The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-05 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

On Monday an extraordinary sensation was occa-
sioned in Guildhall, by the appearance of a fine, large
black cow, which walked up the flight of steps leading
to the Court of Common Council. We suppose the
affectionate ar.imal had come to look after her calves
there !

A linen-draper, living near Ebury-street, Pimlico,
has advertised his stock to be selling off " 20 per cent.,
under prime cost." The large posting bills in his shop
front are headed " Pro bono Pimlico."

The Hungerford Suspension Bridge is now in
course of construction. The engineer is Mr. Brunel,
who erected the Suspension Bridge at Clifton, over the
Avon. The masonry has been contracted for at 63,0001.
by Mr. G. Chadwick. The iron work is to be exe-
cuted at the works of Messrs. Sandys and Co., in Corn-
wall, at the estimated cost of 17,000/. It is to be for
foot passengers only, and the toll a half-penny each per-
son. The total cost of this bridge and approaches is es-
timated at 102,2541.

At a Conservative dinner, given on Tuesday at Can-
terbury to Mr. Bradshaw, that gentleman, alluding to
the " enormities of the Catholic priesthood," observed
that " they were not fit for detail," whence he ingeni-
ously inferred that " they would shortly be laid before
the public."
The Sportsman gives a curious anecdote illustra-
tive of the voracity of the trout, which proves that it is
nearly equal in voracity to the Dundases and Bathursts
of sinecure notoriety.
At a meeting of the Loyal National Repeal Asso-
ciation, held at Dublin, on the 2d instant, a packet, en-
closing 200/., and a letter from the Philadelphia Repeal
Association, came addressed to Mr. O'Connell. A clause
in the letter thus speaks :—Everywhere throughout
this vast country, in which there are already seventeen
millions of souls—from Lake Superior to the Gulf
of Mexico, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the
Rocky Mountains—Societies are springing into ex-
istence, and collecting funds to aid the Irish people,
and especially to support the tenantry—the honest
tenantry of Ireland, in an independent exercise
of the right of suffrage. In this great and spontaneous
movement, it is but jus'ice to the Philadelphia Repeal
Association to say that they have taken the lead, and
will hold it until her own Parliament shall be restored
to Ireland. Should English policy and English jealousy
still resist the appeals for an equality of political privi-
leges with the rest of the British Empire, thirty thou-
sand pounds sterling will be immediately raised in Ame-
rica for the glorious purpose of Ireland's regeneration !
-- Mr. O'Connell observed, in a speech delivered at
the Repeal Association on Monday last, that he had
proof of several Dublin freemen recording their votes,
who were sick in their beds, who were at a distance in
the country, and some who were actually dead. One
vote was given by a gentleman who died in Kilkenny on
the same day. Another gentleman coming out of his
grave to vote after having lain there upwards of two
years !" We recommend these facts to the attention of
the Times, who expressed himself so horrified yesterday
at the enormities practised during the late Irish election.