The Sun. — 1829-01-03 (London, England)

FUNERAL OF THE LATE MR. J. JoHNsToNE.—The remains of this justly celebrated actor, who :field supreme sway in Irish characters for the last 45 years, are to be removed from his late residence, No. 5, Tavistock-row, Covent-garden, this afternoon, at two o'clock, for interment in one of the vaults beneath the church of St. Paul, Covent-garden. The body is to he deposited in a hearse drawn by six horses, and followed by six mourning coaches, containing Messrs. Kemble, Price, Fawcett, John Bannister, Matthews, Elliston, Munden, I'ope, Powell, rlalley, T. Cooke, Power, Cooper, Keeley, Blanchard, with several friends who had long known and esteemed the deceased.  There is, says a Paris letter, ix St. Pelagie, the King's Bench of Paris, at this very moment, an American, Colonel Swann, who has been confined there these 25 years.  Endeavours have often been made in France to dis Cover a substitute for foreign coffee. According to 31. Pajot Deseharmes, the seeds of the broom answer this purpose exceedingly well, according to the °Ogg meperson who has taken it for dera,tely roasted, ground on +« ^' in the manner of finds no difference between it and coffee. It is not the garden, but the forest broom, the seeds of which are to be taken for this use. It appears that in that part of Holland bordering upon Germany this substance has been used for coffee for many years.  Much as Walter Scott is read everywhere, in no country of the globe is the enthusiasm for him carried to so high a pitch as in Denmark. A single number of the Copenhagen Journal contains the announcement of three different translations of one of his works ; and a professor of theology has even gone so far as to recommend to his pupils the study of the Waverley novels, as the surest way of attaining that knowledge of mankind so indispensable in ministers of the gospel.—Bllit. fur Lit. linter. Grain of all kinds, maize, the seeds of cruciform plants, potatoes, &c. by treatment with chlorine are much increased in vegetative power, are sooner ripe, and produce a crop three or four times as great as that obtained under ordinary circumstances. The process is to steep the seed twelve hours in river water (never in well-water), then 14 or 15 drops of a strong solution of chlorine is to be added for each quart of water, the whole well mixed, and the maceration of the seed con tinned for six hours longer in the sunlight, and under a bell-glass, or for want of a bell•glass under a cover made with Oiled paper. The seed is :then to be separated from the liquid on a cloth, and for the convenience of sowing mixed with a sufficient quantity of cinders, sand, or dry earth. When sown, the water of maceration is to be poured over the ground.  The strange avarice of a Laplander is most gratified in collecting vessels, or even pieces of silver and gold, nav, even of brass. These, from his mode of life, can be of little or no use to him ; and, being unable to carry this treasure with him upon his journey, he buries them in some unknown spot, so that, in the event of death they are frequently lost.  A liberated convict, named Peverone, whose numerous murders had given him great celebrity in Corsica, was shot on the 10th ult. by a corporal stationed at Ajaccio. This notorious bandit, however, defended himself with great obstinacy against the whole of the eosnpany commanded by the corporal, and wounded several of them before he received his own death-blow.  It gives us great pleasure to learn, by the last accounts from Florence, that at the time they were written, the Marquis of Douro and his brother Lord Charles Wellesley, were visitors of that city, as this intelligence effectually sets at rest a rumour which has been for some days in circulation, namely, that the victims in the horrible Turkish: tales of mutilation end poisoning (first published in the Brighton Gazette, and subsequently noticed in all the London Papers) were no other than the two young Noblemen above-mentioned. From the first we considered the whole story extremely apocryphal ; we are now satisfied that it never had any foundation.