The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The King of Wirtemberg had an audience of the Queen
yesterday at the New Palace, in St. James's Park. His
Majesty was attended by Count Manths'oli, the Wirtemlierg
Mioister, and by the Noblemen and Gentlemen of his suite.
Viscount Palmerston, her :`,lbjesty's Principal Seeretwy
of State for Foreign Affairs, introduced the King.
The Queen was attended by Lady Portman, Lady-in-
Waiting ; Viscount Falkland, and the Hon. William
Cowper, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, and Colonel
Buckley, Equerry in Waiting.
The Queen and the Duclerss of Kent took a carriage
drive in an open carriage. and four, between five and six
'o'clock yesterday aftlneon.
Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had audiences yesterday of her
Majesty.
Her Majesty had a dinner party last ing. Aong
the company were their Royal
Highnesses the Duchemss of
Kent and the Princess Sophia, M. Van de Weyer, the
Belgian Minister, Baron d'Alvensleben, Duke and Duchess
of Sutherland, Earl and Countess Aboyne, Viscount and
Viscountness Eastnor, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Falk-
land, Lady Portman, Lady C. Buckley, Sir Herbert Taylor,
Baronets Lehzen, Hon. W. Cowper, Col. Cavendish, and
Col, Buckley.
The Duchess Ida, of Saxe-Weimar, left town on WNl-
flesday evening, for the residence of the Queen Dowager in
Bushy Park.
Messrs. Forster and Howard had an interview with Lord
Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Baron Billow, the Prussian Minister, had an interview
with Viscount i'delbourne yesterday, in Downing-street, to
take leave on his departure for the Continent. His Ex-
cellency, on
by Count Seckendorff, Secretary of
Legation, visited Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office.
Baron Stockmar and 11Ir. C. Wood, Secretary to the
Admiralty, had interviews
ebequer yesterday in Downin with the Chancellor of the Ex-
Sir Wm. Woods and theg,-street. Ri Hon. Labou-
chere had interviews with Viscount t MelbourneH Henry
yesterday.
The Sardinian Minister, Lord Strathmore, Sir G. Arthur,
Captain Brandreth, Messrs. T. Lane, James Raik, and
James, had interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday.
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SHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE

DEPARTURES.
The Earl of Bandon on a tour ; the Earl of Selkirk for St.
Mary's Isle, Kircudbright ; the Hon. Lieut.-Col. Douglas on
ato ; the Hon. Frederick Vernon Wentvrorth and Lady
Anne for Yorkshire; the Hon. Edward Berkeley Portman
nil the Lady Emma for Sussex ; Lord Stourton for Allerton
Hall, Yorkshire; Mr. Henry Phillip Hope for Dorking ; the
Earl of Stradbroke for Henham Hall, Sussex ; Lord North-
wick for Northwick Hall, in Morton-in-the Marsh, in Glou.
rstershire; Lord Selsey for West Dean House, Sussex;
-Admiral Stopford for Brighton ; Lady Rendlesham and the
Hon. the Misses Thelluson, from Farrance's Hotel, for Wind-
Mrs. Gregg and family, from Park-square, for the
Continent.

", tier Majesty will give a
grand entertainment at the
rlv Palace, on Thursday next, in honour of the birth-day
lrlf the Duchess of Kent. All the Royal Family, the
°reign Ambassadors and their Ladies, her Majesty's
Ministers, the Court circle, and a select number of the
Nobility, are invited to the banquet.
The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp arc keeping
12p the festivities at Madresfield Court. A succession of
dinners have been given to the Nobility and Gentry in the
neighbourhood.
)9Lord 'Melbourne has communicated to Earl de
reY, as President of the Institute of British Architects,
her Majesty's pleasure to accede to the application to he.
"ale Patroness of that Corporate Body. The distin-
guished success which has attended this Society is as re-
Imarkable as it must be gratifying to the profession at large.
t the closing meetings of the last session, Mr. Vivian,
do .1). for Swansea, the Marquisses of Salisbury and Lans-
wne, as also the Duke of Sutherland, were elected hono-
rary fellows by contribution. The opening meeting in
'ueeember, for the session 1837-38, will be held at the new
rooms of the Royal Institute, in Lower Grosvenor-street.
It is confidently stated that her Majesty will arrive
at Brighton in a few weeks.—Brighton Gazette.
The only Cabinet Ministers at present in town are
Lord Melbourne, Lord Glenelg, Lord Palmerston, and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The appointment of the Earl- of Munster to be
Governor of Windsor Castle, is Earl having held it since the a re-appointment, the Noble
rington in 1830. demise of the Earl of Har-
The Grand Duke and Duchess of Oldenburg intend
to make a tour of our fashionable spas d wateringaces,
pr.
wieparatory to their leaving England
foran Germany. -pl They
ll be accompanied by the Chancellor, Baron
Rennen-
karnlA Baroness Selierrerhaust lady of honour, Sze.
their Highnesses' visitors
erY numerous. yesterday at Mivart's Hotel were
v
The Countess of Alulgrave left the Clarendon yes-
terday for Mulgrave Castle, near Whitby, Yorkshire, her
Ladyship's month of waiting having expired. Her Lady-
L'il) is not expected to proceed to Dublin Castle for some
tittlu.
The Duke of Devonshire left Devonshire House
Yesterday afternoon, for Chatsworth, his princely seat in
berhyshire, where he will entertain a distinguished circle of
noble friends after the elections are over. The Duke and
buchess of Suthei land, Earl and Countess of Carlisle, Lord
Leveson, Earl and Countess of Burlington, Sir Augustus
and Lady Clifford, are amongst the nobility invited.
A letter of the 31st ult., from Vienna, states that
the accounts of the illness of the Empress had excited uni--
versal sympathy ; but the last bulletin from Ischi had af
forded hopes that her Majesty would be shortly restored to
health. Count Walsh, the editor of La Mode, whose pa-
ea were seized at Strasburg, had arrived in the Austrian
pital.
The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner at
Apsley House on Wednesday last, to a party of eighteen ;
end in the esening there was a concert.
`'gilt
Duke of Devonshire arrived from the Isle of
'gilt ou Wednesday morning ; in the evening his Grace
fig4,,ve
,a dinner to a .few select friends ; and yesterday,. at
A e o clock in the morning, he left Piccadilly, for Bolton
'lheY, in Yorkshire.
• The Duchess of Bedford left Campden Hill,
\yob onThursday sc
„, 1., Ken-
'"gt" 'nnie.l f and joined the Duke at
f lb, urn Abbey on the following day ; and on the Saturday,'
I:ftwising the Duke and Duchess and the Lady Rachae
land,
rledfordshire for the Donne, in the Highlands of Scot-
It,ss
iLady Georgiana, Lord Henry, and Lord Alexander
ft'.l. went off in a steam-yacht from the Tower-stairs.
ti.ili Is Nuioured that Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart
I)ll,l:(‘esit'e ~5001. per annum by the will of the late
(20,t1 of St. Albans. his Lordship is grandson of Mr.
cisi , is, he and his sister, Lady Frances Sandon, being the
of
j\jellildren of the Marchioness of Bute,
1:41 r. C°lltts. The eldest daughter married the late
second daughter
(40
.clf Guilford, and had two daughters, the Ladies
I,irie,"glana and Susan North ; the former died two years
c)ft:' o,o'l Lady Susan North married Colonel Doyle, son
It), l'.
;141; Doyle. The third daughter of Mr. Coutts is
,;;;,,,,y of Sir Francis Burdett, and has one son and six
ulna "rs, three of whom are unmarried. Among these
All ,randebildren of Mr. Coutts the late Duchess of St.
11, 4os has bequeathed the greatest part of her property,
11,,i Yrningest daughter of Sir Francis Burdett being made
taorless to the share in the hank possessed by her grand-
44rdTerowt whom she was a great fivourite.
, Itobert Grosvenor, Lord C. Poulett, Lord
14,1 '4(IY Cadogan, Lord Norris, Lady Careline and Mr.
'rat. General Elphinstone, Colonel Montagu, Sir F. Pal-
se,,,,_' Captain Alsager, and upwards of one hundred pas.
Bt(,,aes left town yesterday for Antwerp, by' the General
t al . Navigation Company's first-rate steam-ship' Soho.
ler,j4ll,titriterlal,lt• General Sir Frederick Adam and Lady
liioild: ranee s Hotel, Belgrave-street, yesterday, for Rich-
hilltl„4l,ll,()gate is filling rapidly, though the York races
(13,P. "abl y steal away some of the fashionables fora leis'
th,1".(1 Adolphus Fitzclarence has lent his house in
l'it,..Aeian..'bassadors' Court to his brother, the Rev. Lord A.
at
en; ea,ee,
„and has taken a suite of apartments pro tent.
IN 134 g IlOtials 4 ii, -r-,
the ueanery of Bristol cannot be filled up till after
~,nineaelcration of Dr. Musgrave as Bishop of Hereford.
Nivledl ( eath of the Duchess of St. .Al
has de.
bittt f_ "taro -Ilan one of the Sunday journals of a standing
(:_ur .neir pointless jokes.
fie, Tint Marseheus Ko has arrived Mivart's Hotel
po i.".'_ 'N. Petersburgh. He is said to he the bearer of iin-
unt despatches.
fillimel'ew range of summer apartments are nearly
stsbii``,_ in Salisbury House. The greater part of the
1146 jr;.?nt left Arlington-street on Tuesday last for
lisisi_tiouse.
. .
leav,ll, Niarquis and Marchioness of W estminster will
hi, m'al.rosvonor-house in a few days for Moor-park, where
the ssilustY the King of Wirtemberg, at the invitation of
goished°l3.le Marquis, will pass several days. A distin-
ale!t }Cis
a eNlealie of the nobility and gentry are to be invited to
esty.
Pri_, General and Sub-Ccminit:ee of Drury-lane
te"ii'da're assembled yesterday, and un in:mously resolved to
10, a" Mr.
~ the our Bunn, their lessee, every possible assistance
"tiosual r pose of prosecuting the ensuing season with
Ge eclat.
the nags} Sebastiani was erroneously stated in one of
oTfi,t,
04rYbQPnanP,er.s
ho
.be at Yid)), ; he is taking the waters
tit then
M.
, ne is to return at t'lss end of September.
M, do Bourqueney will offi,.;iate here,

`rim QUEEN AND THE STAGE:

We have elsewhere inserted a letter frerli ..i.iit'espon-
dent repelling, in very metlertit.'e tetlek the attack upon her
Majesty in the rioio• yesterday, respecting her supposk«l
exclusive patronage of the Italian Opera.. lthni2,gh
sec
charge is put by our conteroporAry i t the form of a com-
munication to the it is so precisely accordant with
the ealtimnins spirit of its conduct towards the Queen and
her revered mother, both prior and subsequent to the de-
cease of the late King, that we feel authorized to treat it
as an accusation which 1110 ts with the approbation of the
conductors of that jnurnal. It establishes beyond dispute,
if additional evidence to that effect were wanting, that
there is no recreation however innecent, 116 enjoyment how-
ever rational and refined, that may net be malignantly per-
verted, with the view of rendering it a means of annoyance
to the young and accomplished occupant of the throne.
What is the charge ? That while our two national theatres
are closed for the season the Queen has visited the Ita-
lian Opera-house, The Times well knows that her Ma-
jesty from her infancy has been devoted to music, and
it knows, too, that music cannot be heard to greater advan-
tage in any part of the world than at present in her Ma-
jesty's Theatre. Surely this is reason enough for visiting it
at any time, but especially when no other place of dramatic
amusement is open, excepting the Haymarket and the minor
theatres, the latter of which, at least, it has never been the
custom of Royalty to honour with its presence. Even to
these, when Princess Victoria, her Majesty condescended
to extend her patronage, and one of them, so originally de-
signated by permission, is actually still called after her
name. The Times, by its correspondent, asks whether her
Majesty.cannot " bestow a little of her patronage on the,
English theatres ?" It will be time enough to make this in-
quiry when it is seen that after the re-opening of our two na-
tional theatres the Queen does not give them that degree of
personal encouragement which her predecessors on the
Throne have been accustomed to show to them. Her Majesty
has always been a warm and a sincere admirer of what has
usually been understood by the terms " legitimate drama."
It seems probable that the " legitimate drama," in the ap-
proaching season, will be represented at one of our great
theatres under circumstances of peculiar advantage ; and
we do not entertain a moment's doubt that her Majesty
will be most happy to give the undertaking her Royal
countenance in,every way consistent with the station she
holds in the country. It will not be forgotten that, as
Princess Victoria, the Queen and her illustrious parent al-
ways rented boxes at our National Theatres, and not un-
frequently occupied them to the great advantage of
the managers. Of late years, as everybody is aware,
theatres have been losing speculations ; it has' been
difficult to attract audiences, and the partioa interested have
sometimes been indebted to the Princess Victoria and the
Duchess of Kent for receipts which the pieces represented
would have certainly failed to procure. We trust that a new
reign may form a new era for the stage, and performances
of native and sterling excellence be substituted for the un-
attractive trash with which for some time it has been de-
luged. The Sovereigns of England, from the time of Henry
VII. downwards, have extended peculiar favour to the dra-
matic productions of the country, and in the abstract it is
not likely that a youthful and lovely Queen,
" The cynosure of British eyes,"
will be more slow than those who have gone before her in
promoting the welfare of the stage in all its departments.
In this, and in many other respects, she may advantageously
follow the precedent of that " example for all Queens,"
Elizabeth.—Morning Chronicle.