The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-01 00:00:00

The Earl and Countess of Warwick arrived at Patter.

son's Hotel, Brook-street, on Thursday. last. Her Lady-
ship has had a severe attack of gout, and been confined
to her room for some time at Yatton Park. Her Lady- !‘
ship remains in a very weak state of health.
The Earl and Countess of Limerick are entertaining a
large family circle at South-hill Park.
The Countess of Roden and Lady Maria Jocelyn left
the Clarendon Hotel on Friday for Paris, vid Dover.
The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury left the Chi-.
rendon Hotel on Saturday for Brighton.
Lady Jernima Eliot gave her third ball for the season
on Thursday evening at Dublin. The Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress, the Countess of Donoughtnore, the
Ladies ,Hutchinson, the Attorney-General, Lord and
Lady Francis Gordon, &c., were among the companh
which was very numerous.
NxisCELMANEOUS. • •
A remarkable change has taken place in the weather
in the course of the night. The barometer has fallen 4
nearly an inch in twenty-four hours, and the temperature
is low. Much snow fell during the night, and up to ,
twelve o'clock, but it has entirely disappeared, and the
weather is now more favourable.
This day (Monday), the Queen's proclamation re-
specting light and defaced gold, comes into operation.
It directs that from that day light and defaced gold coin
will no longer be a legal tender, and it gives power to the
person to whom it ma} be offered, to slant or cut it so
that it may never be again circulated. As a great quan-
tity of the coin will probably be brought out, persons
cannot be too careful in the gold coinage they take, as
the loss will fall entirely on themselves.
The General Post-otfice gives notice that the next

mail for India, via Marseilles, will be dispatched thence
on the 4th inst.
The Duke of Rutland's birth-day on Thursday next

will be celebrated with the usual rejoicings, and a nu-
merous and distinguished circle will assemble to cele-
brate the occasion. The Duke of Cambridge will honour
the Noble Duke with his presence.
The sixtieth anniversary of the Surrey Chapel Bene-
volent Society, which was established in the year 1784,
•by the Rev. Rowland Hill, was held yesterday at SurreY
Chapel. From the address, prepared by the Committee, -
it appeared that the Society, since its establishment!. -
had raised 28,0001., and by its means 55,000 cases a
distress had been relieved. The spacious chapel was
crowded to the ceiling, and a collection was made at the
conclusion of the service.
The Earl of Hardwicke has contradicted a paragraph
originally inserted in a provincial journal, to the effects
that At a late rent-day dinner he had expressed hiy
opiniCm that free trade principles would ultimately
triumph; but that such a result would not be so dis-
estrous as generally anticipated. His Lordship state
that he uttered no such sentiment.
We undertand that a considerable number of the prim'''.
cipal coalmasters of North Staffordshire have agreed to
give the advanced rate of wages, namely, 4s. per day.
Lord Monson has made a return of fifteen per cent. to
his tenants on his Lordship's estates in Lincolnshire;
and Earl Forteseue has made a reduction of ten pe,r,
cent. at his late audit on the rents of the Tattershatl
property, in that county.
The Chief Justiceship of our newly-acquired settle'
ment, Hong-Kong, has been offered to no less than seven
members of the English bar, and been declined by thet°
all, although the salary attached to the office is to be
3,000/. a year.
Workmen, under the direction of Mr.- Blore, the
architect, have commenced the construction of a neer,
corridor at Buckingham Palace, from the eipierrio
entrance in the south wing to lead to the new private
Chapel Royal, now in course of decoration, and which i 9
expected to•be completed by the arrival of the Court 1,6
the palace for the season, at the end of the month.
The Duchess of Kent, it is said, will give a gran'
banquet on Tuesday evening, at Frogmore House,. to
her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and e
distinguished party; and her Majesty's departure front
the Castle to Claremont has consequently been post'
poned until the following morning.

SOUTHAMPTON.—The Lady Mary Wood Perlin°.
mar steam-packet arrived at Southampton on Saturdaf'
the 30th of December, at half-past nine o'clock in the
evening-, bringing mails from Malta of the 15th
from Gibraltar, the 23d ult. ; Cadiz, the 24th ; Lisbon'
the 2Gth; Oporto, the 27th; and Vigo, of the last datei
left at Gibraltar her Majesty's ship Belvidere, an
Locust steamer; at Cadiz, the Seine and Volage French
men.of-war brigi; at Lisbon, her Majesty's ship War;
spite, and two Portuguese frigates; and exchanged WO,
lights with the Iberia steam-packet between Oporto sa,"
Vigo. She brings home as passengers the Hon.. u'
Grey, Captain of the Belvidera; Lieutenant LeWi°,'.
commanding the Locust; and Lieutenant Sprat,, of the
Beacon surveying vessel; also, Mr. Kelner, of the posh,
office, London; the Rev. Mr. Davies, a Roman Catholie
clergyman; M. Alfocorado, a Porto entleman
g uese
going to Prance; and the Misses F. and J. DgA fr°ll:
Lisbon, the elder of whom is going to the nunnery a
Youghall. There is no particular news by this packet'
WILFUL DESTRUCTION OF CORN.—On Saturda/
last, an additional quantity of corn was taken out °,
bonded warehouses in this town and destroyed, haviaAbi
by being kept too long, become unfit for human food
Had the corn-laws been repealed, this corn would Ii 3ve
been broaght into the market and purchast-d by some of
our fellow-townsmen, who are now probably on 00_
borders of starvation. And yet there are men who Pr,,
fess and call themselves Christians and, friends of t'is,
poor who advocate a law which permits, nay compel
the wilful destrue:ion-of food in a country where ten
of thousands are lacking bread l—Sunderland Herald:c,
EARL GREY.—'rhe latest accounts from Howl
r":,
Hall represent the state of Earl Grey's health as still c.e,10
precarious. No unfavourable chane had taken Play
since since Wednesday last, and some bads ymptoms bad bee of
relieved, but the Noble Earl was not considered
.ou.
danger when the last report left. Viscount
and nearly all the members of the Noble Earl's fanu
are in atteDdance upon their revered relative.