The Sun.
London, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

I, A SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

ARRIVALS.
Major Stephens, at Cambridge House ; Count and
Countess de Courcy and suite, at the Clarendon Hotel,
from Dover; the Earl of Bandon, in Connaught-place,
from Castle Barnard ; Sir John and Lady Kirkland, in
Pall-mall, from a visit to Sir William Clayton, at Harley-
-I,rd House, BuckinOiamshire ; Baron •de Bertouch, fro;i,
ditto; the Hon. Somerset Maxwell, P., from New-
townbarry ; Major-General Sir Charles Napier, K. C. 8.,
from Nottingham ; Mr. Bainbridge, M. P., in St. James'i-
place ; Mr. and Mrs. Strutt, in South-street ; Mr. and
Lady Fanny Howard, at the Hon. Mrs. Cavendith's, in
Belgrave-square; Mr. Blackett, M.P., from St. Leonard's-
on-Sea, at the Burlington Hotel ; the Right Hon. Sir
Charles Grey, at the Clarendon Hotel ; tl.e Hon. Mrs.
More O'Ferrall, at the Admiralty; Sir 0. and Lady MoF-
iey, in Portland-place, from Staffordsidire ; the Earl of
Leitrim and Lord Clementi, in Great Cumberland-place,
Irons Killadoon, Kildare; Colonel Linton, at the Burling-
ton Hotel ; the Earl of Charlemont. its Grosvenor-street,
from Marine, near Dublin.
DEPARTURES. _ _

Lord Kinnaird, from the Burl'utgton Hotel, for Fern
Lodge, 13erkshire ; Baron DO.nsdale, for Waterloo-
crescent, Dover; Lady William Poulett, from Curzon-
street, for Paris ; Mr. Houstoun, M.P., for Glasgow ;
Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M. P., from Pall-mall, for
Clare ; Captain Breton, from the Burlington Hotel, for
Southampton ; the Honourable Lindsey Burrell, from
Crawler's Hotel, for Debden Hall, Essex ; Mr. and Lady
Sophia. des Vceux, for Drakclow Hall, Derbyshire ; Sir
Jolla Cathcart, Bart., for Adelstrop House.

HER MAJESTY'S VISITS TO THE THEATRE

—The performances of Wednesday evening at Drury-lam!
Theatre, by command of her Majesty, 'win be The Mountain
Sylph and Raising the Wind. The performances for Friday
at Covent-garden are Sheridan Knowles's play Love (tho 41st
representation), and Patter versus Clatter.
His Royal Highness the Deike of Cambridge
will take the Chair to-morrow (Wednesdity) afternoon, at the
25th anniversary dinner of that excellent charity the London
Orphan Asylum, of which her Majesty, Adelaide, the Queen
Dowager, is the principal Patroness. The banquet takes place
at the London Tavern, and a full attends nee is expected.

The Duke of Cambridge, att ended by Colonel
Jones, yesterday made a personal inspection of the entire esta-
blishment of the Welsh School, Gra y's Inn-road, where he
was received by the Earl of Powis, the President of the charity,
and Colonel Wood and Mr. Sergeant Ateherley, the Treasurers.
His Royal Highness was pleased to express his great gratifica-
tion with the details and management of the Institution. The
♦isit was preparatory to his Royal Highness taking the Chair at
the great anniversary dinner of ;he Societ y of Ancient Britons,
to be held at Freemasons' Hall on Monday next.
THE DUKE OF WELLINGT ON.—HiS Grace
will leave Apsley House this morning; for Strathfieldsaye,
where he will remain until the close off he week. The state-
ment in a Morning Contemporary, that hi,s Grace was out on
horseback on Sunday, paying visits, is in correct. The Duke
has, we believe, not left Apsley House sinice his indisposition.
The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley came up ex-
press from Bishop Wearmouth, Durham, to see his noble rela-
tive, and has since left town on a visit to his daughter, the Hon.
Mrs. Robert Liddell, at the Rectory, Barking, Essex. The
inquiries yesterday at Apsley House were very numerous, and
the answer was that his Grace was gettii ag rapidly well.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cam-
bridge, and a deputation from that body, arrived at the Bur-
lington Hotel last evening, from Cambridge, to present their
address of congratulation to her Majesty on her marriage.
Lord Robert Grosvenor carrw. up by the railway
from Eaton Hall on Saturday, whitherhe was summoned by the
alarming illness of his eldest son, whom lie had the satisfaction
of leaving much better when he left for town. Lord Robert
has been appointed Groom of the Stole ti, Prince Albert.
The Duke and Duchess of Bt ccleuch have left

Montagu House for Torquay.
ASKE HALL, NEAR RicrnmoND.---The Earl
and Countess of Zetland are entertaining the following
fashionables :—Lady Margaret Yeoman., Hon. Mrs. Wharton,
Lady Charlotte Dundas, Mr. and Mrs. Lawson. The Countess
presented a magnificent bridecake, wei:4hing 4131b5, to the fe-
male inhabitants of Richmond on the occasion of her Majesty's
marSHriage.
AMEFUL HOAX—Yesterday afternoon a
persos, having in every way the appearance of a gentleman,
came galloping on horseback to the! engine-house of the
County Fire-office, Regent-street, and ringing the bell, gave

information that a most exteisive cool! agrition was raging in
the village of Willesden, about five elides north-west of the
metropolis. Carter, the foreman, asked his informant at what
part of the village the fire was burning, 'when the person said on
reaching Kilburn it would be immediately visible. Carter,
seeing his horse covered with perspiration, and believing his
statement, lost no time in having the engine horsed, and ac-
companied by a body of firemen, proce .eded to the spot. On
reaching Kilburn, however, they cou Id observe no trace of
the conflagration, and on entering NV illesden, were informed
the whole story was a hoax. 'Whi I e returniag to town
they met the West of England (fro m the Waterloo-road)
and another engine, as well as parties of the brigade.
who had been deceived by a similar stsitement. and who were
hastening to the supposed scene of c Kinflagration. It is to
be hoped the hoaxer, when he next attempts such a trick,
will be detected, and punished as he deserves.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE.--The workmen still
employed at the Palace, under the We ods and Forests, are con-
structing elevated ante-rooms at the ei id of the station drawing-
room,'and the picture gallery, where: her Majesty's band will
in future be stationed when on duty.
The Memorial Bordelats, -which has given the
hand of the young Queen of Spain to the other sdns of the
King of the French successively, i sow fixes on the Duke
d'Aumale. It puts forth upon the a authority of a Madrid cor-
respondent (who, we fear, is given t o deal in what Siiakspeare
calls the " lie circumstantial") the ikillowing details The
Duke is to be married by procuratioet., and is not to visit Spain
until the Queen shall have attained her twelfth year, which is
the legal age for marriage in Spain. " The Prince," says this
correspondent, "is to be recognise das King." On his arri-
val in Spain, he is to receive an an Dual allowance of six mil-
lions of reafs (1,500,000 f. ), and h. to have a Royal residence
for apanage ; but he is to equip a laoyal Guard of 10,000 men
at his own expense." Such, says t his Journal, is the proposal
which is to be submitted to the Cortes ; but there is a party
strongly opposed to the project, and desirous of seeing the
Queen married to an Infant of Spain.
It is with pleasure we learn that the Mar-
quis of Westmeath has sent a do nation of twenty pounds in
aid of the funds of the Society for providing an asylum
and relief for aged and infirm fishmongers and poulterers, their
widows and orphans ; also, that; Messrs. Drummontls, of
Charing-cross, have kindly offereil to receive donations in aid
of that benevolent object.
The Ayr Advertiser of Thursday contradicts the
reported illness of the Earl of Glasgow. The Advertiser
says, that " the rumour is entirely without fonndation. The
venerable Earl, who is at present residing at Wellington-
square, Ayr, attended the public dinner here in honour of
the Queen's marriage, last week, and, Though feeble from ad-
vanced age, gratified all present with his eloquence.
Some of the new apartments racently fitted up in
Buckingham Palace, and especially devoted to Prince Albert,
are furnished with the most scrupulous attention to taste and
comfort—indeed every portion of the arrangements ilispla)s
that correct judgment for general effect so characteristic of hi r
Majesty. It is a curious fact, and one in every way worthy of
the Queen, that all th 2 chintzes embrace the emblem of Erie-
land—the rose. The whole of these patterns are of British
manufacture, and are from the establishment of Messrs. Clark-
son and Turner, of Coventry-street, her Majesty's appointed
furniture printers, through whose courtesy the public may judge
fur themselves of the taste displayed in the selection.