The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

ritE ROYAL SOCIETY.

The Marquis of Northampton, as president of the Royal
society, held his third cohrersazione on Saturday last, at his
Lordship's mansion, on the Terraoe, Piccadilly.
The Noble President, previous to the soiree, gave an ele-
gant entertainment to the following members of the council
of the Royal Society :—Mr. George Rennie, Dr. Peter M.
Roget, Mr. S. Hunter Christie, Licut.-Colonel Edw. Sabine,
R.A., Dr. John Boitock, Sir William Burnett, Dr. C.
Daubeny, Mr. B. Dunkin, the Very Rev. the Dean e f Elv,
Mr. Thomas Galloway, Mr. L. Horner, Sir John W. Lubbock,
Bart., Dr. John Forbes Royle, Dr. Wm. Sharpey, Mr. John
Taylor, Mr. Chas. Wheatstone, and the Rev. Robert Willis.
Viscount Alford, Lord Wm. Compton, Lord A. Compton, and
the Rev. G. S. Cantley, were also present.
At nine o'clock the visitors to the conrersazione began to
arrive in quick succession, and by eleven above 300 fellows
of that learned society and the leading members of the
various literary and scientific institutions in the metropolis
had congregated in the saloons of the noble president. The
several apartments were brilliantly illuminated, and in the
dining .roam the refreshment-table was supplied with every
delicacy.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the
Noble Marquis with a visit, the Royal Duko arriving as early
as ten o'clock, accompanied by Major Stephens.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lord
George Lennox, Sir Edward Bowater, and Captain Francis
Seymour, was again pleased to be present, and was cordially
welcomed by the Marquis of Northampton. His Royal High-
flees did not arrive until just before eleven o'clock.
The mink was extremely well attended, and among the
visitors we observed :—His Excellency the French Am-
bassador, Count de St. Aulaire ; his Excellency the Austrian
Ambassador, Count Dietrichstein ; Baron Koller, Chevalier
Hebeler, the Earl of Clare, the Earl of Cawdor, Earl Fitz-
william; Earl Spencer, Viscount Hawarden, Viscount
Rmlyn, Lord Calthorpe, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Fern-
' ham, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Oxford,
Lord Beaumont, Lord Colchester, Lord Crewe, Lord James
Stuart, Lord Aylmer, Viscount ingestre, Lord Colville,
' Sir George Duckett, the Rev. Dr. Whewell, the Very Rev. the
Dean of Westminster, the Venerable Archdeacon lisle, Vice-
Oianceller Wigratn, Sir John Herschel, Baronet, Sir James
Riddell, Sir \Villiam Middleton, Baronet, Sir Edward Cunt,
the Right Honourable T. D'Evncourt, M.P., Sir Thomas
Fremantle, Major-General fir Howard DoNelas, the
Right Hon. Sir Thomas Cartwright, Sir Jellies Clark 1ta.,:0
Sir Henry De I t Beebe, Sir John Croft, Sir Robert H. Inglis,
Bert., Sir Richard Dobson, Sir Richard Westmacott,
Sir Edward Parry, Sir James Clark, Sir Henry Ellie, Sir I.
L. Goldernid, Hon. Captain Ryder Burton, Sir J. J. Hensler,
Sir Giffin Wilson,. MajorsGeneial Morrison, M.P., Major-Ge-
neral Way ell, Colonel Bonner, Colonel Sykes, Colonel M'Lean,
Sir G. Back, Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Captain C. Butterfield,
R.N., Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., Mr. Towline, M.P., Mr. R.
H. Milne', M.P., Mr. B. Escott, M.P., Mr. Elphinstone, M.P.,
Mr. Chute, M.P., Mr. P. Howard, M.P., Mr. Philips, RP., Mr.
G. Hudson, M.P., Mr. Lockhart. M.P , Sir C. Scucainore, Sir
F. Shuckburgh, Mr. C. Wood, ALP., Sir H. Lusbingtor, Sir W.
Symonds, Sir W. Chatterton, Mr. Dodd, RP. Sir J. Gardner
Wilkinson, Coloarel Robinson, Colonel J. Jackson ; Doctors
Paris, Outram, Tweedie, Paltrineri, T. Thomson, J. Silvestri,
Forbes, Gray, Granville, Carpenter, Mantell, Watson, Todd,
SOuthey, Whensam, Webster, Lancaster, Henley, Gordon, and
Fitton Professors Airy, Wheatstone, R. Forbes, and R. Jones ;
Rev. Messrs. 11. Millman, J. Hailstone, H. Denham, David
Laing, William Taylor, J. J. Ellis, J. M. Traherne, T. Hal-
ford, John 'Wright, John Barlow, Burgess, and Prichard ;
Major Moore, Captain Stvaiby ; Messrs. E. Landseer, W.
Tooke, J. T. Graves, H. Hallam, G. Moro, G. W. Drory, G.
Gedwinjun., C. Maltby, Lefroy, J. S. Bowerbank, Brock-
' endon, Swindell, Cheverton, John Yonge Ackerman, G.
French Angus, M'Rae, Charles Enderby, Henland, G. R.
Gray, H. Wyndham Pettis, S. H. Powell, W. D. Hag-
gard, Forster, Hellyer, W. J. Donthon, Thomas Wink-
worth, R. Brown, T. J. Pettigrew, Bernard Barton.
Aikin, W. H. Amyot, Wyon, Davies, Broderip, J. G,
Lockhart, George R. Ward; William Bowman, A. Ma-
jendie, Kendall, Amyot, Ayrton, Levesque, R. J. Lane,
James Walsh, G., S. Ellis, Whatmar', Dickinson, T. Irwin,
W. H. Butterfield, Jerdan, J. A. Brandon, E. T. Loseby,
R. Cood, Arnott, W. J. Thorns, R. Hunter, A. Elmore, T. T.
Grant, Kingston, E. Richardson, Dickens, Bowyer, Poynter,
Greene, Orlando, P. Hutchinson, Carpenter, Beard, Claudet,
Marshall, Kiernan, May, Mulready, J. Bethel!, S. Bucking-
ham, Taylor. J. Noble. Silveetre, Donkin, H. Turner,Courte-
nay, Cator, Gravatt, James Rennie, Hall, Boughton, Law,
G. Lewis, Spencer, Jeffries, Gould, Creswick, Thomas, Cart-
wright, Stanley, Beverley, Vullamy, Barry, Hudson, Powell,
Sweeny, Salmon, Moore, Bowman, Hamilton, A. Smith, Mid-
dleton, Gulliver, 'Fuson, A. Lee, Hart, Newton, J. A. Warre,
Sneyd, Bishop, Maclean, S. H. Hall, Hardy, Cockerill, Shaw,
Yates, Beaty, Dawes, Weaver, Herbert, Munro, Paris, Pratt,
Grey, J. Payne, Vardon, Meek, G. W. Macmurdo, Doubleday,
Death, Scott, Allen, Weld, Sharp, Pocock, &c.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Major Stephens; retired shortly after eleven o'clock.
His Royal Ifighnese Prince Albert remained until half-
past eleven, when the illustrious prince was accompanied to
the royal carriage by the Marquis of Northampton.
The general company then began to take leave of the
noble president, the numerous assemblage having separated
shortly after midnight.
The noble Marquis will have his fourth and concluding
saris on the 3d proximo.

Viscount Melbourne received a select circle at dinner
on Saturday, including Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston,
Lord and Lady Beauvale,
SPANISH DRAMA.—There is a report that a company
of Spanish amateurs will, at no distant period, endeavour to repre-
sent some of the best dramas of their country before the Londe.
public.
MARYLEBONE VESTRY.—At the usual weekly meet-
ing of this Board, on Saturday last, the business disposed of
was of a purely local character, and utterly uninteresting to
the public at large.
HONESTY REWARDED.—About four o'clock on Friday
afternoon, as a porter, ill the employ of Messrs. Jennens and
Co., Conduit-street, was passing up Regent• street he picked
up a tightly-folded piece of paper, which proved to be a 5/.
note. He shortly aftermards meta gentleman, who inquired
of him if he had picked up a 51. note, to which he replied he
had, and produced it, which the gentleman accepted, barely
acknowledging it with a nod, but hastily opened it to see it
it was the note. They then walked up the street together
fur twenty or thirty yards, when the man addressed the gen-
tleman by saying he thought it: was worth a pint of beer, to
whip i the liberal gentleman said nothing ; but to prevent
being so addressed the second time, he crossed over to the
opposite side of the way, evidently satisfied' Mit he was
willing oat of packet by being hie 6/. note.