The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-05 00:00:00

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On Saturday Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston enter-
tained Viscount Melbourne, Viscount and Viscountess
Jocelyn, Lord William Russell, Lord and Lady Seymour,
Dowager Lady Holland, Mr. M. Mines, Mr. E. Landseer,
Mr. Samuel Rogers, and a distinguished circle at dinner, at
their mansion, in Carlton House-terrace. A small party as-
sembled after dinner, the visitors including Baron Nieumann,
Chevalier Bunsen, Duchess De Coigny and Mdlle. De Coigny,
the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Count Jarnac,
Marquis of Worcester, Countess Cadogan and Ladies Au-
gusta and Honoria Cadogan, Countess of Mount Edgecumbe
and Misses Macdonald, Countess of Mexborough and Lady
Sarah iSaville, Earl of Auckland and Hon. Misses Eden, Sir
Robert and Lady Sale and Mrs. Sturt, Viscount and Vis-
countess Ponsonby, Lord Foley and Hon. Miss A. Foley, Lord
Campbell, Mr. T. Duncombe, &c.
Sir Robert Peel has, we believe, accepted an invitation
from the Duke of Rutland, to meet a select party, at Long-
shawe, Derbyshire, for grouse shooting, about the middle of
the month. _ _ _

The Duke of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners and Lord
George Manners have arrived in town, from Southampton,
after a cruise in the Noble Duke's yacht, Resolution. The
Duke purposes early next week to repair to Longshawe, his
shooting box in Derbyshire, where his Grace will receive a
distinguished party for grouse shooting.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have gone on a tour
of the German Spas. The Noble Earl and Countess left town
on Thursday, and embarked the following day for Ostend.
We hear their absence on the Continent is not likely to be
protracted beyond three months.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford left Goodwood. Park on
Saturday, and have joined the circle assembled at Arundel
Castle, the seat of the Duke of Norfolk. Lord Southampton
is among the guests at present partaking the Noble Duke's
hospitality.
The Earl and Countess Grosvenor and family have left
town for the season.
The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by his eldest son,
the Marquis of Stafford, was expected to leave Trentham for
Scotland on Saturday last.
Viscount and Viscountess Canterbury, who have during
their sojourn in town been residing with the Countess of
Blessington, at Kensington-gore, left on Thursday last for
Rockbeare House, near Exeter, for the autumn.
Viscount Morpeth has left Trentham, the seat of the Duke
and Duchess of Sutherland, for Castle Howard, the Earl of
Carlisle's family seat in Yorkshire.
Lady Jemima Eliot and family have left Dover-street for
Port Eliot, St. Germans, Cornwall, and at the close of the
Parliament will be joined by Lord Eliot, who will remain
there a short time with his family. and then go to Dublin for
the winter. _ _

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The Hon. George Wentworth Fitzwilliam, M.P., arrived
at Mortimer House on Saturday, from a visit to the Hon.
Mr. Wodehouse, in Norfolk, and leaves town to-day for the
Earl of Yarborough's seat, in the Isle of Wight. Earl Fitz-
william and the Ladies Fitzwilliam remain at Milton.

THE NELSON MONUMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

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SIRS I have read your very just remarks in your leading
article of yesterday, relative to the penurious conduct of the
aristocracy in not affording the means for furnishing the Nel-
son Monument in Trafalgar-square. I subscribed ten pounds
towards it, and am willing to double my subscription; and if
others, who can better afford it, will do the same, the monu-
ment may, and will, be finished by Nelson's admiring coun-
trymen, who will have an opportunity of returning to the
Emperor of Russia his munificent donation, accompanied with
their best thanks, &c. The sum voted by Parliament for its
completion may be invested for its repair. The monument
will then be what it professed to be, a grateful tribute of
affection to the departed hero, erected by the voluntary sub-
scription of his surviving countrymen.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Weymouth, August 4, 1844. J. L.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER. —Yesterday
afternoon, as a party of youths were amusing themselves in
a small skiff, nearly opposite to Somerset-wharf, Bankside,
one of them who was rowing, caught what is technically
called" a crab," and losing his balance, fell backward, and,
at the same moment, the boat got athwart the hawse of a
sailing barge moored in the river, and upset. One unfortu-
nate lad, the son of a respectable hatter, residing in Union-
street, Borough, named Harrison, was immediately drawn
under, and carried away by the tide and drowned. The re-
mainder were saved by the praiseworthy promptitude of the
master of one of the Chelsea steamers.
THE ITAIR.—Of the numerous compounds con-
stantly announced for promoting the growth or reproduc-
tion of the hair, few survive, even in name, beyond a very
limited period; whilst " Rowland's Macassar Oil," with a
reputation unparalleled, is still on the increase in public es-
timation. The singular virtues of this successful invention
for restoring, preserving, and beautifying the human hair,
are too well known and appreciated to need much comment.
The very facts of the high and distinguished patronage it
enjoys, its general use in all countries, together with nu-
merous testimonials constantly received in its favour, are au-
thorities which stamp its superior excellence and title over all
attempts of a similar nature. Being universally preferred,
its consequent great demand excites the cupidity of un-
principled shopkeepers, who vend the most spurious trash as
the " genuine' Macassar Oil : whereas the genuine article is
wholly the invention and property of A. Rowland and Son,
and the amalgamation of its costly exotic materials renders
abortiveany attempt to discover its component parts—thus
proving' the imposition of all other articles bearing the title
of " Macassar Oil." The genuine article has the words
" Rowland's Macassar Oil" on the wrapper.—All others are
fraud ule,' counterfeits!
TRAVELLERS IN ITALY.—These who contemplate
spending the ensuing autumn and winter under Italian
skies, will be gratified to learn that a new and accom-
plished Lady Guide and Travelling Companion offers
herself to their notice, in the person of Mrs. Ashton
Yates (wife of the late Member for Carlow), whose two
delightful volumes on Italy are just published. They
are precisely those light, off-hand travelling sketches of
the places they depict which travellers desire to meet
with ; telling just so much of each as to secure the
reader against overlooking anything specially worth
visiting, yet not enough of any to blunt the curiosity or
fatigue the attention of those who desire to examine and
explore for themselves. The chief places visited during
this pleasant " IVinter in Italy," are Perugia, Rome,
Cisterna, Naples, Florence, Bologna, Ferrara, Padua,
and Venice—returning to England by the Tyrol, &c.
The form of narrative is the happy and appropriate one
—especially in the case of a lady of familiar letters—
doubtless the identical thissives which Mrs. Ashton Yates
dispatched home to her friends and relatives during her
absence.
• Earl Spencer, on leaving town after his return to
Spencer House from the agricultural show at Southampton,
went to Longford Hall, Derbyshire, to attend the funeral of
i the lamented Dowager Countess of Leicester.