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

POLITICAL REUNIONS.

The 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 Earl of Powis, the Earl Cadogan,
Viscount Exmouth, Lord De Ros, Lord Colville,
Lord and Lsdy John Manners, Lord and Lady
Foley, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord Redesdale and
the Hon. Miss Mitford, Lady Agnes Buller, Lord Henry
Gordon Lennox, M.P., the Attorney-General and Lady
Thesiger, Captain the Hon. F. T. i'eALam, Hon. Charles
Bertie Percy, Mrs. and Miss Percy, Captain the Hon.
A. Dancombe, Sir Thomas Herbert, Captain Hamilton,
Sumner,wi t with hisu
R.N.. and Lady Harriett Hamilton, and Rear-Admiral
honoured the Dumchisesss
the Hon. William. Gordon, M.P. The Duchess subse-
quently had an evening party, which,was attended by
brilliant circle of the aristocracy anda His
rpGsradciep ltohmeoaltiro-cchke
laactceo hour.
mpab i e d
by
presence. His Grace arrived shortly after ten ' l ,
The Duke of Wellington
was amongst the early arrivals.
banisdhep of remained
.untilCanterbury.a
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston
dinner on Saturday evening the Earl on entertained at
Shaftesbury, Viscount and Vien and Countess of
Benjamin Hall, M.P., and Lad ..._ unteFs Ebrington, Sir
W. Cowper, M.P,, and Mr y Hall, Lady 13altver, Hon.
M.P., Mr. Bothmann Hollis, 8.
Cowper, Mr. Roebuck,
bert (of Llanarth). The e and Mr. and Mrs. Her •
was as usual attended by a • Noble Viscountess's reception'
corps diplomatique and `7y numerous circle of the
tocracy. Among the leadingdiplomatists
members of the aria-
Excel the Minister fP ornatists present were—His
the Neapolitan _or. the Netherlands, his Erect-
lency
Swedish Minister, his itl ;Minister his Excel Bear
leMinisiter
Excellency the Turkish and Madame Musurus..the Baroness Brnnnow. his Ex-
cellency the
Persian
Minister and Major Ibrahim Mal-
colm,
his
Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excel-
lency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the
American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, his Excellency
the Prussian Minister and Madame Thinsen and Miss
Bunsen, the Charg‘ d'Affaires for the French Republic,
Prince A.. Vogorides, Count Perponcher, Chevalier
Ribiero, Count Louis Corti, Chevalier and Madame
Pinto do Soveral, Count Bentevoglio, Baron de Geer, M.
Veillat, &e.
Lord and Lady John Russell were among the earliest
arrivals. The Marquis of Lansdowne came at half-past
ten o'clock.

THE NEW P
_ unrAcATloNs.—The following inte-
resting works are just published by Messrs. Colburn and
Co ~'and may be had of all booksellers :-1. The Right Hon.
B.. Disraeli's Political Biogaaphv of Lord George Bentinck.
Fourtha edition, l v01.,R 15Bonnycastle. B. Europe.
vols., 218.-3. Canada as it Was, Is, and May be. By Lien-
tenant-Colonel 3353.-- William 2 r Laitnedrat muraery and Romance
Howitt.
With an Account of
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tio
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of Northern
maps, 245.-4. Lord Palmerston's Opinions and Pohs2- as
Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman. 125.-5. Mr. War-
' Second
burton's Darien; or, The Merchant Prince. Seco edition,
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7Kthe
lonian Islands. 1 vol., with illustrationsqos-
Second mud-
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8 Suck a
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3 vols.-9. Captain Spencer's
Traits of American Humour,
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Travels in European Turkey,
RAus Also just •
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W ay, Esq. 2 vols,
Years in the West Indies. By u
wi'h illustrations, 215.
SEARCH FOR Ste J. FRAINELIN.-012 Saturday
the small screw steamer,
fitted out by Captain Beatton, to
Arctic
proceed in beard]. of the missing n
-as declared ready Expedition
by
the
way of Behrinoi Straits, . for sailint;
h.is east of the meridian -• geld of seam . of Belt-
The proposed
towards Keller's
discoveries in 1849, Herald
ring's Straits,
Siberia. Captain Beats,on takes Island, and New out auto-
/him the Emperor of sia, rerand'
graph letters
to the commanders of the R '
mmen ing
the expoditionßussian outposts
Muscovite settlements, at Siberia and other
and desiring
to promote the object in view to the utmost of their
them
power.
DEPARTURE OF THE RUROPA.--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 for
Now York. The next incoming steamer is the Calabria,
from Boston and Halifax ; she is expected every lion*
FIRE AT LEICESTER.--Oil. 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 was rapid and in.,
tense. Some damage Was done to adjoining houses, b the
fire was got under on Friday. The loss is estimated at 16,0004
against which we are informed the parties are insured.