The Sun.
London, England, 1838-01-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

A Cabinet Council oi as held at half-past one o'clock yester-
day afternoon, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Vis-
count Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Duneannon,
Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, Earl
of Minto, Lord Holland, Mr, Poulett Thomson, and Viscount
Howick.

The three Ministers absent were out of town—Sir John
Hobhouse at Corsham House, the Marquis of Lansdowne at
Bowood ; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Weston
House.
The Council sat till past five o'clock.
Viscount Melbourne arrived in town soon after one o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from Windsor Castle.
Dispatches from the Earl of Gosford, Governor of the Ca.
nada,, were received yesterday morning at the Colonial Office.
In the afternoon a messenger was sent with dispatches to her
Majesty at Windscr.

The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign Office.
The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville entertained at dinner
on Saturday tl:e Duchess-Countess of Sutherland, Baron
Dedel, the Netherlands' Minister, Lord and Lady Eliott, Mr.
and Mrs. Stuart Wortley, Sir C. Bagot, Mr. Rogers, Lord
J. Fitzroy, etc.
Lord John Russffrand a small party dined with Lord Hol-
land, at Holland House, Kensington, on Thursday evening.

Viscount Melbourne, by the pressure of State bu-
siness, has postponed his annual visit to the family domain at
Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire.
The Earl of Lichfield, and the Hon. Colonel-
Anson and his lady, niece to the Duke of Rutland, arrived at
Belvoir Castle, on Thur..day, from Shugborough Park.
Lord Spencer has returned to Althorp, from a visit
to his sister, Lady Littleton, at Hagley Park. His Lordship
also visits periodically his mother-in-law, the venerable Mrs.
Ack!am, at Leamington.
Sir Henry Halford is still in constant attendance on
the Countess of Chesterfield. Her Ladyship is out of danger,
and, will probably b removed to the south of France in a
short time.
Viscount Coinbermere's only son, the Hon. Wel-
lington H. Stapleton Cotton, has entered the army as Cornet
in the 7th or 'Queen's own Hussars, the Marquis of Anglesey's
regiment.
Baron Lionel Von Rothschild, the head of the
London-house, has been provisionally appointed Austrian
Consul-General in England.
Lord Forester and a party, from Wyllie Park,
arrived at Belvoir Castle on Wednesday.
The Itio,lit Hon. George Spencer Byng arrived in
town yesterday from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Anglesea, at Beaudesert, in Staffordshire.
The Rev. C. Spencer Bourehier, M.A., Vicar of
Sandridge, and Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Plymouth,
has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of London to the Rec-
tory of Great Hallingbury, void by ttLe resignation of the
Rev. A. Cotton. Patron, John Archer Tfoublon, Esq.
We learn by the Oxford New. York packet, of the
16th ult., arrived at Liverpool, that the Europe had not ar-
rived at New York; but letters from Liverpool to the 4th
Not ember, had been received per Chatham, arrived at Boston.
It takes fourteen days to hear overland from Quebec,
and seventeen days from Montreal at Halifax.
Mr. Mortimer and Lady Emily Drummond are ei.-
tert3inincr a gay party at Site House, Denham, Bucks.
Earl Ducie and the Ladies Moreton at Woodch2s-
ter,Park, Stroud, have been entertaining a select party during
the, holidays.
Lord and Lady Harewood have seen a succession
of fashionable visitors at Harewood House, Northallerton,
during the holidays.

The venerable Lord Lonsdale kept open house
during the whole of List week at Cottismore, his Lordship's
hunting seat in Rutlandshire, where he has arrived for the
season, and also at Lowther Castle, and \Vhitehaven, in Cum-
berland.

The Earl of Derby has had a family circle consist-
ing,of Lord and Lady Stanley, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Pen-
rice, and the Hornby family, assembled during the holidays at
at Knowsley, in which extensive district the Noble Lord dis-
tributed his bounty to the poorer classes.
St. Leonard's, near Windsor, the hospitable seat of
the Marquis d'Elarcourt, has been the scene of much festivity
duripg the holidays.
Her Majesty, in becoming the Patroness of the
Royal Naval School, has b?an graciously pleased to signify
her intention, through
.Sir H Wheat!ey, of granting the
same subscription as late lamented Majesty, who contri-
buted one hundred pounds annually from the period of the first
projection of the school, in 1831. His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge is a donor of one hundred pounds to the
institution. •
The Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Rutland
have been amongst the visitors to the Marquis of Exeter this
week. Th© Duke arrived at Burghley on Monday even'ng,
and left on Wednesday morning, for Belvoir. There was a
grand rilcu,gliter of game on Tuesday amidst the preserves
tear Burghley House. The quantity killed was prodigious—
almost as many heads as fell at Waterloo.
Sir Richard Phillips, to whom the public are iii•-
debted for the reform of all honks of education, has written,
and will publish in a few da)s, a brief Catechism of the
British Constitution, adapted to. schools, and to the proposed
System of general public instruction. At this crisis it is a
most important subject for the study of the whole rising- ge-
neration.

The Earl of Yarmouth has delayed his departure
from Paris until March next.

The Marquis of Douro arrived at B.Avoir Cistle on
%Wednesday evening. . ,
Mr. C. \V. Codrington. M.P., who is staying at
Badminton, met with a 'serious accident, a few days since,
while hunting, by falling from his horse. The Hod. Gmtle-
tuzn had hia right shoulder bone broken, but is no recovering
from the effects.

When
the Hon. Cololl?l Cathcart, son of the vete-
ran Earl Cathcart, waiter! on Lord by appoiament a fow
tilYB since the General Commanding-in-Chief inquired what
a'n,o Colonel Cathcart would require to prepare himself fur
,;;Ive service and roceeding to Canada with despatches,,,
"e gallant officer, after musing a moment, replied,
an hour. my Lord; but if necessary, I will be ready in twenty
Minutes."

On Friday mornina, the body of a female, appl-
rektly about sixteen years of age was washed on shore in the
,Sleighbourhocd of Kilmun. Haying been carefully ins.weed,
'2„t ainr:p(sesirs to have been fully three weeks in the water.—Scots

ABSENCE OF MIND.—A Mr. Jahn J. Jenkin-
-83", of Arkansas, whose sight is such as to render glasses ne-
ssary, Put his spectacles on his ear instead of his eyes one
-14 Y last week, and actually walked three miles sideways in a
heavy rain before he discorm ed his mistake.—American Paper
RIG!' COURT OF JUSTICIARY.—TRIAL OF
`IIE COTTON SPINNERS.—This important trial commenced
_ye,sterday, and proceeded till half-past seven in the evening.
When the Court adjourned till half-past nine this morning.
the
the jury was impannelled, the Lord Justice Clerk called
no attention of the Court to the fact, that from the great im-
portance of this tri:ll to the interests of the public and of the
Prsoners, it would not he proper to publish any part of the
r,pceedings till after the verdict of the jury was returned.
ihe other Judges concurred in this suggestion, Lord Mon-
:reiW remarking that this was abso'utely necessary, as the pri-
soners might have a great deal of evidence to explain away
itte effect of that produced for the. prosecution ; and therefore
`Vag due to them that the one should not be published with-
Z.llot the other. In consequence of this injunction we refrain
terdnl.lP,ublishing any part of the evidence brought forward yes-
Int
.4., but when ti:e trial is brought to a close our readers
lePend upon a.
full report of the whole proceedings.—
Uri/1 CourGat.
L groeir in the High-street having exhibited in
1•1011 window the letters V. R., formed with candied lemon
e~hat.l being asked the meaning of the device, replied" he
alvay; understood that the Queen was of a very candid
Position 'l-IVorce,ster ionrizat.