The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-25 00:00:00

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In consequence of the several deaths in the higher circles
of society, the ball at Almack's, which was to commence the
season this day is, by general approbation, postponed until
after Easter.

The Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch had a dinner party on
Friday, which was attended by the French Ambassador and
the Countess'de St. Aulaire, the Russian and other Foreign
Ministers, and their ladies, Sir H. and Ladv Emily Hardinge,
Lord and Lady Marshatn, Lord and LadiEmlyn, Lord John
Manners, Baron Gersdorff, Capt. and Mrs. Cust, Mr. and Mrs.
Rice Trevor, Capt. Hood, R.N., Captain Duncombe, &c. &c.
The family will leave Montague House on the 27th inst.-for
Boughton Hall, Northamptonshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and the Ladies So-
merset are expected to arrive at Beaufort House, Arlington-
street, on Wednesday next, from Badminton, for the season.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton are expected to leave
Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, on. Wednesday next, on a
visit to the Duke• of Rutland, at Belvoir. Castle, during
Croxton Park Races, which commence on the 28th inst.
The Noble Duke's party will close the hunting season in
Leicestershire.

The Right Hen. Selina Viscountess Milton, accompanied
by her daughter, the Hon. Miss Fitzwilliam, returned to
Aldwarke Hall, near Rotherham, on Monday.
General the Hon. Sir Alexander Duff and Lady and Miss
Duff left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Friday, for
their new mansion, at Rutland-gate, which the Gallant
General has just engaged for the season.
The Marquis of Westminster, who has been slightly indis-
posed at Eaton Hall, has recovered.
PrIZSCEZZANNOtrii.
The Presbyterian marriage question is causing grat ex•
citement in the north of Ireland, and meetings are in pro-
gress all over that part of the country. At a meeting held at
Londonderry- on Wednesday, the Mayor in the chair, the
speakers denounced the insolent and oppressive encroach-
ments of the State Church, and the system of base deception
practised against the Presbyterians, since the unfortunate
alliance between Prelacy and Presbyterianism, announced at
the Orange meeting at Hillsborough, for the promotion of
the scheme for turning out the Whigs.
We find from a Return made to the House of Commons,
for the last year, of offences committed against the Fac-
tories Act, that the total number of convictions in the four
districts of Messrs. L. Homer' T. Howell, Saunders, and
Stuart, amounted to about 192.. The offences were princi-
pally the over-working of children or the employment of
children under age, and at night, &c. From a summary ap-
pended to this Return it appears that the total number of
convictions under the provisions of the Factory Act from
1834 to 1843, both inclusive, amounted to 3,401, being an
average of 340 a-vear ; that the gross total amount of penal
ties inflicted for 'the said offences during the above decade
was 6,895/. ; and the total amount of costs 2,1231.
By the annual report of Professor Moseley, Inspector of
the Greenwich Hospital Schools, and addressed to the Lords
of the Admiralty, it appears that the number of boys in the
Upper and Nautical Schools, is at present 379, who are
taught geography, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigono-
metry, and other branches of nautical knowledge. The
number of astronomical observations made by the pupils
during the past half-year, amounts to between 10,000 and
14,000.

During the whole of the week a very considerable sale,
under the orders of the Commissioners of Customs, has been
proceeded with at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-lane,
of property which has come into the possession of the Cus-
tom-house by forfeiture from attempt to evade the duties.
There were above 1,200 lots, the produce from which will be
above 15,000/.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Man= 23.—N.N.W., light breeze, and cloudy.
DEAL, 11Linc.n 22.—LM.,; Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze ;
p.m., Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Law, Mauri-
tius ; Unity, Agnew, Demerara.
OFF THE START, MARCH 20.—Brig Eliza, of Kincardine.
OFF MARGATE, MARCH 21.—Richgrds, Chambers, Buenos
Ayres; James, Tynes, Trinidad and Bermuda.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind W.N.W. to W.S.W.—
Spectator, Robinson, Shields for Bordeaux and Mauritius.
OFr KINGSBRIDGE, MARCH 22.—Meg Mertilies, Thomas,
Mauritius, sailed Dec. 12, Cape of Good Hope January --. •
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 21.—Sld. Montrose, steamer,
Gibraltar. , .

PLYMOUTH, MArtcn 22.—Wind S.W.--Sld. her Majesty's
ship Fort, PortsmoUth. Arrd. Fox, Fox, Cadiz.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind S.W., moderate 'breeze.—
Arrd. San Jose, Gonsalves, Lisbon for Hambargh, assisted in
with damage to hull, bowsprit, &c., having been in contact
with a schooner, 19th inst., lat. 43, lon. 8, when seven of the
crew of the San Jose quitted her, leaving only the master
and two men on board. Off port, Clutha, 15tmcan, Moul-
mein.

CARDIFF, MARCH 21.—S1d. Mary and Harriet, Quebec.
STANGATE CREEK, MARCH 22.—A. vessel bottom up, and
coppered, apparently of 300 tons, was passed 10th inst., in
lat. 42, lon. 15, by the Pera, arrived here.
BRIXHAM, MARcit 21.—The Nereid,Wayman, from Shields
to Malta, which was driven ashore 17th inst. at Elbury, has
been got off, after throwing part of her cargo overboard, and
brought in here very leaky.
NEWPORT, MARCH 21.--Sid. Julia, Calcutta; Clugas, St.
Thothas's.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 22. —Wind variable and light.—
Arrd. Sea, New York (2d inst.); Buckingham, Penhallow,
Mobile. FSld. Jersey Lass, Rio ; Walter Scott, Jamaica.—
Off, Oxford, New York ; Letitia Heyn, New Orleans ;
Woodstock, Kingston ; and Matthew Pearce,
CLYDE, llama 20.—S1d. Echo, Trinidad; Acadian, Hali-
fax ; Zebulon, Newfoundland. . .
DUBLIN, Dawn 20.—S1d. Recovery, St. John's, New
Brunswick.
SHIELDS, MARCH 21.—S1d. Emma, Aden ; British Fiero,
Montreal ; Lord Gambier, Davis' Straits.
PLYMOUTH, MARCY! 22.—S1d. Chronometer and Star of
the West, Coast Of Africa.
DUMFRIES, MARCH 200—S1d. Francis and Diana, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
LEITH, Marten 20.—Sld. Fleetwood, Mauritius.
FALMOUTH, Mutat 21.—The Fortune, Barron, Shields
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QUILLEBOEUF, MARCH 17.—The Ami Catharine, ashore
on the Tot Bank, has been got off, after lightening.
VESSELS SPOKEN Wrrit—Ganges, M'Donald, London to
Sydney, New South Wales, 29th ult., lat. 4, lon. 22, by the
Elizabeth, arrived in the Downs. William, of Guernsey, 11th
inst., lat. 42, lon. 14, by the Pera, Reed, arrived in the 'Creek.

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Rossini, who, since his return to Bologna, is per-
fectly rlcovered in health, has of late been assiduously employed
in rehearsing the music which is shortly to be performed by the
pitpils of the Lyceum in that city, and also composed a Cantata,
which has recently been executed at Turin, on the occasion cif.the
celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of Tasso's birth-
day. The Cantata was received with loud acclamations from the
Mime, and encored threo times.
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