The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

COURT-FASHIONABLE.

Mr. O'Connell and his family visited the new and
beautiful ship Belle-isle on Saturday, and after inspec-
tion of the different departments, partook of a splendid
dejeune in the cabin. It was understood that the Lord
Lieutenant and Countess Fortescue would visit the vessel
on Sunday.
The birthday of the Earl of Yarborough was cele-
brated by the Noble Earl's principal tenantry on his
estates in Lincolnshire and at Appuldercombe yesterday
week with the accustomed hospitality. The Noble Earl
entered his 61st year on that day.'
Great rejoicings took place on Tuesday last at
Windsor, in celebration of her Majesty's accession, and
the Duchess of Kent's birth-day.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yester-.
day afternoon.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset left Park-lane
on Saturday for Wimbledon.

Viscount Lowther arrived in Carlton-gardens on
Monday from the Continent.

-- Lord Stanley left Buxton on Friday for Manchester.
Lord Morpeth has arrived in town from Dublin.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonel Clitherow, Chairman Of the Brentford
Petty Sessions, has resigned, in consequence of the state
of his health; and yesterday his brother Magistrates
presented their sincere thanks to the Colonel for the
ability and zeal with which he had long filled the office.
Last week a young gentleman of the name of
Clarke, while standing on the brink of a rock at Grene
de Lec, Jersey, in company with two friends, was swept
off by a wave which dashed in from the sea, when he
sank to rise no more.

Sir Francis Burdett is announced to take the chair
at the Tory dinner to be given next Friday to Captain
Rous at Drury-lane Theatre. This silly old renegade
has only to turn Chartist, and then he will have boxed
the political compass.
The following ridiculous mistake occurs in a Morn-
ing Contemporary :—".A surgeon was caught last week
in the Severn, weighing seventy pounds." This surgeon
must have been an odd fish, and as much out of his ele-
ment as the Tamworth quack-doctor is likely to be on
the Treasury Bench.
The Post, in a letter addressed to Sir R. Peel on the
subject of literature, proposes that " a Poet's Order
should be established," observing, " there arc orders of
knighthood for the warrior and the renowned, and why
not an order exclusively for the poet ?" The best order
Sir R. Peel could confer on a poet, would be an order
on his banker for the production of a new poem.
Yesterday morning a young woman attempted sui-
cide by poison. When asked what had induced her to
do so, she said that she " wished to go to heaven !"
The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel has been appointed
one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to her Majesty. .
On Friday last, while on his way to the Derbyshire
moors, Sir Robert Peel was so overcome by sleep, that
instead of getting out of the railway carriage at the
Amber-gate Station, he was hurried on to Chesterfield.
We have no doubt that this heavy 41umber was induced
by the Right Hon. Baronet's perusing one of the Church
articles in the Times.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 17.—A good
demand has again been made in the Cotton trade to-day,
although Tuesday being market-day at Manchester is
considered a blank day ; the sales are 3,000 bales, a few
of which have been taken for export and on speculation ;
the Market closed firmly.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, AUG. 17.—A moderate
business has been transacted at the Stock Exchange this
day. Eastern Counties, 8 ; Liverpool and Manchester
One-Half Shares, 93 ; London and Birmingham Thirty-
two-Pound Shares, 24 ; Midland Counties, 791 ; North
Midland Third Shares, 91.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.—The
improved state of the weather has tended to strongthen
the Share Market, and prices are stiffer :—Manchester
and Leeds, 51 52 ; ditto, Halves, 201 21 ' • Manchester
and Birmingham, 211.; London and South Western, 511;
London and Birmingham, 160 ; North Midland,
Thirds, 9.

The only later arrival to-day is from Launceston,
Van Dieman's Land, the papers from thence being up to
the 16th April, but they contain no news of importance.
Holders of wheat appear more anxious to sell than they
have been for some past - it realises from es. to 7s. per
bushel, but there are only a few buyers. Sugar is 364
per ton, and Tea 12/. per chest.