The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-19 00:00:00

ECCLESIASTICAL.

The over-crowded state of the burying-grounds at
Leith oblige fifteen or twenty cartloads of surplus mould
from the different churchyards to be deposited in the
sea weelcly. The shore is constantly strewed with
washed-up coffins, coffin-handles, and other relics of mor-
tality.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A new fixed light was erected on the west pier of
Calais harbour on the first day of this year.
LAW AND POLICE.
The Crown debtors look forward with anxiety to the
25th instant, the day of the Royal baptism, in the hope
of liberation,
Yesterday, at Guildhall, James Adams, the young
man who Was apprehended at Childs' banking-house
when he was utterin4 a forged cheque for 901., was dis-
charged, as the Solicitor for Messrs. Childs believed the
prisoner had been made the innocent dupe of some person.
At Queen-square, George Blarsdel, a genteel-looking
young man, was committed to take his trial for stealing
two great-coats from the waiting-room of the Vice-Chan-
cellor's Court, the property of two of the Ushers.
WM. Lewis, alias Livermore, who described himself as
a lieutenant in the navy, charged some days ago with
stealing a watch and 23 sovereigns from a young man
employed in Deptford Dockyard, was fully committed
for trial. It appeared that the family of the prisoner
was very respectable ; that his father lived at Croydon,
and his brother was a wine-merchant in the City, who,
on the facts being communicated to him by a policeman,
said his brother had given an immensity of trouble to
his family for years, and that he was transported to Ber-
muda fourteen years ago, and that since his return, from
transportation he had been going on as bad as ever.

norm ARTS.
A statue in memory of Bichat, the celebrated physi-
cian? is about to be erected in the town of Bourg in the
Ain, the place of his nativity.
Liszt, the musician, was to leave Berlin on the 10th,
to pass six weeks at St, rt;tersburgh, and then go to
Moscow. _

A concert was lately given at Madrid for the benefit
of distressed religious sisters and. military invalids, at
which Rubini sang a number of airs. The proceeds
amounted to nearly 350/.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
The friends and admirers of Sir Humphrey Davy are
endeavouring to promote a plan for a statue to his me-
mory, and the front of the Athenaeum Club-house is
spoken of as an appropriate-site: Efforts also are making
in Cornwall for a like "rnose. a

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spoTraTa.
In Kensington-gardens yesterday, the ice was upwards
of two inches thick, and from 1,000 to 1,500 persons were
upon it. There wereittrge numbers on the Serpentine :
800 to 1,000 were in St. James's Park, and a greater
number in the Regent's. In the latter park, a concus-
sion took place between two skaiters, and one of them
had his skull fractured.

COURT--PASHIONABLE.
A grand ball was given at Naples on the-sth instant,
in honour of the birth of the Prince of Wales, and the
brilliancy of the fete could not be surpassed. Among
the company were Don Sebastian, and his nephews, the
sons of Don Carlos, who return to Rome next month.
The Duke of Richmond left town on Saturday for
Goodwood Park.

The Marquis of Hertford has been suffering during
the past week from a severe cold.
The Earl and Countess of Darlington have arrived in
town from Penton Hall.

The Earhand Countess of Gainsborough have arrived
in Paris from Barham Court, near Maidstone.
Viscount Melbourne has been -visiting Viscount Pal-
merston during the past week at Broadlands.
Lord and Lady Carrington have returned to town
from Lincolnshire.
The Earl of Aberdeen has been invited by the Queen
to Windsor Castle, during the stay there of the King of
Prussia.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry en-
tertain a succession of visitors during the week at
Wynyard Park.

raISCELLANEOUS.

The present is the second occasion of a visit of a reign-
ing King of Prussia to this country. The last visit was
in 1814, when the father of the present King came over
with the Emperor Alexander of Russia, now twenty-
eight years ago.
Costa Rica, the late scene of the earthquake in Central
America, is called the " The Rich Coast," from its actual
fertility, abounding in gold mines, cocoa, pasturages,
sugar, and corn. San Jose, the capital, contains about
16,000 inhabitants, and has two fine harbours. The
whole country is mountainous in the extreme.
Owing to some new regulations of the Ironmongers'
Company, with regard to the letting of their Irish
estates, no less than 360 tenants are on the point of being
dispesseiSed of their lands in the manor of Lizard, in
Derry. Most of them are linen-manufacturers to the
Coleraine market, cultivating flax on their ground ; and
are nearly all Presbyterians.
A man named Jupp, who kept, the Star at Reigate,
threW himself under the Brighton train, at Redhill, on
Monday, and was smashed to pieces. The cause of this
determined suicide is not known.

The relation of two Queens, viz., Mrs. Wyndmore,
cousin of Mary, Queen of William the Third, as w ell
as of Queen Anne, died in Emanuel Hospital in 1772,
having been supported fifty years on charity.
The anniversary of St. Paul's conversion in the
year 85, A.C., falls on the day of the Prince of Wales's
christening.
The Prince's nurse, Mrs. Brough, is to have a com-
mission in the army for her eldest son,