The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-13 00:00:00

Riders.

Mr. Codrington's Variety, 5 yrs., beat Capt. Smith's Dali.
more, aged.

The Marquess of Waterford will be of age on
the 2fith instant, when he will take his scat in the House of
Lords, by the side of his young friend the Marquess of Aber-
corn, whose politics assimilate with those of the house of Beres-
ford. On Lord Waterford taking " the oaths," there will
be four members of the Beresford family in the Upper House
adverse to Parliamentary Reform—namely, the Archbishop of
Armagh (Lord John George Beresford), the Bishop of Kilmore
(,night Ggorge Beresford, I/D.). the Noble Marquess,. and
General Viseount Beresford. In the house of the Archbishop
of Armagh, in Charles street, St.. James's, as well as at 411 the
scats of the Noble Marquess in Ireland, the event of his ma-
jotity will be celebrated with great splendour.

The Earl of Harrowby, during the greater
part of the three years that the Duke of Wellington was at the
head of affairs, resided abroad for the benefit of his health, and
returned home a few weeks previously to the introduction of
the Reform Bill in the House of Lords last autumn. His Lord-
ship's eldest son, Dudley Viscount Sandon, M.P. for Liverpool,
married a daughter of the first Marquis of Bute, by his second
wife, who was a daughter of Mr. Coutts, whose widow, now
Duchess of St. Alban's, was reported at the time to have made
a handsome settlement on the bride.

Lord Grenville, the Chancellor of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, whose political opinions are known to be in
unison with those of his relative the Duke of Buckingham, has
not been able to take the oaths and his seat during the present
reign, in consequence of his infirmities and advanced age.
His Lordship continues to reside at his beautiful seat at Drop_
more, where, in the occasional society of his brother, the Right
Hon. Thomas Grenville, and a very select number of friends,
his Lordship enjoys his otium cum dignitate. It was in conse-
quence of the venerable Peer's continued indisposition that the
Anti-Reform petition of the University of Oxford was confided
for presentation to Earl Bathurst.
A Noble Earl residing in the neighbourhood
of Grosvenor.square has recently experienced a lamentable at-
tack of indisposition. The eccentrie habits of his Lordship
have been frequently commented on, and his absence of mind
often remarked ; latterly, however, unequivocal symptoms have
appeared of an aberration of intellect; one instance, in particu-
lar, may be noticed. His Lordship invited a dinner party, and
during the dinner behaved in so extraordinary a way as to con-
firm the suspicions which had previously been excited. When
his Lordship went out to wash his dogs his proceedings were
watched, under the apprehension of his committing suicide by
drowning. It has been considered necessary during the last
few days to place his Lordship under personal restraint.—
Morning Herald.

The funeral of M. de Chauvelin, who was
known as the French Envoy to this country at the beginning
of the revolution, and who has, since the restoration, been a
Member of Deputies,---took place at Paris on Tuesday. M.
Bignon pronounced a funeral oration over his grave.

An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the
Sugar Loaf, Queen.street, Cheapside, before Mr. Payne, on the
body of Mr. J. Barnett, lately a traveller to a wholesale drug-
gist, in Smithfield-bars. It appeared in evidence that the de-
ceased, who had been sometime out of employ, lodged in the
house of a Mrs. Andrews, of St. Thomas Apostle, and had lately
become extremely dejected, and had taken poison, supposed to be
prussic acid. Deceased was a man of about sixty, of gentle-
manly manners. Verdict, " Insanity."
On Friday night, about hlaf•past eight o'clock,
a signal.gun was heard on the shore from a vessel in distress
on the Goodwin Sands. A boat was got afloat to their assist-
ance, the wind blowing strong from the N.E., and they found
a vessel without any person on board. The crew had taken to
their boat (the Captain not having time to save his papers), and
were picked up by a Dover boat and landed at Dover. The
boat's crew from Deal, 14 in number, after encountering the
most fearful perils, succeeded in boarding her—got the vessel
or, and carried her safe into Dover harbour. She proved to be
the Estelle, from Havre to Hamburg, with a general cargo.
PAUPERISM IN CORK.—A meeting of the
Board of Health was held on Monday. The appalling fact was
mentioned at this meeting, that there was in that city, under
the head of distressed poor, no fewer than fifty-nine thousand
—whilst tinder that of destitute there were over twenty-two
thousand !

A poor man applied to the clerk of a church,
not a hundred miles from Nottingham, for permission to put
down a gravestone upon his daughter. The clerk said, " I
will go with you at four o'clock to the Rector to inquire."
They went together, when his Reverence the Divine said," My
good man, do you know, or are you aware of, the seriousness
of the expenses ?" The poor man replied, " No, he did not
know of any ; we have no such expenses in Lincolnshire."
" No, my good man," replied the Rector, " they are rich, but
we have no houses nor lands. Well, my good man, the ex-
penses will be three guineas, or at least two guineas, and five
shillings for opening the gate. I could charge you twenty gui-
neas if I liked, because it is my freehold." The poor man said,
he would pay one pound down, and the other pound as soon
as he could." " No, no," was the answer, " I must have the
money before the gate is opened ; it is the money we want , if
it were not for the charge, the church-yard would be paved all
over with grave-stones."—Boston Gazette.
CATCHING A TARTAR.—On Monday
Henry Turley, a notorious chain-dropper, tried to play off a
touch of his calling on the master of a vessel lying at Broomie-
law, who was walking along Jamaica-street, Glasgow• The
purse, with chain, &c., was dropped, picked up, and shown to
the sailor, who was invited to adjourn to a tavern to divide the
spoil. But the tar was up to the trap—he was not to be
caught, and after in vain endeavouring to obtain an inspection
of the treasure-trove, which the other resisted, on the plea that
some thirdsman might interfere and claim a share, Jack turned
upon Turley, and, after giving him a sound beating, delivered
him over to the police, and he was next day sentenced to sixty
days in Bridewell.