The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-20 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Lord Howard Douglas, and Mr. and Miss Douglas, al
Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from the Palace, Corfu; Ear'
rlttlett in Clarges.street, from his seat, Hinton St.
George, Somerset ; Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley from the
Bristol Hotel, Brighton • Sir Francis and Miss Doyle, in
W,,lrapole- street, from ditto ; Mrs. and Miss Leslie, in
upper Harley-street ; Mr. Fred. and Lady Augusta Sey-
mour, at the Marquis of Bristol's, St. James's-square,
from a tour; the Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, from
Brighton ; Count Platen, at the Brunswick Hotel, from a
tour in the north ; Lady Caledon, on Carlton-terrace,
from Caledon Hall, Tyrone ; Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone, in
Carlton-gardens, from the seat of Sir Richard Brooke,
Norton Priory, Cheshire; Miss Coutts Burdett, in Strat-
ton-street, from Windsor; the Hon. Thomas Vesey, in
Burlington-street, from Ireland ; the Dowager Countess of
Pembroke and the Ladies Emma and Georgiana Herbert,
an Hay-hill, Dover-street, from Wilton House, Wilts.
DEPARTURES.
A. Peacock, Esq., from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street ;IR.
Prescott, Esq., from ditto, for Scotland ; Mrs. Parkin and
from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Mrs. W. Maury and
family, from ditto, for Liverpool ; Sir George Hill, Bart.,
J. Beresford and W. Beresford, Esqra., from ditto, for
a Continental tour ; T. G. B. Estcourt, Esq., M.P., from
ditto, for his scat Tetbury, Gloucestershire ; C. Craver.,
Esq.; fiorn ditto, for Brighton ' - Mr. and Mrs. M'Murdo
and Was Hamilton, from the Sackville Hotel, Sackville.
street, fo 1' Brighton; Willougby Burrell, Esq., from ditto,
for Lincoln; the Misses Edwards and Thos. Butt, Esq.,
from ditto, for the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Mackenzie,
from ditto, for Windsor ; - Moore, Esq., and daugh-
ters, from ditto, for Baden ; Captain and Mrs. Hamilton
Ward, from ditto, for the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Mooa
and family, from ditto ; Mr. Baxter and son, from ditto ;
William Whitsed, Esq., and family from Baker-street, for
Wroodstone House, near Peterborough ; Lord Leveson,
M..P., from Devonshire House, Piccadilly, for Windsor ;
Sir James and Lady Graham, from St. James's-place, for
their seat, Netherby, Cumberland; Colonel and Mr. Wynd-
ham, .from Grosvenor-place, for their seat near Petrouth,
Sussex ; Lord and Lady Wrottesley, from George-
street, Hanover-square, for their seat, Wrottesley
Hall, wear• Wolverhampton ; Lord and Lady Sey-
mour. from Spring-gardens, for Eglintoun Castle,
Ayrshire, on a visit to the Earl of Eglintoun; the
Duke and Duchess de Coigny, from Dover-street, on a
tour in the north ; Lord and Lady Charles Russell, from
Belgrave-square, for Bedfordshire ; Lord Colborne, from
Hill-street, on a tour ; Sir Charles and Lady Knightley,
from Upper Brook-street, for Fawsley Park, near Da-
ventry ; Lady St. John, from Mansfield-street, for Tun-
bridge Wells ; the Hon. General Sir William Lumley,
rom Green-street, for Windsor Castle; Lieut-Gen. Sir
Houstoun, G. 8.8., by the Birmingham Railway,
for the north ; the Hon. Captain George Grey, for the
Moo. ra ; Sir Henry and Lady Rycroft, for Brighton ; the
Earl cf Aberdeen, for Haddo House, N.B. ; the Hon. Mr.
and Ma. v. Fred. Ryder, from Lord Harrov‘by's, Grosvenor-
Square, cor a tour ; Mr. Sandford, M.P.,for his seat in
Somerset; Mr. Lane Fox and family, or Worthing; Sir
Cha rtes Lei lion. Bart., from Charles-street, Berkeley-
aqua re, for his' seat, Carclew, Penryn, Cornwall ; Lord
Colt e, on a visit to Viscount Ebrington, at Dubln Cas-
tle ; Mr. Wakeham, from Long's Hotel, for Bucks; C.
J. B. Hamilton. Esq., M. P., from the Pulteney Hotel, for
the 13; roness Wenman's, Thane Park, Oxfordshire ; Sir
Freden'ek and Lady H. Bathurst, on a continental tour ; the
flowage.. r Lady De Clifford, from Carlton House-terrace,
Major-General and Mrs. Hodgson, for Lea-
Oranioagt i Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Hope Vera from
Park-lane, fug' Worthing ;E. ,for ditto ;
S. Gooch,
.Esq.'
the Hon. Coloa.v.l and Mrs. Robert Fitzgibbon, from Bel-
rave-square, or'° a continental tour; NV. H. Ashurst,
Lady Mill, from George.street, Hanover-
-41; and
dr
LNVaa-tjeri.‘-tCck' Oxfordshire ; the. Ladies Fitz-
atrick, from Gros vt. nor-place, for their seat, Varman
,Voods, NorthamptoLss,t'ire; the Bishop of Oxford and
&Jody Harriet Ba ot aILI for Cuddesden Palace,
Oxfordshire ; Mrg. Tysrie.l Hodges, from the Clarendon
Hotel, Bond.street, for his' ,seat in Kent; Lady Willoughby
d'Eresby and the Hon. Mis'kes Willoughby, for Frankfort-
on-the-Maine, en route fe'r Wiesbaden ; Sir Thomas
Baring, Bart., for Stratton rk, Winchester ; the Right
lion. Goulburn, from Mont.V..o House, Portman square,
on a Continental tour ; the De lo of Ossory, for Dublin.
CHANG E'
Ills Royal Highness the Duke wt. Cambridge, attended
by Baron Knesebeck, from a visit to the Duchess of Glou-
ce st.er, at Bagabot Park, for Cowes, Isle of Wight ; the
Dukke and Duchess of Rovigo and .stir, at Morrison's
Ho tel, Dublin,_ from Wicklow ,• the Earl of Albemarle,
Master of the Horse, at the Stud House, Hampton Court,
from. s visit to the Queen and the Ducbess of Kent, at
Win dsor Castle ; the Earl of Dysart and p,Nrty, from Dun-
more, in his Lordship's yacht Owen Glendower, on a cruise
in the Irish Channel ; Col. and Mrs. Clavering, from the
Londo n Hotel, Dover, on a tour ; the Dowager Countess
of We stmeath and the Hon. Robert Seymour Nugent,
from the Royal Hotel, Birmingham, for Dublin ; Lady
Noel Byron, at Leamington Spa, from Fordbrook House,
near .Acton ; the Hon. Lady Bellingham, on a visit to the
.Hon. Capt. and Mrs. Cust, at Harefield, near Uxbridge,
•om Leamington Spa, from a tour; Lady Glenlyon and
th, Misses Murray, at the Duke of Athol's, Blair Athol,
Ilea r Dunkeld, from a visiting tour ; the Earl of Hunting-
don, at his seat, Clashmore, county Waterford, from the
seat , of Lord Carew, Castleborough, Wexford; the Earl of
Cardi,-isn, from Deene Park, Northamptonshire, for his
shootir% lodge, on the moors of Inverness-shire ; the Duke
of Buckia Them, on a visit to the Marquis of Breadalbane,
at Kitlin .edge, Perthshire, from Haire House, Bucks ;
Sir William Milman, Bart., from Rome, on a tour in the
Papal Stateal.; the Hon. Frederick Browne, from ditto, for
1 ditto; Mr. a% 1 Lady Louisa Tennison, from Florence, on
la-tour.

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LTANA-MOTHE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SI11,—"'" An Uninterested Observer," through the
The Constanticoe le correspondent of the Carlsruhe medium of your columns, f
of
progress
the public with his es-
Ilse Sultana Valide, mother of Abdul tintate of the difference
Gazette states, that'. rtobgeress in the great race
t character immense influence. across the Atlantic betwoeenp
Medjid, possesses in th.2two
bysteam ships, Great
According to the Mabom e,tan rule she is almost consi- Western and British Queen, which, a comparison of
dered holy, and every mus.culman has the right of up• the stated distances published, he
makes 124 miles.
peal to 1 • E •
hart Even the wive 's of the Sultan are corn- Now, Sir, in justice to our Great West I beg
to
yelled to treat her with vet leTation, and to kiss the dispute the correctness of this calculation,'ern' anti, "by a
hem of her garment whenever ..‘llO appears. She alone method I shall presently submit,
hope to satisfy An
has the right of appearing unveile `I, but no person must Uninterested Observer"
that the distance gained by the
look at her in the face. She has a deliberative voice Great Western was, as neart as may be, double, or 248
lanrothe Council of the State, and all true Mussulinans miles. First, however, t) point out the extreme absur-
ecustomed to pay a blind bd' ra. to her. She dity of the two first days' run upon which " Observer's"
is said to be an ambitious and e len
to have already interdicted
1,200 persons,
. Rayas, Turks, and Franks.
appears in public almost daily,visiting
the places his father took
cessible. speaks with kindnessgtot in.
capricio:o
_woman, and estimate. is founded : It is admitted that the Queen
access to hei palace to
,
whatever be their rank, and is hieablllywnho a"
25th the Sultana Ualide, attended by n o
of honour and her eunuchs, went
to visit the Mosque of Eyoub.
the same day, the Sultan went ineoffnit
of the Point of the Seraglio to pray
kai, or sacred carpet of the Prophet.
of the Redif, or National Militia, which
to Constantinople to do the duty of the regular
sent to the army, have been dismissed
started half an hour after the Great W
The Sultan by the latter's log " • " Western—allowed
4 miles,' which cannot be wide of
i in prele.'eLiee all the mark, as both vessels were going nearl nine knots.
He is very' ac- At seven that evening the Queen was yhull d
roach hi:~~ at 12 next day, when the reckoning is made up,owln ;
pular. On the smoke only was to be seen. Now turn we to the her
in
some of her ladies puted distances run on the 2d :—British Queen, 143
On
state barges miles ; Great Western 177 miles. The Queen appears d
the evening of to have gone one mile more than the Western, which, if
boetfoo the Palace true, would have brought her to within three' miles,
The
ethe Khir- whereas she was near twenty astern. " Observer"
ee Companies says " 90," and " say 84," for August Ist, is nonsense •
were brought the run of the afternoon of the Ist is calculated in the
dismissed, and.
have
troops account of the 2d. The probable fact is, the Queen
h returned allowed too much, and perhaps the Western
s home. \
The Constantinople Correspondent of the Semi A
gives the following description of a scene o f i
orientalore
splendour not often witnessed even in " the City of the
Sultan :"-- difference,estern
'The Sultana-Mother, Valide, w•ishin to give to the si 1 o
ladies of Mmess. Due, the Directors of the Mint, a tes-
timony of her esteem, invited them to the Imperial P.
lace, to be present at the entrance of her son into the weather 219 miles versus British Queen 207—the
12 miles, added to IS, the allowed dis-
c Western's
seraglio. The ladies were conveyed by the private barges continuation—near' Tay
of the Sultana, and received with a kindness very rarely Let log on the 3d says—" At 4 P.m. lost
" 0 b ser v ' '
shown by Turkish chiefs to:vards their Christian subjects. the Great w
From the threshold of the GyTecwum to the principal 14th, the B
room, the floor was covered with the richest brocaded allow be seen 40 miles. The log says, in
From 30 to 40 miles right astern !"
er 'calculate the difference of A►me at sea—
ritiehstern arrived3o. A.M. on the
five housrs Queen
stuffs and splendid eahemeres for then young Padisha of King-road and
the Osmanlis to walk over to a magificent chair or were at sea, allowing'eal.
throne, embroidered with pearls, rubies, and eme- Western, was 27
too little. On the third,. we have Great
tance of the day before, and the sum is 30 miles. The
og it. f the smoke of tire British Queen." It is sup-
Pvvhseend by nautical men that the smoke of a steamer,
therle is little or no wind (as at this time), and
at
.9 A.M. on the 15th—and
s.
oirtrir the difference in time between
The difference in time both
Flours—from
for the half hour's start of the
from which take 5, and 'N
?aids. The Sultana-Mother approached and with invo- remain. Thus testours—
: ea,tions to God, gave her blessing to her son. Next Queen's last run
\
came the Sultana Isms, his aunt, who presented trim
with a young
Med 1 appeared and the difference, which is
female slave, a gift with which Abdul ' 247,i miles.—Your obedieinstthe
i
jte to be much gratified, and placed the i
(277 the time at the rate of the
miles, or Ili knots per hour),
gain of the Western, ►s
servant,
with '
girl upon a seat nearly as rich as his own. A thousand Bristol, ug• 17, 1839. INTERESTED OBSERVR.