The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty gave audience on Wednesday afternoon, at
St. James's Palace, to Baron D'Ompteda, the Hanoverian
Minister. At a quarter before seven o'clock in the evening
the King left town, attended by Sir Herbert Taylor, for
Windsor Castle.

Reshid Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Dispatches for the Earl of Gosford, Governor of the Ca-
nadas, for Sir Francis Head, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper
Canada, and for the Lieutenant-Governor of New Bruns-
wick, were sent off last evening from the Colonial Office.
The Austrian Ambassador transacted business at the
Foreign Office on Wednesday afternoon.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Military Secretary to the Com-
mander of the Forces, had an interview with Lord Glenelg
yesterday, at the' Colonial Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Earl and Countess Poulett, in Clarges.street ; Col. and
Lady C. Bulkeley, in Curzon-street, Mayfair, from the New
Forest, Hants; Lord and Lady Boyle and family, in Hamil-
ton-place, from Castle Martyr County Cork ; the Marquis of
Northampton and Earl Compton, at Thomas's Hotel, from
Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire ; Lord Suffield at the Cla-
rendon Hotel ; Lord and Lady Bolton, at Thomas's Hotel,
from Hartewood Park; Sir Henry Webbe in Upper George-
street, Br3anston-square i • Lord Saye and Selo in Grosvenor-
street • P the Marquis of Tweddale from Yesterham, Hadding-
ton, N.B. ; Sir William and Lady Beauchamp Proctor and
family, in Portland-place, from Langley Park, Norwich ;
General and Mrs. Crosbie, in Grosvenor-street, from Sussex ;
Charles Willis, Esq., and Miss Willis, at Grove's Hotel, from
Bury, Warwickshire.
DEPARTURES.

Lord and Lady Molyneux, from Arlington-street, for Ger-
many ; the Countess Dowager Craven and Lady Louisa
Craven, from Charles-street, Berkeley-square, for Germany ;
Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham, from the London Hotel, for
Sussex; Sir Edward and Lady Stanley, from ditto, for
Dover; Mrs. Ward and family from ditto ; Lord Acheson,
from ditto, for Tunbridge Wells; Henry Cary, Esq., from the
British Hotel, for his seat, Tor Abbey, Devonshire.

As many persons imagine that the postponement
of the investiture and banquet to the Knights of the Bath is
attributable to the unfavourable state of her Majesty's health,
we can confidently state that such is not the case, and that the
postponement is entirely owing to the inability of Prince Es-
terhazy, on whose account it was to take place, to attend the
ceremony.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent issued
cards yesterday for a grand concert of vocal and instrumental
music, at Kensington Palace, on the 15th inst. •
Lord Stanley will give his first grand dinner to-
morrow, in Carlton-gardens, to the Earl and Countess of
Lichfield and a distinguished party.
Lord and Lady Romney's party, at the Mote, near
Maidstone, is fixed for Wednesday, 24th May.
Lady Elizabeth Drummond gave her first soiree
danrante on Wednesday evening, which was attended by 300
of the beau monde.

The Antwerp Company's steam-packet Princess
Victoria, Captain John Britton, arrived yesterday from Ant-
werp, having made her passage in twenty hours. Amongst
her passengers were Lord Wallscourt,.and his Excellency the
Brazilian Minister at the Court of Brussels, with his family.

The Hon. and Hey. Dr. Wellesley left town yester-
day morning, for Calais, in the General Steam Navigation
Company's packet Lord Melville.
Major Fancourt is seriously indisposed. His illness
has been such as to require the first medical advice ; and we
hear that Mr. Guthrie has been in constant attendance on him.
—North Devon Advertiser.

BOARD OF TRADE, MAY 4.—Sir J. Buller, Mr.
Parker, and a Deputation, had an interview with the President,
on the subject of the Brixham Pier and Harbour. _ _

Mr. henry Lytton Bulwer paired off with the
O'Conor Don in favour of Sir S. Whalley's motion on the
Window-tax.

Lord Hill, as Commander-in-Chief, held a levee
yesterday at his office in the Horse Guards, which was attended
by General Sir William Clinton, the Earl of Carnwath, Ge-
neral Lord Forbes, Lord James flay, General Mundy, Lieu-
tenant-General Carey, Lieutenant-General Gordon, Lieute-
nant-General Lord Aylmer, General the Earl of Effingham,
Lieutenant-General Darling, Major-General Ross, Major-
General Sir Charles Pratt, Major- General Sir Robert Hous-
toun, Major-General Shadforth, Sir Robert Douglas, Major-
General Pringle, Major-General Manners, and thirty other
officers. _ _ _ _ . _ _

The Duke d'Osuna, and the Marquis Miraflotcs,
arc expected at Alivart's Hotel, from Paris, where the Duke
and Duchess de Frias, and the Duke and Duchess San Theo-
dora (from Spain) have also arrived.
The Duke of Beaufort is recovering from a sharp
fit of the gout, and will shortly resume his dinner parties in
Park place.

Viscount Sydney has taken Mr. Elliee's late man-
sion, in Cleveland-square, fur the season.
Yesterday morning a number of workmen were en-
gafred, under the direction of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, for the purpose of commencing the great altera-
tions and improvements on Constitution-hill, -fronting Picca-
dilly and St. James's Park. The unsightly, filthy piece of
water, known by the famed name of Rosamond's Pond, was
drained off (where an immense quantity of fine eels were
found), for the purpose of its being filled up with earth and
the ground levelled. A number of serpentine gravel walks
are to be made, extending from the entrance.gate, fronting
the Duke of Wellington's mansion, Hyde-park-corner, to
that of the Duke of Sutherland's, St. James's Palace. Ex-
tensive shrubberies, tastefully planted, will cover the principal
part of it, with numerous alcoves and summer seats for the
pleasure of the public.
A separation is talked of in high life between an
Earl and Countess, and this is not the only one ; but separate
maintenance requires money.

Negotiations arc said to be pending for the marriage
of Don Miguel with the Princess Filitbertini of Savoy.—
Lisbon Mail.

About an hour after the steam ship Modern Athens
had left the Chain Pier at Trinity for Dundee, on Tues-
day morning, a frightful accident took place on board.
One of the men belonging to the vessel, James Fleming, in
passing the side-lever of one of the engines slipped his foot,
and getting entangled with that immense beam of iron, was by
it crushed to death.

Notwithstanding the very severe weather since the
opening of the Greenwich Railway the number of passengers
have exceeded half a million, and ' the money received
13,5591. 2s. I Id.

TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTLII•
GENTLEMEN, tieBC'
I HAVE witnessed with equal pride and °fir/0v
tion the exertions which are making by the Electors a cos;
minster, and which, undoubtedly, I relied upon in so Kr fence
stitutional cause, from the knowledge which past exPereettacj'er
furnished of their patriotism, their good sense, and their tied
meat to our long-established and well-proved institutioeros,rolt,to
which we have enjoyed more real liberty, more general Pt, eller is
accumulated more renown in the world, and advances( 'uneoPle it
the progress of civilization, than ever fell to the lot of all roiors
former times, or is, as I sincerely believe, the lot of any •
op'
the present day. to 111
These advantages, it is the great object of this strugg el, be r
tain unimpaired, though not unimproved. If I should aPlail tifat
placed in the situation, which, of all others, I have 3:_tdeped
or
deemed the most honourable, that of representing the l",er
lsel
and enlightened constituency of Westminster, I shall cit. t do 4
with the most unremitting assiduity to fulfil the impor!anthst 470,
which will then devolve upon me ; or, should I fincl_As jA
health will rot permit the exertions which are o
pensable at this time, 1 shall then deem it encumbent P°ll„pal
peculia;,
sign a situation, the functions of which I find myself 00"
quately to perform. 01011
I have great satisfaction in assuring you that after waeriltbeiPefil'
of painful and protracted suffering, 1 at length experiencole °Feb(
gorating symptoms of returning health, thouglrstill ede to go,
my foot to the ground. But lam resolved at all hasart,s;,,st, $lO,
on the hustings upon the day of election, which is the *eyed,
as the most constitutional mode of presenting myself hr, e
to
Should any Elector be desirous to see me during Turtif erto
and favour me with a call at this house, I shall er!ea‘.constltu
sible, to receive him, being as anxious to state to tee r oar!, ir
my sentiments on public matters as they can be to he a one vis
This, Gentlemen, is not a personal question ; the °ea seitatioo
tcrest any candidate are of no importance, core Par resell
great cause, which is neither more nor less than tbe Lra'
of the Laws, the Church, and the Constitution of

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful and devoted Servetkff'
FRANCIS BOW>

St. James's-

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4, 1837.

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