The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-08 00:00:00

WINDSOR.-FRIDA Y.

The Queen, attended by her Ladies in Waiting, rode out
on horseback on Wednesday through the rides of the Great
Park. In the evening the King, attended by Sir Herbert
Taylor. returned to the Castle from town, escorted by a party
of the Life Guards.

The unfavourable state of the weather yesterday and to-clay
has prevented their Majesties taking their usual rides.
The King will go to town next Wednesday, to hold a Court
at St. James's.

On the removal of the Court, at the end of the mouth, to
Brighton, the Duchess of Gloucester is expected to pay a
visit to their Majesties at the Pavilion.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Gloucester had a small dinner party on
Thursday evening, at Gloucester-house, Park-lane.
The French Ambassador, and the Sardinian and Portuguese
Ministers, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Lord Holland entertained Viscount Palmerston and a select
party at dinner on Thursday evening, at Holland-house, Ken-
sington.

SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Lord Eastnor, at Eastnor Castle, from Leamington, War-
wickshire; Earl Howe, at Symmon's Hotel, St. James's-
street, from Ireland ; Major and Mrs. Hartley, in Somerset-
street, from Paris ; Charles Lvne Stephens, Esq., in Port-
man-square, from his seat, Chicksand's Priory, Bedfordshire;
Captain Wilbraham, in Dover-street, from Paris; J. Little,
Esq., at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from Scot-
land ; Colonel and Mrs. Stapleton, and Miss Ponsonby, at
ditto, from Shunfield, Reading.; Captain and Mrs.tMayne, in
Brook-street, from Cheltenham ; M. Dedel, the Netherlands
Minister, in Brvanston-square, from a visit to Lord Montagu,
at Beaulieu, Hampshire; John Touchet, Esq., and the
Misses Touchet, at Grove's Hotel, Albemarle-street, from the
Venerable Archdeacon Bayley's, West Meon, Alton, Hants ;
Mrs. Fortescue and the Misses Fortescue, at ditto, from,
Essex ; the Rev. W. Fortescue, at ditto, from Essex.
DEPARTURES.

Lord Sidmouth, for his seat, Richmond Park; Lord St.
Vincent, and the Hon. Miss Jarvis, from Ellis's Hotel, St.
James's-street, for Walmer Castle ; Mr. and Mrs. Otway
Cave, from ditto, for Twickenham ; E. B. Haley, Esq., from
ditto, for Liverpool ; Mr. and Mrs. Trotter, from Warren's
Hotel, Regent-street, for the Continent; Mr. and Mrs.
Powell, from ditto, for Bath ; Captain Cobb, from Raggett's
Hotel, Dover-street, for Brighton ; Wm. Lambton, Esq,,
from ditto, for the Continent.

The Earl and Countess of Wicklow and the Ladies
Howard are on their journey to England, after making a tour
of Germany. His Lordship was among the few English fa..
shionables assembled at Prague at the Emperor of Austria's
coronation.

Earl Brownlow is entertaining a numerous party
of fasbionables at his seat, Belton house, Grantham. The
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Mademoiselle d'Este, and several
members of the last party are among the visitors. Early next
month the Countess will go into waiting on her Majesty at the
Pavilion.

The Duke of Wellington returned to Apsley House
yesterday from Stratfioldsaye, quite unexpectedly; and this
day his Grace goes back to Walmer Castle.

The Earl and Countess of Charleville have artivea
at their scat, Charleville Forest, Tullamore, where the; are
entertaining several friends.

Prince Esterhazy arrived in Paris on the 3d inst.,
and the following day he dined with the King, The Prince
will remain there for some days longer.
The Rev. Hugh Hughes has been unanimously
elected Sunday afternoon Lecturer of St, Leonard's, Shore-
ditch, in the room of the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, resigned.
Mr. Mortimer has taken the chapel 'in Gray's Inn-lane, be-
longing to the late Mr. Huntingth;n.
Major-General Sir Alex.P.nder Woodford, with aug-
mented allowances, is to continue to adminster the Govern-
ment of Malta, (which has been in abeyance since the death
of the late General, the Earl of Chatham) with the rank of
Governor and Commander-in-Chief, with Captain Tyndale,
military Secretary, and Captains Taylor and Beckwith, Aide-
de-camps.
The Carlton Club occupy apartments at Wright's
Hotel, Dover-street, until the repairs now in progress at their
house are completed,
M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, has arrived in
Bryanston-square, from a visit to Lord Montague, at Beau-
lieu, Hampshire.

The Hon. William Henry Leslie Melville has been
appointed Commissioner to the East India Company at Moor-
shedabad, East Indies.

Sir John Beckett is to be invited to a public dinner
by his constituents at Leeds, on his approaching visit to that
place.

Viscount Milton, eldest surviving son of Earl Fitz-
william, will come of age on the 12th inst. His Lordship has
two other sons by his union with the late Lady Milton, who was
the fourth daughter of Thomas, first Lord Dundas.
Lord and Lady Sheffield and the Countess of
Clare, who had arrived at Geneva, with the view of making a
tour of the Continent, returned this week to Franca, to avoid
the inconvenience of performing quarantine for some days, in
many places, to prevent the spreading of the cholera.
The Earl and Countess of Minto and a family
circle are at Minto Castle, Roxburghshire. His Lordship
will return to town in ten days to attend a council.
The Earl of Eglington has set up a training stud
at a great expense. His Lordship joined the party assembled
at the Earl of NV ilton 's seat, Heaton Park, during the races.
The young Viscount Massareene, eldest son of
Viscount Ferrard, besidcs his present title, to which he suc-
ceeded on the death of his mother, is also heir to the Vis-
county of Ferrard, the Baronies of Oriel and Loughneagle
(Irish) Peerages, and to the English Barony of Oriel, in all
four Peerages.
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Lord and Lady Seymour have arrived at Frampton
House, near Dorchester, the seat of Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley
Sheridan, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Somerset,
at Berry Castle, Devon.
Lord Frederick Fitzclareuce's hunting stud has
been despatched to his seat, Etat House, Northumberland,
where his Lordship will chiefly reside during the season.
Lord Kelburne, brother to Lady Augusta Fitzclarence, and
his lady, have been on a visit to Lord Frederick since his ar-
rival in the North.

The lady to whom the Marquis of Graham is soon
to be united is the youngest daughter of Lord Decies, not the
daughter of Sir John Beresford.

The officers of the several depots composing the
Provisional Battalions at Chatham have presented Captain J.
Doyle O'Brien, of the 69th Regiment, with a breakfast ser-
vice of plate, on his leaving that garrison, as a testimony of
the esteem in which they held him during his long service on
Sir Leonard Greenville's staff there.
On Tuesday there was a meeting, at the Star Inn,
Lewes, of the East Sussex Agricultural Association, at which
were present the Earl of Chichester (chairman), Lord
Viscount Gage, the Hon. General Trevor, John Ellman, Esq.,
and several influential gentlemen of the county, when it was
resolved to give premiums, some time in December, to the
most deserving farm servants.
Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison have been receiving
large parties of friends at Oakley Park, in Suffolk. On
Thursday a party of two hundred cottage and garden tenants
sat down to an excellent dinner in the park, with the schools
of six parishes, which formed a most happy and delightful
scene.

The indisposition of Sir William Knighton in-
creases. But little hope exists of his recovery.
Captain Robert Manners, R.N., nephew of the
Duke of Rutland, arrived in town yesterday from the Medi-
terranean. _

Great rejoicings have taken place on the extensive
estates of Sir Charles Henry Coote, Bart., M.P., at Bally-
finn, Queens County, to celebrate the coming of age of his
eldest son, Charles Coote, Esq.
The general meeting of the West Suffolk Agricul-
tural Society, was held on Friday last. The show of
stock in
the cattle-market, though not large, was good in quality,
especially as to sheep. On the ground were the Duke of
Norfolk, the Earl of Euston, Earl Jermyn, Lord John Fitz-
roy, General Fitzroy, Colonel Rusbbrookc, M. P., H. Logan,
Esq., H. S. Waddington, Esq., J. Moseley, Esq., J. H.
Powell, Esq., J. Thornhill, Esq., G. St. Vincent Wilson,
Esq., &e. &c. About half-past four, nearly 100 gentlemen
sat down to dinner at the Angel, the Earl of Euston in the
Chair.

VIOLET; OR, TILE OPERA DANCER.—" It ought
to he the object of a writer, especially of novels," says the
Edinburgh Evening Post, " to present a picture of something
ttihich has not been bundled by previous authors. Every
effort, therefore, to diverge from the beaten track, and exhibit
a new aspect'of nature and human life, ought to be especially
applauded; and it is for this reason that we entertain a high
opinion of the merits of the present work, which shows that
the purest and mort virtuous aspirations can animate the heart
even of an opera dancer. The work possesses an absorbing
interest as a narrative, characterised by the strongest marks of
truth and reality, while, as a literary production, it at once
charms and instructs."
A general meeting of the members of the General
Agricultural Association for Ayrshire was held in the County
Hall, on Thursday, Sept. 29.
Great complaint and disappointment have been felt
at the Southampton regatta having been this year, for the first
time, discontinued. ,
The burning cliff of Holworth excites great interest,
having recently presented a more than usually vivid appear-
ance. Several parties who have within the last fortnight
visited this semi-volcano have expressed an equal degree of
astonishment and gratification at the continued exhalations
and occasional display of ignited substances near its surface.
A line of sulphureous vapour now issues out westward of that
portion of the cliff which of late attracted public attention.
This line of vapour, irregularly stretching from east to west,
is now forty feet in length, and about the same in height from
the base of the cliff. The late high tides have committed
sad havoc at the base of the cliff, and drawn down an im-
mense quantity of calcined and vitrified substances, well de-
serving the notice of the geologist and mineralogist...—.
Westun Luminaru.