The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-15 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, from Stafford
House, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, at
Easton's-terrace,
.Brighton ; Major Elrington, for Ryde,
Isle of Wight ; Lord Forester, from Charles street,
Berkeley-square, for Longshawe Lodge, Derbyshire ;
Charles Beauclerk, Esq., from the Rev. Lord F. Beau-
clerk's, for Bexley Hall, near Maidstone ; the Hon. H.
Ashley, M.P., for his villa at Clewer, near Windser ; the
Italian Prince Tschitella and Princess Ruffano, from the
Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn street, for Naples ; Sandes,
Esq., and Mrs. Sandes, from ditto, for the Continent
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, from ditto, for Tempsford Hall, St.
Neot's ; G. Gough, Esq., from ditto, for Ireland
Pery, Esq., from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-
street, on a tour ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tolle-
mache, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for the
Marine-parade, Brighton ; H. M. Morgan,lEsq., from
Nelson's Hotel, Portland-place, for Houghton Lodge,
Stockbridge ; T. Dakeyne, Esq., from ditto, for Lin-
coln ; Mrs. Alleyn and Mr. M'Culloch, from ditto, for
Liverpool.

CHANGES.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and the
Ladies Hamilton, at Arverykie Lodge, Laggon, Inver-
ness-shire, from Bentley Priory, Stanmore; the Dowager
Lady O'Brien, at the Granby Hotel, Harrogate, from a
visiting tour; Lord and Lady Beauvale, at the Baths of
Ems, near Biberich, Nassau, from a tour ; the Hon.
Leeson, from Roberts's Hotel, Holyhead ; the Duchess
of Buceleuch, from Leamington Spa, for Dalkeith Palace;
the Dowager Viscountess Gort, on a visit to the Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Smyth Vereker, at Portrush, from her
seat; the Duke of Leinster and the Marquis of Kildare,
at Carton House, Maynooth, from Kingstown; the Duke
of Rutland, at Longshawe Lodge, from Belvoir Castle; A.
Stafford O'Brien, Esq., M.P., at Crattoe Woods, from
Sir C. H. Coote's, Bart., M.P., Ballyfin ; the Earl of
Egmont, at Cork, from his seat, Burrow, near Epsom;
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely and LadyA. Loftus,
at the Giant's Causeway, from Ely Lodge ; Lord In-
gestre, M.P., from the George Hotel, at Portsmouth, on
a tour; Sir Charles Taylor, Bart. from a visit to Lord
Brougham, at Brougham Hall, Westmoreland, on a tour;
Lord Ranelagh and the Hot,. Miss Jones, on a visiting
tour in the Highlands, from Glasgow.

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Yesterday a Special General Meeting of the Di-
rectors and Subscribers td this Institution was held in
the Board-room, Abchurch-lane, for the purpose of
considering the propriety of altering certain portions
of the rules affecting the admission of candidates,
NU. Harrison, Esq., n the chair.

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The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been con-
vened to consider whether it might not be advisable,
for the interests of the Society, to so modify and alter
the rules as to allow that, all votes given to a candi-
date in the election of children at-one election should
be registered to its credit at a subsequent election,
and also that in all cases of an equality of votes, the
Chairman should have the casting vote. This sub-
ject had been under consideration at least three years
ago, and as at that time another institution having in
view almost kindred objects with the British Orphan
Asylum was making a similar experiment, they
considered it better to delay the adoption of this
course until the result of the other experiment was
known. He was now happy to say that from all he
could learn the experiment had been successful, and
he thought in the present case it would do much
good.
On the motion of Mr. GREEN, seconded by Capt.
HALL, it was resolved—" That all votes given to any
candidate in any one election should be registered to
his credit at any subsequent election, and that the
Chairman should have the casting vote in all cases
where the votes were equal between rival candidates."
Mr. Cumarrn trusted that this resolution would
not be retrospective.

The CunimAx replied in the negative.
After some further desultory conversation, a vote
of thanks was passed to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing separated.

WE'RE A' NODDIN:—It is singular how seldom
the astute conductors of our diurnal journals commit
themselves by anything like an oversight of an impor-
tant fact. If one, in the multiplicity of cases,;and some
slight imperfections in its system, should perpetrate an
error, the others are prompt to correct it ; but it very
seldom happens that all are so oblivious of public pro-
ceedings as to repeat the blunder, even where a trifling
matter is concerned. We have, -however, an instance of
this rare forgetfulness in the papers of the past week.
The Herald, of Tuesday, stated, on authority, that the
Government had it in contemplation to dispatch the
mails to India once a fortnight, instead of once a month.
The Chronicle and Post copied the article as a piece of
news ; the Times did the same, adding that " the story"
had been repeated at intervals for the last two years.
Now, it appears to us passing strange that all these
journals should have overlooked the fact of the Cnan-
cellor of the Exchequer having distinctly declared, on
Friday week last, that this increased communication
with India should take effect from January next. He
stated in his place in Parliament ; the different daily
papers reported his announcement in two places—the
debates and the summary in the leading column ; the
Atlas repeated it, and we dare say that other weekly
papers did the same. Yet, two days afterwards, it fs
given by all the diurnals as an original piece of news
Bven the great Homer some tunes nods."—Adaf,