The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-25 00:00:00

HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON.

A General Court of this Corporation WRR held
pursuant to the Act of Parliament, at the Freemasons' Tavern,
on Saturday the 21xt instant, and was more numerously at-
tended than might have been expected at so early a period of
the season.

On the arrival of the President, Lard SALTOII 24", supported
by Captain the Hon. W. Gordon, the Right Rev. Bishop Mac-
donell, David 31‘Dowe11 Grant of Arndilly, Charles Forbes the

younger, of New, William Mackenzie of Gairloch, Geo. Kin.
loch, James Gordon Duff, Simon M`Gillivarv, Grant Allan,
Divie Robertson, John Macdonald, Alexander Macdonald,
Es.q. and other Members of the Society. The Minutes of the
Meeting of the Directors on the 7th instant, were read and
confirmed.

The following Officers were unanimously elected for the en.
suing year, commencing on the 21st of March :
PRESTDENT.—His Royal Highness the Duke of York and
Albany.
VICE:-ParsiDE'STS.---.The Right Hon. Lord Strathaven,
Major-General Benjamin Forbes, Major-General Charles Tur-
ner, Colonel James Hamilton, and Simon M'Gillivray, Esq.
'TREASURERS.—Simon M'Oillivray, Esq. Divie Robertson,
Esq. and Henry Longlands, Esq.
AUDITOR3.—Grant Allan, Esq. James Beveridge Duncan,
of Damsicie, Esq. and James Gordon Duff, Esq.
COMMITTEE or Dr rtsecTous.—Robert Innes, Esq. David
Chas. Guthrie, Esq.. John Macdonald, Esq. Nath. Atcheson,
Esq. Buchanan M'Millian, Esq. James Lindsay, Esq. Charles
Forbes, jun. Esq. of New, Hugh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. and
William Mackenzie, of Gairloch, Esq.
CHAPLAINS.—The Rev. William Mackenzie, and the Rev.
Roderick Macleod, D.D.
SEcnETAstrEs.--john Wedderburn, Esq., and Alexander
Macdonald; Esq.
The martial strains of the " Frasers' Gathering" then sum_
moved the Society to the dining-roots, where every delicacy of
the season was served up, together with the more horaely dishes,
peculiar to the Land o'Cakes.
The health of the King, " Chief of the Highland Society,"
was proposed by the President, and most cordially received by
the Company, as was that of his Royal Highness the " Duke
of Albany," who had condescended to accept the office of Pre-
sident for the ensuing year.
" The Royal Family," the" Highland Society of Scotland,"
and many other national toasts were given by Lord SALTom sr,
to whom the Society expressed their sense of the obligations
his Lordship had conferred, in constantly attending the Gene-
ral Meetings, and most zealously advancing the interests of the
Corporation.

It; the course of the evening the following Gentlemen, Mem-
bers of the Branch Highland Society of Bombay, were unani-
mously elected Members of the Parent Society
The Hon. Mount Stewart Elphinstone ; Lieutenant-General
the Hon. Sir Charles Colville, G.C. B. ; Alexander Bell, Esq. ;
Guy Lenox Prendergast, Esq. ; 'William Erskine, Esq. ; John
Wedderburn, Esq., Auditor-General; James Forbes, Esq. ;
Sutherland Meek, .M Ali. ; George Ogilvy, Esq. ; J. R. Steuart,
Esq. ; Crawford M`Leod, Esq. ; William Jardine, Esq. ;
J. A. Maxwell, Esq. ; Captain Thomas Riddoch ; Captain
George Saon ; Captain James Stevenson ; John Milne, Esq.,
M.D. ; Captain Archibald Robertson ; Colonel D. Leig'::ton ;
John Campbell, Esq. ; Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hunter
Blair; John Stewart, Esq. ; David Seton, Esq.; Henry Meri.
ton, Esq.; Lieutenant George Grant ; Thomas Scoular Esq. ;
George Forbes, Esq. ; Henry Michie, Esq.; William Gordon,
Esq. ; Robert Keith Arbuthnot, Esq. ; George Smytton, Esq.
The company did not separate till a late hour.

Yesterday the Duke of Yoax, as COMNIANDizr,-
IN-CulEF,held a Levee at his Office in the Horse
Guards, which was attended by General Cock-
burn, Major-General Sir Robert Callaghan,
Major-Gen. Clay, Major-General Pigot, Lieut.-
General Hay, Lord Hill, Lord Wallscourt, and
about 30 other Officers.

Viscount MELYILLE has been confined for
several days with a severe cold.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, Prince LEO-
POLD left town for Claremont.

The Duchess (4 Gr.oucesTEß and the Princess
SOPHIA, visited the Duke of YORK yesterday.
Yesterday morning Viscount GRANTILLI and
family, attended by his Private Secretary, Mr.
JONES, and Mr. ABERCROMBIL, left town for the
Hague.

HABERDASHER'S ALm's Housr.—This once
beautiful pile of buildings which were situated at
the end of Piffleld-street, Hoxton, are now
levelled 'with the dust, in order to give way to
modern improvements, after having stood about
230 years, and from the sound state of the ma-
terials were likely to have endured as many more.
Is this demolition the result of necessity, or has
it fallen a sacrifice to interested innovation ?
The chief consolation is that a re-erection will ne-
cessarily give employment to industry and the con-
sumption of vast and various materials that may
at least be beneficial to many individuals who
will be engaged on the occasion.