The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-17 00:00:00

LADY LYNDHURST'S BALL.

Last night her Ladyship gave a very elegant ball at the
family mansion in Great George-street, Hanover-square,
in celebration of the birth-day of the Hon. Miss Copley,
Lord Lyndhurst's eldest daughter, who completed her 19th
year.
The whole suite of splendid salons was thrown open on
this occasion. It is almost needless to state the rooms
were brilliantly illuminated by superb candelabra and
costly lamps, supplied, as we understood, by Messrs. Perry
and

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, with
the Princess Augusta, arrived precisely at eleven, attended
by Baron Kneesbeek and the Hon. Miss Kerr.

His Grace the Duke of Wellington also honoured the
ball by his presence. The Noble and Gallant Duke, as
we thought, appeared in unusually good spirits. His Grace
did net stay long.
The company was not numerous, but select, the Queen's
party at Buckingham Palace having its influence.
The heads of the company included—
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of
Montrose, Marquis of Londonderry. Marquis of Douglas,
Earl and Countess of Charleville, Lord Tullamore, Vis-
count Grixiston, his Excellency M. Guizot, his Excellency
M. Dedel, Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Earl and
Countess of Gleugall, Lady Cowley, Hon. Miss Welles.
ley, Lord Cremorne, Viscount Fitzharris, Lord Ossul-
ston, Hon. C. Gore, Mrs. Villiers, Mr. and Mrs Fitzroy,
Mr. Rose, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Claude Hamilton,
Countess of Roseberry, Ladies Primrose (2), Count and
Countess Ziclay, Lord Fitzgerald, Hon. H. Cholinondely,
Countess Cadogan, Lady Honoria Cadogan, Countess of
Jersey, Lady Sarah Villiers, Hon. Captain Villiers, Sir
Frederick Trench, Sir C. and Lady Bagot, Misses Bagot,
Viscount Villiers, Mr. Hope, his Excellency Baron Gers-
dorf, Count Pollen, Count Nesselrode, Baron Bourquenay,
Baron Lebzeltern, Baron Bertrouche, Countess of Tan-
kerville, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. G.
Vernon, Lady Ashburton and Hon. Misses Baring (2),
Sir John and Lady Annc Beckett, Lord and Lady Fitzroy
Somerset, Hon. Miss Somerset, M. de Kisseleff, Viscount
Posverscourr, Hon. Cecil Forester, Mr. Bentinck, Lady
Williams, Lady PArk and Misses Park, &c.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge did not arrive until a
late hour.

POLITICAL sUmnARY OF THE
MORNING JOURNALS.

The Morning Advertiser of this day, alluding to the
Tory tactics on Church matters, says :—" Among the va-
rious false pretences which the Tories have used for the
propagation of their political tenets, none has been more
ostentatiously paraded than their claim to exclusive ap-
plause as the friends and supporters of the Established
Church and the Christian religion. Never shrinking from
the use of any weqnn, or the practice of any delusion
which. may serve their purposes as a selfish and mercenary
party, they have always endeavoured to hide their love of
patronage, and profit, and abuse, under the cloak of hypo-
crisy, and to fix the brand of infidelity upon those who would
strip them of their disguise."—The Morning Herald
thus speaks cf Dr. Bowring's late Anti-Corn-law speech
at Kendal :—" The opinions of a person like Dr. Bowring,
possess, of course, infinitely little value in themselves ;
and were it nut that he is a recognised tool of the present
Government—were• it not that he receives, from time to
time, considerable sums of public money for imputed ser-
vices to the cause of English commerce—the most profound
contempt would, we believe, be the learned gentleman's
portion."—The Times, speaking of a pamphlet recently
publshed on the Canada question, remarks as follows :
" ,One thing which Chief Justice Robinson seriously
complains of, and apparently with good reason, is the
unaccountable precipitancy of the Government in
acting upon the official reports of functionaries, the
shortness of whose residence in Canada, and who,c
very superficial acquaintance with the real circurn-
statiTes of the colony, disqualify them for giving
an
expeticnced and well-digested opinion upon any of its
wants or interests."—The Morning Post alludes in the
foliowing terms to the China question :—" The Whig
journalists, by way of accounting for what has happened,
tell the public with a great affectation of wisdorn that in
commencing an open trade with China we became liable
to risks of collision and quarrel, which we were not liable
to before. This is just saying over again what the Tories
foresaw and foretold before the event."—The Morainq
Chronicle observes, in the course of a leading article on the
Corn-laws:—" The managers of the Metropolitan Anti-
Corn-law Association crc, we understand, accumulating
from all quarters such proofs of the pestiferous operation
of that laW as it will require strong nerves and brazen
fronts in its advocates to resist. Every new direction in
which i's influence is traceable leads to fresh exhibitions
of injustice and privation."

Lady Elizabeth Fielding's first ball and supper,
in Sacliville-street, is fixed for Friday evening next. The
spacious saloons have undergone a complete renovation,
Lady Cottenharn will hold atisembhes every Sa-
turday, in Bruton-street, until the Easter recess.