The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-04 00:00:00

TZIEILTRICAL.

The inclemency of the weather for the farewell gala,
which was to have taken place last evening, has caused
it to be postponed until Monday for the final close.

COURT-FILSIZIONADS.E.

The Marvis and Marchioness of Douro go to Auchna-
gerry, their 1-i.-ghlaticl residence in Inverness-shire, im-
mediately on the adjournment of Parliament. . .
The Duke of Devonshire will leave Germany in the
ensuing week for Italy, fwd intends to pass the winter
either at Naples or Venice. •
The Duke of Bucleuch has left town for Dalkeith
Palace, near Edinburgh.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have left town fur
Badminton, Gloucestershire.
The Hon. Fox Maule, M.P., arrived at Dalguise,
Perthshire, the beginning of last week. •

MISCELLANEOUS.
The Times, alluding to the departure of the new Mi-
nisters from Claremont yesterday, indulges in the fol-
lowing subtle and sagacious re.nark :—" It continued to
rain at intervals and look &tan-, until the period when
the Duke of Wellington and Si: Robert Peel passed
through the gates of Claremont in th:3 capacity of Mi-
nisters of the Crown, and at that moment. 7ve observed the
first sun-burst." This evident sympathy on the part of
the sun with the new Ministers, is very credittible to the
feelings of that illustrious luminary I It scorne,l to show
itself while the Whigs were passing out, but reserv.,-41 its
smiles for the Tories.

Two men, under sentence of transportation, attempted
to escape from Roscommon gaol by disguising them-
selves in female attire, and boring a hole in the wall ;
but they were discovered and their escape prevented.
A lady of distinction walked through the market at
Tuam last week, dressed with an old quilt as a mantelet.
This extraordinary exhibition was made to win the
wager of one pound.
An enormous skate was sold on Monday in the fish-
market at Ghent, measuring six feet square, and weigh-
ing 1751b5.
A Derby paper, after stating the illness of a young
woman, named Emma Torr, aged 18, says that her
mother gave her an emetic, when to the astonishment of
her mother, and others who were present, she ejected a
live frog. It was picked up and put into some •water,
but did not, live more thnn an -hour and a half. The
learned of the place supposed that the frog must have
been generated in the stomach, she having eaten some
watercress, and probably at the same time some frog-
spawn.
Sir William Follett is said to be the purchaser of the
Collaton Kirkham estate, the property of Mr. Montague
Parker, the late Tory Member for South Devon.
A rabbit at Exeter, on Tuesday last, brought forth
prolifically eighteen young ones.
On the Ellbridge estate, in the parish of Landalph,
is an apple tree in one of the orchards, bearing, on one
part, fruit perfectly ripe, while blossoms of aluxuriant
description are flourishing on other portions of it.
The number of emigrants who arrived at Quebec,
between May and June, 1841, were to the number of
16,071, being an increase of 1,505 more than to the
same period in the preceding year. The number that
arrived at the stations at Bytown, Toronto, and Hamil-
t en, were 8,410.

By the Brighton Railway passengers are now con-
veyed to London in less than 4 hours, and when the line
is opened, the whole distance will be travelled in two
hours ! It is contemplated, indeed, that one train will
perform the journey in about an hour and a-half. The
road distance, as it is, is reduced about two miles by the
railway, being only 501 miles—nearly a direct line.