The Sun. — 1821-06-06 (London, England)

ELECTION OF A COMMON COUNCILMAN.--YeS-. terday a Wardmote of the Inhabitants of the Ward of Aldersgate was held for the purpose of electing a Common Councilman, in the room of D. KEY, Esq. deceased.—The skew of hands being taken was declared to be in favour of Mr. DIGGENS, by a considerable majority ; but the friends of Mr. WALTON demanded a poll, when there appeared—  For Mr. Walton . - 66 Mr. Diggens - - 42 Majority for Mr. 'Walton - -24.  The Prince and Princess ESTERHAZY have aken a villa at Hampstead for the accommodaion of the junior branches of their family and heir attendants.  Lord CIIATIgN'S beautiful yacht, the Louisa, has been recently fitted out in the Surrey Canal Dock, and has since dropped down to Northfleet, where his Lordship and family will shortly embark for an excursio❑ in the Channel—his first destination being for Brighton. Mr. M‘NAmAttA is arrived in town from South America, for the purpose of securing the payment of all contracts in which he had taken any part, connected with the succours sent by General D'EvEttEux, from England and Ireland, to the Spanish Patriots.  The Strathmore Peerage, now the subject of contest in the House of Lords, is inseparably connected with the princely estate, whose mansion house is the old castle of Glammis, where DUNCAN, King-of Scotland, was barbarously murdered in the dead of night, whilst asleep, by the usurper MACBETH ; and in that neighbourhood is the ruins of the castle of Dunsinane, where MACBETH afterwards fortified himself, and fell, fighting sword in hand, upon its ramparts, by the tremendous arm of MACDUFF, Thane of Fife, the progenitor of the Earl of FIFE, and other honourable families of that name. The branch of the HOME family who succeed to the Earldom of Marchmont is the nineteenth generation from WILLIAM DE HOME, son of GOSPATRICK, Earl of Dunbar and March, in the twelfth century, before surnames were in use in this kingdom. The Rev. WILLIAM Davi-, a Devonshire Curate, in the year 1795, began a most desperate undertaking, viz. that of printing himself twentysix volumes of sermons, which he actually did, working page by page, for fourteen copies, and continuing this almost hopeless task for twelve years in the midst of poverty. Fourteen hundred Moors perished in the storm that destroyed the Tunisian fleet at Tunis. The Admiral was the only Officer who escaped, he being on shore at the time. The population of the :Metropolis has received no small addition within the last few days by the arrival of a number of the Society of Friends, called Quakers, not only from all parts of the United Kingdom, but from America, preparatory to the annual general meetings in the Whitsunweek.  On Monday se'nnight, about two o'clock in the afternoon, the inhabitants of Castle Bytham, Lincolnshire, were much alarmed from the effects of an unusually vivid flash of lightning, from a north-west direction, which was instantly succeeded by a tremendous clap of thunder. In a few minutes after a smoke was observed to issue from the thatch of a house in the occupation of William Wing. It appeared that the electrc fluid had entered the chimney ; and, after slightly damaging the walls in a lower room, partially melting some brass and iron articles, and leaving ether visible marks of its power, it made its way into an upper chamber,. and, setting fire to some clothes, part of which were burnt to tinder, it forced its way out at the gable end of the house, near the thatch, and, in the adjoining yard, it was seen by some persons to expend itself on the ground. Most r:ovidentially, not one of the family happened to be in the house at the  time ; but a few minutes before, the man's-wife and children had left it,