The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-01 00:00:00

CHANGES.

The Hon. Captain A. G. F. Jocelyn, 6th Dragoon
Guards, on a visit to the Dowager Countess of Roden,
at Bath; Mr. Henry and Lady Sophia Devereux, at
Drake Southall, Derbyshire, from a visit to the Earl
and Countess of Chesterfield, at Bratby Park ; the
Hon. G. Smythe, M.P., from the Bedford Hotel,
Brighton, on a tour ; Sir Alexander and Lady Hood,
at Bath, from their seat, in Somersetshire; Sir Hugh
Stewart, Bart., and family, from Dublin, for their
seat, Ballygawley, Tyrone.

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ASTLEY'S. AMPHITHEATRE.

The- fifst of " B'atty's Equestrian Morning Fetes
and Fashionable Day Performances, commencing at
half-past one and terminating at. half'-past three," was
given ;~ri Alonday. The spectators were principally
those for whose accommodation the hour was chosen,
viz., the members of the rising generation, who are
now home enjoying the festivities of Christmas, and
seeing the sights of the season. The programme of
Monday was a good one—there were the first ap-
pearance of M. Pierre, in a novel and olympic act
of horsemanship; Mademoiselle Helene, the celebrated
French equestrian artiste, on a spirited steed in a grace-
ful scene of equitation; M. Genges, the juggler of
Marseilles ; Mr. Wells, who introduced two dwarf
well-trained steeds ; the Southern American Minstrels,
Messrs. Woolest, Hobbins, Parker, and Ring; Mr. H.
Smith, and the steed Taglioni. After them came a
Polka dance on horseback, by Mr. Newsome and Miss
Isabella, and finally a variety of equestrian quadrilles,
said to be of "the moyen age," which were capitally
performed both by the horses and riders ; the evolu-
tions being perfectly carried through, and the gallo-
pades in the best style. The audience, which was more
select than the usual evening audiences at this theatre,
seemed highly delighted, and we have no doubt but
the speculation will answer. The idea of giving day
performances for the juveniles is a capital one, and
we were glad to see that the public supported the
undertaking by a numerous attendance. The theatre
was brilliantly illuminated, as for an evening per-
formance.

CYFARTIIFA.—In anticipation of an increased de-
mand for railway iron, Mr. William Crawshay has de-
cided upon the erection of an extensive steam rail-mill,
capable, if necessary, of the completion of 2,500 tons of
rails per month? the estimated cost of the extensive
project is about 25,000 L, while it will be the means of
affording employment to 300 persons, in addition to the
large number already employed in this gentleman's im-
mense establishment.—Cambrian.

SUPPLY OF COALS.—We are glad to report, on un-
doubted authority, that the directory of the London and
Birmingham Railway have determined to carry coals at
ld. per mile per ton. The waggons and carriages for
the conveyance of those Naluable commodities are in
progress, and will shortly be ready for use. Our para-
graph last week on the subject has elicited this informa-
tion, which our numerous friends will be glad to receive.
Bedford Mercury. _ _

BRUSSELS, DEC. 27.—The Senate, in its yesterday's
sitting, after an animated debate, adopted the project of
law on corn, by a majority of 20 to 13.
STATE OF FRADE.—The market, both for cloth
and yarn, has been quite as active as is generally the
case at this period of the year. Indeed, where parties
have been disposed to meet the demand, stocks of both
cloth and yarn are quite cleared out; many in fact are
working under contract. Some, however, refuse to sell,
except at an advance, choosing. rather to wait the de-
insnd for the spring trade. The year closes upon the
commercial interests with a prospect of good things to
come; which nothing indeed but some untoward event,
as a failure of the harvest, or a war, can blight. Money,
the sinews of all business, is plentiful and cheap; so also
is cotton, the staple, almost as essential as corn itself.
Then the condition of the labouring classes is greatly
ameliorated, the demand for labour and wages having
alike improved. We should think, also. the Government
will be constrained early to lighten the oppressive bur-
dens of the people by a total repeal or a considerable re-
duction of those fiscal imposts which press mainly on the
industrious classess. On the whole, we may congratu-
late the trading community on the wide fields of enter-
prise which have opened on them in the East, and which
have greatly tended to the improved state of business;
as also on the far more profitable results of their trade
in the latter compared with the former period of the
year, when unwarrantable speculations in cotton totally
overcast our dawning advancement; and we have but
to express a hope that the ensuing may be a year
gratefully remembered alike by master and operative.
—Manchester Times.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY NEAR ROMFORD.—On
Tues-
day night, as John Sumner, a servant in the employ of
Mr. James Stone, of Great Goose Farm, in the parish of
Rumford, was proceeding from Hare-street to his mas-
ter's house, between eleven and twelve o'clock, he was
stopped a short distance from the Ship, Hare-street,
where he had taken some refreshments, by two men, who
knocked him down and robbed him of his watch and
eighteenpence in mosey, with which they decamped
over the park palings of Hare Hall estate. Information,
with a description of their persons, was immediately
given to the inspector of police, at Romford, who appre-
hended John Staines, a blacksmith, and Thomas King,
and they were both identified by Sumner as the persons
who had robbed him. They were examined before Oc-
tavius Mashiter, Esq., at the Court House, on Friday
last, and remanded for further examination to yesterday
(Monday), when they were fully committed for trial.
The prisoners are suspected to have been connected with
a gang by whom many parties have been lately robbed
of poultry, provisions, &x,—Essex Herald.