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

PINE AILTS.

A dinner was given at the Albion Tavern, on Monday,
by about 120 professors and amateurs of music, to F. W.
Collard, of Clicapside (formerly Clemonti and Collard),
as a mark of esteem, and in commemoration of his
having resided under the same roof ever since he came
to London, in 1791. The evening was marked by some
brilliant singing.

LITEnATLY AND scxrarTarrc.
A translation of Southey's, " Rodericti " has just
been published in Italian, under the title, " Roderigo,
ol' ultimo de' Goti." The translator is M. G. B. Mar-.
telli, known previously by his translation of Collins and
Spencer. _ _ _

At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, held
on Monday in Pall Mall, a letter of the late lamented
Sir David Wilkie was read, containing the result of his
barometric observations to determine the level and de-
pression of the Dead Sea ; being the last, if not the only
scientific labour of that celebrated man. No barometer•
had ever before been carried to the Dead Sea, and the
observations of Sir David Wilkie showed a depression-
of 1,198, 76 feet below the Mediterranean, and the ele-
vation of Jerusalem as 2,262 feet also above the latter,
points to which previous observers had nearly ap-
proximated.
Captain Ross has, by letter, stated that lie had made
a successful approach to within twelve degrees of the
Antartic Pole, and had obtained some very approximate
determinations of the South Magnetic Pole.

THEATRICAL.
Arr. Charles Kemble is perfectly restored to health,
and has been present at all the performances of his
daughter at Covent-garden. Mrs. Butler has also wit-
nessed her sister's debut.

The manager of the Haymarket has, we understand,
re-engaged Madlle. Celeste, who is now playing at Bir-
mingham.

C 01717, T —PAS ITIONAILLE.
The Duke of Wellington left town for Weimer Castle
yesterday morning.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland returned to.
Trentham Hall, Staffordshire, yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford left Holkham on
Monday for Beauchamp Wells, Swaffbam, Norfolk.
The Earl and Countess Brownlow arrived at Brownlow
House yesterday afternoon, from Lincolnshire.
During her Majesty's recent visits to Claremont, she•
selected the wife of one of the attendants of that esta-
blishment to be wet nurse to the Prince. Her name is
Brough, and she is a remarkably healthy person.

• IWZXSCI3I.I.II.:NMOITS.
'When Rubini arrived near Madrid with his escort of
30 men, he was surrounded by a crowd_of peasants, who
imagined him to be a Christino chief about to be deliver-
ed up to the prompt justice of Espartero. In vain did
liubini protest, the soldiers were dismissed, and the
vocalist was allowed to depart at last only on the inter-
cession of a priest of the place, and a promise that he
would return and sing a mass in the church. We sup-
pose he was frightened to death, else he would have con-
vinced them on the spot, and, like a musician of old, have,
acquired immortal fame by taming a Madrid mob with
the sweetness of his notes.

A large African male lion, lately in the possession of
the Marquis of Waterford, was yesterday purchased by
the Council, and added to the collection in the Regent's-
park. The noble animal, which from the tip of the tail
to the nose measures upwards of 12 feet, is one of the.
finest lions ever exhibited in this country..
' . Professor Thiersch, of Munich, according to the ves--
timony of Professor Mackie, the recently-appointed
Professor of Humanity in Marischal College, Aberdeen,
talks classical Greek as fluently as Lord Palmerston
Parliamentary English.
The Tipperary Free Press says :—" There is now ex-
hibiting in the window of our office, two large ears of
wheat on one stalk, both producing thirty-four grains
of prime wheat."—There ears must be almost as long as
Peter Borthwick's.
nUIVIGUES OP THE DAY.
It is rumoured that Mr. Oastler is about to be released
from his confinement in the Fleet prison.