The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-09 00:00:00

THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the H ouse of Com-
mons gave his fourth Parliamentary full-dre!se dinner on
the eveniag of Saturday, the 7th March. The following
members were present :
The Right Hon. Viscount Raynham, the Right Hon.
Viscount Sandon, the Hon. Arthur Kinn aird, the Hon.
Henry Berkeley, the Right Hon. Waliana Monsell, the
Right Hon. Thos. Milner Gibson, Sir Geo. Strickland,
Bart., Sir Geo. Henry Dashwood, Bart., Major-General
Sir Henry Davie, Bart:, Sir Jas. Duke, Bart., Admiral
Sir Chas. Napier, K.C.B , General Sir Joh n Fitzgerald,
K.C.8., Hr. Frederick Dundas, Capt. O'Donnell, Mr.
Headlam, Q.C. Mr. Ridley, Mr. Win. Brown, Mr. Wm.
Ewart, Mr. C. Ewart, Mr. Bass, MrTite, Mr.
Willcox, Mr. Bowyer, Mr. Shafto Adair, Mr. Craufurd,
Mr. Fagan, Mr. Alderman Challis, Mr. Oliveira, Mr.
Win. Williams, the Rev. Thomas Gardiaer, the Hon.
George Waldegrave.
The Right Hon. Owen Stanley was pre vented by ill-
ness in his family from attending the dinnor.
The right honourable gentleman after wards held a
levee, which was attended by the following :
The Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Car narvon, Lord
Wensleydale, Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart. (Black Rod),
Sir Joseph Baillie, Mr. H. J. Baillie, Right Hon. M.
T. Baines, Mr. Baldock, Earl of Bective, Mr. Bennet,
Mr. Biggs, Mr. Black, Mr. Blackburn, Marquis of
Blandford, Mr. Bramston, General Buckley, Mr. Isaac
Butt, Mr. Cairns, Viscount Castlerosse, Lord B. Cecil,
Mr. James Clay, Sir W. Clay, Lord C. P. Clinton, Mr.
Baillie Cochrane, Mr. S. Cocks, Hon. A. If. Col., Mr.
Beaumont Coles, Sir C. H. Coote, Mr.4.lderman Cubitt,
Mr. Deedes, Mr. Dillwyn, Right Hon. Benjamin Dis-
raeli, Mr. Drummond, Mr. G. P. Duff, Mr. George
Dundas, Colonel Dunne, Sir J. B. East, Mr. Edward
Egerton, Hon. 3. E. Elliot, Viscount Erolyn, Sir De
Lacy Evans, Sir James Fergusson, Right Hon. J. D.
Fitzgerald, Right lion. H. Fitzroy, Colonel French
Viscount Goderich, Hon. A. Gordon, Right Hon. Sir
James Graham, Mr. Thos. Greene, Colcnel Fulke Gre-
ville' Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Mr. Grogan, Lord
Claud Hamilton, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. J. Hans
Hamilton, Mr. lankey, Mr. Granv.llo Harcourt, Col.
Harcourt, Mr. Archibald Hastie, Right Hon. W. G.
Hayter, Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Lord Henniker Sir.
Thomas Herbert, Hon. P. Egerton Herbert, Col. Ouse-
ley Higgins, Mr. Holford, Hon. Cbarles Howard, Mr.
Robert Ingham, Mr. Jas. Johnstone, Mr. Hope John-
stone, Sir Wm. Jolliffe, Mr. R. H. Kennard, Sir Edwd.
Kerrison, Col. Kingscote, Mr. Knatchlnall, Hon. W.
Stuart Knox, Right Hon. Henry Labou:chere, Right
Hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Hon. H. G. Liddell, Mr.
Lockhart, Right Hon. Robert Lowe, Mr. Lushington,
Macartney, Mr. Maokinnon, Lord George Manners,
Mr. Massey, Hon. Colonel Maxwell, Sir W. Milner,
Viscount Monck, Sir Graham Montgomery, Mr. Moody,
Mr. Morris, Mr. Mowbray, Earl of Mnlgrave, Mr.
Muntz, Lord Naas, Viscount Newport, Colonel Nortb,
Mr. Otway, Mr. Packe, Right Hon. Sir John Pakiog
ton, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Mr. T. Parker, Sir J. Pax-
ton, Mr. Peacocke, Colonel Pinney, Mr. Portal, Mr.
Pugh, Sir John Ramsden, Mr. Osman Ricardo, Mr.
Rushout, Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. G. P. Scrope, Mr.
Ker Seymour, Mr. Digby Seymour, Mr. Shirley, Sir
W. Smijth, Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Col. Smyth, Mr.
Smollett, Mr. W. Stafford, Lord Stanley, Mr. Steel, Mr.
Stirling, Sir H. J. Stracey, Capt. Stuart, Col. Taylor,
Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Ttiornley, Mr. Tottenham, Sir W.
Verner, Mr. Granville Vernon, Mr. David Waddington,
Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Mr. Warner, Mr. Wegue-
lin, Mr. Wells, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Whitmore, Mr.
Wigram, Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, Mr. Basil
Wood, and General Wyndham.

THE COURT.—Her Majesty, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and the Royal family and suite, will
leave Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace on Wed-
nesday or Thursday next, where the Court will remain
until after her Majesty's accouchement.
HEALTH OF THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—We regret to
learn that the health of the Duchess of Kent, the mo-
ther of her Majesty, is of such a nature as to cause un-
easiness to the friends of her Royal Highness.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing'-street. The Ministers present were—Vis-
count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville,
the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of
Claarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Al-
-1 derley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of
Argy 11.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde with his
company at dinner on Saturday evening. The following
bad the honour of meeting his Royal Highness :—The
Earl and Countess Stanhope, the Countess of Glengall,
Viscount and Viscountess Sidney, Lord and Lady John
Russell, Lord Panmure, Lord Rokeby, and Mr. Sneyd.
Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald was in attendance
on the Duke of Cambridge.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland are ex-
pected in town, on Thursday next, from Alnwick Castle,
Northumberland. _

The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained a select
circle at dinner, at their mansion in Berkley-square,
last evening.
The Earl Cowper arrived in town, on Saturday, from
Panshauger, Herts.
Lord and Lady Harry Vane arrived in town, some
days since, for the season.
Lord and' Lady Arthur Hay are expected in town,
tomorrow, from Strathfieldsaye, Hampshire.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer will give his first
Cabinet dinner on Wednesday next.
Grisi is in Manchester, and, it is said, to try her
voice privately in the Art-Treasures Building. -
Cheap concerts for the people have been commenced
at Winchester and Southampton with great success.
The general meeting of the Literary Fund is to be held
at No. 27, Great Russell-street, on Wednesday next, at
two o'clock.
LAWYERS IN THE PRESENT PARLIAMENT. —ln the
House of Commons there are 105 barristers and six soli-
citors, and in the Lords nine lawyers, making 120.
The Danish Government has published a decree rela-
tive to the part to be borne by Schleswig in the ordinary
expenses, the proposition for which was some time back
rejected by the States.
The subject selected for the gold medal competition of
this year for the Royal Academy, both in sculpture and
painting, is " The Good Samaritan." The number of
competitors will be large.
News from Buenos Ayres states that two mines, one
of geld and the other of silver, have been discovered in
the province of Catamarca. They are reputed the richest
that have yet been discovered.
THE DEANERY OF CANTERBURY.—We are informed
that this preferment has been given to the Rev. Henry
Alford, 8.D., known as an eminent preacher, and more
widely by his edition of the Greek Testament.
LORD LYNDHURST.—In all matters of moment Lord
Lyndhurst is still :he chief adviser of the Conservative
party, and the conduct of the leaders thereof will be in-
fluenced, if not entirely guided, by the conferenbes in
George-street, Hanover-square.—Court Journal.
MIDDLESEX,—The Hon. George Byng will, it is said,
be one of the Liberal candidates for the county of Mid-
dle-ex. Mr. Bernal Osborne will not encounter the
chances of an election. The Marquis of Blandford, a
Conservative, will probably be the candidate approved
by the Government.
FInN IN THE CLAPHAM-ROAD.—Last evening, about
eight o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises belonging
to Mr. Stephen Smith, professor of medical botany, No.
26, Clapham-road-pace, within a few yards of St.
Mark's Church, Kennington. Before the engines ar-
rived the flames had 'spread to No. 27, causing an ex-
plosion of the gas which was laid on in the lower part of
the building. The house on the other side of the one in
which the fire originated was also damaged, and the
litter completely gutted. Nothing is as yet known as
to the cause of the calamity.
FIRE AT ISLlNGTON.—Yesterday morning, between
five and six o'clock, the premises of Messrs. Marsden,
Brothers, shawl warehousemen, 41, High-street, Isling-
ton, were discovered to be on fire.' The whole of the
inmates were in bed, asleep, and by the time the police
bad succeeded in arousing them the fire had got to such
a height as to prevent their coming down the staircase,
and they were obliged to wait for the escapes, which
were quickly in attendance, followed very soon by the
fire-engines, by which the flames were at length subdued.
The or igin of the fire i 3 not known. Considerable da-
mage was done to the stock in trade, which was insured
in the County Office, the building in the Sun Office.
WELD'S GLOBE.—The diorama of Russia, exhibited
daily at this instructive institution in Leicester-square,
has not yet lost its interest. Nothing could have been
better calculated to impress upon the public mind a
clear and definite notion of the general characteristics of
Russian scenery, so far as they could be conveyed by an
extensive series of views, embracing nearly fifty different
localities. All the principal places of the huge empire
are represented, and during the last hour and a half that
the spectator occupies his seat, pictures of Cronst,sdt, St.
Petersburg, Nijni Novgorod, the Ural Mountains,
Mlscow, duo., pass before his eye, besides others, illus-
trative of the Baltic and Black Sea. The scenes, which
are of large size, are painted by Mr. Charles Marshall,
whose fluent pencil and luminous style of colouring
eminently fit him for delineations of this kind. Several
new subjects have recently been added to the panorama
—among them the battle of the Alma, Sebastopol, and
Cathcart's Hill, under the opposite aspects of sunset and
moonlight. During
the past week the following dis-
tinguished individuals visited the " Great Globe ;u
The Prince of Oude and suite, Countess de Terre Diaz,
Sir Robert Peel, Lady Russell and family, the Hon.
Mrs. Mc rton, Adnairal Cator and family, General Can-
non and family, Sir Morton and Lady Peto, Sir John
Davis, Sir John Arbour Carew, Dunbar, Esq.,
M.P., Lady Abingdon,—Wileex, Esq., MX., and Dr.
lient and family.