The Sun. — 1837-06-15 (London, England)

DEPARTURES.  Mr. and Mrs. Bacon, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermynstreet, for the Continent ; Mrs. Lane Freer, from ditto, for Southampton; Lady and Miss Simeons, from ditto, for the Isle of Wight ; the Bishop of Llandaff; for St. Leonard's ; the Hon. R. Cavendish, for Sussex ; Sir John and Lady Campbell, from Capel-street, Grosvenor-square, for Brighton ; the Earl of Howth, for ditto ; Captain and Mrs. Austen, fur a Continental tour ; Sir George Wombwell, for Sussex ; the Earl and Countess cf Somers, for Cheltenham ; the Bishop of Hereford, for Tunbridge Wells ; Count do Wipe, from Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, fur Paris; Lady Musgrave, for Rutlandshire: Sir A. Vincent Corbet, for -Hastings; Sir George Staunton, from Devonshire-street, for Cheltenham ; Lady Elizabeth Duttcn, for Hastings ; Hon. Mr. Do Saumarez, for Tunbridge Wells; Lord Hill, from Belgrave•square, for Chatham; the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Pellaw, for Leamington Spa.  The Countess Zichy, late Miss Strachan, has received from the Marquis of Hertford, her guardian, the stun of etirty thousand Pounds as her fortune, in addition to some of the splendid family diamonds to that amount. with this especial proviso, however, that en coming to the title the Earl of Yarmouth is to have the privilege of redeeming the jewels on paying the above-named sum. It is stated that Mr. Justice Moore is about to retire, and to be succeeded in the Common Pleas by Mr. Attorney-General Wolfe. Baron Foster is confined to his 11-;use with a severe fit of gout. Chief Justice Bushe has not at,en.l, d Court since the melancholy death of his daughter-inlaw. —Dublin Paper._  A certain witty Count has reported that all the oldfashioied eurr:cle drivers arc about to burn their vehicles, in conseguet.ce of having seen his superlatively beautiful machine. T 'Tuesday evening an inquest was held on the body of Joseph Benjamin, aged eleven, of the Hebrw persuasion, who dropped down dead on the morning of Monday last while on his way to school with his brother. Ile was immediately taken to the shop of a neighbouring surgeon, and on examination life was found to be extinct. Vardiet—" Died by the visitation of God."  Yesterday an inquest was held at the Charing. cross Hospital on the body of John Daffy, aged 42, silo committed suicide by taking a large quantity of oxalic acid. The evidence went clearly to show that the destitute state of the de. ceased's family had induced him to destroy himself, and the Jury, without hesitation, gave a verdict to that effect. As William Mandy, gamekeeper to Hu ,h Johnston, Esq., of Danson House, near Bcixley, Kent, was passing through a hedge at Halfway-street, in the above parish, on Tuesday afternoon, having his gum in a careless position, it is supposed the trigger was caught by a twig in the hedge, which caused the gun to go off; the contents lodged i❑ the abdomen of the unfortunate man, who fell and instantly expired. The deceased was very much respected in the neighbourhood. On Sunday next he would have attained his twenty-first year, and that day was fixed for his being married to a respectable young woman residing in the place. On the 30th of last month died, in the parish of Dyrham and Hinton, Thomas Chandler and Mary, his wife, bath aged eighty-two years. They had been married fiftysix years—were both born in the same year—both died on the same day—and were buried together in the church-yard of the above parish.—Bath Guardian. On the 31st. the inhabitants of Waldkircb, in the canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, had accompanied to her last abode a woman of the district, who was supposed to be dead. The interment being ended, the clergyman was preparing to return home, when he heard groans proceeding from the grave. He immediately called the grave-diggers, and caused the coffin to be taken up and opened. Unfortunately, it was too late—the ill-fated woman had c,‘ased to exist. In her despair she had turned round on her face, and had torn off all her nails. _  ------The preserved olives, which are so touch admired as a dessert, are the green unripe fruit, deprived of part of their bitterness by soaking them in water and then preserved in an aromatised solution of salt. Several varieties are met with in commerce ; but the most common is the small French, and the large Spanish olives. Olives ala pieholine have been soaked in a solution of lime or alkali. A vile outrage, just discovered in Cork, has caused much astonishment, and excited the utmost horror. A number of holes, bored with an auger, were discovered to have been perforated in the Waterloo and Lee steamers, while lying at the quay, on Monday or Tuesday night. Had the vessels proceeded to sea before the discovery was made, and had they been overtaken by the gales of Thursday and Friday, there is no knowing how many lives might have been lost. These fine vessels had undergone a thorough repair only a short time since. The tile wretches who perpetrated this horrid deed are supposed to be well acquainted with the use of shipwright's tools. This, it is now said, is part of the riband or combination system. On S'aturday evening a hawking fisherman, well known in Romford as " Suffolk Jemmy," nearly forfeited his life by an act of fally committed while in a state of intoxication. A man was exhibiting snakes and adders in that town, when a question arose as to whether one of these reptiles was an adder, and Inowiiig that an adder would attack anything red, the fistn.rman put out his torgue to decide the dispute. The adder instantly bit him under the tongu. The poor fellow has since been in a dreadful state : his body was amazingly swollen, his tongue protruded from his mouth, and the medicine administered - to him seas obliged to be forced down his throat with a syringe. Elopes are now entertained of his recovery. On Thnrsdavlast when the passengeis of the diligence from Toulouse were at dinner at an inn at Chate.auroux one of them, who was seated at table between two ladies, suiclenly look a knife, stabbed himself, •and immediatelyexpired. The table nas covered with bleed, to the no small alarm of the assembled guests. The Messager of Monday nigdit hives specimens of the manner in which literary works purchased by the French Government arc disposed of ; and among which (as the National observes) there is this curious item :—" The iEneid translated by Barthlemy, to the Lunatic Hospitals of Nante .*