The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Colonel Stanhope, Grenadier Guards, for Dublin : the
Earl of Clonmell and Lady Earlsfort, for the St. George's
Hotel, Albermarle-street ; Lord Burghley, from Fladong's
Hotel, for Cold Warden, Berks ; Godfrey Wentworth, Esq.,
from Crawley's Hotel, for Yorkshire ; Sir Howard and Lady
Elphinstone, for St. Leonard's-on Sea ; Mr. and Lady Jane
Knox, from the Earl of Ross's, Petersham ; Mrs. Drake, from
Eaton-place, for Amersham, Rucks ; Sir Molyneux and Lady
Georgianna Cholmeley, from Belton House, for Easton,
Grantham; T. Clarke Wilkinson, Esq., from the Green
Park Hotel, Piccadilly, for Waterford.

Various rumours, and guesses infinite, bare been
afloat for some days past with respect to a certain "affair
in May Fair," to which allusion was made last week.
Speculation has increased, in the " circles," with the diffi-
culty of eliciting information. To all but the very few the
facts have remained a secret, but some light may be expected
to be thrown upon them in the Court Journal of to-morrow,
which will also comprise the chapter of a Romance of real
Life in Bavaria.

Lord Teignmouth has accepted the Tory invitation
to stand for Marylebone. One word of advice to the
Reformers : If Mr. Henry Bulwer resigns, and the Re-
formers split into divisions, the result will be,the,election -of
the- Irlsb--Baron ; for the case stands thus :—A Whiff. can-
didate will obtain 1,500 votes, a RadienTihe"iiiiie-number,
or nearly so ; the Tory will have, if the registry accounts
can be depended on, about 1,600, which will, in the event
alluded to, insure his return.
OXFORD, JAN. 13.—The Town Council held
their first full meeting to-day, and their first public act has
been to vote an address to the King, expressing their
grateful feelings for the Municipal Corporation Reform Act,
and their pedect confidence in his Majesty's present Minis-
ters. There have been several Committee meetings held
to take into consideration the salaries of the various Cor-
porate Officers, in which the Tory portion of the Council
has been strenuous in proposing and supporting high sala-
ries, probably with a view to render a borough-rate indis-
pensable, and so cause the new Council to be unpopular ;
they have, however, been defeated in their object.
It is expected that a Council will be held at Brighton
to-morrow, when the Lords Commissioners will resign
the custody of the Great Seal. Mr. Bickersteth, on
yesterday morning returned his briefs, in consequence of his
appointment to the Rolls Bench. The Master of the Rolls
and the Vice-Chancellor were engaged the whole morning
in hearing causes and petitions quite devoid of public
interest.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—TLC ordinary scientific
meeting was held on Tuesday evening, William Yarrell,
Esq., in the Chair. The Chairman presented a case con-
taining a male and female dottrell, with a young bird and
egg, just received from Mr. Hesham, at Carlisle, which bad
been taken on Skiddaw, and consequently proved incontes-
tably, for the first time, that this bird is bred in Great Bri-
tain. Mr. Gould presented several specimens of Indian
crows from Asia, two rare varieties of which were from the
Himalaya Mountains, as well as several species of mocking
birds from North and South America and the West Indies.
An interestinr, paper was read on the dissection of a vulpin
opossum which had lately died in the Gardens from inflam-
mation and gangrene of the pyloric orifice of :the stomach.
A communication from Dr. Russell on the presence of ca-
nine teeth in the. Abyssinian antelope, excited some dis-
cussion, in the course of which Mr. Ogilby stated that it
was the only instance which had ever come before the no-
tice of the scientific world, of the existence of incisors in
hollow-horned ruminants. Amongst the company were
the Dean of Carlisle, Dr. Beck, from Copenhagen, Messrs.