The Sun. — 1844-04-20 (London, England)

COURT-rAsHIONADZE.  Earl Howe will give an entertainment on Wednesday week at Curzon House, when the Queen Dowager and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to honour the Noble Earl with their company. The Archbishop of York, Duke of Wellington, and other distinguished personages are invited to join the circle. Viscount and Viscountess Leveson shortly return from Germany, where they have gone to make their usual visit at this season of the year to the Viscountess's estate. Count and Countess de Tscharnolousky arrived on Thursday at Mivart's Hotel, from St. Petersburgh. Lord and Lady Farnham arrived at Mivart's Hotel on Wednesday from Southampton, and in the afternoon departed for Gray's Court, Lady Stapleton's seat, near Henley-onThames, from whence they will come to town on Saturday. His Excellency Baron Brunnow was prevented from being present at her Majesty's Drawing-room on Thursday, at St. James's Palace, by a fainily affliction. His Excellency and Baroness Brunnow's dinner party on Thursday was put off from the same cause. We understand that Lord Wodehouse, the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, is about to break up his extensive establishments both at Kimberley and Wilton Park, in that county, and to proceed forthwith to the Continent, for a lengthened period. The absence of this excellent Nobleman will be severely felt and lamented by all classes. The marriage between Mr. Talbot Clifton and Mise Lowther will be solemnised early in the ensuing week, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. A breakfast will be given ;titer the ceremony by the Hon. Colonel and Lady Lucy. i,,leanor Lowther, at their house, in Bruton-steet, BerkeleyAuare, the invitations tu which are confined to the imme!iiate family connexions, in consequence of the recent demise el the ventrable Earl of Lonsdale, grandfather of the bride. 'Mx AIst3BOVS. The total naval force on the Irish coast consists of 2 frigates, 1 brigantine, 1 cutter, 1 steam-frigate, 11 steam vessels, and steam transports—force, 1,600 men. The Vernon, 50, Captain Walpole, is on her way to Cork from Portsmouth, and the Malabar, 72, Captain Sir E. Sartorius, was ordered there from Lisbon. A general court-martial is ordered to assemble at Chatham, on Monday next, for the trial of a private of the 13th Light Dragoons, for striking a non-commissioned officer. The Benevolent Society of Blues held their twentieth anniversary festival on Thursday, at the London Tavern, where an excellent dinner had been provided by the proprietors of the establishment. Upwards of one hundred and forty gentlemen were assembled, the greater majority of whom had received their education at Christ's Hospital. The donations amounted to upwards of 9001. Among the contributors were the names of Mr. Charles Few, the Chairman, for twenty guineas ; Mr. G. Thackeray, twenty guineas ; Lord Arundel and Surrey, ten guineas ; Mr. B. B. Cabbell, ten ; Mr. Baring Wall, ten ; Mr. S. B. Brooke, ten ; Mr. R. Pigeon, the Treasurer, ten ; Mr. Barnard, the Hon. Secretary, ten ; ' Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, ten • Mr. Bellassis, ten; Mr. J. Curteis, twelve; Messrs. Bathe and Breach, fifteen guineas; Alderman Farebrother, five, &c. On Thursday evening being the seventh anniversary of the Westminster Literary and Scientific Institution, a very nu • merous and respectable company assembled in the new Lecture Theatre, Great Smith-street, Westminster, to hear the customary address. It was read by the Secretary, and dwelt upon the gratifying- fact of the great increase of the members, and the general prosperity of the Society. The library, it appeared, now contains no less than 4,000 volumes on the subjects of science and of general literature. A meeting was held at the Queen's Head Tavern, Georgestreet, Bethnal-green-road, on Thursday evening, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament against the proposed tax upon coal, for the purposes of the Thames embankment, when resolutions were passed strongly condemning the measure, and a petition to the House of Commons to that effect was unanimously agreed to. There are at present confined in the House of Correction, Clerkenwell, 857 males, 253 females, and 11 children—making a total of 1,121. The labour of the prisoners had realised during the last year 5251. Bs. 9d. In the New Prison there are 143 prisoners, of whom 99 are males, and 44 females. Several of the latter are undergoing various terms of imprisonment for attempting to commit suicide.