The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-26 00:00:00

Summonses were issued. on Saturday morn

ing from the Foreign-office for the holding of a Cabinet
Council in the afternoon, at half-past three o'clock. The
Ministers accordingly assembled about that hour. There
were present Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, Vis-
count Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Sir George Murray, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, and
Mr. Herries. The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wel-
lington, and Mr. Secretary Peel, joined the other Ministers
at four o'clock. The Ministers remained in deliberation
till past six o'clock. Previous to the meeting of the
Council, the Earl of Aberdeen had a long conference with
the Duke of Wellington at the Treasury.
The Commissioners of Woods and Forests
have refused to comply witk the request of Mr. Cross,
proprietor of the Menagerie at Exeter 'Change, who had
petitioned to have the time for the removal of the beasts
and birds enlarged. The Commissioners' mandate is im-
perative, and within one month the demolition of Exeter
'Change will commence. Mr. Cross is gradually disposing
of his stock of wild and domestic animals, and will himself
retire upon his fortune. The Zoological Society will be
the principal purchasers. We have received a hint, that
the Metropolis will very likely boast of an additional Zoo--
logical Society, and that some neighbours of ours cut
a conspicuous figure there. -More anon.
The King is said .to be delighted with Fin-
den's engraving of his whole-length Portrait, painted ex-
pressly for the Marchioness of Conyngha:n, in the costume
of an English Gentleman, seated on a sofa, by Sir Thos.
Lawrence. His Majesty has ordered two hundred proof
impressions of this print to be sent down to Windsor,
which are intended as presents to the friends and favourites
at Court.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—TIIO Earl of I
Cornwallis, nephew of the great Marquis of Cornwallis,
and son of the late Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry,
was married at St. George's, Hanover-square, on Thurs-
day last, to Miss Laura Hayes, daughter of the late Was.
Hayes, Esq., of Southall. ' His Lordship is about fifty
years of age, and the bride about forty. By a former mar-
riage his Lordship has a son, only a few years old, Lord
Broome, his heir apparent ; and a daughter, who is mar-
ried to Wickham Martin, Esq. The accomplished bride
was governess, and afterwards companion, to Mrs. Martin.
The urbanity of the Duke of Wellington at a
late Civic Feast, especially after dinner, is the theme of
universal praise in the City.
THE NEW LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRE-
' LAIM —His Grace the Duke of Northumberland was
horn on the 20th April, 1765, and is therefore in his
forty-fourth year. His Grace took Isis seat In the House
of Lords during the life-time of the late Duke, in 1812,
as Baron Percy. He succeeded his father in 1817, and
married April 29th, 1817, Lady Charlotte Florentia Olive,
daughter of the Earl of Powis, by wham he has no sur-
viving issue ; and his Grace's only brother, Lord Prudhoe,
is heir presumptive to the Dukedom. His Grace's
youngest sister, Lady Agnes Percy, recently married Cob
Buller, M.P. The Noble Duke has upon more than one
occasion been somewhat unceremoniously designated
" Duke Smithson, "• in allusion to his not being a lineal
descendant of the ancient " Hotspurs," his Grace's grand-
father, Sir Hugh Smithson, having assumed the name and
arms of Percy, upon his marriage with the Countess of
Northumberland. It is somewhat singular, that the Duke-
doms of Wellington and Northumberland were the only
ones created during the long reign of his late Majesty, the
Noble Premier having been elected to the biOiest rank in
the Peerage in 1814, and the Viceroy's ancestor in 1766.
The report of the death of the Earl of Bridge-
water, who has for a length of time been confined to his bed
in his hotel, in the Rua‘St. Honor 6, in Paris, has thrown
the Church into a state of ferment and hustle. . The noble
Earl holds a golden Prebendal Stall in Durham Cathedral,
in addition to other rich pluralities. We cannot, however,
trace the accuracy of the death of this veneraWe personage
to any mutlientic source.
An entirely New Opera, with music by a po-
pular composer, has been long in a state of preparatiun at
Covent Garden Theatre, and will he acted iimediately on
the return of Miss Paton, when she has finished her en-
gagement at the: Dublin `Theatre. • Mr. 11. Phillips will
he the hero of the Opera.
Pryce Gordon, Esq., an old friend of the late.
Prnfessor Porson and Mr. Perry, and d:-,ring his various
tours on the Continent, especially whilst he was in Italy,
has recently published a 't Companion" for the " Visitor
at Brussels," where he has resided for the last ten years, to
Which be has added " Notes of a Tour to Italy by the
Tyrol," and ,c Observations on the Vresant State of the
Arts in Flanders"—both will be found extremely useful to
! English residents at Brussels, and to persons making the
tour of Italy,