The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

establishment of new Banks, or for permission on the part of
some now existing to increase their capital.
The Inverness Town Council is completely at sixes
and sevens.

Yesterday, the London mail was about half an hour
behind the usual time. The cause was a great fall of snow
along the whole line from Carlisle to Hamilton. The snow
fell to' the depth of more than a foot on Wednesday,
throughout the district between Edinburgh and Lanark.--
Scots Times.

...tumour is loud with her thousand tongues on the
subject of the future Representatives to be returned
to Parliament from Worcestershire. In the event of a dis-

solution the strength of opposing parties in this county may
be very much changed.—Worcester Herald.
Mr. O'Connell, it is said, felt the inconvenience of
his popularity on Tuesday ; for a crowd followed him to
the National, and he was obliged to disperse it by saying,
" Be off, be off !—You'll make people think there's a run

on the bank !" . .
A requisition to invite Sir Robert Peel to a public
dinner in this city is to be opened for signature at different
places in town on Monday next.—Edinburgh Courant.
Notwithstanding the early indications of winter,
woodcocks are said to be unusually scarce, most of those

exhibited for sale coming from France.
At a recent meeting of the Warwickshire Society of
Natural History and Archaeology, Professor Buck Una
stated that under the foundations of houses at Leamington

(where there had been previously one immense lake) there
were to be found the remains of elephants, hippopotomuses,
hyanas, tigars, buffaloes, and a string of twenty other ani-
mals, which he could enumerate.
A letter from Holland states that the English have
occupied the Isle of Balle in the Straits of Sunda, which
the Dutch consider as belonging to them. This Isle is si-
tuated in eight degrees south latitude, and forms with the
eastern point of Java the Straits of Balle.
On Saturday morning, between ten and eleven
o'clock, as a poor aged woman, named Hutz, was engaged
wading through the mud on the bank of the river, on the
east side of Waterloo-bridge, in search of coal, she turned
up a tin-box, about six inches in breadth and eight in length.
She immediately broke it open, when out fell a bag, which
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contained 501. in gold, and 31. in silver. At the [bottom
of the box were deposited three .5/. Bank of England notes,
and two 1.50/. Bank of England notes. There were also
two diamond rings, one gold watch, and several bars of
silver. The poor old woman seemed almost distracted
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with joy.
As winter progresses the severity of the weather
seems to increase—piercing winds, rain, frost, and snow,
being the only alternations in the calander. On Saturday
all the hills in the west of Scotland were white with snow
and this morning a heavy fall took place here, which co-
vered the ground to a considerable depth.—Scotsman.
AN ECCENTRIC. .An old inhabitant of Devizes,
Mr. John Ballinger, died last week, and left behind him
a letter addressed to a gentleman of the town, which was
not to be opened till after his death. It contained direc-
tions for the discovery of property which he had secreted
in his house ; and accordingly, on search being made, seve-
ral old pairs of breeches were found, in the lining of one Of
which was a piece of white silk, whereon was written a par-
ticular description of the respective secret places where the
property was to be found. In the course of the search the
bottoms of several chairs were cut out ; but under the
ash-hole of the brewhouse and the hearth of the house was
found the sum of 130 sovereigns. This the careful eccen-
tric had bequeathed to the Bible and Missionary Society.--
Wiltshire Independent.
The Tories are in a terrible rage at the exclusion Of
Mr. Sergeant Adams, from the Stewardship of Coventry,
and the nomination of a gentleman of Liberal principles in
his place. The same course has bean taken in three or
four other instances, and we sincerely thank Ministers for
having adopted it. Of all intolerant animals, a Tory lawyer
is the worst. To prove this position, we need only point to
Lords Lyndhurst and Wynford.—Hampshire Independent.
Plutarch says that in his own time there was to be
seen at Cephisus an old oak-tree, near which Alexander the
Great had his camp at the time of the battle of Cberoea,
and which to that day was called Alexander's Oak. It
was in its vicinity that the Macedonians who fell in that
battle were buried.
On Saturday, at the Croydon Petty Sessions, a
farmer's son named Burket was fined forty shillings and
costs for trespassing in pursuit of game on the estate of
Raikes Currie, Esq., at Sanderstead. The defendant had
on a former occasion been convicted for a similar offence.
On Saturday an extensive fire broke out on the pre-
mises of Mr. Palmer, at Layton, in Essex, which consumed
several outhouses and four ricks of hay and straw. The
fire is supposed to have been the act of an incendiary, as a
box, containing lucifer matches was found on the spot.
Mr. Palmer, it is said, is uninsured.
Earl Spencer has arrived at Althorp Park, from a
visit to Mr. Coke, at Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Althorp is
one of the most interesting mansions in the kingdom, espe-
cially for its books and pictures, which were collected by
the late Earl, at an enormous cost.
Ramsgate is still honoured by the presence of their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and Princess Vic-
toria, and a few noble families. Their Royal Highnesses,
when the weather permits, are to be seen promenading the
pier, accompanied by a select but noble party of friends,
and, we are happy to say, in the best of health. Tuesday,
has been definitively arranged for their Royal Highnesses
departure to Claremont, much to the regret of the inhabi-
tants of Ramsgate. The dinner parties at West Cliff
House have included Baroness Lehzen, Lord and Lady
Radstock, Lord and Lady Barham, Lady Theodosia Strang-
ways, the Dean of Chester, Sir J. Conroy, Sir Robert and
Lady Macfarlane, Sir A. Murray, Lieut.-Colonel Barnard,
Captain and Mrs. Weymouth, &c.
AFFAIRS OF THE DUKE OF YORK...We under-
stand the sole delay in the adjustment of this long and pain-
fully-protracted subject now arises in the office of the soli-
citor for the executors, all the necessary admissions on the
part of the Treasury, with a view to the discussion of his
Royal Highness's right to the mines of Nova Scotia, which
have proved highly profitable, having been signed. It 15
too bad that a large body of distressed individuals, after a
patient submission of nine years, should be thus thwarted
on the very threshold of justice, and their hopes deferred to
an indefinite period, or until the solicitor, who ought to be
anxiously alive to their interests, can find leisure to attend
to their business.
A letter from Boulogne-sur-Mer says—" Our town
is now getting very thin, yet it is evident that our winter
society will be much larger than in former years. Winter
balls, amusements, and studies have commenced ; amongst
the last may be noticed a course of lectures on the Germs°
language by Dr. Muquarat, a clever professor. One or two
new hotels are projected, and a new square in the Tintel-
leries ; we have a new library (English), and the new Con'
tinental Linen Company is about to commence operations;
It is said that the Rue de l'Ecu is to be paved and lighted
throughout."
THE BESET VESSELS.—It is with much regret
we find that the dreadful calamities of the preceding al'
ing season may be again occurring in the northern seas,
and that numbers of our hardy mariners may be at this
very moment enduring afflictions and privations, the mere
allusion to which is enough to make the blood run chill in
our veins. No intelligence has yet been received regarding
six of the vessels that sailed in last spring on the perilous
voyage in pursuit of the northern whale in Davis' Straits.;
those vessels are the Swan, of this port ; the Dee, the
Thomas, and the Advice, of Aberdeen ; the Grenville .Ba.9'
of Newcastle, and the Norfolk, of Berwick. The frequent
occurrence, of late years, of such dreadful catastrop?es
those to which we have adverted, leads us, on a principle
humanity, to wish that this dingerous trade, unprofitable a'
it has lately proved, was put an end to.—Hull Packet.
FIRE AT THE SEAT OF LORD BLANTYIa,*---.
On Wednesday evening last a fire broke out at Lethingtl:
or Lcnnoxlove, in East Lothian, the property of the You, tur,
ful Lord Blantyre, and at present occupied by his mother,
the Right Hon. Lady Blantyre, and family. The fire
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ginated in a sleeping apartment, through a lighted coal
fall-
ing upon the floor. The flames spread between the floor,
ing of two rooms. Information was immediately sent t
Haddington for the fire engine, which, with a plentiful sel;
ply of water, and the united exertions of the superint,e
dent of police and party, happily succeeded in extinguishing
the fire, without its spreading further than the two rod
in which it was first discovered, both of them, with the
niture being much damaged. Great fears were entertain;
for the safety of the Duchess's Room," so designated from
its having been occupied by the celebrated beauty of r
Court in the reign of King Charles the Second—Francest.
Theresa Stuart, Duchess of Lennox. A fine full-length
portrait, by Lely, of the Duchess, likewise other excel'
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ones of Queen Mary, the Admirable Crichton, the Marquis
of Montrose, and Lord Belhaven, are in the house, but for-
tunatelyo.
habitants of Haddington for their prompt and active
escaped uninjured. Great. praise is due to the
exer-
tions in saving so valuable a piece of antiquity. t
ffairs had been slightly deranged from_
Banbury, whose a
after see on off by the coach
pecuniary difficulti.cs, g his s
Mr. Simon Harrison, a respectable
walked into his
to a situation obtained for him by a friend,Mrs. Harrison,
warehouse, and deliberately cut his throat. h was
dis-
missing him at dinner-time, sent after him, and
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covered just as life became extinct.—Leamingtot.
Barnes'r
marched
It will be remembered that a few days since k
vina_
a constable of the D division 146, in Cal-
fall in the shape of 10,000/., ;eft by a wealthy uncle
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gentleman ; suite that period
cutta, which enabled him to quit the force, and set up
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met with a lucky
of good 'luck,
same division, has met with a similar piece.
which has also enabled to live at his ease.
police constable Legge, 4?