The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-10 00:00:00

LITERARY AND scamvTiric.

In one of the ancient chimney-pieces in Cawdor
Castle there is a rude carving in stone of a fox smoking
a tobacco-pipe, with the date 1510. As it is generally be-
lieved that tobacco was first introduced into this country
by Sir Walter Raleigh, about the year 1585, it is singu-
lar to find the common short tobacco-pipe represented
on a stone of so much earlier date.

At the Royal Academy on Monday night, Mr. Green,
Professor of Anatomy at this Institution, delivered the first
of the annual series of lectures. The Professor claimed
for the human skeleton the character of the highest
beauty, " for though it
.presented mankind certainly in
the sternest aspect, to scientific eyes it was still beauti-
ful; and on contemplating it the whole form of man was
clearly discerned, even as a Parthenon might rise from
its ruins to the imaginative eye of an artist."

COURT-PASHIONAXILE.
The Duke of Devonshire left Geneva last week for the
South.
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor arrived at South-
ampton from Lisbon on Saturday, and on Monday they
departed for Motcombe Park, after an absence of twelve
months.
The Earl told Countess of Carlisle are now at Castle-
Howard, where they will remain till after Christmas.
Field-Marshal and Viscountess Beresford left Caven-
dish-square on Monday for Bedgebury Park, Kent.
Lord and Lady Dinorben intend to leave the seat of
Sir John Williams, Bart., shortly, for Bute House, South
Audley-street.

ItedI3CMX.L. ANZOITS.
Peals were rung on the bells at Radstock, Chewton,
Mendi, and other
Eplaces, on Wednesday last, being the
day on which the Earl of Waldegrave finished his term
of imprisonment.
The fire which remained in the Tower, of very slight
consequence, was finally quenched on Monday, and the
engines have been removed.
The Lord Mayor in more ancient times, seems to have
walked in the civic procession of yesterday-, commonly
called the Lord Mayor's Show." In the reign of Eli-
zabeth the Mayor rode on a "horse richly caparisoned,"
and that custom continued till the time of Charles 11.
The custom of riding in the " gold coach " succeeded,
and continues, as all know, to the present time. In his
celebrated prints of the idle and industrious apprentices,
Hogarth has represented the form of the old coach used
on Lord Mayor's day.
A Bristol paper states, that a most formidable rat
has been lately killed in the neighbourhood, and is now
in the Clifton Museum ; it measured one yard, and its
weight was upwards of five
pounds."—This must have
been nearly as great a rat as Sir James Graham.

HATIVIOUILS OX' THE DAT.
We understand that Sir Clifford Constable and Sir
John Gerard, both Roman Catholics and Conservatives,
are shortly to be raised to the Peerage.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 90841.

...
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 9tl day of
November, 1841, by the Lords of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, it is this day ordered by
their Lordships that his Grace the Archbishop of Canter-
bury dO prepare a form of prayer and thanksgiving to
Almighty God for her Afajesty's safe delivery of a
Prince ; and that such Form of Prayer and Thanks-
giving be'used in all chureheS and chapels- in England.
mid Wales, and in the town ot'Berwiek-uponTweed,'
upon Sunday the 14th day of this instant November, or
the Sunday after the respective ,Ministers. thereof shall
receive the same. •
And it is hereby further ordered, that'ler Majesty's
Printer do forthwith print a competent number oftopies
of the said Form of Prayer and_jhanksgiving, that the
same may be forthwith sent round and read in the seve-.
rat churches and chapels of EaOhnd and Wales, and of
the town of Berwick-uponi-Witbd.-.' • • . •
• r) C. C. GRAWILLE.
"W ITr 14-; 4 ALL,

. ....
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 9tl: day of
November, 1841, by the Lohls of her ..',I-ajesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council,- it •is this d:i • or-
dered by their Lord Ships, that .. every Minister
and Preacher as well of the Established Church in•
that part of Great Britain called Scotland as
those of the Episcopal Communion, protected and allowed
by an Act, passed in the ten:h year of her Majesty
Queen Anne, chapter 7, intituled " An Act to prevent
the disturbing those of the Episcopal Communion in
that part of Great Britain called Scotland, in the exercise
of their-religious worship, and in the use of the Liturgy
of the Church of England ; and for the repealing the
Act passed in the Parliament of Scotland, intituled An
Act against irregular Baptisms and Marriages,' " do, at
some time during the exercise of divine service, in their
respective churches, congregations, or assemblies put up
their prayers' and thanksgiving to Almighty God for
her Majesty's safe delivery of a Prince.
• C. C. GREVILLE.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 6, 1841.
The Queen has been ,pleased to direct letters patent to. be
passed under the Great deal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, granting unto Albert William Woods,
Esq., Norfolk Herald Extraordinary and Portcullis Pursuivant
of Arms, the office of Lancaster Herald, vacant 'by-the decease
of George Frederick Heitz, Fsq., late Lancaster, Herald.

WHITEHALL, Nov. 6. •
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, granting unto George William Colien,
Gent., the office of Portcullis Fursuivant of Arms, vacant by
the promotion of Albert William Woods, Esq., to the office of
Lancaster Herald.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Dumfrieshire.
A. Carruthers, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant ; Sir W.
Jardine, Bart., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Oct. 27.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey.
let Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia—A. Goldsmid, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice R. D. Guyon, Oct. 14.