The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties arrived in town at twenty minutes past one
o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle.
At two o'clock the King held a Levee.
Their Serene Highnesses the reigning Duke of Saxe Co-
bourg Gotha, the Hereditary Prince, and the Prince Albert o
Saxe Cobourg, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended by Si r
John Conroy, Baron d'Alvensleben, and Count Colowart, ar
rived and were introduced to the King in the Royal Closet
when their Serene Highnesses took leave of his Majesty.
Baron Bulow, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plcnipo_
tentiary from the King of Prussia, had an audience to presen
a letter from his Sovereign. His Excellency was introduce
by Viscount Palmerston, principal Secre:ary of State for Fo
reign Affairs, and was conducted by Sir Robert Chester
Master of the Ceremonies.
The Prince de Bretzenhcim was presented to the King by
M. flummelauer, Charge d'Affaire of the Emperor of Austria.
The Chevalier da Camera, Portuguese Minister, resident at
the Courts of Brussels and Saxe Cobourg, was presented to
his Majesty by the Baron de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister,
Count Wedel Jarlsberg, from Norway was presented to the
King by Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister.
Mr. T. W. May, Consul-General of the Netherlands, was
presented to his Majesty by M. Dodd, the Netherlands Mi-
nister.

Amongst those present were the Prince of Orange, the
Hereditary Prince, and Prince Alexander of the Netherlands,
the Duke of Brunswick (attended by Major Bause), Prince
Ernest of Hesse Phillipsthal, the Russian and French Ambas-
sadors ; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Swedish, Hanoverian,
Danish, Portuguese, and Grecian Ministers ; Noory Effendi,
Ottoman Minister, accompanied by M. Salami!, his Majesty's
Oriental Interpreter ; the Bavarian, Netherlands, Saxon, pr
Sardinian Ministers; the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, Aaron
Maltitz.

Lord Brougham is living in great retirement at
Harrington, and we are happy to hear his Lcrdship is consi-
derably better.
We are happy to observe that a junction has taken
place between the Royal Bank and the Union Bank of 11 e-
land, Dublin.

Colonel Shaw Kennedy has assumed the manage-
ment of the Irish constabulary department, Dublin Castle.
The Russian Prince and Princess Galitzin and fa-
mily, with a numerous suite, arrived in Clarges-street on
Tuesday, from Rotterdam. The Prince is on a tour of plea-
sure, and has before visited this country.
BUXTON,
Jun. G.—Fashionable and invalid visiters
are daily arriviag,
for whose accommodation and annually in-
creasinli numbers, it has become indispensably necessary to add
to tile. present elegant suite of baths, by the erection of others,
upon a scalc of efficiency and neatness commensurate with the
established reNtation of the place. Among the must recent
arrivals tAro---Uoleuel Hughes, Colonel Hawthorn and family,
Rey, A Gardner, Hon. Mrs. Vesey and family, Dr. Robert-
son, M.D., Captain Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. Lonsdale, and
family, Mr. F. J. Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Hornby, Miss Ather-
ton, A:e.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH REVENUEs.—There
are data upon which a pretty fair estimate of the income of the
Catholic clergy may be founded. They arc to be seen in the
evidence of Dr. Doyle and others before Parliamentary Com-
mittees. The parish priests of Ireland are 960 in number,
being some hundreds fewer than the Protestant rectors. Ttw,
Catholic union of Clontarf, near Dublin, contains 11,()00 in-
habitants. It has three working clergy, the nvish priest and
two curates. The receipts, when they bra at their maximum,
amount to 4001. a-year, halt j which usage assigns to the
parish priest, and Oka other half is divided between the curates.
It w(11:114 lie, e-4agge.ration to assume that thin is the average
conditi9 of Ole Catholic clergy throughout Ireland. In some
districts, especially; itt the south, they arc much better off, but in
far the greater lumber the opposite is the case.
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There are
some parish priests who have not 100/. a-year, thoup:d they
must employ, each of them, a curatet arid to 251. is
common stipend t'or curates in poor a1..0 mountainous districts,
with however the advantage of such domicile as the cabin of
the priest can afford. Taking the average income of the Ca-
tholic priests throughout Ireland At 2001. a-year each, the ag-
gregate is Iniciclg the average of 1,200 curates
even at ICO, aggregate. zs 124:0001 These amounts do
not make 1,500,0061. a-yeat3 or 80.0,000/. a-year, or even
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