The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-07 00:00:00

ITALY.

On the 26th ult., the POPE consecrated Cardinal
.VANNICELLI-CASONT, already named Bishop of Ba-
lt AR A, and several other prelates who had been
named to vacant sees. The ceremony took place in
the Shaine Chapel. On this occasion, Cardinal AN.•
TONELLI received the visits of the consecrated bishops,
and of M. DE RAYNEVAL, General GEMEAU, and M.
DE RAVESTEIN. Charge d'Affaires of the King of the
BELGIANS.
By a special brief the POPE has named M. MI-.
CARD, late secretary to Cardinal DUPONT during
his mission, a commander of the Order of St. Gre-
gory.

FIRE AND Loss or LlFE.—Last night a fire broke
(sit in a lodging-house in Crown-street, Soho, which has
been attenced with loss of the Afe of a female named
APlToney. The deceased had gone to bed, and, it is sup-
posed, left a candle burning by the bed-side. On the alarm
being given, Engineer tdirard, from the Crown- street bri-
gade station, instantly reached the spot with two engines.
He found the deceased in her room, burnt in a most shocking
manner, and her night clothes and bedding utterly de-
stroyed. The fire was soon extinguished, with considerable
loss to the poor inmates, and the deceased was conveyed to
the Middlesex Hospital, where she died at an early hour
this morning. It is almost needless to add that none of the
poor inmates were insured.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITIITION.—Among the
many uses to which the establishment of such institutions as
the Polytechnic is applied for the benefit of the public may
be ranked the opportunity for leading the taste of the unini-
tiated in art ; and although it cannot certainly be eulogised
generally for its display of the fine arts, still, on sauntering
over its galleries, the eye frequently comes in contact with
those specimens which do credit to the artists. We are very
happy to observe that the engravers and publishers of the
best specimens send them for exhibition here, and the beau-
ful print of Edwin Landseer, " Waiting for the Countess,"
and engraved by Wass, together with liering's Pharoah's
Horses," engraved also by Mr. Wass, cannot fail to gratify
all who appreciate the beautiful manipulation of that gen-
tleman.
Affectation cannot excite sympathy. How can you
wstcuadniehaeaftetie-1
for himself who
feel for bins who
exhibitscannot feel for
afrotrifilcitiami
sge lrfaCe
tude.—Diza Cook's Joureal.
of fellows, was held yesterday ; the Earl of
ROYAL SOCIETY.—The annual general meeting fur
electionthe
resident,
in the chair. His Lordship informed the
ineeßusstW)that the council had carefully considered the Go-
vernment grant of 1,000/. annually for the promotion of
scientific research, and would recommend its award accord-
ingly; also that, in conformity with the representation of
the council, a grant would be made by Government to enable
the Board of Ordnance to publish the scientific portion of the
Ordnance survey; and lastly, that they concur in the recom-
mendation of the British Association, made last year, for
the establishment of a large reflecting telescope at the Ob-
servatory at the Cape of Good Hope. The statues relative
to the election of fellows having been read, the votes of those
present were counted, and the scrutators announced that, out
ialrldiani Curling, 11 Barlow,
George
e A
g
of twenty-seven candidates, the election had fallen on the
eoLldr
Georgefollow following gentlemen
entiNleimr.errnb7mAslsr.BlliNz'
Ed-
ward Day, M.D., Mr. Warren De la Rue, Mr. William Fair-
bairn, Mr. Robert James Graves, M.D., Mr.: Dena Landen
Boscawen lbbetson, Mr. Charles Handlield Jones, M. 8., Mr.
James P. Joule, Mr. John Fletcher Miller, Major Henry
Creswicke Rawlinson, Mr. Edward Schunck, Mr. Daniel
Sharpe, Mr. John Tomes.

TRH CROPS.—A gentleman connected with our es-
tablishment has just returned from a tout in this and the
neighbouring counties of Limerick and Kerry. The breadth
of potatoes sown is, on average, as large as that for the last
ten years. The crop looks right well. The late rains have
been highly serviceable to the other crops, and everything
promises abundantly for the coming harvest.—Cork

Weiner.
EXHIBITION OF 1851.-1110 plus OF TITS I%IEDALS.
—We understand that nearly 100 designs -for the medals
have been sent to the Royal Commission in competition, and
that they will be forthwith arranged for public exhibition in
the rooms of the Society of Arts, Adelphi, by Mr. Wyon,
R.A., and Mr. Hawkins, keeper of the antiquities at the Bri-
tish Museum, to whom the Royal Commission has confided
the duty of the arrangement.
The following anecdote was told with great glee at
a dinner by William IV., then Duke of Clarence. "I was
riding in the Park the other day, on the road between Ted-
dington and Hampton-wick, when I was overtaken by a
butcher's boy on horseback, with a tray of meat under his
arm. ' Nice pony that of yours, old gentleman,' said he.
Pretty fair,' was my reply. `Mines a good un' too,' re-
' and I'll trot you to Hampton-wick for a pot o'
joined he,
beer.' 1 declined the match, and the butcher's boy, as he
stuck his single spur in his horse's side, exclaimed with a
look of contewpl, 4 I thought you were Only a muff -