The Sun. — 1823-09-15 (London, England)

FONTHILL ABBEY.  SATCP.DAY, SEPT. 13.  The sale has continued to go on, and as the costly works approach to the hammer, the attendance improves. The principal London Booksellers have their representatives here, and the contest between these Gentlemen and Mr. LAwronn the bookseller, of Seville place, is frequently very animated, and in no slight degree interesting to the Proprietor and Auctioneer. Many Ladies have graced the sale room with their presencein the course of the last two days, and among other distinguished characters we have remarked Lord Arundel, Lord F. Gower, Mr. Wrottesley, M. P., Mr. Bennett, M. P.,Sir James Mackintosh,nnd Mr.lleber, M.P. The numbers who come merely to view the Abbey are not so great as formerly ; the falling off is not occasioned by the removal of any of the prime objects of attraction which formerly caused crowds to hasten to Fonthill from all parts of the country. We have already stated that it was understood the view would close on the 9th instant. 13111 s, &c. worded us to seem to confirm this idea have been posted in every direction, and some may be seen at this moment which state the Abbey to he on view " till the sale which begins on the 9th, and continues," &c.— Not a few, however, continue to arrive. Attention is particularly directed to those parts of the building which we formerly noticed as being now for the first time thrown open to the public, and more than all to " the gallery cabinet," formerly Mr. Beckfortl's chamber, which, with its furniture, is thus described in Mr. Raitter's forthcoming work on the stibject of diet Abbey ; " Here in this cell (for Its petty dimensions, small windows, and absence of all means of wartriMi and ventilation, forbid any other appellation) slept upon a narrow couch, without hank: ings, the founder of this sumptuous abbey—the possesor of its accumulated treasures.  " The extremely simple style of every thing in this chamber was a striking contrast (and the only one) to the splendour of every other room in this extritonlinary place ; but, is now decorated in a corresponding style of splendour. " It is now furnished with a circular table of Florentine mosaic, two India japan cabinets, a cabinet of ebony, decorated with bull' and Florentine mosaic ; a coffer of Amboyna wood a Chinese incense burner; a Japanese incenseWeiler ; two Oriental porcelain beakers; vase of rosso antic° ; a pair of candlesticks, modelled after Bellini ; vase in or undo; several vases of Sevres porcelain ; and adorned with the following pictures. • Landscape—Ruysdail. The Dropsical Woman Don. Ruins--Tanderkeyden. Mon selling Fish-rMieris. Pertrait of King Charles I.—Jansen. Sunset-..80th." The organ continues to play during the greater part of the day, and frequently in the evening a select party are gratified with its powerful hermonies, when its strains are most happily in unison with the solemn gloom which prevails through the vast halls of the magnificent edifice.  MOST ATROCIOUS Meauta or A GENTLEMAN'S FAmit.i..—At about eight o'clock on Tuesday evening, a party of Whiteboys attacked the house of Mr. Thomas Franks, of Lisnagoorneen, near Rockmills, within five miles of Fermoy, and aiurdered that Gentleman, his wife, and his son, Mr. Henry Maunsell Franks. Our correspondent states that the miscreants " murdered the old man by discharging a blunderbuss through his side—and his wife and son, by beating nut their brains with a bar of iron."' We understand that a man and maid-servant or the deceased are in custody on s u spicion.----(Cork4dvertiscr,