The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-19 00:00:00

THE IRISH CONSTABULARY.

The following has been received by the foreman of the
Cork city grand jury, in reply to the memorial addressed
to Government by that body :
" Dublin Castle 10th August, 1844.
" Sir,—With reference to the memorial of the grand
jury of the city of Cork, dated the sth instant, I am
directed by the Lord Lieutenant to acquaint you,' that
as the expenses of the constabulary force in England are
paid by the respective localities for the preservation of
the peace in which they are employed, while one half the
expense of the Irish constabulary force is defrayed out of
the consolidated fund, it is not likely that any proposi-
tion would be favourably received, by Parliament, which
would place upon the inhabitants of the empire at large
the payment of a larger share of the expenses of the
constabulary force in Ireland, than they are at present
charged with.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, ".E. LUCAS.,
" F. B. Beamish, Esq., J.P., Cork."
NEW STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE.
A correspondent thus writes—" Yesterday (Thurs-
day) his Excellency Lord Heytesbury appointed Captain
John Kelly, of Fairfield, county Galway, stipendiary
magistrate, in the room of Mr. Rougham. Captain Kelly
is a Roman Catholic."

ASHIONABLE.— We have already contradicted
some extraordinary reports of Imperial deaths and births
that were circulated by our unaccountable Contemporary,
the Morning Herald, and we now observe that the
Standard thinks it necessary to inform its readers that
the paragraph which appeared in " some of its Morning
Contemporaries, announcing the death of the Grand
Duchess Alexandria of Russia, was quite premature.
Now, our excellent " Contemporary " is occasionally. in
the habit of borrowing little trifling pieces of news from
the Morning Post, and he is much too fast and loose in
his method of business to dream of acknowledging his
authority. Perhaps, in future, when disowning the
fabrications of his "Morning Contemporaries," he will
be kind enough to particularise the source of the false-
hood. We all are fallible ; but it really is quite enough
to answer for our defaults, without taking the responsibi-
lity of those of the Morning Herald and Co.—Post.
THE BIRTH OF A PRINCE AT WINDSOR CA.STLF.
—Various opinions having been hazarded as to the
period when the last birth of a Prince took place at
Windsor (Henry the Sixth, who was born at the Castle,
on the 6th of December, 1421, being generally supposed
to have been the last) we are enabled, from an official
document, to set all speculation on the subject at rest.
It will be perceived from the following verbatim copy of
the registry. of baptism at St. George's Chapel, Wind-
sor, that Prince. Alfred, who died in 1782, within two
years after his birth, was born at the royal residence at
Windsor :—" Prince Alfred, son of his most gracious
Majesty George the Third, and of her gracious Majesty
Queen Charlotte, was born hero in Windsor (in the
Queen's Lodge, facing the principal entrance of the
Great Court of Windsor Castle) the twenty-geond day
of September, in the year, of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and eighty, a few seconds after ten of
the clock in the forenoon, and was privately bap-
tised by the Right Rev. Father in God Richard,
Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry." Prince Alfred
and his brother Prince Octavius (who also died in his
infancy, and a few months after Prince Alfred), were
interred in Westminster Abbey. As soon, however as
the royal cemetery ,at Windsor, beneath Cardinal
Wolsey's Chapel, was completed, at the latter end of the
reign of George 111., the bodies of the Princes Alfred
and Octavius were removed from Westminster Abbey
and deposited in the royal mausoleum at St. George's
Chapel, within the precincts of the royal residence at
Windsor. The Princess Amelia, the youngest child of
their Majesties George 111. and Queen Charlotte, was
the first of the royal family who was publicly interred
beneath the royal tomb house, at Windsor, the funeral
taking place in November, 1810. The remains of every
one of the descendants of George 111. who have died
since that period, with the exception of the Duke of
Sussex, are deposited in the same place of sepulture.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH Luz.—On Saturday, the
17th inst., by special license, at Barneston, the parish
church of Newton-house, near Bedale, the seat of her
Grace the Duchess Dowager of Cleveland, the Right
Hon, the Earl of Mulgrave to Miss Laurh Russell, the
niece of her Grace. On the day previous to the mar-
marriage the different branches of the two families
assembled at Newton-house, where they were entertained
in splendid style, and the following sat down to dinner
with her Grace and the bride and bridegroom—viz., his
Grace the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Normanby, the Hon. and Rev. Augustus
Phipps and Lady Mary; Mr. Milbank, Lady Augusta,
anditheir son, Mr. Henry ; the. Hon. Colonel Arden and
Lady Arabella, Captain Russell, RNA and his lady,
Mr. and Mrs. Coore, the Hons. Colonel and Edmund
Phipps, the Hon. Adolphus Liddell, Miss Taylor, and
Mr. Wharton. The marriage ceremony was performed
by the Hon. and Rev. Augustus Phipps, and the bride-
maids were Miss Milbank and Miss Anderson. The
whole party, having returned to Newton-house, partook
of a most sumptuous dejeuner, after which the happy
couple set out for Mulgrave Castle.
The following distinguished personages were pre-
sent at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening:—
His Royal Highness Prince William of Prussia, accom-
panied by his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen (Prussian
Ambassador), the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland,
Count von Konigsmark, Count Buckler, Baron Schlei-
nitz, Baron Thile, and Captain Meynell, occupied her
Majesty's box • the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
the Duchess oiGloucester, their Serene. Ilighnesses the
Duke and Duchess Mecklenburgh Strelitz, Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, the Princess Of Baden, and Mar-
quis of Douglas, occupied the Queen Dowager's box; the
Prince and Princess Radzivil, the Duke and Duchess of
Leinster4Baron and Baroness Brunnow, Count and Coun-
tess Seebach, Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, Count and Coun-
tess Bjornstjerna, the Marchioness of Westmeath, the
Earl of Pembroke, the Earl and Countess of Glengall,
the Countess of Kinnoull, Lord and Lady Charles Wel-
lesley, Lords Frederick Paulett, Foley, and. Temple-
town, Baron Rothschild, Count de Courcy, BariorsneDaCvid
labrella; Ladies-Aylmer, Joddrell,
Davies, Charles Kent, Henry Pynn, HeYnnryn;WSebster; the
Hons. General Upton, Colonel Upton,
R. Curzon; Colonel Knox, &c. Juhan Fane, a
We understand that r. Dyce Sombre, whose very
remarkable remarkable case was only a few 'days back the subject
discussion in the Court of Chancery,
has a second time
effected his escape from the persoantsappohlted to look
Liverpool, shortly
after him. His first escape was
h© was incapable of
managing his affairs.
after the decision of a
.uryprocee thatded to- France, from
IJe
which he returned to dispute the validity of that decision
by an appeal to the Lord Chancellor. Lord Lyndhurst
gave judgment against the appeal. Since the arrival of
Mr. Dyce Sombre in London, the very proper precaution
was taken of placing two or three .
men, either officers of
the Court of Chancery, or policemen plain clothes, to
keep watch on all his movements.. These men lodged in
the same house with him, and one of them was always seen
to follow him when he went abroad. It appears that
on Tuesday last Mr. Dyce Sombre left his lodgings in
the Haymarket, followed, as usual, by one of these men,
and proceeded in the direction of Piccadilly. Near, if
not in, the Burlington Arcade, ho contrived to give his
attendant the slip, and he has not since been heard of,
although the most active measures have, doubtless, been
taken to discover his retreat.--Observer.
ST. ANN'S FANCY SALE.—The ladies who con-
ducted the St. Ann's fancy sale, on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday last, have announced that, owing to the very
bad weather on those days it is intended to recommence
the sale on Monday (this day), and to continue it
through the week, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, under the- immediate direction of the Hon. Miss
Harley and Mrs. Evans. The sale is to ,commence at
twelve and continue till six each day.
The steam-ship Great. Western, Captain INfatthews,
sailed from Liverpool, for New York, at noon, on, Satur-
day last, with 132 passengers, and
.the largest amount
of freight she has ever taken out: 'The Hibernia, Bri-
tish and North American Royal mail steam-ship,
Captain Ryrie, leaves the Mersey to-morrow, for Halifax
and J3Qrstm