The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

THE VISITORS' LlST.—Thanks to the enterprise of
one of our most indefatigable journalists, the editor not only
of the Critic, but of the Journal of the Exhibition, a fly-
sheet Las just been issued from the press at a merely nominal
price, and of a singularly useful character. lts title is that
of our paragraph. In it are periodically published the names
and addresses of the various strangers visiting our•metropolis.
Those foreigners who have not yet been announced in its
columns as among the recent arrivals in London, we would
recommend at once to transmit their names to the publisher
as a matter to them of very obvious convenience. Besides
this interesting catalogue of visitors, the paper comprises an
admirable guide to the sights and amusements of the day,
lucidly arranged, and containing every particular of any in-
terest whatsoever. The Visitors' List will be tound alto-
gether to be one of the most excellent publications yet offered
to the foreigners arriving amongst us for the purpose of
witne►sing the Exhibition.

REUNION DES ARTS.— Last night this Society
opened its Second Soirée at the Private Rooms, 27, Queen
Anne-street, with a crowded and most select company.
We must give great eredit to the comm,ttea for the good
selection and arrangement of the music, which was most
admirably executed by some of our best vocal and instru-
mental artistes. Miss Rummel, Miss Magner, Madame
L,maitre, Miss Lavinia, Miss Day, Madame Guilin, Mr.
Day, Mr. Goodban, Herr Schmidt, Herr Rummel, Herr
Goffrie, Mr. Frederick Chatterton, &c. The lower apart-
ments were ornamented with some fine pictures by English
and foreign artiste, and where, during the interval of the
musical performance, the company retired to partake of some
coffee provided for them by the committee, spending a
most pleasant and social evening, which was prolonged to a
late hour.

ROMAN CATHOLIC HIFRARCHT.—An acldresa, to
which 255,766 signatures were attached, and which was pre-
sented to her Majesty from her Majesty's Roman Catholic
subjects in England, disclaiming any intention ( f trenching
urou the vyal prerogative in the recent appointment of a
Roman Catholic hierarchy, ba3 been printed by order of the
House of Commons.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—Amongst the
recent deposits at this valuable establishment may be seen a
machine for making nets, the invention of Mr. William
Mullen, United States, which accomplishes that which not
long since was deemed arc impossibility, viz., tying a knot in
the centre of two straight cords; and the knot formed by this
arrangement, strange to say, is the same precisely as that
made by the fishermen in which the needle is passed com-
pletely through the mesh. Certainly these triumphs of me-
chanical ingenuity lead us to what so frequently appeals in
the present day, to believe that nothing is really impossible;
for we find that which to-day teems absurd to attempt, to-
morrow is a mere comminiplf:ce matter. We understand '
that by this contrivance n is of all kinds may be produc‘ d at
a merely nominal advance upon the raw material es at pre-
sent procured.

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ELSH LABOURERS . IRISH NAVVIES.--
last week, a body of Irish navvies, numbering about forty or
fifty, wt.re engaged by Mr. Al• Cormack, contractor, of Bir-
kenhead, to proceed to Bangor, for the purpose of excavat-
ing and terming a line of railway to connect that town with
Carnarvon. The Irishmen were duly landed, and were
making preparations to commence their work, but the intel-
ligence soon spread among the Welsh stone-quarriers and
others. The navvies were looked upon as a species of in-
vaders, and the Welshmen instantly assembled to the num-
ber of upwards of 200, surrounded the Irishmen, and with-
out a blow being struck, drove them in a mass on board a
steamboat. The navvies seeing they had no chance against
such overwhelming numbers, quietly submitted, and were
landed in a few hours afterwards at this port. The Welsh-
men effected their purpose notwithstanding the remon-
strance./ of the Bangor magistrates. The expulsion of the
Irishmen had the effect of suspending for a time the ezcava-
tiQU 0f the railyfay. —Liverpool Mercury,