The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties gave a State Ball on Thursday Oetting at the
Palace, St. James's, which was more numerously attended than
either et the preceding ones. The company began to arrive St
half. p.. at nihe o'clock, acid Were setting down for an limo and
a-half with little inteiminitel et both the entrances to the Palace.
'the suite of State Rooms Were ettahged, In a similar manner as
atformer balls. The Ball and Throne iteem Were chalked and
prepared for dancing with an orchestra in both rooms thr the
Quadrille Bands. In the former were Colinet' and Musarcl's
band, and in the latter that of Mr. John Weippert. The Draw.
ing:room between the two Ball-rooms was used as a Promenade.
room, The Hines Closet adjoining the Throne Room was set
apart for eards. A ratige Of fables extended the whole length of
the Picture Gallery, at serrieli terreshmetits were served to the
company during the evening. The entire suite of State Rooms
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pc:or Dim Pedro, attended by the Marquis de Rezentle and three
other officers of his household, arrived at ten minutes past tett
o'clock.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by their Serene High-
nesses the Mike of Sake Coburg and the Prince of Leiningen,
and attended by lady CelbetitieJetikinson and Sir John Conroy,
came in state, by the principal Coertiard, at 20 minutes past
ten o'clock.
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, attended by Lady
.Sophia Lennox and Baron Linsingen • the DuchessCatns
bridge, attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt and Sir James 14. q.:
nett I the Duke of Sussex, the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg,
the Duke and Dtiehess of Gloucester, Prince Leopold,the Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, and the Puke of Brunswick, entered the State
Rooms about the same time.
Their Majesties entered the Ball-reorn at half.past ten o'clock.
The Quadrille Bands immediately played "God sate the King."
His Majesty was habited in a Field Marshal's unifortii ) the
Queen wore a lace dress over white satin, and had a diadem Vf
brilliants on her head.
Their Majesties and the members of the Royal Family having
taken their seats, the company store formed into sets by Monsieur
Michau, who officiated as Master of the Ceremonies, and dancing
commenced.
The Duke of Brunswick danced in several quadrille? end
waltzes. His Serene Highness had for his partners Lady Cecifie
Paulet, Miss Otway, &c.
In the course of the evening an entire new set of quadrilles
was played by Weippert's band.
Quadrilles and waltzes, with occasionally a gallopade, were
danced during the evening
About a quarter before one o'clock their Majesties and the
Royal Family went to the Queen's residence, through the new'
corridor, and supped in the drawing-room. The Duchess of
Kent left at this time.
The general company went to ?tip in the banquetting-room,
where supper was laid out. At the West end of the room a va-
riety of the most splendid articles of gold plate were tastefully
displayed on a sideboard, several feet in height.
After supper the Royal Family returned to the state.rootne,
and remained a short time.
The dresses of the ladies were elegant in the extreme.
The Hon. Mr. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen, offi-
ciated for Earl Howe, her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, who is
indisposed•
Among the company were, the Netherlands Ambassador and
Madame Falk, the Austrian Ambassador, the Spanish Minister
and Madame Bermudez, the Prussian Minister and Baroness
Bulow, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness Cetto, the Neale).
litan Minister and Countess Ludolf ; Madame Gorostiza, the
lady of the Mexican Minister, and Miss Gorostiza • the Swedish
Minister and Countess Bjornstjera ; the Danish, Hanoverian,
Lucca, %Vurtemburg, and Sardinian Ministers ; the Brazilian
Charge d'Affaires ; Count Doenhotf, Secretary to the Prussian
Embassy ; the Secretary to the Sardinian Embassy ; the Che-
valier Salvador de Zea Bermudez, First Secretary to the Spanish
Embassy in Paris ; the Chevalier Vauvitelli Secretary to the
Neapolitan Embassy ; Count and Countess 'Michael Woronzow,
Count di Aceto, and the 1 ord Chancellor.
DUKES—Leinster, Buccleugh, Newca-tle, Devonshire, Rich.
mond, Wellington.
• DUCH r:SSES--Montrose, Buccleuch, Dowager Rutland, Bed-
ford, Richmond, de Dino, Northumberland.
MARQUISES—Lothian, Douro, Winchester, Clanricarde,
Salisbury, Lansdowne, Graham, Litchfield, Londonderry.
MARCHIONESSES—Lothian, Westmeath, Winchester,
Clanricarde, Dowager Salisbury, Lansdowne, Salisbury, Tavi.
stock, Londonderry.
EARLS—Pomfret. Ilarewood, Kilmorey, Jersey, Abingdon,
Carnarvon, Liverpool, Munster, Aylesford, Cornwallis, Glen.
gall, Albemarle, Wiltshire, Mulgrave, Brownlow, Uxbridge,
Aboyne, I'elfast, Bathurst, Gosford, Darlington, Jermyn, Fife.
COUNTESSES—Pomfret, Jersey, Abingdon, Cornwallis,
Mountnorris, Clarendon, Carlisle, Bathurst, Munster, Carnarvon,
Mexborough, Aylesford, Dowager Dartmouth, Lindsay, Clare,
Rosebery.
V ISCOUNTS—Valletort, Maynard, Ingestre, Morpeth, Falk-
land, Granville, Sydney, Goderich, Melbourne, Lowther, Anson,
A Mover, Bovingdon.
VISCOUNTESSES—M 3 hard, Anson, Duncan.
LORDS—Norreys, Porchester, Willoughby de Eresby, Nu-
gent, Delamere, Skelmersdale, Frederick Fitzclarence, C. Man-
ners, R. Manners, Apsley, Erskine, Paulet, Holmesdale, Geo.Beresford, William Lennox, Glenlyon, Auckland, Foley, Pon.
sonby, Lyndhurst, Molyneux Wharncliffe, Belhaven, George
Seymour, Monson, Edward Somerset.
LADlES—Georgina Paget, Ellenborough, Frances Lascelles,
Louisa Lascelles, Graham, Needham (2), Howard Douglas,
Lambert, Wheatley, Charlotte Bertie, Stephenson, Augusta
Cotton, Martin, Stanley, Jenkinson (2), Howden, Nugent, De-
lamere, ingestre, Bouverie, Cecilia Paulet, Napier, IL Keppel,
Paulet, Otway, Gordon, Blackwood, Howard, Wood,
George Beresford, Paget (2), Barrington, Grey, Glenlyon,
Russell (2), Georgiana Bathurst, Durham, Becket, Brougham,
Bentinck (2), Lyndhurst, Frederick Fitzclarence, Henry Howard,
Theodosia Rice, Mary Wood, H. Cholmondeley, Reynell, Richard
Philipps' Powlett, Floneywood, Belhaven, Rowley, Constable,
Price, E. Lowther, Rossmore, Ongley Bridget Bouverie,
Charlotte Fox, Blanche Cavendish, Elinor Campbell, Nugent, E.
Talbot, Primrose (2).
HONOURABLES—Two Misses Duncan, Colonel Cavendish,
Mrs. Cunliffe Offiey, Miss Arden, Miss Wilbraham, Mrs. Paken.
ham, Miss Villiers, Mr. Grosvenor, two Misses Foley, Mrs. Fer-
gusson.
SlRS—Henry Martin, Andrew Barnard, Edward Kerrison,
Howard Douglas, Henry Lambert, Henry Wheatley, Benjamin
Stephenson, 'l' Stanley, Charles Wetherell, M. Brooke, William
Fremantle, G. Seymour, W'. Gordon, James Scarlett, A. D'Este,
William lloustoun, George Shee, Thomas Reynell, John Brydges,
Richard Phillips, Robert Price.
ADM IRALS-Sotheron, Sir Robert Otway, Hon. Sir Henry
Blackwood.

GENERALS—Buller,Grosvenor.
COLONELS—Gore Langton, Drummond, Pakenham, Poten
Trench, Leicester Stanhope.
CAPTAINS—Du Plat; Houstoun, Ferguson, Cadog,an, Rams-
den, Fuller, R.N.
LIEU TENANT--Hill.
MESSIEURS--Backhouse, Arthur Lascelles, Dawkins, Pen-
nant, Ilyng, Drandling, Henry Hope, Edward Foley, Legh,
Cunliflb Ofiley, John Foley, Sloane Stanley, Maxse, Bankes, jun.,
James Hudson, William Cavendish, Assheton Smith, Wynne,
Blayney Balfour, Charles Arbuthnot, Henry Arbuthnot, R. W.
Hey, Taylor, Villiers, Berries, Stevenson, Corbet, Byng, Whit-
bread, It. Abercrombie, Spring Rice, C. Wood, Norton, Henry
Dawkins, Hamilton, Ross, Cavendish.
MISTRESSES—Gore Langton, Dawkins Pennant, Byng,
Brandling, Sotheron, Legh, John Foley, Assheton Smith,
Wynne, Arbuthnot, Stevenson, Corbet, Whitbread, Beaumont,
Montagu, Orby Hunter, Bethell, Cadogan, Henry Baring,
William Joliffe, Charles Mundy, Norton, Henry Dawkins,
Leicester Stanhope, Hamilton, Backhousc.
MlSSES—Martin, Beresford (2), Lambton, Eden (2), Herries,
Honeywood, Cadogan, Campbell, Backhouse, Langton (2), Pen-
nant (2., Douglas, Brandling (2), Augusta Cotton, Maynard,
Emma Maynard, Brooke (2), Otway, Harvey, Hemloke, Gordon,
Blackwood, Wheatley (2), Wynnes (2), Wood.
His Majesty gave a state dinner last evening at the Palace at
St. James's, in honour of the arrival of I)on Pedro. The Yeomen
Guard were on duty, and lined the guard-room, and the Pages
appeared in their state liveries. Don I'edro entered at the Am-
bassadors' entrance; his Majesty was attended by the Marquis de
Rezende, and three other officers of his household. The Duchess
of Keel, accompanied by the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and the
Prince of Leiningen, and attended by Lady Catherine Jenkin-
son ; the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland ; the Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt; the Duchess of
Gloucester, Prince Leopold, and the Duke of Brunswick, at-
tended by his two Aides-de-cant]', entered the Palace by the
garden-gate. The Royal and distinguished guests assembled in
the ball-room.
Dinner being announced, the party proceed from the Ball-
room to the Banquetting-room, where the dinner was served.
His Grace the Lord Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the House-
hold, and the Comptroller of the Household, preceded the King,
who had on his arm the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. Don
Pedro and the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duie of Cumberland
and the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess
of Cambridge, and the other guests followed. There were pre-
sent Cc Austrian Ambassador, the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness Cetto, the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, the Duke of
Devonshire, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl
and Countess Carlisle, Earl and Countess of Albemarle ; Earls
Grey and Munster; Viscounts Granville, Goderich, Palmerston,
Melbourne, and Falkland ; Lord and Laly Ponsonby ; Lords
Holland, Hill, and Augustus Fitzcbrence ; Hon. Sir Henry
Blackwood ; Sirs W. Frem;ln:le, Andrew Barnard, Thomas
Hardy ; the Chevalier de Neumann, Counsellor to ilic Austrian
Embassy ; Mr. Grosvenor; and Admiral Sir Robert Otway, u lt;.•
had the command of the fleet in South America at the time of
the insurrection at Rio Janeiro, when Sir Robert received the
Emperor on board his vessel.
The Queen's private band attended in the evening, and per-
formed several pieces for the gratification of the party.
Sir James Graham had an audience yesterday of the King.
The Duchess of Cumberland, the Duchess of Gloucester, and
the Princess Sophia visited the Queen yesterday.
His Majesty took an airing in a carriage in the Regent's Park,
and the neighbourhood of Hampstead, yesterday, and returned
through Hyde-park to the Palace.
Prince Leopold visited Earl Grey yesterday at the Treasury.
Don Pedro called on the Noble Earl yesterday.
The Lords of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council
held a meeting yesterday morning at the Council-office, for the
further hearing of an appeal of great importance from Boinhay.
There were present the Master of the Rolls the Lords Chief
Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, the Judge of
the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward East.
Mr. Serjeant Stevens and Mr. Wightman were heard at great
length on the appeal. Shortly before five o'clock the meeting ad-
Journed. Mr. Greville attended as Clerk of the Council.

Lord Melbourne has presented to the House of Lords
a Bill " To provide for the better order and government
of Ireland, by Lieutenants for the several counties, counties
of cities, and counties of towns "therein."
PREAMBLE.
• " Whereas his gricioss Majesty has been pleased by
lerers patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Gr..at Britain and Ireland, and his Royal predecessors
have in like manner need from time to time, to appoint,
make, ordain, constitnte, and depute one Lieutenant..
General and Governor-General of that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called Ireland, corn.
moiety called • Tile Lord Lieutenant of Ireland " and
whereas by an Act passed lit the Parliament of Irelle in
the second year ofthe reign of hie Majesty King George the
First, entitled an Act to make the militia of this king.
dom more useful, provision was made for the issuing forth
commissions of Lieutenancy for the several and respective
counties, cities, and places of Ireland, such commissions
to be ,isAned by the King's must Excellent Majesty, or
those who should be from time to time appointed Chief
Governor or Governors of that kingdom; and whereas the
said Act, after having been several times continued, finally
xpired : and whereas by another Act of the Parliament
Ire/and passed in the 17th and 18th years of the at,a
of his Majesty King George 111., entitled an Act for esta..
'dishing a Militia in this Kingdom, similar provisions for
the issuing commissions of Lieutenancy were made ; but
the said Act has long since expired, and Governors and
Deputy Governors have been from time to time appointed
for the several counties, counties of cities, and counties of
towns in Ireland, and certain powers and authorities have
been from time to time, by several Acts now in force, con-
ferred upon such Governors and Deputy Governors: 44
whereas it would tend to the better order and government •
of that part of his Majesty's dominions, if Lieutenants
were appointed for the several counties, counties of cities,
and counties of towns, to act under the said Lieutenant
General and Governor-General, or other Chief Governor
or Governors of Reload, in like manner as may have been
provided for by the said recited Acts_of the Parliament of
Ireland, and as Lieutenants are appointed .for the .several
counties, ridings, and places in England.; and It is more—
over expedient that the powers and authorities of the Go- •
vernors and Deputy Governors of counties and places in,-
Ireland should be transferred to the persona to be ap-
pointed to act as Lieutenants for the same : be it therefore
enacted, &c. _ .

There are then clauses providing that the Lord Lieu.
tenant may, by letters patent under the Great Seal of be-
hind, appoint Lieutenants of counties, counties of cities and
town's, who shall have the same powers as Governors of
counties had heretofore, and execute d:rections contained
in letters patent. That atter the issue of such letters
patent the powers of Governors and Deputy-Governors of
counties shall cease, and be transferred to county Lieute-
nants and their Deputies, but not to affect the custody of
the Rolls or custodes rot idorum.
That the Lieutenants of each county and place appoint
Deputy-Lieutenants.
Qualification of Deputy-Lieutenants 2001. per annum,
or heir to 4001. per annum in county.
In cities and places counties within themselves, Chief
Magistrate to appoint Deputy-Lieutenants; qualificatien
1501. per annum, or 3,000/ , &c.

OLD BAILEY, JULY 1.

CRIM. CON. 1N HUMBLE LIFE.

James Bowl was indicted for stealing a large quantity
of furniture, weariag appare!, &c., value SOL and upwards,
the property of Thomas Dells
The prosecutor lives at Pinner, and is a carpenter. His
wife and be lived together upon very unhappy terms, and
some time since, upon her expressing a wish that a sepa-
thin should take place, he told her that she was at full
liberty to go about her business ; he at t!ie same time
gave her rermission to take with her some article• of cloth-
ing, but forbade her removing any part of the furniture.
On the night of the 28th of May last prosecutor went to
bed, thinking no more of what had taken place between
his wife and himself ; but he was much surprised, upon
rising in the morning, to find that his wife had " bolted,"
and taken with her many articles of furniture in the house,
with the exception of that which was in the room in
which he slept. Upon making a further search the pro-
secutor found that he had not only lost his wife and fut ni-
tore, but also one of his most useful workmen—the pri-
soner. The whole secret was out at once. The cat was
out of the bag ! He smelt a rat ! and followed the scent
to a cottage at Drayton, where be found his amiable wife
enjoying a loving tete-a-tete with his faithful servant.
Prosecutor got assistance, and at once secured his furni-
ture ; but his wife he, with great pleasure, left behind.
- COURT—You did give your wife permission to take
away some property ?—I told you before that I only gired
her leave to take away some of her clothes.
Was the prisoner present when you told your wife she
might go about leer business ?—May be he was, and may
lie he was not.

Can you not speak positivtly as to that fact ?._I an't a
going to speak nothing about it.
Did your wife go to bed that night?—No; she waa
too much awake for that.

Did you go to bed ?—To be sure I did ; where do you
think I went?
At what hour of the night or morning did your wife
elope?—How should I know? I was asleep, and I'm sure
I didn't dream nothing about it.
Mr. PHILLIPS-Well, Mr. Dell, don't you think this
case savours very much of a aim. con. transaction ?—fin
sure I don't know what it flavours of. I don't know
what you mean by your cons and crims, and that there
sort of language.
I believe this is not the first time your wife hasleft you?
—Well, and, supposing it an't, is that anything to you?
I believe that your wire, when she has found it con-
venient to leave you for a time, has made a point of
taking away with her some articles of furniture, and has
returned them when a reconciliation has taken plate?—
Well, that's nothing at all to do with you, I'm sure!
Do you not think that your wife would have returned to
you again after her last elopement ?—I should think not,
though t,.e bagcage has impudence enough for any thing.
Then you did get all your furniture back ?—I got some
of it back.
Aye, you got the least valuable part of it ; the most
valuable part, your wife, you left behind ?—Ah, wel!, she
arr't no bargain to no one.
Upon your word, now, Mr. Dell, if your wife were to
come before you and beseech you to take her hack, could
you refuse her? Prosecutor (smiling)—Well, I don't
think I could.
I should like to put you to the test—what do you say ?
You seems to make yourself very busy about us, but you
may do as you likes.
Mr. PHILLIPS giving a nod to an officer of the Court,
the lady was introduced. She tripped gaily up to her
husband, and after they had exchanged smiles, and sig-
nificant nods of mutual forgiveness, this enviable pair
retired from the witness-box,. and the Jury, without hesi-
tation, acquitted the prisoner.

Lady CAROLINE NEELD has commenced
proceedings in the Consistory Court of London against
Mr. NEELD, her hto•band, for restitution of conjugal
rights. A citation was served upon Mr. NEELD at
COLSTON'S Hotel.—Morning Pver.
The hay harvest is now general in this
county—on the hest lands the crops are good, but on pour
soils they are thin. The wheat, peas, and barley look re-
markably well in most situations, particularly where they
have ken favoured with rain. The hop-bines have gene•
r illy at present a promising appearance, though in sonic
places complaints are made of the appearance of fly. It is
expected there will be an abundance of game, particularly
pheasants, the next season—of the latter, the pouts are al-
ready flyers in many instances, and the young are large in
number, as well as strong on the wing.—Shrewsbury
I Chronicle. _

The London Observer states that Miss
Fitizxt.L, the young lady whose case excite! such a me-
lancholy interest some months since, died last week at
Bangor, in North Wales. On inquiry, we have ascertained
that the statement is incorrect. —Dublin Morn. Register.

We are now in the midst of hay harvest in
:his part of the county, and the crops are as heavy as we
ever remember to have seen them.—Norwich ~ifet curt'.

At the Clare Special Commission, PATRICK
CONNOR. and JOHN CuLLANE were found guilty of the
tnurtler of W. BLOOD, Esq., of Applevale, and seutericed
to be hanged.
One of those phenomena of nature, a water
:Tout, was visible to the inhabitants of this town last
Fliday. To many who observed it, the appearance Was
desc:ihed to us us being of a globular form at the top,
terminating downward with an immense spiral tail. After
hovering for some minutes over a field at Mint-lyii it
was attracted upwards, and as far as the eye could stretch
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it presented one of the finest spectacles in the natural
world the philosophers of this neigl,boucluht.ordtvetv.erthaat,
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