The Sun. — 1832-09-27 (London, England)

MEMOIRS OF LAFAYETTE.-Complaints having been male of the delay in the supply of this important work, we are requested to state that Mr. BENTLEY'S edition of the English translation, in 2 vols. Bvo. , with two Portraits (LOUIS PHILIS'I'E and LAFAYETTE), was issued to the public, in a complete state, on Monday, September 17, and may be obtained of all respect 'We Booksellers, and at all the principal Libraries in the United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland—Messrs. BELL and BtLADFUTE, Edinburgh; and for Ireland, Mr. JOHN CUMMING, Dublin.  We have conversed with a gentleman who left the Hague late on Monday evening. He denies that there is any foundation for the reported resignation of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baron VERSTOLK VAN NTE• VELT, and the few members who compose the Dutch Cabinet. The utmost preparations bad been carried on for some time past, and were continued at the time of this gentleman's departure, in anticipation of a renewal of boa. tilities. The gat risons of the inland towns were so drafted to augment the army, that in many instances only a few raw recruits, mere boys, were left behind. All these preparations are said to have been tnade, and the general feeling for war to have been excited, by the repeated assurances of support from Russia and Prussia.—Morning Paper.  A meeting has already taken place preparatory to a general meeting which is to be held next week to take into consideration the propriety of erecting a suitable memorial to perpetuate the name of the departed genius of Scotland. As a mark of public respect we are gratified to understand that a very general intention exists amung the inhabitants of Edinburgh to appear in mourning to-morrow, the day o❑ which the remains of their illustrious fellow-citizen will be consigned to the tomb. We are persuaded that the suggestion needs only to be made to meet with universal observance.—Edinburgh Advertiser.  The Gazette of Saturday contains a proclamation from the Lord Lieutenant, offering a reward of 300/. for the discovery of the persons who on Wednesday, the 19th instant, cruelly murdered FRANCIS CANNING and THOMAS CUNIMING, on the lands of the parish of Doneraile and Ross, in the county of Cork, as they were employed in reviewing tithes.—Dublin Times.  We gave an account, a few weeks ago, of a frog having been discovered, upon splitting a block of millstone girt, Stainmore, embodied in a cavity of its own size and shape at the depth of six inches from the surface of the stone, and without the least appearance of communication with the air. The g* ntleman who has this supposed antidiluvian reptile in his possession, informs us that it is still alive and hearty.—Carlisle Patriot.  AMEN OUT OF TIME,—One Sunday this month a ludicrous incident occurred at a church not a dozen miles from this town, in consequence of the clerk taking an untimely nap. When the Clergy man had delivered about three parts of his sermon, he made a short pause. The clerk, who had been asleep, here woke, and in a stentorian voice exclaimed " Amen !" The effects of this strange interruption may be easily conceived—nearly the whole congregation were excited to a tittering, much to the discomfiture of the object of it,—Maidstone Gaz. A few days Vier the hopping season of last year a poor woman residing in this parish was delivered of twin children, and this year, previous to hopping, she was brought to bed with other two—thus presenting her husband with four children in less than twelve months. They are extremely well, and are to be seen with their parents in the hop-garden; the last year's two with the father, and this year's two with the mother.—What will Mr. MAtirfius say to this?-IWaidstone Gazette.  A remarkable proof' of the harmlessness of medicine was afford d the other day by a gentleman of the faculty, who assured us that a woman in a neighbouring village had swallowed no fewer than 42,900 pills, and had lived to the age of between 80 and 90 years,—Bury Post.