The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-06 00:00:00

DEPARTURES,

Lord Melbourne, for his seat, Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire;
Mr. and Mrs. Metwer and family, from the St. James's Hotel,
Jennyn-street, for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, from Kirkham's
Hotel, Lower Brook.street, for Brighton; James, Esq. from
ditto, for ditto ; W. Green, l sq. from ditto, for Cheltenham ; T.
Hibbert, Esq. from ditto, for Berks ; G. Chetwynd, Esq. from
ditto, for Oxford; W. Chetwynd, Esc]. from ditto, for tt.otting-
ham ; Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, from Regent-street, for their seat
in Shropshire ,• W. Myer, Esq. and Miss Myer, from Marshal
'l'hompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, for Liverpool; Mrkjor
liragge, Mrs. lingo, and family from ditto, for France- Le
Compte L. I.lger belair, from ditto; Maurice De Courtly, Esq.
from ditto,

GRAND DINNER AT WINDSOR,
GWEN' By TIM MAYOR TO HIS ROYAL 111011N511 2115
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE,
TUE 111011 STEWARD Or THAT BOROUGH.

On Monday, John Banister, Rag., was sworn into the
office of Mayor, on which occasion his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge intimated his, intention to take the
o
aths of office as High Steward of the borough, and honour
the Mayor with hia company to dinner.
About six his Royal Highness arrived at the Town hall,
and was received by the Mayor and his Committee, who
conducted hint to the Council Room, when a suitable 4d.
these was presented to his Royal Highness by Sir O. %I-
son, the Recorder. The oaths were then administered by
the Town Clerk, on the conclusion of which ceremony his
Royal Highness addressed the Corporation in a very neat
speech, acknowledging the pleasure he felt in the appoint.
ment of High Steward, and expressing his strong attach-
ment to the borOugh of Windsor, with which some of hie
earliest and moat pleasing recollections were associated.

Dinner being announced, the band of the sth Dlegeon
Guards played " The Rout Beef of Old England."
About 120 gtmtlemen sat down to dinner.
Amongst the company present wen, the following dis-
tinguished individuals :—His Royal Highness the Dulled
Cambridge, Earl of Sefton, Lord Marybotough, Lord
Falkland. Sirs—AB% Freemen*, J. Shelley, It.. H,
Vivian, J. Gore, C. H. Knowles, F. B. Watson, J.
Wyatville, and G. Wilson ; the Hon. '. Molyneux.
Generals--Wheatley and Stephenson.' Colonels..—Freda.
rick Fitzelarenee, Thernton, Martian, Wallace, Grunt,
Hank, and Bridger. Captain Ramsbottom, the Provost
of Eton, the Rev. Dr. Keate, the Rev. Messrs. Musgrave,
Carter, Wright, Grover, Roberts, Groves, Gossett, flaw.
trey, Mooie, Dupuis, amt Coleridge; Dr. Stamford ;
B Harcourt, W. F. Riley, J. 0. Reilly, M. Swehey, .1.
Richards, T. .L.Thomson, W. Rendall, J. Sturges, S.
Kendall, W. de St. Croix, and William Austin, Esqrs.,
&c., and the whole of the members of the Corporation.
The ball was tastefully decorated. The dinner consisted
of turtle, venison, and every delicacy the season affords.
A magnifiatent baron of beef, which, together with two
bucks, fish, fruit, &c.., were furnished by his Majesty,
graced the lower end of the On a raised platform
on each side the fine band of the s:h Dragoons was placed..
The tout 'tamale was extremely good. The Mayor, in
very neat and appropriate terms, propased the health of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, alluding to
the circumstance of his Majesty having held, for some
years, the sane appointment which had now been accepted
by their illustrious guest. The healthy of their Majesties,
the Duchess of Cambridge, the remaining branches of the
Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Eat! of Sefton,
Lord Mary/borough, Sir Hussey Vivian, Sir F. D Nat-
son, Sir W. Fremantle. and his Majesty's Household, the
Provost and Fellows of Eton,. with the usual routine of
toasta, were proposed from the Chair, and drank with all
the honours.

His Rovar. Htuntass, in acknowledging the honour
done him in drinking his health, feelingly alluded to his
connection with the town of Windsor in early life, and as-
sured the company that hie new connection with it as
High Steward would induce him, in every way, to promote
the interests and prosperity of the town.
Many able speeches were made by the Noblemen and
Gentlemen whose healths were drank ; the most conspi-
cuous of which was Sir F. 'Watson's, who, iu a very
pleasing manner, illustrated the connection of Windsor
with the Kings of England ha succession, and as a place
highly gifted by nature.

Mr. Coo Putt, the celebrated author of "The
Borderer.," a The Pi!ot," "The Red Rover," &c, is about
to publish a new Tale to be entitled " The Water Witch ;
or the Skimmer of the Sea." This novelist is generally
allowed to be singularly happy in narrating tales of the
great deep; and his present subject (as far as may be
Judged by the romantic title) seems to be one of the highest
promise.'

Sir W. KwicatToN's accounts Will soon be
closed.' The expenditure of the late kma's privy purse
has been enormous. The tailors' and jewellers bills mein
amount incredible. Sir W. KaftanTor; retires with en
immense fortune, and be still retains, hie Inc/Viva patuet
appointments.

LITERATURE.

WAN LIMEY NOVELS, NEW EDITION.

With the Author's Notes and New Introduction, &e
Beautifully Illustrated.

We have from time to time been in the habit
of noticing this very splendid series of novels ;
hut latterly a press of more immediately im-
portant matters has prevented us doing the
justice which its merits demand. We now re-
turn to the subject. The works of the Author
of " Waverley" were understood to have sold
to the extent of twenty thousand copies at least,
before the appearance of the present issue, which
has been brought out with a regularity unknown
in the literature of the country, and at the same
time in beauty and cheapness hitherto unknown
in what is technically called the getting up of
works, and with which, for many years, there is
little probability of competition. The work has
now reached the seventeenth volume, which con-
cludes " Ivanhoe." We have had an early
glance at some of the Illustrations which are to
follow this celebrated romance, and can have no
hesitation in pronouncing them extremely beauti-
ful. We observe some of those intended for
the " Monastery," the next in succession, now
exhibited in all the booksellers' shops. The
pleasing introductions and notes to this series of
novels, so far as it has already appeared, are 30
well known to our readers that it is not our pur-
pose to dilate on them at present. It may, how-
ever, be curious to state, as we have accidentally
the means of knowing, that this new edition of
the Waverley Novels is now, and has for some
time past, been giving bread to upwards of six
hundred individuals. This is not difficult to be
supposed, when as one piece of data it is known
that the book-binding establishment of the
publisher produces one thousand volumes each
day, to supply the incessant demand.