The Sun. — 1844-03-12 (London, England)

SHIONABILE.  The Duke of Hamilton has quite recovered from the effects of his recent accident. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas are prolonging their stay at Holyrood House. The Dowager Lady Holland received a small party, on Sunday evening, in Great Stanhope-street. Lord and Lady Holland are still in Florence, where his Lordship is resident Minister.  The Dowager Countess of Listowel and Miss Brooke are expected to return to Eaton-place at the close of the week, from Brighton, where they have been passing the winter. The Earl and Countess of Fingal, and Lady E. Plunkett, have arrived at Rome, and they intend to pass the season on the Continent.  The Earl and Countess of Limerick continue in seclusion at Southill Park. The family are not expected in Mansfieldstreet till after the holidays.  Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley -Sheridan are expected to leave Lord Seymour's mansion in Spring-gardens at the close of the week for Frampton Park, Dorsetshire. Mr. Charles Sheridan, brother to Lady Seymour and to Mr. Sheridan, is understood to have inherited the greater part of the fortune of his late uncle, Mr. Charles B. Sheridan. The contemplated alliance between Lord Newport, M.P., eldest son of the Earl of Bradford, and the Hon. Miss Selina Forester, sister to the Countess of Chesterfield and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, is expected to be solemnised at the close of the present month or early in April. The wedding trousseau of the noble bride elect will, it is said, be superb. lionscELLAwmous. A meeting of parochial delegates was held on Monday, at the 3larylebone Court-house, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Bill now before Parliament for the Amendment of the Poor-law Act. A series of resolutions condemn• iug the alleged interference of the proposed Bill with the affairs of parishes under local Acts, was passed, and a Committee appointed to wait upon Sir J. Graham on the subject. A statement has appeared in some West of England journals, that the packets are to be removed from Southampton to Plymouth. The place of rendezvous is named, and even the time of removal is stated to be in July next. There is no ground for such a statement, nor is it probable that any change will take place till the Railway from Exeter to Plymouth is completed. The mail-box which was missing when the Overland Mail of last month arrived at the General Post-offica has since been received, and its contents delivered. During the last month the number of passengers between France and England, who embarked from and landed at Boulogne, amounted to 2,545. At Calais the number during the same period was 969. Of the 2,545 passing by Boulogne 1,882 crossed to and from Folkestone ; 263 to and from Dover ; and 400 direct to and from London. A in Tory paper asserts that there is no truth in the report that event of her Majesty's purchasing a residence in the Isle of Wight, Government would introduce a Bill to Parliament, to dispose of the Pavilion at Brighton. The Newry Examiner states that Lord Wharricliffe is to succeed Lord de Grey as Lord-Lieutenant, and that Lord Langdale is to be the new Irish Chancellor, as successor to T Sir Edward Sugden, who is still suffering from indisposition. Robert Houlihan and Patrick Nunan, for the murder of Mr. Patrick Shine, are under sentence of execution at the county gaol of Limerick, on Friday next.