The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-11 00:00:00

THE PEERAGE.

IRISH TITLES EXTINCT SINCE 1822.
Earl of Barrymore. Baron Coleraine.
Earl of Carhampton. Baron Milford.
Viscount Netterville. Baron Eardley.
Viscount Bulkely. Baron Whitworth.
Viscount Carleton. Baron Castle Coote.
Viscount Newcomen. Baron Glenbervie.
As the King is empowered, by the articles of the Union,
to create one Irish Peer in the room of three that become
extinct, and as there have been but three created since
1822, there is now one at the disposal of the Duke of Wel-
lington. The three bestowed are—
Baron Downes. 1 Baroness Fitzgerald.
Baron Bloomfield.
BRITISH PEERAGES EXTINCT IN THE SAME PERIOD.
Duke of York. Baron Bulkely.
Earl of Bridgewater. Baron Douglas of Lochleven
Earl of Whitworth. Baron Glastonbury.
.Viscount Hampden.

The marquitrite of Cornwallis and earldom of St. Vinceni
are extinct, as is also the Irish earldom of Farnham ; but
the titles still exist, though in a lower rank.

PEERAGE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.
British Peers and Peeresses 337
Scotch Ditto B7
Deduct, being also British 2B

Irish Peers and Peeresses 208
Deduct, being also British 5B

English Spiritual Peers.
Irish Ditto
Sodor and Man

546
26
22
1

The Countess GROSVENOR'S party is un-
avoidably postponed from Thursday, June the 11th, to
Friday the 12th.
Mrs. B. COHEN gave a ball at her house in
Wyndham place on Monday evening to upwards of two
hundred and fifty persons of fashion. The company began
to assemble at eleven o'clock, and at half-past dancing
commenced with the Masaniello Quadrilles. At one the
company partook of an elegant entertainment, after which
dancing was resumed with great spirit, and continued until
a late hour.

There are few tragedies that have so long kept
possession of the British stage as OTWAY'S Venice Pre-
served, nor do we think that there is an actress now
living calculated to do such justice to its chief character,
Belvidera, as Miss SMITHSON, who has, therefore, wisely
announced it for her benefit to-night. Most performers
fail in this character, not so much from any defect of com-
prehension as from an over anxiety to make the most of
the last scene. Miss SMITHSON, we trust, will not aim at
too great a display of pathos or insanity on this occasion ;
her judgment will temper her sensibility, and she will
doubtless go through the part with the same alternate
energy, tenderness, and power of solemn elocution, that
rendered her Juliet so delightful, and her Jane Shore so
unexampled in its impressive character.
The forthcoming novel called, " Rybrent de
Cm uce," is attributed, we know not how justly, to the sister
of Capt. HEAD, whose Journey across the Pampas attracted
so much public attention. " Rybrent" is said to be a
perfectly original work in its nature and treatment, and
will, no doubt, add another female name to the list of emi-
nent authoresses.

The treaty which is said to be concluded be

tween France and the Republic of Hayti appears to be the
same as that of which M. ST. MACARY laid the basis at

Paris. Hayti is to pay to France, every year, 3,000,000
of francs, till the complete payment of the 150,000,000
promised. Every year, besides, the republic is to raise a
fund of 600,000 francs for the redemption of the debt.
We understand that Government have re-
solved to make a grant for rebuilding the edifices of St.
Andrew's College, which are now in a state of ruinous
decay. The sum named is 23,0001. The money will of
course be paid out by annual instalments, like the grant
fqr building Edinburgh College.—Edinburgh .Advertizer.

The salmon are more plentiful in the Wye
than they have been for the last thi►ty years, a convincing
proof of the obstruction the late weir offered, and the
benefits which have resulted from its removal, which every
succeeding year will probably increase.—Bath Chron.

SALMON FISHING.—The success of the
tacksmen on the Tay stations is very unequal, but the
season on the whole, proceeds favourably. Wednesday
afternoon 32 fine large salmon were taken at one east at
the Stanyard, and last week a draught of 38 were taken at
Elcho, also at one haul. There is also a plentiful supply
from the Earn and Highland rivers, wh;ch are retailing
at 3d. to 4d. a pound less than the Tay fish. Few grilses
have yet come up the river, but trout are plentiful.—Perth
Courier.

TRADE.—The state of trade in this city,
during the last week, has rather improved. As one proof
of this, an extensive manufacturing house in town engaged
100 additional weavers, at the October prices of last year.
Glasgow Courier.

Both here and in Paisley, trade is so far
brisker, that more hands are employed, though there be
yet no advance in wages. At Johnstone, the cotton works
are going full time ; but should the drought continue much
longer, they will be stopped for want of water. The water
in the Paisley Canal has within the last ten days fallen
nearly four inches.— Glasgow Chronicle.

HAY HARVEST.—Haymaking has corn-
menced in several parts of this neighbourhood, but in con-
sequence of the long continuance of dry weather, we are
sorry to state that the crops are generally unproductive.
The price of hay is considerably advanced.—Cheltenham
Chronicle.

On Tuesday night last, Mr. BROOKS, of
Chart, met with a serious accident by walking into a
cooler of scalding beer which bad been placed in a situation
unknown to him. He immediately jumped out, and
threw himself into an adjacent pond. The intensity of
his suffering caused him to faint away, and, although every
assistance was speedily rendered, he still remains in a
dangerous state.—Maidstone Journal.

The amount of the liquidations under the
Emigrant Indemnity Law, of which the inscription was
authorised up to the Ist inst., is 771,936,075 fr. in capi-
tal, or 23,158,261 fr. in rentes.— Galignani s Messenger.
My good friend," said a Gentleman to an
Irish peasant standing idle in the road, " you seem
to be doing nothing." The man negligently began strik-
ing the stones. "Oh ! that won't do ;do you call that
hard work ?" " Sure," answered he to this expostulation,
" Sure, isn't it time now, and not labour, we are bound
to give the master ?"--Letters from the Irish Highlands.

I cannot understand that the Turks have a
better opinion of our mental powers than we have of
theirs ; but they say of us that we are
" a people who
carry our minds on our fingers' ends;" meaning that we
put them in exercise constantly, and do what we do with
celerity, dispatch, and ease."—Life of Ledyard.
There is a man who at this season of the year
devotes the whole of his time in scampering over the
country, in pursuit of butterflies. He has a machine
something like a parasole, but with four much larger
handles : with this he pursues his victims till he catches
them—Brighton Gazette.
Mr. JOHN STREET, of Bolewood, near Shank-
lin, who had been in a low state of mind for two years,
shot himself with powder only, on Monday week, while
his wife was gone to the top of the cliff to milk her cows.
He lived till Thursday in the same week, and then died.
He said, previous to his death, that he was sorry for what
be had done.--Brighton Guardian.

EPSOM RACES.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
At Epsom, on Thursday night, a gentleman was
nearly meeting with a similar fate which befell Lord
Mount Sandford at Windsor during last Ascot races.
Epsom town, like Windsor, during race-time, was
swarming with gaming-rooms, open for play every
evening, immediately after the races were over, un-
der the superintendence of the most desperate ruf-
fians connected with the gaming-tables in the neigh-
bourhood of St. James's. These rooms, as is usual
at all races, were the resort besides of a vast number
of another description of pickpockets belonging to a
most extensive gang of London prigs. About twelve
o'clock on Thursday night, a gentleman had the
temerity to venture alone into one of these infamous
haunts, when immediately a cry was falsely raised
that he was the auther of Life in the West—a work
which has effected a great public good by its fearless
exposures of the ruinous practices of the gaming
system. " Turn him out—turn him out," inter.
mingled with the most horrible imprecations, in-
stantly resounded from all parts of the room. Upon
this a person connected with the play-table,
struck the table violently with a bludgeon, and
exclaimed with an appalling oath, " Then murder
shall be committed to night." This threat was
the mere fearful, as it was pronounced by a man
who was not only an acquaintance of John Thurtell,
who murdered Weare, but bears a very striking re-
semblance to that execrable monster; and the blud-
geon which he flourished was well calculated to effect
so diabolical a purpose. It was a description of
walking-stick with a knob handle, nearly as thick as
a man's fist, with smaller knobs projecting out in
different directions as large as the first joint of a
man's little finger, and the rest of the bludgeon was
as thick as a man's thumb. The gentleman, alarmed
for his life, hastened away, pursued into the road by
the people of the gaming-room, and the thieves who
were about the table, full fifteen or twenty ruffians in
all. He was immediately surrounded, and, in spite
of his protestations that he was not the obnoxious
individual they took him for, he received a blow
from the bludgeon in question, which was aimed at
the side of his head, but, most probably owing to
the crowd which pressed upon him preventing a
good aim being taken, it struck the brim of his hat,
and glanced off his shoulder down his arm without
doing him much hnrt. Had the blow told, from the
peculiar construction of the weapon, it must have
proved fatal. Upon the blow being struck, an in-
stantaneous rush was made for his costly watch and
seals, and also for a valuable cloak which hung over
his arm. The gentleman being but slightly bruised,
and being a powerful man, fortunately succeeded
in making his way through the villains that en-
compassed him, and gained the inn where he put
up without further molestation. An officer of the
town was sent for, but he refused to interfere, al-
leging that he did not see the outrage committed, and
therefore could not act; and besides that, he bad to
look to his own safety from such a set of desperate vil-
lains. Many robberies were nightly committed
upon the Downs, and also in the town, and no doubt
by part of the same gang. One gentleman, at night-
fall, on the same evening of the above occurrence,
was knocked down in a booth, where gaming was
going on, and after being plundered of his hat,
purse, and gold watch, was left upon the Downs in
a state of insensibility from the effects of barbarous
treatment. At about five o'clock the next morning,
he came to himself, and found his head bleeding
profusely from a deep cut he had received. He
bound his head up with his handkerchief, and took-
shelter in the training house on the right hand of
the race-course, which was open as a place of re-
freshment, where every kind attention was paid to
his pitiable condition by the humane occupiers of it.
It is to be hoped that these facts will make a due
impression upon the Magistrates of Windsor and the
surrounding district, so as effectually to prevent
such horrible places from being established at Wind-
sor, or on the course, during the ensuing Ascot
races ; or, at any rate, that they will prove to be a
sufficient caution with persons of respectability to
avoid these dens with abhorrence. The gaming-
rooms at all races are open throughout the night,
and afford a shelter to the most desperate thieves
and ruffians. Quarrels are picked with genteel-
looking men upon the slightest pretext, and these
wretches profit by the confusion created. The in-
gress and egress of gentlemen are narrowly watched,
where their property is placed is strictly observed,
and on their departure they are followed out, way-
laid, knocked down, and robbed; and they must
think themselves fortunate if they escape with their
lives.