The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-04 00:00:00

SPORTING.

The Earl of Wilton has returned to Walmer Castle,
which he leaves for Melton Mowbray, for the hunting
season, at the close of the month.

THEATRICAL.

The officers of the Queen's Bays, quartered in Sheffield,
are about to give a grand theatrical entertainment for
the benefit of the distressed operatives of that town.
We mentioned yesterday that an attempt was being
made among the friends and admirers of the celebrated
and now veteran tragedian, Charles Young, to induce
him to return to the stage for a few evenings, for th
purpose of enacting the must prominent of his histrionic
characters. We believe we may also state that a similar
request has been made to Charles Kemble.

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The Duke of Newcastle is expected to remain at
Hafod until the, early part of next month.
The Earl of Lincoln arrived in Poitman• square yes-,
terday from an excursion in different counties, under-
taken fur the purpose of inspecting the state of her Ma-
jesty's woods and forests, preparatory to the introduction
of new and extensive arrangements.
A large party of distinguished fashionables are shortly
expected on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Northum-
borland at Alnwick Castle.
Lord W. Pelham Clinton leaves town in a few days
for Vienna, having been appointed an attache to the
new Ambassador. _ _

Lord Burghersh has not left town for Berlin, nor will
he depart for ten days or a fortnight.
The Earl of Westmoreland, and his daughter Lady
Georgiana Fane, are still in Brightbn. His Lordship,
although afflicted with the loss of sight, takes exercise
on horseback, by availing himself of the privilege granted
by the Queen of riding in the Royal stables.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborough
was sworn in as Governor-General of India. His Lord-
ship afterwards dined with the Directors at the London
Tavern, where her Majesty's Ministers, and many other
distinguished personages, were present.
The calamitous losses by fire, which the country has
of late experienced, no time or money can replace. They
have been—the Custom House, the Houses of Parlia-
ment, the Royal Exchange, the two fires in York Min-
ster, Nottingham Castle, Plymouth Dockyard, and last
the Tower. Besides these, there have been attempts to
fire Westminster Abbey, Sheerness Dockyard, and the
Old Church at Thirsk, in Yorkshire.
The Duchess Maximilian, of Leuchtenberg, the Em-
-peror of Russia's daughter, was safely delivered of a Prin-
cess, at St. Petersburg'', on the 17th ult.
Born on this day, in 1771, James Montgomery, the
Sheffield poet, at Irvine, in Ayrshire, a county distin-
guished also as being the birth-place of Robert Burns.
It is said that there are now almost as many wooden
pavements in the streets of London, as there are wooden
heads in the Cabinet. _ _ _

A robbery has , taken place at one of the principal
hotels in Brighton. Colonel Fludyer had placed in his
cash-box notes of the Rutland Bank to the amount of
751., which have been extracted. The police are inves-
tigating the matter.
A Devon Journal states that a maid-servant and a
fellow-rustic, in a farmer's employ at Ashburton, having
fallen in love with each other, the farmer, by way of
disturbing one of their tete-a-teteg, disguised himself in
a bullock's hide, with horns, and suddenly presented
himself before the enamoured couple, so much to the
•horror of the young man, that he rushed from the spot,
and has not been billing and cooing since.—The farmer
-did wisely to disguise himself in a bullock's hide, for had
-he clothed himself in an ass's hide instead, the youth, so
far from being horrified, would merely have regarded
him as an animal of a congenial nature with his own,
perhaps as a rival.