The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-31 00:00:00

THE KING.

The KING arrived this day at ten minutes past two
o'clock at St. James's Palace from Windsor, escorted by a
party of Lancers. His MAJESTY travelled in a close carriage
alone. It was expected that the QUEEN and the Duchess
of SAXE WEIMAR, her AIAJESTY'S sister, would have ac-
companied the KING, but owing to the weather they did
not leave the Palace. .

His MAJEST;Tfierwards held a Levee, which was nu-
merously attended.
A Privy Council was also held in the Painted Chamber.
A Cabinet Council will be held at the Foreign-office this
evening.
There were no arrivals at the Colonial or Foreign-offices
this morning.

We are sorry to announce that the Lady
Sherbrooke, from Londonderry to Quebec, with 273 pas-
sengers and crew, was lost on Moor Island, and, melan-
choly to relate, only 32 people were saved. Thus 241
persons met with a watery grave.

It is said to be in contemplation of Govern-
ment to take all turnpike trusts in the kingdom under
their own hands.—County Chronicle.

CITY TIIEATRE.—ELLEN TREE took her
benefit on Monday night, and had, what she so eery well
deserves, a complete bumper. The entertainments were
well chosen and as well sustained. Amongst those present
were—Lady GREY and party, Marquis of LANSDOWNE,
Marquis of HERTFORD, Lord and Lady MULGRAVE and
party, Lady BROUGHAM and party, Marquis of WOR-
CESTER, Earl WILTON ; Lord TULLAMORE, KINNAIRD,
ROKEBY, DE Roos, ALVANLY, GLENGALL ; Hon. Mrs.
MONTAGUE, Hon. Mr. GREVILLE, Colonel BARRINGTON,
Mr. DALLAS, Captain HARRINGTON, &c. Last night a
Mr. Moss made his appearance in Sir Giles Ocesrearh,
and acquitted himself in a respectable manner. Mr.
JAMES VINING gave greater importance to the part of
Welborn than is sometimes imparted to it ; and BUCK-
STONE evinced talent in Mar-all which we did not suspect
this agreeable performer to possess.
MR. COBBETT AND THE REPRESENTA-
TION OF MANCHESTER.—A letter from Mr. JAMES
HowIE, of Manchester, to Mr. CORBETT, has been pub-
lished, in which he says, "As Chairman of a Committee
formed in this town for the purpose of taking the neces-
sary steps to secureyour return to Parliament as Member
for Manchester, at the first election that shall occur after
the passing of the Reform Bill, I am-charged with the
gratifying duty of informing you, that the Committee have
taken steps to ascertain the feeling of the town, and that
the result of a ♦ery partial canvas has been so flattering to
their hopes as to determine them at once that you shall be
put in nomination."

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The state of crime throughout the country is
said to have lately undergone a new and appalling change.
Of highway robberies, burglaries, and other species of
theft, there appears to have teen on the different circuits
a marked diminution ; but in place of these, offences
against nature, and other outrages of new and unparal-
leled atrocity, attend the march of criminal justice, and
give a character to our population from which it had
hitherto been exempt.

Two off cers of the Kensington, American
corvette, ha‘re thought proper to take offence for what they
conceived to be a slight passed upon them, while on a visit
of inspection on board the Caledonia. It appears these
gentlemen went on board the Caledonia in plain clothes,
and sent up their cards to the quarter-deck. The Lieu-
tenant of the watch being busy in refitting the ship, and
observing they were not in uniform, handed their cards to
a Midshipman, who was desired to show the gentlemen
round the ship. Conceiving, we presume, that an officer
of their own rank should have accompanied them, they
subsequently sent a letter to the Lieutenant of the watch,
demanding satisfaction ; this reached the Commander—the
Commander handed it to Captain Cunzos, by whom it
was given to the Admiral (Sir E. CODRINGTON), who
very properly enclosed it in a letter to the Admiralty.—
The two American officers have since bad an interview
with Captai❑ CuazoN, and wished to withdraw their
letter, but it was too late. That they should have taken
umbrage at what they conceived to be a want of courtesy
we the more regret from the circumstance of their having
shown the greatest attention to English visiters—an atten-
tion returned by the Yacht Club gentlemen and other
visiters at Cowes.—Hampshire Telegraph.

We are informed, on pretty good authority,
that the present gross income of the Liverpool and Man-
chester Railway is about 200,0001. per annum, and that
the Company may have expended in warehouses, engines,
&c., up to this time, 1,000,000/. ; gross income 200,0001. ;
deduct the expencea of management, and they are upon a
complete and effective, but upon a very expensive scale,
say 70,000/. ; balance 130,0001., for the interest of
1,000,0001., or 13 per cent. Suppose the Sheffield and
Manchester road may cost 600,0001., and that its income
may be 80,000/., that its management may cost 25,0001. ;
balance 55,0001., for the interest of 600,0001., or 9 per
cent.—Sheffield Courant.

On Thursday a dinner was given at MORRI-
SON'S to entertain the new Tory Members. The Dublin
Evening Mail says upwards of 150 gentlemen sat down to
dinner. Mr. MooLE, the ex-member, in the chair. The
same Paper enumerates the respectable portion of the com-
pany in nine lines, thus :—The RECORDER, Loan MAYOR
elect, Sir T. WHELAN, the Right Hon. W. SAURIN, Sir
H. BROOKE, Captain CorrrrictrA3l, Sir R. SHAW, Rev.
C. BOYTON, Mr. FLOOD, Sir G. Ricir, Lord IrrnEsTarE,
Mr. GREGORY, Lord COLE, Hon. Mr. PLUNKETT, Mr.
LAMBERT, Colonel BLACKER, Mr. SNEYD, Mr. HENCHY,
1114j0r ALEXANDER, Rev. Mr. 13ErtiEseoan, Mr. EccLEs,
Mr. R. GREGORY, Major ECCLES, Rev. 0. MOORS, Rev.
Mr. GREGORY, &c. There were also present several
members of the Board of Aldermen, Sheriffs, Peers, &c.
This, to any one who remembers what the ascendancy
dinners were used to be, was a ragged set, indeed, in every
respect—rank, numbers, and intellifence. Among the
toasts drunk in solemn silence by this ultra-loyal body,
were—" The King,"--,, The Queen,"—" The Princess
Victoria ;" and then (mark the contrast),—" The Duke
of Cumberland, and the rest of the Royal Family"—Nine
times nine.

It would appear by the private letters from
Cronstadt, of the Bth instant, that the cholera morbus has
nearly subsided there, or at least that the disease is now
attended by symptoms far less acute than when it first
spread in the place, and is less fatal in its consequences.
In a population of 20,000, about 115 were at one time
dying every day ; but the number of deaths had consi-
derably diminished by the beginning of August. In some
cases, the symptoms were not unlike those which are ex-
hibited in certain cases of poison. This. it appears, led to
rumour among the lower classes that Polish agents were
going about the place, administering poison to the inha-
bitants. A great popular excitement appears to have been
produced by this strange notion, and disturbances broke
ont, which the military had some difficulty in quelling.
In one of the letters it is stated that milk, which ge-
nerally acts as an antidote to arsenic, has been admi-
niste;ed to patients supposed to be afflicted with
cholera, and that it was productive of the same effects
precisely as in the cases of poisoning with that mineral
In many other instances, however, convulsions and death
have been the consequences of taking milk. Trade suf-
fered great injury, both in Cronstadt and St. Petersburg'',
from the precations taken to check the progress of the
cholera. Most of the houses and counting-houses were
still closed at the date of the last advices ; but it was
hoped that in a few days the restrictions would be les-
sened.— Times.

The Sussex Advertiser says, we learn from
Horsham, that the atrocious culprit JOHN HOLLOWAY,
horrified by the recollection of his own iniquities, is now
in a state of raving madness.

Monday night some inhuman wretch cut the
tongue out of a little pony, the property of a very poor man
of the name of AIuLuEN, who lives in Cashel.—Limerick
Post.

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.—On Sunday
last a melancholy occurrence took place at the residence
of Lady MARY LAKF, No. 11, Earl's-terrace, Kensing-
ton. It appears that a female domestic to her Ladyship,
named AIARTIIA WILLIA3ts, about 2.1 years of age, was
seduced a short time since, by a tradesman, who is father
of a family, living in the same neighbourhood. The
young woman was pregnant, and, a few days before Sun-
day, proceeded to town, and teturned with a phial full of
tincture of colchicum, for the purpose, as it is supposed,
of causing abortion. On Sunday morning the family was
much alarmed by the sudden manner in which the young
woman was seized with a violent fit of retching, and a
corresponding relaxation of the bowels, which was mis-
taken for en attack of the cholera. Iter Ladyship's me-
dical attendant, Air, GARIUC/ii was called in; when, on
searching the bed-room, an empty phial was found, in
which were discovered the dregs of the tincture alluded to.
The young woman died in the course of that day. On a
post naortem examination it was ascertained that the un-
fortunate creature was six weeks enceinte, and that her
death was occasioned by a large dose of the tincture. An
inquest was held at the Kensington 4rtns, before Mr.
STra.r.m:, when the above facts were elicited, and a ver-
dict in accordance with them was rettgaed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, AUG. 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Cambrian,
Blythe, from Bombay; West Indian, Simpson, from Jamaica ;
kind Canton, Garbett, from the Mauritius. Arrived from the
river, the Emerald, Morton, for Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, Aye. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the
river, the Alfred, Flint, for Madras.
DOVER, AUG. 30.—Arrived the Iris; Wilmans, from the
West Indies.
DARTMOUTH, Aye. 29.—Arrived the William and Sophia,
, Gass, from Batavia.
MILFORD, AUG. 29.—Arrived the Martha, Pope, from St.
Petersburgh.
HOLYHEAD, Ave. 29.—Arrived the Clyde, Bishop, from
Bombay.
LIVERPOOL, Are. 28.—Arrived the Thomas Battersby,
Zarp, from Macaio; Mary, Ann, Robertson, and Hull, Clark,
from Jamaica ; Two Sisters, Smith, from Antigua; R. J. Haynes,
from Carthagena ; Marion, Tulip, from Mobile; Richmond,
from Virginia ; Hibernia, Hamilton, and Nimrod, Atkins, from
Charleston ; New Orleans, Patton ; and Silas Richards, Hold-
ridge, from New York; Tagus, Ware, from Lisbon ; and Moro
Castle, from Africa.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 29.—Arrived the Brunswick, Rosindale,
from Bombay; Phoebe, Saundry, from Pernambuco; Meridian,
Wylie, from Savannah ; Earl of Egremont, from Alexandria ;
and Ajax, Hiern, from New York.
COWES, AUG. 29.—Arrived the Valiant, Bragg, and Carnar-
von, Garth, from Rio Janeiro.
BRISTOL, AUG. 29.—Arrived the Mercury, from Bayonne.
BRIGHTON, AUG. 29.—Arrived the Morning Star, from
Bombay, sailed the Zd of February, and from Madras the Ilth
of March.
MARGATE, AUG. 29.—The Andromeda, Parkin, from New
South Wales, still lays fast cn shore on the Tongue Sand, and
discharging. Several smacks are in attendance.

The Mary, Storm, from Stockton, was assisted into Grimsby
with loss of foremast.
The Dale, Williamson, bound to St. John's, N. 8., has put
back to Liverpool leaky.
The Superior, Cong, from New York to Jamaica, was wrecked
off Crooked Island the 15th of June; crew and part of the cargo
saved. _ .

The James, Rowcastic, from Savanilla to Liverpool, was
wrecked the sth ult. on Fish hey ; crew and eargo saved.
Arrived at Bombay, the Sir John Rae, Reed, from London;
and Flying Fish, Gardner, from Rotterdam.