The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-23 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
, Major and Mrs. Thornhill, in Devonshire-street, Port-
And- place, from Italy.
CHANGES.
Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Manor, from Lichfield;
,„_
Thomas Duncombe, M. at Lambton CaAle; Lord
lYtottesley, at Wrottesley Hall, Staffordshire ; Lady
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444uford, from Wynnstay, on a visiting tour ; General
John Lambert, at Dover; the Hon. William Howard,
at Brighton; Lord Moreton, at Lichfield; the Earl of
Nrbury, from Brighton; Admiral Sir Charles Nugent,
G.C.8., at Weymouth ; the Duke of Dorset, from Bcr.
tied Lodge, for Drayton House.

ANOTHER PRESENT TO HER

MAJESTY.

A few days since a small hamper, the contents of
which were secured by a linen cloth being carefully sewn
over the top, arrived at Windsor by coach, from York-
shire, and addressed as follows :

" With care.
" To her Majesty
" Queen Victoria
" At Briton. Palace.
" Or wherever she may
" Bee
" With Speed."
Upon the poettr at Nloody's coach-office taking the
inteltage (the carriage of which was 4s. 6d.) to the Castle
at Windsor, it was refused to be received. The pro-
reietor of t:tve coach office, however, thinking there might
4o ,me mistake, sent it a second time to the Castle,
whenf it- .was again refused by the orders (as we are in-
°rtn'-!(1) of the Master of the Household, the Hon. C.
A 'Murray. In the course of the same afternoon a curi-
°l44 squeaking noise (as the package was lying in the
'4040i-office) was heard to proceed from the hamper, re-
lerabling the stifled cries of a child ; and as it was clear
there was something in it alive, it was judged expedient,
Under the circumstances, to open the package—a thou-
land rumours having got abroad, in the meantime, as
t° the real nature of its contents. At length the ham-
Per was opened, and then there were discovered,
crouched beneath some hay, a couple of very beautiful
to.her, 11aj a male and female—and a letter addressed
esty, of which the following is " a true and
veritaote copy :

" Laughton-in-le-Morthem,
Near Rotherham.
" A Present of 2 Guniea-pigs To her Magesty, from A
tittle: Boy, 5 years old that come in one day from Piay-
ll* in the Street Says Mother, I love the Queen, be-
v4use she is a Good- Queen ; I Wish I Knew ware she
live, I would send her my two Pigs.
" The child would not Rest till he had sent the
Queen the only Tresure he posses he shed a teer over
Is, Pigs and told them they wet Going ware they would
„I"ie more plenty than he Could Huve for them he is
'quite Happy at porting with them.
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I am Afraid your Royal Highness will be displeased
at a Poor woman taking the Libirty to send them to
‘ll.ll. Majesty.

Your Majesty's Most Humble
" Servant,
" Oct. 9th "ELIZABETH ELDRIDGE.
1839."
The authorities at the Castle still refusing to admit
the
Pigs—notwithstanding Master Elridge told them,
'Afore they left Laughton for " Brighton Palace," that
they wes going ware they would have more plenty"
--4 gentleman in Windsor paid the carriage of the
nhper from Rotherham ; and the pigs, which he has
~ilriatened Albert and Victoria (the latter of which
shortly introduce some new acquaintance to his
faintly circle), are now comfortably domiciled in a spa-
"us hutch in the stable attached to his residence in
Gloucester-place.

It is currently rumoured that a matrimonial
.alliance is expected to take place between the Honour-
able peorge Wentworth Fitzwilliam and a daughter of
the Earl of Carlisle, and sister to Lord Morpeth.—
.Bheffield Independent.
We are happy to say that Mr. F. F. Lovell, of
the Ist Life Guards, who recently met with a severe
accident while pigeon shooting at the Red House,
Battersea-fields, continues to go on very favouraly.
Viscount Burghersh continues in Scotland, mak-
- Ing a tort of visits.
fir Benjamin and Lady Hill have been entertain-
NI% a large party at Llanover Court, their seat near
Abergavenny, durirg the past week.
FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—On
Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the
Town of Ramsgate public. house, Wapping Old-stairs,
In the body of a lad, fourteen years of age, named
"an, the son of a master lighterman, who was acci.
dentally drowned in the river Thames. Ttie Jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death."—Another in-
, quest was held at the same time on the body of a man
*hose name is unknown. The deceased was picked up
by` a man named Roe, on Tuesday morning, off the
:rnatnes Police-office. The body appeared to have
be
min the water only a few hours. His clothes indi-
ated that he belonged to some collier ship. The Jury,
l.!k!'he absence ()auntie!. evidence, returned a verdict o
L' niarl drowned."
"':. bEATH FROM LQCK-JAW.—Last night an
i°
nquest was held at Clapton, before Mr. Baker, on the
body of Frederick Thompson, aged forty years. From
the evidence it appeared that the deceased, who was a
gardener by trade, in endeavouring to kill a pig belong-
,TC to himself on last Friday week, the animal became
unrnanageable, and he, in his effort to cut its throat, cut
ik Piece out of the little finger of his left hand, just by
ithe middle joint. He became so nervous at the time
41 to be quite unable to kill the pig, and told a person
Itnn came to his assistance that he was afraid he had
..-:tut his hand off. He then hastened to the shop of a
~Itirgeon in the neighbourhood and got the wound
‘,.._"'-eased, and was going on so well that the sur-
'o did not think it necessary to remove the dressing
"11. his going to the shop on the Monday following. It
'!till, however continued painful, and on Thursday even-
int he complained that the pain, which he had before
•lelt „.-cili,tly in the finger and hip, had removed into his
4'ltf.'anb, and that he felt a dreadful illness all over
'l .1..-11°' He became gradually worse until Saturday,
When several medical gentlemen who were called in
runounced the case to be one of double lockjaw—
tetY a perfect closing of the jaw and throat, so that
was- impossible to pass any thing to the stomach. He
un
-- ntintied in the greatest possible pain until Sunday
night at ten o'clock, when death terminated his suffer-
I°''• The Jury returned a verdict, " That the de-
ceased died of lock-jaw, brought on by the causes above
- stated." The deceased has left a family of eleven chtl-
;Yen, seven of whom were solely dependent on him
or
r‘suPPort, and a widow, far advanced in pregnancy.
I
• uwing to the complete failure of the fruit crop
tineLanarkshire this season, a number of the large
ulers turned their attention to Ireland—taking over
experienced pullers and packers with them. The con-
., as,Tlence is, that the Irish fruit imported into the Clydeit
eutt abundant this year.—Edinburgh Courant. and a
ters._;tin bisrisey season
aqnudi t
now
ow altered
com commands
ina
nadpsp eaa rgaonocde
price,
what
b "i sale: -The ierop of large' fruit in Ireland has
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