The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-01 00:00:00

THE Tifit,A.TßtS.

THEATRE.—The, Opera of •La Caped
Ladies was announced for performance, lait night,
by the special desire of his Royal Highness the
Duke of CAMBRSDGE. In consequence, however,
of the illness of one of the principal performtrs,
the popular Opera of Don Giovanni was substituted
at a short notice: The boxes were nearly filled,
and the pit was tolerably well attended, An
unusual crowd of well-dressed persons was as-
sembled in the gallery ; an impression had
certainly prevailed that her Majesty would
have visited the Theatre; in consequence of
the appearance of the words "by special desire"
in the bills of the day. There was no public re-
cognition of his Royal Highness at any time in
the course of the evening. Besides his Royal
Highness the Duke of CAMDRIDGE, there were
present her Royal Highness the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER, the Duchess of KENT, the Marquis
amd Marchioness of CHOLMONDELEY, &c. The
Koval party left the Theatre at twelve o'clock,
LNGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—The Witch of Dern-
cleugh seems to have increased her witcheries.--
Miss KELLY'S embodying of her exquisite con-
ception of the character rises upon the public,
and forms as finished a piece of acting as that of
T. P. Co°kE in Hatteraick. Indeed the latter
performer has given a • degree of dramatic effect
to the smuggler beyond what the Novelist could
possibly accomplish. We can read of villainy,
but in seeing it its worst shades must be softened,
as now, by lighter touches of humour.—The
i.uhlic would not allow the announcement of the
piece—five times did the loudest applause seal
up the performer's lips.

OXFORD, JULY confidenily stated, that the Urii-
versity Election will take place on the 22d of next month.—
On Wednesday last came on the Election at Magdalen
College, when Mr. Linton, of Christ's College, Cambridgr• ;
Mr. Middleton, of Pembroke; 1)1r. Philott, of Worcester; and
Mr. Sewell, of Winchester School, were chosen Demies.—
And on the following day, the Rev. Richard Walker, M.A.
W. Morgan, Esq. M.A. and J. F. Winterbottom, Esq. B.A.
Demies of Magdalen College, were elected Fellows of the same
Society.
THE EAU BRINK,—(Lynn, July 29.)—The
grand Cut of the Eau Brink, in the Bedford
Level, which was intended to have been opened
by the Commissioners with appropriate ceremon-
als on Tuesday next, was opened on Friday last,
with no ceremony at all, by a very high tide and
heavy gale of wind at N.W. The boundary of
land which was finally to- be divided, to perfect
a channel to our harbour, was thus suddenly
swept away, when the tide flowed so rapidly up
the new Cut, that had not immediate means been
adopted. for letting a portion of the sea-flood
into the Hundred-foot river, the new banks must
have been overflowed, and a large tract of land
been laid under salt water. Fortunately no mate-
rial damage has been sustained by this ele:-nental
eruption ; but thousands who had formed parties
for the aquatic. gala will be disappointed in their
pleasurable expectations on Tuesday next, by an
event which verifies the prop:letic adage", that
" time and tide stay for no man."
OUTRAGE.—Extract of a letter from Cootehill,
dated Julf2l.—" Late in the evening of Tues-
day last, the 17th inst., two children had a guar-.
rel in a field in the county of Monaghan, and
two men, a Protestant and a Roman Catholic,
came down to the place and took part in the
fight, which produced a challenge between them,
ignd it was agreed they should meet the next
morning. At seven o'clock the next morning,
not less than seven or eight hundred persons
were assembled on each side—some of them
came from a distance of 10 miles. The Ribbonmen
were armed, many of them with pitchforks and
scythes fastened in poles, and the re3t with large
sticks. The Orange party had pistols, swords,
and a number of Yeomanry muskets and
bayonets ; they occupied two hills, which COED-
mantled the bottom where the champions ought
to have fought. Some respectable' people of
the neighbourhood interfered and endeavoured to
stop the fight ; and, whether it was from their
interference, or from fear I have not ascertained,
but the Ribbonmen begin to give way a little,
upon which a shout was raised by the opposite
party, when they charged upon their opponents,
who immediately fled, throwing away their arms,
and were pursued over the country, for (I am
told) the distance of a mile. Whole corn and
flax fields were trampled to the ground in their
flight. I have not heard that any person was
seriously hurt ; but from every account I have
got of the tains:teflon, it would have been a most
bloody business if the Ribbonmen had stood their
ground."
On Saturday last, WILLIAM WILSON CARUS
WILSON, Esq., of Casterton Hall, Westmoreland,
was elected M.P. for Cockermouth, vice the
Right Hon. JOHN BECKETT, accepted the Chil-
tern Hundreds.
Mrs. SHAW LEFEVRE had the misfortune, on
Saturday last, to break her arm and dislocate her
elbow, as she was getting out of her phaeton in
Whitehall-place, in consequence of her dress be-
coming entangled -in the step. She fell on the
pavement. Surgical aid was immediately pro-
cured, and she is in a fair way,of recovery.
Mrs. GLOV,ER concluded her engagement at the
Liverpool Theatre, on Friday evening last, by
performing the part of Hamlet, and Nell in the
Dc-cil to Pay.
The fruiterers' shops in Covent Garden market
now assume the appearance of autumn, by a beau-
tiful display of peaches, nectarines, apricots.
plums, pears, grapes, melons, and pine-apples;
the latter of which sell at' 10s. per pound.
DERIVATION OF PONY.-_A few days ago one of the hterati
was puzzling his brains about the derivation of pony,- when a
tr-stander quaintly. observed, " Sir, I am astonished you don't
low what a puny_ is derived from." " Why ?' said the man
of learning. ` Because," said the other, every body knows
that a pony is derived from a little bore and a little mare."
On Friday three boys left Newhaven, with a pleasure boat
belonging. to a Clentleman, and were not beard of before Sun-
day morning, when they were picked up in Kirkaldy Bay, hay-
ing been beating about the l'orth all the intermediate time,
without being allz to make any shore.
A remarkable large Pea was Plucked on Tues-
day last in Mr. CROKER'S garden, at Upway ;
it measured five inches and a quarter from end to
end, and nearly an inch and a quarter across,
containing eight seeds, the latter not half ripe.
An extraordinary Gooseberry was gathered in a
garden at Dorchester; it measured one inch and
three-eighths in length, and three inches and a
half in circumference.