The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-26 00:00:00

MISCELLANTOU4.

Ad vices came to hand yesterday from Pernam.
buco to the 4th September; all was quiet at that
place, but every attempt to dis cover the person
or persons who shot at and wounded the Gover-
nor in the end of August, bad failed.
We have Cape of Good Hope Papers to the
6th of Auguit. The only article in them of the
slightest interest relates to the change the Gover.
nor is gradually, effecting in the currency by re-
moving from it all the base metal, and substi-
tutiug gold and silver of standard value.
Yesterday forenoon, at nine o'clock, his Royal
Highness the Duke of YORK arrived at York
House, Stable-yard, St. James's, from Euston
Hall, the' seat of the Duke of G RAFTON, in Suf-
folk, where he has been on a visit ; at half-past
ten o'clock his Royal Highness entered his office
at the Horse Guards, where lie continued to
transact business until nearly five o'clock, and
then retired to York House, where he entertain-
ed a select party to dinner. His Royal High-
ness will remain in town until Sunday, whin he
will depart again .on a country excursion.
It may not be generally known that all official
papers connected with military promotions, ex-
changes,&c. are sent to Hanover for the KING'S
approval, and that the Lords Justices do not
exercise any authority in that particular depart-
ment. This will account fin the non-appearance
of the long-expected military list in The London
Gazelle.
His MAJESTY has now witnessed the affec-
tionate greetings of his Continental subjects ;
and, if we are not misinformed, it is his intention,
before he again takes up his abode at Carlton
Palace, to pay both Bath and Cheltenham a visit.
—(Bristol Journal.)
By the death of the Archbishop of PARIS,
Lours XVIII. will have a mitre, and his Holi-
ness a Cardinal's hat to dispose of. In looking
over the list of the Sacred College, we find a
great proportion of the Members of very advanced
ages. His Holiness is upwards of 79; the Car-
dinal Archbishop of Pirra, 85: the Cardinal
Archbishop of Sienna, 81 ; the Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Parma, 81; the Cardinal Archbishop of
Langres, 83; and several others are about 80.
The youngest is the Cardinal Rodolph, John Jo-
seph Renier, Archduke of Austria, who, most
likely, will wear the triple crown long before he
reaches the age of the present Pope.
In addition to the accounts we have already
published of the improved state of Trade and
Manufactures in every other part of the country,
we have to state that the Linen Trade in Mon-
trose, Arbroath, and Aberdeen is so much more
flourishing than it was, that every hand is em-
ployed, and wages have risen.
The Court of Common Pleas, which had ad-
journed its Westminster Sittings after last term,
in consequence of the preparations then making
for the approaching coronation, to the 24th of
this month, has further adjourned them to the Ist
of November.
The scaffolding, &c. erected in Westminster
Abbey for the Coronation of the KING having
been cleared out from that ancient building
within these few' dayi; the daiTY performance -o-f
Divine service has been resumed, and the exhi-
bition of the tombs and curiosities is' again open.
CORONATION RIOT.—At the late Oxford Ses-
sions, eleven persons were convicted of a riot, and
breaking the windows of several of the inhabi-
tants of the city, who had illuminated their
houses in the evening of the day of his MAJESTY'S
Coronation ; ten of them were sentenced to three
month's imprisonment, and one to one month's.
The French Papers mention the celebration of a marriage at
Paris, in which the bridegroom was 92, and the bride 82. A
ball was given after the ceremony, which was opened by this
venerable new-married couple.
THE THEATRE.---MiSS BLAKE, the new Mac-
heath at the Haymarket Theatre, has evidently
made a strong impression on the Public. The
Beggar's Opera was repeated last night, and a
very numerous audience attended.—All Miss
BLAKE'S chief songs were encored. She has
proved herself an excellent Actress, and the
playfulness of her manner was highly applauded.
We understand that she sung the admirable song
entitled The Wolf, composed by Mr. SHIELD,
with very great success, at the Ladies' Concerts
at Bath. It is so appropriate to the characters
in The Beggar's Opera, that it might properly
be sung by the hero of the piece, as an excite-
ment to his predatory myrmidons.
The Exile is quite at home at Covent-Garden
Theatre, and, amidst all the barrenness of Siberia,
is likely to bring the produce of an abundant har-
vest to 'the dramatic granary.
The Manager of Drury-Lane Theatre and
Mr. MUNDEN have settled all their differences,
and that popular Actor is soon to resume his for-
mer station.

Mrs. CLOVER is engaged at the West London
'Theatre.

The Opera will, in the ensuing season, open
much earlier than usual ; the time fixed is the
middle of January.

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FIRST USE OF MAHOGANY IN ENGLAND.---Dr.
GIBBONS, an eminent physician in the latter end
of the 17th, and beginning of the 18th century,
had a brother a West India Captain, who brought
over some logs of this wood as ballast. As the
Doctor was then building a house in King-street,
Covent garden, London, his brother thought
they might be of service to him ; but the car-
penters finding the wood too hard for their tools,
they were laid aside a time as useless. Soon af-
ter, Mrs. GIBBONS wanted a candle-box ; the
Doctor called on his cabinet-maker (WOLLA•
STON, in Long-acre), to make one of some wood
which lay in his garden. Wollaston also com-
plained that it was too hard. The Doctor said, he
must get stronger tools. The candle-box was how-

ever,made and approved, insomuch,that the Doctor
then insisted on having a bureau Made of the same
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wood, which was also completed ; and the fine
colour, polish, &c. were so pleasing, that he in-
vited all his friends to come and see it ; among
them the Duchess of BUCKINGIIAM. Her Grace
begged some of the same wood of Dr. Giunoxs,
and employed Wor.LAsToN to make her a bureau
also, on which the fame of mahogany and of Mr.
WOOLASTON were much raised, and the wood
came into general uso.