The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-27 00:00:00

TH n. amnicAm.

Some of the old Greek tragedies, translated into Ger-
man, are preparing for performance at the King's Private
Theatre, Berlin. Mendelssohn is setting the choruses
to music of the Edipus Cclancus, Frederic Schneider
those of the El!ctra, and Spohr those of the Antigone.
Miss Kelly has been prevailed on by the manager of
the New York theatre to accept an engagement for six
months, for which she is to receive a tempting sum.

SPORTXNG.
The Newmarket Stakes are run for to-morrow. On
Wednesday the St. Leger takes place.

COURT-FASEIONABLE.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expected
at Clarence House this evening, or in the course of to-
morrow, from Belgium.
The Duke of Marlborough left Mivart's Hotel on Fri-
day for Paris.
The Lord Chancellor, Lyndhurst, has appointed Ed-
v.-ard Winslow, Esq., of TorringtOn-square, his Private
Secretary.
Earl Spencer has arrived at Althorp Castle, Northamp-
tonshire, from Winton Hall, near Doncaster._

The Marquis of Douro has arrived at his Highland re-
sidence of Achnacarry, Inverness.
The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town on Saturday
from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Sir Robert Peel gave a sumptuous banquet in White-
hall-gardens on Saturday evening to the Corps Diplo-
matique, and a large party of leading fashionable&

BUS C ELLAITEOUS.
In the Wesleyan " Minutes of Conference " for the
present year, the 28th query, touching upon the " Law
of Marriage," has for answer that this body acknow-
ledges the prohibited degrees laid down in the 18th
chapter of Leviticus, as regarded by the law of the land.
To-day is the anniversary of the coronation of William
11., " Rufus, the Red-King," at Westminster, by Lan-
franc, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Archbishop of
York. - Langtoft specially mentions the ring in this
coronation—

" To, William the Red-King is gyven the coroun,
In Wtestmynstere tok he rung in the Abbay of Lon doun."
We understand that it is contemplation to hold a meet-
ing of the inhabitants of the West Riding of Yorkshire in
the course of the next month, to take into consideration
the best mode of testifying their respect to Lord Morpeth,
their late representative.
The Morning Post gives a long account of the various
birds that " usually migrate into this country during the
month of September;" but takes no notice of the prodi-
gious flocks of birds of prey that migrated into Downing-
street during the past month of August.
On Thursday morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
a boiler burst on the iron works of Pen-y-Barren, South
Wales, by which six persons were killed and twenty
wounded, seventeen of them dangerously.
Mrs. Denison, wife of the Bishop of Salisbury, died at
the Palace on Wednesday last, after a short illness. She
was in the 29th year of her age, and had been married
only about a twelvemonth.
Robert Blakesley, the murderer of Mr. Burdon, was
taken into custody on Sunday morning, at Hitchin, near
St. Albans, and after examination before the Lord
Mayor this day, committed to Newgate.

' T.O YD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
SEPT. 27.—Wind this day at noon, W.
NAL, 'Sims. '26. —Wind S. W.—Arrived the Egyptian,
slow°, from colomb, • Medusa, Purdie, Calcutta; Ida, Rio
"their°, tot Hareborgiv C+arlotte, Wylie, Sierra Leone.
. Madeira; Grace, Genova.Atli-red froth the River, 15art,Curx.::,
PoRTsmotITH, Sate: 26.—Wind IV, fresh breezes.—
Arrived her Majesty's Ringdove, faint prince Edward's
Island—sailed 2d inst.
Ltveßroot, SErT. 26.—Wind S., light.—Arrived the
Maypo, Mann, from Callao—sailed 23d June; Ferris, Hellyer,
Monte Video; Hardware, Fernando Po—sailed 29th July;
Avon, Rtobintorti Honduras; Siddons, Cobh, New York—sail-
ed 25th ult. ; Donn* Maria, Taganm ; Freedom, Cox,
Smyrna; Andes, Trieslo Lowther, Palermo; Elizabeth
Buckham, Bewly, Valparaiso; Charles, Durham, Buenos
Ayres ; M'Leod, Paraiho; Britetnia, Gale, Pictou; Cam-
bridge, New York—sailed Ist inst; Lavinia and Nary Caro-
line, (belle& Sailed the Herald, for Miramichi; Si, Havan-
nah ; Plym and Helen, Constantinople. Put back, the Cou-
rier, for Montreal, with foremast sprung and loss of topmasts.
Off the port, Magistrate Turner, Old Calabar—sailed Bth July,
and from Fernando Po 21st June; Summers, Honduras;
General Wiltshire, Lesley, Virginia.
illf.fatirteu ROADS.—Arriven the Manfred, Marwood, from
London to North America, alter being eight weeks out.
HARWICH, Sir?. 245,—A loaded brig is anchored off
Bardsey, with loss of foremast and main-topmast.
Huta., SEPT. 23.—The Elard, from New York, under jury-
natst end bowsprit, and with bows stove, was spoken on the
Od ?I'M:, sixty miles from the Elbe Light, but did not require
assistance, 'l.4'e Dolphin, from Stockton to Lowestotref was
driven on shot'e near Saltfeet, on the 23d inst.—crew saved;
cargo-discharging.
StaosinEss, SEPT. 23.—The Liberty, from Liverpool to
Newcastle, got on the Braga Rocks last night, but floated off
with little damage, after throwing overboard part of cargo, salt.
Daltimotrrit, Sari. 25.—Arrived the George Sutton,
ilawif, froth Newfoundland. A brig was seen going down,
22d instant, in la, al, lon. 6, by the Farmer, Kerswell, ar-
rived here. The Thanes', Lawrie, left the Bay of Islands
about the 10th April.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Nautilus, Morrison, from
Newfoundland.
SwAssza, SETT. 25.--Arrived Daux, Maag, Valparaiso.
Sraosomss, SEPT. 23.—The William, Stenberg, from
Stockholm to Paraiba, has been towed in here, with loss of
anchors, and supposed with considerable damage to hull, hav-
ing been on the rocks in Pentland krith.

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