The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-30 00:00:00

3E:LECTIONEERING.

The death of Mr. West, Queen's Counsel, occasions a
vacancy for the city of Dublin. It appears he died of an
ulcerated sore throat, and has left a large young family.
He was in his 54th year. The Irish papers of both par-
ties pay a high tribute to his goodness of heart and gene-
rous disposition._

NAVAL AND MILITARY.
A division of the 6th Regiment, which has been sta-
tioned in India twenty years, arrived at Rochester on
Monday. During that period they have been stationed
at Bombay, Cutchbough, and Coletabourn. The regi-
ment is ordered for Canterbury.
LAW AND POLICE.
A journeyman tailor, named John Cross, was charged
at Lambeth-street with attempting to murder his step-
daughter with a spring clasp knife. Love, it appears,
was the cause of the mischief; the girl had promised to
marry him, but finding another lover more to her liking
she " left her Johnnie," and married his rival, upon
which Johnnie to be revenged married her mother, a
woman 60 years of age. Not liking his bargain, he still
harrassed the young woman with his importunities,
which she strenuously rejected, and he therefore, ac-
cording to his wife's account, made one attempt to take
away his own life, and seemed determined also to mur-
der her daughter. The tailor, who wept bitterly, said it
might be all true, and was ordered to find bail.

Tuesday, at Queen-square, seven men and six women
inmates of St. Luke's workhouse, Chelsea, charged with
riotous conduct in that establishment, . were committed
to prison for twenty-one days. Whilst evidence was
given against one of the women, named M'Bride, by a
female inmate, but not one of the. party convicted, for.
threatening to take her life, the prisoner rushed at the
witness, and struck her a violent blow on the head. She
was removed in a fainting state, and bleeding much.
Evidence of this outrage committed in presence of the
Magistrate, was then given, and Mr. Burrell sentenced
M'Bride to pay a penalty of .51., and in default of pay-
ment to be kept to hard labour for two months, and find
bail for her good behaviour for twelve months.
On Tuesday a pretty young girl, about 14 years of
age, was brought before the Brentford Magistrates,
having been found by a policeman on the previous after-
noon in a back lane, utterly insensible. It appeared
that She had gone to a pawnbroker's in Old Brentford, to
take out a pledge for her grandmother, where she had
been supplied by the shopman with gin, and had drank
five or six glasses. The poor girl remembered that she
had been dragged into the passage of a house by two
young men, and had been ill used, but she could give
no description of the place. The Magistrates regretted
that the person who had supplied the gin was not brought
before them, and directed an officer to wait upon the I
pawnbroker, and state the facts.

FINE ARTS.
The Royal manufactory at Sevres is to furnish the
painted 'glass for the'windows of the chapel of Henry IV.,
at the LouvreiwhichiS now to be restored to its original
ecclesiastical uses:
When Rubini went to sign his' name as a member of
the Lyceum, at Madrid; of Willett he, had been elected,
the directors placed " beftite ' him: for twat purpose a
splendid inkstand, surmounted with his own bust, which
they afterwards requested him to accept.
Fifteen thousand people, a: multitude of whom were
young persons, visited the National Gallery during
Monday and Tuesday.
Three thousand persons visited Westminster Abbey on
Monday, and almost as many on the day following.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.

Tuesday night the members of the London Mechanics'
Institution observed the eighteenth anniversary of their
foundation. In honour of the late Dr. Birkbeck, the
theatre was hung with black cloth, and most of the com-
pany were in mourning.
A Queen Elizabeth's shilling was lately dug up in a
garden at Shatton, in Carlisle, after being 273 years
under ground.

THEATRICAL.

Rubini sang for the last time on the 21st at Madrid

A magnificent pin, in the centre of which was a splendid
brilliant, set round by rubies, has been presented to him
by the Duke of Ossuna.

Cerito is at present gaining golden laurels at Vienna.
She has appeared in all her favourite ballets, and is fol-
lowed as much as Taglioni.

SPORTING.

A few days since the iticejj'fiuccleuch's hounds met
at Kelso-bridge, and after a most perilous run across the
borders, the fox was killed near Middleton Hall, after a
chase up the tremendous cliff of Newton Tor.

The fate Earl of Westmoreland, like his contemporary,
Lord Chancellor Loughborough, was excessively devoted
to English pastimes. The latter has been known, on
hearing of a boxing-match, to doff his wig, and ride 25
miles without stopping, to see his favourite athletes
" come to the scratch."
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
The marriage of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy is put
off to the latter end of January, on account of the death
of the bride's grandfather, and the delay of the departure
of his Serene Highness Prince Paul.
Her Excellency the Countess de St. Aulaire is ex-
pected in London early in the ensuing month. It is ex-
pected that she will be accompanied by some portion of
her numerous and distinguished family.
A rumour prevails of the marriage of a French diplo-
matist, well known in England, the Marquis de la Va-
lette, and Mrs. Wells, the widow of an American mer-
chant, lately resident in Paris, who left his belle male a
fortune said to be of 25,0001. per annum.
'Ford Fitzgerald and Vesci arrived in town on Tuesday
afternoon, from a visit to the Duke of Beaufort, at Bad-
minton.

Colonel Churchill has left town on a visit to the Duke
of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye.
The dinner to the Duke of Buckingham, which is to
be given by the English agriculturists, will, we learn,
take place on February 11.
A vacancy in the Governorship of the Charter House
occurs. by ,the death of the Earl of Westmoreland, who
was a Carthusian.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Yesterday, in 1680, Lord Strafford was executed, an
event which almost broke the heart of Charles I.

Lord Douglas Gordon Hallybnrton, late M.P. for For-
farshire, died on the evening of Chtistmas-day. He was
half-brother to the present Marquis of Huntly. His
Lordship's remains are to be removed for interment to
Scotland.
The new skating room of artificial ice, in Gloucester-
place, New Road, has been appropriately christened the
Glaciarium.

A palace for the Archbishop of Paris is rbout to be
rebuilt on the site of the old one, to the south of Notre-
Dame. The estimates are laid at about 75,0001.
Government has offered two large rewards, one for the
apprehension of the murderers of Emma Evans, of
Bromsgarth, Salop; and thd other for those of Mr.
Henry Grayson late of Rainsford, Lancaster.
"In the island of Scilly," says a Morning Contem-
porary, "at this season, the inhabitants exercise a kind
of gallantry, called Goose Dancing, where the women
are dressed up for young men, and the young men for
women,"—A goose dance in Downing. street would be a
very appropriate amusement in such a locality, at this
season of the year, more especially if the Ministerial par-
ties engaged in it were all to be dressed up for old women !
Many of the Ministers are now staying at Drayton
Manor, on a visit of condolence to Sir R. Peel for the
approaching alteration in the Corn-laws.