The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-25 00:00:00

DUBLIN CITY ELECTION.

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday.)
CLOSE OF THE POLL.—FOURTH DAY.
At half-past seven o'clock the High Sheriffs and candi-
dates arrived in court, and Mr. Sheriff Halahan announced
the state of the poll as follows:

_
Gross Poll,
For the Recorder lot - Ili2
Lord Ingestrie .4t,,}). - ''," -1 I
Mr. Latouche ‘25A - 57(3
Serjeant O'Loughlen '2:l7 - 532
Majority on the day's poll - 63
.
Gross majority

This morning summonses were served from
the Foreign Office upon his MAJEsrv's Cabinet Ministers
to attend a Council at three o'clock.

THE CORONATION.-This morning we were
favoured with a view of the interior of Westminster
Abbey. The whole of the preparations for the Coronation
are already nearly completed, although Messrs. MAarva.,
of Greenwich, contracted with the Board of Works to
have them completed by the 3d of September.

lir. GI LLON'S name was omitted yesterday
in the majority of ;207 on Mr. GORDON'S motion of cen-
sure on the Irish Government, for using undue influence in
the late election in Dublin.

The report of the marriage of LEOPOLD with
a French Princess is repeated. The military promenade
of M irshal GERARD Will in consequence take the name of
the "War of the Nuptials."—(Guerre des Noces )
Corsaire.

CHANTREY'S statue of PITT, in Hanover-
square, which has been cloaked up in a roll of dirty
sackcloth since it was placed upon its pedestal, was un-
veiled to the public on Tuesday morning between eleven
and twelve o'clock. A Committee of Taste, consisting of
the Marquis CAMDEN, the Messrs. BANKES (of Corfe
Castle), and others of the warm political admirers of the
deceased statesman and subscribers to his statue, were pre-
sent upon the occasion.

A melancholy accident occurred at Waltham
Abbey on Tuesday. Captain Goan" of the 51st, a
fine young man, aged 25, was driving Mrs. GORDON
and a friend, Captain RICICARDSON, in a phaeton, with
two blood horses, when they took fright at an itinerant
organist in the road, and ran off. Captain GonnoN, in
jumping out to stop the horses, fell upon his head, and wali
killed upon the spot. By very great exertions on the part
of Captain RICIIARPSON his own life and that of Mrs.
GORDON were saved. The deceased had only been Ga-
zetted to his company the previous week.

A young Russian Nobleman, travelling in
droveG ntahny im
.str k with Take great
care,
violence h
saidabystander,
p
"you
who
kill him !"—Olt ! as for that matter," said the Russian,
"I am rich enough to answer for it. What do they
charge for postilions in this country !"—Tatler.
TH E CHOLERA MORBUS.—The accounts
from Cronstadt are to the 3d instant. Atnong the sea-
men of British ships there, 30 cases of cholera had oc-
curred, of which ten had ended fatally. The deaths in
the town had Ellen off to One per day on the 31st ult.,
but six had died on the 2d inst. At Archangel, from the
30,.h of May to the 30th of July, 2,012 persons had been
attacked, of whom 1,336 had died.

A Latin poet of the seventeenth century, hav-
ings publiclyenquired " why the ancients made use of
and and water, and the moderns of rotatory wheels, for
measuring time?" came forward some time after with
yearth i this solution,after
Formerly ages revolved in peace; now,
year
revolves in noise."

A young officer was once vaunting that he
aonly on the same day as FREDERICK the
Great, born,
itcame
intorcat few seconds after that illustrious Mo.
but not
within a
na
ithe world. " Then, by my soul," ex-
chimed a brother of the sword, " you have the honour
of claiming to be—the first blank after the great prize."
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PUNCTUATION.—Authors often send their
to the Press without comma or semicolon,
leaving
thelittle misplacing
matters
tfhae j
single udgment of
athise com-
positor.
oftenm -
po s those
o ce
t fatal to the intended meaning of the sentence ; and if it
is not nonsense already, it has every chance of becoming
r(,, The late Mr. SHARPE committed a strange blunder
i manuscripts
of this kind, when he wrote the following under the like-
ness of his patron Saint:—" Believing RICHARD BRO-
THERS to be a prophet sent, by God I have engraved his
tliiohtnetle
wrueoonurolkdv ebdhyat‘i‘heie comma two words for-
ward,
r.been
orvery a
udtihffoerr eonft .
the
Fp(r)rotiirla iattli'ea I nail:ls:el erl
Analytical Dictionary, entitled Principles of English
Composition."

DEATII OF THOMAS GREGORY, ESQ.-
With feelings of deep regret we have to record a very aggra-
vated case of murder, which occurred on Friday, about
half-past six o'clock in the afternoon, near Newtown, in
the Queen's county. On Friday, on his return home from
visiting a part ofhis property in that neighbourhood, he was
stopped on the road by one man, who struck his horse with
a pitchfork, while another came close behind to the " tax
cart" in which he sat, and fired the contents of a blun-
derbuss at him while engaged in front. Several balls pe-
netrated his back, and passed through the right breast, not-
withstanding which he drove at a furious rate about one
mile further, until he fell from the loss of blood near the
house of a Mr. DONNELLY, residing at Newtown. After
being taken into the house he deliberately sent for a doctor,
made his will, and drew up his depositions before two
Magistrates. During the night he was quite collected,
and died about eight o'clock next morning. While we deeply
deplore this melancholy occurrence, we are bound to state,
that the unfortunate gentleman rendered himself very ob-
noxious in the country, not only as a landlord but as a
professional attorney, by encouraging a species of litiga•
tion, which terminated in the ruin of many persons en-
: gaged in those proceedings. As far as we can judge h:s
death was caused, not by any organized system of cotnbi-
nation against the constituted authorities, but through the
de-
ceased..— Carlaanimosityly,, , Morningenterta
entertained individually
, against the de-