The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-18 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Mr. Reginald and Lady Elizabeth Courtenay, in Green-
street; J. A. Smith, Esq., M. P., in Belgyave-square, from
Italy ; the Hen. Colonel and Mrs. Westenra, in Green-street,
Park-lane ;J. H. Foley, Esq., at the Clarendon Hotel, from
Worcestershire; Mr. and Mrs. Fazakerley, in Upper Brook-
street; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ferguson, in Portman-square,
from Raith, Fifeshire, N. B. ; Captain and the Hon. Mrs.
Ferguson, in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, from Pitfour,
N.B. ; Major St. John Fancourt, M.P., in Old Palace-
yard; Mr. and Mrs. Gaskell, at the Right Hon. C. W.
Wynn's, Grafton.street, from Shorne's House, near Wake-
field; Montagu Gore, Esq., in Mount-street, from a tour;
the Hon. Colonel Francis Grant, in Charles-street, St.
James's, from Cullen House, N.B. ; H. Handley, Esq.,
M. P., in Suffolk-street, from Culverthorpe Hall, Leicester-
shire; Colonel Leith Hay, M. P., in Park-street; Mrs. Ogilvie
and family, at Turner's Hotel, Golden-square, from Hamp-
shire; - Rudd, Esq., and family, at ditto, from Brighton.
DEPARTURES.
Pape, Esq., from Turner's Hotel, Golden-square, for
Stafford; Mr. and Miss Colvill, from ditto, for Dublin; Ad-
miral Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart., and family, from Notting-
hamshire, for their residence in Breconshire.

The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, arrived in
town on Monday from Naples, and yesterday visited Earl Grey.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Coates,
Esq., of Darlington, a Master Extraordinary in Chancery.
This gentleman is a Quaker, and the first solicitor of that per-
.suasion who has received such an appointment, the Act of the
3d and 4th William IV. allowing Quakers and Moravians to
make affirmation in lieu of certain oaths previously required to
be taken.
MR. BULIVER'S PLLUANI.—NearIy two thousand
copies, we understand, have already been sold of the cheap
and embellished edition of this popular work, which forms the
commencement of Mr. Colburn's Modern Novelists, publishing
monthly on the plan of the Waverley Novels, at only ss. per
volume bound. Lady Morgan's clever novel of " O'Donnell"
forms the March Number of the same work ; the three vols.
being comprised in one, with a Portrait of the Authoress,
vignette, &c. for ss. ; and the April Number will consist of
Mr Ward's celebrated novel of " Tremaine," with a Portrait
of the Author,, and other embellishments. Orders should be
elven early to the booksellers, to prevent disappointment.
THE COURT JOURNAL.—The account of the
Second .crrandjancy Ball at the Court of Brussels, and of
the extraordinary Narrative of the Three Strangers at Spa,
just published in the Couri. Journal, are attracting considerable
attention. Naxt Saturday's Number will contain, we under-
stand, some curious particulurs of the late Carnival at Paris,
and the persons who figured on the occasion ; and also the
conclusion of the very interesting article entitled " The Court
of St. James's," and the Personages connected with it ; and
the future Numbers of this popular Journal of Fashion will
contain other papers of a similar description, relatieg to the
Courts of the Tuileries, Austria, Berlin, &c.

BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. PATRICK.—The
tifty-second anniversary of this benevolent institution was last
evening celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern, the Right
lion. Lord Stanley presiding- over one of the most numerous-
assemblies we recollect for some time to have been present at.
Among the distinguished guests we observed the Marquis of
Downshire, the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Ripon,
the Earl of Kerry, Lord Carbery, Lord A. Hill, Lord Dun-
boyne, the Right Hon. Spring Rice, the Knight of Kerry,
Major-General Sir C. Doyle, Sir Parker Conner, the Hon.
H. Westenra, ; Messrs. Bolling, M. P.., Bish, M. P.,
Dobbin, M. P., and O'Connell, M. P. ; the O'Connor Don,
M. P., Colonel Bruen, &c. Lord Ripon, Mr. Spring Rice,
Lord Stanley, and others, addressed the meeting, and we are
happy to announce the subscriptions at little short of 2,0001.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.---The advertise-
ment signed " Fact" is a mere repetition of a statement, writ-
ten either maliciously, or in ignorance of Parliamentary usages,
which was circulated last year, and disproved in Committee.
The Standing Orders of the House of Commons require proof
of 1,250,0001. only being subscribed, and the promoters have
now, as usual, deposited a copy of their Parliamentary con-
tract, with the number of signatures necessary to cover that
amount. The Directors renew their pledge that a sum ex-
ceeding 2,000,0001. is subscribed, the proof whereof will be
given in the proper stage of the proceedings in Parliament.
HA STINGS.---A successful application has been
made to the Board of Admiralty by our popular repi esenta-
live, H. Elphinstone, Esq., to station a cruizer off Hastings for
the protection of the Hastings fishing boats.

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HIGHWAY ROBBERY AT HASTINGS.—On Sa-
turday night last, about a quarter before eight o'clock, as Mr.
Robert Baker, farmer, of Westfield, was returning home en
horseback from Hastings-market, he was attacked when near
the Plough Inn by two footpads, who dragged him from his
horse ; and as he lay on the ground, one of the men put his
hands over the eyes and mouth of Mr. 8., while the other
rifled his breeches pocket of a 5/. note and three or four
shillings in silver. They likewise felt for his watch ; -but
finding that he had none, and hearing a cart approaching, the
robbers decamped, leaviucr behind them a bundle, containing
two loaves of home-baked bread, three pounds of Derby
cheese, and some salt butter, no doubt the fruits of a preVious
depredation. They were dressed like helpers in a stable-
yard, and have not since been heard of.- This neighbourhood
is now so infested with daring villains, that any one having
regard for his person or property will do well not to be alono
after dark any distance from the town. During the day our
streets and lanes swarm with half-clad ruffians ; yet the autho-
rities take matters very easy. A Corporate Reform, and that
speedily, must be had in Hastings, or all respect for the con-
stituted authorities will be cast to the winds.

ACCIDENT FROM A BOAR.—On Friday, as an
industrious man who resides at Lower Hobage, in the parish
of Marden, in Hereford, was returning home, the mare he rode
was attacked by a boar, and with some difficulty he escaped
from'the animal ; when he reached home it was discovered
the mare was so badly wounded that the intestines came out,
and, notwithstanding the immediate assistance of a veterinary
surgeon, she died the next day--the owner is a cripple, and
he will severely feel the loss of the animal, as it was the only
one he possessed, and worth 141.
BARNACLE STEA LING.—A robbery was com-
mitted the other night upon an old man, in a tradesman's shop
in Louth. A fellow knocked at the door of the shop, and en-
quired of the old man where Mr. - lived (naming a person
well known in the neighbourhood), and on being informed he
immediately snatched the spectacles from his nose, and made
off with them. The fellow was apprehended in a public-
house, where he was offering them for sale.
DREADFUL FIRE AND Loss OF LIVES.--Yes-
terday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a calamitous
fire broke out in the workshops of Mr. Bell, phosphorus-box
maker, Garratt-lane, Wandsworth, and, notwithstanding the
premises were contiguous to Wandsworth Creek, and every
assistance was afforded by the inhabitants and police, the whole
of the establishment, including the machinery, &c., were en.
tirely consumed ; and, worst of all, three girls employed on
the premises, unable to escape, perished in the flames. Several
of the London Establishment and West of England engines,
with post-horses, arrived shortly after .seven, and the firemen
succeeded in getting out of the ruins but a small portion of .
the remains of- the three unfortunate individuals, which were re-
moved to Wandsworth workhouse to await the Coroner's In-
quest. Mr. Bell is not insured, though he bad been in corn.
munication with the Director. of the Phoenix Fire-Office otts,
the subject. The fire is believed to have originated through
the carelessness of one of the unfortunate sufferers in taking a
lighted candle into the workshop, and a spark is supposed to
have fallen among a heap of shavings.