The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-07 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.

Lord Alvaney entertained a distinguished party at dinner
on Saturday, at his house in Park-place ; among whom were
the Earl of Glengal. Lord Lowther, Lord and Lady Fitzroy
Somerset, Lady Begot, Sir C. Stuart, Dam, Colonel Cook, Mr.
Raikes, &c.

The Marquis of Cholmondeley had a thinner party yesterday
at his house in Piccadilly.

IMPROVEMENTS AT LONDONDERRY HOUSE,

PARK-LANE.

These are rapidly approaching to something like an order in
architecture. The grand Roman staircase will be a magnificent
object; indeed, it is thought, that it will vie with that celebrat-
ed one in Northumberland House. The entrance from Park.
lane (it was heretofore in Hertford-street) will lead into a large
square hall, and in line with the street-door will be a corridor
of great length, leading into one of the finest rooms, for a pic.
ture gallery, in Europe. We have already mentioned the
drawing.room ; the cielings are finished, and they present such
specimens of matchless execution, as modern times cannot
parallel.

The Vienna Court Gazelle of the 23d Nov.
contains an account of a deputation from the States of Lower
Austria having had the honour, on the 12th of last month, to
Fresent their congratulations on the marrisge of the Archduke
RANCIS CHARLES, first to their Imperial MAJESTIES, then
to the new married Couple, and lastly to their Majesties the
King and Queen of BAVARIA. On the 16th the 31st regiment
of infantry, in garrison at Vienna, received its new colours.
They were first consecrated in the Court Chapel with great
ceremony, In the presence of the Imperial Court, and of the
King of BAVARIA, whose Regiment it is, and then delivered
to the Regiment, which was drawn up in Joseph's-square ; a
suitable address having been made by Colonel Vox WEsEr.
One of the colours was adorned by the KING, and the other by
the EMPRESS, with very magnificent tassels.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

STATE OF THE ODDS.-

,ETTING-ROOM, Dec. 6.

DONCASTEC
11 to 1 agst Memnon
12 to 1 agst Cleveland
16 to 1 agst Redgauntlet
22 to 1 agst Homer
25 to 1 agst Mandano •
26 to 1 agst Ilia Grace

ST. LEGER.
20 to 1 agst Brother to Duport
30 to 1 agst Crow-catcher
33 to 1 agst Alderman
10 to 1 agst Conviction
60 to 1 agst Brother to \Vhis-
kerandos.

it to 1 agst Muleteer
9 to 1 apt Rufus
12 to 1 agst Phantom colt

D EU

5 to 1 agst Aline
9 to I agst Sorcery
11 to 1 agst Waltz

tIIY.
17 to 1 agst Advance
17 to 1 agst Bolero
20 to 1 agst any other.
KS.
14 to 1 agst Attica.
15 to 1 agst Pipylina.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
MEETINGS OE HOUNDS IN THE PRESENT WEEK.
The East Sussex Fox-hounds, on Thursday, at Ditchling
Common; Saturday, at Sutton, near Seaford.
The Watnall Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Roeleston Ma-
nor ; Friday, at Oxton.

NEW FOREST STAG HOUNDS.—ThUndfty last the hounds
belonging to the Groomkeepers of the ,Forest, met at Bratley
Wood. After beating the covers for some time, they found a
tine young stag at Red Hill, near Picked Post, on the Ring-
wood road, and after a sharp run of 35 minutes, took him alive
near the Woodman's Cottage, at Holmes Hill Enclosure.

Mrs. WEICIISEL being one day rather hoarse
from a cold, her husband coining into the room
where she was practising a new air for Vauxhall,
and observing a bottle of medicine upon the
table untouched, which she ought to have taken,
Hung it at her head with great fury. A gentle-
man was mentioning the cruelty of the circum-
stance some time after to a friend, who very drily
observed, " lie could not see any such great im-
propriety in the affair ; Mrs. W. was singing, you
say, and Mr. W. only accompanied her with the
bass viol."

Professor BUCIELAND has published a letter re-
lative to the cave lately discovered at Banvvell.
The Professor states the thickness of the mass of
sand, mud, and limestones, through which the
bones, horns, and teeth are dispersed, to be in one
place nearly forty feet. He adds—" Many large
baskets full of bones have already been extracted,
belonging to the ox and their tribes • of the
latter there are several varieties, including the
elk. There are also a few portions of the skele-
ton of a wolf, and of a gigantic bear. The bones
are mostly in a state of preservation equal to that
of common grave bones ; but it is clear, from the
fact of some of them belonging to the great ex-
tinct species of the bear, that they are of an ante-
Mullen origin."
The Editor of the New York Gazette, on the
29th October, says, he has been presented with
a monstrous sized apple grown in the orchard of
Colonel White Danbury, Connecticut) which
weighs 22 ounces.