The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-20 00:00:00

BURKE'S PEERAGE. 1629.

We have just glanced over the present Number
of this very useful publication, v hich is full, and
correct, and comprehensive, to a degree far sur-
passing any of its predecessors. The type is very
distinct and legible, the heraldic engravings ex-
cellent. All the late creations arc given.

On Saturday afternoon an inquest was taken
before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq., at the Buffalo's Head,
New-road, Islington, on the bodies of JOHN WARD, aged
26, and JOHN LEOPARD, aged 28. Mr. HENRY KNAPP,
of No. 40, Cirencester-place, New-road, builder, stated,
that the deceased men were in his employ, and had been for
upwards of three years. On the 4th inst., they were em-
ployed in repairing a drain at the Marylebone workhouse.
He was giving them directions to open it, and in digging
by the side of the cess-pool to examine the cause of the
stoppage, a lighted candle was procured for the purpose of
examining it. Ile had previously desired LEOPARD to wait
until he (witness) had examined it himself, but instead of
so doing, LEOPARD put the light to the bole, contrary to
his orders, when the air confined in the drain instantly took
fire, and a great rush of flame followed. The shirts of the
deceased men took fire, and to avoid further injury they
threw themselves on the ground. Witness assisted in getting
them out, but not before they were burnt in a shocking
manner, and their shirts burnt off their backs. They lan-
guished, one 12 days, and the other 13 days. Verdict—
" Accidental Death."

We are a little too apt, even in this common-
sense country, to permit actresses and opera dancers to
take liberties with our purses and trample upon our hearts;
witness the dilapidated fortunes and despairing affections
of many young gentlemen of fashion and no fashion, of the
present day. But we never carry matters to the length
which they occasionally reach among our flighty and imagi-
native neighbours, the Germans—(they are the ideal of a
flighty nation now-a. days—not the French), who lately, at
one of their public places, insisted on Mademoiselle SON-
TAG stepping upon a temporary pavement, composed of
their outspread hands, the stones on which she would other-
wise Lave trodden being slightly damp ! These gentlemen
had heard of our own RALEIGH, and his velvet cloak ;
but the imitation was but a vulgar one after all ; for
RALEIGH'S cloak was, in all probability, the better part of
his fortune, and was necessarily sacrificed to his gallantry;
whereas the hands in question were certainly not the worse
for the contract. By the by, from what we Lave had oc-
casion to observe of German gentlemen's hands, we judge
that Mademoiselle SONTAG (who is evidently very dainty
in her chaussurc) must have had to pick her way.—Court
Journal.

" Shortly after, we met a kangea with an
English Jack ; it turned out to be that of Mr. L--,
an English traveller ; we dined together : I found he was
a medical amateur, and had been physicking the Arabs be-
yond the second cataract. I was surprised to see his crew
of Nubians excessively pale and meagre; and still more so
to learn that every man of his had suffered from a conta-
gious malady contracted in the unwholesome neighbour-
hood of Kenneh. Mr. L very humanely under-
took to cure them all : small mercurial applications were
judged necessary ; but Mr. L confessed to me,
that small as these were, the effects were terrible, and his
crew was already toothless. I asked to see the medicine,
and, to my horror, I found that, owing to a mistake (not
of Mr. L 's, but of the person who wrote the label
on the medicine), the corrosive ointment of nitrate of mer-
cury had been employed instead of the simple unction.
Turks and Arabs take a great deal of killing ; no others
could have survived this cure."—Madden's Travels.

Little progress in hay-making has been yet
made throughout the Principality, in consequence of the
daily showers which have fallen for several weeks. The
crops have improved, and are fully ripe (indeed in many
parts too ripe) for the scythe. The crops of barley and
oats have much improved lately, yet they are thin in some
districts. The wheats look well.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 18.—We have had no
animation in our Cotton market to-day, and the sales
amount to only about 1,200 bags.

Among the subscribers to a newly-established
hospital, are Mr. HEADACHE and Mr. FEVER, with whom
it may be supposed that sympathy has something to do
with the matter.—Morning Paper.

NORTHERN YACHT CLUB.—On Thursday,
the yachts assembled at Ardrossan, and before the evening
there were 15 or 16 fine yachts in the harbour. On
Friday seven yachts started a few minutes after 10 o'clock
for the Ardrossan Cup ; but after being out for about two
hours, during which time it was a dead calm, and there
being no appearance of any wind, the parties agreed to re-
turn and recommence the match the following morning.
Accordingly these vessels started on Saturday at nine in
the morning, with a fine light breeze at W.S.W., and after
a fine and closely contested race, the Black Dwarf reached
the winning point at Ardrossaa at five minutes past one,
followed in one minute by the Little Paddy, and in five
minutes more by the Juverna. The other vessels arrived
in the order in which they started, except the Ariel, which
got aground on the Lady Isle, where she remained for five
hours, but got off without any material damage on the
flowing of the tide. Immediately after the return of the
yachts from the sailing match, the Commodore got under
weigh along with the yachts, and having formed a line of
16 sail, proceeded for Largs, after passing through Millport
Bay, which they reached about nine P.m. Several yachts
joined on Saturday evening and Monday, and there are
now upwards 0f25 yachts lying at Largo, and eight or ten
more are expected.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.