The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-09 00:00:00

PEERAGE OF IRELAND.

List of Peerages which will become extinct
should the present possessors of the honours die
without leaving issue male, viz.:—

PEERS OF THE BLOOD RoYAL—Prince William
Henry, Earl of Munster (Duke of Clarence) ; Prince
William Frederick, Earl of Connaught (Duke of
Gloucester.)
EARLS—Ludlow, Earl Ludlow; Carpenter, Earl
of Tyrconnel ; Hastings, Earl of Moira (Marquis of
Hastings in England); Luttrell, Earl of Carhamp-
ton ; Gardiner, Earl of Blessinton.
VISCOUNTS—AIIen, Viscount Allen; Fortescue,
Viscount Clermont; Wolfe, Viscount Kilwarden ;
Do 'Montmorency, Viscount Frankfort.
BARONS—Crosbie, Baron Brandon; Pennington,
Baron Muncaster ; Dillon, Baron Clonbrock ; Fitz-
herbert, Baron St. Helens (Baron St. Helens in
England); Parkyns, Baron Rancliffe ; Nugent,
Baron Nugent ; Burgh, Baron Downes.
BARONESS IN HER OWN RlGHT—Elphinstone,
Baroness Keith (Baroness Keith in England.)
List of Peers whose superior dignities will be-
come extinct on failure of their male issue :

Wellesley, Marquis Wellesley (Baron Wellesley
in England), but the Earldom of Mornington con-
tinued.

Butler, Earl of Kilkenny, but the Viscounty of
Mountgarret continued.
Butler, Earl of Glengall, but the Barony of
Caher continued.

Cuffe, Earl of Desart, but the Barony of Desart
continued.

Monek, Earl of Rathdowne, but the Viscounty of
Monck continued.

Handcock, Viscount Castlemaine, but the Barony
of Castlemaine continued.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took the Chair
at a Meeting of the Commissioners of the Great Western-
Road last week, at Blandford, when the lowering of several
of the remaining hills was determined upon.

This town has just been the scene of an
elopement, or r4her.of the recovery of a fair damsel, eloped
from 4ter friends. A young lady, about 23 years of age,
and of great personal beauty, arrived on Thursday last, by
the London coach, at the Pavilion Hotel, where she re-
mained until the next day, when a gentleman made his ap-
pearance at the house, and found by the description which
was given of the fair fugitive, that the object of his search
was safely there. This gentlemah was her uncle, and from
what has since transpired, we have been enabled to gather
the following particulars of the affair. The lady is of
a highly respectable family residing at Brixton, and
had, it seems, formed an attachment with a French-
man, who was to meet her at Brighton, and for that
purpose was expected to arrive by the steam-packet on
Saturday from Dieppe. In order to mislead her friends
when she quitted home, she wrote a letter to her mother,
in which she declared her intention of proceeding to
Dover; and to strengthen this belief, she went by the
Brighton coach to town. This she quitted at the Ele-
phant and Castle, where she got into the Regent coach,
and arrived, as we have stated, at Brighton. Some
suspicion being however excited that her destination
was Brighton, and not Dover, a pursuit was under-
taken in that direction ; and .by a singular coincidence
her uncle took his journey by the same coach in which she
had herself been conveyed hither. By the description of
the coachman, the uncle was satisfied of the identity of
the lady whom he had brought the day. before to Brighton,
with the object of his search, and went at once to the Inn,
front which, without delay, he conveyed her by a post-
chaise the same evening back to her friends :at Brixton. '
The Frenchman is front 48 to 50 years old. He had
funned an intimacy with the lady about eight months ago
at a friend's house in England, and since his return to
France, a correspondence has been kept up between Cie
parties. Whether he came in the steam-packet on Satur-
day
or not, we have been unable to learn ; but another re-
lative of the lady arrived here on that day, and went down
to the Chain Pier in the expectation of meeting him.=
Brighton Paper.
INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCE. Some
years ago a swarm of bees which had escaped unobserved
from the parent hive, were observed clustering about Hoddam
Church ; and before measures could be taken to Ramiro
them, they disappeared. Their queen, it seems, had been
pioneering to find a suitable place of location, and having
discovered a small crevice in the roof, she immediately
forced her way into the interior. There she found "zoom
and verge enough," and thinking the place suitable in
every respect, she warned her winged subjects to advance,
and pitch their waxen tents betwixt the roof and the cieling.
This summons was at once obeyed by the loyalist iiaiects,
and for many a week, month, and year, they and their suc-
cessors, down, perhaps, to the ninth or tenth generation,
maintained undisturbed possession of what may be called
the garret of the church of Hoddam. In spring and summer,
the cheerful hum of their ceaseless industry was beard
mingling with the voice of psalms, and many remarks were
made on their sagacity, in reviving, as it were, the days of
feudalism, when vanquished clansmen found the church a
sanctuary in every sense of the word, and in periods ofdanger
assembled their kindred within its pale, as the only means of
escaping from the cruel and fiery death that awaited them.
Even the children respected what they termed the " kirk bees,"
and so far from killing or chasing them from flowers, not un-
frequently helped them to a meal, by gathering the wilding
rose at a distance, and leaving it in situations where it was
sure to be punctured to good purpose before its fragrance
had died away. Thus cherished and protected, the bees li-
terally lived in clover, and were total strangers to that poverty
which is said to be the characteristic of church-mice.---
Their wealth increased every year, and although the minister
might have justly claimed a tithe of the whole, he was more
disposed to give than take, and would at any time
have furnished them with a few pounds of sugar had
there been any occasion for such extravagance. But his
example, though lauded and approved of by many, was
not, unfortunately, followed by all; and we regret to add,
that very lately some miscreant or miscreants audaciously
broke through the roof of the church, surprised the bees
while in a state of inactivity, andconipletely harried
them them out of house and hall. Conduct so shameful has ex-
cited in the parish a general feeling of indignation,
Rev. Mr. YORSTOUN, together with some of the prin-
cipal heritors, has offered a very handsome reward to any
person who will disclose the names of the contemptible de-
predators. Query--:-Is breaking through the roof of a
church sacrilege ?—numfriPs Courier,