The Sun. — 1840-01-13 (London, England)

FAIRBAIRN.  Manchester, January 10, 1840. As to the tables, we mayadd the following particulars. by way of facilitating access to the seats. The doors fOr the Members of Parliament, Delegates, and principal guests, is in Peter-street, adjoining Bywater's Hotel, —which inn has been engaged. for . their reception and assemblage before dinner, and for other purposes (the cellars being converted into cooking kitchens). The guests generally'will.enter by three doors on the south side of the pavilion, next. Windmill-street. The yel.Uzu tickets will admit, at the door nearest. Deans-gate to the eight tables at that end of the pavilion. These tables are. distinguished by the letters A to H inclusive, each of the twenty-five tables ranging from west to cast, being in like manner distinguished by its letter from Ato Y. The blue tickets' admit, at the middle door, to the nine centre tables, marked I to Q inclusive. The red tickets admit, by the; door nearest Bywater's carriage repository, to the eight tables at that end of the pavilion, marked R. to Y inclusive. There is another excellent arrangement, a little attention to which will greatly facilitate access to the seats. The seats at each table are numbered from 1 upwards to 130, the lowest number being nearest the entrances to the pavilion. The numbers do not range up one side the table and down the other, but arc upOn the plan now generally adopted in numbering houses in streets. The even numbers are on the right side of each table on entering ; the odd:ones on the /qt. Another regulation requires each steward to have six bottles of wine on the table for his party (of ten or twelve) before the doors are opened,.with a view to prevent the confusion necessarily attendant on the supply of wine ail at once over so large and so crowded a space. The prepare-. Lions in the culinary • department are on a scale equally extensive"' we have particularised. Of the soli viani s''foi.""dinner, such as beef and •• mutton, hams at4l6ss, turkey's and capons, veal and mince pies, bread, .tie. not_ less than ten thousand lbs. weight, or, in round numbers, four tons and a half have been provided ?. This is wholly exclusive of the dessert, in which the fruit, biscuits, " crackers," &c. are estimated by chests, barrels, and boxes. The dinner service and other articles of earthenware number ten thousand pieces ; the wine-glasses, bottles, thousand more,. the knives and forks about sixteen about ten the wines (which are to be furnished ialemrmplietasguep.plywofe must by Messrs. John 11rford and Brother) include three decanters, thousand penatelso;ther articles of glass, Isairiectr,rya;usn glad adn pipes of fine rich port, .ten years in the wood ; three champagne, of our readers stay our pen, lest some should imagine us to be adding cyphers to the estimates, which, however, we believe, on the whole, to be rather under than butts of hfiunceko,ltel over the mark. We have stated the gross quantities provided; ilhat will be consumed will probably be knewn hereafter. There was a great crush at the ballot for teats on Thursday morning ; and now we believe every ticket is taken (save the few reserved) for both the banquet on Monday and the dinner of Tuesday.  Mr. Richard Bradshaw, who stands charged with an assault ofapeculia peculiar nature upon Mrs. Cullum in a carriage of the Midland Counties Railway Company, and against whom a true bill had been found at the Central Criminal Court by the Grand Jury, has exercised his privilege of traversing the indictment until the next Sessions, and his bail has accordingly been enlarged until that period. • THE GERMAN OPERA —Mr. Mitchell is in y with Speel:tbuinrrninn'of Mayence. for a German company to at either the Lyceum or. New trea t Rastcr.—Musica/Iror/d. Theatre in Oxford-street after  A letter from Constantinople states that the guillotine has been introduced into that capital, and that the first execution with this instrument has taken place on a barber, and an Armenian, his accomplice, who had been condemned to death for the murder of a person that had entrusted them with some property, who were brought to justice by the child of the victim, who had witnessed the murder, and had remained concealed mail he had an opportunity of denouncing the culprits. -The guillotine, which was of a new invention, and imported from France, seemed to excite rather curiosity than horror among the spectators of the execution, rnd the criminals themselves are said to have been ast o nish ed , and to have shrugged up their shoulder, as Much as to say, " Is that all." •