The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-29 00:00:00

PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.

It is in contemplation to form a new park at Notting-hill,
to be called Kensington Park. The site proposed is the rising
ground in the vicinity of the Hippodrome.
The Grand Jury of the county of Mayo, convinced of the
advantages that would result to Ireland if a measure of general
registration of births, deaths, and marriages were adopted in
that kingdom, on the same plan as has been found so beneficial
in England, adopted a declaration at the late assizes to that
effect ; but, considering the present burden of taxation on the
country, added, that it would be useless to attempt it, until
some simple and unexpensive plan can be devised.
The wood-paving in Newgate-street, to be continued through
the Old Bailey, is now being laid down by the workmen. It
forms part of the contract entered into with the City for the
paving of several of the principal thoroughfares with wood.
LAW AND P01,14;4.
At Union Hall on Wednesday, Mr. Jones, residing in the
neighbourhood of Vauxhall Gardens, stated that the fireworks
let off there at night caused his family great annoyance. On
Monday night a lighted rocket fell through the skylight of his
dwelling; another penetrated through the tiles of the stable,
and a third, unexploded, had fallen into the garden. The party
who attended fos the lessee promised to alter the time for
letting off the fireworks, and also to remove them into some
remote part of the Gardens.
At the Stafford Assizes, on the 26th inst., George Dodd and
George Baker were indicted for stealing the mane and tail of a
horse. It appeared the prisoners had been in the habit of
going out at night and cutting off the hair of the mane and
tail of every horse they could catch, and selling it to dealers.
One of the prisoners had described the trade as very amusing as
well as profitable, and dilated particularly on the merriment he
experienced on seeing the astonishment of the farmers in the
morning when they found their " poor devils so queerly
trimmed. They were found guilty, and sentenced; one to
nine months' and the other to three months' imprisonment.
:41TZAARY AND t:.7.LEIVX*IX'Zi.;.
The Highgate brickfields contain a great number of fossil
and petrified remains, and a fins specimen of an incrusted fish
was discovered there on Saturday. Shells and bivalves abound
in some of the strata, u hich also have a large proportion of
iron pyrites, strongly impregnating an adjacent spring with
sulphur.

SPORTING.
The annual contest for the coat and badge, bequeathed by
Doggett, the celebrated comedian, in commemoration of the
ascension of the present Royal family to the throne, takes place
on Mor.day next, between six watermen.
The moors of Lanarkshire,
Peebleshire, and the south gene-
rally, contrary to the accounts from other quarters, are by noI
plentiful entiful ; the birds, for the last three Scars, hare been
diminishing in these districts.
COURT—r.asuxoNzEZZ.
The Duke of Deconshire intends to pass a pat t Of the autumn
at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield leave Goodwood to-
morrow, for the Isle of Wight.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond left town on
Monday, for Taplow Park.
The Earl and Countess Clanwilliam have left Be'grave-
square, for Ireland.
The Larl and Countess of Carlisle have left Grosvenor-
place for Castle-Howard, Yorkshire.
Lord Francis Egerton has purchased the estate of the late
Admiral Williams, called Burford Hall, which adjoins Oatlands.
The Earl and Countess of Rosebery proceed to Dalmeny
Park, near Edinburgh, next week.