The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-09 00:00:00

Her Mjahty's steam-frigate Gladiator, Captain
John Adtm,, which left this port for Madeira and
the coast of Africn, on Sunday afternoon, the 3,linst.,
put back this morning, having received damage from
the late gale.
When the Gladiator sailed she had in tow her ten-
der, the Jackal steamer, and continued to tow her
until .they reached ninety miles south-west of the
Land'z-tlid, when she was cast off in consequence of
heavy weather from the westward, veering to the
north and south, and they both bore up fir Falmouth.
The Jackal, however, drifted further to leeward
than the Gladiator, and parted company with her on

Tuesday. It blew so hard that no canvass could be

carried, the sea ran very high and cross, and the
Gladiator, being very deep, was obliged to heave to.
Her paddle sponsons and bulwarks are damaged, and
it is not probable that she will be ready for sea before
Sunday, if by that time. She has gone up Hamoaze
to coal and refit.

The Jackal behaved exceedingly well ; she is low-
masted, singly rigged, and more buoyant than the
Gladiator; in all probability she is gone into Fal-
mouth.

Wind—N.W., squally.

COLCHESTER ELECTION.

COLCHE,TER, FRIDAY NIGHT.—P(IIIIIaRt to ad-
journment from yesterday, the proceedings of the
election were resumed, and the polling booths for
the several districts of the borough, were opened at
eight o'clock this morning. Tne contest was con-
ducted on both sides in a most gentlemanly spirit,
and with a purity, so to speak, unexampled, we be-
believe, in the annals of all previous psrty turmoils in
this ancient borough. The town remained through •
out the day undi,turbed by ary breach of the peace,
and at the final close of the poll, at four o'clock, the
numbers stood thus :
For Lord John Manners
For Mr. G. Wingrove Cooke
Majority for Lord J. Manners —220
At a quarter-past four o'clock the mayor, attended
by his municipal functionaries, appeared on the
hustings, and announced that the official declaration
would be made at twelve o'clock to-morrow (this
day), to which time he directed the proceedings to
be adjourned. Shortly afterwards the assembled
spectators dispersed, and the town resumed its
wonted quietude.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following list of fashion -
stiles visited this house during the past week:—His
Royal Highness Prince George, the Duke of Brunswick,
the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza
Fitzalan Howard, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord
and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Lord Tenterden, the
Duke of Devonshire, Lord and Lady Guernsey, the
Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Earl of Cork, Lord
Ernest Bruce, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord and
Lady Barleigh, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose,
the Earl of Strathmore, Sir J. Lowther, Sir G. Armi-
tage, Sir C. Shakerley, Lady Webster, Sir H. Webb,
the Earl and Countess of Harrington, the Countess
Dowager of Essex and Miss Johnson, Sir F. and Lady
Thesiger, Lady Ronailly, Sir Charles and Lady Mary
Wood, Hon. Mrs. Norton, Lord Cranstoun, Sir F. and
Lady Pollock, Lord John Manners, Baron Platt, Baron
Alderson, Lord Robert Thynne, Viscount and , Vis-
countess Maidstone, Lord Marcus Hill, Lady Frederick
Bosucl,rk, the Marquis of Donegal!, Baron Lionel
Rothschild, Captain and Lady Adele Ibbotson, the Earl
of Cardigan, Sir William Herries, the Marquis
and
Marchioness of Kildare, the Earl and Countess Char
le-
A MEMBER Or PARLIAMENT IN DANGER Or
fiven Arer:n.
ws
icoht e, 1 ,uCpoo; BEING BURNT TO DEATII-011 Tuesday morning,
H about
of
Sir Ralph Howard, Sir G. and Lady Grey, &e.
cryr
ventry, were alarmed six o'clock,
from
found to proceed the room occupied
inquiry, was
the inmadtesbyoftbthee
by Mr. George Thompson, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets,
who bad been lecturing the previous evening upon finan-
cial reform at St. Mary's Ball. It appears that the
Ron. Gentleman on retiring to his apartment for the
night, had probably put the candle by his bedside for the
purpose of reading, when he unintentionally fell asleep,
and did not awake until he found himself enveloped in
dames. Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P. for Bolton, who
slept in the adjoining room, hearing a disturbance,
hastily rushed out on the landing, and, to his horror,
discovered flames issuing from the room occupied by
Mr. Thompson. We are happy to state, however, that
the Hon. Gentleman escaped without injury, and also
that the house and furniture are fully insured in the
West of England Insurance Company. The loss is es-
timated at 100/.—Leicester Journal.
MADAME PULSZKY'S MEMOIRS.—We understand
that the wurk alluded to by Lord Dudley Stuart in the •
deb ate on the Affairs of Hungary, and from which be
quoted the passages descriptive of the atrocities of the
Austrians, is to appear in the course of the ensuing
week. It is entitled " Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady
by Therese Pulszky, with an historical introduction by
Francis Pulszky, late Under-Seeretary State to the
Emperor Ferdinand."
EXTRAORDINARY S1100TING.....••011 the 23d ult.
Mr. T. C. Swinborne, of Coggeshall, went out in his
yacht on the main off Bradwell next the sea, and with
the assistance of one man to manage the boat, succeeded,
in shooting during the dap fifty black geese,—Essa
Standard,