The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-15 00:00:00

POLITICAL REUNIONS.

rue Duchess of Northumberland gave a large party
on Saturday evening. It was preceded by a grand
banquet, at which thirty guests sat down, the
company including the Earl and Countess of
Desert, the larl of Powis, the Earl Cadegan,
Viscount Exmouth, Lord De Ros, Lord Colville,
Lord and Lady John Manners, Lord and Lady.
Foley, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord Redesdale and
the lion. Miss Mitford, Lady Agnes Buller, Lord Henry
Gordon Lennox, M.P., the Attorney-General and Lady
Thesiger, Captain the Hon. F. T. Pelham, Hon. Charlea
Bertie Percy, Mrs. and Miss Percy. Captain the Hon.
A. Duncombe, Sir Thomas Heabert, Captain Hamilton,
R.N., and Lady Harriett Hamilton, and Rear-Admiral
the Hon. William Gordon, M.P. The Duchess subse-
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quently had an evening party, which was attended by a
brilliant circle of the aristocracouyr.annd
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The Duke of Wellington honoured the Duchess with his
arrivals.
Viscountess Palmerston entertained at
and remained until a late h
the Earl and Countess waspresence.v Arch-
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and Vicot!ntess Ebrington, Sir
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dinner on Saturday evening
Shaftesbury, Viscount and vof
Lady Hall, Lady Bulwer, Hon.
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Benjamin Hall, ,
Cowper, Mr. Roebuck,
W. Cowper,
was as usual attended by g,anmdemMbre.rasndof
oble Viscountess's reception
a very numerous circle of the
aris-
tocracy. Among
Excellency the Minister iPl°matists present ware—Hieis
the Neapolitan for__ the Netherlands, his Excel-
lency,.
Mrthes. Her.
Swedish Minister his Minister, his Excel may . the
Excellency the Turkish Minister
and Madame M
I.lSUrtu, the Baroness Brunnow, his Ex-
cellency the Persian Minister and Major Ibrahim Mal-
91m, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excel-
lency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the
American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, his Excellency
the
p - Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen and Min
Bunsen, the Charg6 d'Affaires for the French Republic,
Prince A. Vogorides, Count Perponcher, Chevalier
Ribiero, Count Louis Corti, Chevalier and Madame
Pinto de Soveral, Count Bentevoglio, Baron do Geer, M.
Veillat, &c.
Lord and Lady John Russell were among the earliest
arrivals. The Marquis of Lansdowne came at half-past
1 ten o'clock.

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SIR J. FRANKLIN.-011 Saturday
SEARCH FOR
the small screw steamer, fitted out.
lby C_aptein_. B. eatlaan, to
proceed in search of the mussing Ar e Expedition by the
Straits, was dee ed ready for • •
1 way of in
Id of search is east of the meridian orlitat The proposed field
towards Keller's discoveries in 1849, Herald
rins Straits,
en takes out auto-
Island. and New Siberia. Captain Beets
on
letters from the Emperor of Russia, reobmmendinz
Russian outposts
gtbre7e-sp.edition tothecommanders of the R • • -
at Siberia and other . Muscovite settlements, and desiring
them to promote the object in view to the utmost of their
power.
DEPARTURE OF THE EUROPA.--On Saturday, at
half-past twelve, the British and North-American Royal
mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, left the Mersey with •
sixty passengers, a moderate cargo, and the usual mails tor
New York. The next incoming steamer is the Cambria,
from Boston and Halifax ; she is expected every hex*
FIRE AT LEICESTER.--On Thursday night a most
destructive fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Wheeler
and Co., patent India rubber web manufacturers, Southgate.
street, Leicester.
Owing to the large stock of combustible
materials on the premises the conflagration wasrapid=l in.,
tense, Some damage Was done to adjoining houses, pßztke
fire was got under on Friday. The loss is estimated at 16,004
agailld *WA we are banned the parties are insured.