The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAGAZIIVE.

The usual excellent and exemplary collection
of sermons, and annotative papers upon portions
of the Scriptures, continue to carry out the origi-
nal design of this Magazine in an approved
manner. It appears ably supported by the pens
of many talented divines, and the lay contribu-
tions are also as laudable.

THE NEW MONTHLY BELLE ASSEMBLEE.

A very charming portrait of Medora—one of
Byron's beauties—embellishes this Number: his
heroine appears wistfully gazing out of her lat-
tice-window, and endeavouring- to descry the first
glitter of Conrad's sail in the distance. A de-
scription of a beautiful blonde, who goes by the
sobriquet La Bellissima, is drawn with much
airiness and fancy ; but being the admired of
every dazzling circle, she despises her suitorA,
and when her beauty has faded, becomes the vic-
tim of a dissipated roue. A variety of interest-
ing tales, legends, and verses from fair penscom-
pose a very ao-reeable Number.

Mr. 11. MANNERS SUTTON.—We believe that we
may, with the greatest confidence, give an unqualified
contradiction to a paragraph inserted in a Morning
Contemporary of yesterday, as far as relates to the re-
tirement of Mr. V Manners Sutton from the office
he now so ably fills as Under Secretary for the Home
Department. No such change is in contemplation,
neither is there any probability of any vacancy at
present in the Commissionerships of Excise.—Evoning
Paper.
TIIE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GREVILLE-SKEET.
—A deputation, consisting of Mr. Hughes Hughes,
chairman, the Rev. Dr. Knapp, chaplain, Dr. Hume
Wetherhead, physician, Dr. William Marsden, prin-
cipal surgeon, the Rev. R. C. Packman, honorary
secretary, and Mr. Fenn, an active member of the
Committee of this great charity, waited on Wed-
nesday morning upon Alderman Sir John Pirie,
Bart., the late Lord Mayor, to express to him the
deep obligation felt by its authorities for the liberal
and invaluable countenance received from him during
the year o f his occupation of the Civic Chair.
Alderman Pirie received the deputation with his ac-
customed courtesy, but assured them how entirely
uncalled for was the visit with which they had taken
the trouble to honour him. He had done nothing
more while Chief Magistrate than, he was sure, every
succeeding occupier of the Civic Chair would be found
anxious to do to promote the success of an Institu-
tion upon which so much zeal was exerted with such
immense advantage to the most destitute forlorn of
the public of this vast metropolis .; and to which,
moreover, the Lord Mayor, and every Sitting Ma-
gistrate, had the great comfort and privilege of
sending any suitable case, with the confidence that
it would instantly receive every possible attention—
disease and destitution being, as he well knew, the
the only passport necessary to obtain the charitable
aid of the Royal Free Hospital. Mr. Hughes
Hughes took the opportunity of stating to Sir John
, Pirie what he was afraid was not sufficiently known
to the public, that the two Rev. Gentlemen present,
both of them Priests in Ordinary to her Majesty, and
Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral, thought it not be-
neath them to labour in their holy calling amongst
the wretched inmates received within the walls of
this hospital; and, not only on Sundays, but at all
times, to afford them moral and religious instruction,
and that many, lie hoped and believed, received
lasting benefit in that most important way, as well
as bodily cure within the Institution. Sir John
Pirie assured the deputation that lie had heard those
particulars with great interest, and that the authorities
of the hospital might at all times rely with confidence
upon his best exertions for its welfare and advance-
ment, and particularly since the noble efforts they
had lately made, in 'reliance upon the public sym-
pathy and liberality, in purchasing and fitting up, at
a cost of nearly 10,0001. on the whole, the extensive
premises of Messrs. Sedden, in Gray's Inn-lane, for-
merly the barracks of the City Light Horse Volun-
teers, to which the Charity is about to be removed..

EDINBURG II AND GLASGOW 1/ AILWAY.—A dis-
tressing accident occurred on Monday at the Falkirk
station of this railway, by which a gentleman, whose
name is Captain 11.1.`Nab, from near Callendar, lost
his life. The circumstances which led to this fatal
result, we understand, are these :—Captain M'Nab,
on leaving the train from Edinburgh, stepped from
the platform after the train had started, intending to
walk across the line to the station-house. Before he
was able to cross the north line of rails, the engine of
the train from Glasgow, which was at that moment
drawing up in front of the station-house, threw him
down betwixt the rails, and caused his almost in-
stantaneous death.—Seotch Paper.
I'NCENDIARISM IN WIGTONSIIIR E.—We regret that
it is our painful duty to record, that the diabolical
example set in some parts of England, of destroying
agricultural produce by fire has found imitators in
this country, hitherto distinguished for the exemplary
conduct of its rural population. On Sunday last,
between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, the guard of
the mail from Dumfries observed flames to issue from
a stack of wheat, in the stack-yard of the farm of Bich
Dargoals, parish of Old Lucas. By great exertions
all the stacks were saved except two, which were
completely destroyed. The intelligence having been
conveyed by express to the Procurator-Fiscal in
Stranraer, lie, along with Mr. Taylor, acting Sheriff-
Substitute here, immediately repaired to the spot; and
after some preliminary inquiries, directed the appre-
hension of Philip Lynas, a man who was lately dis-
missed Mr. Dougan's service, and a young man named
Haswell, residing in the vicinity, both of whom have
been lodged in Stranraer gaol.—Stranraer Advertiser.
The town of Thetford, in Norfolk, has been thrown
into a state of unpleasant ferment during the last few
days, in mnsequenee of a solicitor, hitherto consi-
dered of the highest respectability, having suddenly
absconded, leaving liabilities incurred by him to the
amount, it is supposed, at the lowest, of 20,000/. He
had appointed Friday last for meeting some very heavy
-f mortgage accounts, and for handing over the amount
for it-tarm which lie had recently purchased ; and his
non -appearance on that and the following days, led to
the above unpleasant discovery. His absence has
almost created a panic in the neighbourhood, as from
his extensive transactions in
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and other monetary matters, it simpossible to calculate
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said the artisan, it is a sure sign of weakness, when EG
many hoops are used."