The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-13 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager Visited the Queen on
Saturday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty arrived at two o'clock, attended by the
Countess of Mayo, and was received at the Grand Halt
of the Palace, by the Hon, Miss Paget, Viscount Torring-
ton (Lord in Waiting), wid Colonel Buckley ( Equerry in
Waiting), who conducted the Queen Dowager to her
Majesty.
`The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George of Cam-
bridge viiited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham
Palace.

The D....chess of Gloucester and the Duchess of Cam-
bridge, accompanied by the Princesses Augusta and Maryof
r,
Ambridge. visited the Queen on Saturday.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty.
The Royal Dinner party at the Palace on Saturday
evening included Viscount Melbourne. the Right lion.
George Stevens Byng, and Sir Frederick Stovin.
The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards at-
tended at Buckingham Palace during the evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended divine
service yestei day morn mg in Grosvenor Chapel, South A lid-
ley-street. Their Royal Highnesses were attended by Co-
lonel Cornwall.
A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreipn Office at
two o'clock on Saturday afternoon. It was attended by
all the Ministers.
The Council sat three hours.
Captain Eiindmarsh bad an interview with Lord Jan
Russell on Saturday at the Colonial Office..

The Bishop of London had an interview on Saturday
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official ICki.
dente in Downing-street.
The Earl of Scarborough had an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the Home-Office.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
Office from Col. Macdonald, Governor of the Honduras.

FA.SI-110NABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, at the
Burlington Hotel, Cork-street; Lord Forester, Sir Wil-
liam and Lady You'ag, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Cavendish
and family, Sir Ee.ward Codiington, Mr. Cecil Boothby,
Captain and Mrs. Deans Dundas, the Hon. William and
Lady Louisa Duncombe ; Robert Gordon, Esq., M.P.,
Lord and Lady Tankerville, Sir Henry Halford, Lord
Decips, the Hon. Colonel Henry Molyneux, 60th Rifles,
the Countess De Salis, the Bishop of London, and Mrs.
Blornfield.

DEPARTURES.
The Hon. R. Cavendish, on a visit to Lord and Lady
Witte:park, in Derbyshire ; the Earl and Countess of
Luton, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Harriet Sturt, at Crit
ehrlll House, Dorset ; Sir Montagu and Lady Georgiana
Cholmeley, for Easton House, Grantham; Mr. Talbot
Clifton, Ist Life Guards, for Brighton; Lord Cantilupe,
for Lewes ; the Earl of Kilmorey, for Shropshire ; Mr.
Cecil Boothby, for Gorhambury ; Sir John Sebright,
Bart., for Blechwood, Herts ; the Hon. C. P. Villiers,
M.P., for Manchester; Mr. Denison, M.P., for Denbies ;
Mr. and: Mrs. George Wombwell, for Leamington Spa;
the Rev. C.;Anstey, Mrs. Anstey, and family, from Holder's
Regent's Pa-k Hotel, for Rugby ; Miss Rolley, from ditto,
for ditto ; M. Ledoine, from ditto, for the Continent.

The Duke of Wellington has arrived at Apsley
House, from Strathfieldsaye, Hants.
The Marquis of Westminster is expected to ar-
riva at Grosvenor House, on Tuesday, from Eaton Hall,
to dine with Viscount Melbourne in Downing-street, on
Wednesday . His Lordship is expected to remain in
town for a month or six weeks. The Marchioness will
remain at Eaton Hall.
Lord Albemarle arrived in Berkeley-square on
Thursday eveni.ag, from the Stud.house, Bushy, for the
season.

Viscount Burghersh has returned to town from
Apethroc, Oundle. His Lordship has been on a visit
to the Aldrquis of Exeter, at Burghley House.
L arc, Brougham arrived in Grafton-street on
Tl'Arsday evening, from Brougham Hall, near Penrith,
‘'‘here his Lordship attended the obsequies of his vene-
rable mother on Monday. His Lordship travelled post
from Paris to be present at the interment. Mr. William
Brougham, his Lordship's surviving brother, accom-
panied him from the continent.
WEST PARK, BEDFORDSHIRE. Lord and
Lady de Grey are entertaining Lord and Lady Cowper,
Captain and Mary Lady Vyner, Lord Alford, and
some of the surrounding gentry.
The Earl of Munster has let his splendid man-
sion in Upper Bali:rave-street, for six months, to his
Excellency the Swedish Minister.

y is
It with the ueepest regret that we have to an-
nounce the alarming state of health of the venerable
poet of Bromhill, the Rev. Canon Bowles, who, we
hear, is sinking very fast. The religious, no less than
the literry world, can ill spare so amiable a member.—
Dorset County Chronicle.
Lord and Lady Maryborough's dinner party on
Tf'.ursday evening, at their mansion in Saville-row, in-
e'iuded the Duke of Dorset, Lord Hill, Lady Fitzroy
Somerset, Hon. Miss Somerset, Sir Charles and Lady
Bagot, Misses Bagot, Colonel Gurwood, Sir Frederick
Watson, &c.

Viscount and Viscountess Lorton have, during
the festive season, been seeing company at Rockingham
Castle, in Ireland. Lord and Lady Crofton have been
among their guests.
Viscount and Lady Sarah Ingestrie, Hon. George
Foley, the Hon. L. Kenyon, Hon. Captain Somerset,
Mr. Peel, and a select circle, have been visiting Sir
Rowland Hill, Baronet, M.P., and Lady Hill during
the week at Hawkstone, their seat in Shropshire.
The Earl of Clanwilliam will leave Wilton House,
the seat of the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, near
Salisbury, where the Earl and Countess have been re-
siding for some time past, on Tuesday next, for town,
having engaged to dine at the Duke of Wellington's the
following evening.

His Excellency Baron Nieuman has returned to
Chandos House, from a visit of a few days to the Duke
of 'Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye.
Sir John and Lady Shelley have returned to
Belgrave-square, from a visit to Lord and Lady Dele-
warr, at Buckingham Park, Sussex.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch have ar-
rived at Torquay, Devon, from a visit of several days
to the Earl and Countess of Cawdor, at their scat in
Wales. His Grace comes to Montagu House next
week, having accepted an invitation to dine with the
Duke of Wellington on Wednesday next, at Apsley
House. The Earl of Dalkeith and the Lords Scott
are residing at the above fashionable watering place.
Lady Dover, accompanied by Viscount Clifden
and the other members of her family, arrived at Chats-
worth, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire, in the
early part of the week, from Castle Howard, the scat
of the Earl and Countess of Carlisle.
The Earl anti Countess of Carlisle and the
Ladies Elizabeth and Mary Howard, will leave Castle
flowa:d, their scat in Yorkshire, on Wednesday next,
for town.

FRONTIERS OF TURKEY, DEC. 24.—The
latest accounts from Constantinople prove that the new
French Ambassador, Count Pontois, has fallen very
low in the confidence of the Porte. Besides the cir-
cumstances lately discovered respecting the desertion
of the fleet, which were alone sufficient to render the
position of any French Ambassador difficult, the pe-
culiar policy of Count Pontois has of late much con-
tributed to this state of things. He manifestly endea-
vours to make the Minister (Reschid Pasha) believe
that it was Austria that secretly hindered the scale-
ment of the Egyptian question. Austria has now given
an explanation, which is sufficiently supported by the
eireuir:stance that France always urged the Porte to
treat directly wish Mehemet Ali, and the consequence
has been that Reschid Pasha keeps us much as possible
1;104 from Count Pontois. The Russian expedition to
Chiva has caused a great sensatioo at Constantinople.
People will not believe the alleged objects, viz.. the
doubtless well-deserved chastisement of the Chivans,
but look on it as a means to obtain some °ther end.
t ' if the Russians were masters of Chiva they would be
1
immediate frontier neighbours of the English in Asia.
A solemn lac will be celebrated at Berlin on
the 31st of May, in commemoration of the centenary
anniversary of the accession of Frederick the Great
to the throne of Prussia, which took place on the 31st
May, 1740.
FIR Es.--Yesterday morning, about a quarter
past two o'clock, a fire broke out in the shop of Mr.
' Dennis, linen-draper, No. 68, Tooley-street. Mr.
Dennis's premises, stock, and furniture were destroyed.
The adjoining house is also very considerably damaged
by fire and water. It is not known in what manner the
fire occurred. The stock and premises are insured.—
About the same time a fire, which was nearly attended
wiih loss of life,broke out at No. 6, High-street, Step-
-1 ney, near the old church. The premises are in the
occupation of Mr. Charles Dixon, boot and shoemaker,
atd there is every reason to believe that the fire was
occasioned by the gas in the shop. The inmates were,
in order to save their lives, obliged to jump out of a
, window. The upper part of the house was preserved,
I hut the lower part was entirely gutted. The sufferers
tare not insured.—Last evening, between seven and
I &gilt o'clock, a fire occurred on the premises of Mr.
1 Garret Green Grove, No. 14, Lancashire-court, New
j Bond-street. By the exertions of the police the fire
was subdued without doing any extensive damage.
I On Saturday Lord Norma* visited the New
PrLon, Clcrkenwcll, and on inspecting the commit-
mer‘ta of the different prisoners, he expressed concern
in discovering that more than 200 individuals are in-
eareet ated there in default of bail to keep the peace for
various terms of from one month to twelve months, such
committals having been made from police-offices. Lord
Normanhy remarked that it was his impression that
. 1 such committals were illegal, inasmuch as he thought
that a- Metropolitan Police Magistrate could only order
a party to find bail until the ensuing session for a
breach of the peace, and he took away all the commit-
mentF, with a determination to consult the Crown
' i lawyers on the subject.
it is said that the Hon. Edward Lloyd Mostvn,
eldest son ci Lord Mostyu, is to be Lord-Lieutenant
of Merionethshire, in the place of Sir Watkins Wit,
ihams Wynn.