The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-27 00:00:00

WINDSOR, OCT. 26.

His Majesty went yesterday to visit their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, at Bagshot Park, and
afterwards returned to the Castle. The Queen did not go
out. This morning Divine Service was performed in the pri-
vate chapel in the castle to their Majesties and household, by
the Rev. Mr. Gossett. The Queen is expected to attend the
service at St. George's Chapel in the evening.
The Princess Augusta, who has been indisposed, is much
better.
The Duke of Gloucester is expected to go to town on
Wednesday, to attend the investiture of the Military Order of
the Bath, which the King will hold on that day at St. James's,
for the purpose of bestowing the vacant ribands. • His Royal
Highness will return to lgshot in the evening.

The Prince Talleyrand is expected on or about the
20th of November.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester and
family left town on Saturday, on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, at Badminster. _ _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne have
determined to remain in Paris until the first week in Decem-
ber. They are constant visitors at the Tuileries.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton returned to Stoke
Farm on Saturday. On the 6th of next month the family will
go to the North, on a visit to Lord and Lady Grey, at Howick.
The Earl of Verulam and Viscount Grimston ar-
rived in Grosvenor-square on Saturday morning from Gorham-
bury, and in the evening the Countess and Lady Emily also
arrived. _ _

The Earl of Albemarle has renewed the lease of his
town residence in Berkeley-sqare, and the most extensive im-
provements are going on therein.
The late Sir William Hamilton's fine mansion is
about to be converted into a house of entertainment, to be
called " The Green Park Hotel."
The splendid mansion of the Marquis of Hertford,
in Piccadilly, is about to be converted into chambers upon the
principle of the late Duke of York's mansion, now called the
Albany.
Captain Berkeley and his bride have returned
from their tour, and resumed the occupancy of the official resi-
dence of the Gallant Officer in the Admiralty.
On the 23d inst. died, at his seat, Whitcomb Park,
in the county of Gloucester, in the 83d year of his age, Sir
William Hicks, Bart., who for nearly fifty years had been an
active and upright magistrate. He is succeeded in his title by
his grand-nephew, Michael Hicks Hick Beach, Esq., of Wit-
tiamstrip Park, in the same county.
INTENSE COLD.—The thermometer, yesterday
morning, at eight o'clock, stood so low as 38 degrees, only six
degrees above freezing point.
HAWK-TRAINING.—On Saturday morning the
following printed notice was exhibited in several shop windows
in Highgate --" The public are respectfully requested not to
shoot or throw stones at eight hawks belonging to the Duke of
St. Alban's, flying over this neighbourhood for the purpose of
training."
DEATH OF THE DUCHESS DOWAGER OF NEW-
CASTLE.—Died, on Saturday last, at eight in the morning,
after four days' illness, at her,seat at Ranby Hall, near East
Retford, Anna Maria, Duchess Dowager of Newcastle. Her
Grace was the fifth and youngest daughter of William, second
Earl of Harrington ; was born on the 31st of March, 1760,
and married on the 25th of January, 1782, to Thomas, third
Duke of Newcastle, who dying in 1725, her Grace remained
a widow until 1810, when she was again united in marriage to
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Cranford, G. C. 8., who died
in 1821._ Nottingham Review.
THE LATE EARL OF DERBY.—The mortal re-
mains of this venerable Nobleman will be deposited on Friday
next in the family vault at Ormskirk, Lancashire. The fu-
neral will be attended by the present Earl, his three sons
( Lord Stanley and the Hon. Captains Stanley), the Earl of
Wilton, Lord Skelmersdale, the Misses Hornby, &c. The
establishments of the late Earl in Grosvenor-square, of the
present Peer in Upper Grosvenor-street, and of Lord Stanley
in Carlton-gardens, will go into mourning on Friday next.
The late Earl of Derby formerly passed six months every year
in Grosvenor-square ; but in consequence of his increasing
infirmities his Lordship had not been able to visit town since
the summer of 1832.
EARL SPENCER.—SeveraI of the London journals
have during the week stated that Earl Spencer had been takes
alarmingly ill, and that an express had been received by Lord
Althorp requiring his' blirdship's immediate attendance at
Althorp. Such reports are the very reverse of truth. Earl
Spencer, we are happy to say, enjoys good bodily health, but
is subject to those infirmities usually attendant on persons of
his advanced age. His Lordship visited this town on Tuesday.
Lord Althorp left London on Monday on a visit to his father,
and is still at Althorp. Lord and Lady Lyttleton and family
are also visiting Earl Spencer. We hear that it is Earl
Spencer's intention to receive more company at Althorp be-
tween now and Christmas than his Lordship has done for some
years past.—Northampton Herald.
The General Steam Navigation Company's Mai'
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packet, the Ramona, from Rotterdam, arrived Off the Custom-
house, at four o'clock, p.m., Oct. 26 ; also the Earl of Liver-
pool, at five, from the same port.
Forty-nine very handsome and well bred hounds, a
present from his Majesty to the Duke of Brunswick, were
shipped for Hamburg on Saturday morning, by the General
Steam Navigation Company's mail packet the Sir Edward

Banks.
THE KING'S THEATRE.—Notwithstanding the
protest of M. Laporte, the assignees of Chambers closed on
Saturday a treaty with Severini, Robert Rossina, and a Pari-
sian banker for the lesseeship of the Italian Opera for the en-
suing season. The four last-mentioned individuals are also,
we understand, the lessees of the Opera Italien in Paris, and
much advantage is expected from the junction of the two com-
panies. Rossini is to preside over the musical department. It
is to be hoped that he will overcome his indolence, and add to
his high reputation by the production of some more operas.
Madame Malibran is at Milan.
NEW ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.—An entirely
new grand opera, the composition of Mr. John Thomson, of
Edinburgh, is forthcoming this evening ; it is entitled Her-
man, or The Broken Spear, and is founded on a period of the
history of the Italian States in the early part of the seven-
teenth century, when the licentious armed force denominated
the Condottieri kept the whole country in alarm by their
atrocities. H. Phillips and Miss Healy sustain the principal
characters.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.—We regret to say that Ma-
dame Vestris was so unwell on Saturday that she was not able
to perform. Handbills were put up stating that Fighting by
Proxy would be substituted for The Retort Courteous, which
was played on Friday evening for the second time, with the
greatest possible success, to a most brilliant audience. Parties
who had taken places and paid for tickets were offered others
for any night, which was considered a very liberal proceeding.
Very few, however, availed themselves of it.
We hear that Medora Byron, a natural daughter of
the noble poet, is about to emerge from obscurity, like a young
eagle from its shell. She intends to wing her first flight at
the drama it appears, and, taking the exile Knowles's vacated
ground, the Victoria Theatre, she sent (anonymous) the MS.
of a musical dramatic romance. Glossop and his managerial
adjuncts, without knowing the author, immediately accepted
it for representation, and we see by the playbills it is to be
brought out this evening. Pabnam qui meruit ferat.
MR. BULWER'S NEW ROMANCE, " THE LAST
DAYS OF POMPEII."—" Mr. Bulwer has achived a great triumph
in this book. He has, indeed, rebuilt for us the city of Pom-
peii, not in its walls alone, but in the passions that once dwelt
within them—not merely in a vivid portraiture of learned man-
ners, which change with changing time, but in that of the
heart which is universal and never changes. He has breathed
a life again into the City of the Dead ! Every house that is
familiar to the antiquary and classicist he has made familiar to
all—to the ignorant and the learned, the young and the old.
The house of Diomed is peopled to our association now, and
we can retrace the lives, the little passions, the envies, and
the loves of the skeletons that were found there. The house
of Sallust has an inmate henceforth, who shall be an in-
mate of our hearts also—a kindly. and welcome one. Above
all, however, the house of the tragic poet is now familiar to us,
full of memorials as beautiful, intellectual, cordial and kind, as
it was before peopled with stately and sublime wonders.
We are intimate with its master, Glaucus. We can now, in-
deed, consider Pompeii as a place reanimate, rescued as it
were with passions and life from the gulf of eighteen centu-
ries. Mr. Bulwer's book is most masterly. The scenes in
it, in which the gladiators are introduced, are striking to the
last degree. They are the Alsatians of Pompeii, humorous,
desperate, coarse, or low, but characteristic always. The or-
dinary current of life is also admirably given in the Diomeds,
the Clodiuses, the Sallusts, and the Julies. The graceful
love and poetry of existence that live again in Glaucus and
lone—the sublime and terrible, and overawing passion in the
lofty Arbaces. He prepares us throughout the whole book
for the fate of the devoted city. Nydia stands alone in fiction,
an exquisite creation. She is blind, and in her blindness at
last centres the only hope of safety for those who have inte-
rested us through the dark horrors of the day of the great
eruption. She alone walks safely in the (to her accustomed)
gloom. Her death has no precedent, and scarcely a parallel
in pathos. In conclusion we must add that Mr. Bulwer has
described the eruption itself with extraordinary power, render-
ing the sublime more impressive by details, which would seem
to belong to reality alone. In the author of Pompeii' the
author of ' Pelham' has found a new and still more illustrious
title." Morning Herald.