The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The King had a dinner party last evening at St. James's
Palace., The party to meet their Majesties included their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Vic-
toria, the Princess Augusta, the Landgravine of Hesse Hom:.
burg, the Duke of Cumberland, the Prince of Orange, the
Hemlitary Prince, and Prince Alexander of the Netherlands,
and Prince George of Cambridge ; their Serene Highnesses
the Landgrave of Hesse Homburg, the Prinde of Oldenbourg,
and Prince Charles of. Solms ; the Prussian Minister and Ba-
roness Bulow; the Danish Minister and Baroness Biome;
the Netherlands and Saxon Minister ; the Lord Steward,
Duke arid Duchess of Buccleucli, Duchess of Northumber-
land, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Mount Edgcombe, Earl
and Countess Denbigh, Earl and Countess Sheffield, Earl
Howe, Earl and Countess Brownlow, Viscounts Melbourne
and Palmerston, Lord and Lady Wharncliffeo Lords Valle-
tort, Burghersh, Saltoun, Frederick Fitzclarence, and Elphin-
stone, Lord A. Barnard, W. Houstoun, and B. Stephenson,
Mrs. Fitzherbert, Mdlle. D'Este, Mdlle. .Styne, and Rev.
Mr. Wood.

The dinner was served in the Banquet Room.
The Queen afterwards gave a concert, and had an evening
party. The suite of State Rooms were brilliantly illuminated.
The performance took place in the Drawing-room.
Amongst. the company were the Marchioness of Westmin-
ster, Marquis and Marchioness of Ely,. Marquis of Bristol,
Earl and Lady G. Grey, Earl and Countess Wilton, Earl
and Countess Jersey, Viscountess Valletort, Viscount, Lady
A., and Lord Loftus, Lord and Lady F. Egerton, Lord,and
Lady Maryborough, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord W. Gor-
don, Ludy Augusta Kennedy Erskine, Lady Burghersh,
Count Stirum, Sir Horace Seymour and Lady Clinton, Cc-
lonel and Mrs. Clithero.

The following were the pieces performed :
Quartetto, " Ridiamo, cantiamo," Mad. Grisi, Sig. Rubini,
Ivanhoff, and Lablache—Rossini.
Air, " Vi ravviso," Siri. Tamburini ( Sonnambula)—Bellini.
Duo, " Va mensogner," Mad. Grisi and Sig. Rubini ( Arabi
cello Gallie)—Pacini.
Air, " Udite o rustici," Sig. Lablacho (Elixir d'Amore)_
Donizetti.
Duo, " Mira la bianca lune," Mdlle. Assandri and Sig. Ivan-
hoff—Rossini.
Quartetto, " Qual cor fractisti," Mad. Grisi, Sig. Rubini, Tam-
burini; and Lablache (Norma)—Bellini.
Duo, " Le diro," Sig. Tamburini and Lablache (Ajo in imbar-
razzo)—Donizetti.
Air, " Caste diva," Mad. Grisi (Norma)—Bellini.
Duo, " Marinaro en guardia sta," Sig. Ivanhoff and Tamburini
(Li Marinari)—Rossini. •
Air, " Io ti veggo," Sig. Rubini (Marino Faliero)—Donizetti.
Duo, " Deh I con te," Mad. Grisi, Mdlle. Assandri (Norma)—.

Bellini.
Quintetto, "Oh guardate," Mad. Grisi, Mddle. Assandri,
Sig. Ivanhoff, Tamburini, and Lablache (Turco in Italia)—
Rossini.
The King gave audiences yesterday to the Marquis of
Iluntly and the Earl of Albemarle.
Mr. Andrew Stephenson, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis-
ter Plenipotentiary of the linited,States of America, had his
first audience of 'the Queen yesterday. His Excellency was
introduced by Earl Howe,
,her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain,
and conducted by Sir obert Chester, Master of the Cere-
monies.

The Duke of Cumberland visited his Majesty yesterday.
The Prince of Oldenbourg, the Princess Sophia, and the
Princess Sophia. Matilda visited the Queen yesterday. The
two Princesses partook of a dejeuner with her Majesty.
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord
John Russell, yesterday, at the Home Office.
Sir Eardley Wilmot had an interview with Viscount Mel-
bourne. in Downing-street, yesterday.
Sir William Houstoun and the Attorney-General for Gib-
raltar had an interview with Lord Glenelg, yesterday, at the
Colonial Office.

THE NEW WORK By MRS. HOWITT,IONE OF
THE AUTHORS OP " THE BOOK OF THE SEASONS."—" Wood
Leighton,' like' Belford Regis,' is a rich treasury of old stories,
family traditions, legendary tales, original characters, whimsi-
cal adventures, and amusing anecdotes. The descriptions of
natural scenery are exquisitely poetical and picturesque, yet
perfectly unaffected and purely English. The sketches of
character have the same natural and national air and expression.
Rich, racy, and characteristic, they savour of the soil from
which they sprung. Graceful or grotesque, pathetic, im-
posing or ludicrous, each portrait bears the impress of indivi-
duality, and claims a place ia the imagination or the memory of
the reader. Several of the minor tales and secondary charac-
ters are sketched with skill and grace; they have a home look,
and will be most admired by those hearts and imaginations are
still unspoiled enough to enjoy the simple beauty ,of home
scenery, and to feel the thrilling interest of home associations."
—Morning Post.

Lusus NATURIE.—There was lately killed b)
John M‘Kie, in Claycroft, in the parish of Buittle, while cut-
ting his peats, in the Munches Mosi, an adder, two feet two
inches long, which had two perfectly formed feet, one on each
side, about half an inch in length, and strikingly resembling
birds claws. The animal Was inspected by many respectable
persons in the neighbourhood, none of whom had ever before
seen the same variety of species.—Dun fries Courier.
The rye and barley harvest is in active progress in
thevicinity of Paris.

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The Court of Assizes has been occupied for several
days with the trial of persons committed for different rob•
belies during the last, two years, principally in the shops of
the watchmakers and jewellers of the capital. The indict-
ment sets forth that from a watchmaker of the Rue de la Paix,
named Souriau, watches were stolen to the value of 15,000 f. ;
that an attempt at robbery in the dwelling of M. Gaillard, a
dealer in linen cloth, led to the discovery of one of the robbers
in the fact ; and from M. Bolvillers, watchmaker, nearly
60,000 f. worth of watches and jewels were taken. For these
offences the 'following prisoners' were brought' before the
Court :—May, Raymond. Ithuria, alias Roberto, Brunswick,
Spire, and the woman Negro. - May had been condemned to
twenty years'. hard labour, but escaped from the hulks of Brest
in 1831 ; Raymond had been previously condemned
,to two
years' imprisonment, and afterwards to eight years' hard la-
bour, and Ithuria to ten years of the settee punishment. The
trial was terminated on Saturday, when the jury declared the
woman Negre and Brunswick not guilty, and they were dis-
charged immediately. Of the others, Spire was declared
guilty of having knowinglvikconecaled part of the watches
stolen from Bolvillers, and was sentenced to four years' im-
prisonment. May, Raymond, and Ithuria, called -Roberto,
were found guilty of having formed an association of robbeiA;
and sentenced, May to ,thikty years' hard labour and the pik
lory ; Ithuria to ten years' hard labour; and Raymond to ten
years' solitary confinement and the pillory. Tho jury aci-
initted some extenuating circumstances in the cases of Spire
and Raymond.—Gelignani's Messenger.
The "godly Dragoons" played on the Steyne on
Thursday evening ; but few persons were present to hear them.
On the following evening they perforated on
,the Chain Pier,
where the company numbered upwards of 1,600.