The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-22 00:00:00

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WILL og,. 41).11: ON.
By the will.o
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late
in of
i;l: a Eltham,
Kent, Clerk of the Fees in the House of N/
Queen-street, Witminstr',
Com-
mons, who died in June last, the sum of 7,0001.
is bequeathed to Thomas Peregrine Courtenay,
Esq., William Harrison, Esq., and John Edward
Dorington, Esq., (the testator's son), in trust,
to pay the dividends and proceeds to J. C. Her-
ries, Esq. (now the Right Hon. J. C. Herries,
who married a daughter of the testator, since
deceased) during life, and after his (Mr. Her-
ries's) decease, to the children of the said Right
Hon. J. C. Herries and of the late Sarah
Herries, the testator's daughter. The testator's
Parliamentary books and papers are bequeathed
to one of his sons ; the rest of his personal pro-
perty, consisting of a leasehold estate, shares in
the Equitable Assurance Company, are left
to the testator's widow during life (subject to
the payment of certain legacies to his sons), and
after Mrs. Dorington's decease, the whole of the
personal property is directed to be realized (if
that be not already done, the executors being
empowered so to do) and divided amongst the
sons and daughters of the deceased. The free-
hold estate at Eltham is left to the eldest son,
John Edward Dorington, Esq. The personal
property is sworn under 60,0001. The will is
dated the 10th of November, 1825. The exe-
cutors named in the will are, Mr. Herries, Mr.
John Edward Dorington, and Mr. James Thos.
the Dorington. Administration
Hon. j
.c.filicarsrijeu:t btheeen grant-
ed to the two latter, a power being re;..cerved to
other
executor.

SIR COLQUHOUN GRANT.—Having intro-
duced Sir Colquhoun's name, I hope he will
excuse the liberty I take in relating an incident
illustrative of his manly character, which occurred
some years ago. Being in command of a regi-
ment at Clonmel, he gave offence in some way
to an honest shopkeeper, named Mulcahy, who
struck him on the parade, in presence of his
whole corps. The officers rushed forward to
seize the delinquent, but Sir Colquhoun inter-
posed, declaring that he bad been the aggressor,
and as the gentleman thought proper to resent
his conduct in so gross a manner, it remained
for him to seek the usual reparation. "Oh 1"
exclaimed Mulcahy, " If its for fighting, you are,
I'll fight you ; but it shall neither be with swords
nor pistols, or any thing else but my two fists'
(and fine big mutton fists they were, sure
enough). " Well, then," replied the gallant
officer, " with all my heart. By insulting you,
have put myself on a level with you, and of
course cannot refuse to meet you on your own
terms. Come along, Sir." The men were dis-
missed ; and Colonel Grant, accompanied by
his adversary, and some mutual friends, repaired
to the mess-room, where he very speedily closed
up Mr. Mulcahy's peepers, and sent him home
perfectly satisfied. That was the proudest day
of N'lulcally's life, and many a time has he
boasted of the black eye he got from a K.C.8.,
as if it were an honourable ordinary emblazoned
upon his escutcheon. " Ever since that morn-
ing," would he say—" let me meet Sir Colqu-
houn Grant where I might, in town or country,
among Lords or Ladies, dressed in plain clothes,
or dizened out in gold or scarlet, he would give
me his hand and say, " How are you, Billy?"
—Morning Paper.
Died, Sept. 10, at Westbury-upon-Trym, near
this city, at a very advanced age, of hydrophobia,
Susannah Powel, a pauper of that parish ; she
was bitten by a dog about three months
since, at the time supposed to be mad ; to remedy
the ill effects of which, she underwent the hor-
rible and superstitious process of being dipped,
almost to suffocation, in salt water. The above
fact is made public to record another victim to
this most dreadful malady, and to show that no
reliance can be placed upon salt-water dipping to
obviate its deplorable effects.—Bristol Mercury;

Scarcely had the barrier at Calais been clear-
ed, when we were presented with ocular proof
of the political feeling of the people. Na-
poleon's name was written in the wreaths of snow
ypri
fiaieteubir
liirig,r.uil,salial,izi considerable.fp:rieoosos:lno ,nt tsi
letters as conspicuous as Eady's on the Lon-
don walls. To be sure the tablet was rather
fragile, as all human records are, whether of
snow or marble. To Napoleon's fame, how-
ever, the materiel of his monument is of small
consequence. Let others owe their immortality
to the sculptor, ha has left behind a " live-long
monument," which will survive when the stone
and brazen memorials of his age, like the snow-
wreaths at Calais, shall have melted from the
face of the earth.—RainGling Notes.
USE OF SNOW TO THE VEGETABLE KING-
Dom.—Some persons, judging from appearances
only, may imagine that the cold humidity of
snow, so far from being useful to the earth, would
be detrimental to vegetation. The contrary,
however, is the result. Snow, particularly in
those northern regions where the ground is
covered with it for several months, fructifies the
by guarding the cornoofr
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fromearth t; he intenuesalex,
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rain and snow-water is exceeding small ; that theen
latter contains a somewhat less_ proportion of eartit
than the former, but neither of them contain
either earth or any kind of salt, in
which can be sensibly efficacious
vegetation. The peculiar agency of
iii
any
snow
fertilizer, ed
to its furnishing a covering for the roofpsroocifmu
ib in preference to rain, may be ascribed
stgit
iieitir-
tables, by which they are guarded from the in-
fluence of the atmospherical cold, and the inter-
nal heat of the earth is prevented from escaping.
The internal parts of the earth are heated uni-
formly to the 58th degree of Fahrenheit's ther-
the degree of
ther-
mometer. This degree of heat is greater than
Inssauti ernfsa itself.caet doirteiLtiree ni
ffet:srreet sea-
eons,
under different
h to the surface, on which the
grow. The atmosphere, being variably
thatpfraeret
freeze
ine
o;
of
twkih-(leilich tilsi e
propagated watery
nofthveegientawbalteds
the action of the sun in different
when the
las cli-
mates,hvi
oneeeangdatstettnboadstl)meonyscmdmoelii:ndeivritticahstareltttiaecstialcmi)oer
prevails
~,,
it,
vegetables are able to preserve life
degrees of cold, but all of them perish
cold which reaches their roots is -
extreme. Pro-
vidence has, therefore, in the ld 1
co est climates,
provided a covering of snow for the roots of vege-
tables, by which they are protected
from the in-
fluence of the atmospherical cold.
The snow
keeps in the internal heat of
.the earth,which
Sur-
rounds the roots of vegetables, and defends them
from the cold of the atmosphere._Glasgote
Courier.