The Sun. — 1834-03-29 (London, England)

MARCH OF INTELLECT.—The following hand-bill was, a short time since, distributed in a town in this county :—" W. W. respectfully informs the inhabitants of and its vicinity, that he has commenced the business of chimney-sweeping, fire-defender, and smoke-jaeltcleaning, and assures the public that he sweeps the largest chimneys himself, and does not trust to his boys as sweeps generally do in and other places, but is determined to raise the business from that obscurity and contempt which is now practised and carried on by others."—Kentish Gazette.  By the recent demise of Major-Gen. Farquharson the Lieutenant-Governorship of the island of St. Lucia has become vacant. General Farquharson for many years commanded the 25th, or King's Own Borderers, and obtained his rank of Major-General on the 22d July, 1830. Another victim to the unhealthiness of this island was the late lamented Gen. Stuart of Garth, who went out as Governor in 1830, and died a few weeks after his arrival. The cause of this insalubrity is to be attributed entirely to the hitherto uncultivated state of the island. Owing to its unsettled condition, Major-General Mackie, who succeeded General Stuart, also fell a victim to the climate soon after his arrival.  The following incredible account is taken from the Hamburg Correspondent :—" The infant daughter of some peasant in the environs of Elsinore has excited universal attention by the wonderfully precocious development of her faculties. She is only two years old, but had been adopted by the Captain of a ship, and it is to this circumstance that her peculiar inclination to the study of geography and astronomy is to be attributed. When scarcely thirteen months old she could promptly point out on the map nearly all the countries and remarkable places in the four quarters of the world. She could at any time state the hour it was at Madeira, Copenhagen, Paris, and Pekin. At night she could name the planets and the principal stars as they appeared, without making a single mistake."  A remarkable suicide was committed in the town of Bethune, France, by a man named Cretel, on the 15th inst. On the morning of the day on which he put a period to his existence he told several persons that he should die in the course of that day, and that his last hour had struck. He left his house about two o'clock, directing his course towards the suburbs of the town, and having met a carriage at a short distance from the bridge, he placed his head on the ground, that the wheels might pass over it ; he, however, only received a slight wound. Determined on his own destruction, after walking some distance he again threw himself under the wheels of another carriage, and was this time so horribly mutilated that he only survived a few seconds. The cause of this act of despair is said to have been domestictroubles.—French Paper. The opening of the new Episcopal Church in the Rue d' Aguesseau was yesterday attended by a numerous and highly respectable congregation. The building, which is capable of containing about 800 persons is extremely well adapted to the purposes of worship. The interior is in the Gothic style,but remarkably chaste, and much lighter than we generally find this style of architecture. The drapery of the altar-piece, which we understand is at present but temporary, is speedily to be replaced by a new one, which will be in accordance with the general design. The windows are of stained glass, and the general effect combines neatness and simplicity with a certain sober elegance, and the sacred objects to which it is devoted. On the whole, we have to congratulate the English residents in Paris on their at length possessing a suitable place of divine worship, the want of which has been so long and severely felt.—French Paper. _  A few days ago a handsome young girl, about 19, named Victorine D-, committed suicide, in consequence of a disappointment in love. She committed the act with a pistol in the same house where her lover resided, No. 7, Rue des Gravilliers. The ball, after having passed just below her left breast, went through the lower part of the neck. The evening before she had persuaded her lover to kill himself with her in the Bois de Boulogne, and he allowed her to have the pistols under this impression. He had no intention, however, of allowing the idea to be carried into effect, and was thinking that he had reconciled  her to live, when the report of the pistol was heard. The unfortunate girl expired almost immediately, pressing the hand of her lover, who flew to her assistance, and whom she had vainly persuaded to partake of the same fate.—Paris Paper.