The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-22 00:00:00

other was most severely injured. It is a singular fact, that
there has been no storm in Hampshire for many years past
that has not been more severely felt in the neighbourhood of
Romsey than in any other part, and in every instance sone
fatal accident has resulted, or some considerable destruction of
property.
The hay harvest has commenced in several places
in Wales, though the crops are but of scanty description.
There is at present residing at Seaville a young
girl who can boast of having four mothers living, viz., her own
mother, her grandmother, her great grandmother, and her
great great grandmother. Even the eldest of these mammas is
in good health, and they all reside in the parish of Home Cul-
tram r arlisls Patriot.
THE CAPERCAILZIE.—The " Cock of the North,"
this noble, fine-plumaged rara avis, with the capercailzie hens,
presented by the Marquis of Breadalbane to the Duke of Hamil-
ton, and placed for breeding in a large, curiously-constructed
pavilion aviary, near Brodick Castle, have, by the unremitting
and most assiduous care and 'attention of the head gamekeeper,
been finely preserved. Last year eggs,were placed under moor,
game for hat ching, and as there was no shooting in Arran, .an
all the game strictly preserved, it is probable that some young
capercailzies may be seen in the forests or in the mountains'
This season proper care has been bestowed to get more egg!,
hatched, so that there is a reasonable prospect of this grand se"
rare species of game gradually becoming abundant in Aswan,'"
YilmarnGcle Journal.
THE IRoN TRADE.—We have heard it rumoured
that Sir John Guest is about to erect and put into blast three
more new furnaces. Gude luck to him, we say. This anger°
well for the iron trade. The clouded visages of many of tll. •
shareholders of the Taff Vale have all at once become ger
charming and strikingly bright ; Johnnys and Billys have ster
denly put on the amiable. This indicates the return of pond*
shillings, and pence.—Cambrian.
Boz oN THE STAGE.—Private theatricals Weere,
among the amusements of the people of Montreal whilst
Charles Bagot was there. The performances took place at the
Theatre Royal, with Mr. Charles Dickens as stage-manager,'
who with his lady, sustained leading parts in the pieces selector'
Soon after the doors were opened, says the Montreal HeroTt
the boxes and pit were filled with tiae beauty and fashion
the city, and the gay uniforms of the different regimeete: ,
the garrison, interspersed with the costly dresses and jewelled
brows of the ladies fayre, presented a beautiful scene. Moue
the audience were his Excellency Sir Charles•Bagot and suite'
The first play in the bill of fare was A Roland for an Olivet.'
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the part of Mr. Selborne by the Earl of Musgrave • Alfred
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Highflyer by Mr. Charles Dickens. The Monirealllerel
says the performers elicited thunders of applause and fogs ?
laughter from all parts of the house. The laughable interluee
of Past Two o' Clock in the Morning followed, Mr. Snobbinr;
ton by Mr. Charles Dickens. This was the performance of
the evening, and was most admirably acted. Mr. Dickens ee, '
disguised his person and voice, that some time had elapse('
after the play began before he was recognized. The closieg
piece was the farce of Deaf as a Post, in which Mrs. Dicke°
played the part of Sophy Walton.
An accident from phosphoric matches occurred 9 ,
few days since near Versailles. Two persons were travelling
in an open cart, when they suddenly were alarmed by fain°
flames bursting through the bottom, and communicating :1.2
their pantaloons. They instantly sprung in haste to the untie.,
and had scarcely time to get the horse out of the shafts lief
the vehicle, even to the wheels, was involved in the fire, se.
the whole were consumed before any endeavours could be meat:
to stop it. The matches, the ignition c,f which had• cans.
the accident, were in a basket, w"' er things, at the bathe
of the cart. -
A violent storm passed over Bourges on Saturday
in the last week, and fell upon the surrounding communes 9'
Barry, Marmag,ne, Melum, Quincy, and Varna, doing este!'
sive damage to the crops. The same storm ways aiso ;revere/
felt at St. Amand and its neighbourhood. On the same (let
a violent storm did considerable damage to a great part of t.
department of the Allier. The hail fell in great abenclauce,
and of considerable size. lea
The emigration from Germany to the Um •
States of America continues unabated. Three vessels have re.'
cently been chartered at Antwerp to carry 499 of these em.r
grants to New York. Of these, 164 have already taken theo
departure in the American ship Albrec.
The village of 'l'ourteron, in the Ardennes, Was, $
few days ago, in great part destroyed by fire. Not less thee,
45 houses and the church were reduced to ashes, andift)
families all at once found themselves without an asylum. IP,:
cattle were saved, but the furniture and other effects in •"-
houses were totally lost.
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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Mademoiselle _ay.--
performed the character of Ariane on Friday evening, se
before remarked. The play itself, by Thomas Corneille, ‘‘.
written in seventeen days, to a manager's order, and ottn,
therefore, could not be expected from the author. But we;
we read the .4riane of the writer, and lay i own the book elt ti
out sympathizing with the deserted woman, not so with Ranee,:
by her the woman fills the soul, drawing tears from the eZi
and rage from the heart ; and the triumph of the actress i,..,0"
is fully recognised. The high and palmy days of the ur;il_,.
appear to have come again, for a more brilliant and distinguism,e
assemblage than on that night could not have been witnessfa
On Thursday Deshayes takes his benefit, when 1 Puritaai ;,,
will be played with a fine cast. Persiani take the part of Elsl:6.
supported by Rubini, Ronconi, Lablache, &c. Cerito 7.7
afterwards appear in the new ballet, Alina.
A frightful accident happened on Wednesday Off'
ing at the brewery of M. Dresh, in the Rue du Faubourg St. i!:;
toine. As one of the men was in the act of pouring I%i
syrup into the great copper, which was in full ebullition, 1:a,
vessel in his hands slipped, and in endeavouring to save it
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lost his balance, and fell in with it. Another man, who
1 standing by had the courage to plunge both his arms up to , i
shoulders in the boiling liquid and draw him out. The -
man lived in agonies for about three hours, and then eel,'4
The man who so generously endeavoured to save bins from ..,
frightful death is suffering most severely. . ,
EXPORTATION OF MACHINERY.—Never at •
time since the bobbin-lace machinery was first exported
John Cutts, in 1816, were lace-machines taken out of the It
dom in greater quantities, than during the last month ;.?
from the best information we can obtain no less than thiiit,
,v
warp and bobbin machines have been taken out of this di ,
within that period, one person having taken, we are ass, i
,
no less than eight to Lille. So boldly has this trade
carried on, that machines were openly packed at a neigh. ~
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ing village, and taken to a wharf in open day. By the ~
tice of the English Courts of Justice, in excise and ens '
and some other affairs, a carrier is held to be irresponsibl h.
all goods he carries ; this has been taken ample advan
as one of our carriers has had the machines brought SI •
wharf, and packed there. Yet, by a decision of the 1.30 w-
- although these machines may he seen thus psO
and the parties should declare they were going to Fraud'' i
Germany, they may be taken by river or canal to Loan*
declared not water-borne, according to the statute,lunti
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are put on board a vessel or boat on the Thames, with tarAdit.':
tent to be shipped. Thus, if the Excise or Customs seiselW
on the canal or on a London wharf, they are too soon ; &sok
they watch to see them on board, the ship is soon under
and then they are too late, the packages being entered as (Ilk,
goods. Such is the manner in which the manufactiViEgeo
terest, or rather the productive interest, has be latterai r ':
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tected.—Nottingham Journal. tlik
ST. DOMINGO.—The island of St. Domingo, ~,
has been visited by such a fearful earthquake, is nearly !Is "Tit.,
as Ireland, and carries on an extensive trade, exportier,ol;
nually to the value of a million sterling. The Haytien elf ori,
nity is deeply interesting, as constituting a free colony oty'
loured people, who have a constitution, which is a repreiLitt
tive republic, under a President, in conjunction with a
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and House of Representatives. It has a standing erf„lo
28,000, with a militia force of 40,000, although there PAO ,
than a million of people—thus making, one man in ever/ orb
a soldier. No white man is permitted by the law of the "to
lie to hold a foot of land within its territory ; no whila.to
can marry a Haytien woman, and thereby become ent'bco";.
her real or personal estate ; and no white man can trade "-oft
out a special license, renewable yearly, with a heavy fine ;is%
indeed, generally speaking, can he trade at at all without • ;
associated with a Haytien partner. The men of Hayti are 01'
to pass much of their time • " in sauntering, talking, idlinglife_
playing games of chance and skill." They merely work to
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AWFUL THUNDER-STORM.—On Sunday lost' yoir
ing a severe thunder-storm, a cottage about a mile fro°, Op
cedwin House, in this county, was greatly injured ,veli tY.
lightning. The electric fluid appears to have ascene4iell
pendulum rod of the clock until it came to the crutch, ;;001,.
being at right angles, changed its direction ; it here d, 00
through the clock case to the wall, up which it pess!„, ,
u:sler
made its exit through the roof in two places. The r" P,
of the house, who was in the room at the time, was A 40,
down, and the extremities of the pendulum rod were in,ool'
and appeared like a scorched quill. The same storm did 740$
mischief in and near Carmarthen. The electric fluid is, OW
the flag pavement in front of a house near the Town-hall' toei
it shattered to pieces. It also ettered a house in John 'Y 00
the furniture in which was much damaged. Two horseteSoor
valued at 1001.), and some cattle, were killed in the neigfoorg'
hood, and other serious damage was sustained in hot" Pi
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&c. 'I he lightning was the most vivid ever remeuht
the oldest inhabitants.—Cambrian. 4
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COUNT WORONZOW'S SILVER SERVICE OF Pii'17.4.,:
We were present on Saturday at a view of a sin*:
service of silver plate, which has been manufactu'';Os
, Messrs. Mortimer and Hunt for the Russian COO' (Pk
1 ronzov,'. The designs for this service are as el-1,14;1 4'
they are various ; and among them is a represel'of
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of some of the principal fabulous achieverneuts .06„
George, the patron saint of England. The grouolf e; ,
the different figures in this representation is full _"
turesque grace and spirit, and the richness of throe,
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sets oil' the subject to the greatest advantage. " blO
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the groups St. George is represented on al. f ,
under a tree, rescuing the daughter of the Solduti° i .:i.
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from the grasp of the dragon ; and nothing 001. r i
the apparent flexibility of the branches, and thee .:„
tracery of the foliage, which have been mane 1.4
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consummate skill. The magnificent candelutsiket,
highly wrought plates and dishes, tureens, 1.3:4;"
viewed altogether, ranged as they are along 0 . ~
pable of holding at least sixty individuals, P_,410.10;
very imposing effect upon the spectator. The. r
the most costly, tasteful. and expensive, prop ':
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has been manufactured in England for many Y

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BIRTHS. istSV
On the 14th inst., at Hanwell, Middlesex, the 14 .**
Rev. J. A. Ernerton, of a daughter. D.
On the 16th inst., at Leamington, the lady of C. „At.
bald,daughter. f
On the 16th inst., at Glazeley, Salop, the wife °
J. W. Bromley, M.A., of a son. tdlo'
On the 18th inst., Mrs. W. Storrs Fry, of a (bhe ugn", of
On the 18th inst., at Hillingdon, Middlesex, t
Garratt, jun., Esq., of a son. sbal,
On the 21st inst., in Great Russell-street, Blo°°3
Joseph Eldridge, of a son.
On the 18th of April, at Purneah, in Bengal,
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Hon. Robert Forbes, Company's Service, of a ano•sh;
On the 15th inst., the lady of Thomas Henn '
Brixton, of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Darlington, Mrs. W.OBE VP.
daughter. f Gran •
On the 18th inst., the wife of Mr. Sambourne, °
square, of a son still-born.
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On the 20th inst., in Orchard-street, Portman
Peyton Phelps, of a son. tiO
MARRIED. la Pate. dill.
On the 9th inst., at Westend Church, 11- mosgh ,
William Roberts Worsley, Esq., to Mary, "IY irle'
the lid.
Rev. John Fowler, of Harefiel, Southampton. R. Choesco
On the 14th inst., at St. John's, HackneY,,, titre, Ist ° eod
Torkington, to Anna, second daughter 0.! johlis
Powell, Esq., of Carey-street, Lincoln's In" -144011,
Clapton House, Hackney. fel ti
On the 15th inst., at Framfield, Sussex, -: Avis.
Esq., of Rakeengrany, Wicklow, Ireland, t° ,•
daughter of A. Donavan, Esq., ofFrarnfield-Po' OOP'
DIED. m• 011011
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On the 16th inst., in Gloucester-place, ...4,104 a
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surviving sister of the late Lord Rolle. Pt" As.
On the 16th inst., at Mitcham, S. Adams' ono`/'...a1.v--
Totnes, Devon, and late barrack-master at Ho mast op- •
On the 16th inst., at Old 'Change,l4"' h°
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