The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-03 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

General Goblet (the Belgian Minister), accompanied by his
Aid-de-Camp, from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for
Brussels ; Mr. and Mrs. Perkins and family, from ditto, for
Chipstead-place, Seven Oaks ; Dr. and Mrs. Henn and fa-
mily, from ditto, for Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Rampini, from
ditto ; the Rev. G. Bill, from ditto ; - Leigh, Esq., from
ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Stoddart Douglas and Miss Rayenfeld,
from ditto ; the Earl of Pembroke, from Fenton's Hotel, St.
James's-street, for Paris ; Charles Milner, Esq., from ditto,
for Preston Hall, Kent ; Sir George Pigot, the Rev. Wellesley
Pigot, and the Misses Pigot, from the St. George's Hotel,
Albemarle-street, on a tour ; Colonel Fitzgibbon, for Clifton ;
the Misses Wickham, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for
Yorkshire; Captain Parkinson, from ditto, for Portsmouth.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
attended by Lady Caroline Legge, her resident Lady-in-
Wai,:ing, will leave Gloucester-house on Saturday, on a
visit to their Majesties at the Pavilion.
The Grand Duke Michael of Russia, who had pro-
ceeded to Rotterdam, in order to embark for England,
where apartments have been engaged for him, has suddenly
changed his mind, and returned to Germany ; no one ap-
pears to know why.
The Duke of Norfolk is entertaining a select circle
at his delightful seat at St. Genevieve, near Bury St. Ed-
ittund's, his favourite residence. The Earl of, Surrey, the
Duke's son, prefers Arundel Castle, because of its internal
Comforts and convenience, the late Duke having expended
200,0001. in putting the house in order, and building addi-
tional apartments, by which 50 visitors and their servants
can be received at the same time.
Owing to the arrival of some new visitants, the Duke
of Devonshire's return to town from Chatsworth is delayed
until next week.
The Marchioness of Abercorn and family were ex-
pected to embark at Holyhead yesterday for Dublin, to
/fleet the Marquis at Baron's Court, where the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford and other noble relatives are also about
to proceed.
The Earl of Besborough, Lord and Lady Seymour,
Earl. and Countess Poulett, Lord Hawarden, Sir H.
Turror, the Hon. Mrs. Flower, and Colonel and Mrs.
Manses] are included in the late arrivals at Weymouth.
The t;ountess of Essex will recommence her card
Parties in a; few days for the winter.
Lord Braybroke, the Earl of Hardwicke, General
Grosvenor, J. A. Elwes, Esq., M.P. ; T. W. Bramston,
Esq,, m.p.; R. I. Eaton, Esq., M.P. ; and E. T. Yorke,
Sq., M.P., were amongst the personages present at the
raeeting of the Saffron Walden Agricultural Society on
Friday last. The Countess of Hardwicke and Lady Bray-
/Tooke \were present at the distribution of the various prizes.
Lady Ashburton and the Hon. the Misses Baring
Ltte going to Brighton for the winter.
Lord Ashburton came up from his seat in Hamp-
4ire last week to Bath House, Piccadilly, and has since
returned to The Grange.
Sir Henry Freeling's patent as Junior Commissioner
° Customs has been made out ; he attended for the first
times at the Board on Tuesday, and took the prescribed oaths
lit office.
Sjr John and Lady Maria Stanley have been enter-
tr.,4ining• a select circle at Alderley Park, near Knutsford, in
‘dheshiro. Mr. Stanley, M.P., and Secretary to the Trea-
!ory, joined the party on his way from a shooting excursion
41 the north,
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Lady
I)over are to remain two or three days on a visit to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theodosia Spring
Rice, at Mount TTenchard, near Limerick, on their return
to Trentham Hall, where vast improvements are in progress.
The Earl of Eldon has returned to Encombc House
4::°111 a visit to the Rev. Edward and Lady Frances Bankes,
at Corfe Castle. Although Lord Eldon has purchased
B°lze large estates in the north, and is a native of Newcastle-
-1401-Tyne, and whilst he was at the Bar regularly went the
°lll.,ern Circuit, he has rarely, either for, recreation or on
business
gone to the north since his elevation to the Peerage.
Lord Brougham came to town on Tuesday, and,
having called a meeting of the Council of the London
°lversitvr presented the College with the sum of 5,0001.,
, J
"Leo had been entrusted to him for that purpose. The
—eine of the donor was not stated.
The Hon. Frederick Shaw, M.P., left Dublin last
°tea for London, en route for Paris, where his Lady has been
ao:lou.rning for some time past for the benefit of her health.
„ IVII.. and Mrs. Ferguson, of Raith, are entertaining
"Party at Biel, N.B.
s There was a trial of vocal music yesterday by the
:eiety of British Musicians, with a view of selecting such
flight be approved of, to be performers at their approach-
tPoblic con :erts.
Lord Ho:warden has been elected an Irish Represen-
tative Peer in the room of the late Lord Dufferin. The
numbers were—for Lord liziwarden, 86 ; for Lord Lis-
-more, 28.
num-
ber Leopold is expected at Laeken. The
oi, English families resorting to that place' never was
Ore
ater. The great difficulty is to procure suitable houses
ar Itiartmento, of which there is an extreme scarcity.
East
Eliot has commenced an active canvass for
the
Cornwall, which is expected to be warmly contested
1 event of a vacancy to represent. it in Parliament.
Til ne
Russian Ambassador and suite are expected to
arrivit e at Ashburnharn House to-morrow, from Paris, where
is understood his facellency has been detained several
1418 longer than he exwteted by business of an important
re, namely, the trial of his favourite nephew and heir,
Colonel Po Borgo, before
•
tone,zzo a Court-martial, for having
444
_proad without the permission of the Minister at War,
(31 which charge the Colonel was unanimously acquitted.
St. 111 Monday evening, the Windham Club-house,
Barnes's-square,laiely the property of the Duke of Athol,
IN, opened
by the members of the club. The house has
Earn for the most part nerTly decorated, and is splendidly
cunetr,ed• It differs from all the other club-House
in having more the appearance and style of the
tabliA44lent of a Nobleman or Gentleman, than the house

of a Society. A party of about fifty Gentlemen sat down
to a sumptuous dinner given on the occasion, the Earl of
Lisburne in the chair ; and, after many appropriate toasts,
including " prosperity to the Club," the party separated at
a late hour.

The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's left South-
ampton on Tuesday for St. Alban's House, Brighton, for the

winter.

The Spanish Duke d'Osuna was visited on Tuesday
at Mivart's Hotel by Lord Holland and several of the corps
diplonzatique. The Duke proceeds on a short tour, com-
mencing w►th Windsor, and thence to Brighton, to pay
his respects to their Majesties.
The Earl of Tankerville has returned to town. The
Countess is shortly expected in Grosvenor-square from the
north, where their son, Lord Ossulston, has been on a visit
to the Duke of Northumberland, at Alnwick Castle.
The Earl of Roden left town last week on a visit
to Lord and Lady Barham at Ramsgate, from whence he
will proceed to visit the Duke of Wellington at Widmer
Castle.

During a thick fog on Monday night, the Ata-
lanta steamer, on her way from Guernsey to Southampton,
ran on shore at Grange Chine, about five miles to the west-
ward of Chale Bay, where the Clarendon West Indiaman
was lately wrecked. It being fortunately high water at the
time, she floated over the rocks on to the beach, was got
off next morning without damage, and proceeded to South-
ampton. There were between 40 and 50 passengers on
board.—Hampshire Chronicle.
PATRIARCHAL FAMILY.—Mrs. H. P., a lady of
considerable property, residing in the vicinity of Edgware,
attained her 103 d year on the 28th of the present month.
She is the youngest of three sisters, one of whom is 107.
and the other 105 years of age, and Mrs. H., one of the
ladies, has a son 80 years of age. Another sister died about
two years ago in her 102 d year.
On Saturday last the Lord Gambier, Captain
Warham, arrived in Shields Harbour, with five fish, from
Davis' Straits. The Lord Gambier has brought home part
of the crew of the Margaret, of London, which vessel was
lost in Pond's Bay. On Tuesday morning last the Lady
Jane arrived at Shields from Davis' Straits, with eight fish.
—Sunderland Herald.

THE CONTINENT IN 1835.-411 these volumes,
which are just published, Professor Hoppus presents the
most graphical views of the Continent and of its inhabi-
tants ; indeed, so ably has he accomplished his undertak-
ing, that a perusal of it prior to a Continental tour,
would greatly facilitate the objects of the traveller, and
enable him to provide against difficulties which, but for the
book, he would not have foreseen. The experience of a
man like the Learned Professor must be extremely valu-
able, and it is evident that both from the travelled and
the untravelled, his work will meet with a welcome reception.
PROGRESS OF REFORM AT TA VISTOC K.—On
Monday, the 24th ult., at the Court Leet of his Grace
the Duke of Bedford, the steward, John Benson, Esq.,
having declined to nominate a portreeve, as had been the
invariable custom of his predecessor, the jury, on the free
exercise of their privilege, returned C. V. Bridgman, Esq.
to fill that office for the ensuing year. We have often had
occasion to compliment our Tavistock friends on the suc-
cess which has attended their struggles for freedom, and on
the example they have always been foremost to set to their
neighbours ; and as they have now quietly, and by moral
force alone, obtained a right which we know they have
been insisting on for the last twenty years, we again
heartily tender them our congratulations ; and we have
no doubt they, equally with ourselves, estimate the libe-
rality which has characterised the conduct of the steward
in this proceeding, and hail it as one of the many evi-
dences that gentleman has given since his appointment, of
his desire to render Tavistock a happy, united, and flourish-
ing community.—Plymouth Journal.

MEMORIALS OF MRS. HEMANS.—The departed
poetess has left a vacant throne which none have yet been
judged worthy to fill. But those who read Mr. Chorley's
touching memorials of this amiable lady, which have just
appeared, will feel that in the hearts of her admirers—
(would that her imitators were as numerous)—she has
left a vacuum still more difficult to supply than that which
her loss has occasioned to poetry. 'We cordially recom-
mend these volumes to all who can appreciate genius—to
all who can reverence virtue—for with then they must be-
come favourites.

An attempt at forgery upon a Dutch house, to the
extent of about twelve thousand florins, has been disco-
vered. It was attempted to obtain the signature of the
firm in question by advising the house that such a bill was
in circulation, and, had an answer been returned, the sig-
nature would have been used for the purposes of fraud, a
novel and ingenious mode, having already been successful
for such a purpose. A fraud of the description referred to
has already been committed upon a London banking firm.
The plan followed was this :—The bottom of a letter was
torn off, bearing the name of the firm, just above tho sig-
nature. The part so torn was reduced to half the size of
an ordinary stamp. The other half, to make up the form
of a bill, was cut from a bill stamp, and the two pieces of
paper being pasted together assumed the form of a bill, the
signature of the original letter being made that of the ac-
ceptor of the fictitious bill. The paper so presented to the
banking firm, bore the appearance of a Bill of Exchange
which had been regularly cut in half, the two pieces of
paper being filled up in the usual mode in which bills are
drawn.

THE PRINCE OF CANINO'S MEmoißs.—This
national work, which has just appeared, must be regarded as
no common auto-biography, inasmuch as it throws an im-
portant light on those political movements which a few
years since convulsed the nations of Europe, and the
causes of which have been but imperfectly detailed by pre-
vious historians. Indeed were it only for the descrip-
tion which it gives of the dawnings of that mighty spirit
which in after times was to hold in subjection nearly the
whole world, it would be strikingly interesting and com-
mand general attention. It is extremely popular, and there
can be no doubt that it will become one of the standard
works in our language.

vLord
Skelmersdale is entertaining Lord and Lady
Stanley, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bootle Wibraham, &c., at
his seat, Latham House, Ormskirk.

PRIZE FIGHT PREVENTED.—On Tuesday one of
those brutal exhibitions called prize fights was announced to
take place between Brown and Smith, better known to the
sporting world" as " The Sprig of Myrtle," and " The
Chelsea Doctor," for 501. a-side. The place appointed was
a field in the village of Hanworth, near Hounslow, and
from an early hour in the morning pedestrians, horsemen,
and vehicles of every description, hurried along the western
road to the scene of action. At twelve o'clock the men,
attended by their seconds and backers, arrived at the spot,
but they had scarcely entered the ropes before the Rev.
Henry Trimmer, a Magistrate, residing at Hounslow, at-
tended by several constables, made his appearance, and de-
clared his determination not to allow the fight to take
place within his jurisdiction. After several ineffectual at-
tempts to shake the worthy Magistrate's resolution,the com-
batants, with their friends, proceeded to the Bell public-
house at Hounslow, to determine on another site for the
fight ; but while there, Henry Pownall, Esq., the same Ma-
gistrate who prevented the parties fighting at Northolt in
the summer, joined his worthy colleague, and obtained a
promise from Mr. Britton, the landlord of the Caroline
Arms at Shepherd's Bush (at whose house " The Chelsea
Doctor" had been in training), that the fight should not
take place in Middlesex. It was then proposed that the
combatants should toss up for the choice of another spot,
either in Surrey, Berks, or Bucks, which was accordingly
done, when Brown, winning the toss, declared he would not
fight anywhere but in Middlesex. A lengthened alterca-
tion then took place between the parties, when Mr. Britton
declaring he would not break the pledge he had given the
Magistrate, removed Smith from the spot. Brown and his
friends shortly followed, and the whole of the parties re-
turned to town, leaving the important question as to which
of the men can stand longest to be beat and knocked about
like a brute still undecided.
BUDE (CORNWALL), OCT. 30.—We saw passing
this place a vessel with two masts, which was thought to be
a ketch or galliot, some believed it to be a schooner. She
appeared to be bearing towards our harbour ; her sails were
all gone, and she seemed to be waterlogged. We could see
one man in the rigging, and three on the quarter, near the
taffrail. Her stern appeared more out of the water than
her bows. All at once she fell over on her side, and dis-
appeared. Not a vestige of her or her crew has come on
shore yet.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES.

FUNDS.

Omnium
India Stock 256
Ditto ponds 5 pm.
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities .......
Bills, 10,41/
Ditto 5001 1 pm.
Ditto 5001 4 pm.
flank Stock for Opg.
India Stock for Act.
Consols for Act.
I FUNDS.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 55
Prussian. 5 per cent.
Russian Bends, 5 per seat
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto. Consolidated. `JO%
French, 5 per cent ...... —f. —c.
Exchange —f. —c.
[French, 3 per cent —t. —c.
Dutch, 2i per cent.
Ditto, 5 per cent
. RES,