The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-08 00:00:00

APPOINTMEXT.

WCOLNVICII, JUNE 7.—Assistant-Surgeon George
Mason, M.D. (1849), to the Albion. 90, at Devonport.
The Samson steam•frigate left Woolwich this morn-
ing for Devonport, and tae riggers employed to take her
thither are to bring round the Polyphemus, 3, steam-
sloop, of 200-horse power, from Portsmouth, to be fitted
for eta at this port.
The Inflexible steam-frigate is now in an advanced
state, and instead of being taken to Sheerness as an ad-
var.ced war-steamer, as originally intended, is to be
brought forward immediate:), for commission at this
port.
The Fin fly steam-vessel, Commander Tudor, is to be
pail off here to-morrow, and it is said she will be again
commissioned in the course of next week.

The Retribution steam-frigate is under the shears,
having her masts put in, and will soon be ready for
trial.

LONDON IN THE SEASON.

There are few things more calculated to attract the
attention of a stranger visiting the metropolis than the
apt arance of the %Vest End in the height of the season.
The crowd( d stt east the brilliant and well. appointedequi-
pages, and all the appliances of wealth and distinction,
are to be seen in every variety and in every direction.
Otie might at first suppose there was a succession of
brilliant fetes going forward, and that the rank, beauty,
and fashion of the metropolis were wending their way to
some scene of unusual, gaiety. Few would suppose, as
they mark •the long line of carriages in Bond-street,
Regent-street, Piccadilly, and Pall-mall, that their fair
occupants were merely lounging in some fashionable em-
porium if taste, and that the bustle and _excitement was a
thing of every day occurrence. The growing require-
ments (1 commerce and the onward •progress of the
civilisation of trade is no where so apparent as at
the west end of London. The stately mansions of
the nobility in the neighbourhood of Carlton-
gardens, St. James's Palace, and Piccadilly, are
gradually giving place to the clubs of the merchant and
the warehouses and showrooms of the trader. Club-
houses and fashionable repositories of luxuries of every
description are to be found where Royalty once re-
velled, and there are not a few instances in which the
former residences of the moat renowned in station,
linvege, and wealth have been devoted to these purposes.
The late residence of the Duke of Buckingham in Pen-
man, the saloons of which, ere now, have boasted the
presence of a galaxy of rank and beauty unparalleled in
any country in the world, is about being converted into
a club-house, to be called the "Park Club;" and a little
higher up, and within a door or two of the Ordnance-
office, the mansion which was once the residence of the
Duke of Schomberg, who lost his life at the battle of the
Boyne, and in later years was the residence of the re-
nowned Duke of Cumberland, is now the establishment
of Me.isrs. Harding and Co., and the most unique and
elegant lounge iu the metropolis. This eminent estab-
lishment can scarcely be said in the present day to
eLjoy a reputation less extended than that which
it possessed when in the occupation of its noble
Gripers, for the saloons have lost none of their beauty.
by the purposes to which they have been adapted ; nor
arc the visitors less exalted in station than those wbo
not, indeed, to be found as of old, but in their stead the
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f ancient bygone
days s
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andath it
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rarest and most exquisite fabrics of the native and foreign
loom are piled around in rich profusion, and there is
nothing which the most correct judgment and refined
taste can suggest that is not to be found within its walls.
Passing from Messrs. Harding and Co.'s. and almost op-
wsnteorr stored
bequeathedh e magnificentto
the
well be described as having been the
phoosuistee:
wishtiliceh rmesdence
siy of the late Mr. Vernon. In this
nation. The mansion is now convected into a c'ub-
iacrht,thweaos
house, and it is more than probable that in a few y ears
choolmleectaionnd o ft he
picturesh u unt
fit
its present inmates will migrate further west, and Ver-
non-house become, like its vis-a-vis, a place to bo fre-
quented by the votaries of fashion, and the admirers, not
indeed of the painter's inspiration, but of the exquisite
productions of the artisans of our own and foreign coun-
tries.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, Jura 7.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Leiningen, walked
early this morning in Osborne Park and grounds.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the younger members of the
Royal Family walked and rode.
There was no addition yesterday to the royal dinner
party.

The Austrian Charge d'Affaires had an interview
with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Sir David Dundas, Judge-Advocate-General, re-
turned to town yesterday from the Isle of Wight.
The Earl of Scarborough had an interview yester.
day with Sir George Grey at the Home-office.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, JUNE 7.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE,
ARRIVALS.
June 1. Gauntlet cutter, Wm. Pm:lth Esq., from
London.
June 6. Flower of Yarrow schooner, Lord John Scott,
Eastward; Frisk cutter, Richard Frankland, Esq.,
Ireland.