The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-24 00:00:00

change ,or 3;1. its., thy.!.d.lerty.oi Wailer, of
4mchester, whose' elr,ployment he had formerly been:'
:On Satllrday, ,the same Assizes, not fewer than
three different parties were tried for the very common
optic',l-now of stabbini,: with a knife.. then wali,
sentenced to be transported for twelve years. -
At the Thames Poll.ce-o±lice., on. Satur;,lay, a man of
the:name of Langley li'aS 'placed •at the bar, charged with
being accessory to the 'minder of jariiies'Dixen, an Eng-•••
fish sailor, on board a foreign vessel bound' from Monte
Video to Havre. The', deceased .had been run through.,
the' body by the Captain, a Frenchman. The prisoner
was brought from Hal-rein the custody of two of the
superior officers of the l!!rench police, and was retnanded.

• TIC -;
During the opera s...ason of 1841, which closed on
Saturday, twenty-fbUr operas were performAd, in which
list, the two novelties were Roberto .I.),ever,eux, kndFausta.

s'33 =LTG.
The breed of game in, the preserves at Claremont have
been well preserved, anii the supplies this year abundant.
Pri:tee. Albert leaves W.,:_itlsor about the Ist of:September
to eniey a week's shooting there.

• - 7Z:LEC3. ICONEM=ING.
The Lord Lieuzenant . has dismissed Mr. Nixon trout
the office of High Sheriff of the county 'of Febnanagh.
The cause of dismissal was the partisan manner in which
Mr. Nixon acted, by forwarding, as • was stated iti The
Sun some weeks since, the official return of the elected
Members to the Hanaper-office, decorated with Orange
ribbOns, and a disgracaful• seal. Mr. Johnson, whose
name appeared second on the Judge's list, is now High
Sheriff in his stead.

IY.:ISCZZLANEOUS.

An order from the Home-ounce for the immediate .re•
lease of Mr. F. O'Connor arrived at York Castle on Sun-
. day morning.
A murder committed eleven years ago, near Hutton
Rudby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, has just been
discovered.. Two men hare been committed to York
Castle charged with the crime, one of whom, of the
name of Grundy, committed,suicide in.his cell last week.
The upper part of the Green Park, at the entrance
near Hyde Park-cornier,-which was marshy, and incon-
venient to pass in winter and rainy weather, from the
trampling, of the _cows, has been just repaired, and the
long complained of inconvenience removed. Seats are
now erected in the Green Park, the plantations have
been directed by good taste, and the new gravel walks
are most agreeable promenades. •
The colossal lion and other monuments on the field of
Waterloo, are now 'undergoing repair by order of the
Belgic 'Goverment..
The members of the " Manchester Young Men's Anti-,
Monopoly Association,". which has been established for
little more than a month, and already.numbers fifteen
hundred subscribers, gave a tea-party, in the Corn Ex-
change, Manchester, on Thursday evening, in honour of
the Ministerial Conference on the Corn-laws. More.
than 800 persons were present.
A meeting was held on Saturday in the County of
Clare, convened by requisition to the High Sheriff; for
the purpose of addressing the Queen, and imploring her
parental protection against the threatened Orange domi-
nation. An address was read, and unanimously re-
solved to be presented.
A handsome chain pier is about to he erected on the
Middlesex side of Vauxhall-bridge by Mr. Cubitt. The
line of road from Belgrave-square to the foot of this
bridge is completed.
Lord Campbell left Dublin on Thursday evening, and
the Great Seal is committed to the Chief Baron, Judge
Perrin, and Baron Richards.

On Thursday last a meeting was held at Limerick, for
the purpose of adopting an address, to Lord Morpeth,
in acknowledgment of his official services, and also to
invite his Lordship to a public entertainment in that city.
The resolutions were seconded and passed unanimously.
Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Sta. dey died on Friday
last, at Moto/I-hall, Cheshire. He is succeedel in the
family honours by his eldest son, Mr. William Massey
Stanley, the late M.P. for Pontefract.
Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8., expired
at Leamington, on the 13th instant.

The Hon. Major Keppell, while bathing in the river,
near Romney Weir, on Wednesday week, with Lord Al-
fred Paget, was almost drowned by the water being drawn
froze the weir creating a violent current. A waterman,
named Joseph Cannon, however, seeing his danger,
rowed towards him, and grasped him as he rose for the
third time.

The public meeting for the Wilkie Memorial is to be
held on Saturday next, at the Thatched House Tavern.
Sir• Robert Peel, as Chairman, will, it is said, be sup-
ported by Lord John Russell and Lord Francis Egerton,
with the Dukes of Wellington, Buccleuch, and Sutherland.
An event has transpired in the Southern States of
America which has caused a great sensation in that
country. The negro slaves on the estates extending
along the Mississippi from Bayou Sara to Natchez, had
lately formed a plot to murder their masters. The plot
was discovered ; the ringleaders were instantly tried ;
and the most conspicuous of them, it is said, were
executed.

.Another event has also excited much interest in
that quarter, from the daring conduct of a marauding
party. of slaves and stray Indians, amounting to GOO, who
had taken up their abode on the frontiers of Arkansas
and Missouri. Three troops of dragoons and a company of
infantry, with two guns, were sent againsi them ; and
-after a severe contest captured or killed nearly the whole
of them.-

The foundation of the monument to the memory of
the late Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, was laid by the
DUlie of Buccleueh'at Langtolrh—laSt Friday: