The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-29 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, DEC. 28.

The King and Queen, the Princess Augusta, the Landgra-
vine of Hesse Homberg, and Prince George, attended Divine
Service this morning in one of the private rooms of the palace.
The Rev. F. F. Bowes, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Wait-
ing, officilted, assisted by the Dean of Hereford. The Bishop
of Worcester, who continues on a visit at the palace, preached
a most eloquent sermon. The Earl and Countess of Mayo
were the Lord and Lady in Waiting, and Miss Hope John-
stone, Maid of Honour. Lord A. Fitzelarence, Lord and Lady
Falkland, Lady Mary Fox, and the suite generally, were pre-
sent. The Rev. Dr. Everard read prayers, and the Rev. J.
Anderson preached a sermon from the Acts, chap. vii., ver. 59
and 60, in the palace chapel. The attendance of persons there
was very numerous.

At ten o'clock on Friday night the Langravine of Hesse
Romberg arrived at the Palace on a visit to their Majesties,
with whom her Royal Highness will sojourn for some time.
Yestrday the King drove out to near Shorehr..m and back
to the palace, accompanied by the Landgravine of Hesse Rom-
berg.

The Queen, attended by Lady Mayo, Lady Mary Fox, the
Fail of Errol, Colonel Sir Charles Thornton, and several of
the Royal suite, walked on the Chain Pier, where numbers of
persons were assembled, who received her Majesty in the most
loyal manner. After some time her Majesty and attendants re-
turned to the palace.
Lord A. Fitzclarence arrived here in the course of yesterday
on'a visit to their Majesties.
the Princess Augusta, attended by Lady S. Cornwallis,
drove through various parts of the town.
Prince George, accompanied by the Earl bf Errol, enjoyed
the sports of the field with the East Susse:4 foxhounds.
Lord Western, the Earl of Ripon,
colonel Sir James Hope,
and Lady Wharncliffe, dined wit}, their Majesties on Friday
evening. Yesterday the diri„
Augusta, the Landgravi party comprised the Princess
'2.e of Hesse Hornberg, Prince George
y,
Earl and Countess o": Mayo, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lady Mar
Fox, and the 5'..150. The band of the Ist Royal Dragoons at-
tended.

U" 'to the present hour, half-past four p.m. ( Sunday), the
...misters have not arrived. Summonses have, however, been
issued for a Cabinet Council at the Pavilion for one o'clock
to-morrow, at which it is expected that Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers
will attend; and that the announcement of the dissolution of
Parliament will appear in an Gazette Extraordinary to-morrow
( Monday) evening.
The Ist Royal Dragoons, which have been quartered 'here
for some time, have received the route for Ireland. They are
commanded by Colonel Somerset, and will leave the cavalry
Barracks on Wednesday morning.
The Marchioness of Downshire, Countess of Sheffield, Count
and Countess De Salis, and most of the Nobility and Gentry
of the place, visited their Majesties yesterday, who continue in
the enjoyment of excellent health and spirits, at the palace, to
the great gratification of the inhabitants and visiters of the place.

We understand that Lord Cowley is to be the new
British Ambassador to the Court of France. We regret to
add that the dangerous illness of Lady Cowley (sister of the
Marquis of Salisbury) is the reason of his Lordship not hav-
ing left town to assume his diplomatic duties as successor to,
Lord Granville.

The appointment of Lord Londonderry as Ambas—
sador to St. Pet2rsburgh, of which we expressed some doubt,
is, we have s,lnce reason to believe, correct.

The daughter of Sir Aubrey de Vere, of Currah,
Bart., will shortly be led to the altar by Robert, third son of
Sir Edward O'Brien, of Dromoland, Bart.—Limerick Chron.
The Right Hon. W. Y. Peel, the brother of the
Premier, and one of the new Lords of the Treasury, is confined
at an hotel by a severe fit of the gout.
Sir James Kempt is appointed Cclonel of the 2d
Foot ; Sir George Cook of the 40th Foot ; Sir Archibald
Campbell of the 77th Foot; and Major-General Sir Charles
Pratt of the 95th Foot.

Mr. Goulburn, as Secretary of State for the dome
Department, has appointed the Hon. Spencer Montague to bo
his private secretary.
Circular letters have been received from the Duke
of WelP.ngton, at Blandford, Dorsetshire, Bath, Wareham,
an t_ Shaftesbury, in which the Duke states that the loyal ad-
dresses to the King from those places were most graciously
received by his Majesty.

Mr. Charles Sheridan, grandson of the late R. B.
Sheridan, Esq., and brother of the accomplished Mrs. Norton,
who accompanied Lord Mulgrave to Jamaica, in the capacity
of private secretary, has been chosen by the Right Honourable
Henry Ellis to perform a similar duty in his embassy to Persia.
Young Sheridan is said to inherit a considerable portion of the
genius and talent by which the different branches of his family
have been distinguished.
General Palmer, the patriotic M.P. for the city of
Bath, is we believe nearly the sole proprietor of the Theatre.
Royal in that city. He has recently let it on a rental to Mr.
Macready, who is preparing his forces to open it in a style
worthy of its former great reputation. Mrs. Siddons, and other
sons and daughters of Melpomene and Thalia, were trans-
planted from the Bath theatre to the London stage. Mac-
ready has engaged Charles Kemble for a limited period, so
that- those frienly rivals will perform together in the most
popular of Shakspeare's dramas.

Lord Ellenborough, the new President of the Board
of Control, has the patronage of the two new Bishoprics of
Madras and Bombay, each with an allowance of 2,500/. per
'annum, and which have not been yet filled up.
The Rangership of Bagshot Park is vacant by the
death of the Duke of Gloucester.

The Earl of Dalhousie, it is expected, will succeed
Sir W. Keppel in the command of the 2d Foot.
Prince Metternich has announced to the Attaches
at the different Courts that there will be a reduction of every
unnecessary expense. The business of the embassy here is
now confined to M. de Hummelauer and two Secretaries.
Prince Esterhazy and his household will be here, it is under-
stood, early next month.
SHERIFFSHIP OF GLASGOW.—We are gratified to
learn that Mr. Allison, the able author of the " History of the:
French Revolution," is to be the new Sheriff of Lanarkshire.
The appointment is certain, although we believe the commis-
sion has not yet been reseived.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
Sir Charles Manners Sutton is not,, for the present
to be elevated to the peerage. The Tories begin to fear that
their nomination of a new Speaker, in a new Parliament,
would fail. They, therefore, wish to retain Sir Charles in his
present situation, and they flatter thenzselves his services may
be acknowledged by the Reformers. The barony of Lexing-
ton is to remain, fora short time, in abeyance.

SIR R. PEEL'S MANIFESTO.—The attempts at
delusion have failed. Sir Robert Peel's Manifesto has failed
most signally. The great body of Dissenters have at once
repudiated it, by a series of resolutions worthy of their high
and independent character. It will give satisfaction to no man
who thinks (as the Right Hon Baronet himself professes to
think) that, in times like these, " confidence cannot be secured
by any other course than that of a frank and explicit declara-
tion of principle." It will give satisfaction to no man who
suffers under a grievance which he distinctly feels.—North-
ampton Free Press,

SIR Ito-BERT PEEL'S MANIPESTO.—His defini-
tion of the spirit of the Reform Bill is an absurd exaggeration
on the one hand, and that of the temper of the Government,.
art evasion on the other. The wisest Statesmen as well as the
wildest enthusiasts have spoken of the Reform Bill only as of
" a means to an end," and all the world knows that those means
must be administered according to the disposition of the
Government and the will of Parliament. The simple truth
is, that if there be (we quote our last week's exposition) truth
in words, trust in professions, faith in principles, or experience
in practice, Sir Robert and his friends belong to the enemies
of Reform, not of hazardous Reform only, but of that reforms..
tion which the common sense, the good sense of the nation
required, and which the real Reformers, acting agreeably to
that sense, did and were about to prosecute. This is the dis-
tinetion, nor will Sir Robert's sophism confound any plain un-
derstanding. With respect to Corporation Reform, Sir
Robert pledges himself—to what ?—to consider the Report
when it appears. Here again we must appeal to experience..
Is it probable that he will extinguish those misapplications of
power, patronage, and pecuniary fonds, which always were and
are still the strong holds of the Tory faction ? If he do, he
must become " an apostate to the principles in which he has
heretofore acted," which he in the outset solemnly avows ha
will not.—Norwich Mercury.
CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES.—The usual dinner
was t,,iven, on Christmas-day, to 447 poor children in the Na-
tional Schools at Stockwell and Brixton. The clean and de-
cent appearance of the children, and their animated expressions
of pleasure, were highly gratifying to a numerous assemblage
of' the friends of these institutions.
The New York packet of the Bth inst. had not
reached Liverpool up to Saturday night. Strong erAaterly
winds prevailed, which it was feared would delay her hrrival
for several days. As the packet for Havre had been.
'attained
at New York until the arrival of the President", Message
from Washington, which was expected to reach the former
city on the 3d inst., a copy of the Message may be daily ex.
pected to arrive in London via France,