The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-21 00:00:00

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Saturday

last Mr. Charles Knox, only son of Colonel Knox, of
Rappa Castle, in the county of Mayo, led to the altar at
All Souls' Church, in Langham-place, the Lady Louisa
Browne, eldest daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness
of Sligo, in the presence of different branches of that noble
family, consisting of the Earl of Altemont, Lady Dun-
garvon, Lord Strangford, the Earl of Desert ' • Sir Henry,
Lady, and Miss Titchbourne ; Lord James B owne, the
Hon. Mr. Herbert, Colonel and Mrs. Knox, Mr.
ton, Lord and Lady Oranmere, Mr. Lambert, Sir Wathen
and Mr. Waller,tee. t iie Bishop of Chichester per-
formed the ceromony. Tee hridemaids were Miss Smythe
and Hon. Misses Browse. After the ceremony the party
returned to the mansion in Mansfield-street, where a sump-
tuous dejeune was given to a circle of fashionables, thirty-
six in number. In the efternoon the happy couple left
town in a new chariot and tour, to pass the honeymoon at
Solt-hill : thence they go to the Vale of Llangollen. The
Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo purpose _visiting
Weisbaden.
Mr. Hawes's Annual Concert which takes place
at Willis's Rooms on Friday evening, the 24th instant,
promises to afford a grand treat to the lovers of music.
Among other attractions there it, we perceive, the Sere
nade, on favourite subjects from the works of Moz
Haydn, Cheruhini, and Spontini, be Mrs. Anderson and
Messrs. Blagrove, WI eeht, Williams, and Baumann,
which was perforitil by 11,ern et the Anniversary Meeting
of the Royal Society of Musicians, with such unbounded
approbation. We also see in the excellent bill of fare
which Mr. Hawes hes provided for his guests on this occa-
sion, a Quartett, by Haydn, in which Loder, Lindley.
kc., are to figure. In the vocal department appear the
names of Albertazsi, Miss M. B. Hawes, and a host of
other singers. The whole is under the able conduct of
Sir George Stuart.
THE OXFORD••STREET EXPERIMENTAL PAV-
INO.—On Saturday, in accordance with the arrangements
made by the Marylebone Vestry, limiting the period of
the trial of the respective experimental pavements laid
down in Oxford-street until the month of May, Mr. Ken-
sett, as Chairman of the Paving Committee, laid before
the Board the state in which each of the experiments
were. The following is the result :—On examining the
bitumen laid down by the Bastenne Gaujac Bitumen Com-
pany, they found it had stood the test of the severe wear
and tear of the vehicles passing that road during the whole
winter, without any material alteration. The. portion laid
down by the Val de Travers Company, which had been
studded with stone, had stood ; but that portion in which
the broken granite had been set in their liquid had totally
failed, and must be removed immediately. The Aberdeen
granite cubes laid down by the parish had proved to
be in most excellent condition. That more particularly
which had been set in Claridge's Asphalte was in a state
of superior order, and the stones appeared immoveable.
Robinson's Bitumen had been taken up some mouths since
in consequence of having proved a decided failure. The
Scotch Asphaltum having been repaired once, had again
become so dilapidated as to render the portioq of the
road which it occupies dangerous. The wooden block
pavement which had been laid down five months since by
the projector, Mr. Stead, had excited the minute atten-
tion and admiration of the Committee. It appeared, on
examination, that the blocks formed a road of the most
even surface, and carriages passed over without the
slightest noise ; and of the twelve inches, the length of
the blocks, it was found that they had not diminished
one quarter of an inch. Their attention, however,_wcahs
particularly directed to the bottom of the blocks,
we
ared
to the extent of about three-fourths of aninch,
t h "firps t
discoloured by a blue stain, intimating that ap-
proach.d of decay was making its
inppearance.
Committee
Aoincomnistiteee-
ruble division of opinion existed
upon the above appearance being thamatoonfgdetchaev ; they were,
however, of a unanimous opinion that a further trial was
necessary, in order to enable the Vestry fairly to be satis-
fied as to the durability of the pavement e.h.ich might ulti-
mately be decided upon, and that anydecision ought to bo
deferred till the autumn. It was ultimately decided in the
Vestry, that the application of a gentleman named Geary
to lay down a wooden pavement upon an improved prin-
ciple should be referred to the Committee, acid that the
final decision upon the experiments should be deferred to
the first Saturday in September. •