The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-08 00:00:00

reading of it :

" To

" Bo'grave Terrace, Aug. 29, 1829.
" My dear Sir,—lt is with extreme reluctance I am ob-
liged. to say that my nri.sel.t engagements are such as tons•
deprive me of the pleasure I should otherwise have had io
placing one of my works in the Cutlers' Hall of Sheffield.
And as you ate so well acquainted with the particulars of
the engagements to which I have alluded, I shall beg of
you to render a full explanation to the gentlemen who have
done me the honour of proposing to place the work in
question in my bands.

" When I recollect that I received my first commission,
for a marble bust, from Sheffield, I cannot help expressitn,
a wish that you would employ your townsman, Law, win.
has shewn much talent, and may require only proper en-
couragement to bring that talent to maturity; at any rate,
it would be a laudable act, and the probability that you may
bring a second sculptor into notice is well worth experiment.
In furtherance of this pl I shall be gl id to add ten guineas
to the subscription—if I may be permitted—or double that
sum, if it should be required.—Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) " F. CHANTREY."

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES,

The Duchess of Roxburgh° and the Hon. John Tollemache, at
their villa flea- Windsor, from the Rhine; the Duchess of
Northumberland, at Northumberland House, from Ireland ; the
Marquis of Camden, from his scat, the Wilderness, Kent, for
the Isle of Wight; Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, from
their seat in Lancashire, for the Highlands of Scotland; the
Marquis and Marchioness of Cleveland, at their house in St.
James's-square, from Aix-la-Chapelle, in France; the Mar-
chioness Dowager of Salisbury, from Dublin, through Wales, to
town, on Sunday last; the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke,
yesterday, from their house in St. James's-square, for Ireland ;
Lord Marcus Hill, from Arlington-street, on a tour; Lord Al-
thorp, from his seat Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire, for his father's
(Earl Spencer's) seat in Northamptonshire; the Hon. Henry
Wellesley (son of his Excellency Lord Cowley), from Vienna, on
Saturday last, at the Clarendon Hotel, he being the bearer of
important despatches; Mr. and Mrs. Dryden, from Tunbridge
Wells, for Ramsgate; Major Macdonald, from Rochester, for
the Netherlands; Mr. B. Keene, for Westowe Lodge, Linton,
Cambridgeshire; Mr. Edm. Gilcs, for Horton Hill, Yorkshire ;
Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, in Mount-street, from the lonian Islands;
Captain Chichester for Paris; Major Beverley, from Chatham,
for Manchester; Captain Salvador, in Pall-mall, from Madrid ;
Major Edgcmnbe, in Piccadilly, from Florence ; Major and
Thynne, from Brighton, for Dieppe; C. C. Trevor, Esq. to
The Farm, Perthshire; the Honourable Miss Townshend, at
Lord Sydney's seat, in Kent, from Windsor; Lady Nelthorpe,
in St. James's-street, from Kent; Capt. and Mrs. Griffiths, in
Dover street, from the Continent.

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND,
accompanied by Prince GEORGE, and attended by the
Countess of SCHLIPPENBACH, left the Royal Lodge, in
Windsor-park, at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
proceeded to the residence of the Duke and Duchess of
GLOUCESTER, in Bagshot• park. Their Royal Highnesses,
after remaining with the Duke and Duchess for some time,
took their departure and came to town, to their residence,
in the King's Palace, St. James's.

The Earl of ABERDEEN came to town yes-
terday from a visit to his :MAJESTY, at the loyal Lodge, in
Windsor-park. His Lordship was engaged on official
business in the afternoon, at the Foreign.office, with the
Austrian Ambassador, the Prussian Minister, and the
French Charge d'Affaires.

Mr. Secretary PEEL left town yesterday mon
ing, for his residence in Norfolk.

The Right Hon. RICHARD, Earl of GLEN•
GALL, has been elected a representative Peer for Ireland,
in the room of CHARLES JOHN, Earl of BLESSINCTON,
deceased.

Mr. Justice BURROUGH has (it is under-
stood) sent in his resignation as one of the PuisneJudges
of the Court of King's Bench.

Such is the extreme resemblance of the Bul-
garian peasantry towards each other, that a traveller is
led to imagine that he secs the same individual in every
cottage.

We often lay most stress on our slightest
faults, and have more apprehension from things unessential
than from things essential. When Lord TYLNEY was on
his death-bed, and had not been shaved for two days, he
burst suddenly into tears, and cried to his valet, " Are not
you ashamed to abandon me? Would you let me go this
figure into the presence of my Maker?" He was shaved,
and, we hope, presented.

GUERNSEY, SEPT. 3.—A great event in the
annals of this Island occurred the day before yesterday. Dr.
SUMNER, Bishop of Winchester, arrived, in his Majesty's
steam-boat Lightning, from Weymouth, in order to visit
Guernsey and Jersey, as part of his diocese. He was ac-
companied by his lady and daughter ; and as the circum-
stance is by no means of common occurrence, the town
of St. Peterport, where he has taken up his residence, has
been in a state of bustle and gaiety ever since. He was
received, on the Pier, by the Bailiff, Jurats, &c., and led
to the house prepared by them for his reception. He has
since conducted himself with great courtesy and affability,
and has ingratiated himself very much with all the .princi-
pal inhabitants. Mrs. SUMNER'S good-natured counte-
nance and unaffected manners have also given general satis-
faction to the ladies, and she could hardly have failed to
have pleased, even had she not been the wife of a Bishop
with 22,0001. per annum.

COBURG THEATRE.—TWO new melo-dramas,
each of exceeding interest, were last night brought out at
this theatre, and received with much applause by a house
crowded to suffocation.

SURREY THEATRE.--Last night, after the
performance of Black• eyed Susan, for the 79th time, a
new meld-drama was produced at this theatre, called the
Red Rover. The plot of the piece is taken from the
novel of the same name, and the incidents are so well
brought together, as to keep up the interest of the audience
from the commencement to the end. Mr. T. P. CooKE,
who has become so celebrated by his representation of
the character of a seaman, Lad the part of a sailor assigned
to him, which he executed with his usual cleverness. The
music of the meld-drame is very appropriate. The piece
was received, during the performance, with great applause
by the audience, and is likely, with the aid of the excellent
acting of T. P. CooKE and OSBALDESTON, to continue a
favourite for some time.

EARTHQUAKE.—COPENHAGENT, AUG. 20.
—Yesterday, about half-past three o'clock in the after-
noon, a pretty strong shock of an earthquake was felt
throughout the capital and in a north-west direction, which
lasted some seconds. Most people believed at first that it
was a hollow thunder, like the rolling of a waggon through
a gateway, when immediately followed the shock, as if
some heavy substance fell. In several places walls were
seen to shake, furniture in the rooms to tremble, hooks to
fall from the stands, &c. In the beginning the groundless
report was spread about that the powder magazine at Fre-
dericksvark, seven miles distant, had exploded ; most pro-
bably it is the effect of some distant earthquake. Since
the earthquake at Lisbon, November 1, 1755, which was
also felt here, no such occurrence has taken place at Copen-
hagen. The barometer, which, at twelve o'clock, hal
risen three degrees, did not change in the least at the mo-
ment of the shock.

The improvement which we noticed last week
as having taken place in the trimming and Thibet shawl
branches of ,the Paisley trade still continues. A consi-
derable number of weavers have been engaged in these
lines in the course of this week. The light silks still con-
tinue dull, and the greater part of those houses engaged
in the manufacture of buckrams, foundations, and other
coarse fabrics, have reduced their hands considerably
during that time ; yet, on the whole, the number of those
unemployed is now greatly reduced. From a survey that
was made in Elderslie this week, it appears that out of
181 looms there are 74 idle: from the proximity of this
village to Paisley, we may therefore reasonably suppose
that the number idle, to those employed, will bear about
the same proportion. Thus the number of unemployed
weavers will be reduced from about one-half to a few
more than a third ; while at the same time the heavy co-
vered work now going up, gives em
num-
bers besides the weavers, employment to great
such as flower-drawers, lashcrs,
cutters, sewers, and so forth. In the village of Kul_
barehan, where the weavers are mostly engaged in the ,
light silk line, the number of those out of work is still as
great as ever ; and a great number of the weavers who
are unqualified, or cannot find work in the country, are
employed in repairing the streets, or making other im-
provements about the village.— Glasgow Chronicle.