The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1842,

latter end of next week for Claremont, to remain for
some days.

The Queen held a Privy Council at three o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, at Windsor Castle. It was
attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, th
Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief ; Sir
Robert Peel, First Lord of the Treas,urv.; Sir, James
Graham, Secretary of State for tikflome Depart-
ment ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Secrethry of State for
Foreign Affairs; Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for
the Colonial Department; the Right Hon. H. Goul-
burn, Chancellor of the Exchequer; and the Earl
Delawarr, Lord Chamberlain.
At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be fur-
ther prorogued from Thursday, the 6th October,
until Thursday, the 10th November.
A form of prayer and thanksgiving was agreed upon
for the late abundant harvest.

An Order in Council was issued, ordering the Spe•
eial Commission of the County Palatine of Lancaster
to be holden at Liverpool.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
waiting.

Sir 'Robert Wilson was presented to the Queen, at
an audience, by Lord Stanley, her Majesty's princi-
pal Secretary of State for the Colonies, and kissed
hands on being appointed Governor of Gibraltar.
The Earl of Wilton had an audience of her Majesty
to take leave, on his departure on a special mission to
the King of Saxony, to invest that Sovereign with
the ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
The Right Hon. Henry Ellis was presented, at an
audience, by the Earl of Aberdeen, to kiss hands on
being appointed on a special mission to Brazil.
The Earl of Hardwicke and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore
were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at Windsor Castle
from town in the morning.
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer travelled from town to attend
the Council, by the Great Western Railway.
After the Council Sir Robert Peel, the Earl of
Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. C. Greville,
took their departure for town, from Slough, by a spe-
cial train.

ller Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the
Earl and Countess of Denbigh, returned to her resi-
dence, Bushy House, Bushy Park, on Saturday after-
noon, from a visit to the Queen, at IVindsor Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, on Saturday,
from Ravensworth Castle, on a visit to the Duke of
Devonshire.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of
Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, arrived
in town, on Saturday, from Kew. The Princess and
Prince George of Cambridge left for Kew in the
evening.
The Duke of Wellington arrived in town on Fri-
day night, and left Apsley House the following morn-
ing, on a visit to her Majesty.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Baron Le Wagener, Mons. Ulric Zellinger, Mons.
H. Bausch, and Consul Reinhardt, at Long's Hotel,
Bond-street, by the Batavier, from Rotterdam ; Ran-
dolph Robinson, at ditto, ditto ; J. Meikiam, Esq., at
ditto, from the Isle of Wight ; Mr. and Mrs. Bythesca,
at the London Hotel, from Bath; the Viscountess
Ashbrook and the lion. Miss Flower, at Hawkins's
Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Redenham, Andover.

SIR JO :1N AND LADY HAY
ILLIAMS.

The marriage of Sir John Hay Williams, Bart.,
.and .the Lady Sarah Amherst, which was performed
on the Bth instant at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square, has been celebrated in various parts of North
Wales in a manner to evince a strong feeling of re-
spect towards the house of Bodlewyddan.
• At the ancient city of St. Asaph, several oxen and
fat sheep were cut up on the wedding-day, and distri-
buted, together with loaves of bread and packets of tea,
to upwards of five hundred poor families residing in the
parish. A rich wedding bun was given to the child-
ren of the Workhouse Schools by the Rev. William
Cleaver, and those of the National Schools had a dinner
at their respective establishments, the Bishc p pre-
siding over th 4 of the boys, and the Misses Lux-
moores that of the girls. Various rural sports diverted
the populace till evening, and, at five o'clock, upwards
of seventy gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner,
rrovided upon the occasion, at the Lion Inn, which
passed off in a manner that made all parties wish such
meetings were oftener held (as they tend to cement
all classes of society in a stronger bond of union, if
they always parted with the same pleasing reflections
as all did in this instance). A similar gathering also
took place on the day following at the Plough, where
about eighty sat down to a very good dinner, and
separated at a late hour, highly delighted with the
festive proceedings.
On Saturday the 10th, from sixty to seventy dined
also in celebration of the happy event, at the Bodle-
wyddan Arms, Abergele ; and at' the Bee Hotel, in
.that place, upwards of sixty gentlemen sat down to a
splendid dinner on Monday the 12th. Thus all classes
have been vieing in their demonstration of respect to
the worthy Baronet and his noble bride, who, on
Tuesday the 13th, were expected to arrive at their
beautiful mansion, • extensive preparations being
made at St Asaph for their reception. The little city
never looked so gay, teeming as it did with human
beings of all the various classes of society, and all
with happy countenances ; flags and banners Vaiv-
Mg in the breeze, while every house was decorated
with festoons of drapery and flowers. Music commin-
gled with delightful anticipations, yet all ended in dis-
appointment, for though the ardent throng awaited
till night had spread her sable garb o'er the animated
scene, the bridal carriage 'came not ; and, after seeing
a splendid display of fireworks, which the Pyro-
technist exerted himself to produce, as some amends
for the otherwise gloomy peroration of the clay, all
of the vast assemblage repaired to their respective
homes, without one intimation as to the time the
happy pair would arrive ; yet a spontaneous concourse
filled the streets on the morrow, in anxious hope of
the happy arrival, and a vague rumour was circu-
lated about noon that they were on their
way through the vale. A messenger arrived from
two to three o'clock with the pleasing news that the
bridal party would be at Pont Davydd at four
o'clock. This bridge was the place fixed upon to greet
them with an address, and the carriage (amidst the
hearty cheers of the multitude) drew up under the first
of the triumphal arches erected upon it in honour of the
auspicious event, and which had a banner floating on
its top, bearing the inscription of "Welcome to Cam-
bria ;" and in this romantic spot it was that the Rev.
William Hicks Owen, Senior Vicar, surrounded and
supported by the elite of the neighbonrhood, read the
following address, beautifully engrossed on vellum :
" Sir John,—lt is a source of unfeigned gratifica-
tion to all your friends and neighbours, from the
highest to the lowest, in the city and parish of St.
Asaph„to avail themselves of this opportunity of ten-
dering to you their hearty congratulations upon your
marriage, as we beg to assure you, that on the present
occasion, all ranks and parties have been unanimously
influenced by a zealous anziety to testify their attach-
ment to the house of Bodlewyddan, and to welcome
you and your noble bride with every demonstration
of affectionate respect to the halls of your fathers."
" Lady Sarah,—We hail your entrance into the
principality, with all the cordiality of true hearted
Welshmen • and while we regard your arrival amongst
us as the pledge of many future blessings to your
home and neighbourhood, we trust that the land of
your adoption my become every day more and more
endeared to you.'
Signed on behalf of the inhabitants of the city and
parish of St. Asaph, by the unanimous direction
of a numerous meeting held in the Vestry-room, the
12th day of September, 1842,
W. H. ONVEN,
T. W. EDWARDS, Vicars Choral of St.
JOHN JONES, Asaph.
W. R.. WYATT,
EDWARD ROBERTS,
1
HUGH EVANS, Churchwardens of
ABEL JONES,
St. Asaph.
JOHN JONES,
To this Address Sir John responded in the following
terms :

" My dear Friends and Neighbours,—We scarcely
know how to offer you our acknowledgments for the
hearty and ,affectionate address which you have just
presented to us, but we are anxious first to account
to you, in a few words, for the now unfortunate cir-
cumstance of our non-appearance yesterday. Owing
to a mistake in the post-office the important letters
mentioning the magnitude of the preparations for the
reception you kindly designed us, did riot reach me
during our stay at East Harnstead Park as they
should have done; and therefore, not aware of the
importance of keeping to the day originally named, I
gave way to the wish of introducing Lady Sarah to
our beautiful country by the most favourable line of
road from Llangollen through the Yale of Clwyd,
and it was not until our arrival this morning at
Ruthin, that 'we became aware of the extreme in-
convenience which we fear we have so unconsciously
caused you, and which is to us a subject of the most
poignant regret.
" Laly Sarah now begs me, in her own name, as well
as my own, to express to you our grateful thanks for
these most unexpected and overwhelming proofs of
your regard, which are to us flattering in the extreme,
snd which we can only hope most earnestly to con-
tinue to deserve.

66 JOIIN HAY WILLIAMS.
66 SARAH ELIZABETH HAY WILLIAMS.

the sympathy of kindred
;hlis.ltill-i,aSseapte,rlioBd42e.v"incing
actions, and depicting the best feelings of human na-
ture—A scene which no pen can describe, and those
of our readers who have visited this Eden of Wales
can alone have an idea of the magnificence of the lo-
cality. St. Asaph may be said to be the Principality
in miniature, and this bridge, which crowned the
meandering Clwyd, is the centre of an amphitheatre
of beauty and sublimity. The band having struck up
a marching tune, the whole procession moved towards'
the city, and when the carriage arrived under the
second triumphal' arch, at the end of Chester-street,
three cheers, with a loud shout of joy, were given,
and proceeding down the gigh-street, every window
in which was filled with ladies, waiving their white
kerchiefs, the worthy Bishop of the diocese being,
with his amiable lady, among the many that waited
along the line to compliment the happy bride and
bridegroom, who, having arrived under the third tri-
umphal arch, on the centre of the Elwy. bridge, another
hearty cheering demonstration took place, and upon
the arrival of the whole at the open space by the
Deanery gates, where the pedestrians, headed by a
band cf music, filed off on their return to the city,
cheers and huzzai, that made the very welkin ring,
were given. Then upwards of a hundred of the gentry
on horseback preceded the carriage, and the Abergele
Lodge, 1,284, of the Ancient Order of Foresters, also
upon horseback, clad in green, and bearing the in-
signia of the order, following the same, and arriving
their honoured
kind Ba
ari
at the Glasgoed-lodge entrance to BodarrivingewyddanParl,
they formed into a crescent, and the truly happy and
oxtmaagganinifinicecnxstt feelingly thanked all for '
reception, and entered
his domains amidst the enthusiastic cheers of his as-
sembled frieads and neighbours.
These kind demonstrations were not confined to
St. Asaph alone, but Rboscolvn, Llanelian, Llanwenll-
wyfo, Llanexebymedd, Pentraeth, and other places in
the island of Anglesea. Llanarmon7,yn-YalP and
other districts in Denbighshire, equally evinced their
kindred feeling of respect to the house of Bodlewyddan,
by various modes of rejoicings, and many a peak of
Cambria's hills was illumined with a bonfire, as a
token of the general gladness.

On Saturday the Committee
o,dommon Council
on the salary and die
Borough, came to the resolution to reduce the salary
of that office to 610/. A strange report has got
f the of
Nigh Bailiff of the
abroad that the Court of Aldermen is opposing the
election of Mr. Alderman Wood to the dignity of Lord
Mayor, because he started as a candidate for the office
of High Bailiff, in
opposition to their candidate, Sir
William neYgate. The truth is (says a Correspon-
dent), the Court has espoused the interest of no candi-
lat9 for this office, it being a principle with many oi
them, like Sir Peter Laurie, not to support any inem-
her who has a vote in the Court of Common Council
in seeking to be
especial) v as
appointed to ap
I.lace of profit in the
ift of that Court, es
Common Councilmen
1.1. e prevented by
rule from becoming candidates, and
Aldermen should refrain from offering, as being equally
within the reason' of the rule.
BOY PICKED rp AT SEA.--On Thursday last,
about, noon, the Queen of the Isle steamer, on her pas.
sage from Liverpool to Dou
ol
glas, 'picked up a' small
boat containing a years of age. The
~
boy about ten
poor fellow, when brow ht on board, was in a state of
1 arising from fear, and the effects of
tile salt water-he had drunk. 'lt appears he was a I
little forlorn wretch wanderin about Douglas Hav- ;
ing on Saturday w e
of which some boys
partial insanity,
g
refuge in a small boat, which being set adrift by his
smallo 179bba film,
im o,
fmeal,c
he took
refuge he was carried out to sea, and, when disco-
vered by the captain, was about forty males from the •
endeavoured bge d a
t
place he had drifted from. A medical man being on
board, every attention was paid to him, and he is now
in a fair way of recovery.

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