The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-17 00:00:00

TURKEY.

OMER PACHA has routed an army of 3,000 insur-
genta at Kossovo.
He has sent a detachment of his troops against
Petrovacz and Bihacz.
OMER Pam'w has imposed large fines on the in-
surgent cities of Banjaluka and Gradiska.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—Lord
Ward is to be married on Tuesday to the accomplished
daughter of Sir Hubert de Burgh.
We believe that during the Easter recess arrange-
ments are intended which will procure the resignation of Mr.
Curran, one of the Insolvent Commissioners in Ireland, and
that the Attorney-General, Mr. Hatchell, will succeed him.
Mr. Hughes will thus be made Attorney-General, and either
Mr. Sergeant Howley or Mr. Keogh will have the office of
Solicitor-General.—Heraid.

AMERICAN MONSTER BALLOON. The Boston
Transcript states that Mr. Wise, the American aeronaut, is
engaged in constructing another monster balloon, to be
about three times as large- as the " Hercule," used last
summer, with which he intends "to prove the certainty of
his ability to cross the Atlantic and circumnavigate the
globe."

DARING ROBBERY. --Between eight and nine
,
o'clock on Tuesday morning, after the premises had been
opened for business, an oil painting, in a gilt frame, of no
small size, was stolen from the front window of Mr. Walesby,
12, Old Bond-street. A tradesman residing near the spot,
who had particularly noticed the picture when exhibited in
the window, saw a boy carrying it in his arms towards Pic-
cadilly, but supposing he was employed as a porter by some
one who had purchased it, no suspicion was awakened at the
time, and the villain escaped.

ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION (lEELAND).--AC-
cording to the balance•sheet appended to the report of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, their total receipts
for one year, ending August 1, 1850, amounted to 87,159/.,
including the balauce left from the previous year, amounting
to 6,2811. The amount expended in rebuilding, enlarging,
and repairing churches has been 18,761/., and that for re-
quisites for the celebration of divine service, 32,8961. The
balance in the general fund was 12,7201.
YoEssmaii BALL.— Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, and several ladies of distinguished rank in
the county, having signified their intention of , becoming
ladies patronesses for a ball in aid of the funds of the York-
shire Society School, the committee have arranged that the
ball shall take place at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St.
James's-square, on Friday, the 30th of May.
ROYAL HENLEY REGATTA.—This great aquatic
meeting, which has been recently honoured with the august
patronage of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, has been
appointed for the 17th and 18th of June, and bids fair, by
the character and variety of the anticipated sport, to surpass
many that have preceded it. The time has been happily
chosen to suit the convenience of both Universities, picked
crews from which, there is no doubt, will dispute their claim
to aquatic superiority
on Henley's beautiful reach of water.
Added to this, and the extraordinary attractions of this re-
cherche gathering, the Champion prizes of 100 guineas, and
minor amounts, open to all the world, for four-oared boats,
formerly the great feature of the Thames Regatta, will form
a portion of the sport at the Henley meeting, and add consi-
derably to its aquatic celebrity and the entertainment of its
visitors.

ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION.-011 Tuesday evening the
witness Edwards was conveyed in a eab by Captain Gossett,
Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, and Mr. Poigndestre, between eix
and seven o'clock, from what is termed the " prison" of the
House of Commons, consisting of two comfortable and neatly-
furnished rooms, to Newgatc. He was said to be sadly " cut
up" at the occurrence. The prison has not been occupied
since Smith O'Brien was there.

CONVERSIONS FROM ROMAN CATHOLICISM.—PLY
SATURDAY.—The case of Miss Talbot has occosioned
here, as in many other places, no little excitement, and con-
siderable interest has been felt in a remarkable conversion
from the Church of Rome, which has just taken place in
this neighbourhood. Mrs. Jerningham, who resides in this
town, is a member of one of the most rigid Roman Catholic
families in the country, and sister-in-law of the Lady Abbess
of " the Lodge," at Taunton, in which Miss Talbot was
boarding, until her recent removal by the direction of the
Lord Chancellor, has abjured Popery, and has joined the
Church of England. Two of this lady's children have been
removed from her by her husband, and placed in the
Taunton Nunnery. The facts connected with this circum-
stance Mrs. Jerningham has communicated to the ion.
Craven Berkeley, and it is not improbable that the case will
be brought under the notice of Parliament. Mr. Lazarus
Kent, late of the town clerk's office in this town, has also,
it: is rumoured, abjured the Roman Catholic faith. When
he left the office of the town clerk, he took up his residence
in a Roman Catholic establishment in Cornwall, where be
wes prepariPgltimielf to take prieetl order&