The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

PRICE 5d

Santo, by Forbin, reached only 599 f: Among the
PFeench pictures; Grenze's Cupid went at 7,5001., his
Psyche, at 8,550 f., and a Head, by Gimlet, at 3,155 f.
Many of the: lots
.were purchased for England. Nothing,
it was said, was purchased for the Royal Museum.
In the night of the 4th inst., as M. Vienne, a gentle,
man of property, at SL-Pierre-de-Chaudica (Isere), was
travelling to Lyons, he was stopped near Bron by five
footpads, severely beaten and robbed of 4501. This at-
tack was made at the same spot where the Lyons and
Turin diligence was plundered a few nights before by
five men, probably the same, for whom the police are
still in search.
A melancholy accident happened at Aire, in the Pas-
de-Calais, a few days since, where a journeyman brewer
fell into a vat of boiling beer, and was scalded to death.
He has left a wilow and three children in great distress.
The Temps states that'll portion of the workmen em-
ployed on the fortifications of Paris now form bands of
robbers, who every night carry on depredations in the
environs. " The commune of Bercy," it adds, " has
just obtained leave to support a company of infantry at
its own expense, to protect it against these marauders."
Two evenings ago an omnibus, driving along the Rue
Mauconseil, ran against a cart laden with leather, which
a man was delivering into a warehouse with a two-
pronged fork. The shock threw the poor fellow out, and
by his fall both prongs were driven into his throat. One
of them divided the carotid artery, and caused his instant
death. The driver of the omnibus was arrested.

A dinner of deaf and dumb persons took place on Sun-
day last, according to annual custom, in honour of the
Abbe de l'Epee, founder of the Paris Institution. The
President, M. Berthier, totally deaf and dumb, made, by
the usual signals, an impressive address to the company,
and terminated by a toast in favour of the establishment
of a society for assisting deaf and dumb persons who
might happen to be without resources.
At St. Varner, in the Drome, a few days since, a con-
cert was given in a vessel on the water, and large crowds
of people were collected on the bankst and on a small
suspension-bridge, to hear the music. Suddenly the
flooring of the bridge gave way, and all the persons on
it were precipitated into the stream. Providentially only
three lives were lost, two young girls and a child ; the
rest were rescued amidst the utmost confusion.
The medal hitherto given to all the Deputies, and
which admits the holder to all the public establishments,
is to be changed for another which is now striking off at
the mint. It is of a large size, and presents on one side
the effigy of the King, while on the other is a group of
allegorical personages, the principal figure of which is
Legislative France.

IRELAND.
TORY ADDRESSES TO LORD DE GREY.

DUBLIN, DEC. 10.—There was quite a field-day at
the Vice-regal residence yesterday, no less than three
deputations having attended with addresses. The ad-
dresses purported to come from the counties of Armagh,
Tyrone, and Wicklow ; but as regards the expression of
public opinion, they might almost as well be described as
emanating from any three counties in Scotland. The
county meetings at which those addresses were got up,
Wicklow and Armagh especially, were most ludicrous
failures ; and in Tyrone, the Marquiss of Abercorn and
Lord Claude Hamilton, when remarking upon the mise-
rably small attendance, attributed it to the improper steps
taken by the place-hunters who managed the affair.
Nevertheless, the addresses commenced—" We, the no-
bility, gentry, clergy, freeholders," &c. The Three
Tailors of Tooley-street to perfection.
The answers of Lord de Grey were the merest school-
boy effusions— boasting of " firmness and impartiality "
after his degrading apology to Mr. West, and his Orange
appointments.

In his answer to the Armagh deputation, the chief
members of which were Colonel Verner and Colonel
Blacker, both of whom had been dismissed from the
Magistracy by the late Government for participating in
offensive Orange displays, his Excellency said—" You
generously promised.me your confidence in guiding your
exertions. Your confidence shall not be misplaced. For-
getfulness of former injury, forbearance under present
wrong, oblivion of the past, and good will for the future,
will be the rule of action for those who may be guided
by my influence."
In this passage his Excellency evidently referred to the
case of the two dismissed Orange Magistrates who stood
before him.

RAILWAYS IN IRELAND.
The Cork Repcirter publishes a correspondence be-
tween the Lord Lieutenant's private Secretary and Mr.
Dillon Croker, the Secretary of the Cork Railway Com-
mittee, relative to the presentation of a memorial con-
nected with the establishment of railway communication
in Ireland, from which it is evident, says that Journal,
that " Government has no intention whatever of taking
up the project of railways in Ireland as a great public
measure."

DISMISSAL OF THE STIPENDIARY MAGIS-

TRATES.

The Government is getting on by degrees. The sti-
pendiary Magistrates are to be got rid of in batches of
five. The Evening Packet of last night announces that
the five following have received their death-warrants :--
Theobald A. Dillon, Esq., Kenmare ; Hugh Grey, Esq.,
of. Manorhamilton ; Benjamin Holmes, Esq., Bruit.; Pa-
trick C. Howley, Esq., Longford ; John Vecrers, Esq.,
Templernore.

OUTRAGES IN THE COUNTY OF DOWN.-

MURDERS.

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insurrectionary outrages, and the firing at magistrates in
the county of Down. But the Gazette contains various
proclamations, including two rewards respecting mur-
ders, one committed in Tipperary, and the other in Drog-
heda, on the night of the 7th inst. The victim in the
latter case was Peter Dolan, a huckster, who, it is stated,
" was barbarously murdered by some person or persons
unknown, in his dwelling-house."
But although Lord De Grey and Lord Eliot appear to
have disregarded the outbreak in the Protestant and
Presbyterian county of Down, they show exceeding zeal
respecting an outrage committed more than a year ago
in the King's county, and for the discovery of the perpe-
trators of which rewards have long since been offered by
the Government, as well as the local Magistracy. This
is the case of Mr. Biddalph, a Magistrate, who had been
fired at on the morning of the 24th of September, 1840.
In the Gazette of last night the Lord Lieutenant offers a
reward of 2004 for the apprehension and conviction of
the persons concerned in this outrage.
JUDGE LEFROY.
_

The Gazette of last night notifies the appointment of
Mr. Lefroy—whom the Duke of Northumberland refused
to appoint as a temporary Judge—as the Junior Baron
of the Exchequer, in place of Baron Foster, who has
been pitch-forked into the Common Pleas.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR OF IRELAND.

Sir Edward Sugden will leave Dublin on Tuesday, for:
London ; his return is not expected. No doubt he is an
able lawyer, and a first-rate equity judge. With his
domestic difficulties we have nothing to do ; but report
has it that some objection stands in the way of Lady Sug-
den at the next drawing-room. Lord Eliot gave an en-
tertainment at the Phcenix Park, and Lady Sugden was
present. This circumstance begot observation, and the
result, we apprehend, has had some connection with the
present movement.

It may be that a manoeuvre is on the lapis to place
Chief Justice Pennefather in the court of Chancery, and
Blackburne and West on the bench. If such be the case,
the promotion of Jackson and Litton will, as a matter of
course, follow.— Watezford Chronicle.

STOPPAGE of the TWEED BANK.
The present week will long be remembered in Berwick
for the occurrence of an event which cannot fail to prove
a heavy calamity to the whole district. On Monday
morning the Tweed Bank—ia which the public had
shown implicit confidence for the whole forty years of
its existence, and up to the very moment before the an-
nouncement—stopped payment. Up to the last hour on
Saturday,. people were making deposits and transacting
other business at the .bank in the same manner, and to
as great an extent, aS'usual ; and not a whisper against.
the credit of the firm was heard till, on the doors not
being opened at the usual hour, the astounding fact was
announced that the bank had stopped. The anneune
meet literally came upon the town like a thunder-clap
and in a very short period consternation and the -
gloomy forebodings pervaded the whole community.
most
with—drecaadfseusi
The event has since re-
Throughout the day the individual losses which had
been sustained were on everybody's lips, and many cases,
had
of conversation in
where whatever loss may accrue will fall
re-
mained sync l
eb become known.
engrossingkn oAN• n.
theha
the town ; but up to this time nothing
of reliance is known to the public as
to
whatever worthy
calamity or its probable extent ultimately:o the cause of the
were taken (with the concurrence lnstant steps
commission of bankruptcy • of the bank) to have a
issued,
the cause or result of the calamityand all surmises as to
rest. In the meantime, it can will soon be set at
all doubt the event is one 9nly be said that beyond
many individuals, and inflictwhich must prove ruinous to
and district. The Tweed a deep injury on the town
by Messrs. Thomas Batson Bank was established in 1804,
origin to the failure
(in 1803
an event which created )of the " Berwick Bank"—
Some yearsa sensation similar to the present.
afterwards Mr. Shadworth withdrew, and
was succeeded by Mr.
somewhere
about 1819. ' ' its . ' •
tablishment up
to Monday Iron' first es
morning last the Treed Bank continued to
,
possess much the greater part of the banking
business of
district without experiencing the smallest interrup-
tion to the implicit confidence which the public reposed
in it. The partners of the firm at its failure were Messrs.
William Smith Batson,John Wilson, and John Langhorne.
Considerable alarm has been created among the depo-
sitors in the Savings'Bank here, which establishment did
business through Messrs. Batson, Berry, and Co. We
are happy to be able to state, on the best authority, that
for the money lying in the Tweed Bank as well as for
the other funds, there was Government security, and that
the Savings' Bank cannot suffer in the slightest degree.
As might have been expected, a " run' to a slight ex-
tent took place on the Joint Stock Bank on the alarm ;
but all demands being promptly met, the run yesterday
was quite at an end. We hear that the Directors of this
bank have resolved to issue Bank of Scotland notes at
their Berwick branch till the alarm has completely sub-
sided.—Berwick Advertiser.

Augustus punished Pinarius as a spy, for taking
notes at public orations or lectures. What would he
say were he to see the present race of " reporters?"