The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-21 00:00:00

CHANGES.

Lord George Bentinck, from Harcourt House, Cavendish-
s.ivare, for Welbeck, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Port-
land, in Nottinghamshire ; the Ladies Emily and Charlotte
Paget, to Beau Desert, in Staffordshire, the seat of the Marquis
of Anglesea ; the Right Hon. James Abercrombie and Mr. Ralph
Abercrombie, for Subbs Hall, near Chesterfield; the Earl Of
Limerick, for Sourbill Park, in Berkshire; Lord Forester, for
Willey Park, in Shropshire; Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Mr.
rnd Lady Caroline Stewart Wortley, from a tour, to Wortley
Hall, in Yorkshire; Lord Eurhatn, for Durham Castle, from a
isit to the Earl and Countess Grey; Lard Stowell, for Early
' Hall, in Buckinghamshire ; Lord Bayning, for Broom Hall, in
Suffolk ; the Marquis of Ely, from Dublin, for Rathfarnham
Castle; the Earl of Sherborne, for Sherborne Castle, in Dorset-
shire; Lord Churchill, from Wimbledon, for Whichwood Park,
in Oxfordshire; the Hon. Mrs. William Gosling, from Portland-
place, for Roehampton; Major and Mrs. Gouldsmith, from Ro-
chester, for Bath ; Captain and Mrs. 'Vernon, for Brighton;
Lady and Miss Evans, from Gloucester-place, for Bath.

Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD left town, on
Saturday, for Richmond. •

COUNTY LIMERICK.—We have just heard
that Mr. LLOYD, the late excellent Member, is dead.
This will cause another struggle in that county, where
independence will again, we trust, assert its rights. The
only candidates yet spoken of are Mr. O'GRADY and Sir
A. VERE HUNT.—Dublin Morning Register.
COUNTY WATERFORD ELECTION.—It is
alleged the Mr. PIERSE GEORGE BARRON will certainly
offer himself as a candidate. The Waterford chronicle
says—" There is to he a public meeting of the freeholders
of the county, at Dungarvan, on Monday next. The
earliest possible day has been selected, because it is deemed
essential that the present state of doubt and uncertainty
should not be allowed any longer to continue, but that the
comae of the independent interest should be finally and
definitively made kno% a before Christmas."—Dublin
Morning Register.

THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.-011 Satur-
day, the bricklayers and other workmen completed the ex-
tensive subterraneous passage under the carriage road, in
the Regent's Park, belonging to the Zoological gardens,
and which is to communicate with the Menagerie, and
ether extensive buildings that are to be erected in the en-
suing spring, on the extensive piece of ground that the
Members of the Zoological Society have had granted to
them on the banks of the canal. The height of the arch
in front of the present gardens is twenty-three feet, and
twenty in width, where visitors wEI pass through.—
Each side of the passage will be lined with Zoological
curiosities.
Lord BEXLEY and his sister, Miss VANSIT-
TART, have left Brighton, where they were residing on the
West Cliff for some weeks, and have returned to his Lord-
ship's seat at Foot's Cray, Kent. They went to Brighton
fwr the restoration of Miss VANSITTART'S health, which
was injured in consequence of a long confinement, caused
by an unfortunate accident in breaking one of her arms,
which happened in a very extraordinary way. She was
walking on the lawn attached to her brother's house at
Foot's Cray, accompanied by a female friend, when, find-
ing one of her shoes untied, she held up her foot for her
friend to tie it, when she unfortunately overbalanced her-
self, fell down, and broke her arm.—Court Journal.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—A new drama,
entitled the Witch Finders, was brought out and damned,
at this Theatre, on Saturday night. Bequieseat in pace.

It is understood that POTIER is engaged for
the French plays next season, and Mademoiselle TAGLIONI
for the Opera.—Furet de Londres.

A Correspondent, who dates from Lambeth,
complains at length, of the dangers attendant on the lumps
of dirt which are suffered to accumulate on the road side.
We think the subject deserving of attention, and that the
Commissioners of the Roads should look to it.

We have heard there has been a mistake in
some of the contracts connected with Kingstown har-
bour, by which the public have lost between sixty and
seventy thousand pounds. The Commissioners will be
able to inform us whether the fact be so or otherwise.
According to our information the discovery of the mistake
is an incident of recent occurrence, and that it in no way
emanated from that auditing process in which, according
to the Lord Bishop of FERNS, we have a security against
all lapses of judgment and conscience.—Dublin Morning
Register.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF MR. CRIBB,
THE PICTURE-DEALER.-On Saturday Mr. STIRLING
held an Inquest at the late residence of Mr. R. S. CRIBB,
a most respectable tradesman, of Holborn, who hung
himsell in a fit of insanity.—Verdict accordingly.
SINGULAR ACCOUCHENIENT.--Between
three and four o'clock, on Thursday afternoon, a poor
woman named BOTES, on her way to the Lying-in Hos-
pital, was suddenly seized with illness opposite the College
gate, and in about five minutes gave birth to a fine male
child. Two or three females, who happened to be passing,
paid every attention to the poor woman ; and a gentle-
man named FRANCE, who resides in Molesworth-street,
kindly offered his cloak, which was wrapped around the
mother and child, and a hackney coach having been pro-
cured, they were conveyed to the Lying-in-Hospital,
where they now remain. —D üblin Morning Register.

A Meeting of the Magistrates, Manufacturers,
and Weavers of Norwich, took place in that city on Tues-
day last, for the purpose of discussing the policy of a re-
duction in wages. Several gentlemen entered into state-
ments, with a view to show that the bombasin manufac-
ture was in a very depressed state, and that the labourers
coull not subsist if their wages were lowered. The
MAYOR, in answer to a statement made by Colonel HAR-
VEY, said that not only was the market for hombasins in
a shocking state, but the demand had decreased 50, if not
75 per vent. Mr. WATTS corroborated this statement,
and said that the manufacturers of the city were absolutely
doing nothing; but it would be impossible to eff.ct a fur-
ther reduction of wages. Another speaker said that about
2,1 d. and a fraction were about the average amount of the
earnings of a hard-working man and a family, and gave his
opinion that it would be better for a man to be trans-
ported than to continue in the bombasin trade, if it did
not improve. Some gentlemen gave their opinion that
the distress had been exaggerated ; but it was generally
admitted that much distress prevailed. The Meeting did
not break up till after a lengthened discussion upon the
subject.

THE PIOUS ATTORNEY; OR, A LAWYER'S
STRATAGEM.—About ten days ago, a sheriffs-officer,
living in Chancery-lane, had a writ for 201. against a man
who was rather "shy." The plaintiff's attorney learned
that the defendant would, on a certain day and hour, be at
the office of Mr. A. a solicitor, not 100 miles from Hat-
ton-garden, to execute certain deeds and receive payment
of a sum of money. Then and there the officer was ac-
cordingly directed to be on the look-out ; and Mr. B. is
notoriously too punctual a man to neglect any such appoint..
ment. The defendant arrived, and was speedily followed
into the solicitor's office by the watchful representative of
the Sheriff of Middlesex, who made the " caption" in the
usual form. The lawyer was chagrined, and complained
of the disrespect shown by the arrest in his house. Mr.
B. pleaded that his instructions were so positive as to leave
him no alternative but to do his duty. He, however, offered
to go away immediately without his prisoner, if Mr. A. wou'd
give an undertaking for the appearance of the latter when
necessary. The lawyer declined, but asked as a favour
that the defendant should be allowed to execute, in the
inner office, the deeds he had come to sign. Mr. B.
readily assented to this accommodation, and waited in the
outer office. After the lapse of half an hour, he sent in
word that hewished to go. Mr. A. came out, and said that
the business was not yet concluded, but would occupy
another half hour. Mr. 13. again conceded to the delay,
and at the expiration of the time, going into the private
room, found the lawyer alone!—B. " Where's C." (the
defendant.)—A. " Wby, I considered your behaviour so
unhandsome in arresting him in my house, that I've let
hint out at the back door !" Some words fallowed 4 which
the law of libel does not permit us to report I but they
were loud enough to attract a mob round the door, when
the civil power retreated without its lawful prize. Mr.
A. (as many of our readers will already have guessed) it,
or professes to he, a very pious man ; but he probz,hly
considers that good faith in worldly matterB is, got gn es-
sential part of the godliness of the elect.

For the private satisfaction of the respective parties we live
designated (in cog.) A. B. C.