The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Yesterday, Moulvee Mahomed Ismael Khan, Ambassa-
dor from the King of Oude, had an interview with Sir John
Hobhouse at the India Board, preparatory to his departure
for Lucknow.
A. numerons deputation from St. George's, Southwark,
had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the
Home Office.
Viscount Melbourne came to town yesterday morning
from his seat, Brocket Hall, Herts. His Lordship returned
to Brocket Hall in the evening.
Mr. Sheriff Duke visited Lord John Russell yesterday,
at the Home Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Sir Trayton Elliot Drake, Lady Elliot Drake and suite, at
the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Devonshire ; Count
M'Cartney, at ditto, from Paris ; Mrs. Blaquire, and Miss
Cumming, at ditto, from Brighton ; - De Bruyn, and the
Misses De Bruyn, at the Berners Hotel, Berners•street, from
Tunbridge Wells ; John Deacon, Esq., and Mrs. Deacon, at
ditto, from Mabledon Park, Tunbridge Wells ; Mrs. and the
two Misses Cranston, at ditto, from East Grinstead; Colonel
and Mrs. Wollaston, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from
Shenton Hall ; Mrs. and Miss Hayward, at ditto, from Chel-
tenham ; Rev. Mr. Scott, at ditto, from Shrewsbury; T. H.
James, Esq., and J. Elliot, Esq., at ditto, from Jamaica ; G.
Lynch, Esq., at ditto ; H. B. Pierrepoint, Esq., at ditto, from
Dorsctshire ; Henry Higgenson, Esq., at ditto, from Scotland.

DEPARTURES.
Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, of Jamaica, from the Green Park
Hotel, Piccadilly, on a tour; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Butler,
from ditto, for Paris ; Sir Henry Meredith, from ditto, for
Dublin ; T. R. Bovell, Esq., and Mrs. Bovell, from the Ber-
ner! Hotel, Berners-street ; Colonel and Mrs. Deacon, from
ditto, for Essex ; Mrs. Herbert, and family, from ditto, for
Baldock.

THE LAMENT FOR MADAME MALIBRAN.

BY SIR LUMLEY SKIFFINGTON.
Flow, sorrow, flow ; a deep lament,
An everlasting sigh,
Through every scene shall still present
That shade which seeks the sky.
Tear falls on tear—a boundless grief—
The deluge of the heart,
Revering MALIBRAN as chief
In nature and in art.
If some rare star, in aftertime,
Would kindred fame oppose,
She must inherit the sublime
On which that angel rose ;
Bereavement of terrestrial worth,
A trial wisely given,
Turns every thought from cares of earth,
To extacy in Heaven.

THE THEATRES.

DRURY-LANE.

The new play, in three acts, which, we understand, is
the production of Mr. Banim, called The Duchess of Or-
mond, was not very favourably received last night, but the
audience was hardly sufficiently numerous to pronounce a
definite judgment upon it. The interest of the story de-
pends upon the affection of Mortimer (Warde) for the Du-
chess of Ormond (Miss Huddart), who had herself been in
love with Mortimer before, but under the compulsion of cir-
cumstances, she married the Duke of Ormond. The Duke,
discovering their mutual attachment in the first act, relin-
quishes his Duchess to Mortimer, and in the interval be-
tween the first and second acts he goes to India and re-
turns from thence. When he comes back he learns that
Mortimer is madly jealous of the ex-duchess, now Mrs.
Mortimer, who, enraged, sends away her son (the offspring
of the Duke), who joins his father, and in the third act
the father and son are about to proceed to France. The
Duchess, anxious to bid farewell of her child before his de-
parture, is found by Mortimer in the Duke's house. The
Duke and Mortimer fight, the latter is killed, and the mo-
ther, finally separated from the Duke, is allowed to retain
possession of her son. The only other part at all promi-
ment was that sustained very well by Mrs. Humby ; it is
the old character of a chattering waiting-maid. The piece
was given out for Saturday by Cooper, but, we fear, it will
never succeed.