The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

BRIGHTON.

!TUESDAY.—Their Majesties, though better to-day, have not
tat-en out-door exercise. The Queen honoured Sir Martin.
Archer Shee with another sitting for her portrait this morning..
Ills Majesty granted an audience to Major-General ,Sir
Thomas M' Mahon.

Earl Denbigh, Master of the Horse to the Queen, arrived.
last night, and joined the Royal suite.
The Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and all
the leading fashionables in the place, patronise the ball
which takes place next Monday, in aid of the County Hospital.
The l )uke of Richmond is expected to take the chair at the
Chiches ter cattle show dinner to-morrow. _ .

The Royal dinner party Monday evening, by invitation,
was limited to Col., Mrs., and Miss Clitherow, Mr. Sergeant
and Mrs. Adams, Capt. J. Scott, R.N., Col., Hon., Mrs., and
Miss Murray, Major Campbell, Sir J. Nicol, and Col. Grey.
W2DNESDAY.—The King and Queen, owing to the
conti'auance of extremely boisterous weather, have not been
seen in public to-day. This morning his Majesty sat to
Mr. Newton for a miniature picture, and in the afternoon
the Queen sat to the President of the Royal Academy for
her portrait.
Tlue Duchess of Gloucester, accompanied by the Coun-
tess .of Sheffield, drove out this morning on the Lewes road
and. through Stanmer Park, the estate of the' Earl of
Chichester.
The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss Wynyard,
took a carriage airing this morning before luncheon.
The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp have engaged
apartments at the Albion Hotel, where they are expected
this evening.
Lord George Lennox, M.P., has left the Albion on a
visit to his brother at Goodwood. _

•~Mr. Crawford, M.P. for the City, has returned to town.
The only invited guests at the Royal dinner table yester-
day evening were the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Clithero.
Captain Brown, R.N., the projector of the Pier, will ar-
rive iii a day or two, to superintend the repairs of that
struct,are.

Yesterday the Earl of Surrey, M.P., took .the chair at
the Arundel cattle show dinner. Captain Pechell, M.P.,
was also. present.

COURT CIRCULAR.

ThEi,DAY.-A Deputation of the Geographical Society,
compo i ed of Sir John Barrow, Captain Beaufort, R.N., Mr.
Murchison, and the Secretary, waited on Lord Glenelg yes-
terday-, at tie Colonial Office, to solicit the sanction and
co-op oration of his Majesty's Government in sending out to
Australia two young officers of the army, Lieuts. Grey and
Lusi aington, who have lately obtained the highest honours at
the Military College at Sandhurst, and who have volunteered
to exr lore in any part of the vast unknown continent of
Aust alia, which may be thought most desirable towards
increasing our knowledge of the interior of the country, and
of thie prospect it offers for civilization.
A. meeting of the Church Commission was held yesterday
afternoon. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of
,London, Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, Sir Herbert Jenner, and other Commissioners, were
present. The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock.
The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmerston
yesterday at the Foreign Office.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday, for his
seat at Bowood Park, Wilts.
The Judicial Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council
sat yesterday. An appeal was heard from the Prerogative
Court 'of Canterbury—Abraham Crawford, a legatee, named
in the. will of John Bartholomew Hoare Curran, a Corn-
maater in the Royal Navy, late of Edinburgh, v. Eliza
Oct avia Curran, otherwise Taylor, wife of the Rev. James
Taylor, clerk, the natural and lawful sister of the deceased.
The principal question before the Court was the domicile
of die testator. After the case for the appellants had been
cor.cluded, Sir Herbert Jenner gave judgment on the part
of their Lordships, affirming the decree of the Court below,
with costs. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Mr.
Baron Park, the Judge of the Prefogative Court, and the
Chief Judge in Bankruptcy.
WEDNESDAY.-Mr. Baron Parke had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street.
The Right Honourable Frankland Lewis, Mr. John
Shaw Lefevre, and Mr. Nicholls, Poor Law Commissioners,
visited Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Home-office.
Lieutenant Grey and Lieutenant Lushington had an in-
terview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Hume, M.P., transacted business yesterday, at the
Horne-office.

Lord Glenelg visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday, in Downing-street.
The Judicial Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council
sat yesterday. The Lords present were—Lord Brough-
ham, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Vaughan, and the
Chief Judge in Bankruptcy.
Mr. Baron Parke gave judgment on the part of their
Lordships in an appeal from Bengal, heard at a former sit-
ting, " Meer Usd Oollah, also called Shah Chaman v. Mus-
sumat- Beeby Imaman," affirming the decree of the Sudder
Dewanny Adawlut, with costs.
An appeal from Bombay, " Heirs of Roop Chund v.
Purtal Chund Manikchund," was afterwards hear& and the
Court then adjourned.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Capt. Fenwick and Major Ternpleman, in Cockspur-street,
from the lonian Islands; Capt. Came, in Duke-street, from
the Netherlands; Lieut.-Col. Hill, in Charles-street, from
Paris ; Major and Mrs. Jeffries, in Park-street, from Dublin ;
Capt. Le Blanc, in Piccadilly, from Paris; Lieut.-Colonel
Moore, in Charles-street, from Paris; Major Kirkpatrick, in
Chesterfield-street, from Dublin ; Lieut. Dodd, in Waterloo-
place, from the Mediterranean ; Major Boydell, in Conduit-
street, from Paris.
, DEPARTURES.
Capt. Griffin, for Portsmouth; Major Callender, for Man-
chester ; Col. and Mrs. Hastings, for. Bath ; Capt. A. Blair,
for Plymouth; Capt. Seton, for Liverpool ; Major R. Keith,
for Canterbury ; Captain Dacie, for Newport, in the Isle of
Wight ; Col. Miller, for Folkestone ; Major and Mrs. Bo-
denbam, for Cornwall; Col. and Mrs. Robinson, for Bath.

The Duke of Devonshire had a select party at dinner
Tuesday evening at Devonshire House.
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Lord Wharncliffe, at the Wakefield dinner, on
Monday, contradicted the statement that Lady Wharncliffe
bad been appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen.
The Earl of Orkney, and the Hon. Captain Fitz-
maurice, left Limmer's Hotel, Tuesday, for Taplow House,
Bucks.
Count d'Orsay, Count de Crony, Baron de Beher,
Sir Robert Inglis, &c., paid their respects on Tuesday, and
the preceding day, to Prince Polignac, at the Clarendon.
He is awaiting the arrival of the Princess and family from
Paris, to proceed to Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Cork have been enter-
taining the venerable Countess Dowager of Cork, Sir
Augustus and Lady Clifford, and a select party, at Marston
House, Somerset.
The duties of Deputy Adjutant-General at head-
quarters, recently held by Major-General Sir Richard Jack-
son, are now performed by Lieutenant-Colonel Freeth, the
. Assistant Quartermaster- General. It is understood the ap-
pointment will be discontinued.
The French Ambassador gave a most sumptuous
dinner on Sunday last, at Manchester House, to his Excel-
lency Prince Esterhazy and the Prince Nicholas, the Coun-
tess of Tankerville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord and
Lady John Russell, Count de Grarnmont, Viscount Palmer-
ston, Baron Seckendortf, the Chevalier d'Aguilar, M. and
Mde. Dedel, Mr. P. Thomson, Mr. Ellice, the Amcrican
Minister, and Mrs. Stevenson.
The.. Earl of Scarborough is entertaining a select
party at Sandbeck Park, near Bawtry, Yorkshire.
The Duke of Portland is entertaining Lord Seaford
and a family circle, at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire.
The Hon. Mrs. Westenra entertained a large party
at dinner yesterday, in Green-street.
Sir Robert Peel is entertaining the Earl and Coun-
tess of Jersey, Mr. Yates and Lady Jane Peel, and many of
the surrounding nobility and gentry, at Drayton Manor.
The Right Baronet and his friends have had abundant sport,
pheasant-shooting, on his well-stocked preserves.
Lord Ashburton, the Hon. Wm. Bingham Baring,
and the Hon. General Upton, are enjoying the sports of the
field at the Grange, in Hampshire.
The Marquis of Ely has arrived in Portman-square
from Paris. His Lordship's eldest son, Lord Loftus, is at
the family seat, in Fermanagh.
Sir Francis and Lady LawleY arrived in Grosvenor-
square from their seat Middleton Park, Warwickshire. The
Hon. Baronet is making great improvements on the large
estates he inherited from his brother, the late Lord Wen_
lock, at Weulock in Shropshire.
Lord Thurlow, who came of ao.e only last year, and
was united a few weeks since, at age only last year, and
was united a few weeks since, at Whitchaven, to a lady
named Hodgson, has, with his Lady, arrived at their seat,
Ashfield Park, Suffolk, from the north.
Lord Yarborough has purchased the Yard estate in
the Isle of Wight, the property of the late T. W. Martin, Esq.
Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothsav, and the Hon.
Miss Nugent, who arc travelling in France, have arrived
at Nantes, in the department of the Loire.
The Duchess of Gordon and Miss Home have left
. . Paris for Italy, where they will pass the winter..
• The Earl and Countess de Grey, and Captain and
Lady Mary Vyner have left St. James's-square for Wrest
Park, Bedfordshire, where his Lordship is constructing a
new-mansion in a style of great magnificence.
Madame Rossini, the wife of the celebrated com-
poser, narrowly escaped being killed by a citadine a few days
since. She was struck on the shoulder by the pole of the

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