The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-25 00:00:00

THEATIZICAL.

A grand new Ballet Pantomime under the title of
" Hans of Iceland," is about to be brought out at Covent
Garden.

COURT-PiLSHIONABLE.

The Queen Dowager arrived at Belton House, the seat
of the Earl of Brownlow, on Friday last, and left it yes-
terday for Belvoir Castle, where it is expected that her
Majesty will remain till Monday.
The Marchioness of Westmeath has left town for
Lowther Castle.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Countess of Pembroke, sister to Sir Philip
Sydney, and the fairest star of Elizabeth's Court, died in
1621, at her house in Aldersgate-street, London, on the
25th day of this month. She .composed part of the
" Arcadia" with her brother, and translated the Psalms
into metre. Ben Jonson's beautiful epitaph upon this
illustrious lady is well known.
To-day is the anniversary of the death of the famous
Greek Professor Porson, who died in 1808.
Donegal was visited on Sunday last by a dreadful
thunder-storm, such as was never witnessed by the oldest
inhabitant.
Mr. Villiers paired off last evening with Mr. Miles on
both clauses of the Administration of Justice Bill.

On Wednesday next Tullis7s celebrated service will be
performed, both in the morning and afternoon, at West-
minster Abbey. Tanis was a celebrated musician, who
was born in 1520, and died in 1585.
A noble specimen of the antelope trite arrived in the
river a few days since, as a present from the Pacha of
Egypt to Alderman Harmer. The animal has been since
removed to Ingress Abbey, the Alderman's seat, near
Gravesend.

London Bridge is to be repaved with stones of Aber-
deen granite, not exceeding three inches in width, and
laid in parallel lines. The bridge, in consequence, will
be closed for a short time. This mode of pavement was
adopted at Blackfriars Bridge when it was repaired, and
has been completely successful.
Owing to great distress and want of employment for
operatives, the poor rates in Bradford will amount at
rresent to 15s. in the pound on rack rent.
The Advertiser says—" Horace Twiss, on being told
that the workmen employed at the new Houses of
Parliament struck last week, declared that he would
follow their example unless Bob raised his wages."—Sir
Robert Peel will never think of raising the wages of
such an inefficient political journeyman as Horace Twiss.
By the bye, it may not be generally known that, about
five and twenty years ago, this gentleman's tragedy of
the Carib Chief was played as a comedy at Drury-lane,
where it deservedly excited as much laughter as Mr.
Peter Borthwick's performance of Othello at the Surrey.
An inquest was held last week at Brill, in Bucking-
hamshire, on the body of a child who died from the in-
cautious use of an opiate.—We have not yet heard that
any one has died from the " incautious use " of Sir J.
Graham's pamphlet on the Corn-laws, though we are in
daily expectation of hearing of such a calamity.
A Correspondent in the Morning Post, in some re-
marks on our Contemporary's "Proposed Order of
Poetry," asserts that " poetry is, to a certain degree in-
spiration."—This may have been the case formerly, but
in nine out of ten instances, modern poetry is nothing
more than wind—the result of an empty stomach acting
on an addled brain.

There is in the possession of Mr. J. Fitze, sadler, of
Exeter, a candle, which was taken up from the Royal
George, off Shithead; it is in good preservation, after
being under water fifty-eight years.
The barometer has been very low for some days, and
is still declining. Last night and this morning we had
very heavy falls of rain, with gusts of wind, suddenly
announcing the commencement of the equinoctial gales.