The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent and the P, incess Victoria and
their Royal Highnesses' household attended divine service
yesterday at Kensington Palace. The Dean of Chester
officiated.

Viscount Palmerston gave a Cil,inet dinner on Saturday
evening, at his residence in Great S,anhope-street. The
Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grey,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Ripon, the Duke of
Richmond, the Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Melbourne, Mr.
Secretary Stanley, Viscount Althorp, the Right Hon.
Charles Grant, Sir James Graham, and Lord John Rus-
sell. Lord Holland, the only member of the Cabinet
absent, arrived after dinner, and joined the other Ministers.
Mr. Colquhoun, the agent for St. Vincent, and Lord de
Saumarez, transacted business at the Colunial•ofiice on
Saturday.
The Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Ripon, .Viscount Altliorp,
and Sir James Graham, bad interviews with Earl Grey
on Saturday. The Lord Chancellor visited the Noble
Earl yesterday.

BRIGHTON, JAN. 19.

This morning their Majesties and the Princes Aueusta,
attended Divine Service in the Palace Chapel. In the
pew with their Majesties and her Royal Highness were
the Countess of Miyo and Lord Byron. The Duke of
Dorset, Earl of Mayo, and the Royal suite occupied the
adjoining ones.
On Friday their Majesties drove out together to Rotting-
dean.

, The King honoured Sir John Franklin, R.N., with an
audience•

His Majesty conferred she honour of knighthood on
Lieut.-General Bayley. Cal. Sir George Teesdale, the
Earl of Belfast, and several of the suite were in attendance.
The Duke of Gloucester has returned to Bagshot, after a
stay of a few days ut the Pavilion.
In the evening their Majesties entertained at dinner the
Duke of Argyll, Duke of Dorset, Sir P. and Lmiy Mait-
land, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Bayley, Mr. Cunard,
Lady Harriet Hoste, Colonel Cathcart, Capt. Maitland,
Colonel Wynyard, Lord Byron, Count Frederic Hohen-
stein, Capt. Franklin, Count Leo Ilohenstein, and Count
Francis Hohenstein.

Yesterday the King and his daughter, Lady Mary Fox,
drove out along the cliffs. His M ijesty appeared in ex-
cellent health.

The Queen, accompanied by Lady L. Cornwallis, the
Hon. Miss Bagot, the Duke of Dorset, and Lord Byron,
left the Palace on horseback at twelve o'clock, and pro-
ceeded over the Downs, in the direction of Lewes, and
returned at two o'clock.

The Princess Augusta has completely recovered from .her
late illness. Yesterday afternoon her. Royal Highness and
the Duchess of Gloucester were in public together in a
close carriage.
Sir Henry Wheatley took leave of their Majesties yes-
terday morning, and left for the metropolis.
The Royal dinner party list evening included several of
the nobility and gentry of the place, together with the
Bavarian Minister and some foreigners of distinction who
have arrived here during the past week ; amongst them
were the Duke of Dorset, Earl of Belfast, Earl and Coun-
tess of Mayo, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Lord and
Lady Maryhorough, Lord Byron, Count Leo, Count Fre-
derick, and Count Francis Hohenstein, Le Count Senison
(Bavarian Minister), Miss Paget, Sir Benjamin Stephenson,
Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Hamilton, Miss d'Este, Lady
Mary Taylor, their Majesties' relatives, and their suite
After the entertainment was over, the Queen's band per-
formed several se!ect pieces of music. The company did
not retire until near twelve o'clock.

The Master of the Ceremonies. ball will take place on
the evening of Wednesday next at the Old Ship, under the
patronage of his Majesty's daughters.

CROWN LAND REVENUES, &c.

THE TENTH REPORT.
OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF MS MAJESTY'S WOODS,

FORESTS, LAND REVENUES, WORKS, AND BUILDINGS;
BEING THE FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OP THE SAID

COMNISSIONERS.

By an Act of Parliament which passed in the second
year of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled "An
Act for uniting the office of the Surveyor-General of his
Majesty's Works and public Buildings with the office of
the Commissioners of h.s Majesty's Woods, Forests, and
Land Revenues, and for other purposes relating to the
Land Revenues," it is made lawful for his Majesty, his
heirs, and successors, at any time after the passing of that
Act, by letters-patent under the great seal, in the place of
the then Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests,
anal Land R-ivenues, and of the Surveyor-General of his
Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, any persons, not
exceeding three in number, to be Commissioners for per
forming the duties and exercising the powers heretofore
performed or exercised by the said Commissioners or Sur-
veyor•-G neral, in their separate offices respectively; and
it is further provided, that from and after such appoint-
ment, all Acts of Parliament and regulations previou.ly
applicable to the separate offices shall apply to the Com-
missioners for the time being so appointed as aforesaid.
His Majesty having, by virtue of the authority and in
exercise of the powers beforementioned, been graciously
pleased lay letters-patent under the great seal, bearing date
the22d d ty of February, 1832, to appoint us tube the Com-
missioners of his Majesty's 'Woods, Forests, Land Revenues,
Works, and Buildings, it becomes our duty, in pnrsus.rice
of a provision in an Act, 10 George IV., c. 50, s. 125, to
certify and report concerning various matters touching the
possessions anal land revenues of the Crown to which that
Act relates, in so far as regards the care and management
of those possessions and land revenues and the income and
expenditure in respect thereof, for the year 1832.
Between the sth day of January, 1832, and the sth day
of January last, we have granted 15 leases of houses and
building-ground in London and Westminster ; five leases
of building-ground in Marylebone-park ; one lease of
stone-quarries in Carnarvonshire ; two leases of [nines in
Denbighshire and in the Isle of Man ; one lease of lands in
Lincolnshire; and a lease of the tolls and duties at Hun-
ston-cliff Lighthouse, near Lynn, of which lighthouse and
the she thereof the lessee is the owner; but in the lase
provision is made lay which the entire ownership of the
lighthouse and of the site thereof will be vested in the
Crown on the expiration of that lease. .

The estimated annual value of the above mentioned
property, when the leases were granted, amounteci to
2,9911. 19s, 4d. ; the clear yearly rents reserved for the
same to 2,5671. 4s. Sd., including rents reserved in lieu
of redeemed Lind taz on part of the property, and the fines
aiii-for the leases to 2,828/. 10s. Of such part of that
property as bad been before in lease, the annual value,
when the last preceding leases were granted, amounted to
2,000/. 165., the re'n'ts reserved to 1,004/. 125..31., and
the fines paid to. 3,6021. 16s. Besides the above-men-
tioned rents amounting to 2,567/. 4s. Sd. per annum,
there are reserved, in the said two mining leases, a duty of
one-tenth part of the ores raised ; and in the lease oflthe
said stone quarries, there is contained a reservation of a
royalty or duty of 2d. per ton ou the stone raised, with a
stipulation for the payment of a minimum rent of 100/.
per annum, in case the royalty should not amount to that
sum.

The schedule, No. 2, gives the particulars of 31 con-
veyances of manors, lands, mines, messuages, and other
property belonging to the Crown which were, Sold within
the same period, under the authority of the Acts of 10
George IV., c. 52, and 2 William IV., c. 1, the total
amount of the
,purchase money received for which was
33,8221. 53. 6d.

In that schedule is also given a statement of the annual
value of such of the estates as iiad been before in lease
(according to surveys made 'thereof at the periods when the
last leases of them were granted), amounting in all to
8431. 14, 2d. per annum, while the rents reserved in the
last leases for the same amounted to 766/. 1 ls. 4d. per
annum, and the fines paid for 12 leases to 688/. ss.
• * • •

The Appendix, No. 6, contains an account of an under-
lease granted by Mr. John Adams to Alexander Milne,
Esq., on the nomination of the Commissioners of his
M tjesty's Woods, Forests, &c., in trust fur his Majesty, of
premises on the north side of Cambridge-place, Regent's-
park, for the purpose of being formed into a lodge fur the
gatekeeper at Cambridge-gate, and of an agreement for a
further under lease of the said premises for the like purpose.
In the Sche.lule, No. 7, is gives an account of moneys
arising from siles of several parcels of I ind in the Bo) al
forests, between the sth of January, 1832, and the sth of
January last, amounting in all to 1,1381. 2s. 2d.
The Appendix, No. 8, gives the particulars of a grant
of the forestal rights of the Ciown over five acres of land
in Waltham Forest to trustees, for the incumbent of They-,
don-Buis, to be used as glebe land, and for the erection of
a mansion-house for the incumbent, Mr. Hall Dare, the
lord of the manor of Theydon-Bois, owner of the soil, and
the other parties possessing the tights of common having
concurred in the measures necessary for giving effect to
this grant.

CHARING CROSS AND STRAND IstraovEntiarrs.
Schedule, No. 15, contains the particulars of 13 free-
hold houses in and near Downing-street, and 1 freehold
house in St. Martin's-lane, which have been purclused
at the price of 7,563/. 18s, Bd., under the authority of

~.,

he Act 7 Geo. IV. c. 77, and complete .the Ust of free-
hold purchases authori•rd by ti:tit.
In Schedule No. 16 are the pti ticulars of 26 leases of
houses and buildings, erected in and near the Strand,
granted under the provisions of the last-mentioned Act
(7 George IV. c. 77), at rents amounting together to
4.0.15/. 12s. 6d. per annum.
We live the satisfaction to report that the improve-
ments, authoriz-d by the Act 7 George IV. c. 77, at
Gearing-cross, in the Strand, in Downing-street, and at
King-street, St. James's, which, in an estimate laid before
Piiliament in March, 1829, were calculated to cost
1,147,318/. 12s. 91 will be completed within that esti-
mate.

The total cost of the improvements to the sth Jinn lry
list, as shown in the schedules No. 17, 17 (a), is
1,111,105/. 18s. 11,1., and the only property remaining
to be purchased is the leasehold interests in nine houses in
Downing street, the fee—simple of which is vested in the
Crown.

The aggregate amount of rents reserved in the leases
already granted under this Act is 5,993/. 7s. per annum,
as detailed in the schedules annexed to our last and pre-
sent report.

We have also let plots of ground, the leases of which
are in preparation, for rents amounting together to
2,055/ 103., nuking the total rent of property already let
8,048/. r 7 s.

A plot of ground on the north side of Trafalgar-square,
co the estimated yearly value of 1,3001., has been reserved
ae a site for a gallery for the national pictures, and for
the use of the Royal Academy, towards the building of
hich a sum of 15,0001. (on account of an estimate of
50,0001.) was voted in the last session of Parliament;
nd upon an amended estimate, amounting to 62,000/., hid
before Parliament in the present session, a further sum ot
10,000/. has been voted ; but it having been found, upon
submitting to c tmpetition detailed specifications and
working drawings for erecting the proposed buildings ac-
cording to the plans as ultimately arranged and approved
of by the Treasury, the lowest tenders for the execution of
the work would make the cost thereof about '76,8001.,
further proceedings have for the present been susp.,nded.
The property in Dawninpstreet and Fludyer_stree', if
the prsent old houses shall be taken down, and the
ground be let on building Lases, or reserved as sites for
public office, as may be deemed most advisable (hut in
either cases giving additional width to the street), is ot the
estimated yearly value of 800/., so that the several sums
before-mentioned, amounting together to 10,148/. 75.,
may be considered to be the whole amount of the annual
return from the improvements under the said Act.
We have stated, that in effecting these improvements
the cost will not exceed the estimate laid before Parliament
in 1829: we beg leave also to state, that the rents pro-
duced by the new lettings, with the value of the ground
reserved for public purposes, have not fallen short of wh,,t
was reckoned upon ; and although the pecuniary retut n
may be deemed 'very inadequate to the expense incurred,
the increased accommodation to the public in passing
through tie great thoroughfare of the Strand, by widen-
ing the principal street, and by forming new and improving
old lateral streets, and the general improvement of this
part of the metropolis, Wiil, we believe, be found to have
fully realized the expectations which Parliament and the
public were led to entertain when these measures were first
sanctioned.

Schedule, No. 18, contains the particulars of 24 leases,
at rents amounting in the aggregate to 1,4171. 10s. 9d.
per annum, which have been granted under the authority
of the Act 53 George 111., c. 121, in lieu of 4 leases
of the same premises for coexistent terms and similar
rents, which the hssees have surrendered for the conve-
nience of having separate Crown leases of each house :
this schedule also contains the particulars of a lease of the
Union Club House in Cockspur-street, which has been
granted at a'rent of 3061. per annum, under the authority
of the same Act.

In the Appendix, No. 19, are the particulars of an
exchange effected under the authority of the Act I and 2
William IV., c. 29, of a freehold estate belonging to the
Crown, in the Strand and Burleigh-street, for the site of
the late English Opera-hou,e, and 11 Louses contiguous
thereto, belonging to the Marquis of Exeter, required for
making a new street from the Strand, opposite Waterloo-
bridge, to Ch tries-street, Covent-garden.
Schedule, No. 20, contains the particulars of six lease-
:mold interests, which have been purchased at prices amount-
ing to 8,3601., fur the purposes of the said new street,
under the authority of the last-mentioned Act.

The general statement of receipts and disbursements in-
eludes, besides the ordinary revenues arising from the
Crown property under our management, a portion of the
,umvoted by Parliament for the repair and maintenance
,if the royal palaces and public buildings, and for providing
furniture for the departments of Government for the year
1532, pursuant to the Act for uniting the business and
duties of the office of the Surveyoi-General of Wotks with
those of the Woods, Forests, and Lind Revenues ; but the
con-olidation of the two departments having taken place
After a portion of the year had expired, the expenditure
chargeable upon the vote of Parliament only is stated for
that portion of the year during which the two departments
have been united.

The accounts also comprise the receipt and expenditure
i several of the Royal gardens, which were, for the first
time, placed under the care of our department in the course
of the last year.

Under the authority of an Act of 2 William IV., c. 52,
we advanced towards promoting the improvement of an
extetisiVe district Of mountain land belonging to the Crown,
in the 'counties of Limerick, Cork, and Kerry, the ',um
of 2,500/.

The whole estimated cost of the works and improve-
ments contemplated by that Act is 24,000/., of which
17,0001. is authorized to be provided out of the land re-
venue of the Crown, on a condition, which has been
Italled, that the grand juries for_ the counties of Cork
and Kerry grant presentments towards the same objects,
the former of 4,7001., and the latter of 2,3001.

The other beads of receipt and expenditure are such as
hive been usual in fortner,acconnts.
We have made a further repayment upon the loans of
400,000/. from the Exchequer-bill commissioners, tank-
ing, with former repaynrfents, 45,250/. ; and towards'
providing for the repayment of the first instalment of
90,000/. in part of another loin of 300,000/. borrowed
from the Equitable Assurance Company, we have made a
further investment in Exchequer bills of 25,000/., making,
with 40,0001. previously invested in the like security,
65,000/. applicable to the payment of that instalment.
In our last report we stated that there remained due
from our funds to those for the liquidation of claims upon
the French Government, 100,000/. out of 250 0001,
which had at different times been advanced to this depart.
meat. Of that remaining 100,000/. a sum of 75,0001.
was repaid during the last year, and at the close of that
year the several debts then chargeable against the land re-
venue of the Crown were as follows :

To the Exchequer Bill Loan Commissioner? £351 750
To the Equitable Assurance Company 300,000
To the Funds for the liquidation of French

claims exclusive of interest

£679,750

DUNCANNON.
W. D. ADAMS.
B. C. STEPHENSON.
Commissioners of his Maiesty's Woods, Forests,
Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings.
Office of Woods, &c., Aug. 28.

Henry was mounted on a stately white courser,
most gorgeously caparisoned; the trappings, breast-plrte,
head-stalls, reins, and stirrups, being covered with wrought
gold and highly embossed. On his head was a black velvet
cap with a white plume, and studded with rubies, eme-
ralds, and other precious stones. He wore a damask
garment of cloth-of_gold, thickly ribbed with silver, over
a jacket of rose coloured velvet; from his shoulders hung
a beautiful large collar, composed of rubies and branches
of pearl set alternately ; and on his breast was a rich jewel
of St. George suspended by a riband of the order. His
boots were of yellow leather, and he held a small whip in
his hand. Abreast of the King, mounted on a bay horse,
rode Cardinal Wolsey. He was hahited in the full robes
of a Cardinal, and the magnificence of his dress surpassed
even that of his master; while innumerable multitudes
crowded around him, some waving their caps, and some
prostrate on their knees, craving his blessing. In his
right hand he held a small ivory crucifix, which he pressed
t ) his bosom, while his left was outstretched, as if dis-
pensing his benedic:ion to the populace. He had tortured
his features into an expression of excessive mildness and
humility ; but, master as be was of the art of dissimula-
tion, he had nut been able to tame the fiery eye, or to
curb the wr:thed lip, which too plainly indicated his
haughty
and imperious temper. Francis was less gor-
geously apparelled than his brother Monarch, and indeed
his whole appearance, as well as that of the gallant steed
on which he rode, evinced a less eager love of pomp and
magnificence, hut at the same time indicated a finer taste
cod greater simplicity of feeling. His train was numerous
aid composed of persons of as high rank and distinction
as that of his brother. Monartib.—Neele's Ronvince of
History.