The Sun. — 1812-01-07 (London, England)

PARIS, DEC. 23 —lt is known that the.med'um 'N of man is about 28 years and a half ; according recent calculations it would reach 31 and a half,  three years more, if the vaccine were generally adopted : so that it is very reasonable to consider D. .Tenner as one of the greatest benefactors to his specie 4.  ...._ . LEYBACH, Nov. 21.—1 t would appear that the English had quite abandoned the interior of the Adliatie. . .. . Maritime commerce is reviving at Trieste ; there daily arrive vessels from Corfu, Venice, Ancona and Ragusa, laden with oil, figs, and other .merchandise. . .. : ___ . _._  The 'Governor-General of the Illyrian Provinces coltinues to visit the d•tferent part; Of Dalmatia ; that country so lit le known and till now neglected, is susceptible of very considei able .amelioration.— Next year exieritnents will be•made there with resped to the culture of the cotton tree. The population of Dalmatia, which at present dues not exceed 35,000 50914, might be easily doubled, VIENNA, Dec. t t.—Vienna has been, for the last six months, the rendezvous of a great number of foreign persons of science and letters. M. Fischer, of Cziak, has brought hither samples-.of big .fine sugar from the beet-root. M.,f-lcinrich has communicated a method of substituting woad for indigo. The point of assemblage for strangers is the house .of M. Jacquin, the literary Nestor of Vienna.  General LO:SON is appointed Commandant of the 25th military division at Maestricht, in the room of General Dustotimiu. -" The warrants tor the quarterly dividends have been received by the bankers, and the payments to them and the public in general, will commence to-morrow at the Bank. John Smith and Jean Tourney, of his Majesty's ship Kite, were tried by a Court Martial on Thursday'and Friday at Portsmouth, for a breach of the 29'h Article of War, and both sentenced to be hung. A servant of a Gentleman in Gloster-street, Dublin, of high character, Colonel Magrath, had a child at nurse with an industrious poor family of the name of :Reynolds, on the Broad Lays Common near Ballyruore Ensiace ; and the poor worn 1n having come to Dublin for her wages, there being one year and a halt due,- tOl. was paid. '--After being at home about ten days, their cabin was attacked in the night ; the poor woman being far gone with child, the husband defended the cabin to the last against the gang of murderers. He resisted them outside so violently that they retreated to a spot of ground, thither he followed them, and continued assailing h,le he was able to stand on his feet; he at length sunk on his knee, and in this tosture he defended himself with such determined resolution that it had. sunk six inches in the earth, when at length, from weakness and loss of blood, he expired under the • unmerciful hands of the murderers ;—nor content with this, they cut his throat and dragged him back to the cabin-. While some of the parry were en: gaged in murderieg the husband, the remainder were engaged in murdering his wife. They cut ber'throat, and also the throat of a poor beggar man who took refuge for the !light. Their next object eras to rob the cabin, and one of the gang in rummaging stum, bled over a child of seten yeArs old, on which he hid his face, insuiring familiarly,•Bet ty do you know me. ,She, dreading the fate of the rest, replied no;. on which he asked, Where doe: your tua,mnythide her money ? —The child could not satisfy th !robber, but they tooluare to empty the house of ail that was valuable.—Freemun's journal. Last week two men broke into a house in the neighbourhood of Dunfermline, and stolen watch and a pair of pantaloons. Ode of them was soon apprehended, .and after examination was committed to Dunfermline gaol. The watch was..found in his possession. Next morning, on the gaoler opening the room where he was confined, he was found quite 1 • kg. rwsPanit of his hand