The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-13 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
10 Rev. J. Vaughan and Miss Vaughan at the Berners Hotel,
erners-street from Wroxall, Bristol ; Mrs. and Miss Frcwen
Turner at ditto ' • Mrs. Aubrey at ditto, from Montreal, Ca-
-144 ; T. Gordon, Esq. from Wendover House, Bucks; T.
Comic, Esq. at ditto, from Liverpool ; J. Majoribanks, Esq.
aditto; Rev. R. G. Bartlett at ditto; J. Nicoll, Esq. at
tto; Shaw Mordev, Esq., Mrs. Mordey and family, at Mar-
all Thomp%n's HZtel, Cavendish-square; William Peereth,
Martin
family at ditto, from the North; Captain and Mrs.
Martin at ditto; Miss Kingston at ditto; Wobern, Esq.,
at ditto.

Lechy and Mrs. Leech PARy
fromTU theRES Bernr..rs Hotel, Berners-
strmreet, for Hastings Mrs. Talbot from ditto ; Rev. W. and
s• Wallace from 'ditto, for the Rectory, Thorpe Abbotts,
Norfolk ; J. Sawbridge, 'Esq. and Mrs. Sawbridge from ditto ;
err 0. Clarke, M.P , Lady Clarke and family, from Mar-
al Thompson's Hotel,. Cavendish.squarc ; Captain and Miss
fo re from ditto, for Brighton; Captain Stanton from ditto,
or ditto ; Rev. Messrs. Drake and Taddy from ditto ;
reg°rY, Esq., from ditto, for Birmingham.

We learn that her Majesty does not intend to
11146 a longer stay at Brighton than a fortnight.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl
Isiattplaciskeith, and family, left Paris on Monday last for
The Duke of Devonshire is now at Rome, in good
health, and is expected home early in February.
The Duke de Coigny is likely to succeed the late
DDuke de Choiseul as President of the Commission of the
41°Yal Theatres.
T• he Duke of Buceleuch, in the most liberal manner,
rvs lately presented the Committee of Management of the
estrainster Dispensary, Gerard-street, Soho, with a hand-
'erne donation of fifty pounds in aid of the funds of this ex-
cellent charity.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby and
family]4ll
Thy
are expected to arrive at the Clarendon Hotel on
-`anday next.
Kill
Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Charlotte
;91',11 have arrived at Ombersly Court, Worcestershire, on a
et., to Lord Sandys, from a visit to the Hon. Colonel and
Lady
Harriet Clive. The Noble Marquis has joined his
ad 37 from Hillsborough Castle, Downshire, Ireland.
01 The Earl of Durham visited his Royal Highness
.e Duke of Lucca yesterday, at Mivart's Hotel.
r, The Earl and Countess of Verulam, and the Ladies
r,riraston, have left town for the family seat, Gorhambury,
'lerts, where they intend passing the approaching Christ-
V.
14'
• Viscount Grimston, M.P., left Grosvenor-square
Yesterday afternoon, to join the family circle.
T The Earl of Yarborough left Arlington-street on
Where Lord and Lady Worsley have arrived, from a visit
Sir J. and Lady Copley, at Sprotborough Hall, near
Doncaster.
• baron and I3aroness Dimsdalc arrived at Mivart's
gotel yesterday from Camfield Place, Herts. The Baron
end Baronesshave postponed their departure for Paris
-1,,▪ Wing to the indisposition of their accomplished daughter,
Dimsdale.
-rived Spencer d'Horsey and Lady Louisa d'Horsey
-lived in Grosvenor-street on Tuesday last from a tour.
O The splendid yacht belonging to the Duke of Buc-
nteb now lies at Greenwich, taking in luggage and stores;
;
-u° is expected to sail for Naples on Monday next.
The new Swedish Ambassador to our Court, in the
poto of Count Bjorrstjcrna, his Excellency Count Spreng-
„ten, is expected in town early in January.
difhe accounts received yesterday from Lord Had-
fingtan's seat, Tynnyghame House, at the Green Park
o
tel, state that his Excellency General Count Woronzow
hiss gradually recovering from his indisposition, and, with
son, will return to town at the end of the week. It
has a severe attack of lumbago.
D.Great
gaiety prevails at the hospitable scat of Lord
airuorben, Kinmell Park St. Asaph's. Among the visitants
e4d3r arrived are--Lord Sandes Lord and Lady Gardner,
ior Richard and Lady Bulkelev l'..ieut.Wellesley Williams,
prtil Hussars ; Colonel Hug he's, brother to Lord Dinorben ;
le j's° Pryse, Esq., M.P. ; Miss Williams, Hon. Mrs. Row-
Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Grey, Richard Croft, Esq.
U Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Lady Cecilia
n eterwood, and Lord John Churchill, are expected at
"o'tlrnell on Monday next, for the Christmas recess, from
field 4'l Wildman's, Newstcad Abbey, the sports of the
Sir
the mornings, cards and music the evenings.
het`pr Watkin Williams Wynn is much improved in
rivedrn o; and last week, with his accomplished daughter, ar-
n a visit to Mr. Heaton, at his romantic seat Plas
Seaton, near Denbigh. Much hospitality willprevail at
Jonstay during the approaching festive season.
tb4° Perceive that David Salmons, Esq., has set
cops xan"Ple of making an increase in the rate of wages, in
equence of the high price of corn.—Sussex Express.
his Strauss, the musician, was taken sudden 4 ill during
No:ni!end visit to Leicester lately, on his tour from the
both to town. He was attended by two medical awn,
he r advised his immediate departure for the Continent.
gratedshed. as week, Calais l t and there dismissed his ecle-
ban

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL

OF DURHAM.

At a special meeting of the Westminster Reform Society,
held last evening at Stannard's Hotel, Charles-street,
Covent-garden, the following address was voted to Lord
Durham :

We, the members of the Westminster Reform Society,
approach your Lordship with feelings of great respect, and
consider your presence in England at this critical period as
an occurrence of vast importance towards the advancement
of civil liberty in this land of factious misrule, and, conse-
quent discontent.

We hail with great satisfaction, and trust we may con-
fide in, your Lordship's declaration to the people of Devon-
port, that your opinions on the great principles of Reform
are " not only unchanged and unchangeable," but that they
arc more and more confirmed by longer experience, and as
your Lordship has referred to your declaration made to the
people of Scotland in 1834, as a test of those principles,
we can assure your Lordship that a large proportion of
your countrymen are anxiously waiting to aid your laudable
exertions in so great a cause.

The Westminster Reform Society have ever had in view
the same measure of reform so ably advocated by your
Lordship in the speeches you have referred to—namely,
Householder's Suffrage,
Triennial Parliaments, and
Voting by Ballot.
Each and all of which we lament being compelled to say
are opposed by the present Administration.

We cannot be mistaken in assuring your Lordship, that
for the protection of property, the encouragement of in-
dustry, the increase of trade, commerce, and agriculture,
all the arts and comforts of life, the reforms so cordially
acknowledged by your Lordship must be carried into full
and complete effect—that delay cannot fail to be attended
by many most serious evils, and that neglect of these im,
portant measures for any considerable period, will probably
prevent their being safely and peaceably adopted at any
time.

We therefore ardently hope at this conjuncture, when
many circumstances combine to aid your Lordship's ex-
ertions, that your Lordship may be blessed w;th the health
and strength necessary to enable you to proceed with, and
bring to, a happy conclusion matters of such great impor-
tance, and so highly and permanently honourable to
yourself.

(Signed on behalf of the Society),
WM. TROT'I', Chairman.
W. WEST, Hon. Secretary.

TORY TOWN COUNCIL OF POOLE

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
SYMPTOMS OF APPROACHING DISSOLUTION.
But three short years have elapsed since the Tory Cor-
poration of Poole commenced its career of fraud and cor-
ruption—one of the grossest acts of which was the giving a
bond to the Town Clerk for 4,500/. by way of compen-
sation for an office which he stated himself to have resigned.
The bond, with interest, was made payable by four
yearly instalments ; but so enormous have been the de-
mands of their new Town Clerk, that the former has been
necessarily overlooked. Not brooking such treatment from
his quondam friends, the late Town Clerk has commenced
his action, and obtained judgment against the Corporation,
upon which a writ of degit has issued, whereupon Mr.
Town Clerk and Under-Sheriff Arnold directs his officers
to take possession of all the personals of this renowned
Corporation. In obedience to orders, the faithful High
Constable-Inkpen repairs to the Council Chamber, where
he found the different overseers of the different parishes
within the borough summoned to show cause why—being
unable to pay the pressing demands of the Guardians of
the Poor at this inclement season of the year—they should
not pay some 2.500/. towards the borough rate ? The
officers not wishing to interrupt a conclusion (in which,
however, nothing was concluded), awaited the departure of
his Worship, and thereupon entering, seized in due form of
law the new and expensive garniture of the Council
Chamber, not sparing even the well-stuffed easy chairs of
the Aldermen, and their only remaining Punch-bowl.
Adjourning thence to the Guildhall, the chandeliers are
attached by these inexorable officers, and even the seat of
justice is assailed, for, lo ! the Recorder's chair is no more
seen ! Having dismantled the aristocratic Council Cham-
ber and the Hall of Justice, the poor little police office is
next assailed, and the humble rush-bottomed chairs, alloted
by the Council for Lord John Russell's magistrates, not
allowed to escape. Constables' staves and watch-boxes—
even the coals for warming the night Superintendent of
Police—all, all is taken into the custody of our trusty
Sheriff. But this is NOT all—even the tithes are under-
sto'd not to be safe. An inquisition is about to be held,
when a moiety of the lands, tithes, and other property in
the possession of the Corporation, will be alloted to the
satisfaction of the judgment of the indignant quondam
Town Clerk. But the crowning mortification is, that the
silver maces, cloaks, three-cornered hats, and even breeches
of the Sergeants, who, duly as the Sabbath morn returns,
parade before his Worship to the church, are not consi-
dered sacred. The bond creditor is inexorable—the Sun-
day parading is over—and the short.lived glory of the Tory
Corporation of Poole departed !