The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCUL

Divine Service was performed yesterday before flu.
Duchess of KENT, the Princess VICTORIA, and their Royal
Highnesses' household, at their residence in the King's
Palace at Kensington, by the Dean of CHESTER.
A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock on S tturday
afternoon, at the Foreign.office, which was attended by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl
GREY, Lord DURHAM, Viscount MELBOURNE, Vi,COOO t
PALMERSTON, Viscount ALTHORP, the Earl of CA KLISI E,
the Right Hon. C. GRANT, and Lord HOLLAND.

viscount GODERICH was absent from the Council. Ws
Lordship left town at an early hour in the moraine for
Wrest House, the seat of the Countess DE GREY, in order
to attend the funeral of his nephew. The Council hrolie up
soon after three o'clock.

Immediately after the Cabinet, a Conference on the
affairs of Belgium was held by the Ministers of the Great
Powers, at the Foreign•office. It was attended by Prince
LEIVEN, the Russian Ambassador; Prince ESTERIIAZY,
the Austrian Ambassador; Prince TA LLEYRA ND, the French
Ambassador; Baron BuLow, the Prussian Minister; the
Baron DE WIESSENBERG, Minister from Austria ; Count
MASTUCHEVITZ, Minister from Russia; and Viscount PA I. -
MERSTON. This conference lasted upwards of two hours.
A deputation of the Tobacco Manufacturers of London,
including Messrs. HATFIELD, CA It REY, VANDERHOYDE,
R LLOYD, and ALEXANDER GRANT, attended at the.
Treasury on Saturday, and had a conference with the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.

Earl and Countess GREY left town on Saturday after-
noon on a visit to Prince LEOPOLD, at his residence at

C I aremont.

A deputation of Refiners of Sugar, headed by Mr. Wool),
M. P. had an interview with the CEIANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER on Saturday.

Prince LEOPOLD is entertaining the Russian Ambas-
sador and Princess LEIVEN, Earl and C.mntess GREY, Sir
HENRY PARNELL, and a select party of the nobility and
gentry, at his residence at Claremont. Toe Prince had a
grand dinner party on Saturday.
The Duke, Duchess, Prince GEORGE of CUMBERLAND,
and their Royal Highnesses' Household, attended Divine
Service yesterday, in their residence at the King's Palace,
St. James's.

A numerous meeting of Members of the House of Com-
mons was held yesterday, in the department of the CHA x-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER at the Tretsury. About
one hundred and fifty members were present; among whom
were Earl SEFTON, Viscount EBRINGTON, the Marquis
of TAVISTOCK, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Llrd DUNCANNON,
Sir JOHN NEWPORT, Sir GEORGE WA RRENDER, Sir .1.
GRAHAM, Messrs. C. GRANT, R. GRANT, LITTLETON,
MABERLY, BYNG, C. DUNDAS, CAVENDISII, BARING,
SPRING RICE, ELLICE, St.'. These gentlemen were en-
gaged with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER near
two hours. After the meeting had broken up, Viscount
ALTHORP and Sir JAMES GRAHAM went to the Colonial
Office, and joined the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Marquis
Of LANSDOWNE, the Duke Of RICHMOND, Viscount GODE.
RICH, &C.

The Ministers were engaged in deliberation near two
hours.

The SPEAKER of the House of Commons gave his first
dinner this season, on Saturday, to a party of the Members
of the House of Commons,

A deputation of glass manufacturers had an interview
with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER on Saturday
at the Treasury.

KING'S THEATRE.

The celebrat,d singer, DAVID, who has long enjoyed,
on the continent, the reputation of being the most perfect
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delightful opeia Ricciardo e Zoraide. The tenderness,
the fire, the melancholy, the joy, and all the varied ex-
pression so richly pervading the part, were given by the
singer in such fine perfection, that the task, in speaking
of the performance, is not one of criticism but of 'pane-
gyric. Some, perhaps, may think the style generally too
florid ; and, indeed, theme are few great singers who have
not, when physical power has begun to fail them, endea-
voured to compensate the loss, as time has done by them,
by substituting skill ar.d execution in the place of tone.
But in the florid singing of DAVID there is this peculiarity,
his most brilliant cadences abound with expressimin and
sentiment as pure as those of the most simple and touch-
ing melody. We should not suppose the voice ever to
have possessed great valuate, and it is evidently much
weakened by age, and perhaps still more by the enthu.
siasm of the singer, which is strongly exemplified by the
peculiarity of his action and deportment in singing. Its
compass is extensive upwards, going into a very high fal.
setto, which is used with a perfect mastery in executing
passages, combining it with the wee di lutto, and is pe-
culiarly sweet anti effective in tone. in its use the singer
not unfrequently reminthd us of the manner of Vxt,LuTt.
His first scena put the house into raptures, that were even
increased by his successive exertions up to his last aria,
which was encored by acclamations such as are seldom
heard in 'this theatre. The exquisite duet, A/s nati, .vas
also most brilliantly performed by Aim, and vehemently de-
manded again. We have certainly never heard a singer
of such accomplished skid as Signor DAVID now is. lie
was called for after the opera, and gret ted on his appear-
ance with the most flattering testimonies of aproltation.
Mademoiselle BECK, a debutante on this °evasion, is a
mezzo soprano, who will be useful to the theatre. Miss
AYTON, as the representative of Zoraide, must have been
extremely ill used by the orchestra. She scarcely sang a
piece in which the instruments were not unfrequently half
a note above her. In the divertissement and ballet, Pact.,
MONTESSU, BROCARD, and the other dancers, 'petitioned
last week, were again received with the marked favour of
the audience.

We have authority to state that the Mar-
chioness of LANSDOWNE'S party is postponed till
day, tie 17t4 inst.

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has, at
his own private expense, chartered vessels at Cork and
Larne, and shipped on board them potatoes for the relief
o` the distres.ed peasantry in the western and south-western
di*:ricts in Ireand.—Diddin Evening Mail

Mr. RUSSELL IS no longer the lessee of the
Brighton theatre. He terminated his lease, however, n ith
considerable eclat. MISS FANNY RUMBLE and her father,
at nearly the close of this season, performed there four
nights, by which Mr. RUSSELL is said to have cleared four
hundred pounds, in addition to two hundred guineas given
to Mr. KEMBLE and his daughter, for their most success.
ful services.

A petition for Reform of Parliament has been
numerously signed at Calne.—D. vines Gazette.

Yesterday the petition for Radical Reform,
from the eastern district of the Barony parish of Glasgow,
was forwarded to HENRY HUNT, E-q., AL P., for presen-
tation, subscribed by 1,665 individuals.— Glasgow Citron.

A petition to Parliament, praying for an ex-
tension of the elective franch se, is now in course of s;gns-
Lure in the borough of Tiverton. The inhabitants here
are all in full expectation of a favourable result..--Sher-
borne Journal.

Petitions have been forwarded from Folke-
stone, very respectably and numerously signed, for Parlia-
mentary Reform. One to the House of Lords will be
presented by the Earl of RADNOR, and to the Cornmoos
C. P. TII(VNISON, Esq.—Kentish Gazette.

REFORM MEETING AT WARRINGTON.—
numerous and respeetal,le meeting of the inhabitants of
Warrington, and the neighbourhood, convered by the con-
stables, was held in the sessions room, in that town, on
Monday last; when a series of resolutions and a petition in
favour of Parliamentary Reform and vote by ballot were
unanimously curried.—[A Reform meeting at Warrington
is, indeed, a sign of the titwes.]—Manchester Guardian.
On Friday a meeting of the inhabitants of
the Ward of Cripplegate took place, for the purpose of
petitioning
in the Chair. meeting Par
Parliament favour of
allsehfoeri
d in the Quest-
house, the Churchwarden having, very much to the m Alderman
w
an-
noyance of the ward, refused to allow it to be held in the
church. The resolutions were, after some discussion,
unanimously agreed ta, and a petition was founded upon
them to Parliament, and ordered to be presented by Alder-
man Woo°, to whom the warmest thanks of the meeting
were voted;
We believe we may at length inform our
' readers that the turn-out at Ashton, Stalybridge, &c., is
at an end, and has terminated, as we have from the first
concelved that it must, in the men's resuming their work
at the rats of wages originally offered them by the
masters, We mentioned last week several mills which
were then wholly or partially filled with hands; and since
that time the number of wheels running has been daily
and very rapidly augmenting. At Stalybridge and Ashton,
we believe all the mills have either already resumed work,
or will recommence on Monday. At Dukintield, we
understand, few of the mills are yet in operation ; but it
is expected that they likewise will all be so on Monday.—
Manchester Guardian.