The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-13 00:00:00

Bavaria, Huse, and Hanover, and thus avoid
treading upon Prussian territory. The co-operation
of Hanover in carrying this oat is confidently ex.
pected.

Sir James and Lady Anne M'Kenzie., left Edin-
burgh on Saturday, for Floors Castle, the seat of the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe.

AGES OF THE NOBILITY.—The eldest archbishop is
the Archbishop of Armagh, aged 77 ; the youngest is the
Archbishop cf York. aged 62. The eldest duke is the Duke
of Hamilton, aged 83; the youngest is the Duke of St. Al-
ban's, aged 10. The eldest marquis is the Marquis of Hunt-
ley, aged 89; the youngest is the Marquis of Bute, aged 3.
The eldest earl is the Earl of Bantry, born August 6, 1767,
aged 83. (The Earl of Cork was born Oct. 21, 1767, and
the Earl of Portsmouth was born Dec. 18, 1767.) The
youngest earl is the Earl of Dunmore, aged 9. The eldest
viscount is Viscount St. Vincent, aged 84; the youngest is
Viscount Hood, aged 12. The eldest bishop is the Bishop of
Durham, aged 80 ; the youngest is the Bishop of Down, aged
42. The eldest baron h Baron Berners, aged 88; the
youngest is Baron Louth, aged 18. The eldest baronet is
Sir Charles V. Hudson, aged 95 ; the youngest is Sir Regi-
nald Louis Oakes, aged 3.

CITY SEWERS COMMISSION.—YesterIay, in conse-
quence of the Council Chambers of the Commissioners being
occupied for the needful preparations of the Polish Ball, the
gentlemen connected with the Court met simply for the pur.
pose of adjourning the Court until Tuesday next.

CONSUMPTION CURABLE.—Recovery does, now and
then, occur in cases of true consumption. The changes ob-
served by means of the stethoscope, is the progress of some
cases which have ended in recovery, and the examination of
the lungs of those who have died of some other malady, show
conclusively that tubercular consumption is not necessarily a
fatal disease.

FOREIGN POTATOES.—The vessel Louise, arrived
from Port L'Abbe, has brought 50 tons weight of potatoes,
the produce of France.

AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE.—The vessel Cornwall, ar-
rived in the docks from Sydney, New South Wales, has
brought 10,000 tin 'packages of boiled beef, as part of her
cargo, consigned to order.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S CHARGE.—lnquire at
the doors of St. Paul's Cathedral, and you will be told that
the Bishop's charge is "twopence."—Punch.

Cuaious CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Thursday mornings
while the workmen at the Ferry-hill station of the Aberdeen
Railway were employed removing a bale of American cotton
which had just arrived from the south, a strange sound was
heard inside the bale, which was forthwith opened by one of
the men, who, after digging into the interior of the package,
brought to light a live cat, much reduced by hunger and
confinement. As the bale was externally to all appearance
in the condition in which it had been left by the original
packers, it is conjectured that puss had made an involuntary
voyage across the Atlantic. She is being well treated, and
bids fair to recover.—Edinburgh IVitness.
EXTRAORDINARY SHOT.—Thornas Black, one of
the Marquis of Lothian's gamekeepers, made rather an ex-
traordinary shot on the 29th ult., when shooting on the farm
of Oxnam Row, in Oxnam Water. A snipe was sprung by
him, and marked down. While advancing to the spot, and
within a short distance of it, a hare rose, and running
straight towards the snipe, put it up, when Black, thinking
no doubt, that two were better than one, fired, and killed
both at one shot.—Kelso Chronicle.
IRISH SUPPLlES.—Nineteen vessels have arrived
at the port of London from the Irish ports in two days, laden
with grain and genefll provisions, the produce of the Irish
soil. Their collective cargoes comprised 12,03 quarters
end 3,395 barrels of oats, 116 qrs. of beans, 13,309 packs ;es
of butter, 502 bales and casks of bacon, 50 of hams, 50 of
general provisions, 218 of lard, 260 of porter, 183 of eggs, 46
of pork, 21 of honey, 594 of soap, a quantity of fish, live
stock of various kinds, and various other productions of the
sister country. The arrivals at Liverpool from Ireland, in a
week, have comprised 10,583 firkins. 136 half firkins, 570
boxes, and 1,398 other packages of butter; 868 bags, 31
barrels, 180 quarters, and 57 tons weight of wheat; 1,978
sacks, 2,185 barrels, 688 quarters, and 90 tons of cats; 3,432
sacks 354 loads, and 182 tons of oatmeal, 455 sacks of
barley, 912 packages of linen and cottons, 179 of hams and
bacon, 149 of pork, and a large quantity of farina, seeds,
meal, beans, peas, lard, beef, tongues, flour, and general
provisions.
A NOVELTY.—At the Bristol Police-court yester-

day (Tuesday), the jurisdiction of which extends over
200,000 inhabitants, there was not a single entry on the
police charge-sheets. The circumstance was noticed in terms
of commendation by the magistrates present.
MAILS FOR MADEIRA, RIO JANEIRO, &C.—Her
Majesty's steam-vessel Wasp. with mails for Madeira, San
Nicholas (Cape de Verde), St. Vincent, Sierra Leone, and
the Island of Ascension, and her Majesty's steam-sloop
Geyser, with mails and dispatches for Rio de Janeiro, have
been further detained at Devonport. Letters and newspapers
intended to be sent by these vessels will be in time this even-
ing, the 13th inst.
SINECURE BENEFICES.—A further return to Par-
liament was yesterday printed respecting sinecure benefices.
It contains one benefice in the diocese of Exeter, at Erming-
ham, of the value of 2701. a year, where the population is
1,607. There is a vicarage endowed and a parish church.
With the former returns it appears that there are " sixty-
one" sinecure benefices, besides others in returns presented to
Parliament on former occasions, showing in the aggregate a
considerable value and a great population.
THE LATE LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT AT THE
ABERYSTWYTH MINES.—Two more of the seven unfortunate
men who met with the recent dreadful accident at the Lis-
burne mines have died from the effects of the explosion.
The three poor miners who died almost instantaneously were
of one family—a father and two sons—and their funeral was
a sad spectacle. The remaining two sufferers continue in a
dreadful state.

CARDINAL WisEmate.—The announcement in yes-
terday's paper of the sudden and unexpected arrival of Car-
dinal Wiseman in the metropolis occasioned considerable in-
terest among Catholics and Protestants, and at an early hour
a large number of respectably-attired persons, of both per-
suasions, assembled round. St. George's Chapel, in the ex-
pectation of catching a glimpse of the newly-created Arch-
bishop, and many, anticipating that he would officiate during
the early morning service, entered the edifice; but they were
doomed to disappointment, as the Cardinal not only did not
attend the service, but had not arrived at his temporary re-
sidence up to the departure of those who were induced by
curiosity to attend. Exactly at eleven o'clock. however, a
private carriage, drawn by a pair of greys, was driven to the
entrance of the clergyman's residence attached to St.
George's Chapel, from which the Cardinal alighted, attended
by his chaplain, who carried a small leather portmanteau and
a large packet of litters. his eminence, who appeared in
excellent health, was enveloped in a large blue cloak, and had
a superbly bound Roman missal in his hand.
CURIOUS BATTLE.—The following account of a
conflict between a snake and a musk rat has been supplied
us by an eye-witness; the snake was, we presume, not
poisonous—a circumstance known in all likelihood to its as-
sailant :—" I saw a combat between a small snake and a
musk rat, the latter having hold of the tail of the reptile and
shaking it vigorously, the snake making great exertions to
get away from its the, occasionally turning its head half
round towards its enemy. Five or six persons were wit-
nesses of the fun, but the rat was so intent upon his work
that no notice whatever was taken of the bystanders ; at last
the snake made for one of the doors, and in spite of the efforts
of the rat, managed to get between the edge of the door
(which was shut) and the sill, and so escaped. The rat
hunted backwards and forwards, as a dog would have done
after a hare or rabbit, and when we moved to see what had
become of the snake, the rat departed according to its cus-
tom."—Bombay Times.
DRSTITUTION IN THE ISLES OF SCOTLAND.—The
last accounts from the West Highlands and Isles announce
the failure of the potato crop to a very considerable extent,
and the probability that severe and very general distress will
prevail early in 1851, particularly in some of the islands and
the coasts of Ross and Inverness. It is grievous to think,
says the Perth Courier, that the munificent fund which the
liberality cf the public put into the hands of the Edinburgh
and Glasgow relief committees should have been frittered away
mainly in a shape which could afford temporary assistance,
and was much liable to be abused by recipients who were im-
proper objects of charity. On the other hand, the application
of the Perthshire fund to the permanent improvement of one
selected locality in North Uist is such as, while it must be
gratifying to the subscribers to know that their liberality is
likely to effect much good, ought to encourage similar under-
takings upon a larger scale.

THE Loss OF THE TUREISLT FLAG•SHIP.—We
have been favoured with the following copy of a letter from
Captain Slade, the Commander of the Neire Chef ket, to his
brother, F. Slade, Esq. :

" Constantinople, Oct. 24, 1850.
"My dear Fred.—ln case any erroneous reports about my
safety should be in the papers, in connexion with the loss of
the Neire Chefket, I write a line to say that I was not in her
when she exploded : I was going to her. She was a beau-
tiful 90-gun ship—the flag-ship. She was moored in the
harbour, near the Arsenal; on either side of her lay a three-
decker or a 90-gun ship. At half-past nine yesterday morn-
ing, without any kind of warning, or anything having oc-
curred to excite suspicion,- the powder in her magazine
ignited, no one knows how, and she blew up ; nor were there
more than a dozen barrels of powder on board. The explo-
sion was just sufficient to separate her sides, and lift her
decks. She opened forwards, broke in the middle, and sunk
bodily. It was all over in three minutes. 500 men perished
with her, including 16 officers ; 163 men have been saved, of
whom 43 are badly wounded. Her band was playing when
the explosion took place. We are all in deep affliction for
the loss of our comrades.—Yours affectionately,

" ADOLPHUS SLADE."

NAVIGATING THE AIR.—We find the following in
the Evenement:—" This afternoon, at half-past three o'clock,
an experiment took place at the Hippodrome, before some
of the representatives of the press, relative to the possibility
of directing balloons in the air. A small balloon, made of
goldbeater's skin, in the shape of a long fish, and suspended
from wooden supporters, was made to go straight against the
wind by means of two small wings, to which a semicircular
movement was imparted by machinery on the screw prin-
ciple. The experiment was considered perfectly satisfac-
tory."—The Opinion Republique says :—" In this experiment
we cannot say that a solution of the problem of navigating
at will through the air has been come to, but we think that
a first step has been made in the matter. The exhibition of
M. Arnault, the inventor„ is of a nature to excite public cu-
riosity to a high degree."
ANOTHER RUESSIAN STEAMER ASHORE.—REVAL.
Nov. I.—The Peterhoff, Russian Government steamer, re-
cently built at London, is on shore at the south-west of the
island of Oesel. She has not suffered much, makes only a
little water, and there is every appearance of getting her off
with prompt and efficient assistance. A courier has been
dispatched to St. Petersburgh, requesting the assistance of
one or two steamers. Shipping Gazette.

GRAND NATIONAL ..I.ONCERTS.—The " Quadrille
of all Nations," composed expressly for these concerts by
Herr Labitzky, and dedicated by special permission to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, will be produced this even-
ing. We understand that no pains have been spared to render
this national quadrille most effective. The orchestra will
c6nsist of upwards of two hundred musicians, in addition to
the English and Berlin choruses.

How TO DISCOVER AN INCENDIARY.—Streatham
has of late been unfortunately visited by those horrid cala-
mities resulting from the incendiary's hand, and, incredible
as it may appear, we are informed that a gentleman standing
high as a parish-officer determined to discover the villain, if
possible; and for this purpose he came to Trumpington, to
consult the celebrated " canning woman !" What the result
of the mysterious conference was we know not; nor have we
heard that any one has been taken up on suspicion, in con-
sequence of the intelligence given by the " old witch" to the
very intelligent gentleman, who has taken such an admirable
way of discovering the delinquent.

Passengers can go from Dublin to Cork on every
Friday, at the low rate of 55., and from Cork to Dublin on
every Wednesday for the like sum.