The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-17 00:00:00

THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHIIMBERLAND.—The
Duke and Duchess of Athol], the Earl and Countess of Powis,
the Earl and Countess of Beverley, the Bishop of Carlisle,
the Hon. C. and Lady Frances Maynard, the Countess Dow-
ager of Ashburnham, the Rev. Mr. and Lady Eleanor Wode-
house, Mr. and Lady Mary Gordon, Lord and Lady
loughby D'Eresby, Lord and Lady Louvaine, the Hon. E.
and Lady Margaret Littleton, Sir W. Wynn, and the Earl
and Countess of Clare, are amongst the distinguished indivi-
duals placed in mourning by the demise of the noble head of
the illustrious house of Percy.

The mercantile community of Liverpool has been
deprived of an important member by the death of Mr.
Stephen Gair, the resident partner of Messrs. Baring Brothers
and Co., Liverpool branch. This gentleman has been rapidly
carried off by a violent attack of typhus fever, and his loss
has excited much sympathy. His private character was
most estimable, but, being of a;quiet and retired disposition,
he took no part in any public movements here, and did not
fill that prominent position which his rank in the mercantile
world entitled him to.

PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.--ThO
Frederica, Leonore, Islam, and Edwin, from New York;
Meteor, Arabian, Kilby, Albatross, Lord Seaton, and St.
George, from New Orleans; Hibernia, from Boston, Den-
mark, from Norfolk, and Rhone, from Baltimore, which were
reported at Liverpool on the 15th inst., bring 14,558 barrels
flour, 29,352 sacks and 39,582 bushels Indian corn, and 466
barrels Indian corn meal.

A FEMALE DANIEL LAMBERT. Mrs. Elizabeth
Armitage, a lady of alarmingly large proportions is now
being exhibited,at the Cosmorama Rooms, in Regent-street,
and promises to become an object of extreme interest with
those who relish unnatural freaks of development. Mrs.
Armitage is the first parallel to the renowned Lambert that
the public has witnessed, her dimensions being 85 inches
round the hips, her bust 72, her waist 47, her arm and the
calf of her leg each 221 ! These be noble pioportions, and
may well excite astonishment, the more so as the head,
hands, and feet are scarcely a shade bigger than those of
ordinary mortals. This full-blown lady, a sample of the
female sex magnified beyond all belief, with all these rare
burdens of flesh, walks easily, though the weight of 445
jo
ke
to the aggregate of her personal conditions, is no
to carry. Her health is stated to be good, and her bodily
enlargements the mere growth of pure healthy flesh, the
increase of which, it is supposed, is even yet not terminated !
She is a native of Norwich, and is now 29 years of age.
Her manners are polite, and her conversation cheerful and
unaffected.
}MEE
elps,l4oly caseoccurred at South Stockton on cifEsuf‘a),:n
soon after five o'clock in the afternoon, just as the cotton
factory had given over working, a number of boys and girls
went to have a slide on a pond formed by what is termed
the " returned water" from the mill. Amongst them were
three girls of the names of Mary Hutchinson, aged 14, Isa-
bella Donkin, 13, and Lydia Moxon, 13, who having ven-
tured too tar, the ice gave way, and they were precipitated
into the water. There were several young people of both
sexes near the place at the time, and a lad named Donkin,
brother to Isabella Donkin, threw off his jacket and plunged
into the water to endeavour to save his sister, but his efforts
were unavailing. As more than half an hour elapsed before
the bodies were recovered, life in each was of course extinct.
—Newcastle Journal.

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS ACTIVE.--Yesterday morning,
a letter, of which the following is a copy, enclosing a half-
sovereign, was sent per post to Mr. A. Farley, hosier, haber-
dasher, &c., 31, Market-street :—"Sir,—about 17 years ago,
or a few Months More, I Stole from your Counter a Packet
of Goods, Value about 5 shillings. 1 Was a Boy at the time,
and I consider it right to Make restitution to you now,
though it be so long ago, five Shillings for the Goods, and
5 Shillings for the Interest for the above time."—llfanchester
Examiner.

Yesterday being Shrove Tuesday, nearly 500 four-
pound loaves, of the best wheaten bread, were given at the
church doors to as many poor people residing in the parish of
Wandsworth.

FLOODS AT WINDSOR.—In consequence of the rapid
thaw, accompanied by rain, the river Thames, both above
and below Windsor-bridge, has overflowed its banks in all
directions, thousands of acres being entirely under water.

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Mon-
day afternoon an inquest was held before 11fr.
DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION IN EATING.—wO.
of "John Hayes,
at the Canteen, in the Tower, on the body
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deceased forty ye ar
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vessel, lying
dinner, on boar
was eating some beef at his. .
throat, and before assistance
• f the meat lodged in ins d
Verdict--" Accidental
Customs.
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LAND.—SitIeG our
NORTH or SCOT
dcoeiaitldh.b,,e procured he was suffocate .
STATB OF THE s
last, w©No grain, however, has been shipped ;
to tate that no farther disturbance has
occurred are happy
prepared aornedforany emergency
and the Morayshire sailedrianyvshrinrdieesns'
Thursday swore in
that might occur, theg. T o
b emagistratesp
upwards of 200:special constables, but their services have not
completed her loading.
been required. Over the north generally quietness has been
restored. This has been accomplished, in the majority of
instances, by assurances being given to the people that meal
will be placed, in ample quantities, within their reach,
at fair prices. Morayshire.—Order has very generally been
restored in Morayshire, though it had been judged necessary
to procure the presence of military from Edinburgh, in addi-
tion to those from Fort George, 100 of the 76th Regiment
having been brought by steamer and landed at Burghead on
Monday morning. The shipment of grain was then resumed,
and the two vessels, the loading of which had been inter-
rupted, were got under weigh. At Garmouth two or three
of the rioters (women) have been apprehended.—lnverness
Courier.

CHANCELLORSHIP OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAM-
BRIDGE. —The following address from members of the
senate of the University of Cambridge to his Royal
Highness Prince Albert is now lying for signature at
St. Catherine's Hall Lodge : " May it please your
Royal Highness The office of Chancellor of the Uni.
versity of Cambridge having become vacant by the la-
mented death of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland;
we, the undersigned, members of the senate of the Uni-
versity, beg leave most respectfully to prefer our request to
your Royal Highness, that you will graciously permit your
Royal Highness's name to be proposed to the senate for elec-
tion into the vacant office according to the prescribed forms
of our academical constitution."