The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-17 00:00:00

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.

The first of the three fruit and flower shows for the
present season, held in the gardens of this Society at
Turnham-green, took ylace on Saturday. The fineness
of the weather, the great number of fashionable people
who are at this time of the year in town, and the high
reputation of the Society, attracted altogether a more
than usual number of visitors. It may b said that the
whole phalanx of rank and fashion now in the metropo-
lis was assembled. Amongst the number was his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who appeared to feel
great interest in the exhibition of the fruits and flowers.
By five o'clock the road from Hammersmith to the en-
trance of the grounds in the lane at Turnham-green was
almost impassable ; and had it not been for the excellent
arrangements to keep order, many accidents must haVe
occurred. The issue of the tickets amounted to nearly
eight thousand. The gardens are in the most beautiful
order—indeed the turf is finer than it has been since first
laid down, and the shrubs and flowers in the beds and
borders are in equally healthy and splendid order. The
company promenaded for some hours ; and were, in ad-
dition to the pleasure produced by surveying the flowers
of the competitors for the medals, entertained by some
excellently selected music, overtures and quadrilles, by
the bands of the Life Guards, Blues, and Coldstream
Guards.

The flowers and fruits were, as usual, zu ranged under
the immense tents manufactured by Mr. B. Edgington,
of the Borough. Indeed, these tents were of infinite ser-
vince in shading the company from the great heat of the
sun, which at one period of the day was intense. The
conservatory, which is now completely finished and
stocked with some of the finest specimens of floriculture,
became an object of great interest to the patrons of flori-
culture. It is built on the most improved principles of
modern science, and is a light and elegant structure. The
most beautiful flowers exhibited were the varieties of
azalias and geraniums ; the heartseases were also very
fine. Indeed, nothing could surpass the brilliancy of
colours, and the true shape and proportions of some of
the classes. A great number of gold and silver medals
were awarded by the judges to the successful candidates ;
both Banksian and other medals. Mr. Lawrence was, as
usual, amongst the winners of the gold medals. It was
not until seven o'clock that the bulk of the company
began to depart; and it was dark before the last visitor
left the gardens. Taking this show altogether, both as
to its splendour in horticultural produce, its elegance
from the rank and beauty of the female nobility and
gentry, and its aggregate of numbers, we do not remem-
ber ever to have seen it surpassed.

HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAILS.
BRUSSELS, MAY 13.—The average price of wheat
last week was 1,808 francs, and that of rye 1,073 francs.
Count and the Countess of Van de Weyer have
arrived at Brussels. A letter from Francfort says—
We learn that the persons who were arrested at the
end of last year in the Grand Duchy of Hesse for politi-
c .1 offences presented a petition to the Grand Duke on
the day before the marriage of the Princess Matia to
the Grand Duke Alexander, praying that the proceed.
ings instituted against them may be quashed."
BRUSSELS, MAY 14.—Captain Neygeen, of the
Swedish ship Neptune, bought five tons of salt beef of
Pierre Jean Verstreten, a butcher. After eating some
of it be and his crew were taken ill ; a legal inquiry
having been instituted, it was discovered that there
was an agreement between some butchers and knackers
to supply the captain of ships with horse flesh instead
of beef, by which they fraudulently made a considerable
profit. Verstreten, Leys, and Cleereus have been con-
demned for this fraud to a year's imprisonment
Count Gerofski and the Princess Isabella, daughter
of the Infant Don Francis de Paulo, who eloped from
Paris, were arrested yesterday at Namur, by the Bel-
gian police. They had arrived there on Monday ; their
carriage having broken down on their way, they were
detained twenty-four hours to repair it, otherwise they
would have passed through Belgium without being dis-
covered. On their arrival at the hotel two chambers,
communicating with each other, were assigned to them,
but they chose two others, whichwere completely sepa-
rate, when the police asked for their passports, Count

Gerofski produced one with a false name, and having
been rcques:ed to sign this name, he was not able to
spell it. He was detained prisoner with the Infanta et
the Hotel, and a notice was immediately sent to the
Government of their arrest. Orders were directly sent
from Brusstls to take the Princess back to. Paris. Count
Gerofski will probably be brought before the tribunal°
for having used a false passport.
CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 21.—1 n consequence of
the insurrection in Candia, the Porte has resolved to
subject the coast of that island to a strict blockade, ex"
cept the ports Canea, Suds, Rettimo, and Candies
which blockade is to begin on the Ilith of May. A
squadron of 10 men-of-war is preparing to enforce tbie
blockade. The day before yesterday a note from the
Minister of Foreign Affairs was addressed to the Mi-
nisters of the Powers parties to the treaties of July.
informing them that the Porte had accepted the prop**
sal' made by those Powers respecting Egypt ; they are
as have been already mentioned. It appears that some
delay will take place in the official notification of these
concessions to Mehemet Ali, because the Ottoman
Ministry feel considerable hesitation about the system
now observed with respect to Egypt, namely, to know
the provisions of the Allied Powers, in case Mehemet
Ali should refuse the new concession, not, indeed; ja
words, but in fact, by continuing to act without
regard to the orders of the Sultan. The two soncee4
slow, they say, are not to be understood as made to

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the Paella, but rather as a sacrifice on the part of the
Sultan to the wishes of his allies ; this bed to a second
note of the same date to the following -Ministers, is
which the Porte puts the question—What the Power,
think to do, in case Mehemet Ali should not submit In
the other conditions of the firman of investiture ; and
whether the Powers, supposing them to intend t,
tinue their assistance to tae Porte, mean to make a dir'
&twee in the measures to be taken by them, between
those conditions which are contained in the treaty el,
July, and those which are not mentioned in that treat"?
The Minister for Foreign Affairs likewise communicated
with M. du Pontois, to learn what course France would
take, since the Porte had granted to the Pacha the lief&
ditary sovereignty of Egypt, and the choice of his
officers. It appears that M. du Pontois had not soli'
cleat instructions to give a decisive answer on this point-,
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTISCOAM, MAY H.
s.
actual Debt, 2% Money, hill
per Cent 51% 52 IA
3itto, ditto 5 per cent.
Arnett Syndic, 4% per cent...... ............ 90% 914
Ditto, ditto, 3% per cenL ..... 74% 75%
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 164% 165%
Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent lOl% 102
Loan 1837, 5 percent. 9;, 97%
Exchange on .Londe a, One month l2 02%
Two months 11 92%
Dutch Papers, May lb.
itELOIAN U NM—Juneau, MAY 14.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent IOO%
Loan ot Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
9 per CenL .....
Thirty even ...•••••• 704 i
(1244))•••••• ....... •••• 100%
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent. SI%
Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent............ 100
Bank of Belgium, 5 per 78%
National Society . .
Exchange on London (short) ll
95
Brussels Papers, May 14.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—viantsa, MAY 5.
Five per Cents. Metalliques kForm per Cents. ..... ............. 9t0%
Three per Cents, •••••••••••••••••••••• ...... •••••••••••••••••• 77
Bank Shares •••••••• • ...... •••••. •.• .. ••••••••••11011••••••••• 1652
Zett..ung. May 11
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, MAY 11.
Bil
St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. ...........104ls. Money.
Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent. 102 10101%
Exchange on London, three months ... 6 19%
—Prussian Slate Gazette, May 11.

SUDDEN CLOSING OF THE
LYCEUM.

We regret to state that this pretty little theatre JO%
suddenly closed on Saturday night. Some little dela);
having occurred after the performance of the Hwidse°
Penny, the audience manifested its impatience in the
usual way, which brought Mr. Balfe forward, who ad'
dressed the house to the following effect :
Ladies and Gentlemen—Above two hours 2401
received a note from Mr. John Barnett, whose Par
Miss Gould ip, stating that he could not allow ber to
appear at this theatre any longer. She being the. third
who has thus left the establishment, I am really unable
at this moment to substitute anything for II Pad"!
Whack, as Marcelline cannot be played, neither Sr'
Harris nor Mr. Selby being in the house. Had
known of this sooner, I would have put sawed:ail
over the bills to prevent your cittning ; 1'0"
if you will wait five or ben minutes, perliel#
Mr. Harris will arrive. This is the last night oral
English Opera House, or at least of it under my 'reigt
of" No.") The fact is there are not suffieje.l3'
funds -e ruse, and I am already burthened 01)
fiv dred
, pounds debt through it. I have;
do, , power for the establishment ; I brought
m, ?olanthe gratis, for which Madams Vo:
trukt. -- three hundred guineas, if I would have
it brotiga: .at ber theatre. I had another opera
Mr. Madill ready cast and studied, but I was no
able to produc'e it. in consequence of the secession of Mr.
H. Phillips.—(Cries of " Shame !") lam exceedingly
sorry that I ever was such a fool as to become a Wang.
ger to an English theatre—in that capacity I will never
appear again before you, but in future only as a conic'
poser."

Mr. Balfe's address, the substance of which we have
given above, was frequently interrupted by
expressions
of regret, cries of " Shame," &c. &c., and at its con•
elusion he was greeted with loud and continuous ap-
plause, which lasted for several minutes after be 10.4
retired. Such a termination to the speculation
deeply to be deplored, not only from the pecuniary los'
sustained by Mr. Balfe, but from the serious injury
which will accrue to the profession. The menlber,
thereof will have reason to regret their not having i
supported the manager of the English Opera House'

A DELICATE APPETITE.—The Lady Beitr!s'
says the legend, was a great gourmette in her wilf:
She was, as people often profess themselves to 71
" fond of children." She liked them newly born, 4111,
dressed simply—on the gridiron.; and she had a cfv
whose broiled babes were chef d'oeuvres of the then inl4-
art of cookery. But new-born infants are, fortunatey
not so plentiful as new-laid eggs ; and the lady of
mont's daily dinner acted as a strong cheek on P°;
pulation." Upon one occasion when there was not
child to be had for love or money, it so happened 7.,5„
the cook's wife became the mother of a fine bey. It only
wanted half an hour to dinner. His credit, his place,
perhaps, his character was at stake ! Andthe strug("e"
his bosom, between the father and the cook, wa:
mendous. He looked dangerously at the child, as 03"„einfs
its limbs pro&ssionally, he stood feeling the edge of
long knife with his thumb, and casting a side glall,-:
from time to time, at the gridiron. But at length .0,-
tvra triumphed over art, and the cook yielded to the
ther. Dashing his white cap from 'his brow, he rasllto
into the presence of his hungry mistress, and spoke
her so eloquently of the impropriety of indulging, 0
she did, in the pleasures of the table, that she not 01'
with noble self-denial, renounced for the future the rs
vourite luxury to which she was so partial, but deter-
mined to expiate her past dinners by walking barefoot or
thorns from Talmont to Fontenelle.—Trollope's Siam°
in Western France. •

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BIRTHS. 1,4
Or, the 10th inst., at Norwood, the lady of Major J. SO
the Bengal Army, of a daughter. of
Ou the 12th inst., at Battersea, the lady of Dr. Colln°i,
a son.
On the 14th inst., at East-hill, Wandsworth-eonsmon„,
Henry Grainger, of a son and daughter, the former still °!,.~.a
of
On the 14th inst., at Loughton Rectory, Bucks, the '3"l
the Rev. John Athawes, of a son.
fly
On the lath inst., the lady of C. Sturgeon, Esq., of the
ner Temple, barrister-at-law, a a son.
On the 15th inst., in Welbeek-street, the wife of T. W.
Master, Esq., M.P. for Cirencester, of a son and heir.

MARRIED. the
On the 15th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square'
Rev. Edward Penny, M. A., Rector of St. Andrea's,
.00,f, o',
bury, to Emma, only child of the late W. Sprakeling,
Carlton, Dover.

D lED _0
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On the 28th ult. at Naples, Nina, eldest daughter of
Temple Bowdoin, Esq.
On tlu Ist inst., at Brighton, Elizabeth, widow of lO
the
Dr. M'Nabb, of Waterford. oodelh
n
On the Bth inst., at Stoke, near Coventry, Edward
Esq., late banker in the city.
On the 11th inst., at Croydon, Mrs. Anna Maidman• Joe*
On the 14th inst., Charlotte, second daughter, of Alr•
Lee, of Upper Stamford-street, aged 7. Willi
On the 15th inst., at Everton House, Sarah, wife of
• Astell, Esq.
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On the 151 h inst., in Brook-street, Grosvenor-square,
Merriman, of Marlborough, Esq., aged 70.
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