The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-18 00:00:00

DEPARTURES..

E. Bythesea, Esq., and Mrs. Bythesea, from Long's
Hotel, for Bath ; R. Pocklington, DN., from ditto, for
Dublin ; George Brown, Esq., Bth Hussars, from ditto,
for Chertsey : G. Wheeler, Esq., from ditto for Liver-
pool ; W. Tufnell, Esq., from ditto, for Essex ; F. Smith,
Esq., from ditto, for Northampton; Captain Teasdale, 3d
Dragoon Guards, from ditto, for York ; T. Y. Hull, Esq.,
from ditto, for Sallad - House, Newcastle ; the Hon. Cap-
tain William Frederick Byng, 29th Regiment, from ditto,
for Woolwich; Sir Edward Borough, Bart., for Dublin;
Sir Thomas and Lady Tancred, for Brighton ; the Hon.
Captain and Mrs. Watson, for the Continent; the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Peter, for the Continent ; Sir
Charles and Lady Sullivan, for Thames Ditton ; Lady
Grey and family, for Berks ; Mrs. and Lady Anna Maria
Tollemache, for Dorsetshire ; and Sir W. Alexander, for
Richmond.

It was remarked by many that her Majesty did not
read the Speech in the audible manner which she is wont to do,
most probably owing to the announcement of her own marriage
in the first paragraph, which was delivered in a subdued tone
of voice.
His Excellency Mr. Arthur Aston, the British
Minister at the Court of Madrid, has not left for the Spanish
capital, as stated by the French prints. His Excellency is still
at his hotel in town.
Among the Peeresses who were present in the
House of Lords on Thursday, when her Majesty opened the
Session, were the Duchess of Somerset, the Duchess of Gor-
don, Lady Glenlyon, Lady Lurgan, and Lady Carlisle.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield returned
to Chesterfield House from Bretby on Wednesday evening. On
Thursday the Earl and Countess entertained the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort anda select party at dinner.
Eail and Countess Craven and the Dowager.
Lady and Lady Louisa Craven have gone to Combe Abbey,
the family seat in Warwickshire, from Gorhambury, where the
Earl and Countess, and a numerous circle, have been visiting
the Earl and Countess of Verulam. • A fashionable party will
meet at the Abbey in the course of the next week.
Lord Alfred Hervey has left London far Kemp-
town.
The Earl of Jersey intends to leave town to-
morrow for Middleton Park, where the Countess is still residing.
The Duke of Rutland leaves town early in the
ensuing week for Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, where a dis-
tinguished party will shortly assemble.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Duke
of Rutland, Earl Bathur,t, Earl and Countess of Charleville,
Viscount and Viscountess Norreys, Lord and Lady Ernest
Bruce, Mr. Irby, Mr. Borthby, &c., were among the guests of
the Earl and Countess of Jersey, in the early part of the week,
at Middleton Park. _ _ .

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BEL VOIR CASTLE —Their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, with Prince George
and Princess Augusta, were to have arrived here next week
from town to stay .evaral days on a visit to the Duke of Rut-
land. The royal visit is, however, understood to be postponed
in consequence of the demise of the Landc;ravine of Hesse
Homburg.
Srn J Bart., M. P., and Lady.
Charlotte Gue,t, have arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-st.
MEXICO.—FALMOUTH, JAN. 15.—The Pigeon
packet, Lieutenant James, with the Mexican mails, has arrived
to-day—her dates of sailing being, from Vera Cruz 28th No-
vember, Tampico 10th, and Havannah 19th December—with a
freight of 200,000 dollars. principally on merchants' accounts.
She has brought no news of moment. There had been some
revolutionary movements in the north of the republic, in the
vicinity of Matamoros and the frontier of Texas, and the Go-
vernment had been obligee to send reinforcements of troops t•
those points. The state of the weather for the past few days
has been very unfavour le for outward-bound shipping, and
have consequently mr y vessels in port waiting a change o
f
wind for proceeding the southward. Amtiog them are the
r
ship= Boyne and Sophia, of and from London, the former
the Cape and the Mauritius with troops and
passengers,and
the latter for Madras and Bengal with passengers.—Post.