The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Iler Majesty held a Court yesterday at the New Palace to
receive some of the Foreign Ministers.
Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, had hil audience on
his return to this Court.
M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, had an audience to take
leave.

Prince Soutzo had an audience to deliver his credentials as
Minister Plenipotentiary from his Majesty the King of Greece,
in. the room of M. Tricoupi.
Their Exv.Alencies were severally introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master
of th'e Ceremonies.
The Marquis of Ileadfort and Sir W. Lumley were the
Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Queen gave audiences yesterday to 17150311 M Mel-
bourse, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, and Lord Hill.
The Royal dinner party last evening included her Royal
tlighness the Duchess of Kent, Viscount and VierAintess
Falkland, Viscount Melbourne, Sir Henry Wheatley, Lady
Portman, Lady Mary Stopford, the Hors, Miss Murray, Miss
Lister, Mr. and Lady Theresa Digby, Baroness Lehzen, Miss
Davys, the Marquis of Headfort, the Hon. C. A. Murray, the
Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Buckley, Sir W. Lumley,
and the Hon. Colonel Grey.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards was
in attendance at the Palace, and performed a number of fayou-
rite selections.
Mr. A. E. Chalon, by command of the Queen, was honoured
vrith a sitting on Tuesday, to make a whole-length portrait of
her Majesty, as a pendant to the drawing of her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, by the same artist, presented to her
Alnies..y by her Royal Highness on the occasion of the 18th
ann'aersary of the birth of her Majesty.
Lord John Russell, Lord Duncannon, and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer visited Lord Melbourne yesterday at his re-
sidence in South-street.
Mr. P. Thomson and Lord Duncannon transacted busin es
yesterday at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's office, in
Do w ni ng_strect.
Lord Hill and tho Adjutant- General transacted business
Yestexday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Glenelg transacted business yesterday at the Chan-
• tellor of the Exchequer's office in' Downing-street.
Lord Durham transacted business yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

The Bishop of Hereford had an interview with Viscount
Melbourne on Tuesday, in Downing-street.
Dr. Carson, and Messrs. Nugent and Wyse, bad an inter-
view with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.
Despatches from Lieutenant-General Sir John Colborne
were received at an early hour yesterday morning in the Colo-
nial-office.
Baron Munchausen, Minister Plenipotentiary from the King
of Hanover, arrived in town on Monday.

'ASIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Sanderson, in Belgrave-square,
from Heyeringham Hall, Suffolk ; Sir William and Lady
Chatterton, in Seamore-place, from a visit to Lord and Lady
Barham, at Barham-court, Maidstone ; the Dowager Countess
of Huntingdon, in Harley-street, from Brighton ; Hon. Col.
and Lady Mary Hope, at their new residence in York-terrace;
Hon, Mrs. and the Misses Vansittart, in Eaton-square, from
Dover, for the season ; Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Ellison, in
New Norfolk-street, Park-lane ; Captain Pechell, from
Brighton ; Hon. Sydney Herbert, M.P., in Hay-hill, from
Wilton Castle ; the Hon. William Lascelles, M.P., in Wilton-
crescent, from Harewood Hall ; Mr. Byng, M. P., in St.
James's-square, from Wrotham ; Prince Gagarin, at Gould's
London Hotel, Albemarle-street; Mr. and Mrs. Bell and
family, at ditto, from Lancashire; General Taylor, at ditto,
from Dover ; Sir E. Stanley, at ditto, from Hastings ; John
Alves, Esq., Mrs. Alves, and family, at Marshal Thompson's
Antes, Esq.,
square ; Mrs. Nixon and family, at ditto ;
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Barker, at ditto, from the North.
DEPARTURES.
Captain and Mrs. Taylor om ,
fr Marshal Thompson's Hotel,
Cavendish-square, for the Continent ; Thomas Greentree,
sq., Mrs. Greentree, and family, from ditto; J. F.
Schroider, from ditto, for Berkshire; S. Simpson, from ditto,
for Hampshire ; Colonel Armstrong and family, from Gould's
London Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Paris; the Rev. Mr.
Hutchinson and family, from ditto, for Cheltenham ; Mr. and
Mrs. Mansell, from ditto, for Bath ; Mr. Protheroe, from
ditto, for Kent; Admiral Harvey and family, from ditto, for
Brighton; Sir Charles and Lady Bloise, from ditto, for Lei-
cestershire.
UNIV

ERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 24. A Congregation was this day holden
for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred :
BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAW.—J. R. Hope, Fellow of Merton
College.
MASTERS OF Awrs.—Rev. H. De Saumarez, Fellow of
Pembroke College ; Rev. J. E. Browne, Magdalen Hall,
grand compounder; Rev. J. Addison, Exeter College ; J. H.
Brooks, Brazennose College ; Rev. W. West, Lincoln
College.
BACHELORS Of ARTS.—Ambrose St. John, student of
Christ Church ; F. L. Moysey, student of Christ Church ;
1-1. Fhillott, student of Christ Church ; W. H. Ridley,
student of Christ Church, grand compounder; William Court-
hope, Christ Church • Rev. E. F. Witts, Magdalen Hall.
The Bishop of Chichester has instituted, on the presenta-
tion of Colonel George Wyndham, of Drove House, Single-
ton, the Rev. Henry Danvers Clarke, of Exeter College, to
the rectory of Iping-cum-Chithurst, Sussex.
The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. Edmund
Paley, of Queen's College, son of the late Dr. Paley, to the
Rectory of Gretford, with Wilsthorpe, Lincolnshire.
The Rev. John Antis Latrobe, of St. Edmund Hall, has
been appointed Evening Lecturer at Melton Mowbray.

Lord Ward will come of age in a few months, but
itccording to the terms of the will of his late relative Lord
Dudley, he will not come into the possession of his large
fortune until he attains the age of 25, until which period the
superb family mansion in Park-lane is under lease to the
Marquis Conyngham. It is the Bishop of Exeter and Lord
liatherton executors of the late Peer, who have sanctioned
the purchase made by Lord Ward of Lord Foley's extensive
estates at Watley, Worcestershire.
It has been remarked that the earriage of neither
the Duke of Wellington nor Sir Robert Peel attended the
remains of the late Earl of Eldon out of town. The circum-
stance may probably be accounted for by the fact that the late
Earl's anti-Catholic feelings were so consistent and so strong,
that he never cordially forgave either the Baronet or the Duke
the share they had in passing the Emancipation Act.
- lvir. Sturges Bourne, as Lord Warden of the New
Forest, has appointed Lord Canning a Ranger, in the room of
the Earl of Cavan, deceased.
The gallant Colonel Maitland, who commanded the
detachment of British troops sent against the village of St.
Seholastique, is the second son of the venerable Lord
Lauderdale, and has commanded the 32d Foot for the long
period of 20 years.
The Earl of Dalhousie, who has been long in a
declining state of health, was taken dangerously ill on Tues-
day last, and remains in a very precarious state.—Caledonian
Mercury.
" Box," and the talented author of the tragedy of
The Provost of Bruges, have been unanimously elected niem-
13ers of the Literary Fund Club.
The title of the forthcoming. new play at Covent-
garden is to be Reconciliation ; or, The Proud Brother.
Richard the Third is, it is stated in theatrical
• Circles, to be got up with vast splendour at Drury-lane, a
'stud of horses being engaged for the battle scene.
Her Majesty will visit Drury-lane Theatre to-mor-
row evening, to see Mr. Charles Kean, in Hamlet.
Th. Russian ambassador will give a grand dinner at
Ashburnham House, OR the 4th of February.
The Duke of Wellington has a small party staying
on a visit at Strathfieldsaye. Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke of Cambridge, and Prince George, Lord Fitzroy So-
merset, Lord Aberdeen, and Sir Henry Hardinge, dined with
the Noble Duke on Monday evening.
The venerable Lord Rolle and his Lady have been

receiving., a succession of visitors, during the holydays, at
Breton House, Devon. A ball and supper on a splendid
scale were given' at the mansion on Wednesday se'nnight.
The Earl of Devon and Lord Courtenay, Lord Henry Kerr,
the Countess of Egremont, Sir Lawrence and Lady P4k,
Sir John and Lady Buller, Sir Trevor and Lady Wheeler,
were among the guests.
The Earl of Shelburne arrived at Lansdowne House,
on Monday evening, from Bowood Park, Wilts.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton have arrived at
34dminton Park, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, who are entertaing a hunting party.
Baron Von Bulow, the Prussian Minister, arrived in
Berkeley-street
on Monday from Berlin, where his Excellency
has been staying some months on leave of absence. The Ba-
ronness has not accompanied his Excellency.
• The remains of the late Countess of Essex were
removed for interment to-day, in the famNy Mausoleum, at
k;ashiobury, Watford, Herts.
The contemplated marriage between the young Earl
of Clonmell and the Hon. Miss Burgh has been postponed,
();n_ing to the demise of his Lordship's father, the late Earl.
The family titles being Irish honours, his Lordship has no scat
In the House of Lords. The late Peer has left two sons, the
Present Peer and the Hon. Charles Grantham Scott, a Lieu-
tenant in the Scotch Fusilier Guards.
THE POOR.—We are rejoiced to see by the pro-
ineial papers that the richer classes throughout the country
are not wholly unmindful of their duties towards the poor and
needy. Many benevolent persons have come forward to re-
leee the poor from the hardships that press upon them at this
inclement season.
ENORNIOUS TURNIP.—There is now a turnip of
• the white top kind at the Coach and Horses, Ardsley, which,
kith the top, weighed three stone. When the top and the
Libre& were removed, it weighed 351-lbs. It is 45i inches in
circumference, and was grown by Mr. Harrison, of Burton
Orange, near Barnsley.--Doncaster Gazette.
BON MoT.—A gentleman was asked, the other
ItY, whether it was the young Duchess of Sutherland or
'ne old Duchess that had been appointed Mistress of the
Robes
to the Queen ; to which he replied, " The young
Duchess, to be sure ; the old Duchess, you know, hai Dun-
t4in."—(done robing.)