The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of rent and the Princess Victoria visited
the Duke of Sussex yesterday.
The Austrian Charge d'Affaires transacted business yes'
terday at the Foreign Office.
The Church Commission has a meeting yesterday.
The Earl of Tankerville entertaned Viscount Melbourne,
Lord Stanley, and a select party at dinner, at his residence
in Grosvenor-square.
Lord Holland entertained a select parijr at dinner on
Saturday evening, at Holland House, Kensington.

Lord Carrington, whose marriage took place at
Bath last week, was born in 1752, and is consequently .
tLe 84th year of his age. _ .

yy_
ro regret to learn that a most destructive fire oc-
curred on Thursday at Tring, iu Herts which almost whollY,
destroyed the
ilk mills of Messrs. Evans and Co., 01
which was accidental, has thrown out
Cheapside. The r' :e,
of employment 800 per;.-Ins. It must produce great distress
in the neighbourhood, and :will fall on the insurance offices
to the amount of nearly 14,0001.
THE NEW HOUSES oPA RLIAMENT.—The
f
period within which the Commissi6.ners for examining the
designs for the erection of the new lii uses of Parliament
were to make their report has been extencNl from the 20th
of January to the Ist of February next.
THE BREADALBANE CAUSE.—This important
cause was decided by the second division of the Court of
Session on Friday. The Judges decided that the Mar-
chioness of Chandos, who is a daughter of the late Mee'',
of Breadalbane, was entitled to her /egitinz, which will
Lord Chandos in possession of about 130,0001.
Lieutenant-General Le Grange, who, by Napoleon's
desire, married, under the Consulate, the beautiful Made"
moiselle de Talhouet, has just died at Paris. He has left what
is considered there an immense fortune to his son and three
daughters. The handsomest of the latter has married the,
Duke d'lstrie, another the Duke de Cadore, and the thin
u
Count de la Ferronays, whose second sister is, it appeal'
in a few months to be married to his brother-in-law, M. ue
la Grange.
The Order in Council for erecting the territory 01
South Australia into a British province, has been octal
by the Law Officers of the Crown, and has been forwarde
to Brighton for his Majesty's sanction. The new colony
will be gazetted forthwith. This is a satisfactory rcfats"
tion of the assertions recently hazarded by some of oer
contemporaries, that the interest' of this new colony bars
been neglected at the Colonial Oth.c.e. Lord Glenelg ha
laboured assiduously and successfully fir effecting arrange:,
ments under which British settlers majv occupy South
Australia without invading the rights of tio Aborigine!:
The moral force of the country will go with Lo-rd Gleoe;
in the performance of this good work, and he oan
afford to disregard the passing censures which have oil
nated in a misconception of his motives.
On Wednesday- night week, soon after Benja011:
Gilson, Esq., of HalsteJ. surgeon, had retired to bed, 5t01,!..,
persons fired a brace of pi'.!ztols through his bed-room iciT,
pisto
dwoi
with
; him, he imr
ran
eidnitaot e ltyh
egosttruepe,t,ohnud tal..tlcing
he a
fellowsbrace,
v ere
gone.
No reason can, be assigned for this of.'trage, as Mr. Gilsonis a man much respected by all who kno him, and is very
kind to the poor.—Essex Standard of Fria:v•
The recent demise of the accomplishel daughter
of Sir Thomas M'Mahon, Lieut.-Governor of P.ollsmel
took place under the following melancholy eireurnattinced;;
—Lady M'Mahon had been for some time labouring 0„,:r
severe indisposition, during which she was attended 11,'1,1
daughter with unremitting attention. The day precede)
the melancholy and unexpected event, there was a slriip
dinner party at the Government House, at which inue
M'Mahon made her appearance ; during the night 6is,
was seized with inflammation of the stomach and 1)eco
and' in the morning was no longer in existence. LadyM'Mahon was so ill at the time that the awful intelligel
was not communicated to her for some days.
far
Mr. P. Scott, an inhabitant of Yarmouth, a f
days since, fell from Walker's Staithe, Shields, a depth
nearly 60 feet, and expired shortly afterwards. vis
The novel circumstance of an underwriter at Lioya
having to summon a person for a premium of insurae.;
occurred on Friday last at the Court of Requests. '•11:‘,1
is the first debt of the kind which has been brought in"
that Court.
Sir James Graham having, by his ratting, lost all
chance of being again returned as representative for Cu"
garland, we hear that the Liverpool Tories intend to invite
the Right Hon. Baronet to offer himself, at the next elee.
tion, as a candidate for the representation of Liverpool.'"
Liverpool Albion.
DEATH OF COLONEL MACGREGOB.—On Oct
25th ult., at Carnarvon, after a short illness, Coln°
Macgregor, formerly of the 88th regiment, and of the Grri,
nadier Guards. Colonel Macgregor was distinguishaL
most of the battles of the Peninsular war, under
lington, Picton, &c., also in America, the East Indies, ne,,,
in Egypt. His bravery as a soldier was such that, Pr"
vious to an engagement, a friendly discussion occurred 13e'
tween Lieutenant-General Conran and Sir Thomas Brit'
bane, "what part the 88th should take," when the latleA"
said, with enthusiasm, " Give me Colonel Macgregor all:
the 88th, and I am convinced they will clear their nsvli
front." Colonel Macgregor was a native of ibis city, apeson of the late Rev. Mr. Macgregor, the cler man of
Gaelic Chapel in Edinburgh, to whose memory there is
tombstone in the Grey Friars churchyard, erected by' t'„.-
gallant and amiable Colonel, then a Captain in the 88th--"
Edinburgh Courant.
Notwithstanding the continued success of Tye
Bronze Horse and The Jetvess, a new tragedy is under'
lined at Drury-lane.
Admiral Inchatakoff had a long interview on St.
turday last with the Russian Ambassador.
Last week a serious accident befel W. P. Thorn-
hill, Esq., of Slanton, Derbyshire, while hunting in War
wickshire, which nearly proved fatal to him. Mr. Thal:
hill was leaping a fence, when his horse fell and rolled np%
him, by which his hip was dislocated, and he was ultie":l
bruised. Surgical assistance was promptly procured, and
he is considered in a convalescent state.

The ex-King of Westphalia, Jerome Buonapartet
arrived at Coire in the Grisons, on the 12th inst., •on
way from Stutgard to Italy. The cold at the beginning °
this month was very severe in the Grisons ; at Vevers, tl4
thermometer stood at 28 degrees below zero of Reaunler'
or 31 degrees below zero of Fahrenheit.
A marriage is talked of between King Otho and
daughter of the Archduke Charles of Austria, the effect °
of which would be greatly to strengthen the King's part Y's
VICEREGAL COURT.—The Lord Lieutenallai
family, and suite arrived at the Castle, from the Viceregir
Lodge, on Monday, to sojourn there for the season. The ti
Excellencies entertained the following persons at dinner
the Castle on Wednesday evening :—Hon. Captain Liddo'
Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Stewart, Colonel Davies (Guards);
Captain Reynardson (Guards), Hon. E. Phipps, Captaz_
Paget, A.D.C., and Mr. Rowles, A.D.C. The Under-
Secretary and Mrs. Drummond were expected at their re"
sidence at the Castle on Saturday to remain for the 300'
THE DRAWING-ROOM IN DUBLIN.—Their
cellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Nlua:
grave held their first drawing-room for the season on Thu_r;:
day evening. The company commenced arriving at hai,
Lord
past eight o'clock, and shortly after nine o'clock the I.4r'
Lieutenant and the Countess of Mulgrave entered the Pr',,„
sence chamber.

Earl Fitzwilliam's presents of specimens of Rocking;
ham china, tendered by his Lordship to the Duchess °so
Kent and the Princess Victoria, when on their visit t
Wentworth House, were sent last week to the Palace tiA
Kensington.
views on his Lordship's princely domains in Yorkshire')
They consist of a set of vases with origif'
statue, en bisque, of the Marchioness of Abercorn, and 1).1,
bets with exquisite wreaths of raised flowers, and the lett!,
" V." formed by delicately pencilled red and white rosy"
lilies of the and foroet-me-nuts,