The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-04 00:00:00

OLYMPIC.

Madame last night added a new burletta to the pleasing
repertoire of her establishment. It is called Forty and
Fifty, and though ❑ot possessing any new incident, is very
amusing in the hands of Liston and Mrs. Orger, who made
the parts they had to perform very effective, and the author,
concoctor, or translator, had the felicity of experiencing
the congratulatory plaudits of the audience. The house
was crowded.

It is said that his Majesty will be induced, in the
course of the spring, to take a trip to Portsmouth, for the pur-
pose of inspecting the splendid teak ship Liverpool, lately ar-
rived from Bombay, as a present to the King, from the Imaum
of Muscat.
His Majesty, it is now said, intends keeping his
birthday in Buckingham Palace on May 28th . The Palace
is to be called " St. George's Palace." Her Majesty intends
entertaining a large party of the younger branches of the No-
bility on the Ist of June with a ball, on a grand scale, to con-
clude with fireworks, purposely to enable the juvenile guests to
inspect the beautiful and extensive gardens.
A rich scene occurred yesterday before the Carlow
Committee. Mr. Charles Pearson, the Under Sheriff, being
DOW disclaimed by the ex- Sheriff Raphael, gave the late M. P.
for Carlow a quid pro quo. Mr. Pearson was asked in his
examination, if it was his practice to keep all letters addressed
to him ? Mr. Pearson replied, " No ; not all." Now, for
instance, said Mr. Sergeant Wilde, " Suppose Mr. Ra-
phael had sent you an invitation to dinner, would you
have kept that ?" " Most undoubtedly," replied the Un-
der Sheriff; " that would have been such a rare occur-
rence, that I should not have failed to preserve it as a
most choice autograph. 1 did once receive an invitation from
the ex-Sheriff to dine with him the following week, when he
told me he would ask a dozen friends to meet me ; but, from
that moment to this, I have never heard anything more about
it. Here is the note."—( Roars of laughter.)
The Prime Warden and Members of the Gold-
smiths' Company will give a grand banquet on the 9th instant
at their magnificent hall, to which the Duke of Wellington,
Sir R. Peel, &c., are invited.
ROYAL SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS.—The ninety-
eighth anniversary festival of this excellent Institution was ce-
lebrated yesterday in Freemasons' Hall; Earl Howe in the
Chair, supported by Lord Burghersh and upwards of 250
amateurs and professors of music.
The Lady Mayoress has issued cards for a grand
ball at the Mansion-house on the 28th of April. It is to be
on a scale of great splendour. Dancing will take place in the
Eg) ptian Hall.
SOUTHWARK.—REPEAL OF TIIE STAMP Du-
Ttas.—A requisition to the High Bailiff of this borough is
now getting up, and a great number of signatures have al-
ready been obtained, requesting him to call a public meeting
of the inhabitants as early as possible, to consider the pro-
priety of petitioning Parliament for the total repeal of the
stamp-duty on newspapers.
STAMP DUTlES.—Yesterday Mr. Wire and other
gentlemen of the Corporation presented a requisition signed
by many of the most eminent merchants and bankers of Lon-
don to the Lord Mayor, to take the Chair in the Guildhall
upon the occasion of the meeting of the citizens of London
to consider the propriety of addressing Parliament to remove
the stamp duties. The Lord Mayor at once consented to
take the Chair at one o'clock precisely in the Guildhall. It
is expected that there will be a most crowded attendance.
PUBLIC 'MEETING ON THE ECCLESIASTICAL
COURTS BILL.—On Thursday, a general meeting of the inha-
bitants of York, convened by the Lord Mayor, in pursuance of
a requisition, was held, to consider the propriety of petitioning
the two Houses of Parliament against the consolidation of the
Ecclesiastical Courts into the Court in London, and that the
Court at York may be preserved.
EXFLOSION.—Arthur, the druggist, now in cus-
tody for attempting to blow up his shop in Gallowgate with
gunpowder, has been served with his indictment, and, we un-
derstand: his trial comes on in Edinburgh, on the 16th inst.—
Scots Times.
A few days ago a hen, the property of Mr. Ost-
eliffe, of Barnsley, attacked a large rat. The combat was se-
vere for a few seconds, but the feathered assailant came off
victorious, as she succeeded in killing the four footed marauder.
BLACK Fox.—A fox, perfectly black, has been
seen at different times by several farmers in the woods at
Swinton and Wombwell. Both woods are in the Badsworth
Hunt.

THE LATE RUMOUR IN HIGH LIFE.—We are
assured from a quarter which we think may be depended upon,
that the rumour lately revived of a claimant to the title and
estates of a Noble Lord is untrue. The female alluded to
was the acknowledged wife of a person who holds the situation
of a clerk in a great mercantile establishment (the Bank of
England), and she has lately died. The bov, her son, is by
her husband, and acknowledged as such by him. The Earl
retired to the South of France in the month of April, 1819 ;
the boy was born a year after.
We are assured that there is not the slightest
ground for the report which has been in circulation as to the
cause of the illness of a lady of high and distinguished rank.
The lady alluded to, whilst in a delicate state of health, re-
ceived a sudden fright at a juvenile party given at Brighton
Pavilion, and the unfortunate result was the birth of a still-
born child, attended with very afflicting collateral symptoms.
Her Ladyship is fast recovering her health.
STEAM.—Strange that there should slumber in
yonder tranquil pond a power so tremendous, that, could we
condense and direct its energies, it might cleave the solid earth
in twain, and yet so gentle, that it may be governed and ap-
plied, and set to perform its stupendous miracles, by a child I
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macy, and will eventually produce changes, both moral and
physical, of which it is difficult to limit the extent. One bushel
of coal, properly consumed, will raise 70,000,000 pounds
weight a foot high. The Menai bridge, weighing 4,000,000
pounds, suspended at a medium height of 120 feet, might
hive been raised where it is by. seven bushels of eoals. M.
Dupin estimates the steam-engines of England to possess a
moving power equivalent to that of 6,400,000 men at the wind-
lass. And this stupendous agent is at present only in its in-
fancy.—The Tin Trumpet.