The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-26 00:00:00

SHARES.

Grcat Western Railway
London and Brighton Railway
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway 160
London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) ..
Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway 44
North Midland Railway

On Monday, the 4th, Sir David Brewster was
unanimously elected Rector of the University of St. An.
drew's, in the room of Dr. Buist, whose turn it was to re.
tire.—Edinburgh Courant.
BRISTOL, SUNDAY MORNING. DEPA It-

TORE OF THE GREAT WESTERN.-The Great Western
vas to have departed yesterday, but was unexpectedly de
layed by some of her hands refusing to go in her etc"-
having signed articles ; she sailed, therefore, this morning
at about two o'clock. She takes with her upwards of
4,000 letters, a valuable cargo of silks, manufactured
goods, worsted stuffs, cottons, and 108 passengers, among
whom are the two eldest sons of the Earl of Winchilsea,
Judge Hallyburton, alias Sam Slick, Lord F. Paulett,
Lieut.-Colonel Oldfield, Captain J. Forbes, and Mr.
Kaye, a Government messenger, with despatches.

PUNN IN a MOTTO.—" Deum cole, resew seas,'
" Worship God, serve the king," is the punning motto o
Cole, Earl of Inniskillen.

CHURCH DEBATE.—The adjourned discussion
between the Rev. C. J. Kennedy and Mr. Leckie of
Birrhead, on the subject of Church Establishments, was
resumed and finished in the High Church on Monday night.
Both parties appear pleased with the results, and both are pre-
paring to reward their champions for their exertions. A soiree
is to be given in Mr. Nisbet's Church, on Tuesday, to Mr.
Kennedy, when a testimonial is to be presented him. A sub-
scription has also been set on foot by Churchmen to confer
some mark of respect on Mr. Leckie. In addition to this,
the working classes among Churchmen are considering in
what way they will testify their sense of the ability with
which Mr. Leckie defended and supported the principles
of Church Establishments.—Paisley Advertiser.
NEW MARRIAGE ACT.—NO less than nine
notices of marriage were read at the Board of the Barn.
staple Union, on Friday last.
Loss OF THE SMACK " FELICITY" OF
SWANSEA. —We regret to state, that the fears entertained
for the safety of this vessel have been confirmed. She

sailed from -Swansea on the evening of Thursday, the 7th
inst., for Abcrthaw, and it is supposed she must have
struck on the Tuscar rock, and immediately went down.
The body of the master, Mr. Thos. Thomas, was found on
Newton sand ; but those of his mate and a passenger
(which, with the master, were the whole on board) have
not yet been discovered. The master has left seven
orphan children, the eldest under fourteen, and the mate,
a widow and two children, to deplore their loss.—Cam-
brian.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—On Saturday last,
a boy, about seven years of age, son of a person, named
William Solomans, of Risca, undertook, for a wager of a
sovereign, to run from Risca to Newport, with the Tre-
degar coach, and to reach the Post. office in this town be-
fore it. Accordingly, the child started from Risca with
the coach, and kept with it until they reached the top of
Stow Hill, when he quickened his paco down the steep
descent, and outstripped the coach, winning the wager, to
the delight of every one who witnessed the extraordinary
performance. The distance is about seven miles, and it

was completed in 45 minutes, Considering the age of the
boy, we think this a feat almost unprecedented.---Merlin.
SINGULAR PIIENOMENON.—That extraordi-
nary phenomenon, the cause of which philosophers are very
well acquainted with, consisting of a peculiar clearness of
the atmosphere, which sometimes precedes an immediate
fall of rain, was particularly observable here on the after-
noon of Wednesday se'nnight. The heavens were overcast
with " thick clouds," evidently burdened withwater ; but
so lucid was the air, that from Stow Hill, the eye might
wander to the remotest verge of the horizon over the ex•
tensive, beautiful, and varied landscape that lay around,
and find no shadow to obstruct the view. We could not

help identifying in our fancy this glorious phenomenon o
nature, with the allegorical smiles of spring, that some.
times beam forth on the eve of winter, too often, alas
veiled by the passing tempest, and annihilated by the storm.
—Merlin.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty rode yesterday afternoon in the Riding-
school, at Pimlico. _ _

The Marquis of Normanby and Viscount Melbourne had
audiences yesterday of the Queen. •
The Royal dinner party at the Palace, last evening, in-
cluded the Dowager Countess and Lldy Fanny Cowper,
Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Surrey, Viscount Melbourne,
Lord Byron, lion. Charles Gore, Hon. William Cowper,
and Sir Joseph Copley, Bart.
The Duke anc Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr and
Baroness Ahlefeldt, left town yesterday afternoon, for Kew.
Messrs G. R. Robinson, T. N. Hunt, Brooking, Chris-
tophers, C. P. Bennett, and E. Hunt, a Deputation on
the affairs of Newfoundland, had an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Colonial Office.
The Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to
the Court of Madrid, and suite, arrived, at four o'clock
yesterday, at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, from
Paris.

The Rev. R. Alder and Mr. Clogstoun had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby, yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

Mr. John M'Neill, her Majesty's Minister to Persia,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Despatches from the Right Hon. Stewart Mackenzie,
Governor of Ceylon ; from -Captain Prescott, Governor of
Newfoundland; from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of
the Mauritius; from the Governors of Honduras, Malta,
Gibraltar, and the lonian Islands, were receivedyesterday,
at the Colonial-office.