The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-14 00:00:00

WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE.

This popular place of enjoyment was opened the
first time for the season on Monday, and a large
company was present to enjoy the varied and
numerous amusements which had been provided ; and
if we may judge by the many happy faces of those
who were exhilerated by pleasure, the exertions of
the proprietor and the members of the establishment
were fully successful. The singing was good, and
the orchestra well provided : and the Calisthenic ex-
ertions of the Lauri family excited loud and repeated
applause; the performance of these youths was
certainly of a most extraordinary character : and that
singular juggler, Ramo Samee, who is a very good
specimen of the singular deceptions of sleight-of-
hand—if what engaged the mouth as well as the
whole person may be included under that term—
which is carried nowhere so far as in India, were
sources of great amusement. The entertainments in
the booth were concluded by several very excellent
dissolving views, which at a lower price than those
of the Polytechnic Institution, afforded great pleasure
to the sight-seers. The whole of this was followed
by a turn on the light fantastic too, in the elegant and
well appointed ball-room, where the dancers were
accompanied by an efficient quadrille band. Few
places in the metropolis afford greater opportunities
of enjoyment at this festive season, than this old
established and favourite place of sojourn at
Pentonville.

,
SACRED HARMONIC SOClETY.—Hayan's Creation,
which attracted a numerous and fashionable audience on
its first performance, will be repeated on Friday next.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—The visitors to the
National Gallery on Monday were more numerous than on
previous holiday occasions. Last Whit-Monday they
amounted to between 12,000 and 13,000, but on Monday they
exceeded 15,000. Although the rooms Were very much
crowded, there being at certain periods of the day between
2,000 and 3,000 at one time present, the greatest regularity
and decorum prevailed. The visitors were all of a respectable
appearance, and apparently viewed the various magnificent
gems of art the gallery contains with great interest. Surely
the persons appointed to take care of the sticks and um-
brellas of the visitors ought to treat the public with some
little degree of civility, the language and manner of one of
them in particular to a well-dressed person, as heard and
witnessed by the reporter, was most disgraceful. They ought
to recollect, as servants of the public, they are bound to be •
have with respect and decency_
THE NEW LORD OF THE TREASHRY.—We under-
stand that it is the intention of Mr. W. F. Mackenzie to
oppose Sir James Graham's plan for the endowment of three
Colleges in Ireland, his reason for so doing being his firm
conviction that six Colleges are absolutely necessary in the
present state of Ireland. He has not intimated his views on
this subject to the Right Hon. Baronet, but he has communi-
cated them in strict confidence to a friend, who, he has every
reason to believe, is in correspondence with Ministers, from
the circumstance that he sailed last Saturday on a voyage to
Norfolk Island, the expenses of the trip being furnished by
the Government.—Times.

The Attwood steamer, belonging to the General
Steam Navigation Company, left the river a day or two ago
for the put of Aviles, having on board a proportion of the
Engineering Staff sent out by the Board of Directors of the
Royal North of Spain Railway Company. The Attwood
was to touch at Plymouth to take on board Mr. Rendel's
partner, Mr. Beardmore, Mr. Alanby, and other of the officers
connected with the surveys. We learn that Mr. R. W.
Collett, M.P., Chairman of the Board, would also join the
party at Plymouth, that gentleman having decided on ac-
companying the expedition with the view of personally in-
specting the country from Aviles to Leon.

`WHOLESALE DESERTION OF WIVES AND FANS-
LIES.—The parish of Clerkenwell has lately suffered severely
from the wholesale desertion, by men belonging to that pa-
rish, of their wives and families, some of them leaving as
many as six children, thus casting a heavy and permanent
burden upon the rate-payers. Within the last few days
twelve men have thus absconded, and to such an extent has
the system been carried, that the parish has determined to
adopt vigorous measures to check the practice if possible, and
intend to offer handsome rewards for their apprehension.
AN AMERICAN PLEA FOR ACQUITTING A MUR.
DERER.—At New Orleans, a young man, named Hatch,
stabbed a companion, so that he died. He was arraigned for
murder, but the jury acquitted him, on the plea that " the
deceased had threatened to slap his (the prisoner's) face."
BEACKHEATH STOCK FAIR.—The Spring fair took
place on Monday, with a good show of heavy cart and other
draught horses, with a sprinkling of saddle horses of a
middling character; a fair supply of milch cows with calves
at their sides, and a large supply of store pigs. In the
morning there were but few buyers, owing to the great fall
of rain ; but towards the evening, the weather being fan.,
a considerable demand was created. Cows and pigs fetched
better prices than at the last fair, as did all horses of a sound
and useful sort; many of an inferior character left the
ground unsold.

- SCARCITY or Srum—During the past few days
the provision market in this town has been very scantily
supplied with mutton. Two causes are assigned for this;
first, the farmers at this season always hold back their stock
from the market in consequence of the great improvement
they make; and, secondly, the wholesale butchers here find
the demand so great in London as to send all they can to the
metropolis. The scarcity thus produced is almost beyond all
precedent. At the Barton market on Monday there were
really as many buyers as sheep, and at the Beverley fair on
Wednesday the demand waswholly inadequate to the supply.
As a natural consequence, the prices have much increased.
This scarcity has been felt in many other places; but in
Liverpool the supply, considering the time of the year, has,
we learn, been extraordinarily and unaccountably heavy
there being on Tuesday no less than 4,349 sheep for sale.—
Hull Packet.

ADVANCE OE WAGES.—The master cotton-spinners
of Bolton have agreed to advance the wages of their
work-people 5 rwr cent., which has been gratefully no
cepted. The best feeling appears to exit on both sides.
—Bolton Free Press.