The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-15 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of
Munster, Lord Caledon, Lord Claremont, the Earl of Liver-
pool, and the Bishop of Meath, sat in the House of Lords this
morning, shortly after ten o'clock, in a Committee of Pri-
vileges.

BLANEY PEERAGE.
This was a claim put in by the present Lord Blaney, to vote
at the election of Representative Peers for Ireland. Their
Lordships, after hearing Counsel and examining witnesses,
among whom were Lord Caledon and the Bishop of Meath,
resolved that the petitioner had made out his claim, and or-
dered accordingly.

LOUTH PEERAGE.

This was the petition of the present Lord Louth, claiming
the right of voting at the election of the Representative Peers
for Ireland. Among the witnesses examined in behalf of the
claimant was Lord Dunsayne, who was accommodated with a
chair at the table in consequence of not being a Peer of Par-
liament.
Claim allowed.

Prayers were then read by the Bishop of Meath, and the
House proceeded with the arguments in the part heard appeal
of the Marquis of Donegall v. Grattan, the arguments of
which had not concluded when our reporter left.

DREAmiNG.—Such is the rapidity of our thoughts
in dreaming, that it is not uncommon for a dream excited by
the noise that awakens us, and which, therefore, must take
place in the act of waking, to occupy, when put into words,
more than fifty times the space in the relating. —Dr. Philip
on Death and Sleep.
There is a species of lobster caught off the coast of
St. Helena called " stumps ;" and they are esteemed a great
delicacy. They are taken by means of a sort of wicker-
basket, called " stump-pots," which are let down under
water supplied with bait, and having been allowed to remain
several hours, are drawn up, and the fish taken out. —Dublin
University Magazine.
THE ALPHABET.--The twenty-four letters of the
alphabet may be transposed 620,448,401,733,239,439,360,000
times. All the inhabitants of the globe, on a rough calcula-
tion, could not, in a thousand million of years, write out all the
transpositions of the twenty-four letters, even supposing that
each wrote 40 pages daily, each of which pages contained 40
differenitranspositions of the letters.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.—It is a singular trait in
Sir Walter Scott, that he did not seem absorbed and eccentric,
as almost all other authors of great invention. Few who
have been endowed with high imagination have been masters
of themselves. Ideal presences hold dominion over them, and
they are supposed to be bewildered by shadows because they
see what others cannot see. But Scott had great vivacity, yet
not often great depth and intensity.
MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.---011
Thursday was received at the Castle a female named Eliza-
beth Wrath, who is charged with the wilful murder of her
infant child, at Hatfield, in the West Riding. The poor
woman, it appears, after her confinement, which was attended
with serious illness, became subject to temporary aberrations
of intellect, under the influence of which she not only de-
prived her infant of its life, but also so lacerated her own arm
with a large pin, as to render her recovery almost hopeless—
nor is she yet considered perfectly out of danger.—York
Herald.

We extracted frotn the London Papers lately a
story of a lady in France having given birth to a black and a
white child, twins ; a singular event of the same complexion
happened on Tuesday last, in our own immediate neighbour-
hood. On that day, in a house in the wood near Dalskairth,
a young woman was delivered of male twins, one of which was
as white as European children commonly are at their birth,
and the other of decidedly African dinginess. The white
infant was still-born, and the black one only lived a few mi-
nutes. Both babes were buried in the course of the day. The
girl's story, we understand, is, that she saw a black man in
Dumfries market, and was so struck with his appearance that
she could not help turning back to have another peep at him.
As we don't feel quite inclined to take in this account our-
selves, we have the less objection to our readers doing so.
Dumfries Times.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.—He was no great fa-
vourer of sects, and seldom or never went to church. He
was a complete and finished aristocrat, and the prosperity of
the state was his great concern, which prosperity he deemed
lost unless both example and precept flowed by regular gra-
dation from the highest to the lowest. He dreaded religion
as a machine by which the good government of the country
might be deranged, if not uprooted. There was one evening,
when he and Morrit, of Rokeby, some of the Fergusons, and
I, were sitting over our wine, that he said, " There is nothing
that I dread so much as a very religious woman ; she is not
only a dangerous person, but a perfect shower-bath on all
social conviviality. The enthusiasm of our Scottish ladies
has now grown to such a height, that I am almost certain it
will lead to some dangerous revolution in the State ; and then
to try to check it would only make the evil worse. If you
ever choose a wife, Hogg, for goodness sake, as you value
your own happiness,
. don't choose a very religious one."--
flogy's Private Life.

THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA AT THE BATTLE OF
JEINIA.—A few minutes before the attack, the Queen of
Prussia, mounted on a superb charger, appeared on the field
of battle, and, accompanied by the elite of the youth of Ber-
lin, rode along the front of the most advanced lines of the
Prussian army. The flags, which her own hands had em-
broidered to stimulate the troops, together with those which
had been borne in the armies of Frederick the Great, and which
were blackened with gunpowder, were lowered at her approach.
Shouts of enthusiasm resounded through the Prussian ranks.
The atmosphere was so clear, and the two armies so close to
each other, that the French could plainly discern the costume
of the royal amazon. Her singular dress was the chief cause of
the danger she incurred in her flight. On her head was a hel-
met of polished steel, shaded by a superb plume. The rest of
her dress consisted of a cuirass, glistening with gold and
silver, and a tunic of silver brocade, reaching to her feet,
on which she wore red boots, with gold spurs. When the
Prussian army was routed, the Queen remained on the
field, attended by three or four young men of her escort,
who had defended her. However, a small party of hussars,
who had fought gloriously during the battle, rushed for-
ward at full gallop, and, with drawn swords, dispersed
the little groupe. Startled by this unexpected attack, the
horse which her Majesty rode darted off at a furious gal-
lop, and had he not possessed the fleetness of a stag, the
fair Queen would infallibly have been captured by the French
hussars, who were several times very close upon her. The
Queen, thus pursued, arrived within sight of the gates of Wei-
mar, when a strong detachment of dragoons was seen pursu-
ing her at full speed. The commander of the detachment
had orders to take the Queen at allrisk. But no sooner had
she entered Weimar than the gates were closed, and the hus-
sars and dragoons returned disappointed to the field of battle.
Memoirs.