The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-30 00:00:00

COWES-WEDNESDAY.

(1,12011 OUR OWN CORRIISPONDENT.)
The influx of visitors into the Isle of Wight exceeds any
thing ever known so early in the season, drawn from their
homes by the fineness of the weather ; indeed April has
this year nearly lost its character. " April showers" who has
seen this year ? With the exception of a few drops on the
Ist, 6th, and 7th, no rain has fallen here the whole month ;
the ground is parched, and water is become a scarce
article; it is hotter than it was in August last year.
Lord and Lady Seymour, Sir J. A. Cathcart, Bart.,
Captain Lyons, Lord Corry, the Hon. Mrs. Knight, and
several ethers, have taken houses.
Amongst the arrivals at the Marine klotel are the Mar-
quis of Ormonde, the Rev. Mr. Barrington, Lady Bar-
rington, Lady Lucy Pelham, Lord and Lady Seymour,
R. P. Staples, Esq., Colonel Rochfort, T. Leach, Esq.,
and the Hon. H. S. Law and Lady.
IMFROVEMENTS.—Hundreds of our readers will remem-
ber the serious inconvenience to whlc4r they used to be
subject on landing at Cowes, from having to pass over the
coal vessels. No more are to come to the quay. Thousands
will recollect their annoyance while landing and embarking,
from the coal carriers and their filthy sacks—no more coals
are to be taken into] the steamers at Cowes ; —and above
all, at dead low water, the steamers could not get up to
the wharf, and the passengers were obliged to land in
boats. This nuisance is being removed ; a steam dredging
vessel is now at work cleaning out the dock, so as to leave
eight feet of water at the lowest runs. The fare aft from
Southampton has been lowered ; and if the proprietors
wished to keep another Company off the ground, they would
do well to reduce the rate for the forecastle passengers.
The Southampton Railway will be opened through the
whole line on the 11th of May.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, at Long's Hotel ;
Sir George and Lady Musgrave, at ditto; The Marquis
G. Parito and M. Oneto, from Milan, at ditto-;' Lord
Glentworth, at ditto; Major Walter Trevelyan, ht ditto;
William Portal, Esq., and Miss Portal, at ditto; E. Ful-
ler, Esq., at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Halford, in
Grosvenor-square ; Lord and Lady Stanley, the Hon.
Captain Gordon, Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbank and fa-
mily, at the Pulteney Hotel ; Vice-Admiral Lord Colville,
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Petra, at the Burlington
Hotel ; Sir Thomas Hepburn, Bart., M. P. ; the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward;;Curzon and family; the Dowager
Lady Saltoun and the Hon. Miss Fraser; Mr. Ord, M. P.;
Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy; the Hon. Miss Fitzroy:
DEPARTURES.
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The Right lion. William Dundas, for Hastings ; the
Hon. General Upton, for Paris ; Major Rivers, for Man-
chester ; Lord and Lady Henry Cholmondeley, for Hamp-
shire; Lord Walter Butler; the Earl of Winchilsea, for
Brighton ; Lady Gardner, for ditto ; Mr. Elwes and fa-
mily, for the Continent ; Lady and Miss Disbrowe, for the
Hague ; the Dowager Lady Northampton, for Sussex ;
Captain and Mrs. Cocksedge, from Long's Hotel, for
Essex ; H. Simon, Esq., from ditto, for the British
Queen ; Edward Armstrong, Esq., and Mrs. Armstrong,
from ditto, for Paris ; Sir A. and Lady Crichton, from
ditto, for the Grove, Sevenoaks.

Lord Brougham is not expected to arrive in
town from France until Sunday or Monday next.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are ex-
pected at Montague House to-morrow, from Northampton-
shire. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lords Scott came to town
early in the week, from Torquay.
Lady Charlotte Greville, with the family of Lord
and Lady Francis Egerton, left Rome on the 20th inst., and
are expected to arrive early in the ensuing week.
The Duchess of St. Alban's is going on most
favourably. Her Grace has been confined a fortnight to-day.
The Countess of Carlisle received numerous
visits of condolence yesterday, in Grosvenor-place.
The funeral of the late Countess of Burlington
will take place on Monday next.
THE LATE HON. MISS CARINGTON.—On
Friday next, the remains of this young lady will be removed
from Whitehall to Wycombe, Bucks, and on the following
morning the funeral takes place.
We understand that the Monday evening dances
at Buckingham Palace are tolbe discontinued, but that her Ma-
jesty will give a grand ball early in the ensuing month.
Her Majesty has been pleasiAd to honour the
Earl and Countess of Listowel by signifying her wish to become
sponsor to their infant daughter.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom-
panied by the Hereditary Prince Ernest, is expected to visit
Newmarket on Tuesday next, when the 2,000 Guineas Stakes
are to be run for.

The Duchess of Somerset hoends giving a seties
of fetes at Wombledon Park, upon the Caine scale of tasteful
splendour that distinguished the fetes annually given by her
grace's daughters, the Ladies St. Maur. The first will take
place early in June.
STATE BANQUET AT HERTFORD HOUSE,--
His Excellency the French Ambassador has issued invitations
for a State banquet and fete, on a scale of unusual splendour,
for the first May-day of St. Philippe. The tenour of the
invitations prescribes the appearance of the guests in court
dresses and uniforms. The dinner company will, we hear,
consist of all the Cabinet Minister', the Ambassadors and
Ministers of foreign Courts, and other great personages of the
highest rank. The mansion of his Excellency, so well
adapted for a festive display, is to have its frontage brilliantly
illuminated ; a military band is to be stationed in the gardens
of Hertford-house, to give further zest to a dinner prepared by
the celebrated cook of Prince Talleyrand, now in his successor's
service. Much curiosity has, we are 1 Id, been evinced in the
fashionable world to be present at this'lete.
THE LATE VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE.—The
remains of this lamented nobleman were interred in the family
vault, on Friday, at Knockany • and notwithstanding it was
announced that the funeral would be private, a vast train of
carriages appeared, containing the relatives of the deceased's
immediate friends, and resident gent,* of the neighbourhood,
besides a great number of gentlemen wearing crape. There
was a large concourse of mounted men, principally of his
Lordship's tenantry, with scarfs and hat-bands, and sonic hun-
dreds of persons on foot—mechanics, labourers, &c., who also
wore hat-bands. The cavalcade did not eave Rockbarton
until ten, and the distance to the church was five miles, the
entire route presenting a mass of country people, who lined the
road, and accompanied the remains to their last resting-place.
The relatives and connexions of the O'Grady family who at-
tended as mourners were—Lord Guillaraore, lion. W. O'Grady,
Hon. R. O'Grady, Hon. and Rev. Wm. O'Grady.
Sir Martin Archer Shee and the Royal Society
of Academicians will give their anniversary dinner on Satur-
day next, in Trafalgar-square, to her Majesty's Ministers, the
great Officers of State, &c.
The Duke of Newcastle and party of fourteen,
the Bishops of Norwich and Rochester, Len), and Lady Col.
chester, Lords Cornwall, Montagu, Clinton, Denman, &c.,
have visited the Polytechnic Institution Ns week.
The numerous lovers of that popular entertain-
ment, the Promenade Concerts, will hear with pleasure that the
English Opera will open for the summer season with Prome-
nade Concerts. The band is selected from her Majesty's Theatre,
the Philharmonic, .&e., and includes already amongst the solo
players, Messrs. Harper, Platt, Hatton, G. Cooke. Baumann,
Laurent, jun., Lazarus, Richardson, &c. Signor Negri is the
conductor, and the celebrated flageolet performer, M. Collinet,
is engaged andwillplay allthesolosin the quadrilles and waltzes.
A " RESPECTABLE" TAVERN.—At the Po-
lice-office, on Friday, an inspector of police laid an information
against a public-house in Naylor-street, kept by a person named
Johnson, which he had entered, and found sixteen prostitutes
and twenty-seven black men. Mr. Rushton said the landlord
had already been twice fined for harbouring disorderly com-
pany, on the 6th of January'and on the 27th of March. The
offence now proved took the case out of his hands, as the Act
of Parliament provided that the third offence must go before
the petty sessions, to which tribunal on the 7th proximo it was
accordingly referred.—Liverpool
NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVI-
DENT INSTITUTION,—Yesterday everting a benefit, in aid of
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the funds of this excellent institutioin, took place at the Hay-
market Theatre. This society was established on the
`)2d of
May of last year, for the purpose elf. granting pensions and
temporary relief to masters and servants engaged thea at
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of newspapers, who, from age, infirmity, or distress, m
re-
quire assistance. The entertainments selected by the Commit-
tee of the Institutionie
great satisfaction to
evineedbothjudguienthte aandegnoco ;i.l
taste,,he
and appeared to give
bill consisted of The Maid of Croissey, the White Horse of
the Peppers, Ills Last Legs, and My lVife's Mother. The
house was crowded in every part.
DIED.—On the 24th inst., after ten days' illness,
at the family residence, the Franchise, Burwash, Sussex, Ann
Dike, wife of Captain H. H. Haviland.
A LADY'S TOILETTE.--Essential requisites
for a toilette, humbly recommended to our fair readers :
A fine eye-water—benevolence. Best white paint—innocence.
A mixture, giving sweetness to the voiee—mildness and truth.
A wash to prexent wrinkles—eontent. Best rouge—modesty.
Pair of most valuable ear-rings—attention. A universal beau-
tifiec—geod iimnour. A hp-salve—Cheerfulness.