The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-27 00:00:00

THEATRICAL.

The Duke of Rutland, Sir Robert and Lady Peel,
Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Countess of Jersey, and the
Ladies Villiers, occupied the Queen Dowager's box, last
night, at Covent-garden Theatre.

COURT-PASHXOTTAXI363I3.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have been enter-
taining a select circle at Badminton, Gloucestershire.
The Marquis of Downshire has returned to Hills-
borough Castle, from Dublin.

The Earl of Surrey arrived in Hyde Park-place on
Thursday last, from Arundel Castle.
The Lord Chancellor, Lady Lyndhurst, and Miss
Copley, leave town to-day, on a visit for a few days.
We understand that the marriage of Prince Nicholas
Esterhazy to Lady Sarah Villiers is fixed for the 10th of
December.

The whole of the interior of Strathfieldsaye is about
to be re-furnished in a splendid style, in consequence of
an expectation of a visit from her Majesty and Prince
Albert early in the ensuing year.
Viscount Templetown has left Berkeley-square, on a
visit to his estates in Ireland.

At a meeting held at Birmingham yesterday, addresses
to the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent,
on the birth of the Prince of Wales, were carried by
acclamation.

MISCELZANEOUS.
On Tuesday evening last, a meeting of the working
classes was held at Truro, for the purpose of forming a
Company to supply the industrious classes with the
necessaries of life, especially flour. About 500 persons
were present; of that number 250 working men enrolled
themselves as members of the newly-formed Company.
Sir Charles Wolseley having invited all his tenantry,
and the farm labourers, with their families, of the town-
ships of Wolseley, Bishton, and Colwich, to commemo-
rate the birth of the Prince of Wales, upwards of 350
persons assembled on Tuesday at the hospitable mansion
of the Baronet, where they were abundantly regaled.
Fireworks, ringing of bells, &c., closed the festive day.
A Morning Paper states that the Duke of Wellington,
since his arrival in town, has been constantly occupied
with business ; and then, as a proof of his Grace's sedu-
lous attention to business, mentioned that he went with
Lady Burghersh and a party to Covent Garden Theatre
last night !
Her Majesty the Queen has presented to the Numis-
matic Society an extensive variety of specimens of the
Anglo-Saxon and Continental coins discovered last year
on the banks of the Ribble and Cuerdale, in Lancashire.
They are chiefly of the Mint of Bury St. Edmund's,
Archbishop Plegmund, Alfred the Great, and of contem-
porary Continental Princes and towns, and are in many
instances of the utmost rarity.
Few persons are aware of the circumstance that the
Royal Infant, in addition to his other titles, is also born
" Viscount Launceston."

The Reading Magistrates, in the excess of their legis-
lative wisdom, have committed Bernard Cavanagh to the
tread-mill for refusing to starve himself to death; just
as, years ago, some equally sapient Magistrates im-
prisoned M. Chabert—the Salamander, as he called
himself—for refusing to bake himself to death in an oven!
The Thames Tunnel and an eminent M.P. (late of the
Surrey Theatre) are alike remarkable as being the two
greatest bores in Christendom.
On this day, in 1703, Bishop Kidder was killed at his
Palace in Wells, in consequence of the fall of a stack of
chimneys, occasioned by a great storm, which was felt
all over the kingdom, when the Bishop and his lady were
unhappily killed in bed. They were privately buried in
the Cathedral of Wells.