The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-27 00:00:00

MISCELLANIOUS.

PETERSFIELD, DEC. .9.5.-Our town has again
been the scene of gross irregularity and impro-
priety, though of not so flagrant a description as
that which became the subject of indictaient at
the late Winchester Assizes. The Hampshire
-Loyal Address was. forwarded for signature-6
here to the Rev. JOHN WHFCHER, the nominal
Mayor of our Borough for the present year, and
it wps by that Gentleman forthwith deposited,
with.a ,pen and ink, in the Town Hall, which
.was a few nights afterwards broken into and the
Address stolen. The loyalty and attachment of
.this town to the K [NG and Constitution have
ever been conspicuous, and therefore this circum-
stance cannot justly reflect any disgrace upon us,
but only. upon those, who, by a strange inatten-
tion, afforded an opportunity to mischievous per-
sons to commit this depredation. Recently the
whole of the inhabitants of this Borough signed
.an Address of Congratulation to hiS 111,6lisTv ;
and, though the Burgesses and Freeholders are
not quite so unanimous on the present. occasion,
there can be no doubt, that if proper pains had.
been taken and due vigilance exerted, so far
from the Address being stolen, very many re--
.' q)ectable signatures would have been obtained.
Though we are struggling to regain our ancient
rights and privileges, which have too long been
',sold and bartered, we are not disloyal to our
KING, or the ,advocates of innovating
:systems,
'which aim at the destruction of our inestimable
Constitution.—(_iforizing Post.)

THE DUCHESS OF CLARENCE AND THE PRIN
(MS& ELIZA.HETII.—It affords us great pleasure to
be enabled to continue our faVourable report of
the Duchess of CLARENCE and the infant Prin-
cess ELIZABETH. The Duchess sits up, and
increases ,in strength daily. The infant Princess
improves, and grows very fast. The• Duchess of
kEN'T was with her Royal relative on Sunday and
Christmas-day. Her Royal highness was ac-
companied by her daughter, the Princess FED-
none. Yesterday the Princess SOPHIA paid her
respects to the Duchess.
Advices from Buenos Ayres to the 4th Octo-
ber were received yesterday. Late in September
the federal party nominated Colonel RODRIGUEZ
. Governor of the city and province, but hiS te-
nure of that post was more short and disturbed
than that of any of his numerous predecessors.
Oa the third day after his elevation, a body of
troops from Ensenada entered Buenos Ayres,
and. were drawn up by the orders of the new Go-
vernor in one of the squares. The suspicion im-
mediately arose and spread rapidly among the
Civic 'Authorities, that. RODRIGUEZ was the
secret friend of PUYRREDON and TAGLE, and
meditated their restoration to power, with the
return of anti-federalism. The Civic Guard was
• called out, and in the evening of the 28th,,Sep-
. tember the citizens of Buenos Ayres were-alarm-
ed by the report of musketry in the very, heart of
the city ; of the cause of Which very few of them
• were able to supply an explanation. The firing
' ceased about 10 o'clock, and an interval of si-
lence succeeded, but without inspiring the con-
fidence of security—the doors of the houses re-
. mnaining shut, and no one venturing to stir abroad.
At one in the morning of the 29th the firing was
renewed, continuing with little intermission till
day-break, when it was succeeded by -the ring-
ing
of bells, shouts of victory, and other evi•
deuces of triumph. The victory had 'declared
itself for the Cabildo, at the head of the Civic
• Guard, and one of its first consequences was the
immediate expulsion of RODRIGUEZ from power.
The next care of the City Magistrates
.was the
appointment of a Committee to elect a new Go-
vernor, and to arrange the return of Deputies to
. the Congress. The result was not known when
• these advices were dispatched.
We are happy to announce to the commercial
world, that the proprietors of the Leeds and Li-
verpool Canal, have, with a laudable zdal,
com-
pleted their junction branch from Wigan to
Leigh, which is now opened for the reception
•of vessels trading in merchandise, coals, lime-
stone, stone, &c. This branch is about seven
. miles in length, and forms a communication
• with the late Duke of BRIDGEWATER'S Canal, at
Leigh. This Canal, hitherto confined to the two
extremities, Leeds and Liverpool, without any
• direct communication with the Midland and
Southern Counties, will now unite' with most
of the Canals and navigable Rivers in the King-
dom.. Merchandise will now be safely conveyed
in one bottom from London, and from all distant
counties, to Liverpool, various parts of. Lancashire
and Yorkshire, to Leeds.—(Leeds intelligencer.)
Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, his Serene
Highness Prince ESTERHAZY arrived at Chan-
. dos House froth Woburn Abbey, the seat of the
Duke of Bedford ; in the evening his Serene
Highness entertained Count Be Lima, Count
Mandelsloh., and a select.party After dinner his
Serene Highness and company visited Covent
Garden Theatre.
Colonel .MONTGOXIERY, cOmmander of the
Wernland Swedish Yagers, is about to put 'Li his
claim to the estates and Peerage in Scotland, as
the last male branch of his family remaining alive.
The estates are said 'to be nearly of the value of
fifteen thousand pounds per annum.
A dreadful storm took place in the night of
the 15th instant on the Dungarvan coast of Ire-
land, which proved fatal to several vessels and
their crews.: several of the bodies have Since been
found on the shore.
• The dealers in skates have this winter antici
pated the frost, by displaying their slippery in-
struments in their shop windows before there is
the least appearance of the ice bearing, or the
single skins ling- of a pond has been brought to
the ice houses of the confectioners.
EXTRAORDINARY INDUSTRY.—Robert Walker
of Stedda Bank, near Calderbridge, walks from
that place, in his clogs,:to work in Croft Pit,
near ‘Vhitehaven, a distance of near ten miles,
and over the same ground every night inveturning
home. .He is'nearly -60 years old, and has per-
loinnd this journey every workday these 12
months. •