The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-02 00:00:00

THE ART S.

DINNPR AT -THP CoNIMERCIAL TAPPRN.•—OR
Thorsday (alit, a nianhet of the Strhseithers to the
" Cork Society for the Promotion of the Fine
Arts," (lined together at the Commercial Tavern
in this City. Chair was filled by the Right
[lon. Lord CARRERY, and amongst the Gentlumen
present., we noticed the lion. C Mitchinson,
ALP. the Hon. R Llare, M P. Messrs. Reamisb,
Crawford, Priaose, Rogers, &c. &e The. Com-
pany consisted of upwards of turfy GEwlemen,
and the even,ng was spent with the winos' con-
viviality. Atter the usual foists of "'rite hint.'."
" The Prince Regent," the other branches of the
Royal Family, and the Lord Lieutenant, had
keen gone through, a series of appropriate sen-
timents were giten by the Noble ChAttn,tri. ac-
coniyauitsd with apposite remoks, annmot which
were—

The Cork Institution. and the diffusion of science in Cork,
INI r. Foster, ttfld Soctoy.
The Lou 'on Royal Academy, &c. &e.

The sensory of J.itise; B•wy, and Grogan, were
given ‘‘i h effect, and also tine 01 the late Conner
Penrose, E.:9 to whose patronage and example
the Fite Acts its this City and i.s ‘icittity ertre
tleep:y indebted. 01 the health (t the Pre4i(l,•sis
of the society, the Right. 1100. Lord Euttistssote,
having been given, the 1.101. It Flare returned
,Isinks in a neat gprech. The r!otsinany were also
addiessed its the course of she evening by Ilse 1-1011.
C. 11. 11‘itelti• lon, It. Crl; Nesveisham, and Dr,
Woodtt,ffe, aid were occ.isionally delighted by
some txajoisite ttot,gs and The Chair was
not vacated near 12 o'clock, and the party se-
par4 ed soon after. The room in which they
(fiord wag ornamented with f)tawings by some
of the. Pupils of the Academy, and a very admi-
rable envy of Guidts•s c,lebrated picture of
" Aurora ushering iu the I)dy," executed by our
yoitihttil fellow-citizen, Mr. Cro,bie, adorned
the upper end, awl attracted considerable alien-
!jots and apnl•tnle. The dinner am! wines were
extiniaite, land r fleeted totorb ri edit on Mr.
Joyce.—(Cork Mercantile Chronicle, Aug. 27.)

A wretch of the name of Torpy, who, with et"-
other eqoally nefarious villain, appeared at our
loy Ass a‘s as an Informer in two cases of
hurglaiy, was this day, by the activity of W.
E•q. committed to prison, with 'three
others, on a charge of hiy,liway robbery, commit-
,ed on Wednesday night in Dominick-street, in
this City. It will he recollected, by the readzrs
of a trial for a burglary in the house of Mrs. Mitt-
as given in our Paper of Wednesday, that this
fellow swore, no his cross-exansintui,n by Mr.
O'Gorman, as follows :

" Q. I supl►ose,it you were opposed on either
of these robberies, you would haee-romn►itted
murder ?—A. To be sure I 'would. Q. You are
quite sure, if any body opposed you, you would
have murdered them —A. To be sure we would:"--
(IGi►i )
Miss 1-1--d, w►ho was forcibly taken from a
friend's house in the neighbourhood of Millstteet,
whore she had been on a visit, as stated in our
Paper of the 20th, has since been restored to her
friends, but none of party concerned in the
outrage have been apprehended.—(lbid).

The following is a letter from General DON,
Governor 0, Gibraltar, to Sir Harm' WELLESLEY.
our Ambassador at Madrid. respecting the I1[o•
pest of the plague itt lt-orhiry
Hai July, Ism
" beg leave to acquaint your Excel-
lency, that the quat entitle schooner returned list
night front T..ngier7bay, and has brought the fol-
lowing intelligence respecting the plague :—At
Laroche there were occasionally deaths cif the
plague at Fez, from 40 to 50 olni:y ; Rabat, from
8 to 10 daily ; Sake, fr►mt 8 to 10 daily.
Shawin, Tamesin, and D►rarla, the plague was
raging with great •iolence. It wee reported to
Dave appeared in the neighbourhood of ►Morocco,
and there wire suspicious of its having extended
to that town. Deaths at Tnt►gier, h,t wenn the
29th June and 12th instant, 7. At Tetuan, be-
tween the 28,h and 10th instant, 285. Accounts
had been received in Tetuan, in 18 days, loom
Oran, by which it appeared that the plague still
existed _throughout the kingdom of Algiers, that
the daily deaths in the capital were about 60, and
41 Oran still more considerable.
GF.ORGE DoN„General.
" li. E . Sit H. Welledry, G. C.D.."

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