The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.

His Excellency Count bieven entertained a distinguished
party at dinner yesterday, at Ashburnham House.
A lthorp, the seat of Earl Spencer, is at present the scene of
much conviviality. Among the distinguished visitors ate Lord
Bessburough Lord Duncannon, the Hon. Colonel Ponsonby,
Mr. Campbell, the Poet, Mr. Lyttleton, M.P. &c.

CAS SE L, DEC. 18.—Yesterday, at a grand drawing-room in
the Palace of the Elector, the Ministers of the Household and
of Foreign AfKiirs declared in the usnal form the marriage of
her Royal highness Princess Maria of Ilesse Darmstadt, with
his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meinengen.

The Ilesperus, a German Paper, contains the
following extraordinary statement. In the Uni-
versity of Vienna there was lately a Professor of
Philosophy named li.Emnot.n, who in his public
lectures had tho horrible audacity to accuse Our
Blessed Saviour of suicide ! The Austrian Go•
vernmen could do no less than remove him from
his Professorship ; and in his place was appointed
aM. MA DALENEZ. 011 the day on which this
latter was to deliver his first lecture, a
crowd of young students, attached to ltEst-
nor.n, assembled with a determination of .pre..
venting the lecture from taking place. MADE-
LENEZ did not appear ; but in his stead came the
Ecclesiastic State-Counsellor Potto.tionA, who
attempted, but in vain, to read a discourse. The
riotous youths drowned his voice in continual
hisses, clamour, and shouts of Rembold for ever!
For two days this disturbance was repeated ; on
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the third Al. PonoNnuA succeeded in delivering
his lecture; but it was only by having taken the
precaution to shut the doors of the lecture-
room, and to exclude the most disorderly of the
students. The Austrian Government has pro-
ceeded to most rigorous measures against the
young rioters ; having seized the ringleaders,
and sentenced them to serve in the army for life.

On Monday the 27th, their Royal Highnesses
he Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER arrived at
Gorhambury, the seat of the Earl of VEItULAS4.
We understand that an express has arrived in
town from Italy, bringing the melancholy intelli-
gence of the death of Lord MOUNT CIIAKLEi,
son of the Marquis of CONYNGIIAM.—(BriIish
Press.)
By the death of Lord EARDLEY the title be-
comes extinct, his Lordship's only son having
died last year. A large portion of the Noble
Lord's fortune, however, we understand, goes to
Lord SAY and Scr,c, where it will be most wor-
thily bestowed.
A letter from Genoa, from Messrs. GALTANO,
Duaco, and War.su, the Agents to Lloyd's, dated Decem-
ber 11, states, that the Consul-General of his Majesty the
King of the Low Countries in Genoa has published notice of
having received a Consular letter front Marseilles, dated the 2tl
instant, which reports that letters front Algiers and Mahon
state, that the differences between the Regency of Algiers and
his Majesty the King of the Low Countries have been happily
done away; and that peace was concluded on the 12th day of
November last, upon the same footing as that of 1816.
The weather in Paris is exceedingly mild, but
moist and rainy ; the rose trees are, in many places, in full
bearing; the thermometer in general about eight or ten degrees
of Reaumur. There has been only one night of slight frost
this winter us yet, and France appears in general to have been
wholly exempt from the numerous calamities that have visited
other parts of the world of late.
A letter from Paris relates the following anec-
dote :—" One morning, as the King was going to hear mass
at the Royal Chapel, an old emigrant placed himself in his
way ; Sire,' said he, have an important secret to commu-
nicate to you.' Speak !' replied the King. But, Sire, I
wish to have a private audience of your Majesty.' No, no ;
speak openly.' Sire, there is a conspiracy against you in your
own palace.' Pray who conspires ?" am profoundly
grieved to be obliged to say, it is the Dauphin I' At these
words all the attendants lost their gravity, and a general burst,
of laughter, in which the King could not help joining, was the
only answer received by the unlucky revealer of this wonderful
secret, who retired in confusion."
The Rev. HENRY PARR BELOR, A.M. is pre-
sented to the Rectory of the united perished of the Holy
Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Guildford, Surrey,
void by the resignation of the Rev. d Weller, D D., who bar
been Rector upwards of 51 years.
At the sale of M. MOTTELIira collection of
books, which closed on Friday kat in the Hue Des Dons En.
fans at Paris, a number of valuable likevirs wets disposed GE
Among these were a fine Latin Psalter of Mt nos 'sae
also various books which belonged to Henry 11., King of
France, particularly the Latin Bible of 11. Etiestas, 1845, arid
Plutarch's Lives, Vaacosen 18.10. There worst a besatifal
Persian manuscript 1376, with ministsres is
gold sad
colours; a superb Gothic Alystevy 1541, sishly bound by
Thoueenin, &c. &c.
The King of FRANCK has just bought the tine
collection of Antiquities belonging to Mr. ED.,
'WARD DURAND' one of the largest and best-
chosen in Europe. It contained nearly 7,000
articles, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman,
and of the Middle Ages. Among these were no
less than 1450 of the halo-Grecian vases, com-
monly called Etruscan ; near 1,800 bronzes; be-
sides many lumps, terra cottas, ancient glass,
jewels of gold, enamel, mummies, rolls of Papy-
rus covered with hieroglyphic writing, die.
making 2,500 articles of this class. M. Duiuxe
14 said to have acted very liberally In the negocia-
don for the sale of this collection, which he was
auxious.to see devoted to the public service.