The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-18 00:00:00

ROYAL NUPTIALS.

The Austrian Observer of the bth instant contains the fol-
lowing particulars of the arrival and reception of the Queen
and Princesses of BAVARIA at Vienna, and of the marriage
of the I'rincess Soritrw to the Austrian Archduke FIIASCIII
eltAn LE s on the 4th of this month I

Vu:K wa, Nor. 3.—This afternoon, between three and four
o'clock, her Majesty the Queen of Bavaria, with her Royal
Highness the Princess Sophia, betrothed to his Imperial High-
netts the Archduke Francis Charles, and the other two Prin-
cesses Maria and Louisa, made their solemn entry into this capital
with great pomp. The whole way from the city gate at which
they entered to the Imperial Palace was lined with Military, and
filled with immense crowds of people who greeted the illustrious
visitors with the most enthusiastic acclamations. The weather.
which had been rainy in the morning, fortunately cleared up
and favoured the solemnity of the day.
VIENNA, Nov. 4.—This evening, between six and seven
o'clock, the marriage of the Archduke Francis Charles and
the Princess Sophia of Bavaria was solemnizA with the
greatest pomp in the Court Church of the Augustines.

PASH roNAnix ARRI VA LS.
Earl Spencer, at his house in St. James's.place, from Mr.
Coke's scat in Norfolk ; and her Ladyship, front her seat at
Wimbledon ; the Earl and Countess of Eastnor, their. seat,
Ryegate, Surrey, front the Earl of Hardwieke's, Wimpole,
Cambridgeshire ; Lord and Lady 0. 11. Cavendish anti Family,
at Burlington House, Piccadilly, from their sent, hafimers,
Bucks; Dr, Yeats, at his house, Queen-street, May-fair, from
Tunbridge Wells; Lady Pullen, at the Clarendon Hotel,
Bond-street, from India; Capt. anti Airs. Itragge, at Jordan's
lintel, St. James's-street, from their seat in Norfolk ; J. Brown,
E'sq. M.P. at the Union Hotel, Cockspur-strect, from a tour ;
J. and W. Goodchild, Esqs. at ditto, front Ipswich.
asnEs.—The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, from town
for Brighton ; the Duke of Montrose, from Edinburgh, on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at Alnwitk
Castle; Major Daly, front Newbridge Barracks, in Ireland,
for Chetham House; Mr. R. King, for Corpus Christi College,
Oxford ; Majoranti Mrs. Dunbar, front Edinburgh, for Bath ;
Colonel Peterson, front Cheltenham, for Bath ; Mrs. and Miss
Braddyll, from Ramsgate, for Paris ; Major Kingston, from
Ramsgate, for Boulogne; Mr. and Mrs. Courtenay, from
Lyme Regis, in Dorsetshire, for Bath ; Viscount Grantley, for
his seat near Guildford; General Onslow, front Fenton's
lintel, St. James's-place, for Kitnbolton Castle, Huntingshire ;
the lion. Mrs. Walker Gray, jun. from Nerot's Hotel, Clif-
ford-street ; Miss Dorristhorne, front ditto ;J. Gray, Esq.
from ditto; Mrs. and the Misses Carpenter, from ditto; J.
Pierce, Esq. and Ladies, from ditto, for Yorkshire.

Yesterday the Duke of Youx, the Duke of
Sussex, and the Princess Sophia visited the Duchess of Olou-
cester, and the Princess Augusta.
The iAquirers after the state of the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER yesterday, were very numerous. The answer
given was, that her Royal highness was much better.
The Princess A uousTA took an airing in her
carriage yesterday, and paid a visit to the Duchess of Kent, at
her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensington.
Yesterday morning, the CHANCELLOR of the
EICIIEQUEII, Lady Sarah Robinson, and family arrived at
their residence in Downing-street, from the seat of Earl Veru-
lam, at Gorhambury, and left town about five o'clock, for their
residence at Beckenham.
It has been generally allowed, that English
pickpockets are gifted with more dexterity and address in per.
forming the duties of their calling, than persons of the same
profession in other countries; the following manoeuvre would
not, however, have disgraced Barrington or Bill Siatines :
A merchant being in the pit of a foreign Opera-house, felt
a .movement about his aides, which led him to suspect that
his gold snuff-box was in some jeopardy, and immediately
taking measures for ascertaining whether it was safe,
_ he
found it was gone. Seeing an 11l looking fellow very near him,
he (lid not hesitate to fix upon him as the thiet ; immedi-
ately seizing him by the arm, he whispered in his ear—not
wishing to occasion any tumult, and disturb the perform-
ance—‘ You have taken my snuff-box, restore it this
moment, or I will give you over to the police-officers."—
" Sir," replied the thief, " pray do not give an alarm, or
1 am undone; it is true I have your box, hut I am an un-
fortunate man in great distress, and humbly intreat of you
to take your property out of my pocket, and the persons
around us will know nothing of what has occurred." The
merchant kindly acceded to this proposal—when the fellow vo-
ciferated " pickpocket !" calling on those near him to observe
that the hand of the merchant, which he held fast, was in his
pocket.
The guard came to the spot, and apprehended the ac-
cused party, who of course protested his innocence, and ulti-
mately explained the nature of the trick which had been prac-
tised upon him; but while he was engaged in doing this, the
thief glided through the crowd, carrying the gold snuff-box
had
it. CI;
with him.
to Carron, who
--Tl
EiTRAORDINARY STORY. IP following ex-
traordinary story is perfectly authentic, but of course its cre-
dibility rests entirely on the word of the individual who tells
°ftnik'ienndgs,
happened to be
in one of the streets about eleven o'clock in the night of
cndeattoglEatlPAtinbiuirghAto
Saturday last, when a chaise drove up, and a
s lvai
st
tr
his b e I
respectable
hooking gentleman alighted from it, and he was soon after-
wards requested to assist him into Ida seat again ; but no
sooner had he approached, than the gentleman applied an ad-
hesive plaster to his mouth, and with the aid of the driver'
tumbled him into a box,_ which they placed in the chaise and
'drove ow with all speed. When not far from Berwick the chaise
broke down, and no person being near the place to give the ne-
cessary assistance, it was left upon the road by its mysterious
owners—it was not long, however, till a number of persons
were attracted to the spot, who soon discovered that a disagree-
able smell issued from a box which was tied upon the back of
the chaise, and which was found to contain the dead body of a
man. The other box wits then forced open, and the poor slater,
half dead, was released from his horrible situation—he returned
to Carron on Wednesday last, and, as a proof of his strange
story, displays the plaster, alon with a *car on his face, which
is likely to remain during hit life--(Ediriburgh Courant, Nov.
13. j