The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-16 00:00:00

.A.GRICITIMITRAL.

As many as thirteen silver cups have been awarded as
prizes this winter by Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., for en-
couragement to agriculture in the Principality.
. LAW AND POLICE.

Samuel Bundy Williams who had been repeatedly
brought up for examination at Bow-street, on the
charge of stealing plate from the Rev. J. A. Giles' of
Windlesham Hall, was convicted of stealing, at the Old
Bailey, and sentenced to be transported for seven yeaas.
At the Admiralty Court, Dr. Lushington awarded
7501. to the owners of the pilot-boat Flora, for the sal-
vage of the Courrier Basque, a French lugger, off the
Isle of Wight, on the 21st of July last. The lugger
ran foul of the Brockenmoor, and the captain and.crew
fearing she would soon go to the bottom, got on board
the other vessel, and were landed at Cowes. The pilot-
boat coming up with the derelict next morning, carried
her safely into the same place. The value of the pro-
perty salved was 3,2501.
Al Worship-street a boy, ten years of age, was
charged with stealing a shoulder of bacon. He told a
very piteous tale, which the Magistrate, Mr. Broughton,
believed to be correct. His father, he said, had died
three years ago, and his mother about twelve months
afterwards. His grandmother, who, until lately, gavo
him a scanty support, had been compelled to go into the
Leytonstone workhouse. lie had begged his way up to
London, where he had procured bread by holding horses
in the street, but not being able to gain a subsistence by
the trade, he was compelled, from hunger, to steal. The
Manistrate sent him to the House of Correction, not for
punishment, and expressed a hope that the boy would be
admitted into the House of Refuge.
T.XNE ARTS.

The recent restoration of the eErter-house Hall, and
the Governor's Room, furnishes one of the finest specimens
of internal Elizabethan decoration to be found in London.

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.
The Council of the Zoological Society, at their meet-
ing held yesterday, in lamenting the death of the late
Sir Francis Chantrey, passed a high eulogium on him
for the characteristic ardour with which that great artist
had devoted his powers to the improvements and arrange-
ments of their gardens and Society.
The Christmas Waits in their origin are derived from
those choirs of angels that attended the birth of Christ,
and in imitation of whom the Calabrian Shepherds usher
in Christmas with pastorali and rural music. Some Cor-
porations in England still keep the Waits in pay.
TIEMATRICA.L.
Rubini is feted in Spain beyond all precedent. His
singing in the last act of Lucia di Lammermoor excites
acclamations such as never were heard within the walls
of a Madrid theatre. He is now the guest of the Duke
d'Ossuna, one of the richest Dukes in Europe, not for-
getting their Graces of Bedford and Northumberland.
COURT—FASHIONABLE.
The French Ambassador leaves town at the end of
the week, on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, at
Bowood.

Lord Lovaine arrived in Portman-square on Tuesday,
from a visit to Lord Redesdale in Gloucestershire.

The Marquis of Winchester has derived great benefit
from his residence at Leamington Spa.
Count Matuzevic has arrived at Badminton, Glouces-
tershire, on a visit to the Duke of Beaufort.

The Earl of YarborouglicametOi•Whiitst week from
Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.

The HOU. Miss Octavia Afacdonald, sister of the pre-
sent Lord Macdonald, was married on Tuesday week, to
Mr. J. Hope Johnstone, of Annandale.

Viscount St. Vincent and the Hon. W. Yates Peel,
brother of Sir R. Peel, have presented fifty pounds each
to the fund for Church Extension, in the diocese of
Lichfield.