The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-01 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHANGES.
The Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Dawson Darner, from Park-
lane, for Came Hall, Dorchester • Mr. Henry Weymouth, in
Bryanston-square, from a tour; Colonel Hawkins and Mr. and
Mrs. Macnamara, from Paris, in Brook-street ; Lord Bray-
broke, in New Burlington-street, from Audly End ; Sir
Ronald Campbell, at the Bath Hotel, from Edinburgh ;
Colonel Anthony Stratton, in Old Burlington-street, from
Portsmouth ; Raikes Currie, Esq.-, M. P., and the Hon.
Mrs. Currie, on Hyde Park-terrace, from Lord Wodehouse's
seat, Kimberley; Miss Wright Wilson, from Drayton Lodge,
Andover, on a tour ; H. Bunbury, Esq., at Batt's Hotel,
from Portsmouth ; J. Tomlins, Esq., at ditto, from Litch-
field ; Mrs. and the Misses Wilson, from ditto, for Woke-
field House, near Reading; R. C. Jenkyns, Esq., from
ditto, for Chepstow ; Captain and Mrs. Rose and family, at
the Pulteney Hotel, from Hampton Court ; Dr. Gorman, at
ditto, from Spain; Sir John Barker Mill, Bart., from ditto,
for Mottisfont Abbey ; Mrs. Richardson, from ditto, for Bath.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived from
Derbyshire at Lilleshall on Monday last, and on Friday
morning they will leave that place for Stafford House.
Same of the German papers have circulated a
report that the eldest daughter of the Duchess of Berri is
about to give her hand to the hereditary Prince of Modena.
The Archduke John of Austria, now at Constan-
tinople, is said to have it in contemplation to visit Jerusalem,
Cairo, and Alexandria, before his return to Vienna.
The yearly income of the late Queen of the Ne-
therlands was 150,000 florins ; of these she is said to have
regularly distributed 80,000 florins in acts of charity.
The Princess of Vasa has renounced her intention
of spending the ensuing winter in Italy. This has given
great satisfaction at Vienna, as the house of the Princess
was almost the only one in which they look for any very
brilliant entertainment. The French Ambassador's lady
remains in Paris ; the Russian Ambassador, it is known,
intends to live in a very retired
.manner for some time to
come ; and the English Ambassador's hotel is opened only
to a very exclusive circle. The hotels of the other Ambas-
sadors arc not calculated to serve as places of general as-
sembly for the fashionable -world. The Court balls, and
the entertainments of Prince Metternich and the Princess
of Vasa are those on which the hopes of the bean monde
are chiefly fixed.
The Prince and Princess Gagarin, with their family,
accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, left Gould's London
Hotel, Albemarle-street, yesterday, at one o'clock, for the
purpose of visiting Kew Palace and the gardens. The
party returned to dinner.
The apartments in the old Palace at Kew, lately
occupied by his Majesty the King of Hanover, while Duke
of Cumberland, have been r.ssigned, it is understood, to their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
and his sister, the youthful Princess Augusta, and suite were
present at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane, on Monday even-
ing, to see the performances of Macbeth, The Indian Girl,
and the second act of Der Freischuiz.
The departure of the Duke and Duchess of Bed-
ford and the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
family, on a trip to the South of France, will take place in
a fortnight or three weeks. The Marquis and Marchioness
are still at their villa at Stanmore.
A vacancy has occurred in the office of head Barge-
master to her Majesty, in consequence of the death of Mr.
James Masterman, who died yesterday, after holding the
situation for forty years, during which he served in four
reigns. The appointment is in the gift of the Lords of
the Admiralty, and has for very many years been bestowed
on some individual in the family. The last occasion on
which lie attended upon Royalty in his official capacity was
when his late Majesty took water at Somerset House and
proceeded to London-bridge ; he then acted as coxswain to
the Royal barge, as Deputy to Sir Byam Martin, who is
principal coxswain. Mr. Masterman was only fifty-eight
years of age, and died much lamented, through having
caught a severe cold.
The marriage of Miss Anna Maria Pare, sister of
Lord Petre, of Thorndon, Essex, to H. Hughes, Esq., is
expected to take place immediately. The gentleman is of
the Roman Catholic persuasion. Lady Petre and her
eldest daughter have been for a short time on the Continent.
They returned last week, and will probably honour the
ceremony with their presence.
Lord and Lady Frances Egerton intend leaving
Bridgewater House, near Manchester, on the 15th instant,
for town.
The number of bills of indictment presented to the
Grand Jurors and returned during the present Central
Criminal Court Session is 312, upon which were examined
—first day, 166 witnesses ; second, 323 ; third, 232 ;
fourth, 309 ; fifth, 55 ; total, 1,085 witnesses.
From the Ist of September to the 10th of October
the number of travellers by the railroads in Belgium was
260,544 ; and the receipts for that period amounted to
262,002 f. 60c. The railroads now laid down in Belgium
cover a length of ground equal to 143,720 metres, or
about 36 post leagues.
The total number of passengers by the railway of
St. Germain, in sixty days from its opening, was 362,463 ;
and the receipts, 440,216 f., or about 17,6001. sterling.
The Aberdeen Herald says that an antiquarian
friend has handed him the following extract from an Act
of the Scottish Parliament, passed in the reign of Queen
Margaret about the year 1288 :—" It is statut and or-
dainit that during the reine of hir maist blissit Magestie,
ilk maiden ladye of baith highe and lowe estait shall hae
libertic to bespeek ye man she likes ; albeit, gif he refuses
to tak her till be his wit*, lie sail be mulctit in ye sume of
ane hundreth pundis or less, as his estait mai be, except
and alwais gif he can mak it appeir that he is betrothit to
ane ither woman, that then he sail be free."
Captain Morris, the bard of that celebrated assem-
blage of wit and talent, the Beef Steak Society, now in the
ninety-second year of his age, is in possession of every
faculty, and able to enjoy himself in the centre of his family,
at his pleasant retired villa, Brockham Lodge, in the county
of Surrey ; where he frequently indulges in the recollection
of the many social hours he has passed with his old friends
who compose that body—the happy memory of his best days.
The Thames Tunnel, we are happy to hear, is
making slow and sure progress. The engineers have pro-
fited by their experience to arm themselves against the
efforts of Father Tames at all assailable points, and now
wilbnot throw away the smallest chance.
The Russian Journals announce that Colonel
Anosoff has conceived the idea of melting, instead of wash-
ing, the sand in which gold is found, and afterwards, by
means of oxyde of sulphur, separating the gold from the
iron ore contained in the sand. From his experiments a
quantity of gold 95 times greater than by the old system of
washing may be obtained.
The Deal and Walmer Ball took place last Thurs-
day, and was honoured by the presence of the Duke of
Wellington, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge, Sir
Thomas Hardy, the officers of the garrison, and upwards of
200 of the principal inhabitants and visiters.