The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-18 00:00:00

DOVER-SATURDAY.

Arrived the Watcr Witch, steamer, from Boulogne, with his Excel-
lency the Marquis de Brignolle Sale, Ambassador Extraordinary from
his Majesty the King of Sardinia, on the occasion of the Coronation of
the Queen. His Excellency was accompanied by Madame La Marquise
and their daughter and by a numerous suite, comprising the Counts
Broglie, Dc La Vierne, De Sambay, and Della Chiesa, with Secreta.
rics, &c.

The whole party proceeded, shortly after their arrival, for London,
where apartments have bean provided for the embassy at the Pulteney
Hotel.

The Guard of Honour was in attendance, and the usual salute fired
from the western heights.
17111.—His Excellency the Duke of Palmella and suite arrired from
Boulogne last evening, as Ambassador Extraordinary from Portugal,
and proceeded this morning for London.

It is said that Marshal Sault, Duke of Dalmatia, and Ambassador
Extraordinary from France, will arrive here this evening.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The second exhibition of this Institution, for the present season, took
place on Saturday, in the gardens of the Society, at Chiswick, and the
afternoon being fine, attracted the most numerous and fashionable at-
tendance we recollect to have seen on any similar occasion, for some
years past. The number of visitors could not have been less than from
5,000 to 6,000; and among the more distinguished part of the company
we noticed the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of
Derby, the Marquis of Blandford, Lord and Lady Fatilkland, Lady
Rolle, Lord Ilelli,ster, Lord Portman, Lord Feversham, Lord W. C.
Russell, Lady Bridport, the Bishop of Rochester, the Dean of St.
Asaph, Sir Thomas Ackland, Bart., Sir Thomas and Lady Stanley,
Countess do Solis, Sir P. G. Egerton, Bart., Sir Oswald Moseley, Bart.,
Sir Trayton Drake, Bart., the Rigkt Hon. E. Ellis, Sir G. Carroll, &c.
The late genial and refreshing showers had evidently stimulated ve-
getation in no small degree, and the grass plots and foliage of the plants,
shrubs, and trees in the garden were clothed in dark green, but still
neither their cold tint, nor the state of the atmosphere, indicated the
presence of that summer who of old, we are told, was wont to come—
" attended by the sultry hours,
And ever fanning breezes on his way;
While, from his ardent look the turning Spring
Averts her blushing face, and earth, and skies,
All smiling to his hot dominion."
The.general appearance was rather that of receding Spring than the ad-
vance to Midsummer ; but at the same time to those who, like our-
selves, are doomed to spend their lives amidst scenes of brick and mor-
tar, we have no doubt that the verdure of the garden would be pro.
Pounced to be such as—

•" soothes,

Inflathes, refreshes, or exalts the taste."

The present exhibition, we arc bound to say, fully equalled, if it did
not surpass in point of beauty and perfection, the displays of either the
last or any former season ; and although we do not recollect to have
seen a larger collection, whether of Floricultural or Horticultural speci-
mens, we did not observe one which was not deserving of admiration,
and did not entitle the cultivator to the utmost praise. There were
,everal military bands in the grounds, which in the course of the after-
noon delighted the company with some pieces of charming and well.
executed music ; and as the rain, though the clouds were lowering and
threatening, more especially towards six o'clock, kept off, the visitors
retired, apparently highly gratified with their entertainment.

It is said that his Royal Highness the Duke de
Nemours will be the bearer of a superb bouquet in diamonds, valued at
1,000,000 fr., as an offering from Louis Philip to Queen Victoria.
The Earl of Mulgrave, they say, at the ensuing
coronation, is to be created Marquis of Normanby. The order for a
Marchioness's coronet is already in the hands of Storr and Mortimer.—
Court Gazette.

The Marquis and Marchionesses of Hastings and
Abereorn, the Marquis Towndiend, Lords Prudhoe, Berwick, and Ran-
furly, are the only Peers who will be absent from the coronation, they
being at present residing on the Continent.

His Highness the Prince Schwartzenberg paid
complimentary visits on Friday to the Duke of Wellington, his Ex-
cellency Count Stroganoff, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, and a host of the Nobility.
Barons de Vrints, de Frannhofen, and de We!den, arc among the Aus-
trian and Bohemian Noblemen in his Highness's suite.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Capua has
quite recovered from her accouchcmcnt, and received visits on Friday
from Prince di Scordia, Lord Allen, Lord Sydney, Lord Ebrington, Lord
and Lady Edward Chichester, Lady Grant, &c.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Holstein Gottorp,
nephew to the reigning King of Denmark, is expected to arrive from
Copenhagen, to represent his Majesty at the Coronation.

Count Charles and Countess Pozzo di Borgo will
leave Ashburnham House this day for the hotel of the Prussian Am-
bassador at Paris, where the Noble Count and his Countess will sojourn
until after the Countess's accouchcment.

Friday morning, soon after ten o'clock, Lord
Hill (the commander.in-chief), Lord Combermerc, and a number of ge-
neral officers, with their aides-de-camp, arrived in Hyde Park, and com.
menced marking out the positions which the various troops of artillery,
cavalry, and infantry, are to occupy at the grand review which will take
place before her Majesty.
ALMACKS.--In consequence of the arrival in this
country of so many foreigners of high and distinguished rank, to attend
the Coronation, the ladies patronesses of these recherchec assemblies
have, we understand, determined to give the ensuing series of three balls
on an especial scale of grandeur not witnessed for many years. Strauss's
full band is engaged for each night, and the grand saloon will be pro-
fusely ornamented and decorated.
The Russian Ambassador's Coronation liveries,
which are now making, are of the most gorgeous description, being
literally covered with gold lace and embroidery. His Excellency is to
give the enormous sum of 2,500/. for the mansions of Lords Caledon
and Stuart de llothsay for six weeks, The idea of renting Burlington
House also, in which to give his entertainments, has, we believe, been
given up.

1 ,„
lIE CORONATION.—THE FAIR IN HYDE
PARK.—The preparations for the festivities on the approaching occasion
of the Coronation have already commenced. Friday morning a large
body of workmen in the employ of Messrs. Baker, of Lambeth, the
contractors for the erection of the new Houses of Parliament, as-
sembled in Hyee Par%, and, having marked out a most extensive
circle on the large open space to the south-west of Cumberland
gate, commenced fixing posts for the erection of an enclosure, from
whence a most briliiant display of fireworks will take places
Over a portion of it, fronting the south, a gallery will be erected,
from the top of which most of the designs will be exhibited,
and thereby rendered risible from all parts of the Park. Three large
mounds of earth have also been raise-3 on the side near Park-lane, on
which batteries will be planted, and a marquee was on Friday placed at
the southern extremity of the ground rrarked out for the boundaries of
the fair by Messrs. Johnson and Lce, the proprietors of Richardson's
Theatre, who ljsve been appointed by Colonel Rowen, under the di-
rection of his Royal Highness the Ranger, to superintend the allotting
and apportioning the ground and the erection of the various booths,
shows, &c. The public offices will, on the evening of the day of the
Coronation be most splendidly illuminated, preparations for which were
on Friday commenced at Somerset-house. At Kensington, Hammer-
smith, and other parishes round the metropolis, the children of the
National, British, and Sunday Schools are to be regaled with roast beef
and plum pudding, and other rejoicings are projected.
INNER TEMPLE, FRIDAY, JUNE 15.—The un-
dermentioned gentleman was yesterday called to the bar by the Hon.
Society of the Inner Temple--viz., Mr, James Williams Scarlett.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1838.