The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties arrived at 'he Palace at St. James's
about two o'clock 1.e.:N1-Jay a':ernoon, in a carriage-and.
four, from the Pa%ili to at B I:11ton.
The King held a emir!, at half..past two o'clock, which
was attended by the Cold Chancellor, the Lard President
of the Council, the L rd Privy Seal, the First Li,rd of the
Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign,
and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty the President
of the Board of Control, the Postmaster-General, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Earl of Car •
lisle, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Lord Steward of
the Household, the Master of the Flrrsi., the Vice-Cham-
berlain, the Commander of ihn ..es, the Captain of the
Yeoman Guard, and the Controller of the Household.

His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which the King's
Speech on opening the Session of Parliament this day
was taken into consideration and agreed upon.
His Majesty pricked the list for Sheriffs for the present
year (three persons having been nominated for each
county on the morrow of St. Martin in the Court of
Exchequer). The Council was attended by all the Ca-
binet Ministers. The Hon. William Bathurst was the
Clerk of the Council in Waiting.
The King gave audiences to Earl Grey, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Sir James Graham, Mr. Secretary Stanley,
the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Hill, Viscount Melbourne,
and Viscount Palmerston.

Viscount Falkland and the Hon. Captain George Camp-
bell, R.N., were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, the
Duke of Sussex, and the Princess Sophia, visited their
Majesties yesterday afternoon.

the Duchess of Glouc-ster arrived at Gloucester-house
yesterday afternoon from the Pavilion at Brighton. The
Duke of Gloucester arrived in town in the course of the
afternoon, from his seat at Bagshot Park.
The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria
walked and drove in Hyde-park yesterday for some time.
Grand Parliamentary dinners were given last evening
by Earl Grey and Viscount Althorp, at their respective
residences in Downing-street, to Members of both Houses
of Parliament, Earl Grey entertaining a party of Peers,
and Viscount Althorp thirty Members of the House of
Commons. The guests at both parties came in full court
dress. His Majesty's speech on opening the session of
Parliament this day was read by the Ministers to their
respective parties. Among the company at Earl Grey's
were his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Lord
Chancellor, Dukes of Norfolk, Grafton, Argyll, and Rich-
mond, Marquises Conyngham and Lansdowne, Earls Cla-
rendon, Sefton, Essex, Albemarle, and Carlisle, Viscount
Melbourne, Lords Segrave, King, Elphiostone, and Auck-
land, the Duke of Sutherland, and Lord Howard of Effing-
ham].

Viscount Althorp entertained Viscounts Duncannon,
Palmerston, and Howielc, Lord John Russell, the Speaker
of the House of Commons, the Right Hons. Edward El.
lice, Sir J. Graham, Charles Grant, Robert Grant, Ed-
ward Littleton, Edw. Stanley, and Poulett Thomson, the
Attorney• General, Colonels Fox and Maberley, Captain
Elliott, Messrs. F. Baring, Bernal, Robert Gordon, Ken-
nedy, Labouchere, Stewart Mackenzie, Spring Rice, V.
Smith, C. Wood, and S. Lefevre and Morrison, the
mover and seconder of the address to his Majesty.
Mr. Culquhoun, agent for St. Vincent's, bad an inter-
view yesterday, with Mr. Secretary Stanley, at the Colo-
nial-office.

A deputation, headed by Messre. Ewart, M.P., and
William Tooke, AL P., had an interview yesterday with
Viscount Althorp, at the Treasury, respecting the London
University.

The Earl of Essex, Lord Holland, the Hon. J. Aber-
cromhy, and a select party dined with Viscount Althorp
on Sunday.

BRIGHTON, FEB. 3.

Yesterday afternoon the Kiog, accompanied by the
Duchess of Gloucester, took a carriage airing along the
Cliffs. His Majesty continues in the enjoyment of ex•
cellent health.

As has already been announced by anticipation, his
Majesty and the Queen took their departure this morning
for St. James's Palace, in his Majesty's travelling carriage,
followed by the Duchess of Gloucester and the Countess of
Mayo in the next, in the third were Sir Hobert and Lady
Taylor, and Lord and Lady Errol were in the fourth
carriage, which formed the Royal cortege.

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