The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-08 00:00:00

MESSRS. CALDWELL AND BISHOP.

Gentlemen,—Madame Jullien has requested me to tender
you her most sincere thanks for your kindness and liberality
in placing the Royal Surrey Gardens and the whole of your
company at her disposal on the occasion of her benefit on
Tuesday, the 31st July last. As you are well aware it was
a great success, and I am sure you will be gratified to learn
that, together with the artistes who gave their services,
and the newspapers who inserted the advertisements free of
charge, you have been the means of enabling Madame
Jullien to add a very considerable sum to the " Jullien
Fund."—l•are, Gentlemen, yours very truly,
S. ARTHUR CHAPPELL,
50, New Bond-street.

Aug. 6, 1860.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam
bridge and the Princess Mary and the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz close their visit to Lady
Marian Alford, at Ashridgs Castle, Herts, to-day, and pro-
ceed to Becket House, Berks, to honour Viscount and Vis-
countess Barrington by a visit of several days.
The Earl and Countess of Craven have left
Charles street for Ashdowne Park, Berks.
The Earl and Countess Delawarr entertained a
select circle at dinner last evening at their residence in
Upper Grosvenor-street.
The Earl and Countess of Cork have left town
for their seat, Marston House, Somersetshire.
The Earl and Countess of Durham have left town
to pass a few weeks at Weymouth.
The Countess Cowper and Ladies Cowper have
left their mansion in St. James's square fer Panshanger,
Herts.

The Countess Alphonse de la Marmora and the
Misses Bertie Mathews have left Farrance's Hotel for War-
wick.

Viscountess Jocelyn arrived in town a few days
since from St. Leonard's-on-Sea, and will shortly leave
town for Ireland.

Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have returned
to Cleveland-square from visiting the Earl of Sandwich at
liinchin gbrook •

Lord-and Lady Worsley have left Portman-
square for the Continent.
Lord Ravensworth and family have left Fulham
for Ravensworth Castle, Durham.

Lord Brougham has left Grafton-street for
Brougham Hall, his seat in Westmoreland. Lady
Brougham leaves on Saturday to join the noble and
learned lord in the north.

The marriage of Captain the Hon. William Ed-
ward Sackville West, Grenadier Guards, youngest son of
the Earl and Countess Delawarr, with Miss Georgiana
Dodwell, youngest daughter of the late Mr. George Dod-
well, of Kevinsfort, county of Sligo, Ireland, was celo-
bated yesterday at the church of St. George, Hanover-
square.
OXFORD, August s.—Mr. Ralph T. H. Griffith,
formerly of Qucen's College, Boden Sanscrit scholar, and
now Anglo-Sanscrit professor at Benares and inspector of
schools in the Benares circle, has announced himself as a
candidate for the vacant professorship of Sanscrit.
The directors of the Theatre Francais are abou,
to revive the comedy in five acts and in verse, by Voltaire
entitled " The Indiscreet," which was acted six times in
August, 1725, and has lain by ever since.

It is stated that the Emperor Napoleon proposes
to organise a fourth regiment of Zouaves, to reduce the
number of battalions of Chasseurs de Vincennes to ten, to
convert the four regiments of Marines into seven regiments
of the Line, and to increase the number of regiments from
102 to 110.

Colonel Turr, who, during his stay in Paris, is
said to have had several interviews with Kossuth and
Klapka, left on Friday afternoon. The story goes that, on
quitting some friends who accompanied him to the railway
terminus, he told them if they had occasion to write to him
they might address their letters " Post-office, Naples,"
where he expected to arrive on the 17th inst.
The 3lonitezer de la Flotte states as follows the
numbers of ships of war of various nations now at Naples :
—Five English and five French ships of the line, Admiral
Mundy and Tinan ; one Russian ship of the line, an Ame-
rican corvette, an Austrian frigate and aviso, and a Spanish
corvette and aviso ; at Messina the frigates Scylla (Eng
lish), Descartes (French), Dondolo (Austrian), and a Sar-
dinian steam despatch boat; at Palermo an English steam
frigate, a small French steamer, and the Sardinian steam
frigate Carlo Alberto, bearing the flag of Admiral Persano.
The same authority states the Neapolitan navy, divided
between Naples, Messina, and the. Straits, at 16 steam
frigates and corvettes and 18 steam avisos, besides 16
sailing vessels and 50 gunboats.
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Nothing has arrived as yet to confirm the tele•
graphic despatch announcing the landing of 1,500 Gari-
baldians in Calabria. The Opinione Nationale, however,
declares that the intelligence is true, that the body in ques •
tion is under the command of Stocco, one of Garibaldi's
lieutenants, and that it has reason to believe that the place
of landing for the Dictator himself will be Caserta, not far
from Naples. It adds that two of the King's regiments—
the Ist and 13th—had revolted at Naples to the cry of
" Viva Garibaldi !"

WESTMINSTER PALACE HOTEL.—A ease has just
been decided which perhaps affords the only instance of a
suit in Chancery having gone through all the courts and
received a judgment of the House of Lords within three
months. It is that of the Westminster Palace Hotel Com-
pany. In the year 1857 this company was formed for the
purpose, as stated in its memorandum of association, "of
establishing an hotel, carrying on the usual business of an
hotel and tavern, and doing all such things as were inci-
dental or otherwise conducive to the attainment of the
above objects." Having almost completed their building,
and having spent nearly all their capital, they thought it
prudent to let a portion, consisting of nearly half of the
premises, to the India Board for three years, with option
to make it five, at a rent of £6,000 per annum, about 12
per cent. on the money expended, retaining, for the pur-
pose of casual custom, the remainder of the building,
such remainder being larger than the Great 'Western
Hotel. A shareholder, however, objected, and filed
a bill in the Court of Chancery to restrain the corn-
pony from carrying out the agreement. This was
on the 17th of May last. The suit was heard on the 31st
of May by Vice-Chancellor Wood, who decided that the
agreement was within the powers of the company, and was
binding. The plaintiff appealed to the Lords Justices, who
on the 11th of June heard the appeal, and, Lord Justice
Knight Bruce agreeing with Vice-Chancellor Wood, the
judgment was confirmed. The plaintiff then appealed to
the House of Lords, and the appeal was heard by their
lordships yesterday, when the former judgments were una-
nimously confirmed. The question involved in the suit
was whether a company formed for establishing an hotel
on a scale of unusual magnitude might not let part of it
for a short time in a manner to establish a connection, and
otherwise exercise a discretion in the mode and manner of
commencing its business, and the result is that the power
to do so has been definitively affirmed.
THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST. The
weather has been very unsettled since our last. In addi-
tion to the continued absence of sunshine, which, with the
exception of an occasional few hours' outbreak, h,s so sin-
gularly marked the present year, some heavy rains have
fallen. Still on the whole the weather has been moderately
fine, and, so far as the grain crops are concerned, an un-
questionable improvement has taken place. Indeed, it,
has been a matter of common remark, and scarcely less of
surprise, that despite the absence of sun and of tempera-
ture appropriate to the present period, the grain crops
have made considerable and marked progress of late. From
personal observation and inquiry over a pretty wide stretch
of country during the past fortnight, embracing not only
this district, bat portions of the counties of Hertfordshire,
Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Sufiolk, Cambridge-
shire, and Essex, we are enabled to give a very favourable
report of the general promise of the grain crops. Sun is
of course greatly desired to ripen the grain, but notwith-
standkag its absence, or rather its only partial presence,
the crops are unmistakably changing colour and assuming
a golden hue. We are sorry to add that a considerable
quantity of grass still remains on the ground, and a good
deal has suffered from standing too long as well as from the
wetness of the season. During the last forty-eight hours
the weather has become more unfavourable than in fir:
early part of last week, and heavy rains fell on Sunday
night and Monday morning, accompanied with boisterous
winds. Warm, dry weathr, is now looked for with no
little anxiety. Should that ensue shortly, we trust we may
yet calculate upon a favourable harvest, both as to quality
arid quantity.—sussw Advertiser.