The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY bINNERS.

The Duke of WELLINGTON, as First Lord
of the 'Treasury, and Mr. PEEL, as Leader of the House
of Commons, gave grand dinners yesterday at their resi-
dences in Piccadilly, and Privy-gardens--the former to a
party of Members of the House of Peers, and the latter to
Members of the House of Commons. Among the Peers
present at the dinner given by the Duke of WELLINGTox
were the LORD CHANCELLOR, Earls BATHURST, DUDLEY,
and ABERDEEN, Lords BEXLEY, MELVILLE, SYDNEY,
ELLENBOROUGH, &C.

The Members of the Lower House present at
the dinner given by Mr. Secretary PEEL were, Viscount
PALMERSTON, Lords ASHLEY, ELLIOT, and F. S, 9MERSET,
the CHANCELLOR of the Excitzeuza, the Right Hon. Sir
J. NICHOLL, Sir J. BECKETT, Sir G. COCKBURN, Sir G.
ROSE, CHAS. GRANT, and V. FITZGERALD, the SPEAKER
of the HousE of COMMONS, the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, Sir
C. WETHERELL, Sir A. Ga.sh-r, Sir E. OWEN, Sir H.
HARDINGE, Sir G. CLERK, Hon. C. JENKINSON, Gen.
KING, Messrs. R. GRANT, CHOKER, H. TWISS, CAL.
VERT, T. COURTENAY, W. HORTON, B. MARTIN, PLAIs TA,
F. LEWIS, G. DAwSON, W. PEEL, and HOLMES.
The King's Message or Speech, as agreed upon by the
KING in Council, on Saturday last, at the Council held
at the Royal Lodge, iu Windsor Park, to be delivered on
the opening .of Parliament this day, was read by the re-
spective hosts to their numerous and distinguished guests.
The dinners were of a most sumptuous description : that
of Mr. PEEL exceeded perhaps those given by any former
leader of the House of Commons, and was given in the
noble picture gallery, in his mansion, in Privy Gardens.
The company of both parties appeared in full court dress.

BRIGHTON, JAN. 28.—Her Royal Highness
the Princess AUGUSTA attended Divine Service in the
Chapel Royal, at the Palace, yesterday, when a suitable
discourse was preached by the Rev. Mr. Rennin:, the
Chaplain.

We hear that Lord SPENCER, yielding to the
wishes of the inhabitants, as expressed at their late public
meeting, has abandoned the idea of applying for the en-
closure of Clapham Common ; but that the project of
allotting tine Common Fields at Battersea is still persisted
in ; though that is warmly opposed, ou the ground that it
would lead to the erection of a multitude of small cottages,
and thus enhance the poor-rates.

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—The Countess
of Castle Stewart, in Gloucester-place; Lord Garvagli,
from his seat in Ireland, and Lad, Garvagh and family,
from Berkshire, in Portman-square ; Frederick West,
Esq. M.P. and Mrs. F. West, in Upper Brook-street,
from Culham Court; the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort
and family, at their house in Grosvenor-square, from their
seat, Badtnington, Gloucestershire; the Duke of Leeds and
his son (the Marquis of Carmarthen), in Bruton-street,
Berkeley-square, from Hornby Castle, Yorkshire; the
Earl of Darnley, at his house in Berkeley-square, from his
seat, Cobham Hall, Kent ; the Earl and Countess of Jer-
sey and family, at their house in Berkeley-square, from
their seat, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire ; Earl of Rosslyn,
and Lady J. St. Clair, at their house in St. James's-
square, from their seat in Scotland ; Mr. Henry Bankes,
M.P. in old Palace-yard, from Kingston Hall ; Hon.
William Eiphinstone, in Harley-street; Captain and Mrs.
Horace Stevens, in Albemarle-street, from Paris ; Sir
Charles Meyrick Burrell, on Richmond-terrace, from
Knep Castle; Mrs. and Miss Normausell, in Brook-street,
from Ramsgate; Colonel and Mrs. Lumley, in Pall-mall,
from Boroughbridge, Yorkshire ; Major Hastings, in Do-
ver-street, from the Archipelago; Mrs. and Miss Pinhorn,
in Grosvenor-street, from Longleat, in Wiltshire; Lou.
Percy Wyndham, in Grosvenor-place, from the Earl of
Egremont's seat at Petworth ; Captain and Lady E.
Fielding, at their house in Sackville-street, from their seat,
Laycock Abbey, Wilts; Sir Richard and Lady Phillips,
at their house in Cavendish-square, from their sec in
Wales ; the Hon. General Sir Edward Stopford. Bart. at
the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from Lord Sydney's
seat, Frognal; Mr. and Mrs. S. Gooch, at Jordan's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from the Continent; E. Par-
ratt, Esq. at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from the
Continent; Lord Lake, at ditto, from Brighton; B. Les-
ter, Esq. M.P. at ditto, four Pool; J. Cradock, Esq.
M.P. at ditto, from Yorkshire; Major Gnome, at ditto:
Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson, at ditto, from their seat in
Wales ; Sir Charles Chad, Bart. and the Hon. Captain
Tumour, et Fladong's Hotel, Oxiord•street, from Nor-
folk ; Thomas Swinnerton, Esq. at ditto, from Butterton
Hal! ; Robert Burrow, Esq. at ditto, from a tour; G. W.
Taylor, Esq. M.P. at the Burlington Hotel, Old Bur-
lington and Cork-streets, from his seat, Erlestoke Park,
Devizes ; Sir G. Wood, Bart. at ditto, from Brighton.

DEPARTURES.—The Countess of Clare, for
the Earl of Warwick's seat, Warwick Castle, Warwick-
shire; the Hon. Mr. De Roos, for Worcester; the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burrell, for Sir Wm. Houston',
seat in Sussex ; Sir F. Agar, Bart. fur his seat in Suffolk ;
Captain and Mrs. Colville, from Berkeley-square, for Bath;
Mrs. J. Vaughan and family, from Warren's Hotel, Re-
gent-street, for their seat, near Bristol ; Mr. and Mrs.
Plumtree, from the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street,
for their seat in Kent.

HAM
ILTONIAN SYSTEM.--The Classical
books printed with a double--a literal and a free transla-
tion—according to the suggestion of the Edinburgh Review,
now embrace all the languages usually studied in this coun-
try. For the Greek there is the Anabasis of Xenophon,
a book peculiarly adapted by its simple and elegant style
for this plan of tuition ; for the Latin Eutropius and
Clcrao's treatises De Sentctute and De Amicitim; for
the French, VOLTAIRE'S Charles the Twelfth ; for the
Italian a volume of prose Selections, commencing with the
easier Extracts and ascending to the more difficult Authors;
and the same for the German.

RUST IC REWARDS.--VIC Lincolnshire Agri-
cultural Socicty has given a prize of ten guineas to one
man, for having had seventeen children (ten living) and
been forty years in the service of one master; and another
of five guineas, for twenty-five children (ten living) and a
service of forty-one years.... Chester Chronicle.

THE SPEAKING FRENCH GRAMMAR,
BY J. V. DOUVILLE,
PROFESSOR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE,
No. 1, Soho-square, near the Bazaar; and 2, Lawrence-lane,
Cljeapsicie, London, 1827.