The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria attended
divine service yesterday morning at the chapel in Kensington
Palace. The Rev. William Fisher officiated. Their Royal
highnesses again attended divine service in the afternoon,
3% hen the Dean of Chester officiated.

A deputation of the Spitalfields weavers attended at Ken-
sington Palace in the course of last week, with an address of
on the part of the weavers, to the Duchess of Kent,
for her Royal Highness's great attention to their interests in
their present distress, and her constant support of British ma-
nufactures; and, also, to request her Royal Highness the Prin-
cess Victoria to be a patroness of a Ball to be given in aid of
the weavers.

The Duchess of Kent has directed that 22 silk dresses be
put in the looms and be made expressly for her and her Royal
.Highness the Princess Victoria.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office on Sa-
turday afternoon, at two o'clock. It was attended by all the
-.Ministers. The Council broke up at five o'clock.
A deputation, including Messrs. John Hodgkin, George
Fife Angus, and Wrn. Higgins, had an interview with Lord
(;lentil' on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Lichfield has left town for Newmarket.
Despatches from the Earl of Gosford, Governor of the Ca-
racils, were received yester.lay at the Colonial-office.
Tile Turkish Ambassador transacted business on Saturday
at the Foreign-office.
The Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun-
il 11;:d a Committee meeting on Saturday, to consider peti-
tYWlS from various places, praying for charters of incorpora-
tion. The Lord President, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John
lioa.qcll, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, were present.
Mr. Sergeant Wilde had an interview with Viscount Mel-
bierne on Saturday.
The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party on Saturday
at Lansdowne House, Berkeley- square.

His Majesty's Dinner to the Knights Grand Crosses
a the Bath will take place on Saturday next at Windsor Castle.
The Earl anal Countess of Albemarle left Berkeley-
squxe yesterday for Newmarket ; his Lordship is expected to
I,:tUri., to town to-morrow.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland leave Paris
to-morrow, on their return home. They are expected at
:-.affoid House on Saturday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury and fa-
mily tornove:l on S.lturday from the Claren:lon to the family
mails;on, in Arlington-street, occupied by the late venerable
Dew-,ger Marchioness, who perished in the late fire at Hatfield
House.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam arrived in Gros-
-1,, nor-square, late on Saturday, from Gorhambury, where
arty have been entertaining the Earl and Countess of Craven,
tit John and Lady Shelley, and a large party.
The Duke of Rutland and the Marquis of Granby
lets. Belvoir Castle on Saturday last, for Newmarket. The
•Castle was filled with visiters, during Croxton Park races.

Duke anti Duchess of filchmond are expected
itt !own to-morrow. Their eldest daug,htur, Lady Lennox,
A,13, it is expected, be presented at Court at the ensuing
4lri,wi.ig-room:. Her Grace, we hear, will shortly throw open
ler :law and elegant mansion with a series of splendid evening

A report ~v2s generally circulated on Saturday, that
the Countess of Kerry had given birth to a posthumous son
nod heir. Tliii event woufrlhave created an important altera-
tion in the Marquisate of Lansdowne and the Earldoms of
Kerry and Sheiburn. We learn, however, that the report is
incorrect; and it is added, that Lord Henry Fitzmaurice is
likely to succeed to the family titles.
The marriage between Miss Samuel, niece of the
Baroness Rothachid, with the wealthy Mr. Salomons, is to be
'solemnised the week after next.
The Duke of Devonshire has added his name to the
Committee for the management of the ball for the benefit of
the silk weavers.
Baron Maltitz, late Rusian Charge d'Affaires to the
British Court, is, we hear, appointed Russian Minister at the

.flog,ue.
The noble mansion in Charles-street beloivinp, to
the Countess of Craven, having been newly re-embellisher-1
in-
teriorly and exteriorly, will shortly be thrown open to the
fashionable world.
Earl Catio.2,an arrived last night at his mansion in
Piccadilly from Kelso.
Lord and Lady Hatherton and family have arrived
in Grosvenor. place from Staffordshire.
The I3eresford family, in all its branches, at the
bra i of which is the Archbishop of Armagh, in Ireland, is
:said to realise annually from the church, army, and navy, by
patronage (principally from the church), 100,0001. a year.
Lord Ilehester has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant
of .-;ornersetshire, in the place of the late Marquis of Bath.
The party at Woburn visiting the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford has broken up, her Grace having arrived
in Belgrave-square for the season. Prince Nicholas Ester-
ltezy, Count Waidstein, Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn,
Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Lord Alford, and a
large party of the nobility visited their Graces.
Earl and Countess Cowper have returned to town
from Pansanger.
The Marchioness of Ailesbury will return to Gros-
venor-square to-day from Ham.
l'he Earl and Countess of Minto had a grand
dinner party on Saturday evening at the Admiralty, and among
their distinguished guests were Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
and Viscountess Howick, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Boringdon,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, Hon. Mr. Elliott,' Miss Berry,
&c. In the latter part of the evening the Countess of Radnor,
Liscly Jane Bouverie, Lord Henry Fitzmaurice, Right Hon.
T. Spring Rice, Sir Charles Adam, Mr. G. C. Adam, Mr.
snd Mrs. -Ponsonby, &c., joined the party.
The Earl of Tank-erville entertained the Russian
Ambassador, and a select party at dinner, on Saturday even-
ing, in Grosvenor-square.
Mr. Ferguson, M.P., of Raith, gave a grand dinner
yesterday, in Portman-square.
The members of the Fox Club dined together on
Saturday, at Grillon's Hotel.
Earl Grey will give his first dinner party for the
season, some day this week.
The Marquis Conyngham returned to Dudley-house
Park, late yesterday, from a visit to their Majesties, at Windsor
Castle. His Lordship's visit to the castle was connected, we
believe, with arrangements relative to the grand fete to be
given, it is understood, next month, at the King's theatre, for
the benefit of the Spitalfields silk weavers; and which is to be
managed by a Committee, at which the Marquis, as Lord
Chamberlain, and Lord Hood, are to be at the head. Their
Majesties intend to honour the ball with their presence.
The King has been pleased to present to the Gold-
smiths' Company a very valuable painting, being a full-length
portrait of his Majesty, in his coronation robes, which is to
adorn the interior of their splendid new hall. It was from the
pencil of Mr. Morton.
The Duchess of Montrose, we hear, is likely soon
to add an heir to the noble house of Graham.
On Saturday G. F. Young, Esq., M.P., Mr. Charles
Enderby, Mr. Smith, Captain R. Locke, and Mr. J. Wal-
lace, Directors of the British and American Steam Navigation
Company, and Mr. Laird, the Secretary, had an interview
w;th the President of the Board of Trade.
By letters received on Saturday, we learn that the
Duke of Cumberland intends being in town by Tuesday week.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, the
Duchess of Richmond, and a large party of the nobility, pa-
tronise Mr. Weippert's dress ball this evening, at the Hano-
ver-square rooms.
The Duke and Duchess of St. Albans' had a din-
ner party last evening at St. Albans' House, Piccadilly.
The Countess of Kinnoul gave a dinner party on
Satu,'day at Hampden House, Green-street. In the evening
there as an assembly of upwards of 200 of the heist ton.
The Ron. Captain Curzon has resumed his at-
te'tdance on hel• Majesty as Private Secretary and Resident
Gentleman Ushe:',. the gallant Officer has returned from
Keddleston Hall, Derbyshire, the scat of his brother, Lord
Scarsdale.
An elegant equipage is building for Colonel Pozzo
di Borg°, nephew of the Russian Ambassador, which will be
launched on the 13th inst., the first drawing-room.
The Prince Royal of Sweden does not, we under-
star, d, intend to visit this country or France during the present
sprinj. His Royal Highness is expected to leave Stockholm
for Ears next month, and after visiting his sister, the Princess
Hohenzollern, he will return to Sweden via Hamburgh.
'The I- on. Mrs. Edward Stafford Jernyngham, who
has i'nheritcsl a great portion of the late Mrs. Fitzherbert's
property, is laughter of John Smythe, Esq., and married, in
1828, the fourth son of Lord Stafford, by whom she has two
soillleiße..elde.st, who is the godson of Mrs. Fitzherbert, is to
}rave the YeiVessitt pf the property.
s - eV ley, the new Secretary to the Post-
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_ekhimself favourably to the request made
, _l4, _
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... and prosperity of this island.—Jersey
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ri- 7".eitivire 0 ford entertained a party on Satur-
iease the Marquis and Marchioness of
alkit ik.

Abercorn have returned, for a short visit, from Bentley Priory,
Stanmore. The Duchess of Bedford and Lord and Lady
Charles Fox Russell have arrived in Belgrave-square, from
Woburn, for the season.

The Swedish Minister, Count Bjorntsjerna, has
taken a villa at Richmond. The term for which his Excellency
had taken the Earl of Munster's mansion, in Belgrave-strcet,
having expired, it will revert to the Noble proprietor.
Lord and Lady Ravensworth have returned to
Percy's Cross, Fulham, from a visit to their Majesties at
Windsor Castle.

The Hon. Mrs. Darner and Sir Frederick Hervey
Bathurst returned to town on Friday from attending the obse-
quies of the late venerable Mrs. Fitzherbert, at Brighton.
Mrs. Darner, before her marriage with the Hon. Col. Dawson
Darner, was Miss Seymour, the protege of Mrs. Fitzherbert,
with whom she constantly resided.
Prince Esterhazy gave a sumptuous dinner to
the Ministers, foreign and domestic, yesterday, at Chandos
House. On Friday next his Highness is expected to visit their
Majesties at Windsor Castle ; and, on the following day, he
will be invested with the insignia of a Grand Cross of the Bath.
The parties at the Russian Embassy will be resumed
shortly after her Majesty's first Drawing-room.
The Grand Ball to be given by the Officers of the
Artillery and engineers on the 17th inst., at the Barracks at
Woolwich, will be on a scale of great splendour. It will take
place on the occasion of her Majesty's birth-day.
The Earl of Rosslyn, on Thursday, took the oaths
and his seat in the House of Lords, for the first time after the
death of his father.

Mr. Sergeant Storks was so much indisposed at
Norwich that, after he had addressed the jury in the breach of I
promise case, " Dennington v. Dearsley, clerk," Mr. Justice
Park urged him to go home to his lodgings and nurse himself,
expressing a hope that he did not walk to the Court. He
was too unwell to attend the Judge's dinner, and is not ex-
pected to preside at the Cambridge borough sessions, ad-
journed from Monday last to Friday, on account of the unusual
time the Assizes have occupied.
At a meeting of the National Society for the Edu-
cation of the Poor, holden at the Central School, Westmin-
ster, on the sth inst., there were present—His Grace the
Archbishop of York ; the Lord Bishops of St. Asaph, Ban-
gor, and Hereford ; Joshua Watson, Esq. ; the Rev. Dr.
Walmsley, the Rev. H. H. Norris, Anthony Hammond, Esq. ;
James( Trimmer, Esq. ; Richard Twining, Esq. ; and the
Rev. J. C. Wigram.
The travellers' room at the White Horse Cellar is
of course uncomfortable ; it would be no travellers' room if it
were not. It is the right hand parlour, into which an aspiring
kitchen fire-place appears to have walked, accompanied by a
rebellious poker, tongs, and shovel. It is divided into boxes
for the solitary confinement of travellers, and it is furnished
with a clock, a looking-glass, and a live waiter, which latter
article is kept in a small kennel for washing glasses in a corner
of the apartment.—Pickwick Papers.
KING'S THEATRE.—The Italian Opera, which
was sinking into degradation, has been brought back, at a
spring, into a state of perfection by the return, on Saturday
evening, of Madame Grisi, and her inseparable associates
(long may they continue so), Signors Rubini, Tamburini, and
Lablache. They were welcomed by a house crowded to over-
flow. The opera chosen for the occasion was I Puritani, in
which they have acquired their best laurels, and decidedly the
piece in which the most perfect display is made of this phalanx
of talent. Grisi is in better voice, and looks better, and acts
better, and dresses better (though last not least) than ever.
The calls for an encore, as usual, were numerous, but she
encountered willingly, even gratefully, the additional fatigue
they imposed ; and a more arduous part than her Elvira in
I Puritani is not to be found in the whole range of the Its.
Tian musical drama. The audience wished, out of absolute
pity, so spare her the repetition of the quartett in the first act.
Who can forget the triumphant look with which she advanced
to the front of the stage, amidst a thunder of " No, no," from
all parts of the house, which said " I can and will sing it
again in spite of you." Rubini was also in remarkably fine
voice, and received his full share with the prima donna her-
self of the public favour. His taste, we think, is even im-
proved. Of Tamburini it is unnecessary to say more than
that he is himself ; and of Lablache, that he retains the quiet
astonishing power which makes him at all points gigantic, in
voice as in person, and also, let that never be forgotten, in
real unaffected unprcteeding talent. The opera has been very
carefully got up, the details well managed, and the chorusses
full and effective. The part of Henrietta, the widowed Queen
of Charles, out of whose escape the leading incidents of the
drama arise, was well sustained by Miss Wyndham.
The ordinary monthly meeting of the Zoological So-
ciety was held Thursday afternoon, Captain Bowles, R.N.,
in the chair. Mr. Yarrell, the Secretary, read the report of
the Council, from which it appears that the receipts during
the past month were 1,063/. 6s. (id., during which time there
had been expended upon the gardens, 1,201/. 163. ; on the
museum, 2371. Is. I Id. ; and the general establishment,
66/. I 03. The number of visitors to the gardens in the month
of March was 5,595, from whom 1571. 19a. was received. A
great variety of presents were announced to the museum and
menagerie. Amongst the latter were donations from her Ma-
jesty, the Marchieness of Winchester, Sir Herbert Taylor,
&c. The names of members of the Council going out by ro-
tation at the ensuing annual meeting, were announced, as
Captain Bowles. Drz. Rogtt and Horsfield, and Messrs. Erie
and Hay ; and those recommended for election to fill these
vacancies, were Lords Braybrook and Milton, Messrs. Boi-
leau, W. S. Mackay, and Chit. Mr. Rogers brought for-
ward a moticn, as a recommendation to the Council, for the
institution of lectures on Zoology at the museum, with con-
venient places for dissection of animals dying at the gardens ;
which, having been seconded by Mr. Hardisty, was unani-
mously carried. Twenty-four new members were elected,
and the names of twenty-seven candidates were proposed for
election.

The late Bishop of Norwich was the youngest of
thirty-six brothers and sisters. He commenced life as a tutor
to the children of a Barrister, who agreed to give him 2001.
a year as a salary. He staid with this gentleman three years,
during which time he received no salary ; and never in his
life made one application for payment. A Clergyman of his
diocese obtained permission to dedicate a book to him, in
which he attributed to the Bishop sentiments directly oppo-
site to those he entertained. He was informed of the circum-
stance, and could have stopped the publication, but refused
to do so. Some few years after this occurrence the Clergy-
man became distressed in his circumstances, and asked the
gentleman who had obtained the Bishop's permission to de-
dicate the work to him to solicit relief from his Lordship.
This gentleman was the holder of a Bishop's lease, and on
mentioning to Dr. Bathurst his reason for calling, his Lord-
ship said, " You want your lease renewed ; well, then, I will
renew for three lives, and you may pay the fine to the poor
Clergyman." From the great expense entailed on the Bishop
of Norwich, the bishopric becomes the poorest of all in Eng-
land ; this never influenced his Lordship in his opinions or
public conduct. After he had made his celebrated speech in
favour of Catholic Emancipation, his Lordship said to the writer,
" I have lost Winchester, my dear Sir, but I have satisfied
my conscience." This circumstance did stop his translation
to that see.—Norwich Mercury.

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On Saturday evening an inquest was held on the
body of Mrs. Louisa Williams, a maiden lady possessed of
considerable property, about 50 years of age, who was burnt to
death at the fire which broke out in the house of Mrs. Charl-
ton, in Bowling-street, Westminster, about three o'clock on
Saturday morning. George Day, a policeman, stated, that in
passing the house he discovered it was on fire, when he gave
an alarm, and attempted to open the door, but without success.
Mrs. Charlton, with three other inmates, however, soon made
;heir appearance at the street-door, and escaped. By great
exertions the flames were prevented extending beyond the
first ticor, on entering which the deceased was found lying on
her right side, in front of the fire-place, most dreadfully burnt,
particularly her right arm, of which scarcely any portion re-
mained. In the opinion of witness, the fire originated in the
room where the deceased was found, and afterwards communi-
cated to the shop, a portion of a table on which she was ac-
customed to place her gold watch having fallen through the
flooring, and was found, with her watch, in the shop. Mrs.
Mary Wright deposed, that the deceased, who had resided in
the house all her life, was of eccentric habits, frequently going
to bed at an early hour, and at other times staying up very
late. Witness supposed she sat up reading, and, falling
asleep, had set fire to some portion of her dress. The Jury
returned a verdict of " Accidentally burnt."

AUSTRIA AND THE AUSTRIANS.-2 vols. post
SyD..__This work, the author informs us, is published with the
view of making the Austrian dominions better known to the
people of England, and especially of removing from public
opinion the fallacies which Western Europe has long enter-
tained with respect to the people, manners, and government
of that empire. The,volumes are full of attractive details,
rendered still more inviting by their entire novelty, respecting
the Court and capital of Austria; the people, their character,
amusements, &c. ; the celebrated diplomatists connected with
Vienna, Metternich, and others ; the physical, moral, and
political power of Austria ; and a thousand other topics
equally interesting. One chapter devoted to the considera-
tion of the social and political importance of the Danube
steam navigation will excite, at the present moment, much
attention. The volumes are embellished with portraits of the
Emperor Ferdinand and Prince Metternich.

The General Steam Navigation Company's packet,
the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom.house,
at noon on Thursday. The Ocean, from Antwerp, arrived at
the same time.

" BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR APRIL affords
Boz an opportunity of exhibiting his admirable qualities as a
comic writer," observes the John Bull. "He must decidedly
stand unrivalled in the class he has selected." Bentley's Mis-
cellany, to which we are accustomed to look forward as to a
most welcome companion, contains also a most amusing story
called " Grey Dolphin." In the style of its humor it may,
perhaps, resemble the stories of Sterne ; still it is original, and
not at all inferior to that writer. It is the most laughable and
witty story we have read for a long time. The popular author
of " Hajji Baba " continues his entertaining Oriental romance
of " Ilajji," and Lover gives us more of the whimsical ad-
ventures of the blundering Handy Andy. In addition to the
humorous articles which abound in the present number, we
have several original letters of Addison, anecdotes of Sheri-
dan ; a pathetic story by a distinguished writer, called
" Scenes in the Life of a Gambler ;" and last, but not least,
Father Prout's playful song, " Les Poissons d'Arvil," or
April Fools, which will he read and quoted by every body.
Thus, for half-a-crown, we have in the present number of
this comic periodical, about twenty stories, a humorous sketch
by our old friend George Cruikshank, and a portrait of She-
ridan—need we be surprised at the immense success of this
new work ?