The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-01 00:00:00

DUKE OF RICHMOND.

Inte!licence %%es riceivrd yesterdmy at Earl
BATHURST'S Office, in Downing-street, of the
sate arri,al of the Duke of RICHMOND and Suite
at Quebec.

The following article is extracted from a Quebec
Gurette which reached town last night :
" His Majesty's ship Iphigenia, HYDE PARKER,
Est( Captain, cast anchor in this port yesterday
afturtithoti, having on hoard his Grace the Duke of
fircHNoND, GiVernOr-General of British North
Almlira, sir IPEREUEENE MAITLAND, Lieutenant-
Governor of lipper C-iiiarla, and their respective
families .and siiires. His Grace landed is little be-
fore seven o'clock, tinder salutes from the frigate
and the grand battery, amidst the cheers of the
people assembled on the occasion, and all the
military honours due to his rank, and proceeded
to he Castle of St. Lev is, which had been pre-
pared for his teceptiou.—The following are, we
muter st find, the principal persona who accompa-
nied his Grace from England :
_

Lady Mary Lennox and two younger daughters.
Lord riederich Lennox.
Lientenaot-Colonel Ready, Military Secretary.
Brevet-Major nowlrs.
11;evet-M jor Mq.cod, A.D.C.
Lord William Pitt Lennox,
Major General Sir Peregrine Maitland, K.C.B.
Lady Maitland.
Brevet-Major Hillier, A.D.C."

SPOII ING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING ON THE DoNCAN 'ER ST. LEGER STAKES.

Anctisv 31.
7 to 2 agst Mr. Peirse's Reveller, out of Rosette.
8 to I agst D. of Leeds's b. f. Oetaviana, by Octavian.
9 to I agst Mi. .Tayttes's Masker, by Comas.
10 and il to 1 agst Mr. Watts's C. by Cerberns, out of Tam-
borine.
12 to 1 agst Mr; Cradock's Torch-bearer, by Comas.

Sum enseT House.—A considerable improve-
ment in Somerset House is nearly -completed.
Workmen have been employed, during several
months, building an arch near the Stamp end
Legacies Office. This piece of architecture was
projected in theoriginal plan of the building, but
left unfinished. The .work commenced at the
end of last year. It is built of Portlatul stone,
%lido rustic pilasters, and a variety of beautiful
tabular architectural ornaments, the whole form-
ing a •grand arch, leading to the houses of the
Treasurer of the Navy, and other public Officers,
tepitling in the west wing of the building. It
ntakem,piecisely the same appearance as the arch
on the east 'sing, leading to the Duchy of Lan-
caster and Tax-offices. The uniformity of the
interior of this superb national edifice is now ac-
complished.,

It is proposed to erect a stupendous bridge over
the ricer Forth, at Queen terry, the line art which
is to begin at high-water math, nest* Newhall's
inn, and is to traverse the island, of Ciarvie, at
a point, amid terminate at the battery rock on
the north shore. The length of the bridge
re II he one (tithing, and its height ninety feet
above the siricain title it is to be of cast iron,
vpoo the principle ot suspension.
restetday esening, as one of the Edmonton
stages wa• ptScing near the Exchange, it was
soddenly overtortted, in col,vAltelice of, the axle-
tree bretaitog. 'I to wrir !eve!al passengers
on the outside, us Well as thiee pergons inside
of the coach ; but they all providentially escaped
with little injury. D.ll iii the hil/nlCnt Of confusion
which the accident occasioned, some villain stole
time cmichitiat's hat, "tip, and box-coat, with
which. he made clear off.