The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-04 00:00:00

BRIGHTON.

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1r , her Maje,-t‘
her name announced for the Royal bespeak to-morrow even-
ing, "milled at Lord Melbourne. The Royal cavalcade com-
prised the Queen, Wironi,ss Le:,zen. qteot,n, :he May-
quis of HeAfort, L-rui Alfred Pager, Sir Win. Luinl
count Melbourne, Colonel Buckley, and Sro C. Qo st n.

The Duchess 6f Kent, accompanier! by the Holt Ml,s Pat
took a carriage airing this nuirni-K at twelve o'cltick„

The Prince-s Augusta, accomp-iiied by Lady L. Corow.il-
lis, drove out this morning ikt twelve o'clo'k.
Lo.d Hill, Commander of the Forces, left the P-lace this
morning for London. Lord Hill had an audience of her Ma-
jesty evening.
The only invited guest to the RovA dinner table this even-
ing is thc Hon, C. C. Cav,:odisli, M. P.
Among the calls at the PiOace this morning v:ere—Adiniral
Sir John Wells, G C B. (from Bolnore), Sir Charles Blunt
(Heathfield Park), Lieut.-General Sir Charles Egerton, Ad-
miral Sir Philip Durham, and Lieutenant-General Sir Thos
M'Mahon.

Yesterday evening the Dowager Lady Langham dined with
he Princess Augusta.

A Bachelors' Ball is to be given here shortly on a scale of
great splendour.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by Miss Kcrr, left town
at nine o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke of
Rutland, at his seat, Belvoir Castle.

Lord Hill, Commander of the Forces, arrived in town yes-
terday afternoon from Brighton. His Lordship had an inter-
view with LordGlenelg at the Colonial Office.

Mr. James S. Stopford left town yesterday morning for
Marseilles and Malta, with despatches from the Foreign De-
partment.
The American Minister transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign Office.
The Russian, Turkish, and Sardinian Ambassadors trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign Department.
Despatches from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor
of Upper Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office.

Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign
Department for the British Ambassador at Hanover.
Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Colonial
Department for Lieutenant-General Sir John Colborne, the
Governor-General of the Canadas ; for Sir George Arthur,
the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; and for the Offi-
cers administering her Majesty's Government in the British
Dependencies in North America.

The Duke of Wellington was to have left Strath-
fieldsaye, Hants, yesterday, for Belvoir Castle, to visit the
Duke of Rutland. His Grace is in the best of health.
The Marquis of Douro continues in town.

BADMINTON, JAN. 2.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Lucca, Baron Ostini, Baron Lowenberg, Earl
Bathurst, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Codrington, Lord
Granville Somerset, Hon. W. and Mrs. Talbot, and a large
party are still staying on visits to his Grace. On Saturday
next there will be a grand breakfast, and the hounds are
to meet on the lawn. Breakfast will be laid for about fifty.

The Duke of Norfolk is staying on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Surrey, at Littlehampton, Sussex.
Lord Fitzalan, M.P., who has been staying at Athens, and
visiting the neighbouring classical remains, is expected to
return early in the ensuing month.

Great preparations are being made for the approach-
ing season at Asburnham House. A series of splendid
parties will be given by his Excellency in the course of the
ensuing month to the beau monde.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby left
the Clarendon Hotel yesterday for Dublin. They went
by the Railroad to Birmingham.

The Marquis of Normanby gave a farewell dinner
at the Clarendon Hotel on Wednesday evening. There
were present Lord Torrington, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Charles
Greville, and Colonel Yorke.

His Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland and the
Ladies Ann and Catherine Beresford, are on a visit to the
Marquis of Waterford, at Curraghmore, Waterford.
Mr. James Reid, the late Chief Justice of Canada,
hss arrived in town.

The Earl of Aberdeen will leave Haddo Castle early
in the ensuing week for town. The Noble Earl will visit
the Earl and Countess of Morton, Earl and Countess of
Harewood, and several other distinguished friends en route
to town.

The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville had a large
party to dinner on Wednesday evening at his mansion in
Cleveland-square. The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland
was among the guests.

The Earl and Countess of Durham entertained a
numerous and distinguished party at dinner on Wednesday
evening at their residence in Cleveland-row.
_ _

We regret to hear that Mr. Baron Bolland is very
seriously indisposed.
Mr. Justice Littledale, we hear, is about to retire
from the discharge of his judicial funetions.

Lord Stanley arrived in St. James's-square yester-
day afternoon from Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of
Derby, to which he returned a few days since from a visit
to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., at Drayton Manor. Lady
Stanley will arrive in town this evening from Knowsley.

DEATH Of TIIE COUNTESS OF BucitAN.--We
regret to record the demise of the Countess of Buchan,
which took place a few days since at Almondale, Scotland.
The late Countess was the youngest daughter of the
late John Hervey, Esq., and was united to the Earl
of Buchan the 26th of June, 1830. It was his Lordship's
second marriage. Her late Ladyship has left a daughter,
Lady Elizabeth Erskine, born in 1834.

O'Flannigan and the Fairies is highly attractive
at the Haymarket, and Power's fighting, dancing, drink-
ing, bewildered Irishman keeps the audience in a roar
of laughter from the commencement to the finish—his
Irish lion is a roarer too. The Earl and Countess of Dur-
ham and family, Lord Castlereagh, the Earl of Chester-
field, Lord Jocelyn, Lady Seymour, Lord Ossulton, the
Hon. Mrs. Norton, Charles Sheridan, Esq., &c. &c., visited
the theatre last evening.
BETROTHAL OF THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA
OF RUSSIA.—The ceremony of the betrothal of the Grand
Duchess Maria of Russia to Duke Maximilian of Leech-
tenberg took place at St. Petersburgh on the 18th ult.
At half-past eleven all the functionaries and personages of
distinction invited to attend the ceremonial were assembled
at the Palace of the Hermitage, and thence accompanied
their Imperial Majesties and the Royal Family to the
Church of the Court. The Grand Officers of State led
the way ; the Emperor and Empress were followed by the
Grand Duke Constantine, son of the Emperor ; the
Grand Duke Michael, the Emperor's brother ; and the
Grand Duchess Helena, his consort ; the Grand Duchess,
Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg, and the Ladies and
Maids of Honour. On entering the Church, the Emperor
conducted the Grand Duchess Maria and the Duke to their
seats in the middle of the edifice, and the ecclesiastical cere-
mony then began according to the Greek ritual, The two
rings of the betrothed parties were brought upon plates
of gold to the altar, that of the Grand Duchess by the Em-
peror's Confessor, and that of the Grand Duke of Leutchten-
berg by the Arch-Priest of the army and navy. The Me-
tropolitan then placed them respectively on the fingers of
the Grand Duchess, and Duke, and the Empress came for-
ward and made the exchange. At that moment fifty-one
discharges of artillery were made from the fortress of the
capital. The august personages thus betrothed were then
prayed for by name, and on the ceremony being, terminated
advanced together to offer thanks to their Imperial Majes-
ties. The rest of the Royal Family also appreaehed to
make their congratulations. Tc Deuns was then sung by
the Clergy, and at the verse, "Donzine salpetnz fac Impera-
torum," thirty-one rounds of artillery were fired from the for-
tiess. The Clergy were then admitted to present their
congratulations, and the cortege quitted the church, the
Duke walking as they returned to the Palace, by the side
of the Grand Duchess. The Members of the Court, the
public functionaries, &c., presented their congratulations in
the Palace. The ladies were all attired in the Court dress
of Russia, and the gentlemen in gala suits. Great rejoicings
at the same time took plaoe throughout the, capital ; the
bells of the churches rang during the day, and at night there
was a general illumination.

The Bishop of Norwich says, " the most moral
county in Ety,',,land, consisting of the most simple,
happy population, and where thieving and vice are littlelmown, is Cumberland. In this country I find that the
proportion of the whole population educated is one-half,
leaving only one-half uneducated." rural,
no to the
The Misses Smith, advantageously known
singing world here, seem great favourites also in Scotland.
They are nieces of the Countess of Essex, whom they
resernle in talent, but still more in tha blamelessness of
their lives.

AN EXPENSIVZ Prr.—A lady in this town has
a pet P‘APPY, who. is furnished with the (` bump of destruc-
tiveness' (So peculiar to the iofant branches of the canine
species) in a pretty csw sclera degree. A few days o
dropped her pocket-book, con" his mistres% vinforitqAPAelY
tßiaing two 5k notes and a half sovereign, on the aoor, sup-
posing that it had dropped into her pocket, " Rover" was,
however, the fortunate finder of t1,,,e prize, and in his usual
way commenced OP, work of demolition. It would appear
thm, aftcv haying torn to pieces the leathern pTo,tector of
the treasure, he so completely destroyed 14 c'or4tents, that
not a vestige remained to give ttla kliih,test clue by which
the notes might be ideuti4d, ifaving thus luxuriated on
the Preei.cu:i kepat, he left the half-sovereign in a corner,
as if beneath his notice.--Brighton Gazettc