The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Saxon Minister arrived in town on Friday from
Brighton. His Excellency transacted business at the Fo-
reign-office on Saturday.
Dispatches from the Governor of St. Lucia, Trinidad,
and Antigua, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Saturday,
on a visit to the Earl of Limerick, at his scat, South-bill
Park, Berks.
Mr. P. Thomson returned to town on Saturday, from a
visit to Viscount Palmerston, at his seat, Broadlands, Hants.
The Hanoverian Minister left town on Saturday, for
Brighton.
Sir H. Hardinge arrived in town on Friday night from
the seat of Earl Stanhope, Chevening, Kent.

The King will leave the Royal Pavilion, Brighton,
on the 29th instant, to be in town to open the Parliament,
which his Majesty will probably do in person, and will sub-
sequently proceed to Windsor.

The Duke of Norfolk is gone to Arundel Castle
,o entertain a few select friends.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, forty per-
sons of rank dined at the Duke of Rutland's table. The
grand fete was attended by all the neighbouring nobility and
gentry.

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Prince Esterhazy and Prince Nicholas returned to
Chandos House on Saturday evening, accompanied by the
several distinguished foreigners who are on a visit to his
Excellency. They left Belvoir on Thursday ; and on
Friday they (lined and slept at Burleigh, the seat of the
Marquis of Exeter. The marriage of the daughter of
Prince Esterhazy takes place at Easter in the Royal Palace
at Vienna ; the Emperor gives the lady away. It is sup-
posed that his Excellency will remain in this country until
nearly the middle of March.

The Duke of Devonshire entertained several mem-
bers of the Cavendish family at dinner yesterday, at Devon-
shire house. His Grace has granted a plot of land at
Chesterfield, for the purpose of building a church thereon.

The Duke of Northumberland caused a plentiful
supply of venison to be distributed to the poor families at
Launceston, for their Christmas dinners.

The Duke de4Vlaille, Peer of France, who was one
of the first Gentlemen of the Chambers to Charles X., died
on Thursday in Paris. _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of .AilesbUry have
been entertaining Lord and Lady Torrington, Count and
Countess Daniskiold, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, and a
select circle of friends during the Christmas holydays.
The Marquis of Camden, with the Earl and Coun-
tess of Brecknock, have been seeing company during the
holydays, at The Wilderness, in Kent.

On Thursday the marriage of the Marquis de Mon-
tcsquiou-Fezensac to Mrs. Strickland, who was Mademoi-
selle Finguerlin, took place at Paris, in the chapel of the
Chamber of Peers.

The Earl of Lindsey is fast recovering from his late
accident.

The Earl and Countess Brownlow have arrived at
Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. The
poor of Normanton and Frieston have had a large quantity
of coals, blankets, &c., distributed amongst them by order
of the Earl and Countess.

The Earl and Countess of Burlington will leave
Eastbourne the beginning of next month. The Hon. C.
C. Cavendish, M.P., has been on a visit to the Noble Earl
for a few days.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have been
dispensing their liberality to the numerous tenantry of
Brethy and its neighbourhood during the last month. The
Noble Earl and Countess will remain at Bretby until after
the race ball on the 23d instant.

The Earl and Countess of ,Tersey since their return
from Drayton have been entertaining visitors at their scat,
Middleton Park, Oxfordshire.
Lord Loftus has arrived at Eaton Hall, on a visit
to the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, where a
numerous party have nssembled. The Noble Marquis has
declined presiding at the Metropolitan dinner.

Lord Hatherton regaled his numerous tenantry at
Teddesley in a sumptuous manner, on the coming of age of
the Hon. E. K. Littleton, his Lordship's eldest son. Beef,
bread, coals, blankets, &c., have been distributed to a great
many poor families of Teddesley and neighbourhood.

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Lord Suffield and a party arrived in town on Satur-
day last, from Gunton Park.
Lady Charles Fitzroy left Burlinzton House on
Saturday last, to join her Lord at the Duke of Grafton's
seat, Thetford Hall, in Norfolk.

Lord Norreys arrived in town on Saturday from
Wytham Hall, the seat of the Earl of Abingdon.
Lord and Lady Maryborough have arrived at Fern
hill.

Slindon House, the seat of the Countess of New-
burgh, has been the scene of great festivity. Amongst the
recent visitors at that noble mansion have been the Prince
de Polignac and his son the Prince Armand de Polignac,
the Earl of Newburgh, Colonel and Lady Dorothy Leslie,
Mr. and Lady Cecil Delafield, Sir 'H. Webbe, Sir Charles
and Lady Pococke, &c. Cards, music, and the enacting of
charades, have constituted the amusements of the evening.
The Princess de Polignac was prevented by the inclemency
of the weather from joining the festive circle.
Baron and Baroness Maltitz returned to Norwood
on Friday night, from a visit to Viscount Palmerston. The
Baron was at Ashburnham House yesterday, and was ex-
pected to leave town to-day.
Letters have been received from Paris, which state
that the return of Count Pozzo di forgo to London to re-
sume his diplomatic duties will not be before the meeting of
Parliament. _ _

The christening of the infant daughter of the Earl
and Countess of Brecknock, the Lady Frances Sarah Har-
riet Pratt, took place on Thursday at the seat of the Mar-
quis Camden, Wilderness*Park, Kent. The ceremony was
performed by the Bishop of Rochester. The Marquis had
afterwards a party of twenty at dinner.
Captain K. B. Martin has been appointed by the
trustees Harbour-master of Ramsgate, in the room of the
late Captain Woolward, R.N.
The Hon. William Bingham and Lady Harriet
Baring have left Park-lane, on a visit to Lord and Lady
Ashburton, at The Grange, in Hampshire.
Mr. V. Harcourt and Lady Elizabeth are gone to
Newnbam Hall until the meeting of Parliament.

The Countess of Plymouth has caused seasonable
necessaries to be distributed to the industrious poor of
Sevenoaks, as is the worthy Countess's custom at this pe-
riod of the season.

The Marquis of Hertford and his extensive suite,
occupying four carriages, remained at Nice a month, and
thence took his departure for Milan. The Earl of Yar-

nroirthitiff Iterdship's eldest son, who rarely visits England,
did not aecinipatty i4smible father to Italy ; lie remains in
Paris for the faslaidtrabler is e, which will close at the end
of Ilial6lli.

Earl Granviilt fistiri4'o;7 feet his home in Bruton-street
to the I.4'ord.Chancellor, should bu'sine'ss of importance call
hitii in Frirgland in. the spring, his licavelship will remain
during his stay 14iiih' hiS Noble brother-in-l*wf at Devon-
shire House. His Lordsiiip, will give some brilliant fetes
olpring the carnival at the house Of Fanbassy in the Rue
FaKM!, S. Honore, to which all the respectable English
who are reSident in Paris are expected to be invited.
Sir J. Langham's ifittusion, Whitehall-place, has
been again taken by the Earl of' Mansfield, for the approach-
ing season.
Lord Howard de Walden's new mansion at Lisbon
has lately hcen put into a state of complete repair ; the
Noble Envoy, however, generally resides at his pleasant
villa at Cintra.

The Conservative Club-house, though so recently
erected, is still under repair ; and though the works have
been going on for the last six months, doubts are enter-
tained whether it will be in a state to receive the members
by the meeting of Parliament.
Sir C. Cockerell, Bart., expired at Sezincote on
Friday morning.
In consequence of the reduction of prices at Drury-
lane, an average of more than 2,600 persons paid every
evening during the last week.
John Barnett arrived in London from Paris on
Thursday, for the purpose of superintending his opera of
Rosamond, which is to be brought out at Drury-lane
Theatre without delay.
There was a rehearsal on Saturday of the first Vocal
Concert, which takes place this evening, when some fine
classical caopositions were performed.
The first conecrt‹.4 the British Musicians will take
place on Wednesday ; the m►.ac intended to be performed
will be rehearsed this morning.
The Gresham Prize has been awarded to the Rev.
W. H. Havergall, A.M., Author of " Cathedral Chants,"
&c., for the best approved sacred vocal composition.
Bochsa is at Dublin, and performed last Monday
before his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and the
Countess of Mulgrave with the greatest success.
The Countess of Westmoreland has arrived at
Rome, from Nice, to pass the winter months. _ .

The Duke de Blacas, who accompanied the late
King Charles X. to Holyrood House after the revolution
of July, is about, it is said, to leave Vienna for Paris, in
order to dispose of his estates in France, and to take mea-
sures for the liquidation of the debts of the Duchess of Berri.
The Earl of Lichfield, the Noble Postmaster-
General, is still indisposed from an attack of gout, at the
Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square. When, he is conva-
lescent he will return to his scat at Shugborough, and not
occupy his mansion in St. James's-square until after the
meeting of Parliament.
Her Graco the Ducheos of Atholl, with part of her
suite, arrived at St. Adaman's, Dunkeld, on Saturday last,
from Leamington, where sho bad been sojourning for a short
time. Her Grace appears in excellent health. It is
worthy of remark that on Christmas-dA7 the united periods
of service in the family of the only four z.,f her principal
servants who sat down to dinner, part of the esizblishment
not having arrived, amounted to no less an aggregate than
one hundred and seventy years.
The Hon. A. Willoughby, the Misses Willoughby,
and visitors at Grirnsthorpe, drove into Bourn on Wed-
nesday last in four Russian sledges.
The Earl of Lindsey, we hear, continues to be con-
fined to his bed from the extensive effects of the late acci-
dental burning of his back, and will certainly not be able
to take his scat in the House of Lords at the opening of the
Session of Parliament.

Two ladies of Primrose-hill, Bath, have, during the
past week, eloped from their husbands.
Lord Sussex Lennox resigned the appointment of
Postmaster-General of the Windward and Leeward Islands,
because the climate of Jamaica did not agree, it is under-
stood, with his lady ; the appointment was a highly lucra-
tive one.

The Lieutenant-Govenorship of Pendarvis Castle
has been discontinued.

The officers of Plymouth garrison have bee❑ enter-
taining the inba-bitants of that town with amateur thea-
;ricals.

A vacancy has occurred in the number of Commis-
sioners for the Board of Control, by the demise of Sir
Charles Cockerell, Bart., M.P. for Evesham. Sir Charles
was in his 82d year, and is succeeded in his title and es-
tates by his only son Charles Rushout, now Sir Charles
Cockerell, who married a sister of the present Lord Foley.
The eldest daughter of Sir Charles was united last year to
Lord Dcerhurst.

His Excellency Count D'Aglie, the Sardinian
Minister, is passing the winter at Turin, where the Countess
and the younger children reside. Count Moiran, who has
removed from Hill-street to the Stable-yard, will remain as
Charge d'Affaires until the Count returns to England. .

The Earl and Countess of Kenmare are on their
way from Italy to their beautiful seat near the Lake of
Killarney.
Lord Francis Russell, son of the Duke of Bedford,
is on his voyage home from the West Indies in the Belvidera
frigate, in which his Lordship has been serving three years
as Lieutenant.

At Buckhurst Park, Sussex, the seat of Earl Dela-
warr, much gaiety prevailed from Christmas-day to Twelfth-
night. The Countess of Plymouth, Lord Cantelupe, and
other branches of the family, were assembled.

The Earl of Essex was to have entertained Viscount
Melbourne and several of the Ministers at Cashiobury Park
during the 'holidays, but the state of the weather prevented
his Lordship from leaving town.
The Duke of Wellington, on leaving Badminton,
proceeded to Woodford, near Kettering, on a visit to the
Hon. C. Arbuthnot, where his Grace stayed until Sunday
morning.
The Earl of Harborough has, as is his invariable
custom at this severe period of the season, given the' poor
of Saxby and four neighbouring populous parishes a plen-
tiful supply of beef, coals, &c.
On Monday last, Earl Fitzwilliam caused ls. 6d. to
be distributed to every poor widow and resident householder
in the vicinity of Lincoln, whether paying rates or not. It
was a welcome gift at this inclement season.
Paganini has arrived at Marseilles, where, it is said,
he 'intends to give concerts.
A new comic opera, being a version of the Posid-
/on, of Adam, is to be brought out immediately at Drury-
lane Theatre, where, among other novelties, a new tragedy
from the pen of Miss Mitford, entitled Otho, is also to
appear. _ _ _ _

**The Hon. Mrs. William Cavendish, with several
members of her family, will leave town to-day, on a visit to
Lord and Lady Granville, at Paris.
The Chairman of the Customs transacted business
on Saturday at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Office,
in Downing-street.

Lord Western has resigned the Chairmanship of the
Essex Quarter Sessions, in eonsequnce of ill health.
Lord Crewe has left Fenton's Hotel, for Crewe Hall,
where his Lordship has made many improvements since his
accession to the family honours. The late Peer had been
an absentee nearly 20 years.
General Sebastiani, the French Ambassador at our
Court had an -audience of Louis Philippe on Friday, on his
'arrival at Paris.

:We believe that the appointment of a Lord of the
Admiralty will become vacant by the nomination of Sir
Charles Adam to the command of the fleet in the Mediter-
ranean. His, successor at the Board has not yet been
named.— United Service Gazette.

J. B. Praed, Esq., M.P. for Bucks, continues very
seriously indisposed at his seat at Tyringham. He is at-
tended by Sir Benjamin Brodie and Dr. Robertson.—
Northampton Herald.

Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the
Foreign Department for Lord Durham.

Despatches were forwarded on Saturday from the
ndia Board for the Governor-General of India.

So violent was the wind on Monday morning last,
that the Union Railway coach, which runs between Stock-
ton and Middlesbro', was blown from its station at the
latter place, and reached Stockton in 15 minutes, a distance
of four miles.— York Courant.

Typhus fever has made its appearance at Fort Wil-
liam, and there have already been several deaths. It is
too probable that this calamity was caused by absolute
want and starvation. A meeting of the inhabitants was
called, when about 30/. were collected, including contribu-
tions from the heritors. This has afforded partial relief,
but it is already exhausted. Oatmeal is selling there as Iii;411
as 265. Bd. per boll, and in some places so dear as 32s.—hz-
verness Courier,
The Caledonian Canal was frozen over last week at
Bannavic Locks, so that the steam-vessA was unable to
proceed.
About eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, a fire
was discovered on the premises of Mr. G. F. Clark, of
North Ferriby, by a member of his family, who happened to
be later than usual in retiring to rest. An alarm was imme-
diately given, and the neighbouring farmers, with their ser-
vants, hastened to preserve such stacks as had not taken
fire. The amount of damage is estimated at between 9001.
And 1,000/., which is covered by insurance in the Manches-
ter Fire-office, by aeverley agent. There appears no doubt
that this extensive destruction has been the work of an in-
cendiary.—Hull-Advertiser, -