The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-14 00:00:00

HUNTING APPOINTMENTS.

Her Majesty's staghounds will meet on Monday at Dawley
hill; Wednesday, at New-lodge, Winkfield ; Friday, at Iver.
heath—at half-past eleven.

The Liralikow and Stirling hire foxhounds Monday, at.
Eassie-toll ; Wednesday, at Marcus-lodge; Friday, at Brax
Cross-roads—at half-past ten.
The Brighton harriers Monday, at Patcham ; Wednesday, at
the Race-course ; Friday, at 6e Dyke—at a quarter-past ten.
The Brookside harriers Monday, at Newmarket-hill ; Thurs-
day, at Teiscombe-tye—at half-past ten.
The East Sussex hounds Monday, at short-gate—at a
quarter to 61ereo.

Mr. Archer's hounds Monday, at Horse-bridge ; Thursday,
at Dolsiown—at half-past ten.
The Marquis of Hasticgs's hounds Monday, at Coleorton-
Hall ' • Wednesday, at Clifton-village ; Saturday, at Stanton-
by-Dale—at eleven. _

Mr. Meynell's hounds Monday, at Wicknor-park ; Thurs-
day, at Longford ; Saturday, at lngestre.
The Whitehill hounds Monday, at Tickwood—at eight.
'1 he Cheshire hounds Monday, at the Tabley-house ; Wed-
nesday, at Hurlstone-village ; Thursday, at Cholmondeley-
castle ; Saturday, at Ravensmoor-windmill—at half-past ten.
The Monmouthshire hounds Monday, at Clytto-lodge ;
Thursday, at Dingestow—at ten.
The Northumberland and North Durham hounds Monday,
at Branley ; Wednesday, at Alnwick ; Friday, at Lemmington-
branch ' • eaturday, at Newton-on-the-Moor—at half-past ten.
Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds Monday, at Alaxew ; Wednesday,
at Thrapston-b. idge ; Friday, at Thorney Toll-bar—at ten.
Sir R. Sutton's hounds Monday, at Gate Barton ; Wednes-
day, at Stapleford-moor ; Thursday, at Blankney ; Saturday,
it-Halfway-house, Newark-road—at eleven.
The East Kent hounds Monday, at Reinden ; Wednesday. at
Gorsley ; Friday, at Tyler-hill—at half-past ten.
' The Tickham hounds Monday, at Lee's-court.
Major-General Wyndham's hounds Monday, at Bignor-
wood ; Wednesday, at Lisgate-common ; Friday, at Sidney-
wood—at half-past ten.
Mr. Cockburn's hounds Tuesday, at Castle Neroche.
Mr. Tudway's hounds Thursday, at The Beacon; Saturday,
at Hardington-pillars.
The Somerset Subscripticn foxhounds Friday, at Couple-
crass—at half-past ten.
The Nelmes foxhounds Tuesday, at Herongate ; Saturday,
at Stock—at half-past ten.
The Essex Union foxhounds Tuesday, at Steeple; Saturday,
at Rayleigh—at half-past ten.

Lora Adolphus Fitzeiarence entertainer] a fashion.
able circle at dinner, last evening, at St. James's Palace.
The Earl anti Countess of Clarendon had a
select part• to dinner, on Thursday evening, in North Atlley-
itreet.

Lord and La3y Man:borough entertained Lord
Ind Lady Burgheish, Sir Charles and Lady Rapt, his Excel-
lency M. Dedel, Sir Charles Rowley, 111 r. and Mrs. Monte-
tiore, Dowager Countess of Clarendon, and a select party at.
linner, Friday evening, at their residence in Saville-row. The
llarquis and Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady Fitzroy
Somerset, Earl and Countess of Essex. Lady Stepney, Captain
Bagot, Hon. Captain Murray, Hon. Miss Somerset, Mr. Cul-
ling Smith, &c., dined with the Noble Lord and Lady on
Thursday evenkg.
MEYERBEER.--The late dramatic writer,
M. Meyerbeer, brother of the author of Robert k Diable.
•lirected by his will that the money for which one of his houses
at Berlin might be sold should he invested in the pu!,lic funds
of Prussia, and the income given to young painters and sculp-
tors of the Jewish persuasion, to enable them to travel into
France and Italy, in order to improve themselves in their art.
The executors, having sold the house and invested the money,
is we learn from Berlin, have requested the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts of that city to undertake the office of selecting the
objects of the benevolent bequest. The Academy has accepted
the trust, and decided tl.nt the allowance shall be awarded an-

aually to the most worthy upon a competition, the first of which
is to take place in the summer of 164 I .

,
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—" Israel in
Egypt" was again performed on Friday evening in Exeter
Hall, with the usual. strength of vocal and instrumental per-
ormers, and the usual grandeur of effect. Assuredly the sub-
lime conceptions of Handel, in the unrivalled choruses of this
Jratorio, were never before realised as they have been at the
concerts of the Sacred Harmonic Society. In the formation
of a vocal chorus such as was never before permanently brought.
together in England—nor, probably, in the world—they have
created an engine of stupendous power ; hut do they now bring
its capabilities, to anything like their full extent, into action ?
They have confined themselves almost exclusively to the works
of Handel ; and even of his numerous productions, they have
contented themselves with the frequent repetition of four or
five, some of winch, moreover, are by no means among his best
or greatest. When we add to these Haydn's " Creation,"
Beethoven's " Mount of Olives," and Mendelssohn's " St
Pau'," wills the not very judicious selection of anthems given
at a recent performance, we include, we think, the whole
matter brought forward by this S ciety since its formation. We
make these remarks in the most friendly spirit, and more in the
way of suggestion for the future than of censure for the past.'
A marriage is talked of between the Hon. Miss
Plunkett, eldest daughter of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland,
and a gentleman of great wealth in the sister country.
THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.—At a
meeting of the Society held on Thursday evening, Hudson
Gurney, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair, James Watson, Esq ,
" and It. Hussey, Esq., of Birmingham, were elected Fellows.
Theodore Hook, Esq., was admitted on the same evening. A
curious miniature of Oliver Cromwell was exhibited. A letter
from H. Smith, Esq, on the paintings in the Gallilee of Dur-
ham Cathedral, was read, and copies of the paintings laid on
the table. The last of an interesting series of papers on ancient
buildings in Normandy, by G. Godwin, jue., Esq., F. R. S.,
was read by the Secretary. The tower of the Church at La
Besse Allemagne is surmounted by a peculiarly high pyramidal
roof of stone, which may be regarded as a foreshadowing of
these feathery fairy-like spires " pointing heaven-ward," which
afterwards be:ame distinguishing features of the pointed style
of architecture.