The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-27 00:00:00

ALMACK'S GRAND BALL.

On Wednesday evening there was a very brilliant assembly ;
the music was Colinet's, who introduced some new and beauti-
ful gallopades. The spirit of the scene was kept up until
three o'clock. There were present—
The Duke of Roxburgh.
The Duchess of Cannizzaro.
MARQUISES— Headfort, Downshire, Saumarez.
MARcinotiEssEs—Londonderry, Downshire, Ely.
EARLS—Clonmel, Aboyne, Norbury.
COUNTESSES—BrownIow, Mansfield, Ashburnliam, Bosse,
Euston, Listowell, Norbury.
LORDS—Burgh ersh, Combermere, A. Loftus, Cranstoun,
Fincastle, Maidstone, Loftus, Aberdour, Castlereagh, Glan-
dine, Melgund, Boston, Alford,'W. Graham, Earlsfort, May-
nard, C. Hamilton, Newry, Dalmeny, Berehaven, and Fitz-
A llan.

LADIES—A. Beresford, Conroy, Murray (two), Dillon, E.
Balfour, Stafford, Gage, King, Willoughby, E. Dickens, J.
Blatchford, Kinlock, Fitzroy (two), Rendlesham, M. Comp-
ton, B. Codrington, Dimsdale, C. Bertie, Trollope, Hill,
(two), Dunsany, Gerard, Ashburnham, Domville, Parsons.
Scott (two), M. Cotes, Eastnor, E. Markham, F. Beauclerk,
Toler, Chatterton, W. Poulett, Grey Egerton, E. Smythe,
Coote—Dowager De Clifford.
SIRS—J. Gerard, R. Dundas, R. Otway, J. Trollope, C.
Knightley, W. Gossett, J. Preston, R. Stopford, C. Dec
Vceux, J. Beresford, J. Reid, Weall, C. Domville, R. Wil-
son, W. Chatterton, W. Stephenson, D. Kinlock, C. Dal-
biac, P. Malcolm, W. Riddell.
COLONELS—Porter, Johnstone, Pratt, Rowley, Kinlock.
Major Wilm.t.
CAPTAINS—O'ReiIIy, M'Dougal, Beresford, Roche, Cotton,
Eden, Blake, Gordon, King, Pelham, G. Drummond, Cust,
E. Freke, Rose, Fremantle.
COUNTS—De Stirum, Esdody, Restilests, Gorouski.
13anoNs—Dimsdale, Lobzeltern.
MESSRS.—Wodehouse, Gordon (two), H. Fitzroy, Need-
ham, Jerningham (two), Fitzmaurice, Maynard, Boyle, Lei-
evster, F. Petre, Cholmondeley, Kenyon, Plunkett, Spencer,
G. Scott, Duncombe, W. Ashley, Gordon (two).
MISTRESSES—Cuss, Ponsonby, He.ahcote, Meade, Lan-e,
W. Ashley, Gage, Hobhouse, Herbert, C. (Miley, Irby,
Colville.

MissEs—Thelluson, Irby, King, Gage, Cootes, Graves,
Ilyng, cotton, Maynard, Napier, Graves, Wellesley, E. King,
Pluriket, Colton.

• The Earl of Eldon is passing the Whitsuntide
recess at his seat in Dorsetshire, intending to resume his
rtsidence in London when the Parliamentary campaign re-
coalmences.

Lord Howden's health, we are happy to say, was
much improved yesterday.

Our 'distinguished poet, the author of " The Plea-
sures of Hope," leaves London this week on a visit to his
native country. We could only wish that his journey may
produce a series of Letters from the North, as pleasant and.
intelligent as his Letters from. the South, which were the re-
sult of hii trip to Algiers.
ANOTHER MARRIAGE BROKEN OFF.—It is re-
p•rted that, the marriage between the Hon. Col. G— and
diss F— is entirely at an end : the supposed cause is the defi-
ciency of fortune on one side.

A horse at Ramsgate, which has been occasionally
troubled with gravel, for the last three 'years, was, a few days
since, taken seriously ill. A veterinary surgeon was called in,
wlio, after a minute examination, found a calculus in the
urethra, near the neck of the bladder which he succeeded in
extracting. It was found to be of the size of a trap-ball, and
weighed four ounces. The operation was performed in three
minutes, with the greatest skill, and has been attended with
complete success ; as the animal has quite recovered, and is
taking his exercise.—Kentesh Observer.
Lord Dames says, that before agriculture arose, a
Scotch country gentleman often spent his forenoons merely
staring around him from the top of a neighbouring knoll.
Certainly a little well regulated mechanical knowledge would
have been of great value to such a person; it. would have
been a valuable substitute for that recommended by the old
country laird, who, not knowing what to make of himself on
a rainy day, said to his man, " Jock, the day is so bad, there
is naething for it, lad, but for us to shut the shutters, light
the candles, put down the punchbowl, and see what kind of
a night it will mak.' "—Ayr Observer.
HYTHE LOYAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL PRE-
SERVATIVE' ASSOCIATION.—At a meeting, held on the 9th
inst., it was resolved unanimously—That the thanks of the
Association be presented to Stewart Majoribanks, Esq., for
his vote in favour of Mr. Rippon's motion, to relieve the Bi-
shops from their Parliamentary duties.
There are two sets of police officers stationed 4t
Nlivart's Hotel—the one attendant upon the Prince of Orange,
the other upon the young Prince of Naples and his bride. In
either case would not a guard of honour have been more
ap-
propriate? Bonaparte stigmatised us as "a nation of shop.
keepers." It is to be hoped these illustrious forCigners will
not deem us to be a nation of thieves.

The present month of May very much resembles
that in which the play of Pizarro was produced, and to which
Sheridan made a happy allusion in the prologue.
The Thames Tunnel was yesterday visited by the
Ambassador from the King of Oudz and suite, as likewise by
the Marquis of Bristol and a large party of friends.
We understand that very many newspapers which
arrived in the London mail yesterday experienced so much in-
jury by friction, in consequence of the practice of transmitting
the large Parliamentary papers in the same bag, as rendered
it impossible to decipher their addresses ; in fact, they were
totally mutilated.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
WESTERN PACKET STATION.—Where has been
a meeting in the open air, just behind the Commercial-build-
ings, this afternoon, the Mayor in the Chair, to .consider Mr.
M. Barrington's recent letter upon- the advantage of a western
p;..cket station from the Shannon, in connection with a Rail.
way between Limerick and Dublin, objects of such great local
importance as to receive at once the approval of the meeting.
A variety of resolutions recommendatory of the measures were
passed, and a Committee appointed to institute such inquiries
as may be expedient in this preparatory stage of the business.
—Limerick Paper of Saturday, _

MEN OF TALENT.—" Before we had read or heard
more of Mr. Fielden, than that he was the friend and political
patron of the late Mr. Cobbett, we set him down as a man of
talent. Quintilian, who, as all know,- was a teacher of elo-
quence, mentions that in his experience he had acquired one
unerring test of the fair promise of a young orator—did he
admire tl4l .§PA'Pre grapes of Demosthenes? We have estar
blished, for ourselves, something like tho Satup orlteriun of po.,
litical speakers and writers--do they admire the Cohlictt style?
We do not say that all Mr. Cubbett's admirers are men of
genius, for this were to render the populace of genius nume-
rous indeed ; but, we do say, that we never met a man who
thought or spoke lightly of Mr. Ccbbett's intellectual power
wfiß ??Qt 4 blochheadi and, when we f.und a man whose pgliT
tical symp4thiq gave hitii tipportimity of 10.11,1014 en-
thusiasm of Ornieation for °Tip, whose tolderstanding we rated
at the highest, we were led to believe that the enthusiast must
be himself it man of talent,"S;orichti.d. it Thomas Peevor,
and some score a Mr. {.loll tews tid;Tti,,e‘,# 9.'104 gletttly
obliged to our evening contemporary for the liberality with
which he has invested them, with what no oue ever before
supposed them to possess. That Mr. Cobbett was a man of
genius, and that he was distinguished above all writers of his
day, for his raFy §ax.on style, is too generady admitted to
allow his i'ell',#,g.tidei admireks to .A 4141 4101 mevit on
that account. flOvvirer,we tbC.4tliPlastie
extravagance of otti:epntempoittrY. It reinip4:s -Of the old
proveyb, 41:4 f‘ they gre fond of liptien who .1k:1; where the
owe lay." Eiy the bye, when our uoutempora‘.y calls all those
blockheads who thought or spoke lightly of Alt.. Cobbett's in
tellectual powers, dPes he forget Printing. House-square?