The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-29 00:00:00

COUSIT-...•-rASIIXONII,I3LE.

The Prince of Wales, Duke of Northumberland, Earl of
St. Germane, Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady Basset, and
Sir Richard VyYyan, Bart.; M.P., have respectively contri-
butedloo/.16 the additional building of the Cornivall County
Lunatic Asylum. Lord Eliot, Lord Carteret, and Sir T.
Spry, Bart., M.P., are donors of 501. each.
The Duke of Wellington arrived 'at .Strathfieldave on
Tuesday, and on Wednesday gave a splendid entertainment
to Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice Cresswell, the
Judges on the western circuit- .The High Sheriff, Mr. John
Thomas Waddington, the Speaker of the House of Commons,
and a eircle of about thirty of the maci.stracv of the county,
were invited to meet the Judges by the noble hi.t.
Lord Elphinstone arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, early in
the week, from his seat,'CUmbernauld, Dumbartonshire, being
his first visit to *his. Scottish estates since his return. from ,
the Government of Madras.

Lord Eastnor, M.P., has been making a tour in the East,
and is not expected home until the advance of the spring.
Lord Suffield left. Fenton's Hotel on Wednesday, for Nor-
folk-square, Brighton, where Lady Suffield is staying in deli-
cate health.
Lord and Lady Portman andfamily left Bryanstone House,
Dorset, on Saturday last, for• Brighton, where they have en-
gaged a residence for a short time.
The Marquis of Westminster is quite recovered from his
recent slight indisposition. The Marquis does not intend to
leave Eaton Hall for Grosvenor House before the Chester
races are over; but the Marchioness will be in town, most
likely, a week prior to that meeting.
The Marquis of Clanricarde has left Carlton House-terrace
for Hooton Park, on a visit to Sir Wm. Massey Stanley.
The Duke of Leeds returned to the Clarendon Hotel yester-
day, from Melton Mowbray, where his Grace has been en-
joying the diversion of hunting with the Melton hounds. The
Duchess and the Dowager Duchess are still at Hornby Castle.

InISCELMANMOUS.
Nearly all the mails from the north are arriving at the
General Post-office considerably beyond time. In Edinburgh
and.the north of Scotland there have been heavy falls
,of
snow, and many of the roads are completely blocked up.
The mails from Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow, Perth, Inver-
ness,' Aberdeen, Montrose, Arbroath, Forfar, Dundee,. and
other places, are overdue. The Wick. and Thurso mails are
More than 48 hours overdue.
-, At a meeting on Wednesday of the ratepayers of the pa-
rishuf St.. George-the-Martyr, a petition to the Coinmis-.
siouers of Woods and Forests was proposed and agreed to,
praying.that. a portion of any sum granted for the improve-
ment of the metropolis might be applied towards the trma-
tionof a road through the, district called the Mint to the
great Dover-road. The Mint was stated to be one Of the
most immoral and profligate places in the metropolis.
-knumerous and influential meeting of coal-factors,' coal-
merchants, and others interested in the coal trade, was held -
on Wednesday, at the Coal Exchange, near Billingsgate, for
the purpose of: petitioning . Parliament on the proposed new
tax of sd. per ton Upon all coals imported into LondCn,
order to defray the: expenses of the contemplated Thames
embankment, It was urged, amongst other arguments, that
the poorer classes would be greatly aggrieved by it ; that the
extent of the tax would be to the large amount of 55,0001. a
year upon the inhabitants of London and its environs ; that
the coal and shipping interests could bear no further bur-
dens, being already sufficiently taxed by the impost of Is. ld.
per ton already in force ; and that the projected embankment
along the Thames was an imaginary scheme for improving
the banks of the river, and would be fraught with consider-
able injury and inconvenience to the proprietors of wharfs
and the navigation of lighters. A petition in accordance

with the object of the meeting was unanimously adopted, and
will-be presented to the House of Commons by Sir J. Dnke.
-Sir John Beckett presided at the annual dinner of the ;Law'
Life Assurance Society, on Tuesday evening, at the Clarcaidon,
Hotel. 'Lord" Abinger, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. .
Law, Sir Charles F. Williams; &c., were present.
A return, moved for by Sir J. Graham, Bart., show that
the total number of paupers relieved in the quarter e ding
Lady7day, 1843, in 584 unions in England and - ales,
amounted to 1,303,089, of whom 201,927 were in-dOor,l and

1,101,162 out-door paupers.
,• , .
Within the last few days nineteen petitions, signed by ,128
persons, have been presented against the union of the dioceses
of Bangor and St. Asaph. - • • - : ,

ARRIVAL OP ,YLIE PENINSULAR MAILS..SOUTII-
.k.mrroN, FE.B. 28.—The Oriental Company'a ateans-packet
Little Liverpool, arrived here last. night at eleven o'4lock,
and landed her mails, which were forwarded to London by
this morning's mail- train. She left Gibraltar the 18th inst.,
Cadiz the 19th, Lisbon The 21st, Oporto and Vigo the23d.
The Liverpool has only,fpur passengers, and a full fruit iargo
and Spanish hams. •
SEAMAN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY.—The dinner oil this
charity, founded in the year 1821, for the comfort and pro-
tection of sick and diseased seamen in the port of London;
and for some time since the operations of which have been,
carried" on on board the Dreadnought gun-ship, moored off-
, Greenwich, took place at the London Tavern; Henry- em-
ble, Esq., 111. P.-, in the chair, "supported by Sir H. elly,
111. P.-,
Bart. ; tear -Admiral Young, Captain Sparshot, Mr. ed
houie, Mr. Alfred Francis, Captain Locke, Lieutenant Wag-
horn, R.N., Mr Adam Young, Mr. Oliver Lang, and several
other of-the most influential .members of-the maritime anti ,
shipping interests of the City. After the dinner,. which! was
one worthy of the' house in-which it took place, " Benedi tae,
was sung by Messrs. Jolly, Young, Atkins, Masters .He Ber-
soni and Force,' and Jolly, jun. The responses to the oyal
, toasts-were, as usual, patriotic; and all of those having re-.
fereiice to the heads of shipping institutions were vociferously
responded to. During the evening, it - was stated that the
munificent sum of 2,520/. had been subscribed by the Trinity
House, -five of brethren of which were present. The East•
India Company -had likewise subscribed in .all . 2,400/. •
Amongst the subscribers announced during the evening were,
• her. Majesty the Queen, 100 guineas annually ; 7her -Majesty
the Queen. Dowager, 10/. annually; the Trinity _House; 3001. ;
13. Bond Cabbell, Barclay,, Bevan, and Co., Barclay, Perkins,
and Co., and the Honourable East India Company, 100 'gui-
neas ; .111 r. George. Stinnes, Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall
• Gtike,-Lord John Russell, Captain Phipps Hornby, General
Sir William 'H. 'Clinton, Sir J. 11. Polly, Bart. ; Mr. Bohn
Latouche; Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, Captain -Nairne ;
and various amounts from foreign companies. Upwards of
1,3001. -was collected during the evening.
_LONDON- PEACE- SOCIETY.—A public meeting, ex-
planatory
of the principles and in aid of the objects of this
-Society, wasfield in the British School-room, Harp-alley, kar-
ringdon-street; on Tuesday evening, February .27, John Lee,
Esq., LLD., &c., in the chair. The meeting was addressed
by the eh:time-1, the Rev. W. Miall, E. W. Richard, Esq.,
,Mr. Rigaud,:the Rey.
,C. Dukes, M.A. Mr. Jefferson, and
JosephT.isrici," Esq., of Neitili Wie. -Al out 400 'Persons
were present, and •134 signed the declaration of adhesion to
the society's principles.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY).
The House sat to- day to hear appeals. The Peers present,
were, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Abingcr, and
Lord. Campbell.