The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-09 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Norfolk and friends, in his beautiful yacht, from
Blackwall, for Antwerp and Brussels ; Lord Bexley, for his seat,
Footscray Place, Kent; George Byng, Esq. M.P. Mrs. Byng,
and family, for their seat, Wrotham Park; the Dowager Mar-
chioness of Salisbury, for Hatfield ; Mr. and Mrs. Litchford,
from the London Hotel, for their scat in Lincolnshire; Mr. Mrs.
and Miss Bowles, from ditto, for their seat in Berkshire; Mr.
and Mrs. Knightley and family, for Sunning, near Reading ; Mr.
and Mrs. Smyth Wyndham, from Long's Hotel, Clifford-street,
for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Protheroe, from Fenton's Hotel ; Mr.
and Mrs. Davis, from ditto, for Dorsetshire ; William Criric,
Esq. from ditto, for Manchester.

His MAJESTY will give a grand ball and
supper to a numerous party on Thursday next, at his
Palace in St. James's.

The KING gave a grand evening party yes-
terday, at which his MAJESTY gratified his visitors with a
concert.

Prince LEOPOLD entertained a select party to
dinner on Sunday at Marlborough-house, Pall-mall.
Among the company were, the Duke of SOMERSET, the
Marquis of Bars Tor., Viscount DUNCANNON, Lord NOR-
MANBY, Lord LYNEDOCH, the LORD MAYOR, Sir FRAN-
CIS FREELING, Sir HENRY HALFORD, Sir EDWARD
PARRY, Mr. BEILBY THOMPSON, Mr. FRANRLAND
LEWIS, &c.

The Duke of CUMBERLAND returned to
to town on Sunday evening from Kew.

The Marquis CAMDEN and the Earl of
ABERDEEN had interviews with the Duke of WELLING-
TON yesterday, at the Treasury.

Prince ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Ambas-
sador, Baron Bucow, the Prussian Minister, Mons. BER-
MUDEZ, the Spanish Minister, and the Marquis de BAR-
BACENA, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yes-
terday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.

A King's Messenger arrived at the Foreign-
office, Downing-street, about five o'clock yesterday after-
noon, with despatches fer the Earl of ABERDEEN from the
Right Hon. STRATFORD CANNING. After the arrival of
the despatches, the Earl of ABERDEEN had a conference
with the Duke of WELLINGTON.

The Marquis of CLEVELAND entertained the
Duke of WELLINGTON and a select party to dinner on
Sunday, at his residence in St. James's-square.
Sir ROBERT WIGRAM, the member for Wex-
ford, is brother to Mr. WIGRAM, the member for New
Ross, and late Chairman of the East India Company, and
not his son, as has been represented.

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—II iS confidently
reported, that if Mr. GEORGE BANICES, the brother of Mr.
WILLIAM BANSES, who was unsuccessful at the last two
elections for Cambridge, should also fail, Old Corfe Castle
himself will be brought forward on a future occasion.

By the death of Lord THURLOW the valuable
sinecure office of Clerk of the Hanaper in Chancery becomes
vacant.

Dr. SHUTTLEWORTH, the Warden of New
College, is now mentioned as one of the persons likely to
succeed to the vacant See of Oxford.

DEATH OF SIR HUMPHREY DAVY.--This
great man has at length paid the debt to nature. The ac-
count has reached us from a source which leaves no doubt
as to its authenticity. It is contained in a letter from
Geneva, from a distinguished friend of Sir HUMPHREY.
Extract of a letter from Geneva :—" The scientific world
has met with a great loss in the death of the celebrated
English chemist, Sir HUMPHREY DAVY. He arrived here
from Italy with Lady DAVY, on the 28th of Slay, exceed-
ingly ill, and suffering very much, and died on the follow-
ing day, at three o'clock in the morning, with an attack
of apoplexy. This intelligent philosopher, who must be
universally regretted, will be buried on Monday, the Ist of
June. The Magistrates, the Academy, the Students, and
all the public authorities, are summoned to assist at the
funeral of the body, which will be conducted with great
pomp to the grave, near the tomb of his ancient friend,
Professor PIcTET."

DUBLIN, JUNE 6.—A curious case will be
tried to-morrow in the Court of Exchequer, before Baron
Sir WILLIAH SMITH and a special Jury•. It is a horse
case. The parties are a Judge and a llishop,—namely,
Lord PLUNKETT and Dr. BEAESFORD, of Kilmore. Mr.
O'CONNELL is employed by the Judge. Every one regrets
that it is not to be tried by the Chief Baron, as in that
ease, now that Lord NOABURY is no more in law, it would
be a comedy worth going to see.

Since the adoption of the system of watching
proposed by Alderman VENABLzs, the number of noctur.
nal offences committed in the city has diminished about
one-fourth.

Some strange rumours have been in circula-
tion these two or three days, with respect to one individual
in the Cabinet, whose successor is even named. We
have endeavoured to ascertain if there be any foundation
for these reports, and have every reason to believe there is
not the slightest foundation for them. The Peers are by
no means pleased with a late accession to their order, for
which they are indebted to a certain high quarter; and
they mention in praise of a certain Law Lord, now
emeritus, that he never forgot, when a sinecure was to be
disposed of, his own kith and kin, and literally weighed
them down with places; yet he was so far virtuous that
be was just in cases where he was not himself interested ;
and, indeed, so stubborn was his virtue in a neutral case
of this kind, that he thrice refused to sign a Commission
for a great legal appointment, and only yielded to solicita-
tions from the highest quarter, with which he found it
prudent to comply. A great deal is pardoned, in a cant-
ing country like this, for the sake of appearances. MoN-
TESQUIEU, who wrote notes of his visit to this country,
with Lore! CHESTERFIELD in 1729, seeing that every thing
was openly bought and sold then without disapprobation,
observes, " there is not only neither honour nor virtue
here ; there is not even an idea of them." Since that
time we have so far improved that we have the idea,
though not the reality ; and hence the necessity for keep-
ing up appearances, and never being without some sub-
terfuge when a corrupt job is to be carried.—Morning
Chronicle.

During the gale on Thursday last, a vessel
was driven on the beach at Lydd ; no boats could get off
to the assistance of the crew, who were, however, all saved
and brought ashore, through the activity of a fine New-
foundland dog. The surf was rulling furiously, and eight
poor fellows were crying for aid, which the spectators
could not afford them, when one man directed the atten-
tion of his dog to the vessel, and the intelligent animal at
once swam towards it, and the crew joyfully made fast a
rope to a piece of wood, which the dog seized and swam
with to his master on shore ;—a line of communication
was thus formed, and the eight mariners rescued from a
watery grave.—Sussex Advertiser,