The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-12 00:00:00

a tour.

Since the Duke of Portland's return from a visit
to his son-in-law, the Lord Howard de Walden, he has given
several family dinner parties at Harcourt House, in Cavendish-

square.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's will leave
Exeter to-day for Torquay, proposing to visit the Land's End
ere they return to town.
The Marquis of Drogheda is entertaining a select
party at Moore Abbey, in the county of Kildare.
The Marquis Conyngham and J. Powell, Esq., will
act as stewards of the Thanet Races on the 21st instant.
The Marquis of Hertford was enabled to take the
air in Hyde Park on Saturday last in a carriage.
The Marquis of Anglesey has received a consider-
able accession of income. The Noble Lord's property, as is
generally known, lies in mines of copper and iron. The usual
rental has been about seventy thousand pounds ; this year the
income will be doubled.
The Earl of Liverpool and the Ladies Catherine and
Selina Jenkinson have returned to Buxted Park, Sussex, from
a visit to the Duchess of Kent, at Claremont.
The Earl and Countess De Grey left Wrest Park,
Bedfordshire, on Saturday morning, for Newby Hall, near
Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire.
The Earl of Stradbroke will entertain a party next
month at Henham Hall.
The Earl and Countess of Surrey have arrived at
their villa at Bognor, from their seat at Worksop, Notts.
Lord Melbourne is expected in town this week, from
his seat, Brocket Hall, Herts, to transact business with his
Majesty, on his arrival in town at St. James's Palace.
Lord and Lady De Lisle are making a tour in
Devonshire.
Lord and Lady Barham have arrived at Rafasgate,
where they intend to sojourn for a short period.
Lord George Bentinck has left town for Leaming-
ton ; his Lordship and the Hon. G. Watson are:appointed stew-
ards of the Rochester Races next year.
The ex-Prime Minister, M. Thiers, left Paris on
Thursday night, for Italy, which he is about to visit, as well
as Switzerland and Germany.
The widowed Viscountess Milton is passing the
season in strict seclusion at Milton Park, Peterborough.
The Countess Dowager of Clare and Lady Isabella
Fitzgibbon are gone to Mount Shannon, from Belgrave-square.
Lord Seaford is now on a visit to his son, the Am-
bassador to the Court of Lisbon, and proposes returning home
next month.
Count Novossyltzoff, President of the Council of
the Russian Empire, has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from
a tour in the North. .

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It is reported, we know not how truly, that his Ex-
cellency Count Pozzo di Borgo, on his return from Paris to
Italy, will be united to a French lady of rank, the Countess
B--e.

Lord Dacre will entertain at his hospitable mansion
the Hoo, in Hertfordshire, a large party next month.
Viscount St. Vincent and the Hon. Miss Jervis
have arrived in John-street, Berkeley-square, from a tour.

M. Isturiz, the late Prime Minister of the Queen 01
Spain, was entertained yesterday, by his friend and country.
man, M. Zulueta, at his suburban villa.

The Lessee of Covent-garden opens his theatre
this evening, under the most favourable auspices. Charles
Kemble, who intends to retire from the stage at the end of
the present season, will appear in Macbeth, on Wednesday in
Hamlet, and on Saturday in Beverley, in Moore's tragedy of
The Gamester, when Miss Faucit will personate Mrs. Bever-
ley. Kemble, Macready, William Farren, Mrs. Glover, and
Miss Ellen Faucit, will shortly perform in the same play, and
we hope, by their united efforts, to use the words of James
Smith's vino-, written for the opening of the Garrick Club,
" Bring back the drama to glory again."
The sinecure place in the Post-office, given by
Tory journals to Mr. Duncombe, has long since been abo-
lished. Mr. Stanhope, recently dead, who last held it, re-
tired some years ago on a pension.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 9.—The King and ihfir Royal
Highnesses the Princes of Saxe Coburg, his nephews, arrjved
here from Ostend the day before yesterday. The three Per-
sian Princes, who have been some time at London, have ar-
rived at Brussels, on their return to Persia, accompanied by
an interpreter, Mr. James Baillie Fraser and his lady, who
are going to Persia with those Princes, have also arrived here.

According to the Messager, King Otho, of Greece,
is about to visit Paris with his father, the King of Bavaria.
After spending a fortnight in the French capital, he is to come
to London, and embark frorn England on his return to Athens
His Bavarian Majesty is to pass a part of the winter in Italy.
The Duke of Sutherland's improvements and alte-
rations at Trentham Hall, in Staffordshire, which are now in
progress, will cost, it is estimated, 180,000/.
The Duke of Portland and his daughter, Lady
Henrietta Bentinck, landed at Falmouth on Thursday last,
from his Grace's yacht, the Clown, which conveyed them to
Lisbon to visit Lord and Lady Howard de Walden. The
Duke and his daughter have since gone to Welbeck Abbey,
Notts, to join the Duchess and family..
The only female that was at the battle of Trafalgar,
more than thirty years since, is now living at No. 52, John-
street, Ordnance-place, Chatham. She was in the Euryalos,
now a convict-ship at Chatham, which was under a fire of
four ships of the line. Admiral Collingwood promised to try
to get a pension for her, as she washed for him some time.
She has a large family, having had fourteen children, six of
whom are still living.
It is stated that the Noble Lord to whom Mickle
dedicated his translation of the " Luciad " kept it for above
three weeks before ho had courage to open the leaves.
Two distinguished Polish personages, Count Plater
and Prince Falkenhagen-Jaliski, visited Leeds last week, and,
after inspecting some of the principal manufactories, departed
for Scarborough.
Lord Say and Sele, and the Hon. Fiennes
Twisle-
ton arrived in town on Saturday last, from Broughton Castle
in Oxfordshire.

Lord King's new mansion in St. James's Square,
will be an extremely handsome edifice. It is expected to be
ready by the spring ofyiext year.
Lord Skelmersdale will entertain a party in the
course of next month, at Lathone House, near Ormskirk, in
Lancashire.

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ELOPEMENT.—An elopement, which, from the
parties being well known, has excited no small degree of sen-
sation in this neighbourhood, took place some days since from
Southsea. The lady, who is of English birth, is the wife of
a :dajor Masson, an cfficer in the Hanoverian service, and
the companion of her flight Lieutenant F. Campbell, R. M.,
a widower. The injured husband, who was led to believe that
his wife was on a visit to her mother, was a stranger to the
circumstance until some days had elapsed. On proceeding
to London to join her he traced Madame Masson to a lodging
in Regent-street, where he discovered her in company with
Lieutenant Campbell, with whom she was then residing. The