The Sun. — 1825-02-01 (London, England)

OVER THE SIX BRIDGES. Wantley, the pedestrian, undertook yesterday morning, for 20 sovereigns, to go over the six bridges in ;15 minutes, which is much less time than it has ever been done in. The task has been often attempted lately, and Want'ey king a ten miles an hoar runner, the distance can be ascertained to be about five miles. Front the Surrey side of Vauxhall Bridge the pedestrian next crossed Westminster Bridge, up the.steps and over Waterloo, down Fleet.street, and over Maelariats, down the Stir ley'Aiiid 'and over Southwark, down Thari't ',and then over lionthm Bridge. The match was performed in 34 minutes and 211 seconds, but with much difficulty. The steps up the bridges were the greatest task.  Madame CATALAN] having received very kind and favourable offers to be in Paris doting the ensuingfdes, ,he intends to arrive there in the beginning of April ; but before her departure she is to give some Concerts 'in London, which will take place during the month of March next. A report was very prevalent yesterday at the West end of the town, that a Noble Peer had been called out. by a country. Gentleman whom he had injured in a tender point. The story will no doubt be eagerly laid hold of by the A.-caulks, as placing their hero on a level with the Peerage. —(Nero Times.) A new hall, or guard-room, has been erected in front of the House of Lords tier the Peers' servants to wait in. It occupies the space left by the circle for the Royal entrance from the Lords' door. The servants, heretofore, had the piazza and a lobby only. The Marquis of AYLESBURY has just returned from a tour through Italy, and brought with him, besides much valuable iniOrmation respecting the Opera in general, the score of the Crusaders in Egypt, an opera by Mayerbach, now performing at nearly all the Italian theatres. His Lordship has presented this piece to Mr. Elie:l.s, and it is intended to be produced at the King's Theatre early in the ensuing season, which will commence in a fortnight or three weeks from the present time. The commercial house of TAssts, in Orleans, well known in the Peninsula by their great speculations in Spanish wool, have just concluded a contract with FERMNAND's Government for the new clothing of the Spanish troops.—( French Paper.) The case of MA n v Queen of Scots, •which has been but imperfectly understood by all, save historians and antiquaries, during the two past centuries, is now cleared from its obscurity and the trammel's of party and prejudiced writers, by Dr. CAMPBELL, who was the first that plaCed the authenticity of Ossian's Poems on ratibtuttgrouirds. The Doctor asks with Terence— Consens ne to posse reperire ullam mulieram qute careat culpa? After giving the Love Letters from the Queen of ScoTs to BOTHWELL, he adds, the adVocacy of all the distinguished writers on the subject of the QUEEN'S guilt or innocence respecting the murder of her husband, and illustrates the whole collection by a mass of State Papers, which authenticate and render this Work one of the most interesting volumes that have issued from the press for several years. Dr. CAmPnimr., we understand, is employed on a new and enlarged edition •of ROBERTSON'S History .of Scotland, which has long been considered capable of emendations, and, indeed, is a desideratum. Yesterday an English Gentleman arrived in town from 13oulogne, bringing with him the keel of the prawn built exclusively for the accommodation of BUONAPARTE, to accompany the flotilla on his Bobadilean threat to invade Great Britain. SUlClDE.—Matilda Jennings, who lately _figured away in the boxes and lobbies of the Opera and Theatre, put a period to her existence, at a miserable apartment in Duke-street, Oxford-street, on Sunday, by taking acid of sugar. The deceased, it seems, was much reduced in circumstances; which no doubt led to the rash act.