer 100(1 to 25 agst Moonshine
18 to 1 agst Lunaria 1000 to 25 agst Coalition
20 to 1 agst Malek 1000 to 25 agst Translation
500 to 300 aftd 2030 to 1000, the field. agst Mameluke and

Granby (taken).
THIRTY GUINEAS SiTAICES AT YORK.
5 to 2 agst Matilda, and 4 to 1 agst any other.
Nonplus and Granby not expected tostart.
BRIGHTON cur.
6 to 4 apt Stumps (taken).
The report that Mr. Petre had bought Iliameluke, we
believe, i 3 de-stitute of truth.