The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

SPORT'IN

nedy, Captain and Mrs. Drummond, Hon. Mr. Grey, Hon.
Captain O'Grady, Lady F. Maule, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Vil-
liers, Sir J. and Lady Oswald, Hon. Miss Denison, Major
Stirling, Captain Dundas, Count Festises, Hon. Mr. Gordon,
Captain Stewart, the Misses Clerk, Miss Hardy, Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Liddell, Miss Drummond, Miss Balfour, Sir R.
Dick, Captain and Mrs. Hay, Miss Stirling, &c.
The Duke of Devonshire will leave Chatsworth on
the 17th for Hardwick. His Grace has been entertaining a
numerous circle of friends during the past week. Lord and
Lady W. Bentinck, Lord A. Paget, Sir 'Wm. and Lady
Boothby, and Mr. and Lady 11. Baring are amongst the recent
arrivals at Chatsworth.
The Duke of Norfolk has relinquished his seat at
Worksop, Notts, to his son the Earl of Surrey, whose eldest
son, Viscount Fitzallan, a Cornet in the Royal Horse Blues, is
on the eve of attaining, his majority.
The Marquis of Hertford still continues at Brus-
sels, enjoying the society of a few select friends. His Lord-
ship's health is good, and he is likely to go to Paris in a few days.
The Marchioness Conynghain and her son, Ear!
Mountcharles, were among the promenaders on Sunday last in
Hyde Park.
Count Szegedy, Grand Chamberlain to the Em-
peror of Austria, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, on Sunday,
from a tour in the manufacturing districts.
The Countess of Jersey and Lady Sarah 'Villiers
are now at Berlin. Her Ladyship is expected to return to
England in three weeks. Middleton Park will be very gay
in December.
Lord C. Hamilton has arrived at Chatsworth, and
is on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire.
Lord Dinorben is entertaining a select party at
Kinmell Park, St. Asaph. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex, attended by Lord J. Churchill, is expected to
leave Kinmel on the 20th inst., to attend a Masonic festival
at Bath.
Lord Foley, accompanied by his brother, left Lon-
don on Tuesday last, by the Antwerp Company's steam-packet
Princess Victoria.
On Tuesday night the daughter of Mr. Roberts,
the celebrated harpist, aged eleven years, was killed at Car-
nation by a gentleman's carriage passing over her; and on
the following day the coroner's jury returned a verdict of man-
slaughter against the coachman, on account of his intemperate
driving.—North Wales Chronicle.
TIVERTON CHURCH-RA TE.—The scrutineers met
on Monday last, and finished the scrutiny before they rose,
being much assisted by the clear and lucid manner in which
Mr. Mead, the vestry clerk, had arranged the names for in-
spection. The number of voters struck off were--for the rate,
87 ; against the rate, 80; leaving the poll thus :—For the
rate, 159; against, 527—majority, 58: thus increasing the
majority by seven.— Westei n Times.
As we left Cashel for Clonmel, it was impossible to
resist turning back to gaze at the rock and its majestic ruins
towering behind us, till distance at last shut it out from our
view. The svhole country to Clonmel is beautiful in the ex-
treme, and richly planted, and as we approached the banks of
the Suir it was covered with demesnes and castles, and
bounded by the lofty and picturesque ridges of Sleive-na-
mann and the Galtee mountains. The town (it being market
day) was crowded from end to end, and the roads thronged
with long lines of carts bringing agricultural produce, and car-
rying back the merchandise of the town. I never saw a more
bustling scene, and the well-built houses, immense mills, and
capacious stores, attest the prosperity of the rising town. The
provision has commenced with unusual briskness, and the chief
exports (pork and butter) have been bringing prices unusually
high for the season—the latter 31. a firkin, and the former
from 2/. to 21. 2s. a hundred weight. Cahir, to which we next
drove, through a continuation of the same rich and beautiful
scenery, passing by the demesnes of Mr. Moore, Mr. Bag-
well, and Lord Donoughmore, is one of the prettiest towns in
Ireland, Kilkenny itself scarcely excepted. The views from
the bridge across the Suir are splendid, combining the river
with its falls, the ruins of the ancient castle of the Earls of
Glengall, the clean and beautiful streets of the town, and the
distant hills planted on the very summit. The streets were
crowded with gentlemen, owing to a public meeting which
had been that day called for the promotion of a rail-road to
connect the Suir and the Shannon. Altogether Cahir and
adjacent districts attest most amply the blessings of a resident
and intelligent landed proprietor.—Correspondent of the
Ulster Times.
As a precursor to the equinox, in the north of Scot-
land, there has been a heavy fall of snow. In Banffshire,
between the 20th and 21st ult., the snow fell deeply from
Badenoch to the Knock-hill, on the boundary line between the
lower and central districts of the county. About Ballindal-
loch, and along the course of the Spey as far as Boharm, it
was nearly ancle deep. This fall of snow was accompanied
by intense frost; and, from the little advance in the cutting of
the grain crop, much of it yet being in a green state, it is to
be feared that the injury done will be great.
MARGATE, OCT. 9.—The Transit steamer arrived
yesterday from Lisbon, from whence she sailed on the 3d inst.
She was unable to put her dispatches on shore at Falmouth,
as it blew a gale, and no boat was out, but made for the
Downs, and landed Lord Seaford and Captain Blake, R. N.,
at Margate. They proceeded to London from Wright's
Hotel immediately, each being the bearer of dispatches. This
morning Lieutenant- Colonel de Roos has landed with dis-
patches from Stuttgard, which was also forwarded from
Wright's Hotel to Downing-street.
The city of Bristol has benefitted already from the
Corporation Reform Bill to the extent of 7,6001. a-year, out
of the 16,0001. which forms the city income, and which pre-
viously used to be consumed in extravagant salaries and
feasting. The sale also of their Church property already dis-
posed of, is 20,500/ , which is now in the city chest, fot the
improvement of its docks, &c., and there still remain five more
advowsons to dispose of.

William Gunn, who was condemned to fourteen
years' transportation for slicepstealing at Inverness Circuit,
made his escape a day or two after his trial from the officer
who had him in charge, while on their way to Wick Gaol. It
appears that this officer had, for security sake, chained himself
to two prisoners, Watters and Gunn. When near Swiney,
the latter, under some pretence, requested permission to be
released for a few minutes, which was no sooner granted than
he bounded over the hills like a deer, and the morning being
foggy was soon out of sight. The difficulty of disengaging
himself from the other prisoner, necessarily occupied the
officer some little time, of which Gunn made the best use.—
John o' Groat's Journal.

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We have just heard that an affair of honour came off
at Red Post, near Newton, on Thursday evening, at half-past
six, between the son of a wealthy banker and a young limb of
the law, at Totness. The dispute out of which the quarrel
arose was respecting the attention which each party was pay-
ing to a young lady. The banker's son was unaccompanied
by a second, and received his adversary's fire in the right side,
;;0 the ball passed through, scarring the ribs; and out at the
back. He is expected to do well.—Exeter Times.
Mr. Black made a brief but interesting communica-
tion at the Bristol meeting of a new method for estimating the
strength of spirit. When spirits and water are mixed, heat, it
is well known, is always evolved ; and Mr. Black, finding that
the rise of temperature upon the mixture of equal volumes
bears a simple relation to the strength of the spirit, has sug-
gested this rise as a means of estimating the actual amount of
alcohol in spit it of any particular strength.
Redschid Bev Effendi, the new Envoy from the
Porte, is expected to arrive in town, from Paris, in a few days,
havinr, been replaced at the French Court by Nourri Effendi.
Mr.b R. Parnther has had several agreeable parties
at his villa, Bird's Eye Place, near Hatfield, in Hertfordshire.
Mrs. Trollope and her family are at present at
Vienna, where they mean to stay for some months. We pre-
sume that Austria and the Austrians will be the subject of
Mrs. Trollope's next book.
Braham and Phillips appeared at the Liverpool
Theatre on Saturday night, the former in the Waterman and
the latter in the Quaker. Braham sung some of his old fa-
vourite songs—." The jolly young Waterman," " My trim built
wherry," " The bay of Biscay," and other compositions which
are introduced into the piece, were given by him with all the
fire and energy that distinguished his performance in early
days, although he laboured under very ill health. The
audience were so delighted that they encored every song,
and in some instances a command was made for songs to
he sung a third time. Phillips sung most beautifully
" While the lads of the village," and several other pieces
in the Quaker, all of which were also encored. At the
conclusion of the performance, Braham and Phillips came on
the stage from opposite sides, the former dressed as the Wa-
terman and the latter as the Quaker—they recognised each
other as old friends, who had been separated mans a day, and
and then sung in the most beautiful manner " Auld acquaint-
ance," Shouts of applause rung from all parts of the house;
the song was repeated, and called for a third time, but in
mercy to the performers, the demand was not persisted in.
Mrs. Wood is to appear this week in La Sonnambula.
The ship Frederick, of London, Brown, master,
lately put into Milford from Sierra Leone, bound to London,
sent her boat to Bullwell, on the opposite side of the haven;
to the town of Milford, for a supply of water, with the second
mate and three of the crew. In returning to the ship, one of
the seamen, John Cambridge, lost his oar, and in attempting
to recover it fell overboard; the others, in endeavouring to
save him, heeled the boat so much that she filled, by which
accident Mr. John Egg, the second mate, was also drowned.
The other two were saved by holding on the loose thwart and
water casks, and reached the shore, from which they were not
put off more than 200 yards. The body of Cambridge was
found on giaday morning, as well as Ills boat; that of the I
mate not pi. fotvi,....Cumbrian.

An attempt has been 'nada within the last few days
to arrange the disputes existing in this town between the lin-
sey weavers and their employers, but wee are sorry to add,
without success, The men arc anxious for a axed rate of wage;
throughout the year, and to this the masters are willing to ac-
cede, but the rate of prices demanded by the workmen is 5130,11
as the manufacturers state would not only leave their trado
‘, unprofitable," but make it absolutely "ruinous."--Kendal
Mercurll.

The followntr, grammatical epimph pnnears on a
grave-stone in Burbage churelblard ;-,
" Here lies two Bab's Which we did love ;
c,grinot come no more."
Tptieepaht:uclsfrworlicubsnl,iekediad durt;
Is gone anii
There is now in the gardeo of Mr, Wilkinson, of
gosgill, An apple tree laden with fruit, aid at the same time
hearing blossom. considering the extreme coldness
of the season, we fep,rd as a siPPiar gjrc.ppasOppc.—
Kendal Mercury.