The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen gave audiences 3 ester clay, at the new Palace, to
Viscount Duncannan and Viscount Melbourne.
Their Royal highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Ain-
Bess Sopi•ia visited her Majesty yesterday.
Her Majesty walke,l in the garden of the Palace yesterday.
Le Grand Marechal Natischkin was presented to her Ma-
jesty, by Count Pon° di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador, on
Saturday, and was among the company at the dinner party on
Wednesday evening, at the new Palace.
The Queen accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, honoured
the performance of " d'Amore," at the Lyceum, last
evening, with her pecsence. Her Majesty arrived at the theatre
at a quarter past nine o'clock ; in the carriage with her Ma-
jesty and her august mother were the Duchess pf Sutherland
and the Countess of Mulger.ve. In a second carriage were
Lady Mary Stopford, Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of
Kent; the Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Chamberlain; and
Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting.
Count Scekendoiff, the Prussian Charge d'Affaires, Sir J.
and Lady Reynett, and a small party, dined with the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House, ou Wtd-
nesday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of GlouCester,
Prince and Print:ens Gagarin, Mademoiselle Gagarin, and
Phase John Gagarin, visited their Royal Highnesses in the

evening.

The-Duke of Cambridge %isited the Duke of Sussex yes.
terday, at Kensington Palace.
A Cabinet Council was held at eleven o'clock yesterday
morning, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Viscount
Nlelbouine, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon,
Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Hol-
land, Mr. Ponlett Thomson, and Viscount Hosvick.
The Council sat two hours.
The Cabinet Ministers dined with Viscount Duncannon, at
his residence in Cavendish square, on Wednesday evening.
Mr. O'Connell, Lord Ehrington, and a deputation, had
an interview with. Lord John Russell, at .the Home-office,
yesterday.
Mr. Lytton Irulwer had an interview with Viscount Mel-
bourne yesterday, in Downing-street.
Mr. Evans, M.P., had an interview with Lord Glenuig
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

Tho Archbishop of C'nterbury, Sir Herbert Jenner, and
other Commissioners, attended a meeting of the Church Corn-
tuistion yesterday, in Whitehall-place.
The Spanish 'Minister and Earl Granville transacted busi-
ness yesterday, at the Foreign.office.
Sir IL Ferguson, and Mr, Langshaw, Attorney-General for
Malta, transacted business yesterday, at the Colonial-office..

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The Earl of Howth left Gould's Hotel, Albemarle-
street, on Wednesday, for Melton Mowbray. where a distil).-
guislml patty, consisthig (f the Earls of Wilton and Ches-
terfield, Lords Gardner, Macdonald, and Sir Frederick John•
stone, Bart., are about to commence the hunting season.
Lad•; Catherine Harcourt, the noble bride of Lieut.-
Col. Mireourt, d:stinguished in the fashionable circles by her
accomplishments and a‘olable qualities, will inherit, on the
decease of livri,uhle father•, Lord Liverpool, an estate of about
10,000/. per annum, licr ladyship, with her sisters, Viscountess
Milton, nivl L:dy Selina Jeßkinson, below joint co-heiresses
of the Noble. Earl.

it is stated that Lai-d Fitzwilliam will be elevated
to the dignity of Marquis of Rockingham, whose vast estates
his Lordship inherits; an honour which the Ministers intended
for his late venerable parent.

The marriage between Lady Mary Somerset and
Sir Walter Rockla! Faryibar, will, be solemnised on Tuesday
next.

' By the deP":rt of the Earl of Cavan, which-event
we annonr.;:ed yesterday, a small pension on the Civil List
nun sated to the Crown.

The new Treasurer of the Household (Lord Surrey)
has purchased a spacious mansion in Hyde Park-place, Ox-
ford. trect.

The Duke of SuSsex :s quite well to-day, although
he has not been out. HiS Royal Highness's knee is slightly
swollen, in consi.quence of his recent fall on the staircase of
the House of Lords., but his surgeon considers that the bruise
is doing as well as possible. Numerous inquiries have been
made at K. nsington Palace to-day respecting his Royal High-
ness.—Moraing Paper.
The Russian Ainhassador rave his first grand din-
ner last evening, at AAliburnham House, to the Earl of Dur-
ham, Prince and Princess Gagarin, Prince John Gagarin,
Prince Paul Lievcn, General SAlakoff, General Bontemps,
of th'• Russiaa engineers, the Grand Chamberlain Haryskin,
M. Toltstoi, and Mn-
. de Ber.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the
young Viscount- Burghley, and the Ladies Cecil, arrived at
llotel, Albemarle street, yesterday, from Burghley
House, Stamford.

The Duke of Northumberland, who came up from
Alnwick Castle on Friday, will return to his magnificent seat
in the north to pass the Christmas. Her Grace is at Ravens-
%%oral Castle.

Prince Es!erhazy is expected at Chandos House in
a fortnight. His Highness intended to accompany his friend
Count Appony to Paris, %%here he will remain a week, on his
way to England. His Excellency's departure has been de-
layed by important avocations.
POST-OFFICE NEW ARRANGEMENT. --The
Brighton mail, that started from this city for the first time last
Monday, is a long wished-for accommodation. Letters will
now arrive here twice a day from Salisbury, Wily, Ileytes-
bury, Warminster, Frome, and Beckington. .It will also faci-
litate the correspondence to Andover, Whitchurch, and
Basingstoke, the letters for which till now remained in transitu
at Sllisbury twenty-two hours ; but with the new arrange-
ment, they will come on immediately by the Brighton mail.
which arrives at WI minutes past seven in the evening, and is
dispatched at six in the morning. Letters are forwarded as
usual by the Portsmouth mail.—Sherburne Journal.
STA \IP AND ADVERTISEMENT DUTY.—Yes-
terday a meeting o' merchants, brokers. and others, was held
at the Commerci. I Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, for the pur-
peso of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament
that papers the cort.mts of which were only of AS commercial
nature, should be exempt from the stamp and advertisement
du y. The chair was taken by Mr. P. Anichini, who stated
that some meas..res w.re necessary to provide for th• wants of
thn merchants in obtaining the circulation more freely of pa.
pers having commercial intelligence only, especiall/ as pro.
ceeding3 had been commenced against one of the uaily lists
for publishing such information. The Parliament ought also
to be called upon to put an end to the monopoly claimed by
the managers of the Caste-ma' Benevolent Fund, of printing
and publishing the imports and exports of all the ports in
England and Wales, as euzh monopoly was detrimental to the
best interests of the mercantile community. The Chairman
rcad.resolutions to this effect, praying that the monopoly re-
ferred to be abolished ; that the Government take into its own
hands the publication of the imports and exports for the benefit
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the public. The resolutions were unanimously adopted after
several nverchants had spoken in favour of them. Mr. Plank,
on behalf of the managers of the Customs Benevolent Fund,
defended the course pursueid by that body, and deniedthat any
suppression of infornation took place in the Customs' List,
except at the request of the exporters themselves. The pro.
ceedings against the Commercial List had been adopted, after
due notice had been given to the parties interested. alsnks
were given to the Chairman, who.expressed himself in favour
of supporting publications which gave the most accurate intel-
der.Mendisensti
ligence, and the meting adjourned.
Gettc odl ueml
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verses,prose
they containyLoAf Ntii!,zoN's " ETHEL CDDRCHILL."—In-
haunti fully scattered throughout. Speaking of these poetical
rebaetsiidnetesreas.tnuo fmtbheers eo
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pieces, the Times says, " Titese arc noble lines, of which any
b pr,3ud_grcat alike conception and English poet might
expression. To the few who do not know Miss Landores
works, the extracts which we have 6iven will show her high
pow: rs ; those who know her other productions will only he
pleased to see how her genus gathers strength every day..
There may be a few faults of sentiment or comFosition, but it,.
wcul I be alr,lnst a meanness to point them out, when then re
4ccouvniel by such great rtmit."