The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC.

In consequence of law proceedings, all the property of the MSS.
of M. Chateaubriand's works are to be sold. The upset price is
69.000 f.

Guethe's works, translated into the Russian tongue, are now pub_
lisping at St. Petersburg!).

VXEATRZCAL.

.Miss Adelaide Kemble will sing at a Grand Publie Concert
to be given in the Town.hall of Cambridge on Monday next.
We understand that the opening of the Italian Opera House
has been postponed till Saturday, March sth.
Madame Carlotta Grisi is expected from Paris early next week.
COURT-FASHIONABLE.

The Prince of Prussia gave a grand ball at his Palace of Berlin
on the 7th inst.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have a grand dinner to.mor.

row evening.
Sir Robert Peel will commence his Parliamentary dinners at the
close of the month.
We are happy to hear that the Countess Sebastiani is gradually
Improving in health.
The Marquis of Kildare, eldest. son of the Duke of Leinster, has
been appointed by Earl de Grey, Sheriff' of the county of Kildare.
Viscount Jocelyn has been appointed Sheriff of Lowth.
Accounts from Nice state that the Earl Granville is not yet re-
covered from his recent indisposition.
Ivzxs C ZIA Xs.A.NEOUS.
On this day, in 1796, died James Macpherson, the translator of
Ossian, in his 58th year. In 1764 be accompanied Governor
Johnstone to Florida, in the capacity of Secretary.

COLLISION AT SEA.
The sloop Margaret, Capt. Anderson, of Dundee, 45 tons, a re-
gular trader between Dandee and Stockton-on-Tees, on Saturday
night last, about eight o'clock, was run down by the General Steim
Navigation Company's powerful steam-ship Monarch, Captain Fra-
ser, whilst on her passage from Wanton Pier, near Leith, for
London.
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The following is a summary Captain Anderson's statement.
The sloop Margaret len. Stockton-on-
Tees for Dundee, on Saturday
half-past six o'clock,
morning at six o'clock, and at p.m., passed
the Manuel Head, and Captain Anderson having hauled her into
Berwick Bay about eight o'clock, he observed the lights of a steam.
ship, distant between two and three miles, bearing down in his direc-
tion. Notwithstanding every precaution, however, the steamship,
which ply ved to be the Monarch, Captain Fraser, from Leith for
London, with passengers and a general cargo of merchandise,
came down upon the MaGaret, Carried away her main
boon), and struck her violently on the larboard quar-
ter, cutting her down to the Water's edge. Finding
his vessel rapidly sinking, and to save his life, he immediate'y
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t
hastened upon deck, and ineceeded in an almost incredibly short
space GI time in launching the longboat (the only boat she had), in
there
n er Monarch
every steamship
possible
had been
stopped,ho w
d e rassistance to
the master and crew of the Margaret; indeed it is asserted that the
which he and his crew, three in number, f,rtunately got. Before
this,
,h
et hbemetnpgui nt
outcs of
to
render
engines of the Monarch were stopped before the collision took place,
and this statement is partially borne out from the fact that had she
been pt oceedin at her usual speed she must have instantly run right
over the Margaret, a small vessel of tbrty.five tons, and in which '
ease Captain Anderson and his crew would, in all human pro-
bability, have found algrave in:the deep abyss of the ocean. The
Margaret, soon after the crew heft her, went down. The Mo.
starch's boat, which was much larger than that belonging to tie
Margaret, was immediately rowed to the crew of the latter, into
which they were taken, and subsequently put on board the steam
shill), which brought them on Monday night to Brown's-wharf,
Blackwell, where they were landed.
The Margaret was fully insured in the Dundee and Aberdeen
Marine Insurance Offices. Her cargo, which consisted of 536
sacks of flour, was also insured ; and the loss will, in the mean-
time, fall upon the underwriters. i

The Russian army, it is stated, is reduced 60,000
men.