The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

A meeting of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt,was held yesterday at the Treasury. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor and De-
puty-Governor of the Bank of England were present. Mr.
Higham, Secretary to the Commissioners, was in attendance.
A deputation from Paddington attended yesterday at the
Home-office, respecting the recent murder in that neigh-
bourhood.

Viscount Melbourne took an airing in his carriage yester-
day for the first time since his indisposition.
Lord Brougham arrived in town on Thursday night.
Lord Holland entertained the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer and a small party at dinner last evening, at his resi-
dence in South-street.

Sir Robert Peel, during his stay in the neighbourhood of
Glasgow, will, it is expected, remain at the seat of Mr.
Campbell, of Blythswood.

BRIGHTON-FRIDAY.

Her Majesty, we are happy to say, is better to-day. The
Duchess of Gloucester still remains indisposed.
The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss Wynyard,
took a carriage airing at twelve o'clock.
The Honourable Captain Curzon, R.N., arrived at the
Palace last night.
Admiral Sir H. Neale, the Marquis Conyngham, and
Lieut. A. Slade, R.N., had the honour of audiences with
his Majesty yesterday.
The dinner invitations last night included the Honourable
General Phipps, Lieut.-Colonel Ellison, Lieut.• Colonel
Thornton, Lieut.-Colonel Madox, Lord Lynedoch, the Hon.
Captain Paulett, Lieut. Slade, R.N., Sir James Reynett,
Sir B. Stephenson, Baron Gersdorff, Lord G. Seymour, and
Sir William Houstoun.

His Excellency General Sebastiani, having taken
leave sometime back of the Court of Great Britain, and
having presented his able and talented First Secretary,
Mons. de Bourqueney, as his successor during his absence,
the singular circumstance occurred of there being two re-
presentatives of France at the Court of St. James's, neither,
strictly speaking, empowered to act. The snow had stop-
ped the communication with France.
Lieut.-General Sir Hussey and Lady Vivian arrived
at the Ordnance Office in Pall-mall, on Tuesday, having
eft town to have an audience of the King at the P avilion.
Prince Paul Lieven transacted business at the
Foreign Office, as Charge d'Affaires, during the absence of
Baron de Maltitz, at Broadlands, Lord Palmerston's seat.

The party at Broadlands is expected to separate to-
day. Mr. Poulett Thomson is expected to return to South
Audley-street, from a visit to his Lordship.
The Earl and Countess of Dundonald have arrived
in Paris from a tour in the South of France.

The Right Hon. Edward Ellice is expected from
Paris at the meeting of Parliament. _

The Russian Ambassador has been prevented leav-
ing Paris by the inclemency of the weather.
The Hon. Colonel Butler, brother to the Earl of
Carrick, and his bride, have left Florence.

An investigation has taken place in the board-room
of St. George's, Hanover-square, relative to the cause of
the late destructive fire at St. Peter's Church, Pimlico ;
but, after a long examination, nothing further could be
elicited than that the fire was supposed to have been occa-
sioned by the workmen employed in repairing the clock
having left a burning candle in the belfry.
The Navy Pay-office having been abolished, its
duties have been transferred to the Paymaster General's
office, at Whitehall.

Mr. W. R. Cartwright, M.P. for Northampton,
a grand ball at Aynho Hall on the 16th inst.

Joseph -Devonsher Jackson, Esq., M.P., was on
Thursday entertained by the " Friendly Brothers" of Ban-
don. Mr. Jackson is on a visit with the Earl of Bandon,
and a number of the leading gentry met him at dinner on
Tuesday at the Castle.

Lord Francis Egerton has arrived at Bridgewater-
house from Oatlands, where he has been entertaining a se-
lect circle during the holidays.

On Tuesday last, Thomas Wentworth Beaumont,
Esq., M.P„ Fitzstcphen French, Esq., M.P., and M.
Biackiston, Esq., arrived at Oak Park, the seat of Wm.
Molloy, Esq., and shot in the covers there on the following
day.—Dublin Paper.
The Earl of Lichfield will leave the Brunswick Ho-
tel for Shugborough, as soon as he is sufficiently recovered
to travel ; his Lordship, until his late attack of gout, came
up to town every fortnight, to transact the official business
of his department.
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The Earl of Suffolk has left Fenton's Hotel, for
Charlton-house, near Devizes.

Lord and Lady Barham have arrived at Barham-
court, from Ramsgate. The Earl of Roden, father of her
Ladyship, paid them a visit, on his way to Ireland,
Viscountess Gort and the Hon. Charles Vereker,
passed through Limerick on Friday, from Derryluscane for
Loug-hcooter.
Viscount Powerscourt and Lord Corry have arrived
at Baron's Court, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness
of Abercorn.

Lord Decies, who is now in Paris, has relinquished
his mansion :in Curzon Street to the Duke and Duchess of
Montrose.

The Duke of Devonshire kept open house at Chats-
worth, Derbyshire, and at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, accor-
ding to his Grace's annual custom at this festive season.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married, at Oak-
ley Park, Suffolk, on Thursday, the sth of January, by the
Hon. and Rev. Wm. Henniker, the Right Hon. Lord Hen-
niker, of Major House, to Anna, daughter of Major-Gen.
Sir E. Kerrison, M.P. _ _ _

Mr. Backhouse, of the Foreign Office (who has
been indisposed for a few days), is sufficiently recovered to
resume his official duties.

...
Prince Polignac intends leaving Richmond in a few
days, to spend a short time at the Countess of Newburgh's,
and at the Duke of Norfolk's, in Sussex. _ _

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have arrived
at Stover, Devon, from a tour in the north. Her Grace
has been placed in mourning by the death of her brother,
Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart.

We are requested to state that the funeral of the
late Duke of Montrose is not to take place before the
middle of next week.

On Christmas-eve the Earl of Eldon, who is now at
his seat at Encombe, gave away 21bs. of excellent beef to
each of 721 poor persons in Corfe Castle, and the neigh-
bourhood of his Lordship's residence, for their Christmas
dinner.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.—The sales of Cotton

to-day amount to about 5,000 bags. The market has been
steady, without change in prices ; about 500 American
were taken on speculation.
THE LATE SNOW STORM—During the past week
the front of the Royal Artillery Barracks, at Woolwich, has
presented a novel and extraordinary appearance. Save the
guard mounting in the morning, and the sentinels on duty,
no one was to be seen. The barracks seemed deserted.

The common, where daily several hundred men exercise
was in the same state.

The New York American of December 9, in ob-
serving on that part of the President's message which
speaks of the surplus revenue and the means of avoiding it
hereafter, contends for the immediate reduction of the ta•
riff, adding that the abolition of duties on all articles of fue

(coal imported being taxed.) and consumption, including salt,
was properly recommended by the President. The journal
hoped that it would be speedily effected, and that the day
might not be far distant when " their land would not pos-
sess a custom-house or a revenue officer, when trade would
be as free as the waters that washed their shores, and when
ships of all tongues and nations would be free to come and
go without having to pay one sixpence of duty." The Pre-
sident's Message is styled an " Essay on Currency."
The New York Times in noticing the continued
success of the " express," or additional mail, in spite of some
awkwardness in strapping the bags to the rider's person,
gives the following account of the time in which this Post-
office additional mail .forwarded the President's Message
from Philadelphia to Jersey city, not having ascertained ex-
actly when it left Washington :
Miles. Hour. Min.
Philadelphia to Trenton, 28 (steam) 55
Trenton to East Brunswick 28 (horses) 1 39
East Brunswick to Newark 22 (steam) 35
Newark to Jersey city-- 8 (horses) 32
Being 87 miles performed in three hours and a half and 11
minutes, from which there is to be deducted 12 minutes'
delay occasioned by the horse falling on the road ; and
this mail, be it recollected, conveyed letters, slips of news-
' papers, &c., besides the message.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, Dec. 5,
says that the amount of money in the National Trea-
sury, subject to draught on the Ist of December, was
42,899,167 doll. 49 cents ; and that the amount standing
to the credit of disbursing officers was 4,177,219 doll.
38 cents. Of the amount subject to draught, 430,822 doll.
64 cents belonged to special trusts, and of course were not
applicable to public purposes. It is stated that there was
very little foreign grain in the New York market, and that
there had been no arrivals of any consequence for many
days. The demand was pretty active :-4,000 bushels of
Bremen wheat had sold at 2 doll. Oqc. ; 3,000 bushels of
red German at 2 doll. to 2 doll. 12i-e. ; and 2,800 Dantzic
at 2 doll. to 2 doll. 12.4 c. ; 2,000 bushels of Genoese wheat
sold at 2 doll. 121 e. cash. The exchange on England at
New York, Dec. 8, was 91 ; United States Bank Shares,
1161 to 117.
The Recorder of Dublin, after paying a visit to
Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Manor, proceeded to Paris.

SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.
DONCASTER MEETING, 1837.

MONDAY.
The Champagne Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for two year old
colts, fist. slb ; fillies, Bst. 31b. The winner to give six dozen of
Champagne to the Doncaster racing club. (24 subscribers. )
Lord Mexbrough's ch. f. by Velocipede, out of Apollonia ; Mr.
Osbaldeston's b. f. The Fairy Queen, by Brutandorf ; Sir J. Bos-
well's b. c. Constantine, by Beagle, out of Hambletonia • Lord
'
Wilton's b. f. by Tramp, out of Bamfylde's dam • Lord dester-
field's b. c. by Tramp or Waverley out of Sharpset's dam ; Mr. Bowes's
ch. c. Jagger, by Actaeon, out of Mundig's dam ; Mr. Armitage's
ch. c. by 'Velocipede, out of Nonpins's dam • Lord Eglinton's ch. c.
Achilles, by Actaeon, out of Adelicia ; Duke of Leeds's eh. c. 13ri-
tannicus, by Humphrey Clinker, out of Britannia ; Duke of Leeds's
ch., c. Arcturus by Actaeon, out of Lady Marcia; Duke of Leeds's
b. f. Barbarina, by Brutandorf—sister to Redstart; Lord Kel-
burne's ch. f. by Actaeon, out of Purity, by Octavian ; Mr. Jaques's
ch. f. by Actaeon, out of Comedy, by Comm ; Mr. R. Pecks' b. C.
by Argantes, out of Washerwoman ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. c. by
Mulatto, dam by Whisker ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's bl. c. by Veloci-
pede, out cf Miss Fanny ; Mr. H. Orde's ch. c. Charley Boy, by
Actaeon, out of Tomboy's dam ; Mr. H. S. Thompson's b. f. by Si.
Nicholas, out of Harriet; Mr. Arrowsmith's br. c. St. Kevin, bro-
ther to Lady Jane, by St. Nicholas; General Gresvenor's ch. c. by
Buzzard, out of Icaria, by the Flyer ; Lord Westminster's Albe-
marle ; Lord Westminster's br. c. by Pantaloon, out of Michael-
mas ; Mr. Houldsworth's c. by Sultan, out of Torrelli, by Cerberus;
Mr. Houldsworth's c. brother to Circassian, by Sultan, out of
Variety.