The Sun.
London, England, 1837-03-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Ring, attencle4 lay Sir Herbert Taylor, left town at
4enty mintites past six o'clock Ott WVlttedey evening for
Win&or Castle.
The distribution of his Mi-sty's Royal M,,enday to pnce'
aged men and women took place yesterday afternoon, in
Whitehall Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Vivian read the C';hurelt
Service for aid day; assisted by the Rev. J. Haden. The
following assisted at the eufetiltjrtY; the Sub Almoner, the
Dean of Carlisle, the Secretary and Yeorrian of the Al-
monrv, Mr. Joseph Handby ; the Groom of the Alnicery,
Mr. JOlin Jones Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Cheque; and
a party of the Yeomen of the King's Body Guard ; the Ser-
jeant of the Chapel Royal, Mr. Howse ; and the S-rjeant cf
the Royal Chapel at Whitehall, Mr. Lingard Seventy-two
men and se*enty-two women received on this occasion the
Royal bounty ; the avor;aelt l'eeei/ed IL 13s. To the men
were given elotling, woollen el linen cloth, slices and
moeltin,rs. Both men arid women then reeeived two rurse,
the ree.purse containing a sovereign and a hair-a-crown, and
the white purse Os. in silver penny pieces. The 2.i. 01. each
is in litti of a loaf and meat which the Maonday people had
heretofore received, They also received tickets entitling
them to obtain, upon this occasion, salt fish and bread from
the tradesmen of the almonry, but in future they will receive,
under his Majeaty's command, in lieu of all provisions, a money
allowance of IL 16s.
The persons who received his Majesty's bounty exceeded in
age sixty years each; one of the number wie., 103 years old ;
two were between 00 and 100, and several Wen! between 80
and 90.
The temporary building heretofore used behind \Vhitchall
chapel has been discontinued.
A Deputation respecting the Thetis, including Mr. Grote,
Alderman Thomson, Messieurs Robinson, Rasch, Harford,
and Lavie, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, in Downing-street.
The Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
held a meeting yesterday at the Council Office, on the subject
of Macintosh's patent. The Lords present were, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Lord Brougham, Lord Duncan, and the Hon.
Thon.as Erskine.

M. de Bourqueney, the French Charge d'Affaires, transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign Office.

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DEPARTURES.

The Duke of Devonshire, from Devonshire House, Picca-
dilly, for Chiswick ; Viscount Milton for Paris ; the Hon. W.
Howard for Brighton ; Earl and Countess Cowper and Lady
Ashley, from George-street, Hanover-square, for Pansanger ;
Viscount Eastnor, from Dover-street, for Warwickshire ; Sir
E. C. Stanley for Cheltenham ; Samuel Irton, Esq., M.P.,
for Irton Hall, Cumberland ; Joseph Bailey, Esq., M. P., for
Gloucestershire ; W. Marshall, Esq., M.P., for Carlisle:
Viscount and Viscountess Maynard and family, from Grosve-
nor-square, for Suffolk ; Richard Benyon
.de Beauvoir, Esq.,
and Miss Benyon, from Grosvenor-square, for Englcficld
House, Berks.
ARRIVALS. _

Mr. and Lady Louisa Campbell at Harewood House, Ha-
nover-square ; the Hon. Henry Pierrepont, Colonel Burdett,
and Mr. and Mrs. Foster and family, at the Lansdowne Hotel,
from the Continent.

The Countess of Sandwich had a distinguished
party at dinner on Wednesday evening on Carlton House-ter-
race. The company included the Marquis of Salisbury, Vis-
count and Viscountess Norreys, Lord Cantelupe, Lady Ashley,
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, the Hon. Mr. Bagot, Mr. and
Mrs. G. Hope, &c.
The Earl of Wilton was to have arrived yesterday
on a visit to the Rev. John Clowes, M. A., at Broughton Hall,
Warwickshire.
The Earl of Sandwich left Carlton House-terrace
yesterday for Windsor, to pass a few days with several noble
friends.
The Earl of Oxford has left town for Cheltenham.
Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor have arrived at
Leamington Spa, from a visit to the Marquis of Westminster,
at Eaton Hall. His Lordship has greatly improved in health.
Lady Elizabeth Harcourt had a select dinner party
last evening in Hanover-square. The Countess of Sandwich
was among the guests.
Lord Portman left town yesterday, to meet a party
invited to his seat in Dorsetshire.
Lord Rolle has caused to be distributed a quantity
of flour to the poor on his estates at South Melton, Devonshire.
Sir Francis Burdett, who continues at Brighton, is
suffering from a severe attack of gout.
Lord Francis Egerton (who is foreman of the Grand
Jury) leaves town to attend the Lancashire Assizes.
The Duke of Buccleitch has issued cards for a sump-
tuous banquet on Wednesday next.
The Marquis of Camden will entertain a party of
noble friends during the recess, at the Wilderness, in Kent.
Fife House, the residence of the Earl of Liverpool
and Lidies Jenkinson, is expected to be thrown open to the
beau monde shortly after Easter, with a series of splendid fetes.
The Earl of Jersey's grand dinner in Berkeley-square
on Tuesday evening was attended by Prince Esterhazy, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Lady Alice
Peel, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord Redesdale,' Sir John
Beckett, and Sir Henry Halford.
Mr:Wentworth Beaumont, M.P., has taken posses-
sion of his new mansion on Hyde Park-terrace, Piccadilly.
Mr. Codrington, M.P., and his bride have engaged
for the season a splendid suite of apartments at the Lansdowne
Hotel, Dover-street, where they are expected in the course of
the ensuing week.
We are happy to state that the health of the Baron
Rothschild, of Frankfort, is restored.
Dr. Bowring is gone into Devonshire for the reco-
very of his health.
The Liberals of the Queen's County have just given
Mr. Wilson Fitzpatrick, the late High Sheriff, a public enter-
tainment, as a mark of respect for the impartial administration
of his duties for the past year. They farther intend (and he
has accepted the invitation) to start him in conjunction with
Mr. Lalor,_ whenever there is a general election. Mr. Fitz-
patrick is heir to a very extensive estate in the county.
The gentlemen at whose solicitations Capt. Blackett
offered himself candidate for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in opposi-
tion to Mr. Hodgson Hinde, have, by subscription, discharged
the whole of the expenses incurred on that occasion. Captain
Blackett intended to have done so himself, but his constituents
very properly would not allow him.
Prince Esterbazy's diplomatic dinner at Chandos
House, on We dnesday evening was attended by the Russian
Ambassador, and Colonel and Countess Pozzo di Borgo, Barons
13Iome, Gersdo rff, Bulow, Baron and Baronness de Cetto,
Count Bjornstjerna, Baron Lebzcltern, Count Waldstan, M.
Hummelauer, and Prince Paul Lieven.
Professor Musgrave, of Cambridge, will probably be
the New Dean of Bristol. _ _ _

...
J. B. Greenwood, Esq., has been appointed Police
Magistrate in the room of Mr. Clarkson, deceased.

The Bishop of Oxford (the Hon. and Rev. Dr.
13agot), the new Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, is
brother-in-law to the Countess of Jersey, having married a
daughter of the Earl of Westmorland, her Ladyship's father.
Sir W. W. 'Wynn has left town for his seat,
Wynstay.
The Earl and Countess Stanhope have left Great
Stanhope-street for Chevering, near Sevenoaks. A select
circle is invited during the recess.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans have no in-
tention of returning to Brighton. _ _

The Duke of Grafton and Lord Charles Fitzroy
will remain at his Grace's hunting scat, Wakefield, near
Stoney Stratford, until after the recess. The Duke came up
from Northamptonshire for two days, to attend the investiture
of the Earl of Carlisle, the new Knight of the Garter.

Viscount Villiers, who has just returned to town,
has, it is stated, made a most successful canvass of the electors
of Weymouth.
It is understood in- the literary circles, that Lady
Stepney is about to publish a third novel during the course of
this spring.
Countess Apraxin, step-daughter of the Russian
Ambassador, Baron Von Tabiecheff, has not obtained from the
Emperor of Russia the permission to prolong her say at Vienna,
which was given her on account of the education of her children,
and she will, therefore, have to go to Odessa to her husband.
Viscountess Milton, with her daughter, continues to
reside permanently with Earl Fitzwilliam and his family at
Milton ; her ladyship has not been absent from the family,
but for a few weeks during her confinement, since the death of
the late Viscount Milton.

The Earl of Roden and his son, Lord Jocelyn,
have been on a visit to Lord and Lady I'owerscourt, his Lord-
ship's daughter, at Powerscourt, county Wicklow.

The Surrey Yeomanry Cavalry crave a grand dinner
on Wednesday evening at the Thatched House Tavern. Col.
Lord King ably presided in the chair.
There is an on dit that Mr. S., nephew of the
Duke of G., is about to be united to Miss M., first cousin to
Lord M—d..

It is rumoured in the fashionable circles that Lady
Fanny Cavendish, the niece of the Earl of Devonshire (on
whom the rank of an Earl's daughter was lately conferred by
his Majesty), will shortly be allied' to a gentleman of rank and
fortune.

The Prince and Princess Polignac were at the
Dowager Countess of Essex's select soiree in Hill-strect, on
Wednesday evening. Yesterday, the Prince and Princess
took their usual airing, and visited the Duke of Norfolk and
the Marquis of Bristol. In the course of yesterday afternoon
they were visited at Mivart's Hotel by Lord Ravenaworth,Lord
Templetown, Baroness de Cetto, Lady Rivers, Hon. Miss
Rivers, Lady Blackwood, Miss Blackwood, Sir Geo. Sinclair,
Colonel and Mrs. Hugh Baillie, Sir Robert and Ladyßarton,
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd.

The nee• railroad from Vienna to Milan is not only
approved by the Emperor, but all the shares are disposed of.
It will commence on the island on which the custom-house is
built, and be carried over arches to the main-land. It is cal-
culated that the journey from Vienna to Milan will be performed
in six hours.

The !id) banker Von Steiner, Deputy-governor of
the Austrian National Bank, died lately, having neither wife
nor children. He left an immense fortune, estimated at ten
millions of florins, to distant relations. There are legacies to
individuals of 600,000 florins.—Nuremburg Correspondent.

ROMAN COINS AT EXETE

TO THE EDITOI4 OF THE SUN.
Stß—This week a Denarius, or silver coin of Julian the Apos'
:ate, was disc.Aered in th:, CiAledral yard, a very unustlai relic
here :Icks.d. It was struck at Lyons ": in France (LIFO.) T
;.he
1-rya is to tlie L. I V ',IAN VS. P.P. A V G..--ev.,l
the reverse, witilia an oaken or ekic wreath, voTis V.
Mvurfs. X., implving solemn vyas that were made for him
at the quii,quennial Games, according to Captain Short's in-
terpretation, ttho also informs us that this Emperor was the.
son of Basilina (daughter of Anicius Julianus), a Pagan httly.•
the second %v ire of E1..1 Constantius, brother of Constantine
the Glittt. Ile died of a wound received in Persia, A.D. 363,
after passing the Tigris.
1;`,1-c-,.t.rcct—Captaiii S. has discnvered (at
nine ';,,et under ground) here n coin of nONITIAN, but much
cletritcl„ itrvi tint reverse patinr ter!. The inscrintion
ever mafle t;; AVC-;:. GERM. COS XIII.,
Lich prr,ves, we are informed, that it ww; minted about the,
cal of his reign, he beiug put to d,..tith in his 35th year. The
workmen afterwards came upon a solid R-'man foundation of
Iprodigious strength, the masonry being of Thorverton stone
and breccia, hard as rock. Here they 'found a VESPASIAN in
tolerable preservation, rccorclin,q. a sacrifice and altar to Peace,
1 to which he built a gre:it temple in the Forum at Rome (v.
Capt. S.) The word PAX nearly obliterated, and the coin
slightly patinatcd. Also an Abbey piece and Nuremberg_
token, and farthing of Charles I. The Coffin family is of
j great antiquity, and was in high repute in Elizabeth';reign.
Exeter, March Is. Yours, &c. C. It

The ancient Lligdunitm.

IRELAND,

Poor.-Laws.—We published yesterday the principal
parts of Mr. O'Connell's letter on the subject of tti; Irish
Poor-law proposition, addressed to the Southern Repo, ter.
To-day we give so much of our Contemporary's answer es
bears more immediately on the point of detail
at issue
" Mr. O'Connell's wan for levying the rate for tillage-
land on rents (remarks the Reporter in a long article on
the subject) is open, as we originally stated, to this serious
crljection, that the occupants having the power of imposing
the rate, may, where they are not to be immediately liable,
increase the amount to a. greater extent than they would be
otherwise disposed to do..
" The propriety of exempting what Mr. O'Connell de-
nominates ornamental lands, by which we presume him to
mean demesne lands in possession of men of fortune, seems
very questionable. If an unusual number of labourers be
employed on land of this description from mere motives of
benevolence—from a pure disposition to give employment,
there may be some ground of exemption. But if improve-
ments arc made, or land ornamented, to gratify the taste or
contribute to the luxurious enjoyment of the owner, it is
difficult to see why he should be exempted from a public
rate rather than any other man of fortune who makes an
expenditure for his comfort or enjoyment. There are few
modes in which wealth is expended that do not contribute
to the increase of employment and the prevention of pau-
perism. How is the ornamental land, which Mr. O'Connell
proposes to exempt, to be distinguished from the grazing
land, on the occupier of which he contemplates levying the
rate ? Ornamental land is almost invariably grazed."
GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—On Tuesday the Association ,
met at the Great Rooms, Corn-exchange ; Ebenezer Jacob,
Esq., was called to the Chair. The Rev. Mr. Power,
R.C.C., gave notice of a motion for the next day of meet-
, ing, to bring under the oonsideration of the Association the
Poor-law Bill now pending in Parliament. On the mo-
tion of Mr. Finn an adjournment was agreed to until Satur-
day, in order to afford Mr. O'Connell the opportunity to be
present at its proceedings.