The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-07 00:00:00

DILISCELLAICEOUS.

A Bedford paper mentions, as an uncommon fact, that
on Sunday last " a jack-daw flew in at the parish church
at Newport Papa, during divine service, and listened
to the • sermon with the most edifying decorum." A
jack-claw at church may be an "uncommon " sight, but
a jack-daw in the House of Commons is by no means
"uncommon," for they may be seen there perched by
dozens on the back-seats of the Treasury Bench !
The Brentford Gas Company have undertaken to
light the roads between London and Isleworth for one
week at their own risk.
Mr. O'Connell held a repeal meeting at Dublin on
Tuesday. at which 80,000 persons were present, and out
of which number he stated that nine-tenths were tee-
totallers.

We regret to have to record the death of the Chim-
panzee, who expired last week at his residence in the
Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park. This must be a
great loss to the Tories,_ for we understand that they
intended bringing him into Parliament, where he would
have made a touch more effective speaker than the Hon.
and Gallant Member for Lincoln.
A Belgian Journal says. "A woman of Creya, aged
forty, and whu had never before had a chid, has just
been brought to bed of three daughters." This is mak-
ing up for lost time.

To-day, for the first time, the London day mail
will be despatched at the usual hour by the Railroad, and will
be received by the eleven o'clock down train arriving here soon
after one ; so that the afternoon delivery will take place some
three hours earlier than heretofore. The only inconvenience
resulting from this change will be the delay in the delivery of
Wtstern letters, now brought by the Southampton mail, till
next morning, instead of the same afternoon.—Brighton Guar-
dian, Wednesday.
ACCIDENT TO SIR THOMAS WILDE.—We
regret to hear that Sir Thomas Wilde was thrown from his
horse on Saturday morning last, when taking a ride in the
neighbourhood of his country seat, near Southgate, IlEddlesex.
He was rendered nearly insensible by the concussion ; but, we
are glad to hear that his medical attendants, after a careful ex-
amination, have reported that the Learned Gentleman has not
experienced any serious inquiry.
Yesterday afternoon the bodies of Marshall and
Field, two of the men killed on the Brighton Railway,
were.interred at the expense of the Company. The re-
mins of *Watson and Palmer have been brought to
London.

STnANRAER—We are sorry to say that there
is now too much reason to fear that the sloop Maria, of this
place, belonging to Mr. Bugh M'Culloch, merchant here, was
lost in the gale of Tuesday, the 21st ult.
The Strand was stopped np again yesterday in
consequence of a portion of the experimental wood pavement
reeently laid clown proving a failure. Something else is to
be tried. These continual experiments in the leading thorough-
fares are becoming a nuisance. But the greatest nuisance of
all is that adjoining the Globe newspaper office, which bids fair
to continue for six months longer. The Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster is greatly to blame in allowing such a
thoroughfare to remain almost impassable for nine months
while the whole work might have been done in nine weeks.