The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-24 00:00:00

TO THE ARMY, &c.
No. I. of

THE NEW REGULATIONS and AL-
TERATIONS in the DRESS and APPOINT-
MENTS of the OFFICERS of the ARMY, will be
published in .the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE of
FASHIONS, Fancy Costumes, and the Regimentals of the
Army, on the Ist of May.
This new, useful, and additional Embellishment will be
of the greatest importance to the Army, Military Tailors,
as well as to Tailors in general. The Patterns are cor-
rectly drawn, engraved, and coloured from the Regimentals
deposited at the Government Office ; and with such ac-
curacy as to render any further information unnecessary to
the Tailor, or the Officer requiring the New Regulations
and Appointments. In fact, the Engravings will present
perfect Fac-similies of the Regimentals of every Regiment,
according to the New Regulations, so that every Tailor
will now be enabled to make Regimentals who has never
been accustomed to work for the Army.
No. I. to be published on the Ist of May, will be a
Specimen of the New Dresses and Appointments ; the whole
of which, as fixed by his Majesty, will be given of every
Regiment in the British Army.

Four Plates will therefore embellish the Gentleman's
Magazine of Fashions, &c. o❑ the Ist of May; and the
same number of Plates will be continued regularly every
month.

First Plate, No. I.—Of the New Regulations and Ap-
pointments of the Army, being the Pattern by which the
D►ese must be made.

Second Plate.—The whole-length Portraits of a General
Officer, and of an Officer of the 12th Lancers.

Third and Fourth Plates.—A Fancy Costume for Balls,
and Six Portraits of Gentlemen i❑ the Fashions for May.
Notwithstanding these numerous and expensive embel-
lishments the price of the Work will be, as usual, 2s.
Published by Mr. Bell, No. 3, Cleveland-row, opposite
St. James's Palace, London ; and may be had of all Book-
sellers wheresoever residing.

Lord REDESDALE gave a grand dinner on
Wednesday, at his house in Harley-street, to the Duke of
CIIMBEILLAND, and a very select part of the nobility and
gentry.

Count DE MoLTKE, the Danish Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.

The lad arrived safe in this country with this cu-
rious coincidence, that the vessel which he would
have come by, if the above unfortunate accident had
not taken place, was wrecked on her homeward
voyage, and every soul on board perished.
After the arrival of the lad in this country the
owners of the wrecked vessel directed every care to
be taken of him ; but the question that puzzled all
was what was to be done to put the poor unfortu-
nate lad in the way to maintain himself for the re-
minder of his life. Mr. Pirie, a respectable gentle-
man, residing in Freeman's-court, Cornhill, and who
took a deep interest in the fate of the poor fellow,
thought it was possible that the Lord Mayor might
render him some assistance, and with that view he
addressed the following letter to Mr. nobler :
" Sir,—Having often noticed the interest taken
by you in objects of distress, I take the liberty of
sending the bearer, Thomas Cargill, a poor sailor
boy, who has been strongly recommended to me for
assistance, and -whose very appearance creates sym-
pathy. He was attacked by a shark in the river at
Sierra Leone, and lost one arm and the hand of the
other, besides being much mutilated in other parts
of the body.
" I have made a small collection for him, and in-
tend continuing my exertions; but it struck me that
if you were kind enough to state the case to the
Right Honourable the Lord Mayor (who is always
ready to assist the helpless), he might be pleased
to recommend the poor boy to the notice of many
charitable individuals, who might feel happy in
having an opportunity of exercising their benevo-
lence on such an object. There is a full account of
the transaction from the medical gentleman at Sierra
Leone, reported in the Morning Herald, of the
23d ult.

" I would wait upon yo❑ myself, but I am obliged
to go to Doctors' Commons ; and trusting you will
excuse this liberty, I am, respectfully, Sir, your
most obedient humble servant,

" JOHN PIRIE."

The poor lad was sent with the above letter to
his Lordship, and the greatest difficulty was to ascer-
tain by what means any assistance could be rendered
him, as he was totally unfitted for any employment.
The lad answered all questions put to him in the
most explicit manner, and evinced that he had had
a tolerable good education. Ile also related sundry
interesting particulars as to the mode in which he
combatted the shark. The shark he said attempted
to seize him by the body, and made several grasps at
him ; but, as a dernier resort, he contrived to thrust
his hand into the shark's mouth, in the hope of
tearing out his inside. The shark was, however, too
strong for him, and bit his arm off. However, as a
last resort, he succeeded in thrusting his other arm
into the shark's mouth, and go this hand down to its
throat, and that II ad the effect of making the shark
give way, and he got on shore; but it is strange that
the shark kept by the ship for several days as if look-
ing out fora victim. The poor lad it appeared was a
native of the Orkney Islands, and Mr. Hobler ob-
served that as he had some poor relations in those
islands he might be made useful there as a school-
master.

The LORD MAYOR smiled at such a suggestion.
Mr. nobler assured his Lordship that the sur-
gical instrument-makers had, by exertion, arrived at
such a degree of proficiency that they could make
instruments that would supply the place of this poor
fellow's hands, and not only enable him to write
himself, but to instruct others.

The LORD MAYOR expressed his surprise at this
statement, but was perfectly willing to do all in his
power to assist a poor lad under such unfortunate
circumstances; and, according to his Lordship's de-
sire, he was sent to Mr. Laundv, and yesterday he
appeared to exhibit the extent of' the instruction he
had received. In the first place he exhibited a pair of
instruments by which he was enabled to dress and un-
dress himself, buttoning and unbuttoning his own
clothes ; another set by means of which he could
lift and carry great loads; another by which he conld
carve his own victuals and help himself to any thing
he wanted. But the most extraordinary of all, was
an instrument that enabled him to write, and also to
teach others to write. The poor fellow with this
instrument wrote his name in the presence of the
Lord Mayor, and astonished every body in conse-
quence of the facility with which he did it—and it
was the opinion of every one that he was not only
capable of writing himself, but of teaching others.
The only question now remaining, was how the
poor fellow was to be got back to the Orkney
Islands, and what was to become of him when he
got there.
GUILDHALL.

Yesterday a question of high importance to the
whole community, as regards the public morals and
the purses of the payers of the poor-rate, was de-
cided at this Justice-room. The question was
whether a husband who had proved his wife to have
been guilty of adultery is liable to be compelled to
reimburse any necessary assistance which the over-
seers of a parish may have afforded the adultress.
Wm. H. Flinton, the defendant, separated from
his wife in November, 1826, and subsequently the
wife instituted a suit for alimony, on the ground that
her husband had been guilty of cruelty and adultery.
The husband produced recriminatory proofs, and the
Consistory Court dismissed her suit, intimating that
it considered adultery had been proved against each
party, and neither would be relieved there. These
proceedings cost the husband 8001. The wife ap-
pealed to the Arches Court, but upon the husband
pleading in forma pauperis, she discontinued pro-
ceedings, and threw herself on the parish where she
was residing, from whence she was removed to her
husband's settlement (St. Andrew-by-the-Ward-
robe), the overseers of which parish having re-
lieved her with 45., caused the husband to be
brought before Sir P. LAURIE, to be dealt with un-
der the Vagrant Act.
The parish having proved that she was chargeable,
Mr. Heaton,- for the defendant, urged, that ac-
cording to the decision of the Court of King's
Bench, in the case of " Govier tr. Hancock" (6
Term Rep. 603), adultery is a complete and perfect
discharge in law of a wife's claim upon her husband
for support.
Sir PETER LAURIE deferred his decision till yes-
terday, when he said he had formed an opinion what
he ought to do at the moment, and he had been re-
proached by some for not deciding at once; but
finding there was a difference between his clerks as
to what was the law, he deemed it prudent to
pause, and obtain further advice. Higher legal
authorities had also differed in opinion, but having
thoroughly considered the subject, and finding
the City Solicitor did not differ from him (Sir
Peter Laurie) and the chief clerk, he should
pronounce the opinion he had originally enter-
tained, that the husband was liable to the parish
until he obtained a divorce entirely dissolving the
marriage. The law held every man to be bound to
maintain his wife, and the question was, whether
Mrs. Flinton was not the defendant's wife until he