The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

A Cabinet Council was held at eleven o'clock yesterday
morning at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the
whole of the Cabinet Ministers, except the Earl of CAR-
LISLE (Wl4O has been confined to his repidenee in Gros-
venor-place, by indispo‘ition, for some time past) and the
Loan CHANCELLOR. The Loan CHANCELLOR BUI,Se.
quently j dried the other Ministers.
The Council broke up about three o'clock. Directly
afterwards Etil Gaav, accompanied by the LORD CHAN.
CELLOR, left town for the Palace at Windsor, to have at%
audience of the KING.
The Duchess of IcEwr and the Princess VICTORIA ro
for some time yesterday at Mr. FOZARD'S riding-school.
The Princess AUGUSTA returned to town on Monday
nizht, a'ter dining and spending the evening with theic
.MAJESTIES, at the Queen's Lodge, in Bushy Park.

The Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and the Princesses Au.
GU,TA and SOPIIIA, took an airing in a carriage yester:tay
in Hyde Park.
The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VrcroatA.
walked and drove for some time in Hyde Park on iiiiondays
Prirtice TALLEYRAND, the French Ait:bassadoe ; flfJ
Baron de IlritssiNiuitC. the Austrian Minister, on d
special rniss'oA EiirOn B&Low, the Pritssian Mini.tetz
Count MATusciiEwiTi, thi 111uariln INinistir, on a special
mission ; and the Austrian Charge d'ffa had a cod-
forence with Viscount PALMERSTON yesieigi rtt ti. 44
Foreign-office.

The Bavarian Min'ster transacted business yesterday at
the For ign-office with Vip:count PALMERSTON.
Despatches rot. the Governirs of the We.t India Islan IS
were sent off from the Cdlonial.oglal on MoAday night.
Earl GREY, accompanied by the Loan CalaNhitt)(!..,
returned to town about a quarter past ten o'clock fist
night, after having an audience and dining with his MA-
JESTY, at the Palace at Windsor. Soon after his arrival
in town, the Noble Eat' proceeded to the Foreign-office,
where a Cabinet Council was held, at which all the Cabi-
net Ministers, egeept the Earl of CARLISLE, were present,
having assembled between ten and eleven o'clock.
The Doke of WELLINGTON w.s in the orchestra of Co.
vtnt-gard,.n theatre last evening, to witness the perform•
ance of The Hunchback.

tfio'nretantseurpdpeonrt
tthoeiwrnpresanendt
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d r e ;If hhaev
hers, should they come forvard for that division of Ken:
after the passing of the Reform Bill. They have ales
adopted resolu.ions of confidence in Ministere, and a re.
commendation of the creation of Peers shou'd that stepba
necessary to carry the Bill.
Mr. GORING (who has just attained his 106e1
year) was born at Chertsey, in the county of Surrey, eta
the 23rd of April 1732 ; his descendants in the sec nut
generation consist of two sons and five daughters, whose
united ages amount to 434 yeas ; in the third generation,
there are 20 grandsons and 14 grandaughters ; in the
f urth generation, 23 grew-grandchildren. Mr. GoRIN
was by trade a tailor, and hss resided all his life at Chert—
sey ; he was a most excellent pedestrian, and very fro..
quently walked to London and back in the course of the
day, transacting his business, which he called " a step up
to town," and not long ago he took one of these " steps*
to see his friends. He is in the possession of all his facial•
tie., and prides himself on the excellence of his teeth.—.
Windsor Express.

VOLCANIC ISLAND.—In 1783, off Ryke..
yse, or Bird Island, a singular submarine phenomenon or.
eurred ; the s,a appeared covered with a light bluish flume'
through an Went of more than a mile ; it lasted several
hours, and occaNioned a very great consternation among
the inhabitants of the neighbouring coast. When the
flames ceased a small island appeared on the site, the sur—
face of which was covered with pumice-stones and volcanic
ashes. The islet has since disappeared.— United Service
Journal.

At this moment there are 32 frigates in course
of construction in the ports of France :—viz. at Brest,
three of 60 guns, and five of 52; at Toulon, one of 60,
and three of 52 ; at Rochefort, two of 60, two of 52, and
one of 46 ; at L'Orirnt, five of 60, two of 52, and one of
46 ; at Cherbourg, two of 60, and tvo of he ; and at
Servan, three of 52 guns.—Hampshire Teleg-aph.

POETS.—Professor WILSON, in an article on
" TENNYSON'S Poems," contained in the number of Block-
wood for the present month, ssys Thus all men,
women, and children, birds, beasts, and fishes, are poes,
except versifiers. Oysters are poets. Nobody will deny
that, who ever in the neighbourhood of I"restonpans
beheld them passionately gaping, on their native bed, for
t e flow of tide cooling again to awaken all their energies,
from the wide Atlantic. Nor less so are snarl. See them
in the dewy stillness of eve, as they salute the crescent
Dian, with horns humbler indeed, but no less pointed than
her own. The beetle, against the traveller borne in heed-
less hum, if we knew all his feelings in that soliloquy,
might safely be pronounced a WORDSWORTH. Thus are
we all poets—high and low—except versifiers. They,
poor creatures, are a peculiar people, impotent of good
works. Ears have they, but they hear not—eyes have
they, but they will not see—nay, n iturslists assert that
they have brains and spinal narrow, also organs-of speech;
yet with all that organizat:on, they seem to have but little
feeling, and no thought; and but by a feeble and monoto.
ncus fizz, are you made aware, in the twilight, of the use-
less existence of the obscure ephemerals."

CUT AND DRIED.—Some thirty or forty
years ago, it was not. an unusual practice to hang up pro-
vincial newspapers in the printing offices to dry two or
three days before the time of publication.

REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.--A few
days ago, a shopkt-eper in this town receiv, d a parcel by a
person who, on being questioned, re!-used to divulge the
name of the individual by whom he had been employed to
carry it. On opening the parcel, two enclosures to two
tradesmen presented themselves ; one containing the aura
of 5/. and the other 6s. 6d. A letter also accompanied
the parcel, couched in the following terms :—" Please to
tell the persons it is theirs ; and that at tke resurrection of
the just they will know who it is that the gospel of Christ
has caused to remit them their own."—Doncaster 'Gar.

On the Ist of May it rained very hard. The
little sweeps who had left their cellars in the morning, as
black as could he wished, returned home washed all over.
They were quite mad : the rain had so disfigured them,
that they pretended they were not known again.— The
Parrot.

LORD MILTON AND HIS TENANTS AT
MatiroN.—The following paruraph appeared in the
Yorkshire Gazette on Saturday last We have re-
ceived several communications from ;Mahon, verbal and
otherwise, statinl, that several widows on the property of
Lord MILTON have received discharges, in order that
they may be replaced by good and true and independent
ten-pounders. Lord MILTON seems determined to do
presswb
what be will with his own ; but we dare say the Whig
will not ,'*-e to say one word against the acts of his
liberal Lordship." We have undoubted authority for stat-
ing that the above communications are grossly and wilfully
false, and that not a single notice to quit has been given for
the purposes above-mentioned; ih corroboration of which
it may be stated, that no widow has actually quitted any
house on Lord Ferzwimaaat's Milton estates during the
present year.—Leeds Mercury.
FRENCH POST-OFFICE.—The Moniteur of
tt talTbelishment of a daily cor-
respondence France and England have
‘o‘lejttirtcleEsngivii:tibchjquhTvliel
hr(Fetirhst
nearne cyt:ioi
jeucn:rcxinetit:abt)i
eyndas:attgnahanfeeiuntntsfeettiel.sil,toehttwehwian,e
arisen from persons employed in the French Patst.offieee
who, yielding to the influence of c:rtain speculators, find
it their interest to conceal for two days out of the six such
news as may arrive from abroad. This allegation is com-
pletely false. It may he proved by the correspondence
which has taken place on this subject that the French Ad-
ministration, for a long time sensible of the inconveniences
attached to the present mode of transmitting despatches
from England, has embraced every opportunity of entering
into arrangements with the English Post-office, and has
frequently made overtures on the subject, which have br,eo
recently renewed. It would not suffice to establish este
fete frotn Paris to Calais on the six ordinary days in the
week, instead of four, but it is necessary that there should
be also regular despatches from Dover to Calais on the
same number of days, for which the acquiescence of the
English Government is requisite. Besides, the visit to
I' iris of persons belonging to the British Post' office has
been a further cause for the renewal of the propositions of
the French post ; and as these propositions are founded i 1
justice, and supported by conditions of perfect reciprocity,
there is every reason to hope that in the end they will be
listened to."

In reporting the conversation of Dr. Jolts-
SON, BOSWELL, the Doctor's celebrated biographer, re-
lates that the latter once said, in reference to the pleasune
of the table, " Sir, a man who does not mind his stomach
can hard:), he expected to mind anything else. For 11,,
part, I attend to the gratification of mine very studiously.
This is great authority ; but unless be has the guidance
of a skilful cook, the lover of good eating must study is
vain. Let such resort to the Dictionary of Cookery, by
DOLBY, who, in the new edition of his celebrated work,
has put forth fresh claims to populari•y. His Dictionary, ,
with its numerous improvements, roust be considered th 4,
rest (because the lost practical) of ruodera books.