The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-18 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, THURSDA'k.—The Queen t On
horseback soon after three o'clock this grembon, aceotn•
ponied by Prince Albert of Saxe •Cottitrg, with a nume-
rous party, including Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady
Charlotte Dundas, Bareness Lehzen, Mife Quentin,
Viscount Melbourne, Virscount 7r..alkland, Earl of Surrey,
Han. Colonel Grey, Lea
wrath, Baron Alven Alfred Paget, Count Kalo-
'2:geben, and Sir George Quentin.
Prince Ernest. of Saxe Coburg drove in the Park in
a :con.pony-ph
•
The Marchioness of Tavistock, the
Hon
! . • *•diss Pitt, and the Hon. Miss Paget, took an
an 7.ng in an open carriage. The Hon. Miss Cocks also
Alcove out in a pony-phaeton.
`The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
expected to consist of Her Royal Highness the
nuchess of Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Princes
Ernest and Albert of Saxe Coburg, Viscounts 111e1-
bourne and Palmerston, Earl of Surrey, Lord Alfred
Paget, Sir Henry Wheatley, Hon. Mr. Cowper, Count
Kalowrnth, Baron Aivensleben, the Marchioness of
Tavistock, Lady Charlotte Dundas, Hon. Miss Cocks,
Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. Miss Pitt, Lady Caroline
Barrington, Baroness Lehzen, Viscount Falkland,
Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Frederick Stodn, the Hon.
Colonel Grey, Colonel Brown, and Major Stevenson
of the Rifle Corps, stationed here.
The Duchess of Kent and the two Princes of Saxe
Cobourg returned to the Castle yesterday afternoon
from town.

Her Majesty, attended by most of the visitors at the
Castle, took an equestrian airing in the Park yesterday
afternoon.

Her Koyal Highness the Princess Augusta, attended
by Miss Wynyard, came from her residence, Frogmore
Lodge, to the Castle yesterday, and dined with her
Majesty. Sir Henry Wheatley, and the Hon. Miss
Pitt, arrived yesterday at the Castle, and joined the
Royal Circle.
The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, and the Ladies
Eleanora and Constance Puget, joined the evening
party yesterday.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with the
Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge, came to
Cambridge House at an early hour yesterday morn-
ing, from their residence at Kew. The Duchess of
Cambridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta
and Mary of Cambridge, and attended by Miss Kerr,
and Baron Kuesebeck, left town on a visit to the Duke
of Devonshire, at his seat, Chatsworth, Derbyshire.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
The American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson are at
present on a visit to Earl Fitzwilliam, at his magnificent
scat, in Yorkshire. From thence they will go to Baby
Castle, and afterwards to the Earl and Countess of
Carlisle, on a visit.
Lord Monteagle left town on Wednesday, for St.
Leonard's.
Despatches from Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-
Governor of Van Diemen's Land, were received yester-
day, at the Colonial Offiee.

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ARRIVALS.

Mr. and Mrs. Boorman, Dr. Clark, Miss Hudson, and
Mr. Bergman, at the Brunswick House Hotel, Hanover-
square, from Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook, at ditto, from
ditto ' • Lord Crew, Baron and Count Ensidle, at ditto,
from Newmarket ; Captain Ongley, at ditto ; Lady Lionel
Smith and family at Eaton place, Eaton-square, from
Tunbridge. wells ; the Rev. Edward Reed and family, in
Berkeley-square, from Germany.
DEPARTURES.
Hon. D. Webster, General Henderson, Mr. M'lntosh,
and Mr. Lownds, from the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover..
square, for Paris.
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bo_deeorto, ;cr. 17.—Thrs day a congregation was
n
for granting degrees, &c., when the following
were conferred :--
BACHELLOR or DIVINITY.—Rev, Thomas Byrth, Mag.
dalen Hall.
The subjects of the exerci;es for the above degree
were--
" Transubstantiation is contradicted by reason and
Scripture.
" The fathers havu 't o authority to determine matters of
faith."
MASTERS OF Mrs.—Horace Lewis Knight Bruce,
Christ Che,red ;
Cornish,Robert Alexander, ditto ; John Robert
't':dent of ditto William Goodenough Penny,
atud,ent. cif ditto ; William Charles Fyhes Webber. student
r•Aito; Marcus Richard Southwell, Exeter College,
g"dtzrd compounder
BACHELORS OF ARTS.—Jacob Youde, W. Hinde, Wad-
114ffi College.
The Junior Proctor will receive the names of under gra-
duates for responsions on Saturday next, from two to three
o'clock; and on Monday, from three to half-past four
o'clock.
The Reader in Experimental Philosophy has issued a
Notice for a course of lectures on mechanics, to begin on
Wednesday, the 23d inst.
The Boden Professor of Sanscit has announced a course
of lectures, to commence Nov. 6, at two o'cicck.

Tlt
i —E QUEEN DOWAGER.-Her Majesty, on
...':`'iatt Newnham Paddox, the seat of the Earl and
( untess of Denbigh, will honour the Earl Howe with
a Visit at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire.
r, The Marchioness Cornwallis and the Ladies
~"'Qrnyvallis, who have been residing at Leamington-Spa
during the last two months, arrived in town on Monday.
The Earl of Desart arrived at Cowes, Isle of
Wight, at the close of the past week, from a cruise in
his yacht in the Mediterranean, and on Tuesday sailed
for Ireland.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire,
Lady Charlotte Hill, Hon. Captain and Lady Mary
Hood, Lord Edwin Hill, &c., have left town lor East-
hampstead Park, the family seat in Berks.
Lord Ellenhorough, who, on leaving Sir Robert
and Lady Peel's, came to town, has taken his departure
for Soutliam House, his seat in Gloucestershire.

Viscount Melgund, M.P., and Lady Elizabeth
Elliot left the Admiralty yesterday to join the family
party, at Minto Castle, Roxburghshire.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch continue
at Montague House. The Earl of Dalkeith is con-
siderably better since the arrival of the family in town,
and is daily able to ride in the parks, in company with
his brother, Lord Scott. Each youthful Lord rides a
Shetland pony.
Viscount and Viscountess Fitzharris are now
visiting the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, at Chil-
fingbam Castle.
Lord and Lady Willcughby de Broke are passing
the autumn at their seat, Compton Verny, Warwick-
shire. His Lordship is to preside at the annual dinner
of the South Warwickshire Conservative Association
on the 22d inst., at Wellesbourne. ,
Lord and Lady Stanley are still at Knowsley,
the seat of the Earl of Derby. In the course of next
month the Noble Lord and Lady come to town.
The Right Hon. J. W. Croker has been visiting
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, Stafford-
shire. We hear front good authority that the intended
visits of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
in the north are given up for this autumn.
The coming of age of the Marquis of Kildare,
heir of the Duke of Leinster, in the early part of March,
is to be celebrated in a becoming style at Carton House,
Maynooth. The Marquis arrived at Oxford University
on Tuesday last to complete his studies.
Count Potocki arrived at Mivart's Hotel late
last evening, from Newmarket, in consequence of hav-
ing received an invitation from the Duke of Devonshire
to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, at Chatsworth.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose have left
UeigraVe•SqUare, for Brighton,_ where they have made
arrange:nents to reside until December.
His Excellency the Earl of Granville, accom•
Partied by the Countess of Granville, Viscount Leveson,
rkl•P., and the Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, left
•`-'(,vonshire House yesterday morning for Dover, where
the party were to have slept last night, and this morn-
ing embark for Calais, en route to Paris, where his Ex-
cellency will resume his diplomatic duties immediately
on arrival.

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The Earl and Countess Brownlow and Lady
Caroline Cust have left town for Devonshire. It is
thought that the Earl and Countess will not go to Bel-
ton House until December.

Mr. Gregory, one of the Revising Barristers for
Middlesex, yesterday morning decided, after three hours
argument, that the claimants on account of shares in the
New River Company be struck off the list. The revi-
sion for the county of Middlesex is now completed.
Vesuvius is still inwardly convulsed, and thick
Clouds of smoke cover the mountain-top, the vapour of
which is so very prejudicial to the vines in the mime.
diets neighbourhood that the Government has remitted
the taxes of the growers.
RICHES MAKE THEMSELVES WlNGS.—Mo-
ralists have said that no man ought to be connTatula-
ted till he is in the coffin. Tne Mechanics' Magazine
state; in the biography of Mr. James, the projector of
the railway system, that he was in 1812 worth
150,000/., and lived to lose it all.
LEGACY.—The late Peter Bacon, Esq., stock-
broker, has left a legacy of the value of 24,0001. to
University College, London, payable at the death of his
Widow,

Lord Lyttleton has, as we anticipated, reea ap-
Pointed Lord-Lieutenant of this county, in the room of
Lord P
°Lei, and on terms most honourable to the well
known high and independent principles of this young
Whig Nobleman, viz., that he remains unshackled in
big votes not only upon Parliamentary questions relative
to our Church Establishment, but upon general political
questions also.— Worcester Journal.
A Barrister observed to a learned brother in
Ccurt, that be thought his
whiskers very unprofes-
sional,You are right," replied his friend, " a law-
yer cannot be too barefaced."
.Sir John Beauvoir has contradicted the report of
o intention-- to-come forward on the Liberal interest
for East Norfolk.

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