The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-07 00:00:00

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CHARADE.
IV:: 2:1 to some patriot Chief of yore
Honour my grateful secdnd paid,
High on my first the Conqueror
With pride the martial pomp surey'd.
But brief, tho' glitteting„.was the smile
Of public hyie on warlike duty ;
So fades my transient third ; awhile
The pink of sweetness and of beauty.

BONASSUS.

The following letter from the Marquess of
BUCKINGHAM to the inhabitants of the parish of
Wotton, thanking them for their exertions on
the occasion of the fire at Wotton House, last
year, is worthy of irritation atul preserith.tion
" London, Nov. 6, 1831.
" 11t OLD AND GoOD FP.IE:tcDs,—I return you my best
and hearty thanks for your zealous and kind assistance, when
Providence was pleased to afflict us with the calamity. of fire at
Wotton. Many of you have grown grey under the shadow of
those walls which you saw burning. I trust you will all of you
live to see the house arise out of its ruins and again inhabited
by the same heart', inseparably connected with you. At the
Same time that I return my most humble thanks to Almighty
God for his mercies vonclisafed to me, in saving my son and
daughter and their child from the flames, I cannot deprive my-
self of the satisfaCtion of ackndwledging how much we owe to '
your exertions and activity.
• " The rebuilding of the house-will find employment for you
all ; and I have the comfort of feeling the proofs which you
have afforded my family of your attachment. Thus, out of
this calamity arises (thanks to Almighty God !) advantage to
one party, and comfort to the other. I have directed some
money. to be distributed amongst your families, a 5 a testimony
of my thanks and satisfaction:. Believe me altvays, under all
circumstances, your affectionate friend,
" CH ANDOS BUCKINGHAM."

This is the Nobleman who was so disgrace.,
fully treated at the Bush-Inn door, a short time
ago, on passing through UrliSle on his way to
London from Ireland.—(Durham County Ad-
vertiser.)

THE COUNTESS OE L tUDERDALE.—WE have
ascertained the following particulars relative to
the manner in is bleb the abominable report re-
specting this. Lady has been so fortunately
and so suddenly. checked :—Mr. WARREN,
at whose Hotel Lord LAUDERDALE usually re-
sides,-m hen in London, on reading the shocking
account in the paper, IoA no time in forwarding
.the account to ME.STAN LEY, his Lordship's son-in-
ho resides at Thames l)itton. On the receipt
of the intelligence, Mr.STANLEY came immediate-
ly to town, and repaired to the Newspaper offices,
to contradict the report, which he was happily en-
abled to do by letter, which he had received friim
the Noble Earl, dated the 2d instant,' and which
made no mention of the dreadful catastrophe re-
ported to have occurred on the 31st ult. It is to
be hoped that the vile propagator of this abomi-
nable falsehood will be speedily detected and
adequately punished. No punishment can be
too severe for the miscreant who could be guilty
of so gross an offence. :p,is impossible to calcu-1
late the amount of the mischief which might have:
resulted from the propagation of so execrable a
report, had it not been so promptly 'refuted.i
,Lady Stanley:has, at the present moment, an in-1
fant at the breast, and is, we are happy to hear,
notwithstanding the receipt of so sudden a shock, I
as well as can be expected.—(Morning'

CITY Bustscss.--The Lolly MAYoa yester-
day held a Court of Aldermen at CI uildha-11, for
the dispatch of general business. The Court
took into consideration the petition of the Ship
Owners of Newcastle and Sunderland; presented
at a former Court, for the reduction of the wages
of the Coal Whippers, s% hen it was resolved that
the wages of the Coal _kippers be reduced to

the standard of the Act of Parliament of the 47th
of his late M uKSTY, the same to take place from
the 25th of .oecember next. The inquests of the
Wards of Queenhithe and Aidgate, and of the
Parish of St..Sepulchre in the Ward of Fan ing-
don Without, attended, and made presentments
of ruinous houses and non-freemen, which were
severally referred. The Court broke up at half
past four o'clock.

LucTuncsmr OF ST. LEONARD'S, SITOREDITCH.
—Yesterday evening, at four o'clock, the second
ay's poll terminated, and notwithstanding the

Rev. T. AlouTnuEr: stands SBb a-head on the
gross poll, yet the friend• of the Rev Dr.TOwNE
announced their intention of continuing the con-
test to the last hour. The numbers polled yes-
terday were : _ _

F(r the Rev. T. Mortimer - 701—Gross Poll 12r1
For the Rev. Dr. Towne - 133 • 371

Majority for Rev. T. Mortimer 513

THE SCOUR IN' correspondent in

the "Farmers' Journal" states, that nothing is
so useful to preserv*e the health of lambs in au-
tumn, or when light frosts commence, as bleed-
ing ; to be performed by piercing the nostril
with a penknife.

Thcßologaa Journal, some time since, an-
nounced a new invention, by which an aeronaut
may, from the centre of his gallery, give to a bal-
loon a horizontal or vertical direction at his
pleasure, by means of a very simple manoeuvre,
and without employing either fire or any other
material. An article from Rome, in The illoni-
tcur of Thursday, re-states the above, and adds,
that D. 11411ENEGILDE MONTI, of Bologna, the
author of this invention, has made a model of it
in wood, and that it had been highly approved of
by several Professors of the University, and a
great number of learned Foreigners.
•It instated in Thi Quebec Gazette that the
General Post Office, London, has determined
to forward the Mail to Canada, by the American'
Packet, which sails regularly from Liverpool
on the first of every month, for New York.—
The King's Packets, it is added, do not usually
sail from Falmouth till nearly the middle of the
month. The new arrangements will, therefore,
give at Quebec a regular Mail from England
once a fortnight instead of a month.
Au affair of honour, between a Gentleman
from the Scottish Metropolis and a Gentleman
from Cupar, was settled on the West Sands of St.
Andrew's last Saturday week. The parties and
their friends met so soon as six o'clock in the
morning, and the ground having been measured,
and the other preliminaries settled, theyfired. The
first round was ineffectual, but at the second,
Mr. P—'s ball went through Mr. A—'s coat,
without doing any injury. The seconds then in-
terposed, and a reconciliation took place.