The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-30 00:00:00

SPORTING.

The Admiralty has during the past week granted by war-
rant permission to the yachts of the Thames Club to carry the
blue ensign of her Majesty's fleet. They will display their new
colours on the occasion tt their last match, which takes place
on Monday next, the Ist of August.
The annual match between eleven gentlemen and eleven
players was commenced on Monday morning at Lord's, and
terminated on Wednesday aTternooo, when the former won the
game by a majority of 95 runs.
The tour-oared cutter-match between the Saint George's
Club and the Civil Engineers, took place on Thursday, the dis-
tance being from Westminster to Putney, when the former
won by n length of 180 yards a-head.

COURT-FA.SHIONABLE.
The Duke of Devonshire has recommenced his dinner par.
ties at Chiswick.

The Marquis of Hertford left Dorchester House last week
for Paris. He returns early in the month.
The Marquis Conynghara arrived in town on Thursday
from his villa at Southampton.
The Earl and Countess of Charleville left St. George's-place
on Thursday fur Germany.
The Earl and Countess of Brownlow have arrived at Belton
House, near Grantham, from a visit to the Marquis of North-
ampton, at Castle Ashby.
Viscount and Viscountess Beresford left Cavendish-square
yesterday for Bedgebury Park.
Viscount Haddo has taken the late Lord Harcourt's villa of
St. Leonard's, near Windsor.

Lord AshbUrton is expected home from America about the
20th of Agust.
Miss Burdett Coutts has left town on a tour.
.1./lISCZIAMANZIOUS.
The Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Fellow and Tutor of
Balliol College, Oxford, was an Thursday elected Head Master
of Rugby School by the Hon. the Trustees.
On Monday night upwards of 36 houses were entirely burnt
down at Crediton, in Devonshire.
Under the codicil to Mr. James Wood's will, G. W. Counsel
Esq., of Gloucester, has this week received a legacy of 10,0001

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We understand that
the day, is at length fixed for the marriage of the Hight Hon.
the Earl Cornwallis with the beautiful and accomplished sliss
Julia Bacon, the third surviving daughter of T. Bacon, Esq.,
of Redlands, Berkshire. Thursday, the 4th August, is the day
named for the celebration of the nuptial ceremony.
Viscount Parker, only son. of the Earl of Maccles-
field, who is about to lead to the altar the Lady Mary Grosvenor,
Second daughter of the Earl and Countess Grosvenor, and
niece to the Duke of Sutherland, is the widower of the accom-
plished daughter of Edmund Turnor, Esq., of Stoke Hochford,
who only survived her marriage a few months. His Lordship
lately represented Oxfordshire, and is in his thirty-first year ;
the noble bride elect is in her twenty-first year.
Thtiir Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Anhalt-Cothcn, attended by Count de Behr, have gone on a
tour in the manufacturing districts, and have already visited
Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. Their Serene
Highnesses, during their tour, are expected to go to Alton
Towers, the scat of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and Chatsworth,
the Duke of Devonshire's princely mansion in Derbyshire.
Countess Flahault (Baroness Keith and Nairne)
and the . Hon. Misses Elphinstone-Flahault shortly take their
departure for Paris, after a residence of nearly six months in
this country. The Count is daily expected in the French
capital from Vienna, at the Court of which he is Ambassador
from France.

DREADFUL CARRIAGE ACClDENT.—Yesterday
between ten and eleven o'clock a very dreadful accident hap-
pened in the Waterloo-road, near the Victoria Theatre, by
which an interesting little girl, named Margaret Randall, lost
her life. It anears the child,
in company with a sister and
brother, rather her senior, were walking together, when the de-
ceased ran off the footpath into the road, after an apple which
she had dropped, at the moment the carriage of Mr. Wood, of
the York-road, passed along, the horses-of which knocked the
child down, both the near wheels passing over her body. She
was taken up and carried to the shop of Mr. Brooks, in the
Waterloo-road, who pronounced her dead. At the time of the
accident the carriage was going at i moderate rate. Mr. Wood
alighted and gave his name and address to the police. The
body awaits a Coroner's inquest.
CODICIL TO AIR. WOOD'S WILI,.—We are
happy to state that our respected fellow-citizen, G. W. Coun-
sel, Esq., has this week received the legacy of 10,0001., be-
queathed to him under the codicil to Mr. James Wood's will,
with interest.— Gloucestershire Chronicle.