The Sun. — 1841-08-24 (London, England)

ISCZZLANEOUS.  An order from the Home-ounce for the immediate .re• lease of Mr. F. O'Connor arrived at York Castle on Sun. day morning. A murder committed eleven years ago, near Hutton Rudby, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, has just been discovered.. Two men hare been committed to York Castle charged with the crime, one of whom, of the name of Grundy, committed,suicide in.his cell last week. The upper part of the Green Park, at the entrance near Hyde Park-cornier,-which was marshy, and inconvenient to pass in winter and rainy weather, from the trampling, of the _cows, has been just repaired, and the long complained of inconvenience removed. Seats are now erected in the Green Park, the plantations have been directed by good taste, and the new gravel walks are most agreeable promenades. • The colossal lion and other monuments on the field of Waterloo, are now 'undergoing repair by order of the Belgic 'Goverment.. The members of the " Manchester Young Men's Anti-, Monopoly Association,". which has been established for little more than a month, and already.numbers fifteen hundred subscribers, gave a tea-party, in the Corn Exchange, Manchester, on Thursday evening, in honour of the Ministerial Conference on the Corn-laws. More. than 800 persons were present. A meeting was held on Saturday in the County of Clare, convened by requisition to the High Sheriff; for the purpose of addressing the Queen, and imploring her parental protection against the threatened Orange domination. An address was read, and unanimously resolved to be presented. A handsome chain pier is about to he erected on the Middlesex side of Vauxhall-bridge by Mr. Cubitt. The line of road from Belgrave-square to the foot of this bridge is completed. Lord Campbell left Dublin on Thursday evening, and the Great Seal is committed to the Chief Baron, Judge Perrin, and Baron Richards.  On Thursday last a meeting was held at Limerick, for the purpose of adopting an address, to Lord Morpeth, in acknowledgment of his official services, and also to invite his Lordship to a public entertainment in that city. The resolutions were seconded and passed unanimously. Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Sta. dey died on Friday last, at Moto/I-hall, Cheshire. He is succeedel in the family honours by his eldest son, Mr. William Massey Stanley, the late M.P. for Pontefract. Vice-Admiral Sir Patrick Campbell, K.C.8., expired at Leamington, on the 13th instant.  The Hon. Major Keppell, while bathing in the river, near Romney Weir, on Wednesday week, with Lord Alfred Paget, was almost drowned by the water being drawn froze the weir creating a violent current. A waterman, named Joseph Cannon, however, seeing his danger, rowed towards him, and grasped him as he rose for the third time.  The public meeting for the Wilkie Memorial is to be held on Saturday next, at the Thatched House Tavern. Sir• Robert Peel, as Chairman, will, it is said, be supported by Lord John Russell and Lord Francis Egerton, with the Dukes of Wellington, Buccleuch, and Sutherland. An event has transpired in the Southern States of America which has caused a great sensation in that country. The negro slaves on the estates extending along the Mississippi from Bayou Sara to Natchez, had lately formed a plot to murder their masters. The plot was discovered ; the ringleaders were instantly tried ; and the most conspicuous of them, it is said, were executed.  .Another event has also excited much interest in that quarter, from the daring conduct of a marauding party. of slaves and stray Indians, amounting to GOO, who had taken up their abode on the frontiers of Arkansas and Missouri. Three troops of dragoons and a company of infantry, with two guns, were sent againsi them ; and -after a severe contest captured or killed nearly the whole of them. The foundation of the monument to the memory of the late Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, was laid by the DUlie of Buccleueh'at Langtolrh—laSt Friday: