The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR,

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Her Roy Highness the Duchess of entertained
t large and distinguished party at dinner on Wednesdarp
a the King's Palace at Kensington.,

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAI4D, accompanied
)y Prince GEORGE, left town yesterday aft'euloon, on a
iisit to their MAJESTIES at the Palsce at Windsor.

Prince LEOPOLD ;eft town on Wednesday evening for
residence at Claremont. His Royal Highness left
laremont yesterday, fur the Palace at Windsor, on a visit
-o their MAJESTIES.

His MAJESTY will this day present the Second Regi-
nent of Life Guards, commanded by EarLCATHcanr,
vith a pair of el,gaut silver kettle-drums, similar to those
.vhieh were pretented by GEORGE the Third to the Royal
Horse Guards. In the evening, the King will entertain
the officers of the regiment at dinner.

The Duke of CAMBRIDGE bas experien,ced an attack of
the gout at Hanover.

The LORD CHANCELLOR and Lord HOLLAND had inter-
views yesterday with Earl GREY at the Treasury.
Viscount ST. VINCENT visited Viscount GODNRICH
yesterday at the Colonial Office.

BRITISH CEMETERY AT BOULOGNE-

SUR-MER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—The authorities of this place having officially
communicated to me their right of re-hccupying the land
appropriated for the interment of the dead, after the
expiration of five years from opening the ground, as
well with respect to the French as to foreigners, agree-
ably to the old established law of France, 1 con-
sider it my duty to announce the same in the most
public manner, for the information of British subjects
having relatives lying in this cemetery; and that an op-
portunity is given to any person desirous of retaining the
graves and monuments of their deceased friends, of pun-
chasing such land, either in perpetuity, or a term of years,
upon the several terms stated in tables, which 1 have
transmitted to Charles Ilertslet, Esq., Solicitor, No.
St, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, who will furnish
the necessary particulars.

I am sure you will readily assist my object, which you,
can best do by giving publicity to thisletter in your widely-
circulated Paper.—l am, Sir, yours eb,diently

W. HAMILTON,
H. B. M. Consul, Boulogne.sur. Men
Bo ulogne-sur-Mer, 28th April, 1831.

COUNTY ELECTION—Tuesday next is the
day appointed for the election of Members for the County
of Middlesex, to take place at Breritford. The old Mem-
bers, Messrs. Byrra and flux; will be e,cortrd into that
ancient town before twelve o'clock in the forenonn of that
day, by large bodies of the electors, who will form them.
selves into a procession. There is not the leirtotest idea
of an opposition, and the election is not expected to but
came than an hour.

We have been favoured with a sight of two
beautifully-executed minature bronze busts, one a striking
likeness of our justly popular KING, and the other that
of Lord Chancellor BROUGHAM ; and we have he,n told
a characteristic anecdote of the KING in regard to that
which represents himself. The artist by whom they live
been prepared waited on his MAJesrr with a specimen
of his art, with which he expressed himself very much
satisfied, and inquired at what price they could Le sold ;
the artist said, that front the expense which attend••d the
moulds they could not be sold for less than three guineas ;
on which the Krwc assured him that he would pay all
preparatory expenses, and added, "you must sell there for
one guinea each, for I wish every one of my subjects to be
in possession of a copy."---- Caledonian Mercury.

ATTORNEY'S BILL.-Among the persons
opposing the discharge of Sir JOHN IGNATIUS BOAT,
who lately applied for relief under the insolvent Debtors'
Act, were several agents. Rather a curious item was in-
troduced into the Bill of one of them, which was the fol-
lowing :—" To coming from Dublin to Holyhead in a
storm for you; in fact, Sir Jens, for doing impossibilities
for you, 5001."—Legal Observer.

" The Young Duke," whose fashionable ad-
ventures are described in the new novel by the author of
" Vivian Grey," is now living, though he can no loneer
be called a junior. The fair divorde is also living, mud
is still as lively a character as she was in those days during
which she is depicted by the novelist —The prominent
character of the Prima Donna it must be admitted is an
anachronism. She was not extant at the time when the
o her veritable characters flourished ; though in the pre-
vent day she has succeeded, in mere ways than one, in
making a noise.

A GOOD SPECULATION.—A poor man,
num d CAWTHORNE, residing in Gravel-lane, Shadwell,
who has a wife and six children, and who has been for
some time supported by the parish, was advised, on the
late occasion, to manufacture illumination candlesticks.
He accordingly made upwards *of 6,000 small candle•
sticks, which he disposed of at a shilling per dozen on the
Wednesday morning. As the materials cost only V.,
which was lent him by a friend, he realised a profit of 21/.,
which " has set him on his legs again." He could have
sold double the number if he had had them made.

Yesterday gave another curious proof of the
variableness of our variable climate. At nine o'clock it
was a beautiful and warm May morning ; at eleven it was
bitterly cold; and the noon-day sun was accompanied by
a bountiful shower of good sized hail stories. Snow only
was wanting to make it dead winter.

The Life of Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE,
which has been so long and so anxiously expected, will
be laid before the public in the coarse of a few days. The
correspondence of this celebrated individual was very ex-
tensive, and is said to he to the full as inter( sting and as
beautiful iu composition as that of the poet Cowl.Eß;
dad we are happy to state that the writer of his life has
been enabled to make a copious se:ertion of his letters,
embracing his opinions on art, literature, manners, fec.

A young lady, about 16 years of age, who
had lately returned from a fashionable boarding-school. and
was living with her father at Broughty Ferry, eloped last
week with her father's groom. Intl were immediately
traced to Edinburgh by some friends of the family, (which
ranks among the Aristocracy of the county) ; but, before
they could be overtaken, a " half-mark" marriage had been
consummated. The young runaway, on bring requested
to return to her distressed relations, showed by her answer
that she had fully made up her mind to sacrifice their
feelings for her own gratification ; and she was therefore
left to reap the fruits of her imprudent conduct. It is
understood that she is entitled to a considerable sum in
her own right.—Dundee Advertiser.
MONEY LETTERS WITHOUT DIRECTIONS.
The Duke of RICHMOND, in evidence recently printed,
respecting Post-office salaries, makes this extraordinary
statement :—Speaking of the salaries, his Grace says,
" All will recollect the responsible situation of those men
who sort the letters, and the power they have of secret-
ing letters, and converting the contents to their own use,
which is very much facilitated by the negligence of the
public. In the last year, in England alone, there were
910 letters (on an average upwards of three a day), con-
taining property to the amount of 6,6451., put into the office
without any direction at all ! In addition, several bankers'
letters were misdirected to the wrong town, five of th.t nu tn.-
beralone containing property to the amount of 13,8331." His
Grace afterwards remarks that " the amount of money
sent through the post-office is very large indeed. On one
of the days of the severe fall of snow last winter, the
Glasgow bag was brought into the inland-office, and there
were twelve thousand pounds, for one banker alone, loose
in the bag—the letters bad got wet, and the money had
dropped out !" It ie also a curious fact, though not
stated in this evidence, that there are daily many n,,ws-
papers, sometimes hundreds, put into the office without
any direction ; besides many, many letteee without ade
dresses, as well as without mon, y.
JACK KETCH, A PROFESSOR .I.—A Bristol
paper, in its notice of the execution of WALKER, the burg-
far, observes, that the prisoner remained in prayer for a
short time with the Chaplain; after cOdcle the execu-
tioner proceeded 'o the duties of his PROFESSION ! Only
think of a Professorship of Hanging being founded and
endowed in one of our Universities !

The new and cheap edition in one volume
embelli,hed by plates, of " The Spy," by the celebrated
transatlantic Novtlist, published as the third number of
'' The Standard Novels," may he, in many rewrcts, re-
garded as a new work; for not only has the author pre-
faced it by an introduction containing a remarkable story
in the secret history of America from which the idea of
the tale was deduced, but Iris add,d many il:u-trabe
ti:e
notes, and given every page the benefit of his last touek b
The whole of this hbour was bestowrd on the Wu. 3
di, and tram.-
Mr. CO.:4'ER at Paris during the
h 47: edition, in the
Wished by eons. COLS eAN and
Ban-Tins,
m,,istttaecindtao,dENngolvanktxppuressly for t-e 4