The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked in
Hyde-park yesterday forenoon. In the evening their Royal
Highnesses were present at the performances at Drury-lane
Theatre.

The Members of the Grand Cabinet (composed of the Ca-
binet Ministers and the Great Officers of State) assembled last
evening at the residence of the Lord President of the Council,
in Grosvenor-place, to settle the roll of Sheriffs for the present
year ; and there were present—the Lord Chancellor, the
First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Se-
cretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial De-
partments, the President of the Board of Control, the First
Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Trade,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Paymaster of
the Forces, the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's House-
hold ; and Mr. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst,
the Clerks of the Privy Council. The party afterwards dined
with the Noble Earl.

The Archbishop of Canterbury had a long interview yester-
day with Sir Robert Peel.

Count Medem, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, and Mr.
Pontois, the French Charge d'Affaires, visited the Duke of
Wellington yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Mr. William Tooke, M. P., had an interview with Sir Ro-
bert Peel yesterday, in Downing-street, on the subject of a
Charter to the University of London.
Lord Hill had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Aber-
deen at the Colonial Office.

The Lord Chancellor; the Earl of Munster Lord Francis
Egerton, and Sir Francis Drake, had interviews yesterday
with Sir Robert Peel. The Marquis of Thomond also visited
the Right Hon. Baronet.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial Office
from the Governors of the Swan River settlement and the
Honduras.

The Judicial Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council held
a meeting yesterday in the Council Chamber. The Lords
present were the Vice-Chancellor, the Right Honourables Sir
John Nicholl, Sir James Parke, and Thomas Erskine.
In the appeal, Doneguay versus Doneguay, from Canada,
which had been argued at former meetings, the Vice Chan-
cellor gave judgment on the part of their Lordships and dis-
missed the appeal with costs.
Kilpin v. Kilpin, from the Arches Court. In this appeal a
motion was made for costs, which was opposed by Dr. Lush-
ington.
Mr. Pemberton, K. C., and Dr. Phillimore were heard on
an appeal from the Chancery Court of York. Thomas
Rhodes, executor, named in the asserted last will and testa-
ment of James Hobson, late of Goston, in the parish of Man-
chester, in the county of Lancaster, deceased, the will bear-
ing date the Bth February, 1817, with four codicils annexed,
v. Jenny Smethurst, widow, the sister and only next of kin,
propounding the last asserted will of the deceased, dated the
11th of December, 1829, in which will no executor or resi-
duary legatee was named.
The Solicitor- General and Dr. Lushington replied on the
part of the respondent.
The case had been brought before an inferior Court at
Chester, which had ordered a clause to be struck out of the
will of 1829, revocatory of the will of 1817. The Chancery
Court of York, however, reversed the judgment of the Court
of Chester, and from the latter decree the present appeal was
brought.
Sir John Nicholl gave judgment. Their Lordships consi-
dered the will of 1829 a regularly executed deed. It had been
attested by three witnesses and was executed by the deceased.
This deed contained a revocation of all former wills, and their
Lordships were of opinion that an intention existed on the part
of the testator to revoke his former will. The appeal was dis-
missed. The costs to be paid out of the estate.

Lord Brougham is expected to arrive at his new
residence in Berkeley-square on Thursday next, from Paris.
Lady Brougham arrived with her daughter yesterday, from a
tour, to meet the noble and learned Baron. During his Lord-
ship's absence, his step-daughter, Miss Spalding, has been
united to Sir Alexander Malet, Bart., of Westbury, Wilts.
The Duke of Wellington having been invited to
meet Lord Eldon and a party at Kew on Saturday, to shoot
pheasants in the preserves of the Duke of Cumberland, his
Grace had made all necessary arrangement, but at noon some
sudden and pressing business obliged his Grace to send an
apology.
`We understand that the Lord Chancellor is en-
gaged in completing his Bill for the Establishment of Local
Courts. We believe that the extension of the powers and the
remodelling of the existing Courts, in preference to the esta-
blishing of a wholly new system, will be the groundwork of
the plan.—Morning
MESSRS. BYNG AND HUME.-The friends of Mr.
Byng and Mr. Hume have determined to unite in a dinner to
celebrate the re-election of those two Reformers for the county
of Middlesex. The dinner will be given at the Angel Inn,
Edmonton, on Wednesday, the I I th-Of February. All the
Metropolitan Members have been invited, and several other
influential friends to the cause of Reform.

A succession of public dinners to commemorate the
return of Messrs. Compton and Fleming, for the Southern
Division of Hampshire, are about to take place at Southamp-
ton, Portsmouth, and Gosport. The first of these Conservative
entertainments take place at Southampton on Friday.

The Right non. the Secretary-at-War (Mr.
!terries) has appointed Mr. Frederick Herries, a relative, to
be his Private Secretary. The Deputy Secretary-at-War,
L. Sullivan, Esq., brother-in-law to Lord Palmerston, retains
his post under the preseht Government.
Colonel Sir Frederick Trench has returned from his
visit to his Noble Friend the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir
Castle, to enter on the duties of his new appointment of Se-
cretary to the Right Hon. the Master-General of the Ord-
nance (salary 1,0001. per annum.)
There is now being made one of the most splendid
sets of new harness for his Majesty's state carriage and horses
that has ever been exhibited in this country, and will be used
on the day his Majesty proceeds in state from St. James's Pa-
lace for the purpose of opening the ensuing Parliament.
Viscount Castlereagh, by his appointment to the
Household as Vice-Chamberlain, vice the Earl of Belfast,
gains an official salary of 6001. or 8001. per annum. His
Lordship, under the former Administration of the Duke of
Wellington, was a Lay Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Castle-
reagh has arrived in Chapel-street, from Mount-Stewart, the
Marquis of Londonderry's seat, in the county of Down, for
which county he has been again elected.
LORD FRANCIS EGERTON IN OFFICE.—It IS
strongly rumoured, with what truth we are unable to state,
that Lord Francis Egerton is about to take office with the
present Ministry ; and that in consequence there will, almost
immediately on the meeting of Parliament, be a fresh election.
for South Lancashire. Should this event take place, it is, we
are given to understand, the intention of a large and influen-
tial body of the electors to invite Lord Palmerston into the
field to contest the representation with Lord Francis Egerton.
—Manchester Guardian.

We are credibly informed that there is no founda-
tion for the statement in a Morning Paper of the alleged
struggle among numerous applicants for the valuable living
vacant by the Rev. Corby n Sutton, the Archbishop having
disposed of it before any one of the applicants in question could
have been heard of.

It has been conjectured that Mr. O'Connell, who
has plenty of his own boroughs to fall back upon, may be- in-
duced to abandon his seat for Dublin, rather than encounter
the vast expense of a petition, as well as hazard the conse-
quences which may attach to the extensive perjury alleged to
have been committed during his election.—Morning Paper.
We have great pleasure in announcing that W.
Marsden, Esq., F.R. S., the venerable author of the Ma-
layan Dictionary and Grammar and other well-known works,
presented his valuable library, containing several thousand
volumes, to the Kings' College London.
It was confidently expected that Sir It. C. Glyn,
would at the Court of Aldermen this day, resign his gown.
Sir R. C. Glyn was elected Alderman for Bishopsgate in
1790, was Sheriff the same year, and Lord Mayor in 1798.
Upon the decease of Sir W. Curtis, in 1829, he was, as senior
Alderman, removed to Bridge Without. Upon his resigna-
tion, according to all former precedent, Mr. Alderman Ansley
will be removed to Bridge Without, by which a vacancy will
occur in the ward of Bread-street. In anticipation of this
event, a requisition signed by more than two thirds of the elec-
tors, has been presented to John Lainson, Esq., of Bread-
street, requesting him to become a candidate for the alderma-
nic gown, pledging themselves to promote his election by all
means in their power. Mr. Lainson has been many years re-
sident in the ward of Bread-street.

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Mr. H. J. Perry, of the Chancery Bar, has been
appointed Secretary to the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Barlow, his
Lordship's late Secretary, having declined to take upon him-
self again the labours of that office.
EARL SPENCER'S LIBRARY AT A LTIIORP.—
That magnificent collection of books, the choice condition and
splendour of which, Dr. Dibdin says, are probably unrivalled,
was formed by the late venerable Earl, during a period of forty
five years.
The foundation of the block books, and early edi-
tions of the classics, may be said to have been laid by the pur-
chase of Count Reviezky ; since which, his Lordship missed
no opportunity of adding to his literary treasures all books
printed in the fifteenth century, and some of the most impor-
tant first editions printed in the sixteenth century. The
libraryofatwhi Althorp occupies a suite of apartments on the ground
floor, ch the entire length, from the extremity of the first
called the Long Library, to that of the fifth, or
apartment, called the Gothic Library, cannot be less than
hundredtlaa:saotrtment' and twenty feet. These rooms are filled to the
very coiling, and cannot contain fewer than sixty thousand yo.
lumes, now that the books have been removed thither from the
mansion in St. James's-place. They must have cost Lord
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considerably more than 200,0001. His Lordship does
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not even mention his library ill 1114 1k Will 1 hilt the prwsent
Earl, who was deeply and most affectionately attached to his
fine taste and leaining'of his ex-
father, although he does not appear to have devoted much time
to ii. 0..,
.ii,lFbr 2f hihl!osranhy, is determined to preserve this im-
wtedarLinlga:
CAVALRY DANDYISM.—The Dragoon Guards
are now to have brass helmets, with black horse hair crests i
d,mhiee;w4:clrda,c crack i
k e cavalry
the celebrated
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those worn by the officers are silver gilt, OP, if not of that
costly materials, the imitation is most perfect. At this rate
tfrat himself. Army
sairsillCiolentinue to be the same
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like the viceregal guard of the late Viceroy of Pi:ru, helmets
tht, I'VCsiMionary
influential mortals they so decidedly were under the last reign,
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