The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

COURT-PASIBIONABLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained his Ex-
cellency Baron Brunnow and a select party on Sunday even-
ing, at Kew Cottage.
Her Majesty's first drawing-room, on the 25th instant, is
expected to be very numerously attended.
It is understood that the Royal apartments in Kew Palace
are to be forthwith prepared for the temporary sojourn of the
Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Royal and Alice, during
the stay of the Court in town, for the advantage of the coun-
try air. _ _

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford
House on Friday evening, from visiting the Earl and Countess
of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. We are happy to
hear that the Noble Earl is in a fair way of recovery.
The Duke and Duchess of Montrose left town on Saturday,
on their return to Sulby Hall, for the remainder of the
hunting season._

The Duke of Devonshire leaves Devonshire House early in
the week to join the Earl and Countess of Granville, at
Brighton. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland also will
shortly go to Brighton, where their family are residing, and
purpose prolonging their stay there until Easter.
The Duke of Buccleuch and a distinguished circle were
entertained by the Earl of Haddington at the Admiralty, on
Saturday last. The Noble Earl will commence his levees at
the Admiralty on Thursday next, the 14th inst.
The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained Lord Melbourne
and a select party at dinner, on Friday evening, at Lansdowne
House.

The Marquis of Conyngham left Jermyn-street at the end
of last week, for Cowes, to superintend the alterations in his
yacht, the Flower of Yarrow (late a cutter), which is being
lengthened, as his Lordship intends to go afloat early in the
season. The Earl of Mountcharles, his Lordship's eldest
son, has been on a continental tour.
Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a select party at
dinner, on Sunday evening, in Grafton-street.
The Speaker of the House of Commons has his last levee
on Saturday next, and that gentleman's parliamentary
dinners conclude this session on the3oth inst.
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A meeting of tenant-farmers was held idllarleston, in Suf-
folk, on Wednesday, when resolutions, condemnatory of the
corn-laws, were carried by a great majority.
A numerous and highly respectable meeting was held on
Thursday evening in the Theatre, Preston, in aid of the
100,0001. League fund. A deputation from the League, con -
sisting of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Colonel Thompson,
and Mr. R. R. Moore, addressed the meeting for several
hours. After which, a subscription was commenced, and the
sum of 8954 was announced by the chairman as the amount
collected.

The importation of live stock from Scotland to the port of
London is rapidly on the increase. During the past week
no fewer than 374 live cattle were landed. On Friday after-
noon the steam-ship Dundee, Captain Kidd, arrived at Wap-
ping from Dundee—her first trip this season. She brought
112 live cattle, 40 sheep, 24 boxes of the river Tay salmon,
about 15 tons of killed beef, mutton, and pork ; about 10,000
hares and rabbits, and a large quantity of Forfarshire manu-
factured goods. The other importations of cattle during the
week were, from Aberdeen, 150; Banff, 86; and Fraser-
burgh, 26.

➢lr.'Baily has just received a commission for a statue in
marble of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, for
the Masonic-hall at the Freemasons' Tavern.

We understand that there is no truth in the story of coins
having been found at Chatsworth to the amount of 10,0001.,
as stated in some of the papers.
A sermon in behalf of the Scotch Free Church was preached
on Sunday, at Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars• road, by the
Rev. Dr. Candlish, of Edinburgh. Divine service commenced
at half-past ten o'clock in the forenoon. The attendance was
not so great as might have been expected, but this circumstance
may be attributed to the very unsettled state of the weather.
Sermons were also preached in various other Dissenting cha-
pels throughout the metropolis for the same object.
On Friday evening, a deputation visited Saddleworth,
for the purpose of addressing a meeting convened iu aid of
the League fund. The meeting, which was held in a large
Dissenting place of worship, crowded to excess, was addressed
by the members of the deputation with great effect, and at
the close of their speeches, a subscription was commenced, and
upwards of 2501. was collected before the meeting separated.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel received the Duchess of
Buccleuch, his Excellency Mr. Everett, M. and Madame
Hummelauer, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, Viscount Ma-
hon, Lord Meadowbank, the Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir Ben-
jamin ,Brodie, Professor Owen, Sir John Pelly, Mr. Sydney
Smirk, the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, Mr. Barry,
Mr. Eastlake, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. W. R. Hamilton,
&c., at dinner, on Saturday last, at the family mansion in
Whitehall-gardens. Lady Peel had a soiree after the enter-
tainment, when the splendid picture gallery and connecting
saloons were thrown open for the reception of a brilliant circle,
including his Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess
de St. Aulaire, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Baroness Langs-
dorff, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Marquis and Mar
chioness of Blandford, Lady Louisa Churchill, Sir Henry
and Lady Emily and Miss Hardinge, Countess of Verulam
and Lady Jane Grimston, Viscount Grimston, the Earl of
Aberdeen, his Excellency Baron Hugel, the Hon. Captain
Maxwell, M.P., Mr. Temline, M.P., Mademoiselle D'Este,
Viscount Castlereagh, Baron Bjornstjerna, Earl Jermyn,
Lord Alfred Hervey, Viscount and Viscountess Canning,
Sir James and Lady Graham, his Excellendy the Bava-
rian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Sir George and
Lady Seymour and Miss Seymour, Mr. Milnes Gaskell,
M.P., Mr. G. Hope, the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne
Charteris, Captain Peel, Captain A'Court, M.P., Mr. R. Ne-
ville, M.P., Mr. M. Manes, M P., his Excellency the Vene-
zuelan Minister, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., the Right Hon.
George and Mrs. Dawson, his Excellency the Turkish Am-
bassador, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency
Count Kielmansegge, Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli, M.P., and
Mrs. D'lsraeli, Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden, Lady
Fuller, his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness
Brunnow, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lady
Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Mrs. and Misses Smith,
Mr. Stephenson, Mr A'Court, Viscountess Beresford, Mr. A.
and Lady Mildred Hope, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen,
Sir George Murray, Lord Redesdale and Hon. Miss Milford,
Ladies Murray, Sir George and Lady Clerk and Miss Clerk,
Baron Koller, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. 'W. Beckett, M P., Mr.
and Lady Blanche Balfour, Baron Lebzeltem, Lord and Lady
Brougham, Mr. T. Egerton, M.P., Colonel Thomas Wood,
Lord Charles Wellesley, his Excellency the Brazilian Mi.
nister and Marchioness de Lisboa, his Excellency Count Pol-
lon, Mr. Cochrane, M.P., Lord and Lady Granville Somer-
set and Hon. Miss Somerset, Lord Byron, Lord Ernest Bruce,
Hon. Charles Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Anson, his Excellency
the Belgian Minister and. Madame Van der Weyer.
VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S PAR-
Tins.—On Saturday the Duke of Devonshire, Marquis of
Normanby, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
Viscount and Viscountess Severn, Dowager Lady Hol
land, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Foley, Mr. and. Mrs.
Stanley, Mr. F. Byng, and a distinguished party, were
entertained at dinner by Viscount and Viscountess Pal-
merston, at their residence in Carlton House-terrace. Her
Ladyship had an assembly after dinner, when about
250 personages of rank and distinction graced her Lady-
ship's salons by their presence. Among the leading visitors
were the Marquis of Headfort- and Ladies Mary and Olivia
Taylor, Marchioness of Sligo and Ladies Browne, Marquis of
Lansdowne, his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness
Brunnow, his Excellency Count Reventlow, his Excellency
Count Pollen, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Mad.
Van de Weyer, M. and Mad. Hummelauer, Viscountess Dillon
and Honourable Misses Dillon, Countess of Euston and
Lady Louisa Fitzroy, Earl of Arran, Lord Beaumont,
Countess of Charlemont and Lady Harriet Ponsonby,
Lord Crewe, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Viscount
and Viscountess Howick, Baron and Baroness Lionel
Rothschild,, Lady Caroline Wood, Honourable Mr. Grey,
Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford and Miss Clifford, Sir G.
Staunton, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, Countess of Rose*
bell' and Ladies Primrose, Viscount and Viscountess Duncan,
Lady Hislop and Miss Hislop, Lord Monteagle, Hon. Mao
Foley, Mrs. M. Martyn, Viscount Emlyn, Hon. C. and Lady
Catherine Cavendish and Miss Cavendish, Earl of Auckland
and Hon. Miss Eden, Sir Thomas Winnington, Lord and
Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lady Methuen and the Hon. Miss
Methuen, Mrs. Morier and Misses Morier, Lord Glenelg,
Lady Pechel, Sir John and Lady Easthope, Mr. and Mrs.
Vernon Smith, Lord James Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart,
Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Rose, his Excellency the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Sir Augustus and Lady A.
Forster, Mr. E. Landseer, Hon. F. and Lady Anne
Charteris, his Excellency Baron Hugel, Lady Seaford and
Misses Hardy, Sir George and Lady Seymour and Miss Sey-
mour, Lord Ernest Bruce, his Excelleney the Turkish Am.
bassador, Countess Reventlow, Mr. G. E. and Mrs. Anson
Hon. C. Murray, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Baron
do Thille, Sir William Middleton, Lord and Lady Vi-
vian, Lady Dacre and Miss Sullivan, Mr. and Lady
Blanche Balfour, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Romilly, his
Excellency Mr. Everett, Lady Elizabeth Gore, Hon. R.
Gore, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ellice, Baron
Bjornstjerna, Baron Koller, Baron Lebzeltern, his Excellency
Count Kielmansegge, Mr. and Mrs. Towneley, Mr. E. Buller,
Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mr. Macdonald, Sir Charles
Leman, Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. and Miss Grenfell, Lord Cotten-
ham and Hon. Misses Peps, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Lord
and Lady Colborne and Hon. Miss Ridley ‘Colborne, Dlr.
Tufnell, licc.