The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-16 00:00:00

THE GRAND POLISH BALL AT

GUILDHALL.
The demand for tickets for the approaching ball and
concert at Guildhall, for the relief of the Poles, is beyond
all precedent. Several tickets were purchased yesterday
at double prices, and Lord Dudley Stuart, in thanking
the Committee for their successful exertions, stated that
he had every reason to believe that the receipts would
exceed those of any former night devoted to the service
of the unfortunate Poles. Miss Adelaide Kemble has
been to visit the Guildhall, where she received from the
Committee the most enthusiastic expression of thanks.

TRAGICAL EVENT.
70 TEE EDITOR OP ThE SEL.II.
SIR,—A most tragical event took place at the Burnley
Barracks last evening. I understand (though living six
miles from the place) that during last night, about half-
pest ten o'clock, Lieut. O'Grady, belonging to the 60th
Rifles, now lying at the above barracks, was caught in
company with a female by a person whom I understand
was paying his addresses to her. On his approach to
the parties he instantly stabbed his officer, then the
female, and lastly himself ; so determined did he appear
for self-destruction that he absolutely cut open his own
bowels. The woman died last night ; the officer this
morning at half-past nine o'clock. I have not time to
say more. From one of your subscribers.
Colne, Nov. 15, 1841.
[We have received the name and address of the writer.]

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.
—We have to announce the death uf the Marquis of
Lothian, which took place at the seat of the Dowager
Lady Suffield on Sunday. The melancholy intelligence
was received by the Duke of Buccleuch and the other
branches of the family in town yesterday morning: The
deceased John William Robert Kerr, Marquis and
Earl of Lothian, Earl of Ancram, Baron of Newbottle,
Jedburgh, Kerr of Nesbit, Longnewton and Dolphing-
ton, and Kerr of Newbottle, Oxnam, and Jedburgh,
all in the peerage of Scotland ; Baron Kerr of Kerr-
sheugh, county Roxburgh, in the peerage of the United
Kingdom, who was born Ist February, 1794, was eldest
son of the late William, sixth Marquis, by his
first marriage with Lady Harriet Hobart, eldest daughter
of John second Earl of Buckinghamshire, whose mar-
riage with Armar Lowry first Earl of Belmore, was dis-
solved in 1793. He succeeded his father in the family
titles and estates 27th April, 1824, and on the 19thhJteru
1831, married Lady Cecil Chetwynd Talbot, daug. of
Earl Talbot, by whom the deceased 3farquis leavesord Jed-
issue a
youthful family of seven children, the eldest, L
burgh, being only in his tenth year. The deceased Marquis
was Lord-Lieutenant of Roxburglishire, and Colonel of
the Militia of the county and city of Edinburgh. By his
Lordship's demise, the families of the Duke and Duchess:
of Buccleuch, Earl of Talbot, Viscount and Lady Sarah
Ingestre, Sir John S Alart and Lady Louisa Forbes, Lord
and Lady Clinton, Lord and Lady Henry Kerr, Dowa-
ger Lady Suffield, Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, Earl
and Countess of Antrim, Lord Robert Kerr, Countess
of Abingdon, &c., are placed in mourning. The Noble
Marquis was a Lord in Waiting to the Queen, having
been appointed by Sir Robert Peel at the dissolution of
the late ,Government, but his Lordship had not entered
upon his duties at the palace since he received the p
pointment. By the Noble Marquis's demise the Lord-
Lieutenancy of the county of Roxburgh becomes in the
gift of the present Administration.
ANCIENT CANNON.—In the life of Bruce,
by Barbour, we learn that guns were first employed by
the English at the battle of Werewater, which was fought
in 1227, about 40 years after the death of Friar Bacon, the
supposed disaovcrer of gunpowder; and there is no doubt
that four guns were used at the battle of Cressy, fought
in 1346, when they were supposed to have been quite
unknown to the French, and tended to obtain that victory
for British arms. Froissart gives an excellent representa-
tion of a 000 and cannoneer* in 139 Q.