The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

Extract from a Return to an Order of the House
of Commons, dated 2d February, 1841, for the
following London Papers, from the Ist of July
to the 31st of December, 1840, inclusive :
SUN
GLOBE 526,000

STANDARD ..... ... 505.000
COURIER ....... . ...... 111,000

Since the recent departure of Mr. Catt from
Lancaster, who from the commencement until a few weeks
back, was the editor of the Lancaster Guardian, a subscrip-
tion has been actively going forward amongst the leading gen-
tlemen and the supporters of the Liberal party, in order to pre-
sent him with a substantial proof of the ability, independence, and
zeal with which he conducted this paper, as well as a mark of
the high estimation in which he was held amongst them for his
private character and worth. The subscription closed last
week, and in the course of the present, John Armstrong, Esq.,
of Acreland., transmitted to Mr. Catt, now in London. a purse,
containing 120 sovereigns, accompanying the gift with a letter
expressive of the kind sentiments of the subscribers towards
him.—Lancaster Guardian.

EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.--^-We hear that
an investigation is going on in the Bank of Ireland on a
most extraordinary ell cumstance, which was this morning
di covered to have occurred— It would appear that on
closing the cash-room, after business, yesterday, some
person or persons bad contrived to secrete themselves
there, and had succeeded in breaking open the door of
the safe in expectation of a good booty, but found them-
selves impeded by a second door, which resisted every ef-
fort to force it open. The whole affair is involved in the
greatest mystery, and, of course, has produced great ex-
citement —Dublin Evening Post, Thursday.
TEETOTALISM IN IRELAND.—At a meeting
held the other day in Cork, st which the Rev. Theobald
igsti-.ew was present, it was stated by one of the speakers,
that " they had eight Roman Cathc lic Prelates enrolled,
and 700 of the Catholic clergy. The late tour had pro-
ducei I,l47,ooo—which, added to the former general
returns—namely, 3,500,000—1eft the total 4,647,000.
Yes, four gni lions six hundred and f. rty-seven thousand of
the population of Ireland were at that moment sound and
determined teetotallers 1"
It is understood that Colonel Hodges, our:Con-
sul at Alexandria, is to be appointed British Consul- Ge-
neral at Hamburg!), in the place of the late lamented Mr.
Canning.
STRANGE BRIDEGROOM.--A couple presented
thesmelves before the curate of Wrexham Church on the
morning of Tuesday last, to be joined together in the 11,1 y
bonds of matrimony. The service had proceeded to that
part cf the ceremony where the minister calls upon the
bridegroom to say after him, 1, A. B. take thee, C. D.,
to be my wedded wife," when the man, instead of re-
peating the words, said, wull, have her."
The minister remonstrated with him, and told him
to repeat the exact words after him, as above men•
tierce". The man, however, persisted in his manner
of reply, and said, " I wull, I'll have her." The clerk,
thinking he bad some impediment in his speech, whispered
to himsoftly to repeat the words after the Curate, but
without fleet. The man contiared to reply as before;
and the Curate, who said he was an obstinate fellow, re.
fused to proceed with the ceremony. The parties came
from Church unmarried. The man is a potter, and lives
in the Walks, Wrexham.—Carnervon Herald.
ARBROATH.—The Presbytery met in the Guild
Hall on Wednesday, and proceeded to take into considera-
tion the draft of a libel against Mr. Carruthers of Kirkden,
for charges of drunkenness. A petition signed by nearly
the whole of the parishioners of Kirkden, bearing testi-
mony to their esteem and affection for Mr. Carruthers,
and praying the Presbytery to take no farther procedure in
the matter, was read, and after some 'marks, laid on the
table. The Presb3tery, after much discussion, by a me-
jority sustained the libel, and appointed it to be &geed by
the Moderator and Clerk, and to be proceeded with ac-
cording to the laws of the Church.--Scolch Paper.