Bayington, the murderer, we learn by a contemporary, was formerly employed in this city on the _Journal of Commerce_. No wonder he came to an untimely fate. DUEL--We understand that a duel was fought at Hoboken on Friday morning last between a gentleman of Canada and a French gentleman of this city, in which the latter was wounded. The parties should be arrested. LAMENTABLE DEATH--The camelopard shipped at Calcutta for New York died the day after it was embarked. “We could have better spared a better” _crittur_, as Shakespeare doesn’t say. The _Sun_, although read largely by Jacksonians, did not take the side of any political party. It favoured national and State economy and city cleanliness. It dismissed the New York Legislature of 1834 thus: The Legislature of this State closed its arduous duties yesterday. It has increased the number of our banks and fixed a heavy load of debt upon posterity. Nothing more. If the readers wanted more they could fly to the ample bosoms of the sixpennies; but apparently they were satisfied, for in April of 1834 the _Sun’s_ circulation reached eight thousand, and Colonel Webb, of the _Courier and Enquirer_, was bemoaning the success of “penny trash.” The _Sun_ replied to him by saying that the public had been “imposed upon by ten-dollar trash long enough.” The _Journal of Commerce_ also slanged the _Sun_, which promptly announced that the _Journal_ was conducted by “a company of rich, aristocratical men,” and that it would take sides with any party to gain a subscriber. The influence of Partner Wisner, the Abolitionist, was evident in many pages of the _Sun_. On June 23, 1834, it printed a piece about Martin Palmer, who was “pelted down with stones in Wall Street on suspicion of being a runaway slave,” and paid its respects to Boudinot, a Southerner in New York who was reputed to be a tracker of runaways. It was he who had set the crowd after the black: The man who will do this will do anything; he would dance on his mother’s grave; he would invade the sacred precincts of the tomb and rob a corpse of its winding-sheet; he has no SOUL. It is said that this useless fellow is about to commence a suit against us for a libel. Try it, Mr. Boudinot! During the anti-abolition riots of that year the _Sun_ took a firm stand against the disturbers, although there is little doubt that many of them were its own readers. The paper made a vigorous little crusade against the evils of the Bridewell in City Hall Park, where dozens of wretches suffered in the filth of the debtors’ prison. The _Sun_ was a live wire when the cholera re-appeared, and it put to rout the sixpenny papers which tried to make out that the disease was not cholera, but “summer complaint.” Incidentally, the advertising columns of that day, in nearly all the papers were filled with patent “cholera cures.”