The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-03 00:00:00

CHELTENHAM, AUGUST 31.

The weather, which had been unfavourable during the
last ten days, raining with scarcely any intermission,
cleared up yesterday afternoon, and the sun has shone
strong during the day. The libraries during this period
have all been thronged with company.
A ball was given last night at the Rotunda, the ladies
to appear in fancy hats—the gentlemen in full dress. The
.ball-rooxn was chalked for four sets of quadrilles ; sixteen
In each set stood up. Two sets of waltzing and galk.ip-
Pading followed after each set had concluded. Dancing
commenced about nine o'clock and continued till near 12.
The Hunchback fills the Theatre every night. It is to
be repeated this evening. Mr. WA RDE, as Walter, Mr.
MEAnows, as Fathom, and Miss JARMAN, as Julia. The
after-piece is Blue Devils; Meagrim, by Mr. WARD.
The promenade at the Montpellier Spa was thronged
this morning with elegant company, so many mornings
having elapsed since they were able to leave the house on
account of the continued rain.
A numerous body of policemen have been lately esta-
blished here, similar in dress to those in the metropolis ;
the regulations exactly the same.
Among our late arrivals are. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS,
Lady CHETWY ND, W. WIC RAM Es q. M.P., Sir BETHEL
CODRINGTON and daughters, 11I; CODRINGTON,q &C.

The Earl of LONSDALE visited Carlisle on
Wednesday week. We have not heard of what new poli-
tical movement this is to be deemed the forerunner.--
Kendal Chronicle.
DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF ARRAN.—
An express arrived in Dover-street, on Saturday afternoon,
announcing the sudden death of the Couutess of ARRAN;
her Ladyship died at Bognor, on Friday, of a paralytic
stroke, and not of cholera, as at first reported. Her
Ladyship was eldest daughter and heiress to the late Sir
Joan TYRRELL, Bart., of Heron Hall, Essex, and was
married to the Earl of ARRAN in 1787. She gave nu-
merous parties last season, and was a distinguished leader
in the fashionable world.
'file parsimony of Lord KENYON was notori-
ous, and his want of all hospitality the theme of general
animadversion. The subject being once started in con-
versation, in a company of which COWPER was one, some
of them observed, that Lord KENYON had never been
known to give a single bottle of wine to a friend. " But
I
have (says CowrEß) known him to give one to a dozen."
---.Fraser's Magazine.
LATE DR. itOBERTSON.—It is this week our
melancholy duty to announce that cholera has numbered
amongst its victims one who was long known and de•
servedly esteemed as an able preacher, and a zealous and
affectionate pastor. We allude to the Rev. Dr. ROBERT-
S", one of the slinisteys of South Leith, who was carried
off by it last Friday, after an illness of 24 hours, in the
75th year of his age, and 50th of his ministry.—Scotsman.
A Signor JACOBoWITcH, a Pole, last week
announced a subscription concert at the Town-hall, Sud-
bury ; he avowed " that of music, as a science, he
knew nothing ; but the volume of his voice was so immense
that if he put forth all its strength, it would cause such a
vibration of the windows as to break them into little
pieces, not bigger than sixpences. Its sweetness was
equal to its strength ; and their union made him some-
times fancy that he had an angel within him. He had
the honour of being patronised by the King of PRUSSIA,
Laudgravine of Hese Cassel," &c. A respectable
audience attended at five shillings each, but were mise-
rably disappointed. The Signor's voice was certainly
strong, but wholly devoid of sweetness, and instead of feel-
ing any inclination to his own opinion of angelic assist-
ance, the audience felt horrified at "the barbarian's voice."
A PRINCESS'S PUN.--The Princess VIC-
TORIA the other day was reading the Roman History to
her Noble Preceptress, the Duchess of NORTHUMB ER -
LAND. It happened to be the passage where a Noble
Lady, having visited CORNELIA, " the mother of the
Gracchi," after the custom of the time displayed her
casket of precious stones, and called upon the Roman
matron to produce her jewels in return, when CORNELIA
handed forth her children, exclaiming, with maternal
pride," There are my jewels !" The little Princess here
laid down the book, and, looking up in the face of the
Duchess, said, " Jewels ! now I think they must have been
Cornelians."
ANCIENT ENGLISH CUSTOM.—A singular
Custom prevailed among the Celtic Franks, and perhaps,
says the Edinburgh Review, in Eneland, by which any
one might divest himself of the liabilities to which, under
the Celtic system of mutual respon,ibility, the kindred of
a criminal were subject, being rendered accountable for
the composition due from him if they omitted to produce
him in order to stand his trial. Entering the Mallus (a
particular Court) in the presence of the Centenarius (hun-
dred man), he broke five elm wands over his head, and,
casting the fragments around, declared that he renounced
all share in the inheritance, and of course all responsibility
for the offences of his kindred.
EARLY ItisEns.--Among eminent early
risers might have been mentioned FREDERICK the Great,
King of Prussia, who, having found himself otherwise
incapable of overcoming his natural repugnance to get
out of bed, ordered one of his domestics to rouse him every
morning at four o'clock, and to apply a wet towel to Ilia
Le, •
Case
; necessary, to enforce his getting up,—on pain, in
of neglecting this duty, of heing condemned to sever
as a private soldier for life ! This expedient completely
succeeded, and the practice of.rising early soon acquired the
force of a habit,
to which the extraordinary exploits of this
most eminent person
_
son may in a great measure be attributed.
—Medical Gazette.
The public will learn, perhaps not without
interest, that the fine
young
lioness
of
M.
MARTIN, who
so distinguished herself
combat, conjointly with her
noble spouse, defending Sadhusing from his enemies, in
the spectacle of Hyder Ali, at the Theatre Royal, Drury-
lane, and more recently at the Coburg, hasproved her
obedience to the universal liw of nature, by the production
of three fine cubs, which circumstance, together with the
fate of the royal offspring, occurred as follows :—The pre•
i
itninary indications of such an event with A lioness are
not very decisive as to the fact, and are still more uncer-
tain with respect to the time when the consummation may
be expected. In the present instance, suspicion had for
some time been entertained as to the situation of the
august female, and the result had been anxiously looked
for ; when, in the middle of one of the nights of last week,
such symptoms evinced themselves as seemed to demand
the utmost attention Expectation was gratified by the
birth of three fine young cubs.-.-a number rather unusual,
and especially in the first instance of parturition. Oppo-
site to the cage of the regal matron, stood that of a hyena,
whose terribly brillant eye gleamed awfully through the
surrounding darkness. This awakened the mother's fears
for the security of her so recently produced offspring, in
tremulous agitation she folded them to her, In the eager-