The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-22 00:00:00

COCK-FIGH TIN G HUMBUG.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIB,---A paragraph having appeared in your paper
yesterday, headed Cock-fighting, &c., in which I am
stated to have been summoned before the Uxbridge
magistrates and fined, I beg to say this is totally untrue.
I did not attend any exhibition of the sort, received no
summons, and the whole with regard to myself, is a
fabrication from beginning to end. So much for the
veracity of your reporter.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
CRAVEN F. BERKELEY.
Spring-gardens, May 22.
[The Honourable Gentleman is under a mistake so
far as The Sun is concerned. We suspected the para-
graph, rather a long one, extending to half a column, to
have been a hoax played off byapenny-a-liner to raise the
wind at the expense of our Contemporaries, and we re-
fused it, insertion. The fellow ought to be punished
for his filching ingenuity.]

The Queen, as an encouragement to native
talent, has engaged the band of the Quadrille Institute for
the ensuing ball at Buckingham Palace.
The Hon. William Ashley, Treasurer and Vice-
Chamberlain to the Queen Dowager, will be the successor
of Sir Herbert Taylor, as Master of St. Katharine's Hos-
pital.—Morning Paper.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and
Miss Percy have left Norihumber]and House for Sion
House, where they will pass the Whitsuntide recess in se-
ctlusion, in consequence of the death of the venerable Earl
PoNis, her Grace's father. The Noble Duke, owing to
the delicate state of his health, will not, it is understood,
be present at the obsequies of the late Lord Powis.
The Duke of Argyll's birthday banquet as Lord
Steward, at the Clarendon Hotel, tomorrow, will be on a
scale of great splendour. His Grace's mansion in Park-
lane not being sufficiently capacious for so large a party is
the reason for the dinner being given at the Clarendon.
The IVla.rquis
Wellesley' continues at Kingston
House, Knightsbridge, in an infirm state of health. His
Lordship has nearly completed his 80th year, and has
wholly retired from public life.
Hussein Khan, the Persian Ambassador Extra-
ordinary, is daily
expected in town from Paris. His Ex-
cellency brings over twenty Indian shawls as a present for
her Majesty, of the same costly and superb pattern as those
he presented to her Majesty, the Queen of the French, at
a private audience at the Tuileries.
The Chartist meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne on
Monday passed off quietly. From 15,000 to 40,000 were
present.— Tyne Mercury.
CAMBRIDGE, MAY 20.—
Died at Caius Lodge,
Cambridge, on Saturday evening, the 19th inst., in the
77th year of his age, the Rev. Dr. Davy, for 36
years
master of Caiva College.
Mits. TROLLOPE'S " FACTORY BOY.”—we
are much gratified to find that the interest and value of
this work greatly increases as it proceeds. The first two
numbers did, and could only be expected to do, little more
than introduce the dramatis persona of the story, and fur-
nish us with a sort of catalogue raisonne of their respective
characters. We are now, in No 3, getting into the heart
of the impressive and touching tale which it is evidently the
design of the writer to place before us, and we begin to
see the important scope of the moral that is to spring from
it. There is a terrible truth in the scene at the factory in
the present number ; and the new scenes and characters
which opera upon us at the mansion of the wealthy heiress,
Miss Brotherton, promise the most interesting results.
We are happy to learn that the success of this work
already exceeds the most sanguine expectations of the
spirited publisher who ventured on so unprecedented a
price for the copyright of it.—Naval and Military Gazette.