The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty held a Privy Council yesterday afternoon at
the Pavilion at Brighton. The following Cabinet Ministers
left town yesterday morning to attend the Council :—Vis-
count Melbourne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord Glenelg, Earl
of Minto, and Mr. Poulett Thomson. The Council was ap-
pointed to be held at four o'clock.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, attended
by Lady Conroy, Baroness Lehzen, and Sir John Conroy,
came to Kensington Palace yesterday from Claremont. In the
evening their Royal Highnesses went to Drury-lane theatre.
Prince Ernest of Philippsthal, accompanied by Captain
Curzon, dined with Sir H. Wheatley last evening.
Lord Hill has left town for Brighton.

Lord and Lady John Russell left Wilton-crescent yes-
terday morning for Holkham, the seat of Mr. and Lady
Anne Coke, to pass the Christmas holydays. Lady John
Russell's soirees will be discontinued for the present.
M. Hummelaucr, Secretary to the Austrian Embassy,
transacted business at the Foreign-office.

Lord Saye and Sele will recommence his dinner
parties in Bruton-street early in the next month.
The Countess of Bridgewater will entertain a select
party during the holidays at Ashridge Castle.
The pasties at Manchester House have ceased.
There were only the Spanish Minister and one or two private
gentlemen at the Countess's conversazione on Wednesday
evening. The French Ambassador left town yesterday
morning for Brighton, to take leave of his Majesty. The
Count will be absent for six weeks. His Excellency departs
on Thursday next, the 29th inst.
Count d'Orsay entertained a party at dinner on
Wednesday, consisting of the Prince Esterhazy, Prince Ni-
cholas Esterhazy, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Belfast,
Lord Allen, Sir Robert Gordon, Sir George Warrender, the
Hon. Col. Anson, the Hon. F. Byng, Col. Maberly, and Mr.
Standish and Mr. Charles Greville.
Lord Seaford will leave Audley-square in a day or
two, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Portland, at Wel-
beck Priory. His Lordship has passed a great part of his
time since his return from Portugal at the seat of Adm. Sir
Thomas Hardy, in Kent.
The Earl of Wiltshire, Lord Walpole, and other
fashionables, are on their way from Italy, to pass the carnival
in Paris. _ _ _

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are
not expected to arrive at Holderness House, from St. Pe-
tersburg, until the third week in January.
John Ayshford Wise, Esq., has left the Burlington
Hotel, Burlington-street, for Ford Abbey, Devonshire.
Much hospitality will prevail at Baron's Court during
the holydays, and the poorer classes on the extensive estates
of the Marquis, in Tyrone and Donegal, will participate in
his bounty. Besides the Duke and Duchess of Bedford and
Lord Claude Hamilton, who have arrived, the Earl of Mor-
ton and some branches of the Douglas family, the Earl and
Countess of Caledon, Capt. and Lady Harriet Hamilton,
&c., are expected.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange returned
to his head-quarters at Tilburg on the 17th.
The Hanoverian Gazette declares there is no foun-
dation for the report which it copied from the English papers,
that the Duke of Cambridge had lately received the Russian
Order of St. Andrew. His Royal Highness has had that
Order ever since 1833.
The Marquis of Sligo arrived in Dublin on Sunday
from London. His Lordship dined in the evening with their
Excellencies, and had an interview with the Lord Lieute-
nant on Monday morning, immediately after which he left
town for Westport.
Mr. and Mrs. St. John Mildmay, are expected to
commence their fashionable parties at their new mansion,
lately called Darnley House, in Berkeley-square, early in
February next.
The Earl de Grey's party will this Christmas be
confined to a family circle. The Noble Lord intends re-
turning to town on Tuesday next. Mr. and Lady Mary
Vyner came up to St James's-square on Thursday.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are at
Bretby Park, in Leicestershire, where they intend to re-
main a few days, and then visit the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, at Badminton.

The Earl and Countess of Harrowby will entertain
a select party at Sandon Hall, in Staffordshire.
The health of the Earl of Westmorland continues in
a very delicate state.
Intimations have been givenfor celebrating the birth-
day of the Earl of Lonsdale on the 29th inst., at Whiteha-
yen, Hensingham, Maryport, Carlisle, Penrith, Appleby, &c.
Earl Spencer has arrived at Wiseton Hall, on the
borders of Nottinghamshire, from Althorpe, where the
Hon. Captain and Mrs. Spencer have arrived, on their way
to pass the Christmas at Burghley House, the seat of the
Marquis of Exeter. The project of selling Spencer House,
for which the Marquis of Abercorn was, it was said, at one
period in treaty, is for the present abandoned.
At the commencement of the fashionable season
Knowle Castle, that magnificent relic of feudal grandeur,
the seat of the late Duchess Dowager of Dorset, is to be the
abode of the Countess of Plymouth, who, under the will of her
mother has a life interest in this valuable property, after
which it passes into the possession of Earl Delawarr, who
married the Duchess of Dorset's youngest daughter.

Sir F. Chantry and the School of Designs met at
the Board of Trade yesterday at two o'clock.
The Lords of the Treasury have granted 2501. to-
wards the establishment of a school on the British system
in Hastings.
REPRESENTATION OF SOMERSETSIIIRE.--A va-
cancy in the eastern division of this county is anticipated as
a probable occurrence at no very distant day. The candi-
dates assigned by common report for this distinguished ho-
nour are, in the Conservative interest, Sir A. Hood, Mr.
Jolliffe, of Ammerdown, and Mr. James Gordon. The
Radicals are said to be looking eqully to Sir R. Strachey,
and Mr. Pigott.—Morning Post.
PEEL CLUB.—We have great pleasure in announc-
ing that the enlightened and patriotic students of our Uni-
versity, who have conferred the highest, the most honourable,
and the most precious mark of their confidence and affection
on Sir Robert Peel, by electing that illustrious statesman
Lord Rector, are about to form a Conservative Club ; and,
after the splendid triumph which they have achieved, we
need hardly say that they intend to inscribe on their ban-
ners tho immortal name of Peel.—Glasgow Courier.

The late M. Dupuytren in his last illness had effu-
sion into the chest consequent on pleurisy. He was at first
disposed to have himself tapped for it ; but three of his
medical attendants being against, while two were for, para-
centesis, he changed his mind, and observed, " I would
rather die by the band of God than of man."
'rue mortality at Walsall during the last two months
has been very great, principally occasioned by the small
pox ; children have been chiefly the victims, but in some
instances the disease has attacked adults, and terminated
fatally.
Mr. Gregg is appointed an Assistant-Commissioner
of the Poor-law.
The Isle
,of Man was last week visited by a con-
tinued series of high winds and heavy rains, and the country,