The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, attended by some of the Ladies of her suite,
took equestrian exercise yesterday in the Riding-school,
near Buckingham Palace.
The Princess Sophia Matilda paid a visit to her M 4.
jesty yesterday. Her Royal Highness also visited the
Duchess of Kent at Buckingham Palace.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.
The Dowager Lady Lyttleton has succeeded the Coun-
tess of Charlemont as the Lady of the Bedchamber in
Waiting on the Queen, and Lady Charlotte Copley has
come into waiting as Woman of the Bedchamber. Lord
Lilford and Sir Frederick Stovin have replaced Lord By-
ron and the Hon. William Cowper as the Lord and Groom
in Waiting on her Majesty.
By her Majesty's command air. Hayter's great picture
of the Coronation was conveyed to Buckingham Palace
yesterday morning.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
The Dueness of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin-
cess Augusta of Cambridge, visited the Princess Augusta,
yesterday, at Clarence House, fit. James's.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign Office ; it was attended by Viscount Melbourne,
the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of
Clarendon, Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Palmerston,
Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir
John Hobhouse, Lord Holland, Mr. Labouchcre, and
Viscount Duncannon.
The Council sat an hour and a-half.
The Earl Howe had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at his residence in Downing-
street.

Sir Robert Dundas, Mr. Dundas, Mr. Somers, and Mr.
Childes King had interviews with Viscount Melbourne
yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Scholefield and Colonel Rowan had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby at the Home Office yes-
terday.

M. Hedworth Lambton, M.P., and his lady, have ar.
rived at their house in Chester-street from Leamington.
Mrs. Tyrrwint Drake and family left Farrance's Hotel
yesterday for Paul's Walden, Herts.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Vice-Admiral Lord Colville, in Portland-place; Sir
William Brabazon, Lord Clements, R. J. Eaton, Esq.,
M.P., and Mrs. Eaton, the Earl of Charleville, Lord and
Lady Emily Ashley, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. G. Hope, in
Curzon-street; General Montholon, from Paris ; Sir Bel-
lingham and Lady Graham, in Park-street ; the Countess
of Buckingham, in Chester-street, Grosvenor-place : the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ashburnham, in Eaton-place;
the Dowager Lady De Clifford, in Carlton-terrace; Sir
Frederick and Miss Hankey, in Lower Berkeley-street ;
Mr. and Mrs. Farquhar Fraser, in Eaton-square.
DEPARTURES.
Lady Mildmay, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea; Miss Bur-
dett Coutts, on a tour ; the Hon. Major-General Upton,
on a tour; Colonel Ashworth, for Brighton; Lady Frede-
rick Bentinck, for Cottesmore Lodge, Rutland; the Hon.
W. M. Noel, for Keltoor House, Rutland ; the Duke of
Rutland, for Gorhambury, en route to Belvoir Castle ;
Lieutenant Wedderburn, 2d Life Guards, for Windsor;
Lord and Lady Charles Kerr, for Limerick; the Rev.
Lord Charles Paulet, for Wellesbourne Rectory, Strat-
ford-upon-Avon ; Miss Upton, for Brighton ; Captain and
Mrs. Lothan Dickson, for ditto ; Lord Carteret, for Bed-
fordshire ; Lord William Pauler, to assume the command
of the 6Sth depot.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca con
templates paying a visit to this country this summer. His
Royal Highness will be accompanied by his son, a youth of
whose talents report speaks highly.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have dis-
continued their dinner parties at Cambridge House, until the
termination of the Court mourning for the late Landgravine of
Hesse Hombourg.
The Marquis of Lansdowne's first grand dinner
will take place at Lansdowne House on Saturday next.
The Earl and Countess of Minto give a grand
dinner to-morrow evening, at the Admiralty. After dinner
the Countess has a soirée.
Viscount Palmerston and the Dowager Countess
Cowper have issued invitations for a dinner party on Saturaay
evening, at their residence in Carlton House-terrace.
Lady Lucy North entertained a fashionable
party on Tuesday in Manchester-square.
Lord Maryborough gave his second dinner on
Tuesday in Saville-row.
The Duchess of Sutherland, and a select circle,
dined with Mr. C. Greville, on Tuesday evening, in Grosve-
nor-place.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely are re-
ceiving a numerous: circle at Ely Lodge, their seat. in Irelan.'.
The Noble Marquis and Marchioness purpose remaining some
time longer in Ireland.
Lord and Lady Maryborough entertained the
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somer-
set, Hon. Miss Somerset, Mr. Culling Smith, and a select
circle to dinner, on Friday evening, in Saville-row.
Lady Blessington entertained at dinner, on Mon-
day last, Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte; Lords Lyndhurst,
Brougham, Stuart de Rothesay, and Strangford ; Sir R. Wil-
son, General Montholon, Viscount Persigay ; Messrs. C. Gre-
ville, Leader, Roebuck, and Montgomery.
THE KING OF HANOVER.—lntelligence was
received in town on Tuesday last, that, owing to the death of
the Landgravine of Hesse Hombourg, his Majesty had re-
nounced his intended visit to this country, in the early part of
next month. We understand his Majesty was deeply affected
when the news of his sister's demise reached him, and imme-
diately gave up all thoughts of being present at the Queen's
nuptials. Should the affairs of Hanover permit of his Majesty
visiting this country next summer, it is probable the King will
arrive at the close of May or early in June, when his sojourn
will not exceed three weeks.
The funeral of the lamented Princess Elizabeth
of Hesse Hombourg will take place in the family mausoleum of
the Landgraves, at Hesse Hombourg, near Frankfort on the
Maine, in the presence of the reigning Landgrave Philip,
Prince Gustavus, the Duke of Nassau, and his brother
Prince Maurice, and other illustrious relatives of the deceased
princess.
The Hon. Thomas Grenville had a dinner party
on Tuesday, at the residence of the late Duchess of Sutherland
in Hamilton-place.
Sir Robert Peel will shortly commence his Par-
liamentary Dinners for the season.
The Dowager Lady Ellenborough and the Hon.
Miss Law have returned to town, from a tour in Devonshire.
Lord Macdonald arrived at Mivart's Hotel, on
Tuesday last, from Gorhambury, Herts, where his Lordship has
been on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Verulam.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort left P.,ean-
fort House yesterday morning for Badminton, Gloue.'estershire,
where a select circle will shortly assemble.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey tiave left Mid-
dleton Park, Oxon, for Belvoir Castle, (Pa a visit to the Duke
of Rutland.
Lord Oxmantown has left town on a visit to the
Earl and Countess of Rosse, at Brighton.
Viscount Leveson, M.P., has left Devonshire
House for Northampton, where his Lordship will remain several
days to hunt with the Earl of Chesterfield's crack pack.
The Duke of Richmond left town this afternoon
for Goodwood, and will remain there until the first week in
February, when the Duchess and the family will arrive in
Portland-place. The Earl of March is much better.
The Earl of Yarborough, who left Arlington-
street the day before yesterday, for Appuldereombe Park. Isle
of Wight, is expected to return to town on Tuesday next.
Lady Charlotte Copley, daughter of the Noble Earl, arrived at
Buckingham Palace, express from Sprotborough Hall, York-
shire, on Tuesday, to enter on her month of waiting as woman
of the bedchamber to her Majesty.
The Count DemidoW is returned'to Paris from
Vienna.
The Earl Bruce and a party of fashionable& in-
tend to leave Rome for Paris early in the next month.
The Marquis of Ely has given up his splendid
mansion in Great Cumberland.street, which will be occupied
next season by Sir Robert Madarlane.
The Earl of Egremont has been elected Presi-
dent of the Royal Western Yacht Cltkb, The Noble Earl and
Countess are passing the season at ailverton House, Devon.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is
expected to officiate aft director of the first ancient concert,
on the 12th March, and the Archbishop of York at the second.
The Duke of Grafton and Lady Laura Fitzroy
have arrived at Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Stratford, where his
Grace will remain until Easter,
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe are stay-
ing at Fleurs Castle, where the Dowager Duchess has arrived
from Broxmouth, near Berwick.
The Duke of Montrose's spacious mansion in
Grosvenor-square, has been taken by Lord Poltimore for the
ensuing season.
Miss Ellen Tree returns to town at the close of
the week, from Dublin.
Mr. Hodgson (Barnstaple) paired against the
committal of the Sheriffs with Sir Hussey Vivian.
Mr. Ball Hughes left Mivart's Hotel yesterday
morning, for the French capital.
Mrs. Tyrwhit Drake and family left Farranee's
Hotel yesterday, for Paul's Walden, Herts.
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Prince Albert, painted by Ali. George Patten.
uniform in which t,',l Highness is represented is also the na-
tional uniform cif Saxe Coburg,
The Marquis of Northatrnptc,n,
the Royal Society, has issued cards for a cona vserPsarzeisoi
Fellows on the 29th of next mon nriee
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larch, and April 10.
An the Bail Court yesterday a rule was obtained,
Calling upon th© printer •
and publisher of the Morning Post
newspaper to show cause ' f tion should
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for a libel on Lady Gardner. atiql*"cl libel Consist dthe • • l'1"/Cd
e publication of a pararsl4l? .Imoured Indiscretion in High Life."
In answer to an in
png Me. Ilare, at the
Postmaster-General's piAce esterday,. he was informed that
the Bristol mail woad be forwarded by the Railway on the MORTON. 'There well
;:uoroary.
But how is't to be done ?

MORTON. If you spurn 'ern
There is no single ebance for Scotland, but
Subm'it to Rizzio 'g yoke I
RuTHvEN.—Fate strike the land
With famine first, or with the spotted plague
Rizzio's 1 to Rizzio's yoke ! You should not talk
Of mountebanks, as you wouli talk of kings;
Nor mix the lofty crime of power's abuse
With rascal vices, such as crawl about
The heart of such a wretch as Rizzio
MORTON. I speak my fear.
IttiTHTEN. Then cease to fear, and speak
More like yourself.
MORTON. The fire of that rebuke
Shows Ruthven still alive. I will have hype
For Scotland now.
RUTHYRN. Whattaer I can do
To roll back rug', from my native land
tie si-a, I will adventure with you,
NT.l7.ust not be the slaves cf sycophapAg,
,lor crouch to fiddling tyrants while \,ve bay,
A spot of ground to stand on or lit, under.
From this time forth I am one
Or you again.

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