The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-04 00:00:00

BRIGHTON-WEDNES DAY.

At a quarter before rine o'clock this morning their Majes-
ties passed through the north gates of the Palace grounds in
their ivareiling chariot, on their way to St. James's. They
were la' eitceli6nt health and spirits. We understand that it is
their intent-km go return on Monday next, should .lothing occur
to o.6ent theta ;: hut, in the present aspect of affairs, the
Royal Holgch'6l4, have received instructions to be
pi Ipared to
remain in toiCti tequired;
The Royal carriapr was followed by a second carriagee°ll-
tft44ng Prince Ernest anti Lord Elphinstone, who intend' 1°
rcturti 'N.l.kh their Majesties.
Prince George and his Preceptor left at half-past twelve
o'clock. The Royal mite that accompanied their Majesties,
comprised the Earl and Countess of Mayo, Hon. Miss Hor
Johnston, Sir Herbert and Lady Taylor, Col. Bowater, Mr.
Davis, Lord de Lisle and Dudley. and Col. Sir George SeY"
mour. The Princess Augusta and the Landgravine retzain at'
the Palace.
Their Majesties' dinner party yesterday evening, comprised,
the -Honourable Mr. and Mrs. Jerningham, Hon. Colonel a:10
Mrs. Dawson Darner, Mrs. Fitzberbert, Lady Wharncligeo
Earl and Countess of Beverley, and the Ladies Percy, Mar',
quis of Bristol, Lady K. Jermyn, Lady G. Hervey, and Loll'
Fincastle.
.His Majesty has been pleased to confer "the honorary dis
tinction of Knight of the third class of the Guelphic Order,
on Lieut.-Col. Leslie.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The King and Queen arrived in town at half-past one
o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Pavilion at Brighton, i
Their Majesties were received at St. James's by the Duke °I
Cumberland.
His Majesty held a Court at two o'clock. I
Baron del Torre de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
had an audience of the King, to deliver a letter. :
,
Nourri Effendi, Ottoman Minister, attended by Mr. Selaule;
his Majesty's Oriental interpreter, had an audience of t-- -,'
King, to deliver a letter, and a present from the Sultan. 1,,
M. Golvao, the Brazilian Minister, had his first audience,. '"
form, to deliver his credentials.
Marquis de Barbacena, on', a special mission, fromm-Brazilr
had an audience, to deliver his credentials.
M. de Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister, had an audience, to
deliver a letter.
To which several audiences their Excellencies were respec'
tively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's Pt",
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted tu
Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.
His Majesty held a Privy Council, which was attended bY
the following Cabinet Ministers :—The Lord Chancellor, the
1,0).-1 President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Sere.,"
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tnri,;(4 0; State for the Foreign and Colonial Departments, we
Chancellor z-bf the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralo
the president 0: the Board of Control, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancast,,,,7. the President of the Board of Trade,
and the Secretary at I,:ar.
The King having been 1; leased to appoint the Right HO if
Lord Se rave to be Lord la,:utenant of the county of Glets-
tester, his Lordship took the oaths appointed to be taken '
thereupon.
Mr. Hanbury Leigh took the oaths, staving been appointed
Lord Lieutenant of the county of Monmouth. a
Mr. Williams also took the oaths, having been appoiate
Lord Lieutenant of the county of Brecon.
The King pricked the Roll of Sheriffs for England an
Wales for the present year.
A proclamation was ordered for the issue of a new safer
coin of the value of fourpence. ,
A proclamation was ordered for a new distribution of prise 1
money captured in the Slave trade.
His Majesty's Speech on opening the Session of Parliaznellt
this day was finally arranged and agreed upon.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Cottacil
in Waiting.
Lord Holland, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancast,ri
had an audience of his Majesty to present the list of GerA3e..
men nominated to serve the offs ;e of Sheriff for that coati'
which his Majesty pricked.
. Colonel Leitk Hay was introduced to his Majesty, by 'VW
count Melbourne, for the honour of Knighthood.
His Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of .Lansdowl
Viscount Palmerston, Duke of Argyll, Viscount Melbourt;
Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Hill, Earl of Minto, Sir At"
Hobhouse, and Lord Glenelg. ord
The Court was attended by the Lord Steward, the ,'",-; ii.
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, Lord Hill, Gold the
in Waiting, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, toe
Treasurer of the Household, and the Comptroller of
ouse:old.
The Bfb:.rquis of Headfort and Sir William Houston Wee
H
the Lord anti Groom in Waiting.
Prince Ernes: of Hesse Philipsthal, attended by Lord Si-
phinstone, arrived intown yesterday from Brighton. re.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday morning, the
at
sell, in Wilton-crescent.
Grand dinner parties e:e given last evening by Vise°not
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Melbourne and Lord John' Lassen, at which the Ministers
his Majesty's Speech (which is to be delivered this daY„s
to their respective guests. The Company, including the move'.
and seconders of the Address in the Houses of Parliamee" ,
came to both entertainments in full (;,curt dress. ~ f t
Viscount Melbourne entertained a large party, consistiocifo
the Lord Chancellor and the Great ,615cers of State/ 0a- f
Peers of the Household, the Dukes of Loinoter, Norfolk,' no, ,
milton, Grafton, Argyll, and Cleveland; Earis of Burliege"
sidence of Lord John Ru..q
w
and Sefton, &c. f be.
Lord John Russell entertained near forty Members 0 e.
House of Commons. The dinncr was given at the offiejeloeft. i
sidence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-st,r od
Nourri Effendi, the Turkish Minister, gave another gt;;"ats
entertainment last evening, to a numerous party, to Cele; the
the birth of the Prince Neram-Eddeen Khan, third son of the
Grand Signior. The company consisted of the Civic alliand
rities, and a large party of some of the leading merchants
ro
bankers of the City. The band of the Scots Fusileer allre,
were again in attendance. The front of his Excellency/ /ell
sidence was illuminated in the same brilliant and elegy et
manner, and with precisely the same devices, as at the foci
entertainments.

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RUMOURED MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.---"lti
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reported that the Lady E. Toier, daughter of the Ea.arb
Norbury, is about to be united to the Hon. Laurence ,ry
sons, second son of the Earl of Rosse.
On Friday last, as Sir Francis Burdett was
in Hyde-park,' a carriage driving rapidly past rendered ,JO,
horse restive, which started, turned quite round, and 'jr,',4
mately threw his rider. We are happy to learn that `,l,
Francis was not seriously hurt; and is now nearly recovercj
MR. HORACE SMITH.—The numerous fric'ti,
and admirers of this distinguished writer and very estirnawl
man, will be delighted to And that his celebrated hist°T,lol,
Romance of " Brambletye House" which, it will be
lected, ran so successful a carecr at the period of the Once
cation of Sir Walter Scott's" Woodstock," is to coml6c of
being published next Saturday in the new weekly issul,lY
" Colburn's Novelists." It will be comprised in six we-600
numbers, at One Shilling each, althoug.h it will contir
three
pages of letter-press, a portrait of the author, an u ,4511
other engravings by the Findens. Like our great Sco',lbet
Novelist, the author has in this, as well as in all his 'ravel
works, shown wonderful versatility of talent, and the flO,
the comic, the humble, and the sublime—what excites Polly
sure, and what overwhelms with terror and are, seem -eq°

natural to him.
clAt°
It is rumoured in the theatrical circles that air the
Vestris is in treaty for the English Opera Rouse, 35 nre'
lease of the little Olympic expires at the end of the rite
sent Session, and it is understood that she does 11(4
tend to renew it. DA
FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT - Alm
LINGTON.—As the wife of Mr. Lister, residing ose
liance-street, near Darlington, was returning to her goys'
on Monday evening last, with two of her children, ie JAI/
ing the railway adjoining tile above street, a place rep by
bY
erected, one of her children, who had been walkillt°
her side, had strayed a short distance on the railwa;'. ,Aga
apprehended that it was in danger from a train of 1,0(1
gons which were approaching, and with her other e,.00,
in her arms she ran to rescue it from its perilous siturrlote
when the waggons, which were only going at a mount all
speed, overtook her and her children, and hurried Ll'en-„,p;
instantaneously into eternity. Mrs. Lister was 11,Y;bel
woman, about 22 years of age, and has left one child
hind her. The verdict on the inquest was, "
Death," with a deodand of Is. 'on each waggon.--*ll
Iris of Tuesday. re
THIMBLE-RlGGERS.—Although these. gentrz, Poo
duce a pea, yet on no occasion except when one of elortbree
party bet, will that pea be found under any' of thesool
thimbles with which they play. All persons ought t° these'
with care the third fingers of the performers, for witli
yo
by the aid of their thumbs, they invariably contrive
tract the pea. 'Joe,
FIRE AND Loss OF LlFE.—About three rr to
on Saturday morning the house of Mr. Dixon, Pilin,,teet",
Tone-street, in the suburbs of Newcastle, was ars' the
to be on fire. The flames raged in such fury tllatty,'s°l',
whole house was in a few minutes in a blaze. Mr. tier
and his family were unable from the smoke to co, ",-
escape by the door, and got out by. the window.
niture and stock in trade were altogether destroyew s()ice
building was burned to the ground. Two fine girls'A wet
ver, one thirteen and another nine, who it is supPe,se,T;es evt
on their way to their room, anxious to get their clot
unhappily perished before their situation was know'"' 1111'
BALLAST.—By the 4th and sth of ofj
cap. 89, sec. 3, slate and chalk laden on board any
and
vessel bound for foreign parts shall be deemed ballast'e;
all
lships or vessels having on board only slate, or 51114
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chals, shall bo deemed to be departing in ballast ; °lv
return of any such ship or vessel any slate or chalk
maining on board, it shall be deemed ballast. beet
BULL-BAITING.—Six colliers have this weekbovil
committed to our gaol for a fortnight's imprisonment,ey,
been. convicted before the Magistrates at Madei ting
" wantonly and cruelly beating, ill-using, and torni,en foci
bull, in the highway at Bosley, in November last:vy
were each fined 55., and 10s. 6d. expences, which 'op/
fused to pay, and were therefore sent to
Chronicle.