The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-27 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Marquis of Lansdown came to town
about, one o'clock yesterday afternoon. Soon
afterwards his Lordship and the Duke of Devon-
shire went together to Mr. Canning's residence,
and eitered by the private door in St. James's-
park.' The Noble Marquis and his Grace were
closetted with Mr. Canning for upwards of an
hour. Afterwards, Mr. Canning went to visit
the KING, and remained with his MAJESTY
about an hour.

Lord Lyndhurst had an audience of the KING
yesterday at his palace in St. James's.
The official gentlemen and messengers attached
to the Earl of Liverpool, as First Lord of the
Treasury, removed yesterday from the residence
of the Noble Earl at Whitehall, to that of Mr.
Canning in Doming-street.
Lord Dudley and Ward, the new Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Marquis
de Palmella, the Portuguese Minister, had a
conference with the Noble Lord.
Count Ludolf, the Sicilian Minister, trans-
acted business at the Foreign-office yesterday.
Sir Francis Burdett went to the Foreign-
office on Wednesday, and it is understood, had
an interview with Lord Dudley.
Viscount Granville, Mr. Wynn, and the Right
Hon. W. Sturges Bourne, visited Mr. Canning
yesterday.
Lord Bexley had an interview yesterday with
the Right Hon. Frederick Robinson, at his re-
sidence in Downing-street.
The Solicitor-General transacted business yes-
terday at the Treasury.
Mr. Arbuthnot and Sir George Hill visited
Mr. Peel yesterday, at his residence in Privy
Gardens.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
gave a Grand Dinner, on Wednesday last, at
their residence in Hanover-square, to the Mar-
chioness Dowager of Salisbury, Dr. Gerard Wel-
lesley, General, Mrs., and Miss Gascoyne, Mr.
and Mrs. Villiers, and Miss Wellesley.
Mrs. General Ross had a Card Party on Wed-
nesday evening, which was attended by the Sa-
lisbury Family, Sir William Boroughs, Bart.,
Hon. Mrs. Fane, &c.

Mrs. William Camac will give a splendid
Fete, on the 10th of May, in Mansfield-street.
Mrs. Scott Murray has issued cards for a Ball
for Monday 28th of May, at her house in Caven-
dish-square.
Lord Granville will continue to hold his pre-
sent employment, as Ambassador to France.
Lord Binning, Lord F. L. Gower, and Lord
Eliot, are to he the new Lords Commissioners of
the Treasury, in the room of Mr. Robinson,
Lord G. Somerset, and Viscount Lowther.

The appointment to th© Mastership of the
Rolls lies, it is now said, between Mr. Haft and
Mr. Shadwell ; the former having the patronage
of Lord Lyndhurst, the latter that of Mr. Robin-
son.—Morning Paper.
Mr. P. Robinson, who had superintended the
Emigration from Ireland to Upper Canada since
the year 182 S, arrived yesterday morning at the
Colonial Office, with dispatches from Major-
General Sir P. Maitland, K.C.8., at Canada.

We understand that Admiral the Earl of
Northesk, G.C.8., will assume the command at
this Port, on the 7th of May.—Plymouth
Journal.

At the sale of the Rev. Theodore 'Williams'
Library yesterday, the Hon. George Agar Ellis
purchased " Lutheri (Mart.) Opera Omnia,"
(Colbert's private copy) 7 vols. folio—Wite-
berga, 1552-62—for 521. 10s.; an extremely
fine copy, and excessively-rare. A great struggle
took place respecting the purchase of this work,
between Dr. Burney, Mr. Beckford, (as we
heard) and the Bishop of Durham.
Trifles, says Voltaire, produce often great
effects: a glove, dropped by Queen Anne, and
picked up by Mrs. Masham, drove the Whigs,
headed by the Duke of Marlborough, out of
office.

THE IRISH CHANCELLORSHIP.—There is
not time to arrange matters satisfactorily relative
to the Irish Chancellorship, and Lord Manners
is to remain as he is for some time longer.--
Dublin Morning Register.
On Sunday last, the Worshipful the Sheriff
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alfred Hall, Esq.,
entertained the Members of the Corporate Body
of that Town, and a large party of friends, to
Dinner, at Dodsworth's, the Queen's Head Inn.
The repast, which indeed amounted to a ban-
quet, was in the wonted style of the well-known
liberality of the worthy Sheriff. The tables were
amply supplied with fine West India turtle,
salmon, lamb, and all the delicacies of the season ;
and the wines, which included the rich sparkling
champaigne, were of the choicest quality, and
could not fail to gratify the palate of the most
fastidious connoisseurs. The number that sat
down to dinner was fifty.
Epsom Races, for the present year, will com-
mence on Tuesday, May 29.
Mr. Mullinex had a concert last night at the
Argyll-rooms. It was fully attended. Madame
Cornega, in an air from Pucitta, and in Mozart's
" 0 duke conento," exhibited powers which
place her in the first rank of concert singers.
Miss Paton was very happy in Mozart's " Voi
the sapete ;" but the greatest share of approba-
tion was lavished, or, we should rather say,
justly bestowed, on her simple ballad of " Jock
o' Hazleclean."
In furtherance of improvements beyond Hyde
Park-corner and St. George's Hospital, many
houses have just been sold by auction for the
purpose of being pulled clown ; and amongst
others now in progress is the dilapidation of the
late residence of Mr. Liston, the comedian,
facing Hyde Park. On the side of these houses
a row of large houses is to be built, to be called
" Piccadilly
West." St. George's Hospital, it
ismentioned, is to be rebuilt on its presentground.
In the parish of Stoke Abbott, a hen, which
had performed the office of incubation nearly the
usual time, suddenly deserted her nest ; on
search being made for her, she was found, in a
place below, covering three young kittens.—
Plymouth Journal.

POTTERY TRADE.—The extensive potteries
at Portobello and Preston Pans, arc feeling less
of the general dullness than the greater part of
trades. Within these eighteen months, the de-
mand has fallen off only about a fourth. There
has been no reduction in the prices of the dishes.
The workmen are employed about five days in
the week, and their prices have been greatly re-
duced. Excellent tradesmen who, in brisk times,
earned from 30s. to 355. are now working for
from 16s. to 20s. a week. Prior to the present
dullness, the greater part of the purchases were
on credit, but the proprietors sustained such
numerous and heavy losses, that they found it
necessary to change their mode of conducting
business. The trap -:actions are now nearly all
cash, and they trust only those customers whose
payment they consider perfectly safe.—Scotsman.