The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-29 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

After a lengthened stay, the Count Survilliers (Joseph Bo-
naparte), with his son.in-law the Prince di Canino, and his
son Lucien, and Messrs. Mailliard and Thibaud, secretaries,
and a numerous suite, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Ca-
vendish-square, for Genoa, by the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company's ship Iberia, E. Cooper, Esq.,
commander ; Mrs. and Miss Hodson, from ditto, for Jennings,
near Maidstone; Mr. Barstow and Mr. Barstow, jun., from
ditto; George Rush, Esq., from ditto, for Epsom; Dr. Mar-
geant, from ditto, for Paris ; Rev. J. Drake and son, from
ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Harrison and family, from Batt's Hotel,
Dover-street, Piccadilly, for Snelston Hall, Derbyshire ; Rev.
Charles and Mrs. Parkin, from ditto, for Lenham Vicarage,
Kent.

PUBLIC DINNER To THE HON. CHARLES
LANGDALE, M. P.—A public dinner was given on Wednesday to
the Hon. C. Langdale, at the Freemason's Tavern, as a public
acknowledgment of the great services rendered by him to the
Catholic cause during his Parliamentary career, and of the
high estimation in which his public and private character is
held. About 200 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The Right
lion. Lord Camoys in the chair. Amongst the gentlemen
present were the Right Rev. Dr. Wareing, the Right Rev. Dr.
Collier, the Right Rev. Dr. Clancy, with many of the Catho-
lic clergy of the Metropolitan diocese, Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,
M. P., the Hon. Edward Petre, the Hon. Charles Clifford, Sir
J. M. Doyle, K. C. H., Mr. Lynch, M.P., G. Barry, Esq.,
M.P., P. H. Howard, Esq., M.P., &c. Several other toasts
were drunk and duly honoured, and the company having spent
the evening with the utmost harmony and conviviality, sepa-
rated at a late hour.

In the General Assembly on Tuesday, Mr.
Cunningham, one of the non-inirusionist clergymen, brought
forward a motion against Church patronage, and Dr. I. ook
inured that the overtures be dismissed. The amendment was
carried by a majoriiy of 6, the numbers for Mr. Cunningham's
being 133, and for Dr. Cook's 139.

LORD LYNEDOCH.—The following anecdote
speaks volumes for the urbanity and kindness of the veteran.
An old soldier, a pensioner, who had served in the Peninsular
war, and in many instances fought under his Lordship's imme-
diate command, is now living in Malta. A short time ago, on
the anniversary of the battle of Busaco, he waited on his Lord-
ship and presented him with an orange branch ; his Lordship
was delighted with the attention thus paid him by a fellow ve-
teran of that well-fought field, and sent him a token to drink
his health. On Thursday last his Lordship actually ordered
his horse and rode to St. Giuseppe to visit the old soldier,
when to his astonishment, gratitude, and delight, his Lordship
condescended to converse for upwards of hall an hour " fight-
ing o'er again their hard-earned fame." Such acts as these
must endear the memory of an old commander, and nrove
worthy of imitation to those of the present day.—Malta Nro.
nick, May 13.
RAILWAYS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE-
LAND.—From a paper very recently read before the Statisti-
cal Society, of the number and length of railways in Great
Britain and Ireland, it appears there are seventy-one lines.
forming a total length of 2,191 miles. Of these fifty-three are
open, eighteen partially, and ten are not yet opened.
VIENNA, MAY 15.—The Constantinople
mail of the 28th is not yet arrived. The insurrection in Rou-
melia seems again to have extended to the high road between
Adriadople and Nissa. The accounts from Servia throw but
little light on the situation of the provinces, because the centre
of the operations has been removed by the victory gained by
the Turks at Alexinizza to a considerable distance from the
Servian frontier, and Mustapha, Paella of Nissa, endeavoured
with unmitigated rigour to prevent all communication between
the Christians and other countries.

DEATH OF LADY FRANCES SOMERSET....
It is with regret we have to announce the death of the
above-named lady, who expired onThursday morning at
Tunbridge-wells. The deceased, who was second daugh-
ter of Henry the fifth Duke of Beaufort, and aunt of the
present Duke, was born in 1774, and was consequently
in the 67th year of her age. By her Ladyship's death a
number of families have been placed in mourning.
SIR ROBERT PEEL AND THE INFERNAL
MAcniNE.—Mr. Brooks, at our late Anti-Corn-law tim
party, gave a new name to the sliding scale, when he
called it the infernal machine. We hope the name will
be generally adopted by the anti-bread-tax party. This
will undoubtedly be doing an injustice to the inventor
of the Parisian infernal machine. Fieschi compassed
the death of fifteen persons only, whilst the sliding inven-
tion of which Sir R. Peel is the patron, has subjected
hundreds of thousands to the lingering torments of star-
vation. The sliding scale is such a perfect scheme of
legalized murder and robbery, that we once heard a quaint
man express his doubts, at a public meeting, whether it
was really of human invention, or whether it had not
sprung from the nether world. The bread taxers know its
origin, and they have a congenial love for its infernrd.
attributes. They will cling to it to the death, and !t
driven by the indignation of the country to withdraw it
for a moment from sight, they will endeavour, like the
scared reptile that swallows its venomous progeny, to
cast it up again. We were prepared for Sir Robert
' Peel's declaration in favour of the infernal machine. He
has given himself over to the bread taxers. He is from
this time the pledged enemy of the people of this
country. He and his followers are political Ishmaehtes ;
their hands are in every honest man's pocket. Let all.
who deaire to escape their plunder nerve their hearts
for the coming election, when the cry must be, " Down
with Peel ! down with his followers ! down with their
infernal machine, the sliding scale !--Anti-Bread-Tax •
Circular.