The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-04 00:00:00

DFPARTUBES.

The Earl and Countess of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux,
on a tour; Bishop of London, for Fulham; Hon. Mr. Earri-
ley, for Belvidere, in Kent; Mrs. and Miss Irvine, on a tour}
General Phipps, for Nlulxi are Castle; Countess de Vande,
on a tour ; Mr. H. Berkeley, for Beading; Mr. and Mrs.
Calvert, on a tour; Sir Culling Smith, on a tour; Countess
of Creruornc, for Chelsea Farm; Lord %i alls:onrt, on a • ()lir;
Mr. Barwell, on a tour; Viscountess Perceval, for ackheath;
Mr. Morton Pitt, for Kingston House, Dorchester.—• Frog
the Mount Hotel, Captain Fludyer.

THE ANTS. —A Picini., has been recently finish-
ed by NORTHCOTE, which k perhaps more cre-
ditable to his geueral powers as au Artist than
any of his fonner productions. The subject is
Daniel in the Den of Lions, a subject that has
been often handled, but which he has treated
with novel and striking merit. DANIEL is repre•
sented as a most interesting yo .01 The °name
has all the correctness of an academical figure,
but without the .1911 R: tameness. The an node is
easy and natural. An Anger is host ring near to
inspire him with holy confidence, which sentiment
is admirably exprt ssed in the countenance of the
juvenile Prophet. Indeed, there is a pions sere-
nity in the countenance which is highly interest-
ing. The head of the Angel, which is really an-
gelic, is most skilfully foreshortened. The Lions
are painted with great force as well as precision,
and are well diversified in action ; but the Artist
has no' attempted, as has been ton often the case,
to invest them with a sense of what passes before
them, an expression that would have been att ct-
ed, if not ridiculous. The colouring is clear,
chaste, and vivid. The whole slims the hand of
a great master, and seems, in the general tone
and aspect, to belong to the old Italian School.

MR. DowTox.—We are sorry to state, that as
this popular Actor, who is on a visit to his friend
Mr. LEIGH, at Bexley, Kent, was amusing him-
self on Wednes,4Ay morning in shooting, a spark
entered his powder•horn, which exploded on his
right hand. Fortunately, however, it occasioned
no other injury (hail a general and severe ex•
coriation of the skin, which is already in as fa.
vourable a state as could be expected. Mr.
LEIGH is the author of some well•received dramas.

It has been stated, and has since been contra-
dicted, that the new Juliet forthcoming at Drury,
Lone Theatre is Miss Mupta. That young Lady,
we believe, aims at a very differen► line of acting.
She has, we understand, been improving he►sclf
at Pat is.

MLINDEN i 3 so far recovered from his long anti
severe indisposition, as to lmve entered into an
engagement to perform a few nights at Man•
chester.
1-loati, it is said, goes, after the termination of
his engagement in Dublin, to America, from
which INCLEDON and PHILLIPS are shortly ex.
peered to return.
Mr. H. JOHNSTON, it seems, is to open the
season at Drury-lane Theatre with an Occasional
Address.

BANNISTER and his son are gone aeon a tour
hrough the Netherlands, to observe the Political
Stage.
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.—At eleven o'clock yes•
terrlay morning, the LORD MAYOR, in his state
carriage, accompanied by the Sheriffs in their
state carriages, and si2veral Aldermen, attended
by the City Marshals on horseback, proceeded
from the Man:don-house, along Cheapside and
Newgiate-street, direct to Smithfield Market,
(omitting the oki custom of stopping at Newgate
to partake of a cool tankard), where the Fair was
proclaimed in due form. The Court of Pied Poudre
was opened by his Lordship with all the accus-
tomed solemnities, and the several Officers sworn
into their respective situations. These ceremonies
having been performed, the procession slowly
moved through the Fair, and returned in the sane
grand state to the Mansion-house. The enter-
tainments of the Fair immediately commenced,
and the weather being favourable, vast multitudes
of visitors were attracted during the whole of the
day. Previous to the Fair being proclaimed, an
uritortunare boy, whom curiosity led to peep
through a crevice into one of the caravans, had
his eye thrust our, by means of a skewer, by a
large monkey which was in the inside:
UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE.---S,one years ago, a
woman lived in a village in Glamorganshile,
whose husband, with the little fortune he got
with her, bought a small farm : bad hardly
closed the purchase, when death closed his
eyes ; however, not intimidated with this, the
widow merried a second husband, who sowed
it ; he likewise died ; and site tried a third, who
reaped it, but death soon snatched him away; she
then married a fourth, who threshed it, hut he
also followed the fate of his predecessors ; and
she then married a fifth husband, with whom she
enjoyed the produce of it.—All this happened
within less titan eighteen months !
Ott Wednesday afternoon, a decently dres'ed
woman, styling herself Mrs. Stevens, a small
dealer, in Jacob-street, Dock-head, ordered from
Mr. Johnston's, Tooley-street, tea and sugar
amounting to pl. which she was to pay for on de-
livery : when the goods arrived, she ordered a
roan that was in the shop to go with the lad to a
neighbouring public-house where her husband
was, and tell him to pay the amount of the bill ;
the unsuspecting lad went with the man, who
told him to stop a moment, as Mr. Stevens was
engaged ; however, the lad returned instantly,
and to his grief found all was gone, except the
empty basket ; they had only taken the house
the clay before; the landlady bad asked no rthr-
ences from them.