The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-08 00:00:00

COVXT-P/U3BZONABLIS.

The Duke of Cambridge and his illustrious son-in-law
the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz
remained at Etal House three days on a visit to Lord
Frederick and Lady Augusta Fitzclarence, who invited a
distinguished circle to meet the Royal guests. On
Thursday their Royal Highnesses honoured by their
presence the annual games at Etal ; the Duchess of
Roxburghe, Hon. Lady Stanley, Lord Elcho, and a
brilliant party of the local nobility and gentry being
likewise present.
Lord and Lady Blantyre left Inverary Castle on Friday
last, on their return to Erskine House. Lord Morpeth
also left on the same day, for Castle 'Toward. The
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, with the Marquis of
Stafford and the Ladies Leveson Gower, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Lorn, the Ladies Charteris, Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell (of Islay), and the Hon. Misses Stewart,
are among the 'visitors at present enjoying the hospi-
tality of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, at Inverary
Castle.

Durant St. Andre, Consul-General of France in Eng-
land, with Messrs. Leine, French Consul at Liverpool,
Deserro, French Consul at Edinburgh, Dillon, French
Consul at Newcastle, and Frederic Gautier, Vice-Consul
in London, left town on Monday for Portsmouth, in order
to accompany his Excellency the French Ambassador, and
to be in readiness to receive his Majesty the King of the
French, their august Sovereign.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady
Louisa Churchill have arrived at Blenheim, near Oxford,
from the Noble Duke's shooting quarters in Perthshire.
The Earl and Countess of Stair have been on a visit
to the Earl and Countess of Camperdown, at Caliper-
down Castle, near Dundee.

The Countess of Antrim left Eaton-place on Saturday,
for Chisborn Castle, on a visit to her father, the Earl of
Macclesfield.

The Dowager Lady Bolton performed the interesting
ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the intended
new church at Kingsclere, Ilants, on Friday last.
Lord Rokeby has left Montague House, Portman-
square, for the Continent. His Lordship purposes to
pass the winter in Italy.
Lord Jeffery on Friday afternoon last left the Crown
Hotel, Penrith, Cumberland, where his Lordship had
been staying a couple of days, for Hawick, in Scotland.
The Hon. George Smythe, M.P., who only arrived in
England on Wednesday last, has been visiting the Ger-
man Spas, Geneva, and Paris.
Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., is now staying at Cad-
lands, and is shortly about to lead to the hymeneal altar
the eldest daughter of Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Drum-
mond, and granddaughter to the Duke of Rutland.
BUSCEIMAIN33OI7B.

In the course of Saturday afternoon her Majesty
pardon was received at Newgate by Mr. Cope, the
governor, for the discharge of Captain Petrie, who was
tried at the last February sessions of the Central Crimi-
nal Court, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, and sentenced
to eighteen months' imprisonment.
Her Majesty's ship Resistance left Cove on Thursday
for Plymouth, where a Court-martial will be held on the
boatswain and one of the men. These parties having had
an altercation a few weeks ago, the boatswain knocked
the man down; the man:instantly seized a hatchet, which
he threw at his adversary, who had a narrow escape for
his life. There was not a sufficient number of officers at
Cove to form a Court.

Mr. E. J. Irwin's filly, the Pride of Kildare, arrived
in Dublin, per steamer, from Liverpool, on Monday last,
and has gone down to the Curragh. Her fortunate
owner is said to have won a larger sum in bets on Mickey
Free in England, than he did on the winner of the Great
St. Leger.
A smart shock of an earthquake was experienced in
George-town, Demerara, about half-past three o'clock in
the morning of the 30th of August, but it does not ap-
pear to have been attended with damage to buildings or
loss of life. Guano has become an article of import to
Demerara.

Mrs. Pritchard, with her three daughters, have ar-
rived in London. They came home on board the barque
Cape Breton, Captain Caerr, which left Valparaiso on
the 11 th of June, and arrived at Cork on the 3d of
October, bringing Government dispatches from the
master of the Basilisk, on board of which Queen Pomare
has taken refuge, and from Admiral Thomas on the South
American station. Mrs. Pritchard and her daughters
reached Bristol on Saturday, and London the same even-
ing. They are under the roof of the Rev. James Sher-
man, minister of Surrey Chapel.
Mr. T. S. Warne, assistant-master of the Bristol
Diocesan Schools, has been appointed head master of the
Chatham National Schools.

The General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Trident arrived at Brown's Wharf, Poplar, from
Edinburgh, yesterday morning, at the early hour of half-
past seven o'clock, having performed the passage from
Granton Pier to London, and landed her exceedingly
numerous passengers, under forty hours.
A farmer in Leicestershire found a wasp's nest the
other day on the roof of his house, and he put it, wasps
and all, into a sack, intending to throw the whole into a
pond. Some thieves stole the sack from the door of the
farm-house, and on their opening it to inspect their
booty, the wasps flew out, settling on them and amply
punishing them for the theft.

The last time King Louis Philippe visited England
was in 1815, during the hundred days. When Louis
XVIII. went to Ghent the Duke of Orleans took refuge
in England, where he remained until the Battle of Wa-
terloo enabled him once more to return to the Palais
Royal. Louis Philippe has entered the 72d year of his
E!ge, including the last, having boon born on the 6th of
Ootober, 1 rn3.