The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The King and Queen are coming to town this day from the
Pavilion at Brighton.
Mr. de Hummelauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires visited
the Duke of Wellington on Saturday at the I tome-office.
Mr. Littleton has arrived in town from Ireland. The right
hon. gentleman paid a visit to Earl Spencer on Saturday at
his residence in Downing-street. Viscount Duncannon also
had an interview with his Lordship.
The Marquis Camden, the Lord Chantellor, Earls of Ork-
ney and Rosslyn, Lord Hill, Sir Thomas Goocb, and Mr.
Ross, M. P., visited the Duke of Wellington on Saturday.
Sir Charles Manners Sutton has returned to town from
Hertfordshire.

Despatches from the Lieutenant-Governor of Newfoundland
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

Mr. BackhOuse, Cinder Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, has arrived in town from the north.

Sir A. Woodford (from the lonian Islands) transacted busi-
ness on Saturday at the Colonial-office.

The state of the Duke of Gloucester was yesterday most
alarming, and the following bulk* was issued:—
" The debility of his Royal highness the Duke of Glou-
cester continues to increase, and big state is one of immediate
danger.

" H. HALFORD.
" Bagshot Park, Nov. 30." " W. FERGUSSON."
Intimation of the dangerous state of the Royal Duke was
forwarded, both on Saturday and yesterday, to their Majesties
at Brighton. Yesterday afternoon part of their Majesties'
Household arrived at St. James's Palace, from the Pavilion.

Nothing positive is known as to the time of Sir Ro-
bert Peel's return ; nor is it certain where the messenger de-
spatched by the Duke of Wellington will find the right hon.
baronet. It has already been stated that a letter has reached
this country from a gentleman who saw him at Florence on
the 12th, and to whom he expressed his intention of starting
for home in two or three days. That such was the impression
conveyed upon the first perusal of the letter we know ; but a
more close examination has suggested a doubt, the importance
of which will be admitted when we state that it invoives no-
thing less than the probable period of the continuance of our
" provisional " government. We understand that the gentle-
man in question met Sir Robert Peel in the picture gallery at
Florence on the 12th instant, and there had conversation with
him. The right hon. baronet then mentioned, it is also true,
his intention of starting in two or three days; but whether it
was for " Rome," or for " Home," the closest examination of
the letter leaves a doubt. If the writer of the letter had taken
a little more pains to distinguish between his capital R's and
his capital H's, the public mind would not be left in that state
of doubt which still perplexes it as to the precise moment in
which Toryism will develope the form under which it again
proposes to govern the country. We understand that the
messenger despatched in quest of the right hon. baronet is Mr.
Hudson, the Vice-Chamberlain, or some such officer, in the
Queen's household.— Observer.

MoNEy-IVIARKET.—It is generally understood in
the City, that when the Bank Directors announce the usual
money accommodations during the shutting for the dividends.
which is expected to be on Thursday, they will also announce
a rise in the rate of interest on such accommodations from 3i
to 4 per cent. The June notice announced a similar advance,
from 3 to 3i per cent., so that within 12 months the rate for
these temporary loans has undergone an increase of 1 per cent.
As money has not been generally so scarce till within these
few days as to justify such an advance, the motives of the
Bank for it are a subject of much speculation and conjecture.
Without attaching much importance to the various rumours
afloat, such as that the object of the Bank is to put an end to
the rivalry of the joint-stock banks by the embarrassments a
scarcity of money will brin.* on, or to check the transactions
in foreign loans, through the apprehension that they will tend
to take more gold out of the country, it may be worth the con-
sideration of the Directors whether the increase of the pres-
sure for money which such an advance will occasion may not,
under present circumstances, produce serious mischief even to
themselves. It is not the mere advance of itself that is of im-
portance, but that it is virtually a declaration from the highest
authority of state of the money-market justifying such a pre-
caution, at which the monied interest in general, always very
sensitive in such matters, may take alarm. Altogether, we
cannot help persuading ourselves, from what we have seen and
heard, that this point will undergo reconsideration, and per-
haps be abandoned before the Bank parlour meeting of Thurs-
day Lext.—Morning Paper.