The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-19 00:00:00

CRIC
A Match of Cricket was ph
day between the Epiom and K.
favour of Epsom.

KINGSCOTE.
First Innings -
Second Ditto -

71 EPSOM.
• First Innings
• 61 Second ditto

132 W
Epsom won by 10 wickets.
On Saturday last a Cricket Match was played at Harrow,
between eleven Harrovians, and eleven Gentlemen of the
Marylebone Club, which was won by the Harrovians, and five
wickets to go down.

133

TUE WEATJIER.—The thermometer at half.
past three yesterday, was 86 at the Royal Ex-
change.

Ti ARMY.—On Monday next the First Bat-
talion of the Coldstream Guards will march from St. James's
Park for Windsor, to relieve the First Battalion of the Grena-
dier Guards, now doing duty there. The Second Battalion of
the Grenadier Guards are under orders to march for Ireland, to
relieve the First Battalion of the Third Regiment of Guards.
THE GREAT LEVIATHAN.—The following ac-
count of the failure in attempting to launch the great timber
ship, Baron Renfrew, is copied from the Quebec Gazette of
the 20th of June :—" We feel, in common with every descrip-
tion of good people here, the great disappointment of expecta-
tion, of the launch of the great ship Baron Renfrew, at the
Island of Orleans, on Saturday last. Various are the reports
and conjectures as to the cause of the launch not being com-
plete. We are glad, however, to learn, that there was no want
of foresight, and judicious preparations. The ship started
handsomely, but owing to the immense weight and great
length, all the grease was burnt up on the ways (and these were
on fire) before she reached the water; from this cause alone
she stopped, and rests right-on the run, partly in the tide.—
Perhaps it may be requisite to block tip the ship, and lower the
war a little before the Baron displays all her grandeur in her
proper element."

COPENHAGEN, JULY s.—The late meeting of
the Asiatic Company rejected the proposal of the
Directors to fit out a ship for the trade to India
and China.

M. de LALINDE states that he received from
Tarini himself (the celebrated composer) the following singular
anecdote respecting one of his compositions, which :hews to
what a degree his imagination was inflamed. lie dreamed one
night that he had made a compact with the devil, who promised,
to be at his service on all occasions; and during this vision,
every thing succeeded to his mind; his wishes were pre-
vented, and his desires always surpassed by the assistance
of his new servant. In short,
i he imagined that he pre-
sented the devil his violin, n order to discover what
kind of a musician he was, when, to his great astonish-
ment, he heard him play a solo so singularly beautiful,
and executed with such superior taste and precision, that
it surpassed all the music he had ever heard or con-
ceived in his life. So great was his surprise, and so exqui-
site his delight upon this occasion, that it deprived him of
the power of breathing. He awoke with the violence of his
sensations, and instantly seized his fiddle, in hopes of express-
ing what he had just heard, but in vain. He, however, di-
rectly composed a piece, which is perhaps the best of all his
works, and called it " The Devil's Sonata!" He knew it,
however, to be so inferior to what his sleep had produced, that
he would have broken his instrument, and abandoned music
for ever, if he could have subsisted by any other means.
Mr. JOHN SINCLAIR, from London, who is now
performing at our Theatre, took places for himself and.wife in
the Umpire for Liverpool ; at the same time Mr. Jones
SINCLAIR, of this town, took places for himself and wife by the
same coach. Unknown to each other, the two John Sinclair:
and their wives occupied the inside of the coach, from Landon
to Liverpool. In the course of conversation it came out that
the three children of the said John Sinclairs were of the same
name—namely, their eldest daughters, " Christiana," their
eldest sons, " John," their youngest daughters, " Catherina."
—( Liverpool Paper. )
On Tuesday last, Mr. DUKE, of Bexhill, at-
tained his ninetieth year, and according to custom, celebrated
hie birth-day, by giving an excellent dinner at his house to
about fifty of his friends and neighbours. Air. Duke also or-
dered 150 stones of good beet to be distributed amongst the
neighbouring poor.