The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

her Majesty gave a state hall (the first this season) at
the Palace. at St. James's, on Friday evening.
The attendants were the same as at a court ; the Yeomen
of the Guard, under the command of their Exons, Sir H
Cipriani, Messrs. C. and S. Hancock, lined the Guar.
Chamber, and were also stationed at the passage leading to
the state rooms from both the entrances to the Palace
The state pages, the pages of the King and Queen, and all
the other attendants, appeared in their state uniforms.
A guard of honour was station.d in the principal court-
yard of the Palace, and a detachment of Life Guards in tfo
space between Marlborough-house and the Palace.
Two of the staterooms were prepared for dancing, th,
hall-room and the throne-room. In the former at ore
end was a raised platform covered with crimson, on which
were seats of crimson velvet and gold for their Majesties.
the members df the Royal Family, and the Ladies of the
Poreign Ambassadors, with draperies at the back to cor-
i•esifoLid. The orchestra in this room was raised above the
company, and projected several feet; it was supported by
columns with white flutings ; the front of the orchestra wa.
hung with draperies corresponding with the curtains and
the platform ; the floor was chalked : in the middle was a
very large representation of the Royal arms ; in front of
the platform was the Star of the Order of the Bath, and on
the ether side of the Royal arms, that of the Garter, and
beyond that a harp : the angles were filled up with wreaths
and scrolls of fi ilage.
The orchestra of the Throne-room also projected, but
was on a level with the floor, which was chalked in a si-
milar manner to the Ball- room, except that the initials
" W. 11." and " A. R." were substituted for the Stars of
the Garter and Bath. The Drawing-room (between the
two dancing rooms) had seats arranged for the company
who did not join the dance, and the King's closet, leading
from the Throne-room, was set out for cards.
The whole suite of rooms was most brilliantly lighted
up by large chandeliers in the middle of each, together with
a number of candelabra placed before the magnificent pier-
glasses, and on ped,stals at the sides of the rooms.

- The Picture Gallery had tables arranged for ices, tea,
coffee, and other refreshments, which were served to the
company during the evening. Exotics and other choice
plants were arranged in recesses in several of the rooms.
The Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland,
came to the ball, attended by Lady Sophia Lennox, Baron
Linsingen, and Colonel Poten. The Duchess of Kent was
attended by hn usual suite ; the Duke of Gloucester by
Colonel digging ; the Princess Augusta by Lady Mary
Taylor and Miss Wynyard.
The company began to arrive at half-past 9 o'clock. A
great many of the dresses worn by the ladies were new for
the occasion, and were remarkable for richness and ele-
gance ; the head dresses and tiaras were as splendid as at
a Drawing-room, and appeared to greater advantage. The
gentlemen came in full Court dress, and wore the insignia
of the different orders of knighthood.
Their Majesties dined with the Princess Augusta, and
afterwards came to the State Rooms, which they entered
about a quarter past 10 o'clock. The bands played " God
save the King." Their Majesties went to their elevated
seats on the platform, accompanied by the Duchesses of
Kent and Cumberland, the Princess Augusta, tl'e Dukes
of Cumberland and Gloucester, Prince Geeree of Cumber-
land, and Prince George of Cambridge ; the former danced
several dances with Viscountess Falkland.

Dancing commenced directly after their Majesties, were
seated. Mr. John Weippart's band and the band of Colinet
and Musard were in the two rooms. Colinet's band, com-
posed of 30 performers, commenced with Musard's set of
quadrilles from Beethoven's admired " Septuor ;" after
which a series of waltzes, as performed at the Court of
Vienna, were introduced by her Majesty's desire, and ended
with the new galoppes from the Courts of Hanover and
Bavaria. Waltzes, quadrilles, and galoppes, were danced
during the night.
Their Majesties and the Royal Family left the Ball-room
at a quarter before one o'clock, and proceeded to the ban-
quetting room, where supper was in readiness.
The supper was served on two long tables down the
sides of the room, connected by a cross table at the end,
which were covered with every possible variety of refresh-
ments, of the choicest description, including several sorts
of fruits. The ornaments of pastry were designed with
great ingenuity, and displayed great taste. Ou the buffet
Was introduced a plateau of plate-glass, which reflected a
number of tankards, cups, and elegant articles of plate.
Great numbers remained in the ball-room, preferring
the merry dance to supper. The bands, in consequence,
never ceased, and the ball did not conclude till past 3 o'clock.
Among the company were the Russian Ambassador and •
Princess Lieven, Count Matouschevitz, the Russian Mi-
nister, Prince Paul Lieven, and Prince Gali!zin, the
Baron de Wessenburg, the Austrian Minister; the Austrian
Charge d'Affaires, and the Secretaries of the Embassy ;
Baron Zuylen de Nyevelt, the Netherlands Minister,
Baroness Zuylen, and the Secretary of the Embassy ;
the French Ambassador and the Duchess de Dino, and '
the Secretary of the Embassy; the Neapolit in Mi-
nister and Countess Ludolf, and the Chevalier Vau-
vitelli, Secretary to the Embassy; the Bavarian Mi-
nister and Baroness Cetto ; the Prussian Minister, and
the Secretary to the Embassy; Madame Bermudez, the
Lady of the Spanish Minister, and the Secretary of Lega-
tion ; the Wurtemburg Minister ; Monsieur E. de Go-
rostiza, Attache to the Mexican Embassy; the Hanoverian
Minister, and Baroness d'Ompteda (nee Countess de
sabliPpenbach) ; the Saxon and Brazilian Ministers ;
the Danish, Swedish, Sardinian, United States Charges
des Affaires ; Count and Countess Michel Woronzow ;
the Master of the Rolls, the Duke of Wellington, the
Marquess of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Duke of
Devonshire, Mr. and Lady Catherine Cavendish, the Duke
and Duchess of Gordon, the Duke and Duchess of Buc-
cleuch, the Marquess and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Earl
and Countess Rosebery, Earl and Countess Harewood and
two Ladies Lascelles, Mr. Arthur Lascelles, the Duke of
Manchester, Earl and Countess Errol, three Ladies Jen-
kineon, Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Earl and Countess
of Wincbilsea, Sir Hilgrove Turner, Lord Skelmersdale,
Capt. Wilbraham Bootle, Viscount and Viscountess En-
combe, Countess of Pembroke and two Ladies Herbert,
Lord Wallace, Sir J. and Lady Conroy, Miss, Mr., and
Lieut. Conroy, Major Sullivan, the Duke and Duchess
of Northumberland, the Marquess of Londonderry, Vis-
count Castlereagh, Earl and Countess of Tankerville, Mr.
C. R. Mellish, Sir Robert Peel, Colonel Peel, Mr. Yates
and Lady Jane Peel, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, the
the Right Hon. and Mrs. Robert Grant, Mr., Mrs., and
Miss Baring, Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, Duke
of Beaufort, Countess of Lonsdale, Viscount Lowther,
Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lady and two Misses Ste-
venson, Master Stevenson, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,
Sir Wathen Waller, Earl and Countess of Dartmouth,
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Rice, Earl and Countess Gower,
Lord and Lady Cawdor, Marquess and Marchioness of
Exeter, Lord and Lady Lilford, Countess Grosv,nor, Earl
of Warwick, Lord Foley and two Hon. Misses Foley,
Viscount Howick and Lady Georgians Grey, Mr. and
Lady Caroline Wood, Captain and Lady Caroline Barring-
ton, Marquess and Marchioness of Worcester, Marquess and
Marchioness of Salisbury, Dowager Marchioness of Salis-
bury, Duke of Dorset, Lady Stanhope, Colonel Standen,
Marquess and Marchioness of Lothian, Dowager Mar-
chioness of Lothian, Duke of Grafton, Lady Laura Fitz-
roy, Marquess of Ailsa, Lady Eleanor Kennedy, Lady
Becket, Lord de Tabley, Earl Cowper, Viscount Pal-
merston, Lord Charles Somerset, Mr. and Mrs. Lamb,
Marquess of Ailesbury, Col. Peel, Marquess of Westmin-
ster, Countess Verulain, Viscount and two Ladies Grim-
ston, Esrl and Countess Bathurst, the Hon. W. and Lady
G. Batiaur-t,, Mr. Greville, Earl Sefton, Lord Ranelagh,
Sir Cecil Forester, Marquess of Cleveland, Lord H irry
Vane, Hon. Captain George and Mrs. Campbell, Lord
F. Fitzclarence, Lords Rivers, Viscount Acheson, Earl
Gosford, Colonel Higgins, Lord and Lady Byron, Earl
and Countess Harrowby, Viscount and two Ladies Sandon,
Marquess and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl of Kerry,
two Ladies Fitz-Maurice, Viscount Strangford, Lord
James O'Bryen, Duke of Newcastle, two Ladies Clinton,
Mr. James Hudson, Marquess of Hastings, Sir Henry,
Lady, and two Misses Wheatley, Sir Robert, Lady, and
three Meson Otway, Lady Cecilia Underwood, Sir
Henry, Lady, and Miss Blackwood, Sir William
Gomm, Sir W. and Lady Fremantle,
Miss Harvey, Lord
Robert Grosvenor, Earl and Countess Amherst, Viscount
Holmesdale, Earl of Carnarvon, Lord and Lade Porches-
ter, Duchess of Montrose, Marquess and two Ladies Gra-
ham, Lady Dover, the Duchess of Bedford, two Ladies
Russell, the Right Hon. George and Mrs. Dawson, Mr.
Goulbourn and Mr. Herries, Mr. and Mrs. Sturges Bourne,
Earl of Jersey, Viscount and Lieutenant Villiers, Earl
and Countess Albemarle, Lady Keppel, Miss Gordon, Lady
Farnborough, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge, Sir
Brook Taylor, Earl of Belfast, Marquess Camden, Lady
Taylor, two Misses Edon, Earl and Countess Delawarr,
Sir George Murray, Lord Aukland, Viscount and
Viscountess Granville, the two Honourable Misses Gower,
Viscount Goodrich, Countess of CAI-lisle, Viscount'
Morpeth, and Lady Howard, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl
of Roselyn, Lord and Lady Loughborough, Count d'Aceto,
two Ladies Hervey, Marquess of Abercorn, Earl of
Aberdeen, Sir Robert Gordon, Viscount Altborp, Lord
Stuart de Rothsay,
Marquess and Marchioness of Winches-
ter, Lord W. and Lady Paulet, Mr. and Mrs. Arbuth-
not, Sir James Kerupt, Sir James and Lady Graham,
viscount DUOCaDI3O4, Lord Grantham, Hon. Miss Robin-
so, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Rutland and Lady
Manners, Earl Jermyn, the Speaker of the House of

Commons, Countess Denbigh, Sir John Hobhouse, Ri¢l
:Ton. Poulett Thomson, Earl Talbot and Lady Talbot,
Under Secretary and Mrs. Bachbouse, Lord and Lad
Fitzroy Somerset, Duke of Portland and two Ladies Ben-
inck, Earl and Countess of Lichfield, Viscount Beresford,
lir. Hyde Villiers, Marquess of Donegal, Colonel Fox,
Lord Hill, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, Earl of Westmor-
land, Mr. Stanley, Viscount Combermere, Miss Forester.
Duke of Cannizzaro, Lady Caroline Stanhope, Lord and
Miss de Roos, Lord William Lennox, Colonel and Lady S.
Lygon, Earl and Countess Mulgrave, Lady Caroline Pou-
lett, Lord Wharneliffe, Mr. Mi;dm iy, Lord and Lady
Brownlow, Lady Westmeath, Duchess of Somerset, Earl
and Countess Mountcharles, Colonel and Mrs. Wilson,
Lord Lovaine, Countess Glengall and two Ladies Butler•.
Lord S-aford, Lady Caroline ('apel, two Ladies B•auclerk.
The King took an airing in a carriage on Saturday
afternoon, accompanied by Viscountess Falkland. His
Majesty went to Kew, and afterwards paid a visit to the
Earl of Errol, at whose residence His Majesty remained
some time, and afterwards returned to the Palace at St.
James's.

The Queen left town for the Palace at Windsor, on Sa-
turday morning, and returned to town shortly befor, seven
o'clock.

In the evening their Mijesties entertained the Ducheis
of Cumberland, the Princess Augusta, the Duke of Dorset.
the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, and a select party at
dinner.

Their Majesties, the Duchess of Cumberland, the Prin-
cess Augusta, the Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George
of Cambridge, attended divine service yesterday morning
at the Coapel Royal, St. James's, and heard a very ex-
cellent sermon by the Rev. Mr. Mills, from t'• e 37th
chapter of the Prophecies of Ezekiel and the 3d verse.
fhe Church Service was read by the Rev. Mr. Packrnan
and another clergyman. The Communion Service was
performed by the Rev. Mr. Holmes, the sub-Dean. The
Te Denim, Jubilate, &c. was King's in B. The anthem
was, I was glad" (Purcell.) It was sung by Messrs.
Vaughan, Salmon, and Sale. Mr. Stafford Smith and
Mr. Cooper presided at the organ.
The Bishop of Worcest,r was the Clerk of the Closet,
Lord James O'Bryen and Sir Henry Blackwood were the
Lord and Groom in waiting, and Sir Henry Cipriani
the Exon in waiting. Among the nobility present were
the Marquess and Marchioness of Winchester, the Mar-
chioness of Clanricarde, the Marquess of Sligo, Earls Gos-
ford, Albemarle, Pomfret, and Digby ; Lords Suffield,
Howard, and Eliot.
Divine service was performed yesterday before the
Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria. and their
Royal Highnesses' Household, by the Dean of Chaster.
A meeting of the Ministers of the Five Powers was held
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
A deputation, headed by Mr. Attwood, of Birmingham,
had an interview with Earl Grey and Lord Holland on Sa-
turday, at the Treasury.

Lord GREY should rid the Government
offices of sll the highly-paid and little. worked subalterns
wi,h which they are infested, planted there during the last
twenty years by a Tory Administration, and who are spies
in his camp. The Augean stable ought and must be
cleansed and purified. In one of the offices, three cheers
were given on the resignation of Earl GREY.

An ex-whipper-in entered the Treasury about
a week back, smiling and smirking at the clerks in office,
and intimating thereby a " note of preparation" for his
return. The sanguine hopes and expectations of this ser-
vant of all work for the Tory clique are, however, for the
present happily defeated.
The Members of the Conservative Club,
whose " pious orgies" are now held at the new establish-
ment on Carlton-terrace, have recently displayed uncom-
mon energies at the bottle, as their clamorous disturbance
of their quiet neighbours amply testifies. A few evenings
ago, a well-known sedate and respectable gentleman, who
had retired to bed, was roused from his slumbers by the
noise and confusion evidently resulting from a free parti-
cipation of a vinous ingredient. The heinous part of this
offence is, that it happened on a Sunday.
MONUMENT TO EARL GREY.—We have
just learnt that yesterday some of the nobility and gentry,
of Edinburgh originated a subscription for a Scottish Na-
tional Monument commemorative of the joy which Earl
Grey's restoration to power has awakened in the metro-
polis of Scotland—that country which has been so long
and so undeservedly traduced as devoid of public spirit
and generous feelings. We are happy to hear of this pro.
ject—anil are convinced that, when begun, the means will
not be wanting to rear and to finish a memorial of Scot-
land's gratitude to Earl Grey, for his splendid exertions
in the emancipation of Scotland from the dominion of silly
Town Councils and parchment freeholderrs._New
North Briton.

THE KING AND THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.
—We have received the following account of the causes of
the difference between his MAJESTY and his Royal High-
ness the Duke of SUSSRE:—" It appears that the Duke of
Sussex presented to his MAJESTY a petition from a public
meeting at Bristol, on the subject of Reform, on either
Monday or Tuesday last. This petition was signed by
the Chairman on behalf of the meeting, and its chief object
was, petitioning his MAJESTY to create Peers, if necessary,
to carry the Reform Bill. His Als.rEsnr, or his Majesty's
Private Adviser (it seems), did not wish to receive this
petition, if it was possible to avoid it. The first objection
started was, that it was an illegal assembly ; but as this
was found, on reference to a certain law authority, not to
be the case, the objection was, that it was not a legally
constituted Assembly.' On this objection, therefore, the
KING refused to receive the petition ; subsequently the
persons who formed the Committee at Bristol published
the petition at length. His MAJESTY saw it in the public
print., and as it was couched in rather pointed, though
not at all violent, terms, his MAJESTY thought it proper
to write to the Duke of Sussax, to tell him, that as he
had thought proper to attempt to present such an address
to him, his MAJESTY thought that his brother the Duke of
SUSSEX- had better absent himself from the Palace at St.
James's as much as possible. Not only this letter, but the
following order was given, both at the Levee 21 n a the
Drawing-room and Ball : That if the Duke of SUSSEX
came, he was not to be admitted ! !!"—Morn.

It has been assumed throughout, in all the
explana ions which have passed in both H 'uses of Parlia-
ment, that Lord LYNDHURST was sent for by the KING as
having been his former Chancellor ; whereas it is quite
as reasonable to presume that the Noble Lord was referred
to by the KING as the person on whose motion in the
House of Lords the Ministry had been outvoted, and con-
s, quently as the fittest person to relieve his MAJESTY from
the embarrassment of which he (Lord LYNDHURST) had
been the author.—Morning Herald.
When Sir ROBERT PEEL assured the House
the other night that he could not take office, but " with
a light heart, a firm step, and an erect attitude," he is
said to have accompanied the military metaphor with a
Bobadilism of manner which turned what was meant for
the sublime into the ludicrous; from one to the other of
which there is, according to the well-known apophthegm,
but one step.—Ztforning Herald.
Among the other extensive changes stipulated
for by Earl GREY, and conceded by his MAJESTY,
we understand that the promotions in the army are
to be placed on a very different footing, and the whole
machinery of the Horse Guards made to work in harmony
with the movements of the Government. The civil de
pirtments are also to be revised, and the refractory Lord
Lieutenants of counties removed from their high station
without hesitation, if they exhibit any fresh disposition to
thwart the views of the Minister of the day.— Observer.
LORD WHARNCLIFFE.—WC should not,
perhaps, have reverted to the conduct of Lord WHARN-
cLurE, if that Noble Lord had not put himself forward in
the House of Lords, on Friday, in a manner improper for
.ny one—indecent for him. It is disgusting to any man
with the feelings of a man of honour, to see a person who
ought, in decency, to have hidden himself till the recollec-
tion of what he has done had passed away, so lost to all
sense of shame as his conduct proves him to be. Has be
forgotten the doubly treacherous part he has played to the
two parties whose friend he professed to be? Can he
forget that he at least knew, from authority which he
could not doubt, before the division of the 7th May, that
the success of such an amendment as Lord LYNDHURST
moved would be considered fatal by the authors
of the Bill? Can he forget the assurance which he gave
that he should himself cppose such an amendment?
Yet he suffered his friends the Waverers to vote in igno-
rance of the effect of their vote ; he broke the assurance
which he had given. He deceived those who trusted
him ; he deceived those who looked to him as
their leader. How such conduct may be viewed
by the latter we know not ; how it is viewed
by the former we need not say, how it is viewed
by those whom it served may be told by this fact,
that the Duke of WELLING-row and Lord LYNHURST have,
since the division, refused to communicate with him.
Let him then, if he wishes not to make a parade of his
shame, cease to show himself where all must alike look
down upon him—the one party as a faithless traitor; the
other as a neglected dupe.—Morning Chronicle.
The fate of Covent-garden theatre will be
sealed, or rather unsealed, on Wednesday. The tenders are
to be opened at Mr. GEORGE ROSINS'S offices at two
o'clock. It is said there are six candidates in the field.