The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Sir Charles Grey (one of his Majesty's Commissioners for
the affairs of Canada) had an interview yesterday with Lord
Glenelg, at the Colonial Office.
On Tuesday, Sir John Hobhouse, President of the India
Board, gave an interview to a Deputation from the Com-
mittee delegated by the Steam Committees of Calcutta and
Madras (consisting of Lord William Bentinck, Wm. Craw-
ford, Esq., M.P. for the City of London, Edward Fletcher,
Esq., James M'Killop, Esq., and Captain Melville Grindlay),
on the subject of establishing a permanent communication
by steam, between Great Britain and India.
A. Committee meeting of the Record Commission was
held yesterday, at the Office of the Chancellor of the Ex-
quer, in Downing-street.
The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign Office.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a small dinner party
last evening at his residence in Mansfield-street.

The Earl of Minto entertained at dinner on Wed-
nesday evening, at the Admiralty, the Marquis of Lams.
downc, Lord and Lady Howick, Hon. Fox Mamie, Mr,
Spring Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Lister, Mr. Romilly, and Mr.
Anson.

The venerable Lord Rolle is now at his seat at
Bicton, near Exeter, surrounded by a large circle of friends,
where he has been sustaining old English hospitality on a
large and liberal scale. The Noble Lord having no issue,
the Peerage will become, at his decease, extinct.
The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, and Lords Ed-

.ard and William Clinton, have arrived at Clumber-park.

The Earl of Carlisle has arrived in Grosvenor-place,
from Compton-place, near Eastbourne. His Lordship has
been sadly teased by his inveterate enemy, the gout, during
his stay at Compton-place.
Lord Seagrove has arrived at Spring Gardens, from
Berkeley Castle.
Count Biornstjerna has arrived at Waterloo-crescent,
Dover. His Excellency will stay there for some time.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons and his Lady are expected daily in Carlton-terrace.

The Marquis of Huntley is on his way to town,
from Castle Aboyne, N.B.
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The. Landgravine of Hesse Homberg arrived at
Hanover, on the Bth of January, to visit 'the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge.
The Royal House of Bavaria, and the town of
Bamberg in particular, have just experienced a severe loss
by the death of his Royal Highness the Duke William of
Bavaria.

The health of the King of Denmark is much im-
proved.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia
is recovering from his indisposition. His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cumberland has returned from Hanover to
Berlin.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield returned on
Wednesday to Bretby Park, from a visit to Lord and
Lady Lichfield.
The Earl of March has left Goodwood, for Oxford.

The young Lord Audley, on attaining his majority
next year, will come into possession of the large estates of
his grandfather, George, sixteenth Baron Audley, at
Sandridge, Wilts, the late Peer having sold his life interest
in the family domain during the lifetime of his father. The
dignity of Count of the Holy Roman Empire has also
descended to the present Peer.

The General Commanding-in-Chief has appointed
Lieut. A. E. Hill, of the 68th Light Infantry, to be his
Aide-dc-Camp, vice Major Mackworth. Capt. Fletcher,
of the Ist Life Guards, will continue attached to his Lord-
ship's staff, as extra Aide-de-Camp.
The late Field-Marshal Sir Samuel Hulse was the
second son of Sir Edward Hulse, Baronet, of Bramore
House, in the county of Hants, -and uncle of Sir Charles
Hulse, the present Baronet, whose grandfather was an emi-
nent physician.

S. G. Price, Esq., M.P. for Sandwich, has been
labouring under an inflammation of the chest.

The illness of the Bishop of Lichfield and Co-
vcntry is not of the- dangerous or alarming nature described
in some of the journals. The Rev. Prelate is unwell, to
the regret of his friends, but his illness gives them no un-
easiness.

The Glee and Madrigal Society of Salisbury have
very judiciously- and gallantly agreed to admit ladies to their
performances.

The Lichfield county ball, on Friday, .was a select
and brilliant assemblage, and was under the patronage of
the Countess of Lichfield.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF ROSSLYN.—It is
with'regret that we announce the death of this Nobleman,
which we understand took place at his scat, Dysart House,
Fifeshire, early yesterday morning. his Lordship had ex-
pressed his intention to be present at the dinner given
to Sir R. Peel, at Glasgow, and was appointed to acknow-
ledge the toast of " The Army." He was prevented by
indisposition, which we believe no one then imagined was to
lead to the fatal result now stated.—Caledonian Mercury.
A Court of Common Council was held yesterday,
when the several Committees of the Corporation, and the
Commissioners of Sewers, Lamps, and Pavements, were ap-
pointed for the year ensuing- The Court also, agreeably
to the standing orders, elected the various officers of the
Corporation. No other business was transacted.
On Tuesday evening a shocking accident occurred
to Miss Sophia Beesely, a young lady, 17 years of age,
who was burnt in a shocking manner, at the residence of
her aunt, Mrs. Fehham, Wyndham•strcet, Bryanston-square.
While dressing for an evening parts•, it appeared that the
unfortunate young lady had placed a lighted candle on the
ground, for the purpose of picking up some trifling article,
when the lower part of her dress instantly caught fit c. Her
affrighted sister, instead of rendering assistance, ran out
of the room screaming, and before any one could arrive
her dress was burn nearly from off her person. Messrs.
Delston and Tyler, surgeons, were promptly in attendance,
but, from the extent of the injuries, faint hopes are given of
her recovery.
The first execution at Vienna since:the ascension of
the Emperor to the Throne, was to have taken place on
the sth inst. An immense crowd was assembled, but the
humane nature of themperor induced him to grant a re-
prieve.

The news ,of the attempt at assassination of the
King of the French, on reaching Vienna, excited universal
horror.

A person in Hungary has found means of escaping
the censorship of the press, by publishing a newspaper in
handwriting. He has several clerks employed in transcrib-
ing copies, and be proposes to increase the circulation by
means of lithography.
The performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane,
this evening, are.for the benefit of the Jews' Orphan Asv-
turn, Leman-street, Goodman's-field's. Her Majesty, her.
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Bed-
ford, Lord Holland, and Mr. Anderson, have given up their
boxes on this charitable occasion.

It may be some consolation to a Malthusian to re-
flect that if he will go back to only the fifteenth degree of
his genealogy, he may prove by the common aritletical
process of the multiplication table, that, at the least\hirty-
two thousand persons have contributed to the creation of his
own individual person,