The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-31 00:00:00

STRAND TiIEATRE.

To-morrow evening a performance of a highly attrac-
tive character will take place at this pretty little theatre.
The occasion is for the benefit of Mr. Michael Goodman.
In addition to the talented troupe forming the stock
company of the theatre, Mdlle. Auriol, Mdlle. Julie,
Eliza Terry, Mr. H. Lewis, Mr. S. Cowell, and vari-
ous other artistes have tendered their gratuitous services.
The bill of fare consists of Leman Rode's original drama
of The Rake's Progress, Married Daughters and Young
Husbands, a very pretty ballet and a musical melange.
With such attractive entertainments a crowded house
inuEt be the natural result.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-Aug. 30.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY FOR SCOTLAND.—
Wednesday, the sth September, is the day fixed for the
departure of her Majesty from Osborne. Only the two
youngest children will remain there.

In-the late hail-storm Mr. Thatcher had eight sheep
killed. Several farmers bad their standing corn nearly
destroyed. One field of wheat, of 11 acres, between
Whitsone and Plash, was laid as if a roller had been over
it. Swede turnips had large holes cut in them, and some
were split. The hailstones would appear to have been
as large as duck eggs.
The Earl Fitzhardinge arrived at Townshend House
last evening, and the Earl and Countess of Desart at
Cambridge House, for the autumn. S r John Bayley,
Bart., has taken the pavilion ; Mr. J. Smith, Adelaide
Villa ; Todd, Esq., No. 4, Parade-terrace ; and J.
Harrison, Esq., No. 7.

The Marquis Conyugham has had his yacht, the
Cecile, moved out of the Barbour to-day, where she has
been lying during the illness of the Lady Cecilia
Conyngbam, who is now sufficiently recovered to be
taken on deck.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.—Arrived—
Aug. 27. Nymph, cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., from
Harwich. Sailed—Aug. 27. Gondola, yaw], Thomas
Hughan, Esq., for Greenock. 29. Caprice, yawl, H.
B. Baring, Esq., Plymouth. Yachts at and about the
Station—Capricorn, Irene, Gloriana, Cecile, Titania,
lone, Brilliant, Alarm, Wizard, Stella, Aurora, Frisk,
Enchantress, and Wildfire. Royal Yachts at Cowes—
Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Elfin steamers.
On the 26th inst., the anniversary of Prince Albert's
birth, royal salutes were fired from the R.Y.S. battery
and Cowes Castle, in honour of the day.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE NORTH.—It is now defi-
nitively arranged that her Majesty, Prince Albert, and
the Royal Family will leave King's-cross station, Lon-
don, on Thursday next, the Bth of September, and pro-
ceed thence by the Great Northern Railway to Scot-
land. The royal train will leave the metropolis at eight
o'clock, and arrive at York at 12.14 p.m., where her
Majesty will partake of luncheon. The Royal travellers
will then resume their journey by the North-Eastern
line of railway.

The Queen of England, on Saturday last, sent for the
directors of the Cornpagnie Lyonnaise to come to the
Palace of St. Cloud, and selected from a number of
articles exhibited to her Majesty in one of the salons of
the Palace the most remarkable among the manufac-
tures of London.—Galignani.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Zetland, Grand Master
of Masons in England, will hold a provincial grand
lodge, in the Old Globe Lodge, Scarborough, on Mon-
day, the 10th September next.
The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Blantyre, who
came to town from Trentham on the acconchement of the
Duchesi of Argyll, have left Stafford House for Dun-
robin Castle.
The Duchess Dowager of Manchester and her youth-
ful family leave town next week for Castle Dobbs, her
father's seat, in the north of Ireland, to pass her widow-
hoid.

The Marquis of Breadalbane left Park-lane yesterday
for Tay mouth Castle, Perthshire. The marchioness
arrived thrre early in the past week.
The Marchioness of Ailesbury left town on Wednes-
day for Paris, in which capital her ladyship purposes to
make but a brief vi3it. Lord Charles Bruce has gone to
Switzerland.

The Earl and Countess Bruce have arrived in town
from Savernake Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts.
The Earl of Clarendon has gone to the Grove, near
Watford, Herts, to join the countess and family.
FINANCES of AIISTRIA.—The Ga:ette de Leipsic says
it is confirmed that M. Bruck, Financial Minister of
Austria, is about to propose a new loan of 200 millions
of flurins, intended to repay the Bank of Vienna the
advances which that institution has made to the State.
Mr. J. D. Coleridge, of the Western Circuit, will be
the new Recorder of Portsmouth, in succession to Mr.
Massey. M.P,, appointed Under-Secretary for the
Home Department. Mr. A. J. Stephens has been ap-
pointed Recorder of Andover, in the room of Mr.
lend= Xer, rebigned.