The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-09 00:00:00

VAUXHALL GARDENS.

On Friday evening the royal property was specially
honoured by a visit from his Grace the Duke of
Wellington, accompanied by the Marchioness of
Douro and the Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, in addition
to the numerous leaders of fashion, and a portiportionof
the Royal Family that have this season visited
Vauxhall Gardens. His Grace and party entered
the gardens at a quarter past nine, during the per-
formance of the concert. Mr. Robert Wardell, the
proprietor, received the distinguished visitors, and
conducted them round the grounds, followed by the
greater portion of the spectators, whose attentions
and respectful demeanour the Duke seemed much
gratified with. Mr. Wardell attended the Duke and
party to seats prepared for them in the gallery, and
at the termination of the pyrotechnic display, in
which Darby had added some brilliant effects, his
Grace and friends took their departure through the
Italian Walk, lit up for the occasion. Nothing could
exceed the gratification expressed by the illustrious
visitor as he walked up the long avenue, attended
by the proprietor, and followed by the greater
portion of the visitors. " I have never seen in my
life, Mr. Wardell," observed his Grace, " such a
grand display of fireworks as this evening ; though
in several countries I have witnessed exhibitions of
fireworks, yours are the most superb ; your enter-
tainments, also, throughout the evening, are very ex -
callent, and I have to thank you for persuading me
to stay to witness so extraordinary a sight, as I ori-
ginally intended to have quitted the gardens earlier."
Mr. Wardell expressed his gratitude for the distin-
guished honour conferred on his exertions as a caterer
for public amusement. At half-past eleven the Duke
and party, with his private secretary, quitted the
gardens, attended to his carriage by Mr. Wardell.
Among the nobility present also were the following
leaders of ton :—The Marquis of Ely and party,
Marquis of Westmeath and party, Earl of Munster,
Earl of Chichester, Earl Grosvenor, Prince Czerni-
cheff, Princess Alexandrina, Duke of Nassau, Duke
of Leeds, Count Orloff, Baron Nicolay, Lord Loftus
and party, Lord A. Lennox, Lord March, Lord
Westmoreland, the Countess of Wemyss, Ladies
Jane and Caroline Charteris, Lady Charlote and Miss
Fletcher, Colonel Wildman, Lady Blantyre, Hon.
Mrs. Rashleigh, Mr. Rashleigh, the lion. Miss
Stuart, Mr. Ferrand, the Dowager Countess of Essex,
Earl and Countess de Grey, Mr. and Lady Mary
Vyner, Earl Waldegrave, Mdlle. Jenny Lind, Mrs.
Grote, Mr. Lewin, .Marchioness of Douro, &c.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—His Serene Highness
the Duke of Nassau and suite were present at the per-
formances at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday even-
ing. In the theatre were the Duke of Wellington and
Mr. Arbuthnot, the Duke of Rutland and Lady Eliza
Manners, and the Duchess of Somerset. There were
also present the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the
Earl of Munster, the Countess Paulet, the Countess of
Blessington and the Misses Power, his Excellency the
Russian Minister (the Baron Brunnow), the Comte
d'Orsay, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, and the
Baroness (Dowager), the Baron Nicolay, M. C. de Kou-
driaffsky, the Viscount Cantalupe, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, Lord Francis Gordon, Lord Cranstoun, the
Prince Troubetskoi, the Baron Guguin, Lady Frances
Gordon, Lady Emmeline Wortley, Lady Lawley, M. de
Krehmer, the Count de Barke, the Hon. Edward Petre,
the Hon. Stafford Jerningham, the Hon. Mrs. Petre, Sir
George Wombwell, Sir Frederick Trench, Sir Charles
Forbes, Sir John Lowther, 'Sir Alexander Woodford,
Captain Meynell, RN., Sir William Massey Stanley,
Mr. Lane Fox, Mrs. Dawson Darner, Mr., Mrs., and
Miss Brereton Trelawney, Mr. and Mrs. Maberley,
Captain Blair, Mr. Sandford, Mr. and Mrs. Errington,
Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., 84c.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—On
Saturday evening there were present the Prince and
Princess Tezernicheff, his Excellency the Austrian Am-
bassador and the Countess Dietrichstein, his Excellency
the Hanoverian Minister, the Count de Jarnac, the Duke
of Leeds, Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Lennox,
the Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Blanche Somerset and
Lady Georgiana Codrington, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl
Granville, Earl of Munster, Countess Dowager of Essex
and Miss Johnston, Viscount Dupplin, Lady Rachel
Russell, Lady C. Somerset, Lord Suffield, Lord Archi-
bald St. Maur, Sir Richard Paul and Lady Joddrell,
Lady Macfarlane, Sir George and Lady Armytage, Sir
Charles and Lady Cecilia des Vceux, Hon Sir Edward
and Lady Butler, Sir Wm. Massey Stanley, Sir Henry
Webb, Baron de Paravacini, Hon. Colonel and Mrs.
Fitzgibbon, Hon. Mrs. Elliott, Hon. Colonel G. L. Daw-
son Darner, M.P., Hon. Arthur Thellusson, John Den-
nistoun, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Dennistoun, Hon. J. D.
Astley, Sir Thomas Colebrooke, Sir John Roger Ky-
naston, E. Davis Protheroe, Esq., M.P., Henry Greville,
Esq., Colonel Blane, Captain Hood, Hon. Mr. Foley, Sir
Charles Kent, C.:P. Leslie, Esq., M.P., Sir Charles Mar-
shall, Sir Charles Ibbetson, Hon. Robert Lawley, Hon.
J. Tollemache, Hon. Win. Stanley, Mrs. Bainbridge, &c.
THE 17TH REGINIENT.—On Friday afternoon, the
6th inst., the head quarters of the 17th Royal Tigers
marched into Chatham Barracks from Gravesend, at
which place they disembarked from the ship Ann, Cap-
tain Knox. Its strength consists of 15 sergeants, 6
drummers, and 202 rank and file, with 10 women and
13 children, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel J.
Pennycuick, with the following officers:—Captain T.
Prendergast, Captain 11. W. Pole Welman, Lieutenant
E. 11. Cornick, Lieutenant Campbell Sawins, Lieutenant
Rowland B. Codd, Ensign F. D. Wyatt, Ensign G. F.
Lemart, Assistant-surgeon G. Archer, M.D., and Quar-
termaster J. Mulhall. These troops embarked at
Bombay on the 13th, sailed on the 14th of March last,
arrived on the 17th of May at Table-bey, Cape of Good
Hope, and at St. Helena on the sth of June. During
the voyage, which was nearly five months, they only lost
one man by death. Previous to the regiment leaving
450 men volunteered into other regiments serving
in that :country. The head-quarters of this regiment
left Chatham for New South Wales in August, 1829,
and after serving five years in Australia, it embarked
for Bombay in the year 1836, and was at the capture of
Ghuznee and Khelat, and latterly it formed part of the
army under Sir Charles Napier. Those men who have
served 21 years will be forwarded to SL Mary's to be
pensioned off, and the remainder will join the other di-
vision at Canterbury next week.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, AUG. 6.—The trans-
actions of the week have been unimportant, but prices
andar e
anot t h lower. ad• ee officesinipo importers
rnot r
elarge,
from bringing forward anything fresh at present. Re-
finedsupply in
goods are rather dull.—Bristol Mercury.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—There is
a good arrival of wheat this week, the demand for which
is quit) iu retail at a decline of Ss. to 10s. per quarter
fr en this day se'nnight, but there is less anxiety than
on Tuesday to force business. Oats are sold at a reduc-
tion of id. per stone. Shelling 2s. per load lower.
No variation in ti e value of bean., but difficult to sell.
OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT.—Complaints are daily
made of unmerciful attacks by the navvies on the poor
Ir.:sill-nen employed in excavating for the railway in the
neighbourhood of Monmouth. On Wednesday last, a
quiet, inoffensive labourer, named Staunton, was wan-
tonly struck down on the Malpas road, and so cruelly
beaten by some ruffianly fellows in the same occupation,
that he has not been able to work since. It is incum-
bent on the authorities at once to take measures for
arresting such brutal conduct.