The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty went yesterday To Kensington Palace, attended
by Sir Benjamin Stephenson and Sir Andrew Barnard, and
visited the Duke of Sussex and the Princess Sophia. The
King inspected a number of the rooms, attended by Mr. Mash
(of the Lord Chamberlain's Office), and the Labourer in
Trust.
His Majesty gave an audience yesterday, at St: James's
Palace, to the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
A select party dined with their Majesties last evening.
Amongt the company were Prince George of Cambridge, the
Saxon Minister, the Marquis of Winchester, Lords Hill,
Ducie, Byron, and Adolphus Fitzclarence, Sir William and
Lady Gomm, and Sir John Woolmore.
The Foreign Ministers attended a Levee held yesterday
by his Grace the Duke of Wellington on his appointment as
his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Their Excellencies arrived at the Foreign-office in Downing-
street in their full official costume, wearing the insignia of
their respective orders of knighthood, and were severally pre-
sented to the Noble Duke. There were present, Count
D'Aglie, the Sardinian Minister; Baron d'Ompteda, the Ha-
noverian Minister; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgic Minister;
M. Moreno, the Buenos Ayrean Minister ; M. W. G. Dedel,
the Netherlands Minister; Baron Blome the Danish Minister;
Count Jenison, the Bavarian Minister ' M. de Moraes Sar-
mento, the Portuguese Minister ; M. Garro, the Mexican
Mexican Minister; M. Aranjo Ribiero, the Brazilian Minis-.
ter ; M. Tricoupi, the Greek Minister ; Namick Pacha, Mi-
nister from the Ottoman Porte; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon
Minister ; M. de Hummelauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires ;
Count Medem, the Russian Charge d'Affaires; M. de Ba-
court, the French Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. Vail, Charge d'Af-
faires from the United States ; Count Seckendorff, the Prus-
sian Charge d'Affaires; Baron Rehansen, the Swedish Charge
d'Affaires; Admiral Jabat, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires
and Count Ludolf, the Neapolitan Minister.
Lord Mahon attended yesterday at the Foreign-office, as
Under Secretary of State. Mr. Backhouse, the other Under
Secretary of State, also attended yesterday, for the first time
since his recent illness. _ _ _

Prince. George of Cambridge visited Burford's new pano-
rama of Pere la Chaise, and also that of New York, yesterday.
Viscount Lowther and Sir John Beckett visited the Duke
of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel, yesterday.
Earl de Grey had an interview yesterday with Sir Robert
Peel.
The Lord Mayor paid visits yesterday .to the Duke of
Wellington and Mr. Secretary Goulburn.
Lord Ellenborough and Lord Hill visited the Duke of
Wellington yesterday.

The King gave audiences yesterday to Sir R. Peel,
the Duke of Wellington, Mr. Goulburn, Lord Wharncliffe,
Mr. A. Baring, Earl Rosslyn, Sir George Murray, Sir E.
Knatchbull, Lord Ellenborough, Mr. Herries, the Lord Chan-
cellor, Sir James Scarlett, Sir Edward Sugden, Sir Henry
Hardinge, Lord Jersey, Lord Combermere, and Lord Hill.
Sir R. Adair, Lord Mahon, the Mexican and Co-
lombian Envoys, the American Charge d'Affaires, the Russian
Charge d'Affaires, M. Dedel, the Ambassador from the
Hague, the Austrian and Prussian Charges d'Affaires, the
Sicilian and Neapolitan Envoys, M. de Bacourt, the French
Charge d'Affaires, and the Portuguese and Spanish Ministers
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.

The Duke of Devonshire, having resigned his gold
key of office to the Earl of Jersey, leaves Devonshire House
to-morrow for Kemptown for the Christmas holydays. His
Grace received letters from his sister, the Countess Granville,
on Monday ; all were well, and the Noble Earl was hourly ex-
pecting despatches from London announcing the completion of
the new Cabinet, when his Lordship would take leave of the
King and Queen and set out for England.
The newly appointed Lord President of the Council,
the Earl of Rosslyn, has taken the Earl of Euston's mansion in
Grosvenor-place. This Nobleman is now in his 71st year; he
is Director-General of the Scotch Court of Chancery, and
acted under the Duke of Wellington's Administration, as Lord
Privy Seal. The office of Lord President is usually considered
the most inefficient post in the Cabinet.

The Earl of Surrey has taken Vernon House in
St. James's-place for his town residence during the approach-
ing season. The mansion is the property of Lord Suffield.
Lord Holland is much improved in health, and has
removed from Holland House, Kensington, to Old Burlington-
street, where his Lordship will entertain his late colleagues in
office during the season. After Christmas his Lordship will,
perhaps, visit his noble estate at Ampthill, which was entailed
by the last Earl of Upper Ossory on Colonel Charles Fox
after his noble father's death.

It was confidently stated yesterday that Earl Am-
herst, now one of the Lords in Waiting to the King, will be
the new Master of the Horse to his Majesty, vice Lord Albe-
marle. The Earl maintains Conservative principles, but oc-
casionally voted with the Ministry of Lord Grey. His Lord-
ship was the predecessor of Lord W. Bentinck in the govern-
ment of India.

The Earl and Countess of Lincoln have left Ashton
Hall on a visit to their father the Duke of Newcastle, at
Clumber Castle. Their departure from Ashton Hall has
caused much regret in the neighbourhood, where their kind-
ness and affability gained them the respect and esteem of the
inhabitants. The Earl and Countess are expected in town to
meet her Ladyship's mother the Duchess of Hamilton.

Lord Dinorben and his family arrived on Tuesday
in town from France, after ♦isiting various parts of the Con-
tinent.

Lord Brougham is expected to arrive in town from
Paris on Saturday next, at his house in Stanhope-street, May-
fair.

Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., who, by a fall from his
horse a few days ago, was confined to the residence of Sir
Edward Knatchbull, is rapidly recovering from the injuries he
received. _ _

His Excellency Major-General Von Scholken, Go-
vernor-General of the Danish West India Islands, accompanied
by his Aide-de-Camp Captain Oxbolm, has left Ellis's Hotel,
St. James's-street, for Falmouth.
By the late elevation of Sir E. Sugden and Sir C.
Pepys, a practice of upwards of 20,0001. per annum will de-
volve on the Equity bar.
A silk gown will, it is understood, be given to Mr.
Wigram, of the Chancery bar.
Lord Lowther is expected to arrive this day or to-
morrow in town, when it is understood he will again be ap-
pointed Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests.
Some persons still imagine that the Colonial Secre-
taryship of State is left open as a locus penitentice for Lord
Stanley.
Notwithstanding that it was considered a disolution
had been determined upon, strong rumours were abroad yes-
terday in well-informed quarters that the new Ministry would
meet the present Parliament.
Sir George Clerk, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Mr.
George Dawson, Lord Mahon the Duke of Wellington, Lord
de Grey, Lord Lowther, Major-General Sir Henry Har-
dinge, Sir Edward Sugden, the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Goul-
burn, Mr. Herries, Mr. Alexander Baring, the Earl of Ross-
lyn, Lord Wharncliffe, Sir George Murray, Lord Ellenbo-
rough, and Sir Edward Knatchbull, visited Sir Robert Peel
yesterday at Whitehall-gardens.
Sir Francis Burdett has arrived in town. A Com-
mittee of Westminster electors is to wait on him forthwith, to
announce that, should he offer himself a candidate for West•
minster, at the next election, he will be expected to pledge
himself to oppose the present Ministry, to support a measure for
trennial parliaments, and the vote by ballot.
A new and handsome entrance into St. James's Park
is now completing at the end of Duke-street, and close by the
State Paper-office. A broad double flight of granite stone
steps, flanked on each side by a wall of the same, with neat
pilasters at each end, and coping to correspond, leads to an
iron gate with two wickets. The workmen are now employed
on the ornamental details, but the approach is already opened
to the public.
In the gardens of Lambeth Palace are said to be
still remaining the figs planted by Cardinal Pole, in the reign
of " the Eighth Harry."
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BATH, DEC. 16.—The following are amongst our
last arrivals, viz.—Tne Earl of Camperdown, Marquis of
Lansdowne, Earl of Kerry, Countess of Cork, Sir H. Stracey,
Lady W. Somerset and Mrs. Somerset, Hon. F. Gordon,
Lady Watson, Major-General Palmer, M.P., Colonel G.
Langton, M.P., Captain Dundas, M. P., Joseph Neeld, Esq.,
M. P., Captains Brown, Collins, Dawlin, Lawson, Richards,
Schobell, Stracey, Sykes, Haynes, Walley ; Archdeacon.
Wright, Dr. Lisle, Dr. Rogerson, Rev. Mr. Cooke, Rev. J.
M. Power, &c.
TITLES OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.--The fol-
lowing are the titles of the Queen of Spain, as adopted in all
public acts :—Donna Isabella the Second, by the Grace of
God, Queen of Castile, Arragon, the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem,
Navarre, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Gallicia, Majorca, Se-
ville, Sardinia, Cordova, Corsica, Murcia, Minorca, Andalusia,
the Algarves, Algesiras, Gibraltar, and Canary Islands, the
East and West Indies, the Isles and Terra-firma in the Ocean ;
Archduchess of Austria, Duchess of Burgundy, Brabant, and
Milan, Countess of Hapsburgh, Flanders, Tyrol, and Barce-
lona, Lady of Biscay and Molina, &c. &c.
Alexander loved his horse Bucephalus ; Numa, a
lap-dog ; Augustus, a parrot ; Caligula, a horse ; Virgil, a
butterfly ; Nero, a starling ; Commodus, an ape ; Helioga-
balus, a sparrow ; Honorius, a chicken.
EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TlDE.—Yesterday af-
ternoon the tide rose considerably above its usual level, owing
to the strong north-west wind prevailing, which generally has
the effect of driving the waters of the North Seas towards
the channel. The moon was also at the full, and the two
causes combined increased the velocity of the flood-tide to such
a degree, that the watermen proceeding down the Thames
had' great difficulty in making headway against it. At high
water the streets near the river side, the under-ground cellars,
and the ground floors of premises were under water, and in
many places the tide flowed through the wharfs and did consi-
derable damage to property and perishable goods. In Wap-
ping, the High-street was for some time rendered impassable to
foot passengers, and the water was here deep enough for a boat
to ride on its surface. The river also overflowed its banks in
the lower parts of Blackwall, Limehouse, Shadwell, West-
minster, and other places, and a good deal of furniture has
been injured in the dwellings of the poorer classes by the ir-
ruption of the flood.