The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DINNERS.

Lord John Russell has issued invites for a grand
dinner on Wednesday (31st instant), to his colleagues
in office having seats in the House of Commons, to the
mover and seconder of the Address in the Lower House,
to the Lords of the Treasury, to the Secretary to th•
Admiralty, and other official gentlemen. Seven o'clock
is the hour of invitation, and at the meeting the Noble
Premier will read portions of the Queen's Speech to be
delivered by her Majesty in person on the following day
i❑ Parliament. The dinner will take place at tho
official residence of the Prime Minister in Downing-
street.

Lord Lansdowne, as the Ministerial leader of the
House of Lords, gives a grand banquet the sume evening,
at Lansdowne House, to a party of Peers, including the
Cabinet Ministers having seats in the House of Lords,
and the mover and seconder of the Address. The noble
guests are invited at half past seven o'clock, and Lord
Lansdowne hill announce her Majesty's Speech to his
distinguished circle. The Noble Marquis will also en-
tertain his colleagues and the chief members of her Ma-
jesty's Household, on the 3d of February, at Lansdowne
House, at a full-dress dinner, when the sheriffs for the
ensuing year will be appointed.
Lord Palmerston is much recovered from his recent
indisposition, and has been able to take carriage exercise
for tlio last two or three days.
The Right lion. Sir William Somerville, Bart., Secre-
tary for Ireland, has arrived in town for the session.
Lord John Russell returned to town on Saturday from
a visit to the Right Hon. C. Shaw Lefevre,
the Speaker
of the House of Commons, at his seat in Hampshire.
Lord Lansdowne is expected to arrive in town to-day
from his seat, Bowood Park, Wiltshire.
•

—The AG., were on Friday
mor-
tal remains of the Earl Talbot, .
K place in the family
last consigned to their final rehs.ti.na
, resting
at Ingestre, Staf-
fordshire. FUNERAL OF THE EARL T LBOT.
mausoleum in the village church-yard
the body lay in state
fordshire. On Thursday evening
hveceremony a great many of
a walking one,
at Ingestre Hall, at which At noon on Friday the
the tenantry were present. At
to the church being such
funeral took place, and a the ball, no hearse or mourning
coaches were required, the funeral being
of the members of the deceased
in which 11" wsisted. About half-past twelve the
earl's family :Lion left the hall for thechurch,
mournful procession a short distance from the
of the tenantry attired in pre-
ceded bi a body
ing, the Rev. Messrs. Shelton, IL Webb, and Brown.
log, an
as followed by the Ear l The b°1331 w • and Countess Tal-
bot, Eh, marchioness (Dowager) of Lothian, the Hon.
and Rev' A. C. Talbot, the Hon. Gilbert Talbot, the
Hon. J. C. and Mrs. Talbot, the Hon. Gerald and Mrs.
Talbot, the lion. amd Rev. W. and Mrs. Talbot, the
Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Dartmouth, the
Marquis of Lothian, Lady Susan Talbot, Lord Sandys,
Viscount Lewisham, Viscount Anson, the Hon. Colonel
Anson, Mr. J. Gilbert Talbot, Dr. Knight, Mr. R.
Wood, Mr. E. Moore, &c. On reaching the church
the body was received by the Rev. J. W. Hilliard, who
performed the solemn ceremony in a deeply impressive
manner. The church was crowded by a sorrowing con-
gregation.

REPRESENTATION OP SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.--
WOLVERHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—To-day the first candi-
date for the representation of this division of the county,
vacant by the elevation of Lord Ingestre to the peerage,
has made his appearance in the person of Lori Lewis-
hut.. the son of Lord Dartmouth. The young noble-
man Lis only lately come of age, and by the great body
of the commercial men of the district deemed utterly
unfit to represent the immense mining and other trading
interests of this district. This youthful nobleman is
thorough Protectionist, a son of one of the old school,
little prone to change. He avows himself an out-and-
out Protectionist, and strongly opposed to the endowment
of the Roman Catholic Church in any part of these
realms. He has also given a broad hint to Mr. Cobden,
by assuring the electors that to wasteful expenditure of
the public money, and to injudicious and ill-considered
diminution of our military and naval establishments he
was equally opposed. The operations of tree trade in
corn he will watch, and promote by all means in his
power the interests of agriculture. Mr. Charles S.
Forster, of Walsall, a moderate Conservative, has been
invited to cpE2O forward, but he declines the twacnu..

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The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during
the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the
Whole re-decorated.

THIS .E V LNECG,
Will be performed HA3ILET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Mrs
Warner ; Ophelia, Mrs. C. Kean.
Liter which, an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled
CAILARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved
the Frnce. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss
Hortcs, and Miss Reynolds.

THEA.TRIK ROYAL, ADELPHI.
v,nder the direction of Madame Celeste
thy During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the
.ginal designs by Digby Wyatt; • Esti., executed by Mr. Sang. A
1---etv Stage, Curtain, Act Drop,. and Chandelier. An approved sys-
tern of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs
adGed to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable.