The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-15 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

The Earl and Countess of Kenmare, at Thomas's Hotel,
from Paris ; the Misses Protheroe, at ditto, from Tunbridge
Wells ; Viscount and Viscountess Deerhurst, at the Green
Park Hotel, from Worcester-shire ; Meredith Colhoun, Esq.,
and family, at the Hanover Hotel, from a tour through Eng-
land, Scotland, and Wales.

The Earl of Thanet's mansion, at Hothfield, Kent,
has been recently repaired, and furnished in a style worthy
the fortune of the house of Tution. His lordship is at
pres,mt in Paris.

The Countess Meyendorff, Baroness Lodoryski,
and Count Tolstoy, Secretary to the Russian Embassy,
left the York Hotel, Albermarle-street, yesterday, on a
visit to the Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth.
Scone Palace, Perthshire, the seat of the house of
Mu-ray, will be extremely gay during the autumn. The
Gordons, the Abercorns, and Russells, will be among the
numerous guests.

MAn IttED.—On the 13th inst., at the Abbey
Church, Malvern, by the Rev. A. H. Small, 8.D., Fellow
of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and Chaplain of her Mk'
jesty's ship Victory, Charles I3avne Hodgson Ross, Esq.,
C. 8., Rear-Admiral of the Blue, to Jane, relict of Joseph
&obeli, Esq., of Stnnehouse, and Good-a-Mcavy, Devon,
and daughter of Philip Ball, Esq., Worcester.
Air. C. N. Woodroffe, late assistant master of the
junior class of the City of London Same], was unanimously
appointed, on I'Vednesday last, one of the assistant clas-
sical and mathematical masters, in the room of one who

resigned.

The Marquis of Downshire, Lieutenant of the
county of Down, has appointed Viscount Castlereazh
Colonel of the North Down Militia, vice Colonel Forde,
deceased.

'the only daughter of the Dule and Duchess of
Plaisance died at Bcyrout, in Syria, on the 18th June last,
on her return from Jerusalem.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess de Leuch-
tenberg, sister of the King of Bavaria, arrived on the
Bth inst. at Arenberg, on a visit to her sister-in-law, Queen
Hortense, the state of whose health gives cause for the
most serious anxiety. _ _

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange and
his second son, Prince Alexander, arrived at the Hague
on the llth inst., from Soetsdyk, and were to set out that
evening for Zealand.
The Duke of Modena has issued an edict, shorten-
ing considerably the period of imprisonment and of hard
labour, to which were condemned the political offenders
involved in the troubles of 1831. Those condemned to
the severest penalties have had the choice given them of
submitting to their punishment at home, or of exiling
themselves.

The popular author of " Rattlin the Reefer," one
of the most original and powerful works of fiction which
has appeared for a long period, has another novel in the
press. under the title of " The Old Commodore." This
able novelist, no less distinguished for rich humour and dra-
matic exhibition of character, than for his pathos and ab-
solute command over our sympathies, is deservedly class; d
among the first writers of our day.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH.—The cottage in Kilburn
Priory, situated in the delightful village of Kilburn, Mid-
dlesex, and celebrated as being the residence of this cele-
brated poet, and in
.which he wrote the " Vicar of Wake-
field," and " Deserted Village," was yesterday pulled down
to make way for the contemplated improvements in that
neighbourhood.
Lord Henry Vane, Admiral Tower, Baron de
Quarri, &c., were amongst the passengers by the steam-
pucka Princess Victoria, J. Britton.'commander, which
arrived yesterday (Thursday) morning from Antwerp. This
splendid ship made her passage in twenty-two hours, not-
with tending the contrary gale of wind.
The fobwing has been stated in several of the French
j ,urnals to be the sums which Paganini has derived Irons
his admirers by the public display of his extraordinary
ti'cnts Germany, 517,8001. ; France, 2,206,000 f.
England, 3,104,000 f. ; Italy, 86,929 f. Total, 5,914,229 f.
Paganini having been shown this estimate, merely observed,
" I will gladly give the calculator ten per cent. on the
amount if lie will prove it to be correct."—Mosical World.
Yesterday morning a youth named Henry Wood-
ward, about eleven years of age, the son of respectable
parents, who reside in Southwark Bridge-road, was paising
over some barges laying in the River Thames, just above
Southwark Bridge, when he tell into the water, and was
drowned.
Sir Beaumont Hallam, when one of the Barons of
the Exchequer, was remarkable for allowing a patient hear-
ing to any ca•c which came before iiim. When counsel
were for hurrying, the matter unnecessafilv, be used to say,
L?t the cause alone, and it will try itself."
The Hereford music meeting takes place on the
2Gth, 27th, and 28th instant. Tne programme of each
day's performance -exhibits a most inviting treat to ama-
. tears of all descriptions. Alnertazzi is the principal female

sit;g9r.
Tile following is a copy of the oath taken by the
Royal tradesmen :—" You shall swear by the Holy Evange-
lists, and the contents of that book, to be true oerrants to
our Sovereign Lady Victoria, of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland Queen. You shall know nothing
that shall be in any wise hurtful or prejudicial to her Ma-
jesty's Royal person, State, Crown, or dignity, but you
shall hinder it all in your power, and reveal the same to
her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, or one of her Majesty's
most Honourable Privy Council. You shall serve the
Queen truly and faithfully, in the place and quality of
in ort:inary to the Queen. You shat: be obedi-
ent to tho Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household.
So help you God."
During the whole of yesterday a vast number of
silectaters were attracted to the ruins of the late calamitous,
fire in the Strand, amongst whom many expert members of
the "swell mob" were conspicuous. The chevaliers d'in-
dusirie, notwithstanding the espionage to which they are so
disagreeably subject., contrived to exercise the art of " con-
vey.incing" a ith tolerable success. Many exchanges took
place in the arthdcs of purses, pocket-books, and bijoutcrie,
which evinced the dexterity of the master hand. • A g►eat
number, however, of juvenile probationers have been led
by their love of silk handkerchiefs into a temporary re•
tirerrient.
The Rue de Rivoli, in Paris, is to be matadami, e I
in imitation of some of our best London streets. Should
the plan succeed, it will probably be extended to other
parts of the French capital