The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-28 00:00:00

GRAND POLISH BALL.

A ball took place on Wednes3ay at Guildhall for the benefit
of the Polish refugees now in this country. It was brilliantly
illuminated, and fitted up for the occasion ; cud no trouble had
been spared to render the arrangements worthy of the appro-
bation they elicited from the company generally. The hall,
and the various chambers in the buildings were crowded to
excess. Every nook and corner in which it was possible to
get up " a quadrille, or Fit down to rest, was thronged with
people, and the coffee and refreshment-rooms were besieged
as earnestly as if the visitors were as destitute of the neces-
saries of life as but too many of the gallant Poles unfortu-
nately are. The ball was preceded by a concert, at
which we heard little, and saw less, owing to
the great number of mammas in black velvet hats
an I white feathers before us ; and the numerous flir-
tations going on around us. If we may judge, however,
from the applause with which it was hailed from time to
time, we should say it was very favourably received. Dancing
did not commence until nearly twelve o'clock ; but it was kept
up with great spirit until a late hour. Among the company
present, in addition to the different civic dignitaries, we ob-
served his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Mul-
g;rave, Lord Dudley Stuart, and Lord Tenterden. We be-
lieve several other individuals of note were present ; but we
are unable to enumerate their names, for the reason to which
we have already adverted. We cannot conclude this brief
notice, without expressing the heartfelt satisfaction with which
we view the readiness displayed by the better part of the Eng-
glish people to come forward on all possible occasions, as the
advocates of liberty and the protectors of the oppressed.

THE RULING PASSION.--This was truly exem-
plified on the evening the Parliament houses were burned
What a dreadful fire I" said a gentleman to a theatrical
manager. " Dreadful it is, indeed. It has spoiled my half-
price !"

One day last week, the skeleton of an adult human
being was dug up in the barn-yard of Barbush, near Duna-
blane, by the servants employed pitting potatoes. The skull
and lower jaw bone were entire, although in an advanced state
of decomposition. The teeth broke with an effort of the
finger and thumb, and the arm and thigh-bones gave way
almost to the touch. These remains were found imbedded in
sand scarcely more than fifteen inches below the surface. Va-
rious conjectures are afloat on the subject, but the most pro-
bable is, that the individual here buried had been engaged in
the affray of Sheriffmuir in 1715, where, after being wounded.
be had succeeded in effecting his retreat to Barbush, then
possessed by a Jacobite tenant of the name of Stewart, where
he had died, and (as it was then a crime to shield the unfortu-
nate rebels) been secretly buried in the spot where the bone*
were found.—Edinburg4 Chronicle.

VOYAGE IN THE SOUTHERN ATLANTIC OCEAN.
—The series of voyages of discovery which have of late years
been executed by our officers, and the success that has attendee'_
them form one of the brightest ornaments of our naval chaplet.
"In England," says Blackwood's Magazine, "almost the
first thought of youth is the sea, and the first aspiration of boy-
hood to be a sailor. Every thing that we read, or see, or
hear, impresses on our minds the same feeling ; and who can-
not remember having been enraptured, long days together,
over the tales of strange new scenes, and dangerous passages.
and wild adventures, of Anson, Vancouver, or Cook?" Thu
present narrative of Captain Foster's Voyage to the Southern
Atlantic Ocean, undertaken by Command of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, is not only one of the most he-
portant in a scientific point of view, but combines, in an emi-
nent degree, those qualities which are well calculated to de--
light the general reader. Several spirit rA engravings anct
il:ustrative maps ornament the volumes.,

FLOOD AT INVERNEP.,..s.—We stated last week that
the river Ness had risen to a great height, literally rolling from
bank to brae, and inundating the houses on both sides of its
course. In consequence of frequent rains and coarse weather,
the river had been for nearly a fortnight considerably flooded.
We had a heavy storm of wind and rain from S.W., on flu
afternoon and night of Tuesday, the 4th instant, by which
Leafless, although previously in a high state, rose rapidly to
an additional height of more than 3 feet, reaching on this
occasion to a height of 18 inches above what it had ever before
been observed to rise, as shown by the scales on the Canel
Lock at Dochgarroch. The banks of the canal were there, as
well as at other places, exposed to the most imminent peril;
and the river from thence to the sea flooded its banks to a greet
height, in many places inundating the houses and fields, the
water-works near the town, the Ness Islands, mills, and houses
in the Haugh. Among the memorabilia of this occurrence,
may be mentioned the following curious fact :—A gentleman
in the Haugh, Mr. Chisholm, solicitor, had a hen with thir—
teen chickens about three weeks old, which were occasionally
indulged with a ramble in the garden. During the height
the flood, the lion-house was surrounded with water, and the
brood were confined for two days. On Friday, the hen was
observed walking out of her prison-house with four of the
chickens on her back, which she deposited on a dry spot in
the garden. She returned knee-deep in the water for a se—
cond freight, and having lowered herself to enable the young
ones to take their passage on her back, they leaped up and
were carried in the same manner. By thin time the chickens
in the garden and those in the hen-house began to be dame..
rous, and were attempting to follow their parent, who.was.
sore trouble and confusion, tot knowing which of the divisions
to attend to first. To prevent serious consequences, however,
the servants interfered, and landed the whole safely in the hen..
house, out of which no attempt at removal was made until tuts
flood had subsided.—lnverness Courier.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING will be performed the Grand Operatic Drama, called

THE RED MASK; OR, THE COUNCIL OF THREE.

The Doge of Venice, Mr. Younge ; Gradenigo (Member of the Coun-
ell of the Doge, and one of the State Inquisitors), Mr. Seguin; Moro-
soni and Barbarino (Members of the Council of Ten, and composing
with Gradenigo, the Inquisition of State, or Council of Three), Mr.
Diddear and Mr. Mathews ; Don Camillo de Montforte, Duke of St.
Agata (a Neapolitan Noble), M. Tonmleton ; Anselmo (a Carmelite),
Mr. Giubilei ; Gino (the Gondolier of Don (a.m.). Mr. Yarnold ; Bar.
tolomeo (a Public Gondolier), Mr. Bedford ; Antonio (a riblia.man).
Mr Warde ; Jacopo (the Bravo), Mr. Cooper.
Violetta de Tropolo (a Noble Orphan, and a Ward of the Republic),
Miss Shirreff ; Florinda (her Attendant, and Spy in the service of the
State), Mrs. Chester; Gelsomina, Miss E. Tree.