The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-22 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Bustle Chaloner, at Long's Hotel ; Mr. Garnier,
dit;itt9; Messrs. Hugh Frazer; Davidson, and Ruse, at
tai'°; Ed, Mostyu, Esq., at ditto; Mr. and Miss Por-
sat on
Major-General Sir Donald Macleod,
Hon. Mr. Sutton, M.P. ; Hugh Tennant, Esq., at
-.o4lton's Hotel ; Capt. Maitland, the Earl of Mansfield,
Capt. Mathews, M. P., the Hon. Capt. Maude, R.N.,
Sir Wm. Synionds, Capt. Maxwell, R.N., the Hon.
Major-Gen. 11. Murray, C.P., Capt. Munro, Sir Henry
and Lady Fletcher, Col. Wood, C. 8., the Dowager Lady
King and the Hon. Misses King, Mr. and Lady Sophia
Hoare, Col. Sir Michael C-eagh, 86th Regt., Colonel
Middleton ; the Hen. Miss Graves, at the Hon. Mrs. E.
Hobhouse's; Mr. and Lady Mary Long and family, at
M,rshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from their
Rat, Preshaw House, Alton, Hampshire; Mrs. Ogilby,
.at ditto; Mrs. Curvven, at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore
faniily, from their seat, Apley Park, near Bridge-
north Shropshire, at ditto; Mrs. Fotheringliam and
at ditto, from Fonthill, Torquay, Devonshire;
Mr. and Mrs. Moore and family, at ditto, from Leaming-
ton; Captain Stanton, at ditto ; Majors Wade and Baker,
`FsaptaiLs Mordecai and Hagar, American Artillery, at
uglish's Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from New
York; Wm. Sterling, Esq., and J. Buchanan, Esq., at
fiom the continent; Wm. Burn, Esq., at ditto, from
Edinburgh ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ryder, the
Marquis of Ormonde, the Hon. Mrs. and the Misses
Collingwood, Frazer T)ticr, Esq., at the Burlington
FlQtel; Mr. and Mrs. Hall Dare, at ditto ; Lord and
Lady Bridport, and the Hon. Miss Hood, Lady Charles
.(nerset the Dowager Lady Radcliffe, Lieutenant. Col.
Orke.,_ Mr. Charles Williams, the Hon. General and
Mrs. Meade; Sir Compton and Lady Domvill, in Gros-
-I..'!nor-square, from Naples; Lady Blantyre and family, in
Eaton-place, for the season.

DEPARTURES.
j J. H. Campbell, Esq., from English's Royal Hotel, St.
:9teses.street, for Sydney Lodge, Hants ; Archdeacon
Clellan and T. D. Douglas, Esq., from ditto, for
Glasgow; A. Maxwell, Esq., from ditto, for Liverpool ;
J•
Tennant and A. Dalglish, Esqrs., from ditto, for Glas-
g°w; D Smith, William Wilson, and Alexander Wood,
Esqrs., from ditto, for Edinburgh ; Lady Baird Preston
afor nd Miss Preston, from Patterson's Hotel, Brook-street,
Cheltenham ; Sir John and Lady Nclthorp, from
Ttto, for Lincoinshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Elwcs, from
ditto, fur ailing, Northamptonshire ; Mr. and Mrs.
fldurne and family, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel,
avendish-ouare, for Liverpool ; E. Sewell, Esq.,
;Qui ditto; L,:rd Craney, from ditto; Gambi,r, Esq.,
unl ditto ; Wm. 13.glwer,l from ditto; Viscountess Palmer-
srt
Ti and Lady Fanny Cowper, for Pansanger ; the Mar-
gutsl
Of Salisbury, for Strathfieldsaye; Viscount Leveson,
.°," Paris ; the Earl and Countess of Zetland, for Paris ;
the Countess of Verulam and Lady Mary Grimston, for
Coombe Abbey ; the Earl of Verulam, for Newmarket ;
the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham and Lady Anna
Maria Grenville; the Hon. Colonel J. C. Westenra,
M. P. ' • Mr. and Mrs. Brougham, for St. Leonard's-on-
Sea; Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, Bart., from the Water-
loo Hotel, for Holincote, Somerset; Mr. and Lady Louisa
Hughan, on a continental tour; H. N. Burroughs, Esq.,
M. P., from Limmer's Hotel, for Norfolk ; Viscount An-
dover, from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, of Islay, from
the Brunswick Hotel ; the Hon. Robert Otway Cave,
M.P., from Ellis's Hotel ; the Hon. Miss Jerviss, from
ditto; Sir Offiey Wakeman, Bart., Colonel Thornton,
Sir James and Lady Parke, Captain Gunning, Colonel
and Mrs. Ponsonby, Mr. Childers, for Ely; Sir R.
Smirke, for Bath ; Colonel Travers, for ditto; the Hon.
Thomas Knox, M. P., for Bedfordshire ; Captain Cole,
R. N., for St. Leonard's; Lady Frances Hotham ;
Mr. Townley, M.P., for Cambridgeshire; the Earl and
Counttss of Clarendon, for the Grove, near Watford ; the
• 'tight Hon. Yates and Lady Jane Peel, from Fenton's
Hotel, for Bourchill ; Earl Cadogan, for Bath ; Sir Wal-
ter Riddell, Bart., for Dover; Col. Dy ee, from Long's
Hotel for Paris; the Hon. Major-General Upton, for
ditto; The Earl and Counter; of Zetland, on a continen-
tal tour; Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil, for ditto ;
turd Camperdown for Bath ; Lord and Lady Dunsany,
for Dublin; Lord Cantilupc and the Hon. Capt. Fitz-
oy, M. P. for Buckhurst ; the Dean of Winchester, from
the Burlington Hotel, for Winchester ; the Dean of Ross,
`r°,ll ditto, for Ireland ; Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham, for
'etworth ; Lord and Lady Worsley, for St. Leonard's-
u i
n-Sea• the Right Hun. Edward Ellice, M.P., for Pa.
its Viscount Clements, M. P., for Ireland ; Edward H.
01" n. Esq,, for Newmarket, from Riddiestvorth, the seat
1-10T..,Thor-n.itill, Esq.; Baron Mansdorfl', from Hathaway's
n ,e 1, Brook.street, for Vienna; Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway
ionrd,Mis.s Aspinall, from Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle.street,
Paris,

We t_int.lers7llllr7.ant dinner m aid of the
beds t University College I:.)spi,tal_w(illmtsake place on Wed-
nesday,King-s.reet, St.
,„,% the 10th June, at VC slits s
His Royal Highness the Duke° of' Sussex has graci-
y undertaken to preside on the occasion.
lib
it is with much pleasure e v observe that his
yal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has most graciously
euPsenled to take the chair at the ensuing annual meeting on
of c--""a3's the Gth of May, of the Society for the Prevention
.ruelty, to Animals, at Exeter Hall.
'use Marquis of Waterford was expected at
Rose's Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, on Tuesday evening,
min Melton Mowbray.
clr he marriaoe of M. Viardot and Mlle. Pauline
ela Was solemnized on Saturday last, in Paris.
t The Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, M.P., left
"'n last week for Paris, intending to return the first week
may.
30:_l he Duke of Bedford's extensive cellar of wines,
i4ted with great care during the last 25 years, is being re-
„:7,.(1. from Spring gardens to the mansion in Belgrave-square,
ryllus to Isis Grace's return to town after Easter, the late
"ke s wine having been sold to snake room for it.
O-Capt. Burnett, R.N., commanding H.M.S. Ma-
eenne, died at Portsmouth, on Thursday last, after a short
Captain Burnett was nearly related to Sir William

Burnett, the Physician-General of the Navy, and his first cora-
-1 mission bars date March 11, 1634. He was appointed to
the .Magicienne, 24, at Portsmouth, on the 11th February
last, and was on the eve of sailing, in command of that ship,
to the Mediterranean station, when he was seized with serious
indisposition.
Lord Worslev Holmes laid the foundation-stone
of a new church at Barton's village, Isle of Wight.
The Countess of Kingston has given the new
Bishop of Cashel (Dr. Sondes) 250/. towards building a church
in Kilkenny, and the Earl of Kingston is to co-operate in fix-
ing a resident minister there.
Lord Charlemont is indisposed at Marino House,
near Dublin.
The Earl of Ashburnham has contributed 501.
towards building an infirmary at St. Leonard's-on-Sea ; Lady
Beresford has subscribed 51. ; and the proceeds of the late
fancy fair, 141., will be applied for the same purpose. The
cost of the proposed building is not to exceed 1,600/.
Mrs. S. Sutherland, of Grove-terrace, Lisson-
grove, has presented the Middlesex Hospital with 501. ; the
• Western Generai Dispensary, New-road, with 50/. ; and the
Free Hospital, Greville-street, with 501. It is to be wished
that persons of much larger fortunes, than this generous Lady
would be equally thoughtful of the distress and afflictions of
the poor.
Lord and Lady Harrington entertained a small
party at dinner, on Monday evening, at Pembroke House, and
afterwards visited Covent-garden Theatre, to see the burlesque
spectacle of The Sleeping Beauty in the 'food.
Lord and Lady Southampton entertain this week
a select party at Whittlebury, among whom are the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Berkeley,
Count D'Orsay, Lord Adolphus Fitaclarence, Mr. Wombwell,
Mr. Duncombe, M.P., Lord Macdonald, &c.

The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are pass-
ing the holidays in Belgrave-square. Her Grace's unique
equipage, yesterday, on the drive in Hyde Park, was the object
•of general admiration. In the carriage with the Duchess was
the infant Marquis of Beaumont aneCessford, now about six
months old.
LORD LYNDHURST .—Accounts were received
yesterday at the Noble and Learned Baron's mansion in George-
street, that he was getting rapidly well. His Lord hip, with
Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Misses Copley, intend to remain
at Brighton, where they arrived on Saturday evening, for a
fortnight, and return to town for the season.

STRATHFIELDSAYE, MONDAY.—The visitors

already arrived for the holidays are the Austrian Special Minis-
ter, Baron Hummelauer, their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta, the
Marquis of Salisbury and the Ladies Blanche and Mildred
Cecil, the Earl and-Countess of Wilton and family, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady Mahon, Baron
Knesebeck, &c. Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor are ex-
pected. Great gaiety will prevail during the stay of the Royal
Duke and Duchess. His Grace has engaged Grisi aid Tam-
burini, who, accompanied by Puzzi and Vilotti, are expected to
arrive to-morrow ( Tuesday) from town, and will remain dur-
ing the week. A concert will take place every evening during
the stay of the Opera singers.
DEATH OF LORD CASTLEMAINE.—Lord
Castlemaine, who has been suffering under protracted illness,
caused by internal abscess, died on Saturday last, at Anne-
street, Dublin. He is succeeded in the title by the Hon.
Richard Hancock.

Sir William and Lady Maria Oglander have
been placed in mourning by the demise of Sir William's sur-
viving sister, Mrs. Glynn, relict of the Rev. William Glynn,
who died at her Marine Villa, Pairy Hill, Isle of Wight, on
Thursday last.

ANCIENT COINS.—On Thursday last, as some
men were employed in dressing the workhouse garden in this
!own, they dug up an ancient silver coin, about the size of a

fourpenny piece. The inscription is partly obliterated, but the
following letters may be distinctly seen. On one side, SCOT.
ANG. FR. ET. HIBR., encircling a representation of the
King's head; and on the other, INSTITIA. THRONVM,
with a few other characters, which, though faintly visible,
might be decyphered by the aid of a magnifying glass.— West-
morland Gazette.

Sir John Walsh, Bart., M.P., has subscribed
251. towards erecting a new market House, at Presteign, Rad-
norshire.

A pension of 4451. devolves to the Civil List,
by the death of the RiAt Hon. William Gregory, of Cools,
County Galway, ex-Under-Secretary for Ireland, and brother-
in-law of the late Earl of Claticarty, to whose sister, Lady
Anne Trench, he was married in 1789.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. EWEN OF THE PA-
RISH OF ST. JAMES, WESTMINTER.—The inhabitant rate-
payers of this opulent and extensive parish are about to pre-
sent Mr. Ewen, of Jermyn-street, with a piece of plate as a
testimonial of their esteem and admiration of his unwearied and
successful exertions for their interests. Messrs. 11. Stratton,
W. Alaule, M. Miley, S. Stuart, with other gentlemen, have
been appointed a Commit%ee to receive subscriptions, and su-
perintend the presentation.
EASTER TUESDAY IN THE CITY.—The Lord
Mayor gave a grand breakfast at the Mansion House yester-
day at one o'clock, and subsequently received the Blue-Coat
Boys in the saloon, where his Lordship presented each scholar
with a shilling; a glass of wine, and two buns. His Lordship
then went, accompanied by the Aldermen and Sheriffs, and ar-
tended by the Corporation Officers, to Christ's Church, to hear
the second Spital sermon, which was preached by Dr. Hook, of
Leeds. There were upwards of 770 of the boys at the Man-
sion House on the occasion. The Lord Mayor, after the ser-
.

vice, proceeded to St. Bartholomew's Hospital to dinner.
GREENWICH RAILROAD.--From the extraor-

dinary fineness of the day on Monday, on account of the immense
number of visiters requiring to be conveyed by the railroad
from the terminus at London Bridge to Deptford and Green-
wich, there were several extra trains put on. At the arrival
of the last train of passengers at eleven o'clock at night, the
numbers' conveyed up and down during the day and evening
amounted to 32,800 persons, and the money paid to nearly 9001.

TWEED FISHING.—The long • continuance of
dry weather, which has been so favourable to agricultural ope-
rations, has diminished the waters of the Tweed and Teviot to
a degree scarcely remembered at this season of the year, and in
consequence of which the fishing, both with the net and rod,
has been unusually unproductive. Notwithstanding this, how-
ever, the Marquis of Salisbury, a few days ago, killed with the
rod, in the Rutherstoun and Makerstoun waters ten salmon,
four of which weighed 601bs.
TOMBLAND FAlR.—This fair was held on
Thursday last. The Cattle Fair on the Hill we never remem-
ber to have seen so fully attended, and perhaps never was there
so splendid a show of sheep at a similar period on record.—
Essex Herald.

TIIE EPPING HUNT.-According to annual
custom, this anxiously-looked- for and excessively-to-be-I aughed-
at affair took place on Monday, and kept a large assemblage of
holiday folks in a state of hilarity from beginning to end. Be-
tween twelve and one o'clock there was a goodly assemblage of
merry lieges at the brow above Fairmead Bottom, whilst the
pollard oaks; which skirt the Bottom on either side, were filled
with all orders and degrees of men and boys. When the stag-
cart was seen coming over the hill by the Bold-faced Stag,
hundreds of Johnny Gilpins rushed gallantly forward to escort
it to the top of Fairmead, amidst much laughter and halloings ;
and, whilst the ladies were beseeching the huntsmen not to be
too venturesome, and the gentlemen gasping for breath at the
thought of the perils of the <lay, the door of the cart was opened,
when out bounced a young buck, with a chaplet of flowers round
his neck, a girth of divers-coloured ribbons, and a long silk
streamer depending from the summit of his branching horns,
who, having caught a glimpse of the hounds and the huntsmen,
bounded off at a slashing rate through the covers towards Wood.
ford, and was ultimately caught, nobody knew how nor where.
TH E THAMES.—Yesterday the river Thames,
both above and below bridge, presented a scene of bustle and
confusion such as was never before witnessed. From an early
hour steamer after steamer went down the river filled with pas-
sengers, and many of them were crowded to excess. Some of
the large steamers took down from 500 to 1,000 passengers at
one trip, and the decks, both fore and aft, the paddle boxes,
and every corner where standing room could be obtained, was
crowded.

AN " UNCOMMONLY CHEAP BOOK."—In the
annual accounts of the churchwarden of Hayes, near Ux-
bridge, appears a charge of 12s. for a book ; to which is also
appended the following item :—" Fetching it from London,
125." The churchwarden' upon being questioned on the sub-
ject, stated that, as he could not get the said book at Hayes or
Uxbridge, he was " obligated" to go to London to procure it.

TIIE HON. J. STANLEY, M.P.—We per-
ceive that the Reformers of North Cheshire intend to entertain
thi; honourable gentleman to a splendid dinner during the
Easter recess. A more firm and unflinching Reformer does
not exist ; and that is one reason why he is so often abused, in
conjunction with I.lr. Wilbraham, by the Tory press of this
county—Liverpool Chro,iele.
GREENWICH FAlR.—Greenwich fair was as
full yesterday afternoon as if there was no such thing as
teetotalism, or new-light-ism, or any other mirth.destroying-
ism in the world. Thousands upon thousands of the inhr-
bitants of this vast hive poured out by railway, steam-boat,
omnibus, cab, and waggon, resolutely bent upon enjoying the
park and the donkeys, the gingerbread, and the merry-go-
rounds. About six o'clock there must have been little short of
fifty thousand persons in and about Greenwich, all clad in their
holiday garbs, and looking as jolly as a hot sun and clouds of
dust of their own raising would let them. At this time the
park pt esented a most animating spectacle. Blackheath was
equally crowded and equally pleasant to every one but the don-
keys, for whom we are sorry to say the Cruelty to Animals
Act was absolutely a dead letter. The fair was one dense mass
of human beings gazing at the numerous theatres and show
booths, at which, as we have always seen it, the proprietors, with
a generosity peculiar to that class of persons, exhibited the best
part of their entertainment on the outside. Ball-rooms were
there, too, in abundance, where the votaries of Terpsichore
danced with a vigour only to be exhibited by those who dance
once a year, and where if Almack's was not rivalled in glace, it
certainly was exceeded in hilarity.
PROVIDENTIAL ESCAPE.—On Friday se'n-
night, a servant of Hugh Entwistle, Esq., mounted on a valu-
able horse, in attempting to follow his master's hounds over a
narrow footway running a considerable distance along the edge
of Porthkerry Cliff, in this county, was, in an almost miracu-
lous manner saved from destruction. He had not proceeded
many yards along his dangerous road, before the horse missed
his footing, when the rider, with great presence of mind
sprang from his back, seized a bush which providentially hap-
pened to be there, and by so doing was saved from sharing the
fate of his horse, which lay the next moment dead at the bot-
tom of the cliff. It is a remarkable fact that about two or
three and twenty years .go, a drunken man, by trade a tailor,
in returning from his work at Barry, to his place of abode at
Penmark, by night, fell over the cliff near the same spot, and
was found at the bottom on the following morning, apparently
unhurt, and wholly unconscious of what had happened.—
Cambrian.

A wager was decided, a few days. ago, between
t.vo inhabitants of Antwerp, who had betted I,ooof. as to
which of their horses should go to Brussels and back, a distance
of 55 English miles, in the shortest time. The horses left as
six in the morning, and did not arrive at Brussels until noon.
On their return they went at a greater rate. When the horses
had arrived beyond Waclhem, one of them fell dead. The
other was much distressed.

TORY IGNORANCE.--So ignorant is the writer
in a scurrilous paper called the Ten Towns' Messenger, of the
e
principles and objects of the Corn-law r pealers, that a leading'
article_ his last
last IN)aepre(r) absolutelyfiadled,, it
icsornectaoirndsed,
th,e
as burn-
ing.' pas
sage :
May it not be the part of the English historian to record,
with equal truth, that when her Legislators were trifling
their time in discussing the expediency of a free trade in awaycor
theywere apathetic in taking measures to maintain a free trade
in our manufactures ! " This writer does not know that the
demand for a free trade in corn is based on the argument that
a free trade in manufactures would necessarily follow it ! But
he is only a sample of a class.
Sir John Herschel, the celebrated astronomer,
has left Slough, where he had resided for many years, for
Hawkhurst, in Kent. His astronomical apparatus, the most
pt rfect and extensive of any in the possession of a private in-
dividual, and which has been inspected by the most celebrated
astronomers who have visited this country from all parts of the
world, has just been removed from Slough to his new residence.