The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-20 00:00:00

COURT-rAsHIONADZE.

Earl Howe will give an entertainment on Wednesday week
at Curzon House, when the Queen Dowager and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected
to honour the Noble Earl with their company. The Arch-
bishop of York, Duke of Wellington, and other distinguished
personages are invited to join the circle.
Viscount and Viscountess Leveson shortly return from
Germany, where they have gone to make their usual visit at
this season of the year to the Viscountess's estate.
Count and Countess de Tscharnolousky arrived on Thursday
at Mivart's Hotel, from St. Petersburgh.
Lord and Lady Farnham arrived at Mivart's Hotel on
Wednesday from Southampton, and in the afternoon departed
for Gray's Court, Lady Stapleton's seat, near Henley-on-
Thames, from whence they will come to town on Saturday.
His Excellency Baron Brunnow was prevented from being
present at her Majesty's Drawing-room on Thursday, at St.
James's Palace, by a fainily affliction. His Excellency and
Baroness Brunnow's dinner party on Thursday was put off
from the same cause.
We understand that Lord Wodehouse, the Lord Lieutenant
of Norfolk, is about to break up his extensive establishments
both at Kimberley and Wilton Park, in that county, and to
proceed forthwith to the Continent, for a lengthened period.
The absence of this excellent Nobleman will be severely felt
and lamented by all classes.
The marriage between Mr. Talbot Clifton and Mise Low-
ther will be solemnised early in the ensuing week, at St.
George's Church, Hanover-square. A breakfast will be given
;titer the ceremony by the Hon. Colonel and Lady Lucy.
i,,leanor Lowther, at their house, in Bruton-steet, Berkeley-
Auare, the invitations tu which are confined to the imme-
!iiate family connexions, in consequence of the recent demise
el the ventrable Earl of Lonsdale, grandfather of the bride.
'Mx AIst3BOVS.
The total naval force on the Irish coast consists of 2 frigates,
1 brigantine, 1 cutter, 1 steam-frigate, 11 steam vessels, and
steam transports—force, 1,600 men. The Vernon, 50,
Captain Walpole, is on her way to Cork from Portsmouth,
and the Malabar, 72, Captain Sir E. Sartorius, was ordered
there from Lisbon.
A general court-martial is ordered to assemble at Chatham,
on Monday next, for the trial of a private of the 13th Light
Dragoons, for striking a non-commissioned officer.
The Benevolent Society of Blues held their twentieth an-
niversary festival on Thursday, at the London Tavern, where
an excellent dinner had been provided by the proprietors of
the establishment. Upwards of one hundred and forty gen-
tlemen were assembled, the greater majority of whom
had received their education at Christ's Hospi-
tal.
The donations amounted to upwards of 9001.
Among the contributors were the names of Mr. Charles
Few, the Chairman, for twenty guineas ; Mr. G. Thackeray,
twenty guineas ; Lord Arundel and Surrey, ten guineas ; Mr.
B. B. Cabbell, ten ; Mr. Baring Wall, ten ; Mr. S. B. Brooke,
ten ; Mr. R. Pigeon, the Treasurer, ten ; Mr. Barnard, the
Hon. Secretary, ten ; ' Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, ten • Mr.
Bellassis, ten; Mr. J. Curteis, twelve; Messrs. Bathe and
Breach, fifteen guineas; Alderman Farebrother, five, &c.
On Thursday evening being the seventh anniversary of the
Westminster Literary and Scientific Institution, a very nu •
merous and respectable company assembled in the new Lec-
ture Theatre, Great Smith-street, Westminster, to hear the
customary address. It was read by the Secretary, and dwelt
upon the gratifying- fact of the great increase of the members,
and the general prosperity of the Society. The library, it
appeared, now contains no less than 4,000 volumes on the
subjects of science and of general literature.
A meeting was held at the Queen's Head Tavern, George-
street, Bethnal-green-road, on Thursday evening, to consider
the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the pro-
posed tax upon coal, for the purposes of the Thames embank-
ment, when resolutions were passed strongly condemning the
measure, and a petition to the House of Commons to that ef-
fect was unanimously agreed to.
There are at present confined in the House of Correction,
Clerkenwell, 857 males, 253 females, and 11 children—making
a total of 1,121. The labour of the prisoners had realised
during the last year 5251. Bs. 9d.
In the New Prison there are 143 prisoners, of whom 99 are
males, and 44 females. Several of the latter are undergoing
various terms of imprisonment for attempting to commit
suicide.

TIIE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BLUES.—The anni-
versaryfgte for the increase
.of the funds by which relief is
afforded to indigent and decayed persons educated at Christ's
Hospital, was celebrated yesterday with more than usual hos-
pitality and good feeling, in the great room of the London
Tavern, in Bishopsgate-street. The company sat down to an
excellent dinner, at half-past six o'clock, to the number of
150 gentlemen. The gallery was filled with ladies; and the
musical arrangements were enlivened by the assistance of
Messrs. A. Novella, Fitzwilliam, and Young. The chair was
excellently filled by Mr. Few, who was supported at the
cross-table by the Earl of Arundel, Sir George Carroll, Mr.
Alderman Farebrother, the Governor and Deputy-Governor
of the Bank of England, Mr. Pigeon, Mr. Rice, head-master
of the school ; Mr. M'Culloch, Mr. Waghorn, and other gen-
tlemen of rank in the commercial world. The usual toasts—
viz., " The health of her Majesty the Queen and Prince Al-
bert," " The Queen Dowager. and the other members of the
Royal Family," having been drunk with the most loyal feel
ings, and several other toasts having been also given and re-
ceived with cheers, the toast, " Success to the Institution,"
was given and received with loud applause. The list of sub-
scriptions was then read, which amounted in the aegregate
to nearly 9001., the principal subscribers being—the Chair-
man, 21/. ; Mr. Thakerav, 21/. ; the Lord Mayor, 10/. lOs ;
Mr. Curteis, 121. 12s. ; Mr. S. B. Brooke, 10/. 10s. ; Mr. Pi-
geon, 101. 10s. ; Mrs. Pigeon, 101.10 s. ; Mr. Pigeon, jun., 10/.
los.; Mr. Bellasis, 10/. 10s., &c. The festivities of the even-
ing were kept up in the best spirit, and it was not until lat:
that the company separated.
The more robust of the p,nsioners in this town, to
the number of about 140, are this Heek having their
clothing distributed out to them at the Barracks. The
dress consists of a blue surtout coat, with scarlet cuffs
and collar, and dark trowsers, with a broad scarlet stripe
one inch and a half in breadth. The men are "to pa-
rade" on Thursday next, at the Barracks, when the
arms and accoutrements will be distributed, and the
whole of their appointments made good.—Nottingham
dieview,