The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

}LT Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Viscoun-
tess Barrington, Lady in Waiting, and the Hon. Miss Gore,
Maid of Honour in wilting, arrived at Marlborough House, at
half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, from her residence
1.1 Busby Park Her Majesty's household also arrived in town
yesterday, from the Queen's Lodge, in Bushy Park.
1-hr Royal Highness 'the Princess Sophia has derived
great benefit from her residence at West Cliff House, Rams..
gate. Her Roy al Highness is in good bodily health : a.:d •
,luring the past week walked on No occasions on the Pier.
The Princess also takes carriage airirga daily, but her Royal
Highness's deprivation of sight continues undiminished.
Lord Glenelg transacted business yesterday at the Chan..
ullor of the Exchequer's Office in Downing street. .4...
The Persian, Russian, and French Ambassadadors trap- -
sacted business yesterday at the Foreign Department.
Dospa'ehes, dated Aug. 24, were received yesterday at the "vi
Colonial Department from Major-General Bouverie, K. C. 8.,' -
Governor of Malta.

Despatches, dated Sept. 14, were received yesterday at the
Colonial Dep't:rtment from Major-General Sir Alexander
Woodford, K. C. 8., Governor of Gibraltar.
Despatches, dated Sept. 15, were received yesterday at the
Fcreign Department from the British Charge d'Affaires at
Madrid, and from the British Charge d'Affaires at Lisbon.
Despltehes, dated May 22, were received yesterday froin
the Governor of New South Wales.

Despatches were forwarded yesterday from Downing-street
for Lord Melbourne, at Windsor.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from Sir Howard Douglas, Lord High Commiisioner of the
lonian Islands, and from Major Light, Governor of British
Gui-ma.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Mr. and Mrs. Dering, in Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square
from Ayot St. Lawrence, Herts; Mrs. J. Craven and Mrs.
C. Craven, at Batt's Hotel, from Berkshire.

DEPARTURES.

The Earl of Euston for Salcey Forest, in Nottinghamshire;
Sir Chute., Lady, and Miss Colville on a tour; Lady, Mr.,
and Miss Gordon for Brighton ; Colonel and Mrs. Annesley
and Miss Dormer for Oxfordshire ; Mr. Richard Arkwright
f)r Sutton Hall, near Chesterfield, in Derbyshire ; Sir John
Hippesley, Bart., for West Cowes, in the Isle of Wight;
Lady Frances Hope on a tour; Lady and Miss Monck for
Sussex ; Mrs. and Miss Tuffuell for Kent ; Lady and Miss
Eustace for Brighton ; Lady Bridport and Miss Hood ; the
Earl of Abergavenny for Edridge Castle, Tonbridge Wells;
Lady and Miss Forbes for Brighton ; Mr. and Miss Sneyd on a
tour ; Lord and Lady Colchester for Kidbrooke Hall, in
Sussex ; Mr. Byng, M. P., for Wrotham Park ; Mr. Poyntz
fir Cowdray Park, Sussex; Lady and Miss Hammond for
Tonbridge Wells; Mrs. and Miss Burrowes for Mr. Hope's
villa, Deepdene; Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore for the Pa-
vilion, at Broadstairs; Mrs. H. Wickham on a tour; Major
and Mrs. Keppel on a tour; Lady Elizabeth and Miss Baker
for Suffilk ; Mrs. Quintin Vivian for Sussex; Mrs. Heath-
czite for I,eicestershire; Mr. and Mrs. Lister on a tour; Mrs.
Milman for Brighton ; Lady George and Miss Murray on a
vi.it to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, Bag_
shot ; Colonel Nugent and family, from Batt's Hotel, for
their seat in Ireland ; Mrs. H. Shakcspear and family, and
M:. W. B!ake, from ditto, for Exeter ; the Rev. J. Lane snit
Mr. Sanders, from ditto, for Ireland; W. P. Hammond,
E3q., from ditto, for Cambridgeshire; his Excellency Count
Paul Douruoff, from Thomas's Hotel, for Doncaster.

BEITII.—At Leamington, on the 23d inst., the
Hon. Mrs. Abercremby, of a son.
The Earl of and Countess of Essex have been en-
t crtaining a select party at Cashiobury Park, Watford.
The Earl and Countess of Granville have arrived in
Paris from Geneva ; tho Duke of Devonshire continues his
sojourn in Switzerland.

- The Earl of Belfast arrived in town yesterday.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury will
leave Hatfield House to-morrow, for Salisbury House, Arling-
ton-street.

The Marchioness of Londonderry is, we are happy
to state, quite recovered from her recent indisposition. The
I\TJble Marquis and his Lady will shortly see company at Wyn-
yard Park.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde are
expected to embark for Cronstadt the latter end of the present
week.

The Marquis of Douro is visiting his constituency
Norfolk.

The Duke of Cleveland is expected at his seat
Raby Castle, near Staindrop, in the course of a few days.—
Newcastle Journal.

The Duchess of Bedford left Woburn Abbey in the
(-arty pal t of the past week for the family seat in the High-
!and:. Lords Cosmo and Alexander Russell have been shoot-

ing there for the last month.

Viscount Norreys, M.P., left Dover on Wednesday
last for Italy, in consequence of the demise of his Lady's mo-
ther, Lady Elizabeth Harcourt, at Milan.

Viscount Villiers is shortly expected to return to
town from Germany. The Earl and Countess of Jersey and
Ladies Villitis arc not expected to return from the Continent
until March.

Viscount tuld Viscountess Milton have arrived at
their seLt in Yorkshire, from Dalmshoy Castle, the seat of the
Earl and Countess of Morton, near Edinburgh.
Viscount Exmouth has left town on a Continental
tour.

The Countess' of Bridgewater does not intend to .
visit har estates in Shropshire until the spring of next year.'
Her Ladyship is at present without company at Uxbridge
Castle, and takes daily rides on horseback, visiting the cut-
tagers upon her large property there.
Lord Francis Egerton was expected to arrive yes-
terday at Aberdeen, where his Lordship would be received
with the customary honours as Lord Rector.
Lord and Lady Petre have arrived at Brighton.
Lord Clifford and his eldest son, the Hon. Hugh
Clifford, have left his Lordship's scat, Ugbrook, in this
county, for the Continent. -_Plymouth Chronicle.
Lord Augustus, Lady, Mr., and Miss Clifford have
returned to town from a tour.
The departure of the French Ambassador and the
Countess Sebastiani, it is supposed, will be delayed till nearly
the end of October.

We understand that no accounts have been received
in town of the death e,f Lady Elizabeth Harcourt by the rela-
lives of this much-esteemed lady, and that the melancholy
tidings from Milan rest upon the authority of ono individual, a
crrespondent of a London journal. It is much feared, how-
ever, that the event will prove but too well founded.

Lady Stuart de Rothcsay and the Hon. Miss
Stuart, who have arrived in Dublin, will shortly proceed to
visit the Earl and Countess of Caledon, at Caledon House,
Tyrone. Lord Stuart de Rothesay has gone on a cruise with
Viscount Canning, in the latter nobleman's fine yacht.
Messrs. Fielden, of Todmorden, have contributed
2001. towards the purchase of an annuity for Mr. Oastler.—
fin Vox Guardian.
Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart., the Lord Lieutenant of
Denbighshire, has retired from the command of the yeomanry
of that county.—Salopian Journal.
Mr. Macaulay, who has...returned from India in
perfect health, proposes, we hear, to spend the winter in Italy,
and will not return to England till the spring of next year.
The Hon. Gentleman's pursuits since his return from the East,
have been almost entirely literary, and he seems not to have
mixed in politics.—Leeds Mercury.
POWIS CASTLE.—A select circle are now a visit
t, Lord and Lady Clive at their magnificent seat in Shropshire.
The lion. Fox Manic, M.P., has left Brechin
Castle, Forfar, where the Han. Gentleman has been visiting
his father, Lord Panmure, for town.
The Hon. Mrs. Spalding has arrived at her father's
(Viscount Templetown's) mansion, in Berkeley-square, for her
a:!couchement.
The St. James's Theatre has been pronounced by
the first vocalist of the day ono of the best in London for
giving due effect to music. It is still doubtful if the German
opera or French plays will prevail during the approaching
season, and it will be curious if, while the doubt exists, this
beautiful theatre should slip through the hands both of French-
men and Germans, and be let for vauthvilles to be got up in
the style of Vcstris.
Mr. Robert Henry Beaumont arrived in Grosvenor-..
square, on Saturday last, from Whitby Hall.
Mr. and Lady Mary Stevenson have lnft Holkham
Hill, the seat of the Earl ar.d Countess of Leices..er, for Lamb-
ton Castle. Mr. Stevenson was appointed agent to the cstatt s
of the Earl of Durham prior to his Lordship's departure for
Canada.
Philorth House, Frasersborough, N. 8., the scat of
Lord and Lady Saltoun, is expected to be the grand ren-
d( zvous of the numerous nobility sojournirg in the north
daring she approaching annual Cl'edonian Festival, -called- •
the " Norihesn Meeting." The Duke and Duchess of Rid'-
mond are expected to he amongst the guests.
Mn.WYON'S GUILDHALL MEDAL.—Thc
En`ertainment Committee met on Thursday last at the Guilts"-•
hall, for the purpose of taking into consideration the most ad—'
viable course of proceeding as to the issue of the medal cnotnht:
rremorative of her Majesty's visit to the city of Londoinotoernti_
9:h of November last. The committee came toltiliceor
u determi-
nation of art.
nation to limit the circulation of this very to circurn-
The principal argument in favour of the
workmanship
s.3'ibe the issue was that the likeness and ti
hat it would be inj
were of so decidedly a superior kind, t
the medal attainable
cious to depreciate the value by making
beyond the precincts of the Corporaide
tradesman of Exoer
On Thursday last a respect;.
inster, belongingM to r,
killed in a field in the parish of propositionbe a beautiful
of an unusual size ; it niea-.
J. Wills, of St. Thomai's,
ai:lijeenrgth, and four inches multi.
surccl more than two feeti
same spot, but the other made its
There were two near t
scap
o.—Plymouth Joys na/
We regret to state that sir Henry Oxcnden, Batt.,
died at
his estate, Broome, near Dover, on Saturday morning
last. Sir Henry was in his 84th year. By his death a Com-
as'oner,hip of Dover Harbour becomes vacant. Sir Henry
Oxcnden I al been a Commissioner hrtween fifty and sixty
yekrs. In filling up this vacancy it is to be hoped the Beard
will ap;o'n! some naval ofiiccr whose knowledge of his profes-
:ion will tend to facilitate and recd r effective his official duties
connected with Dover llebour.