The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-28 00:00:00

rA.NITONABLE ANTI MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke and Duchess of CAoucester gave a
Grand Dinner on Monday, at Gloucester douse, Park-
lane. The Duchess of Kent and the Print' fss Feo-
dore were of the Party, together with a great number of the
Nobility.
The Duke of Sussex, we are happy to s:ate,
is able to take an airing daily in his carriage.
Mr. Secretary Canning left town yesterday af-
ternoon, soon after three o'clock, for the Royal Lodge, in
Windsor Park, on a visit to the KlNci.
The Marquis of Hertford transacted business
yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.
The Marquis de Palmella, the Portuguese
Minister, transacted business at the Foreign Office, yester-
day afternoon.
The Earl and Countesssliof Kinnoull entertain-
ed a Party to Dinner on Monday, at their house in Gros-
venor-street, among whom were--Earl and Countess of Rose-
buy, Lord Beresford, Emily Marchioness of Londonderry,
Marquis of Lothian, Lord and Lady Gwydyr, Sir Charles
and Lady Rowley, Mr. Boyd, Countess of Glengall, Lady
Charlotte Butler, Sir Ralph Anstruther,
The Earl of Aberdeen entertained a distin-
guished Party to Dinner yesterday, at his house in Argyll-st.

The Duke of Norfolk has given orders for the
immediate erection of a handsome marine villa on his manor
farm at Little Hampton.

Lord Cawdor had a grand dinner party yes-
terday, at his house in Grosvenor-square.

Mrs. Scott Murray has issued cards for Qua-
drille Balls on the sth of April and sth of May, at her
superb mansion in Cavendish-square, which has received
various improvements since her return from the Continent.
The plate which was sold last week by Mr.
Christie, belonging to his late Royal Highness the Duke of
York, we understand, produced 22,5401. or thereabouts.

It is said that the Rev. Dr. Jenkinsort, the
Lord Bishop of St. David's, will be appointed to the va-
cant Deanery of Durham.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Yesterday
morning, at Clewer Church, by the Hon. and Rev. Richard
King, the Hon. and Rev. Edward Moore, youngest son of •
the late, and brother to the present Earl of Mount Cashel,
to the Hon. Matilda Trefmil, daughter of the late, and sic.
ter of the present Lord Clinton.

We beg to suggest to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, a fertile source of revenue in these hard times.
We mean a duty of ten pounds to be paid by every person
(not Scots or Irish) coining a new trord—and fifty for such
ae Panstereomachia, Phusigraph, and the like : half to be
arn J
even to the informer.
A Manuscript by Philodemus, recently found
in the excavations at Herculaneum, attributes to Theophras-
tu sai.° famous Treatise w
atoirske
oilfA
onl Politics,
ri e
t playoMrs.eFu
tiwhich
rOakley,e t d has e always
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consideredi‘thieis f
Jealous Wife, on Saturday next. The character of Mr.
Oakley, by Mr. Wards.

Miss Foote will make her first appearance in
London, this season, at Covent Garden, in the course of
the next week, in her favourite character, Letitia Hardy,
in The Belle's Stratagem. Mr. C. Kemble, who is ex-
pected in town in a few days, on his return from a most
successful provincial tour, will play Doricourt.

Garrick's Musical Romance of Cynton is be-
ing revived at Covent Garden, and will be brought out in
the course of the next week. The principal characters by
Madame Vestris, Miss Paton, Miss Hammersley, Mies
Henry, and Mies Goward, Mr. W. Farren, and Mr.
Fawcett.

Dr. Crotch's Oratorio of Palestine is cOnSi-
dered to be, in its style of composition, nearer to that of
Handel's than that of any other composition since the days
of that great master.

The sixth Meeting of the Glee Club, which
vras to have been held on Saturday last, was postponed to
the 7th of April next, owing to the revere and afflicting
illness of Stephen Groombridge, Esq., the President.

The project of building Assembly Rooms in
connexion with a new Town Hall, has become the general
theme of conversation in the fashionable circles, and appears
to be very popular. It is regarded as an indication, that
our Conunissoners are sincere in their expressed desire of
consulting the convenience and wishes of visitors. From
the proposed plan of the building, the edifice is expected to
produce a very imposing effect.—Brighton Guardian.

The Caledonian fancy dress hall, which is
shortly to be given at Covent-garden Theatre, under the
highest patronage, for the benefit of the Caledonian Cha-
rity, will be distingnithed by a whimsical peculiarity,
highly honourable to Sir Walter Scott. Every character
in the celebrated Scotch novels, male and female, beginning
with Waver/y, and ending with Woodstock, is to be re-
presented in the exact costume of the age is which they
are supposed to have lived. The names of each are to he
written on pieces of paper, and the ladies' put into one
hag, and the gentlemen's into the other. None but persons
of approved respectability and name are to be admitted.
When the tickets are all issued, th: characte►s are to he
drawn by lots.

A Nobleman in the county of Herts recently
had a bill presented to him of 1,500/. for corn, &c. used
for feeding his pheasants !

The intercourse between Brighton and Dieppe
will, we understand, shortly be opened by the sailing of
Steam Vessels, expected on this station in the course of the
ensuing month.—Brighton Guardian.
A JOHNSONIAN.—He Who can repent what-
ever he has read, and assumes magisterial sirs, rolling a
siletorrentnee
ands of
Ley cannot hinder
look little, and mere dwarfs by him; h
nor dare they attempt
his engrossing the whole discourse,n the
it ; they sometimes suspect be wrong,. but have
contradict hie
rned
him, distrusting their own
not the assurance to Pientheotnhveersation. They
memory, and reading his, even in things which they fancy
he mistakes.—BaYle•
,IOLOLO
An ingenious medical friend of ours has observed, that if,
lbSs7cGartirild:eis'AtoNthie.d—if-
ferent disturbed districts in Ireland, the Government had
sent 5,000,000 blue pills, aceompaniod by as many eld
women for nu-
•3Cll, tranquillity would have been insured
throughout the country ; for the pbysick would not only
instePadLAofNdsFstip°altichTinltgA,:,o7o
have cooled the mercurial and fermented blood of the Ca-
tholics, but produced a corporeal depre:sion highly requi-
site to the safety of the British Government. Our friend
further suggests the adoption of an Act of Parliament,
whereby every Catholic orator shall, in future, be physieked
previous to his delivering a speech--the dose to be propora
tioned to the :ntended length of his oration. " Thus," adds
our friend, a calm and temperate diction, put forth with
corresponding gentleness, will infallibly take precedence of
the angry inflated harrangues at present in fashion through-
out Ireland, and which are not so much the result of pa,
triotism as of plethora." We strongly recommend this
hint to the notice of the llon. Secretary for Ireland ; for
no man clan be patriotic tinder the influence of a brisk dose
of Epsont salts ; the idea, therefore, is highly plausible.
THE LOST UMBRELLA. -- PRIVILEGE
PRlvturoz.—The readers of the Parliamentary debates of
loss
Monday and yesterday will be aware,that h triflingof an umbrella gave rise to a grave question of privilege in
the most dignified assembly of the realm. This was as it
should be. Ancient and well-founded privileges should be
upheld, no matter whether they become affected by the lose
of an umbrella, or the loss of a province. But, if we are
correctly informed, the lost umbrella has given rise to the
assertion of a privilege of another kind, which, whatever
might be said of its utility, is certainly not less ancient
than that claimed by their Lordships--we allude to that
whiCh ladies have claimed from time immemorial, to use
their tongues in defence of their lords (a claim which, by
the way, is every where admitted, save in our British
Courts of common law). The fair claimant in this case
is the wife of the gentleman who was summoned to their
Lordships' bar yesterday. This lady, Whose plain notions
of right and wrong appear to have got no undue bias by
any acquaintance with the practice of our superior law
Courts, happened (we understand) to be present when their
Lordships' summons to appear before them was served upon
her husband. Indignant that he should be "called to ac-
count" for only looking for his umbrella in the house where
he had lost it, the good lady WAR at no pains to conceal
what she thought on the occasion. " Tell the Lords," said
she (in a tone which spoke the strong feelings of the wo-
man, heightened by the sympathies of the wife)—" tell
the Lords from me, that I will have my husband's um-
brella, or I will summon every one of them. It was a new
umbrella, and he gave 17s. 6d. for it last Wednesday. He
had a right to look for it where he lost it. He left it in
their house, d h
an__ Ley must know something about it,
among theta." Holy far the lady will carry her threat
into execution time alone roust determine. As far as tie
probability of the matter is concerned, we earl state, that
up to a late hour last night "the lost umbrella" was not
fOrthenMlLT.