The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-24 00:00:00

BRIGHTON-WEDNESDAY.

The King invariably drives to a certain distance in his
carriage excursions in fine weather. On the Shoreham road
he returns immediately after crossing the Norfolk bridge ;
on the Lewes road he turns at the gate, within half a mile
of the town ; and on the Rottingdean road he goes to the
village, and no further. This afternoon his Majesty, ac-
companied by Lady Falkland, left the Palace at his usual
hour, for an airing on the Shoreham road.
Sir S. and Lady Clarke Jervoise have taken their depar-
ture. ,The Right Hon. Sir G. Rose has engaged apart-
ments at the Bristol Hotel.

Their Majesties' dinner party by invitation yesterday was
limited to the Recorder and. Colonel Graydon (Royal En-
gineers.) No dinner invitations have been issued for this
evening.
The Princess Augusta and the Landgravine took a car-
riage airing this morning before luncheon, but the Queen
has not yet ventured out.
The Bishop of Worcester will arrive at the Palace to-
morrow, and on Christmas-day his Lordship will administer
the Sacrament to their Majesties, the Royal Family, and
suite.

Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenco is expected to pass the
Christmas at Brighton. _ _

His Majesty has given a donation of 251. to the Sussex
County Hospital, and the Princess Augusta .5/.
The King gave audience to Mr. M'Neal.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Hon. Mrs. Noel and family, at the Brunswick House
Hotel, Hanover-square ; the Marquis de Earbacena, Viscount
and Viscountess de St. Amoro and suite, at Marshall Thom-
son's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from the Brazils ; Derick,
Hoste, Esq., at ditto; David Scott, Esq., at ditto.
DEPARTURES.
The Rev. T. C. Glynn and Mrs. C. Glyn, from Marshall
Thomson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Hon. Mr. Carleton,
from ditto ; E. Tuffnell, Esq.,from ditto ; W. Richards, Esq.,
and Mrs. Richards, from ditto ; Rev T. Pennant, from ditto ;
the Earl of Strathmore, from the Sackville Hotel, Sackville-
street, for Edinburgh ; Captain Pigott, froin ditto ; Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, for Worthing; Hon. Augustus More-
ton, from the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, for Sherborne
Castle ; Lord Glentworth, for the Continent; Mr. and Mrs.
Hammersley, for ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby, for Paris ;
Admiral Roper, for ditto ; Hon. Captain Upton, for ditto ;
General and Mrs. Fuller, for ditto ; Lady Georgiana Need-
ham, for ditto ; Sir Richard and Lady Phillips, from the
Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for ditto ; Major and Mrs.
Robinson, for ditto ; Colonel Sir William Lyall, for ditto ;
Captain Douglas, for ditto ; the Earl of Portariington, from
Bryant's Hotel, Conduit-street, for ditto.

The Earl and Countess of Mulgrave are at present
on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, at their
splendid seat, Carton, near Maynooth, where a large party
of the friends of Ministers have been invited to meet them.
—Dublin Register.
The Prince of Hesse Philipsthal has ;deferred his
departure for the Continent until the month of April or
May, having obtained leave from the Emperor Nicholas, in
whose service his Highness is a Lieutenant-General, to
remain in this country until that period.

The bulk of the large fortune of the late Right
Hon. Michael Angelo Taylor, so many years representa-
tive for the city of Durham, who left 'no issue, was be-
queathed by the testator to the Rev. John Vane, chaplain
to the Speaker, after the death of his lady, sister to the
late Sir Harry Vane Tempest, and aunt to the Marchioness
of Londonderry. Mrs. Taylor survived her husband a few
months only.
General Grosvenor's bunting-seat, Stockenhall,
near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, has been purchased by
Mr. Heathcote, son of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, M.P. for
South Lincolnshire.
Lord and Lady Hatherton, and the Honourable
Miss Littleton, will remain in Paris until the middle of
January-, when they will resume the occupancy of their
mansion in Grosvenor-place.
The apartments which the numerous workmen are
now employed in embellishing and repairing, at Kensington
Palace, are not those occupied by the Duchess of Kent and
Princess Victoria, but others in addition, for the accommo-
dation of their Royal Highnesses, which have not been oc-
cupied since the death of George 11. The present apart.
ments of the Duchess and Princess were not found suffi-
ciently extensive for the accommodation of the grand par-
ties given in the spring by their Royal Highnesses, and
which are expected to be repeated next year.
Sir George Shee, Bart., returned to Grosvenor. place,
on Monday, from Brighton, where he bad an audience of
his Majesty, on his departure to assume the embassy at
Stutgard.
Lord Stowell, whilst he was convalescent, and in
the pure spirit of economy to save the Legacy-duty, gave
all his property to his son, recently deceased. This act of
disinterested affection will render it necessary for Lord
Stowell, as his legal representative, to administer to his
son's effects, by which he will be compelled to pay a larger
duty than the property would otherwise have been subject
to had it been left in the usual way.
Mrs. Trollope, who is at present in Paris, is said
to have put the spirit-stirring people of that gay capital on
the qui vivo, in consequence of a threat to expose all their .
absurd frivolities in a work to be published in England.
It had been asserted that the Duchess of Berry
had been delivered of a daughter, which had died. The
second part of this news is totally false ; the mother and
child enjoy perfect health.—Augsburg Gazette.
The projector for establishing a French Theatrical
Corps in Dublin, has abandoned the attempt, after a few
weeks' struggle.
Power, the popular comedian, who has written a
book on America, has, we understand, taken a very oppo-
site view of the society, manners, habits, and customs of
the people in the new world, to that which has ah•eady
been given to the public by Miss Fanny Kemble, now Mrs.
Butler.

Mr. W. Brougham and Mr. C. P. Cooper, Secre-
tary to the Commissioners on the Public Records, had an
interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
A deputation of the Westminster School of Medicine had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

M. Matchesi, the lonian Messenger, was sent off
last night, from the Colonial Office, with dispatches for
Major-General Sir Howard Douglas, the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands.

Viscount Morpeth, with Lord and Lady A. Lennox,
are on a visit to Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, at their ro-
mantic seat, Woodstock, county of Wicklow. Mr. Tighe
is married to a sister of the Duke of Richmond. Lord
Morpeth and his Private Secretary, Mr. M'Donald, return.
from Dublin next month.
We lament to have to announce the death of Lady
Fanny Ponsonby, on Friday last, at Besborough. We un-
derstand this is the melancholy cause of Lord Duncannon's
absence from town.

The thirty-third performance of The Siege of Ro-
chelle and The Jewess, at Drury-lane, brought 4591. last
Evening ; and in consequence of this unequalled attraction,
the lessee has made arrangements to play them with the
new pantomime next Saturday. _ _ .

On Tuesday the Recorder made his report to his
Majesty, at Brighton, of the prisoners confined in New-
gate, capitally convicted at the two last Sessions, viz.,
John Thompson, aged 35, and Josiah Allen, aged 25, for
burglary, and six other prisoners, all of whom his Majesty
was graciously pleased to respite during his Royal pleasure.
MR. HAYWOOD AND COL. FAIRMAN.—We are
happy to state, on the authority of a gentleman who has
had the best opportunity of judging, that it is all but certain
that Mr. Haywood will be able to substantiate the charges
he has made against Col. Fairman. There will, however,
be great expense attending this, which we hope our towns-
men will enable him to bear up against, not only by lend-
ing their aid, but as an example to other towns • particu-
larly as it is known that every thing money can do, will be
done against him.—Sheffield Iris.
We regret to have to announce the death of Lieut.-
General Sir Colquhoun Grant, K.C.B. and G.C.H., which
took place at Frampton, in Dorsetshire, on Sunday. Sir
Colquhoun was in his 73d year, and the disease of which
he died was dropsy in the chest. His daughter and son-in-
law, Mr. Sheridan, were with him in his last moments, and
tended him with assiduity and affection. By Sir Colquhoun's
death, the Colonelcy of the 15th Hussars, which regiment
he has had since 1827, becomes vacant. Sir C. Grant en-
tered the army as an ensign in September, 1793, in the
36th Foot, and joined that corps at Trichinopoly, in the
East Indies, immediately after his appointment. He ex-
changed into the 25th since the 22d Light Dragoons),
in 1797, and served in that corps during the Mysore owl