The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-26 00:00:00

CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.

The Duke and Duchess of Richmond are entertaining
select family party at Goodwood. The Dowager-Duchess
of Richmond arrived in the previous week, and several
other members if the family were expected on Monday last.
WOBURN ABBY Y.--A numerous family circle has assem-
bled ;A this romantic, Abbey, on visits to the Duke and
"uchess of Bedford. The Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn were to arrive on Monday last from Bentley
Priory, Stanmore. Lord arid Lady Charles Russell, Lord
William Russell, &c., have arrived at the Abbey. It was
not known whether Lord John R
r ussell would join the
family circle or not.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort's elegant seat, Bad-
°linton, in Gloucestershire, will be full of company during
the week. The Duke of Lucca, Earl and Countess of
Wilton, Mr. C. W. Codrington, M.P., and Lady Geor-
liana Codrington, and Earl Bathurst, were to be of the
Party.
The Duke of Rutland' in to assemble
s party was to beg
°,i° Monday, but the grand ;lay at Belvoir Castle is on Fri-
may week, his Grace's birth-d,AY.
The Marquis and Marchione.,s of Westminster are see-
ing company at Eaton Hall, their princely seat, in Cheshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire have a
Party at Easthampstead Park, Berks, during the week.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are dispensing
*heir hospitality to a select party at Burghley House,
near
Stamford.
The venerable Marquis of Camden is in the best of
Ileafai, and entertaining the Earl and Countess of Breck-
'lock and a party at the Wilderness, his seat in Kent.
HaaEwoon House.—The Earl and Countess of Hare-
Wood are receiving a large circle of their friends at this
'tat. The Hon. George and Lady Louisa Cavendish,
Wm. and Lady Caroline Lascelles, Hon. Henry and
Lady Louisa Lascelles are of the party. Yesterday was the
noble Ear's birth-day, when he completed his 71st year.
The Earl „and Countess of Verulam have a family party,
consisting of ete Earl and Countess of Craven, Viscount
Grimstou, Lady Catherine Barham, &c., at Gorhambury,
Herts.
The Ea.rl and Countess of Winchilsea intended to have
a select pariy at Hav,,:hohne Priory, Lincolnshire, during
the Christmas week.
The Earl arid Countess of Morley gave dinners at Sal-
tram, their seat in Devon, airing the week.
The Earl of Yarborough ;_s surrounded by a party of
lie.latives at Appuldercombe, Isle of Wight. Lord and
ady Worsley are visiting their Noble parent.
The Earl of Gosford has a distinguished party of Noble
at Gosford Castle, Armagh. Viscount and Vis-
Countess Acheson left town on Tuesday last, for the Castle,
Where they were expected on Saturday last.
The Dowager-Countess of Pembroke is entertaining
f the
°llo;vin list of fashionables at Wilton House, near Sails-
b g
:—The Count and Countess Woronzow, Earl and
y'"untess of Dunmore, Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam,
'ount Simon Woronzow, Hon. Sydney Herbert, &c.
Lord ;And Lady Willoughby D'Eresby have a distin-
guished circle at Grimsthorpe, their seat, near Bourne,
Lincolnshire.
Lora and Lady Ravensworth are entertaining a succes-
-41°4 of visiteis at Ravensworth Castle, Northumberland.
to Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have invited a nume-
bus but select party to pass the Christmas at Worsley
`4411. Lancashire.
Lord and Lady Barham have a family party at Exton
park, near Stamford.
Lord and Lady Maryborough have a numerous party
assembled at Deal Castle, including the Earl and Countess
tof Clarendon. Sir Charles and Lady Begot, &c. There is
v° be
a grano °au at to-morrow evenina-,
hostesshi the
will be
Present.

The Duke of CambrOge entertained a select party
0
Monday last at Cambridge House.
I,l•The Duke and Ductless of Cambridge and the
e•ncess Augusta of Cambridge tended divine service
Y sterday morning, in Grosvenor Chapt:i..
the Duke and
The Duchess of Gloucester visited
Duchess of Cambridge on Monday, at Cami;;-idge House.
1-IANovER, DEC. 19.—The bulletin of ti:3! health
of ts? Crown Prince today is favourable.
Lor:lcount Melbourne and a small party dined with
Rolland on Monday evening, at his residence in
Alth-street
afta_T,ll, late- Countess Dowager of Rosse, we under-
"Q left the sum of 6,0001. three per cents., the annual

dividends to be applied towards erecting or repairing Epis-
copal chapels, and assisting in the education of young men
for the Episcopal Church. In the application and distri-
bution of this fund, the trustees (who are three in number.
one of them being the Rev. Mr. Fyvie, Inverness) are in-
structed, cceteris paribus, to prefer the Highlands and High-
landers, the islands of Orkney and Shetland being con-
cluded.—lnverness Courier.
The Ladies Fitzpatrick had a select party yesterday
at theii. Seat, Farman Woods, near Thrapston, in Northamp-
tonshire.
Lady Mildmay entertained a family party yesterday
at Dogrnersfield Park, Hartford Bridge.
Lord Cantelupe had a severe fall whilst hunting
with Lord Suffield's hounds last week, by which his collar-
bone was broken.
Sir William Curtis, Bart., entertained a fashionable
circle yesterday, in Portland-place.
The remains of the late Duke de Choiseul have
been deposited in the family vault on his estate of Houc-
court, Department of the Vosges.
Sir Henry Pigot, Bart., entertained a party at din-
ner yesterday at his house, in Wilton-crescent.
Mr. Standish entertained a party yesterday at Prior
Park.

Mr. St. Quintin had a dinner party yesterday, in
Bruton-street.
Mr. Van Amburgh has been re-engaged at
Drury-lane Theatre, and will exhibit his astonishing per-
formaace with his lions mad tigers, in the pantomime, this
evening.

ACADEMY OF Music.--The Board of Professors
appointed to decide on the merits of the Candidates for the
King's Scholarship, recommended Miss E. Jonas, a highly
talented pianoforte player, to be re-elected, and that Mas-
ter C. Bachelor, of Southwell, Nottinghamshire, should
be nominated to fill up the other vacancy. There were four
other Candidates, who displayed great talent in their exami-
nation; and the report sent to Lord Burghersh, Chairman
of the Committee of Directors, by the Board of Professors,
was highly satisfactory in every respect.
Meyerbeer's opera, The Huguenots, was performed
a few days ago, for the first time, at the Court Theatre of
Hanover. Its success was complete, the orchestra even

joining in the enthusiastic applause of the audience. In
the first days of next month the same theatre is to be
favoured with the debut of a young lawyer, M. Boyersheim,
the son of one of the richest merchants of Hamburgh. His
voice is said to be a very fine and extensive tenor, and he
is represented to have been determined by his sole love
of music to abandon a profession in which he was rapidly

Yesterday, according to the annual custom of his
Grace the Duke of Northumberland, the Rector of the
parish of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (the Rev. Sir Henry
Dukenfield), distributed at nine o'clock in the morning at
the rectory-house, his Grace's annual donation, to 800 poor
men and women, residents in the parish, and who could
produce testimonials of being of sober and religious habits.
To each man and woman the sum of two shillings and six-
pence was given. The applicants, though very poor, had
a cleanly and neat appearance.

On Friday Dr. Pouqueville died at Paris at the age
of 68. He was a Member of the French Institute, and
formerly Consul-General at Janina, the capital of the cele-
brated Ali Pasha. Among his works are a " History of
the Regeneration of Greece," and " A Visit. to the Morea,
Constantinople and Albania," in 1798,1799, 1800, and 1801.

ANTI-CORN-LAW SOCIETY.— WC have great
pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to the
formation of an Anti-Corn-law Society in this town. We
trust that all classes of Reformers will vigorously support
this Association, which is intended to co-operate with simi-
lar bodies in all parts of the kingdom. A concentration of
effort upon one measure will be highly favourable to its
success.—Leicestershire Mercury.
INTREPID CONDUCT.—An occurrence took place
yesterday afternoon in Blackett-street, which, but for the
praiseworthy conduct of a lady, might have proved fatal.
A servant girl, while engaged making up the fire, having
gone too near, her dress got completely ignited—she rushed
to the street door, enveloped in flames, alarming the whole
street with her screams, when, providentially, the lady of
Captain Bathines passing at the time, with the greatest
degree of self-possession ran to her rescue, and wrapping
the girl in a valuable cloak, which she had on at the time,
regardless of danger, her own dress becoming ignited, she
succeeded in overcoming the flames, and thereby, perhaps,
saved the girl's life.—Newcastle Paper. _ _

A WARNING.—We have been hitherto told that
the object of the Convention in London, to which dele-
gates are now electing by the Chartists, is to watch over
and enforce the views of the national petition. The
speech of Mr. Abram Duncan, however, on his recent
election at Dumfries, indicates more extensive objects. lie
said ,—" They will ascertain the various divisions of the
British army, and where stationed—how they ate likely to
be occupied—the dispositions and feelings of those who are
remaining at home with regard to the present movement—
the amount of bullion in the banks—the probable amount
of paper in the hands of the working population of the
British empire—the arrangement of a certain day when all
will be demanded in gold—the practicability of arranging
for a month of holidays, that the people may arrange what
ought to be done." We call upon the multitude who have
hitherto been blindly following the Chartist leaders to
pause and reflect upon this proposal to tamper with the
army. It is is hat no government can permit to be done :
it brings the government and the party attempting it at
once into hostile collision. One overt act of this kind
will be the signal for indictments for treasonable practices
—it may be for a suspension of the Habeas Corpus.—
Glasgow Argus.
Last week T. Chamberlain, of Cranbury House,
near Southampton, and P. Holland, of Dumbleton, near
Evesham, late M.P. for Worcestershire, suffered severe
falls while taking dangerous leaps, by which the former
broke his collar-hone and discolated his shoulder, and the
latter experienced a fracture of the jaw-bone, accompanied
by severe bruises. Both gentlemen are, however, in a fair
way of recovery.
At the sitting of Magistrates on the 15th instant,
Mr. Baker, who is employed in surveying the parish of
Lower Beeding, appeared to answer an information,
charging him with having cut down certain trees and fellows,
the property of R. Aldridge, Esq. The defendant admitted
that he had cut down the trees, but pleaded that it was
necessary to do so, in order to make a correct survey. Af-
ter hearing evidence, the Magistrate decided against the
defendant, and fined him 55., costs 40s. Mr. Baker in-
tends to appeal to the Quarter Sessions.
On Wednesday last the children of a labouring man,
named Dale, having been left in the care of a neighbour,
while the parents were at work, one of them, a girl, aged
three years, by some means set fire to her clothes, and was
so dreadfully burnt, that but slight hopes arc entertained of
her recovery.—Sussex Advertiser.
RAILWAYS v. COMMON ROADs.—During the
past week upwards of twenty travelling carriages of the
Nobility and Gentry have passed through Towcester
along the old Holyhead road, so that it appears there are
still many who prefer the old mode of travelling, and the
comfort to be found at the numerous first-rate inns on the
line.—Northampion Herald.
On Monday night an inquest was held in St.
Thomas's Hospital on the body of a child named Reeves,
who, during the absence of her mother, bad drunk some
boiling water from a tea-kettle just taken from the fire,
and died in that institution a short time afterwards in dread-
ful agony, from internal scalding. Verdict—" Accidental
death."
On Monday last an inquest was held at Shire-green,
near Ecclesfield, on view of the body of George Tingle,
the son of the landlori, a fine boy, near four years old,
who came to his death under the following pa nful circum-
stances :—The little boy was in the brew-house with his
father, who left it for a moment to go up into the malt-
chamber, and during his momentary absence he fell into the
boiling liquor. His sister, who- was in the house ,tearing
his screams, immediately ran to his assistance, and with the
father and mother's help he was extricated, but he was so
dreadfulii scalded that he died soon after.. The jury was
satisfied that it was purely an accident, and returned a ver-
dict accordingly.—Doncaster Gazette.
Great excitement prevailed in Beverley on Monday,
by a report which had general circulation, that a man had
been stabbed by his wife at the Beckside, and that he was
not expected to survive. It appears that John Dyson
Whitaker, who lives in an alley nearly opposite the Ship
Inn, at the Beckside, had been quarrelling with his wife,
Henrietta Whitaker, and about four o'clock she took up
her husband's pocket-knife and struck him ,most violently
with it in the right side. He suffered great pain and lost
much blood ; and Mr, Doulton, the surgeon, quickly at-
tended, and pronounced the Than to be in imminent danger,
as he thought the blade of tl-sekn\i:•Te.
tha.dGipibeynehtraadtedeatrhye
liver, The Mayor an .
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intimation of the
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in the presence of his wife. He stated that they ha
beep
quarrelling most of the day, but be never struck his wilt;
or threaten 34 to strike her, and that without provocation
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was
throwing some w
she took up the
some into the fire, when he said she should not do it. Ohe
said she would, and he said she sliould not, and she at once
the East-Riding gou§coo'Lf 7:l;‘e.
struck him --.01 the kr;ife• The wife was 047[1)441 to
section.
A
pcy, year the opera at io
t the beginnina
Hanos.ey will receive an addition in theparson of a yourg
debutant, M. Boversheim, the son of 8 rich rfteroW.ot of
Hamburg, who is ;,,,,L0 to possess an extraordinarily hap
tepor,And who, from a mere love of the art, has quitted a
lue,ratiive Fofessiou to counnenze xllae pleatrical career,

THE SAILORS' HOME.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Merchistoun Hail, horn Dean
Dec. 21, 1838.

Mr. Editor—Have you ever seen the Seaman's Home ?
If you have cot I recommend you to put yourself in a cab
and drive to Wellclose-square ; you will there see the
most useful and most national establishment in Great
Britain, not supported, as it ought to be, by the Go-
vernment, but got up by a private individual, and sup-
ported by subscription. The object of this Institution, Mr.
Editor, is to rescue the poor sailor from the fangs of the
"crimps" and vagabonds of every description, who lay hold
of him the moment the ship's anchor is dropped in the
river, and never let him out of their hands till his money is
spent, his clothes sold, and until he is in debt nearly to the
extent of the two months' advance the shipowner generally
gives him on shipping ; he is then sent on a voyage, and on
his return goes through the same routine. My object, Mr.
Editor, in writing to you, is to beg you to call the attention
of the public, and of Parliament, to this Institution ; and
if a small grant could be obtained to enable the Manager
to lower the price of board and lodging, the " crimps" would
would be at once destroyed, and the sailor rescued from
the subjection he is kept in ; this, once done, Seamen's
Homes would spring up in every part of the United
Kingdom.
Laws, Mr. Editor, have been made, at different times,
to protect the slave—to secure children from being over-
worked in factories, and to starve the poor for the advan-
tage of the landowner. But I know of no laws for the
poor ignorant sailor, except those to press him when
wanted, and send him to the four quarters of the globe, to
be shot at for a shilling a day, when he could get three
times that sum if allowed to follow a peaceful occupation.
I have the honour to be, Mr. Editor,
Your obedient servant.
CHARLES NAPIER.