The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-08 00:00:00

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

Montrail.
Mr. WYNN and Mr. W. HORTON had in
terviews yesterday with Viscount G01)1E2,1(11.
Baron de CETTO, the Bavarian Minister,
teansacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Despatches were sent off yesterday from the
•eCeeknial Office to Sir Was. CLINTON, the Commander-in-
Chief of:he British 'Farces in Portugal.
The Duke of LEINSTFR has left town on a
shooting excursion.
There are at present upwards of four hundred
prisoners in Newgate for trial at the ensuing Old. Bailey
Sessions, which begin on Thursday next ; several of whom
are for murder.
BURNING CLIFF.—As a certain proof of the
actual presence of fire in the body of the hill, a portion of
the earth which is covered with chrystalieed sulphur, was
'ir.ollseted from the principal orifice on Friday the Slst ult.
A piece of this earth (which had previously undergone the
action of fire) upon being analyzed, proves to be of pre-
cisely the same nature as that of Mount Vesuvius. The
intense heat of the smoke continues, as well as the ground
from where it issues.--Dorset Chronicle.
STATE OF THE LACE TRADE. IN HAMM-
Tott.—There are in the town of Hamilton and its n
t a neigh-
bourhood about two thousand females employed im-
Inuring, finishing, and making up lace goods for the market.
The average wages of those employed will amount from
10d. to 15d. per day, and a number of very superior hands
will make 18d. to 20d. The trade for the last three weeks
has been rather flat, owing to the wholesale dealers in
Glasgow not purchasing their usual quantities ; but that
can only be of very short duration, for though a few par-
cels, it is true, have been sold below cost prices, that re-
duction has been rather owing to some of the manufacturers
not knowing of proper channels for their goods, than from
any permanent stagnation in the trade. The buyers have
. chiefly been, for the last three years, confined to wholesale
,merchants in Glasgow, but as Hamilton is now becoming
more generally known for the manufacture of these goods,
it cannot fail to produce a speedy alteration.—Edinburgh
Eueniny Cotount.
THE LATE MR. CANNING—MEETING IN
KILKENNY.—Sire are gratified to learn, that the friends
of civil and religious freedom in the county and city of Kil .
kenny are about to meet, for the purpose of condoling with
his blajesty on the death of the late Premier, and asserting
the principle upon which that lamented Statesman pledged
himself to conduct the Government. The requisition,
which originated with the Hon. Colonel Butler, and Cap-
tain Bryan, of Jenkinstown, is in progress of signature.
It is to be hoped that the example proposed by those dis-
tinguished patriots will have its due effect upon
ournal the other
counties of Ireland.__Dublin Freeman's j.
Abingdon races commence on Wednesday
next, when good sport is expected. The new course is
completed, and is in moat excellent condition. It is
allowed by good judges to be one of the finest two-mile
courses in England. The arrangements on the new
coursecourse
ere such as to prevent accidents, and allow every
witness the sport without hazard or fatigue. Several
horsea have arrived, amongst which are two of his Mae
jesty's first raters. All the neighbouring families of dia.
tinction are expected to attend, and several others have
arrived from the different watering places ; so that a very
numerous and respectable company is generally antici-
pated.— Oxford Paper.
Letters from Berlin mention that Mademoi-
selle Sontag is on the point of retiring from the Theatre of
Koenigstadt, to the great regret of her numerous admirers.
Some persons pretend, however, that she is declining on
the score of talent and captivating powers. But, perhaps,
this change is owing only to the vexations she has expe-
rienced, upon which subject several public journals have
touched with too little discretion. In that case this change
would be only transcient;and she would re-appear at Paris,
with all the brilliancy which has been so Juuch regretted at
mr jspartnre from that capital. Before she proceeds to
,aria
she is to make a tour to Hanover and Haniburgls in
the month of Sep
(keen times more as a stranger
the course Of tember, after which she is
to perform g in the national
thiatre of veriin. The furniture of Mademoiselle Sontag
have been sold at auction, when her admirersthem
at bought t-em
at exorbitant prices-
HUNTING WITH TIGERS.—On the coast
of
Coromandel the natives hunt the antelope with tigers.
These ferocious animals, which are not rnuch inferior in
rise and strength to the royal tiger, are tamed by hunger
and blows until they are quite docile. When a hunt is de-
termined on, the tigers are led out by boys, with caps over
their eyes, that they may not break away premature, Wear'ss
zoon as the hunters consider themselves sufficiently
herd of antelopes, the sign is given to the boy, who in-
herd
uncovers the tiger's eyes, and slips off his leash ;
the-antelopes,ewith their leader at their head, go bounding
along the plain or valley, and the tiger, crouchipg among
the long grass, approaches their line of motion in an
oblique direction. When he thinke himself sure of the
leader, ,be rises to his full height, growls, and springs for-
ward with immense force and inconceivable swiftness
towards the herd. If he strikes thelanirnal he aims at, it
is instantly dead ; but, when he misses his aim, whether
through exhaustion or shame, he slinks away anditchd lies down
in the most sulky humour in the first hole or he can
meet. When he is successful, the boy cuts off a pieo of
the antelope's flesh, and gives it to him ; and with this he
is satisfied, and immediately relinquishes his prey,.....-Lon-
don Weekly Resign.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERNIENTS.
OXFORD, SEPT. B.—The Rev. Augustus Colvile,
M.A. Student of Christ Church, has been presentee
by the Dean and Chapter to the Vicarage of Mid-
summer Norton, Somersetshire.
The Rev. Alan Gardner Cornwall, M.A. is insti-
tuted to the Vicarage of Newington Baghott, with
the Chapel of Owlpen annexed, in the diocese of
Gloucester, upon the presentation of Robert Kings-
cote, of Kingscote, Esq.
The Rev. Edward Willes, M.A. is instituted to
the Vicarage of Ampney-Crucis, in the diocese of
Gloucester, upon the presentation-of his Majesty.
The Rev. W. Webster, of Jesus College, Care-
-1 bridge, to the Perpetual Curacy of Preen, Salop.

The Right Hon. Mr. Wilmot Horton will,
it is understood, succeed Mr. C. Grant in thA Vice Presi-
dentship of the Board of Trade. The Under Secretaryship
of the Colonies will thus be vacated.
WELLINGTON !!!—The illustrious WEL-
triwroN has at length resumed his most appropriate
statiou—the Command of the British Army. This ap-
pointment has given the most decided satisfaction to the
Public, who are ever ready to rejoice at the success of real
merit, by the patronage they continue to bestow on SALE,
33k, Strand, whose Wellington Boots, of the very best
Materials and Workmanship, are purchased with avidity;
at only One Guinea a pair !
STAG HUNT.—It is impossible to conceive
a more beautiful and romantic spectacle, than a stag-hunt
among the forest-mountains of Bundelcund. I happened,
once to be one of a large party who joined the Rajah of
Chirkharee in a sporting excursion. The preceding night
his people completely surrounded the neighbourhood, find
contracting their circle by degrees, at last confined the
game in a narrow glen. Arriving at day-break at the ap-
pointed spot, we divided into two parties, and stationed
ourselves on the sides of the opposing hills. At the sound-
of the Rajah's horn the people opened their circle, and then
with music and cheering drove the game towards us. At
once a thousand stags and deer of every size and descrip-
tion bounded along the valley. I was at first so struck
with their grace, beauty, and variety, that I was unable to
use my fowling-piece ; but the Rajah seeming offended at
my unsportsmanlike delay, I fired almost at random, and
brought to the ground a noble animal, that required six
men to carry home. The rest of the party were all more
or lees successful.—London Weekly Review.

A young man of twenty-one years of age
whom we shall only designate by his- Christian name of
Alexander, was ever, from his fifteenth year, the plague
and torment of a respectable family. Me was accused, in
the first instanee, of having participated in five thefts, but
being aequitad by the Jury on the question of discern-
ment, and condemned to one year's imprisonment, the
young Alexander underwent his sentence at Poissy. He
returned to the capital, and continued to be connected with
bad company. On the 527th of July last, towards ten
o'clock at night, he was arrested on the quay de la Ma-
gieserie, at the door of M. Tournier, a watch-maker and
goldsmith, at the moment when, in concert with another
' individual, he was carrying off an iron bar with watches
suspended from it. Alexander bad broken a pane of glass
with his fist, and got hold of several watches, but he could
grasp but one, and the others fell upon the pavement.—
Being arrested almost in flagranfi delicto, and betrayed by
the wound be had inflicted on his hand by the fragments
of the pane of glass, Alexander acknowledged the fact, and
named two accomplices, with whose residences he declared
himself unacquainted. He retracted since, and persisted
to-day, at the Sessions of the Court of Assizes, in denying
the same. The evidence proved the truth of his first de-
claration. Notwithstanding the efforts of M. Couture,
whom his family had employed for his defence, Alexander
was found guilty by the Jury of stealing, with the three
aggravating circumstances of house-breaking, with the as-
sistance of accomplices, by night, and condemned to six
years' 1i rd labour.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—On Saturday morn-
ing last about ten o'clock, as William William, a dealer in
spiced nuts, &c. was coming from Windsor to this city, to
attend St. Giles's Fair, when near the new road now mak-
ing to Wallingford, and within about two miles of Gangsden
hill, two men, one habited in a smock frock and the other
in a jacket, came through a gate from a field, and as they
approached him pilled pieces of paper from under their
hats over their faces, and demanded of him " what he had
to sell ;" he replied ‘i gingerbread nuts." They ate
two nuts and said, " If you have goods to sell, you
have money to give away : we want money, and mo-
ney we must have before we leave you, if not, we will
knock you down with this stick ;" and flourishing a blud-
geon over his head, said "let us have your money and your
bundle and we wont ill-use you; we know you very well,
and when we are better off, we will return it to you again."
The man in the smock frock then held Williams's hand,
while the other rifled his pockets of all the money he had,
amounting to 13s. 6d. ; they then took his bundle, con-
taining wearing apparel, out of his basket, and desired him
not to look after them, or they would come back and
knock him down ; and that if he acquainted any body on
the road of what they bad done to him, they would way-
lay him another time. Williams then made the best of
his way to Oxford, without seeing any more of them.—
The man in the smock frock was about 5 feet 10 inches in
height, and the other about five feet five, and rather lusty.
Oxford Journal.

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BLASPHEMOUS DISCOURSES.—Among the
incidents of the week to which, as public Journalists, our
attention has been directed, one has occurred of so flagrant
and abominable a nature as to fill the minds of those who
from idle curiosity were tempted to see, and of those who
have since heard of it, with horror, disgust, and indigna-
tion, and which, if allowed to pass over with silence on
our part, might justly expose us to the charge of betraying
the best interests of society. We allude to the illegal and
riotous exhibition which took place in the neighbourhood
of Wilmslow on Sunday last, when the infidel-mountebank,
Carlile, and a certain Tom-fool, enacted with much grimace
and buffoonery their respective parts, in a sort of noodle and
doodle performance, got up and expressly arranged by them-
selves for the delight and gr-tification of the enlightened
mobility of Swain-street and Brinksway. The handbills
of the day announced that a certain Reverend (what a
prostitution of the word !) and Richard Carlile would meet-
at the Unitarian Chapel at Dean-Row, for the purpose of
discussing the doctrines and merits of the Christian Reli-
gion. Of course it was expected that one of these indu-
bitable heroes would employ his talent, if he possess any, in
refuting the arguments produced by his adversary, but the
trick was soon seen through and the cloven foot discovered.
The performance commenced, by the actors bowing and
scraping again and again to each other, and the exhibi-
tion, instead of gratifying the company, was nothing
but a scene of indecent and blasphemous scurrility, and
a total failure of producing any thing of the promised
enjoyment. Carlile feelingly appealed, not to the
senses but to the pockets of his audience, and commented
on the excellent bill of fare he bad offered them, and the
heavy expense he was at in starring it through the country
for their edificationl but instead of full price, he received
nothing but the execrations of a mortified and disgusted
rabble. Baffled in every way—defeated and crest-fallen,
the " discussion" was deferred until' the following even-
ing, when the shamecombatante met in a room in Swain-
street, to react the farce. A more complete specimen 01
humbug and buffoonery was never before attempted, and
never was there one that so totally failed in its effect upon
the minds 9f a credulesteeseembly,..,Seeekpeet dickfttiffr.