The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-15 00:00:00

THE CALEDONIAN BALL.

This ball, which was given on Monday was one of the most
brilliant assemblies held for a long series of years. It took
place, as usual, at Willis's Rooms, St. James's, and was at-
tended by about. a thousand persons. The boys marched
through the long room, and up the grand staircase, precisely as
the cluck struck twelve, the pipers playing the " Reel of '1 ul-
lot hgorum ;" the number seventy-six. 'I hey paraded through
the ball. room, and returned by the same route to their station
on the ground floor. The dancing then commenced ; it was
kept up wi' h great spirit instil five o'clock.
We roma' ked, amongst those who were
In t- e il.ghland Costume—The Duchess of Buccleuch,
Duchess sit Hamilton, Duchess of Argyll, Duchess of Rox-
burghe, Duchess of Inverness, Countesses of Haddington,
Kiunoull, Wemyss, Rosebery, Fowls, Cawdor, Eglinton,
Morton ; Ladies Wiloughby, Saltoun, Ruthven, Lovat, the
Ladies Primrose ; Earl of Traquair, Lord Macdonald, Mr.
Robertson, Sir Alexander and Lady Duff, Mr. Duff, Sir Coin
Mack, laic, Mr. D. Mackay, Mr. and Miss Macdonald. Miss
Flora Macleod, Lady E. Campbell, Lady Rae Reid, Mr. R.
Fortes, Lady and Miss Mackenzie, Miss Grant, Mr., Mrs.,
and Miss M'Gregor, Mr. Gordon Duff, Mr. Hamilton, Mr.
and Mrs. D. Campbell, Lady Grant, Lady A. Mackenzie, Sir
L. Grant, Mr. Campbell Macdonald, Lady Elizabeth Drum-
mond, Hon. J. Murray, Lady Blantyre, Miss Malcolm, Hon.
Miss Stuart, Mrs. Malcolm, Mr. Webster, Miss Murray, Hon.
C. Lindsay, Mr. Duncan M'Dougal, Lady M'Gregor, Lady
Jane Grant.

A Mogul Chief from the Court of Delhi—Captain Thomas
Baeon.

A Hindoo Chief—Mr. Dawson.
Chinese—Mr. Simpson.
Lalla Rookh—Mrs. J. Walpole.
Feridoon Mirza, from the vale of Cashmere—Col. Smith.
A Portuguese Bandit—Mr. Oliveria.
In Fancy Dresses—The Countess of Metaxa, Lady Stirling,
Lady Emily Foley, Dudhess of Sutherland, Lady Madden,
Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady Bowyer Smith, Lady Vane,
Lady E. Leveson Gower, Hon. Mrs. Irby, Countess St. Au-
hire, Lady Browne Clare, Countess of Egmont, Countess of
Antrim, Miss Elphinstone, Miss Seymour, Lady Gray, Mrs.
Hammond, Lady Stafford, Mrs. Jerningham, 11Iiss Blackett,
Miss Smith, Countess and Lady W. Stanhope, Lady Rodney,
Lady W. Paget, Miss Spencer Stanhope, Lady Wheatley,
Lady C. Lennox, Lady Dorothea L. Fitzwilliam, Misses Con-
stable, Miss Deering, Lady Pakenham, Lady Erskine, Princess
Capua. Lady C. Graham, Mrs. and Miss Watts Russell.
In Persian—Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. Braw-
ley, Mr. Hope, Mr. Abel, Mr. Boyd, Capt. Clayton, Mr.
Peel.

Polish—Mr. Bishop, Mr. Stanhope, Mr. R. Green, Mr.
Caron.

Turkish—Sir F. Maddox, William Lane Fox, Mr. Ottley,
Alfred Riley.
In Regimentals—Marquis Granby, Marquis of Huntly,
Duke cf Wellington, General Johnstone, Duke of Brunswick,
Mons. del Pozzo, Sir Dudley Hill, Baron Audlan, Colonel
Campbell, Marquis of Abercorn, Colonel Gascoyne, Prince St.
Antonio, Duke of Sutherland, Rodney, Duke of Rox-
burgh, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Hervey Bruce, Sir John Milbanke,
Captain Dalrymple, Marquis of Worcester, Lord Cantilupe,
Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. F. Russell, Captain Hamilton, Sir
Charles Dalbiac Marquis of Blandford, Lord Brooke, Prince
Capua, Count Esterhazy, Lord Curzon.
Court Dresses—The French Ambassador, Sir Charles Mo:-
gau, Lord Glenelg.
In Naval Uniforms—Mr. Reginald Buller, Captain Eden,
Mr. Scott, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Ridley.
In Spanish—Mr. Hobson, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Sanderson,
Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Austin, Mr. Randolph.
A la Grec—Mr. Burmester, Mr. Paull, Mrs. Lewis, blr.
Thompson.
A la Suisse—Messrs. Sullivan and Smith.
Algerine—Mr. Gordon, Mr. Prendergast, Mr. Vigors, Mr.
Kelly.
. As Charles the Twelfth—Mr. King.
As Louis the Fourteenth—Mr. Grant.
In Court Dresses of the time of George ll—Mr. Lucas, Mr.
Boyce.
A Forester—Mr. Kerr.
A Hunter of the Black Mountains—Sir B. Campbell.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,
TIMES.— Among the many letters which are continually
received on the subject of the light sovereigns, is one which
bears with much impressiveness on a point which has already been
touched on—namely, the unequal distribution of the loss be-
tween the richer and poorer classes, the latter in fact having
to bear it exclusively. In some instances, it has been found
that when a tradesman, having to meet a liability by a particu-
lar day, has been obliged to collect the means from all avail-
able sources, several of his debtors have been dishonest enough
to take advantage of his exigencies, and pass off their
light coin. The working man, too, it is well known,
cares not refuse the wages his employer may give him,
and, at all events, it would be absurd to suppese lhat
a labouring bricklayer or carpenter would always be
provided with a pair of scales in his pocket. The large capi-
talists have, comparatively speaking, nothing whatever to do
with sovereigns. The bankers have left off taking them, and,
tlaeref 're, the tradesmen and working people are alone paying
for the depreciation of sovereigns either by fraud or by legiti-
mate wear and tear. If, indeed, the inconvenience were but .a
temporary one, the complaints might be less urgent ; but while
the bankers can at onci put a period to their Loss, the trades-
people cannot foresee how long it will be before the light soce•
reigns are removed from circulation, and the attendant incon•
venienees cease. So long a time does it take to remove from
circulation a coin that has once been admitted as currency, that
several hundred guinea-pieces have for many years formed one
of the annual items o.' bullion received by the Bank of England.
It is a curious fact that many of the smaller shop-keepers
are establishing a kind of rivalry among each other, by offering
to take light sovereigns at the least loss to their customers,
Thus, while one will take them at 19s. 7id., another will take
them at 19a. 9d. The profits made thus may be a sort of counter.-
balance with a few shopkeepers to the inconveniences they are
obliged to sustain, but it must not be for a moment considered
us any mitigation of the real evil.
A tact which has transpired to-day is, that the Bank of Eng-
land, having given light gold for notes in the body of the hall,
refuse to take them in the other departments of the office in
payment for powers of attorney. This fact is similar to one
mentioned the other day as occurring some time ago, but the
case is a stronger one, from having occurred so shortly after the
issuing of the proclamation.