The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-17 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, for
Brighton ; Lord and Lady Southampton, from the Cla-
rendon Hotel, for Cheltenham; Lord and Lady Adare,„
for Dunraven Castle, Glamorgan ; Captain Turton. for
Cheltenham ; the Hon. Wm. Howard, M.P., for Brigh-
ton ; the Earl of Chichester. for Stanmore Park, Sus-
sex; Admiral Tomlinson, for Middleton House, Sussex;
Mrs. and Miss Gambia, for Southampton; Mr. Henry
Fellowes, on a visit to Viscount Ebrington, at Dublin
Castle: it. A Slaney, Esq., M.P., for S!lropshire;
Lieut. Fulke Greville, Ist Life Guards, for Combarnere
Abbey, Cheshire ; Sir John and Lady Yarde Buller,
fur Lupton House, near Exeter; W. E. U. Parker, Esq.,
M.P., for Devonshire ; Major Pallington, 10th Hus-
sars, for Exeter; Mr. Otw•ay Cave, M. P., for Brads-
place, Hastings ; Colonel Clive, for Whitfield Court,
Hereford ; General Sir Warren Peacoeke, for Malvern
Wells; Lieut.-Colonel King, for Dublin; Captain Bar-
nard, for Hastings ; Colonel Sir John Euitaeo, for St.
Leonard's on-Sea; the Misses Wickhams from Rcggett's
Hotel, for Leamington, Warwickshire; Wadham 'Wynd-
ham, Esq., M.-P., from the Pulteney Hotel, for-Salisbury;
the Hon. Captain Hare, for Leamington Spa; Colonel
Lichfield, for ditto ; Mr. an l Miss Nugent, for ditto ;
Lady Newburgh, for Hindon Park; Colonel Fraser, for
Castle Fraser, N.B. ; Mrs. Blount, for Leamington Spa;
Major Stopford, R. A , for Dover; Captain Gerard, for
Leamington Spa 7, Sir Granville Menteath, Bart., for tlse
North; the Misses Manners Sutton, for Warwickshire;
Sir George and Lady Hoste, for Plymouth ; Hon. Cap.
tain Carey, R.N., for Plymouth ; Captain Digby, for
Weymouth ; Major Shirley, for Dorsetshire.

LADY JANE GREY, BY THE AUTHOR OF
" ROYSTON GOWER," " FAIR. ROSAMOND," &C. Mr.
Miller already occupies a high rank among the writers of his-
torical romance. In the present performance he has taken the
utmost pains to draw his historical personages with accuracy,
from investigation of the best authorities and much of contem-
porary light lately derived from the publication of State and
Family Papers, and he has at the same time so completely
marked his fictitious agents that no one can mistake the one
for the other. Thus, on the one hand, we have Edward VI.,
Lady Jane Grey, Northumberland, Suffolk and his Duchess,
Guildford, Cecil, and others, painted with singular fidelity
and on the other, a being supposed to be possessed of super-
natural powers; Wardour, a lover of the hapless Lady Jane;
and Amy, her faithful friend ; involved, and producing extra-
ordinary effeets in the plot which it has pleased the writer to
invent to give a deep dramatic interest to his story, and enable
him to introduce his inferior and general portraits with the
costume and manners of the age. In conclusion, we have only
to repeat cur encomium upon the merits of this work, which
does honour to its author, and places him in a front rank among
the most eminent cultivators of this species of literature.—
Literary Gazette.
PORT OFBRISTOL._A meeting took place at the
British Coffee-house, Cockspur-ttreet, on Saturday, for the pur-
pose of iniatory measures relative to the formation of a new pier
and breakwater at Portshead, near the entrance to the Avon,
which will obviate the delays and ineonvenienees attending the
navigation of that river. Mr. Barron, M.P., Mr. Beamish,
M.P., and other gentlemen of influence, take interest in the en-
tel l rise which appears of great importance to tie communica-
fon with helm, especialty. It is intended to connect the pier
with the Great Western Railway,