The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-23 00:00:00

ARY.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The QUEEN has appointed Sir GEORGE SMART the
conductor of her MaJEsTy's private Concerts.
Divine service was performed yesterday at Kensington
Palace before the Duchess of KENT, the Princess VICTO-
MA, and their Royal Highnesses' household, by the Dean
Of CHESTER.

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign•office, which was attended by the
LORD CHANCELLOR, the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Earl
GREY, Lord DURHAM, Viscounts MELBOURNE, PALMER.
ETON, GODERICH, and ALTHORP, the Earl of CARLISLE,
the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
Lord HOLLAND, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Duke of RICH-
MOND, and Mr. STANLEY. The Ministers were occupied
in deliberation till near Mix o'clock.
The Baron de WESSENBURG, on a special mission from
Austria, the Minister for the Hanse Towns, and Sir
FREDERICK LAMB, transacted business at the Foreign-
office on Saturday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from Sir WILLIAM HousrouN, the Lieutenant-Governor
of Gibraltar.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Viscount ALTNORP, Lord
HOLLAND, and Lord JouN RUSSELL, visited Earl GREY
on Saturday at the Trea.ury.
The LORD CHAMBERLAIN, Lord AUGUSTUS FITZCLA-
RENCE, Lady CHARLOTTE GREYILLE, Lady DACRE, Lord
G. SEYMOUR, Lord AUCELAND, Lady HARRISON, Lord
SEATORD, Sir W. CURTIS, Lady GORDON, Sir GILBERT
HEATHCOTI, &c. honoured Covent-garden Theatre with
their presence on Friday evening, to see the second repre-
sentation of Lord LEYESON GOWER'S new tragedy of
Catherine of Cleves.
Earl GREY entertained a select party at dinner on Satur-
day evening, at his residence in Downing-street.

THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.

(From the Derby Reporter.)

The Duke of Sussex visited Stafford on the afternoon
of Sunday week. On Sunday last his Royal Highness
passed through this borough on his way to the Hon.
Edward Gore's, at Milford, near this town, and on Mon-
day left Milford for Newetead Abbey, the residence of Col.
Wildman. When he arrived at Belper he was met by an
immense concourse assembled from all parts of the neigh-
isourheod. The horses were taken from the carriage,
which was drawn through the town amid the plaudits of
the assembled multitude. His Royal Highness, who was
evidently gratified by this demonstration of attachment,
and seemed in excellent health and spirits, addressed the
people to the following effect :
" Fellow Countrymen,—l return you my most sincere
thanks for the cordial manner in which you have received
me in the town of Belper. I believe that the earnest sup-
port which I have given to the great cause of Reform has
contributed in no small degree to the kind reception I
have experienced from you on the present occasion.
The high integrity of the Minister who has brought
it forward is a guarantee of his sincerity in its cause. I
have known Lord Grey, and have acted with him through
life, and I rejoice to say that there exists not a more
honest or upright man. Suspiciou, I sin aware, has
' been cast upon him; but the time will not be long be-
fore the purity of his character will be made manifest,
to the satisfaction of a right-judging people. The cor-
diality, and confidence which subsists between the King
and Lord Grey is mutual, and affords a most cheering
prospect. The people may rest satisfied that the rights
which they ask, and which they have a clear and indis-
putable claim to ask, must under such auspices very
shortly be ceded to them. And whilst I say this, I can
not forbear impressing upon your minds that it is to the
right of petition that you must always look for the re-
dress of wrongs—and to petitions drawn up in firm and
decided, and at the same time temperate and respectful
language, a deaf ear will never be turned—such addresses
must finally prevail. Neither can I too forcibly incul-
cate upon you, that the best means of seconding the efforts
which are making to establish public rights upon a secure
basis, must now and ever be the strict maintenance of
public order, and a cheerful and ready obedience to
the laws.
" It has always afforded me pleasure to visit manufac-
turing places, because in them I see one of the most
strik-
king characteristics of England's greatness. Whilst I
look on the countenances of the inhabitants, it brings fully
before me the power which suck individuals possess of
raising themselves by their talents, and by a prudent and
industrious course of life, to great opulence and considera-
tion, thereby holding out to the husobler classes of society
one of the most powerful inducements to assiduity, ho-
nesty, and correctness of conduct."
The Duke was attended by Lord J. Churchill, the
Hon. Edward Gore, and the Rev. J. liarrison, of Duffield,
one of his Royal Highness's chaplains. It is supposed
there were upwards of 5,000 persons assembled to greet
his Royal Highness.

We have the pleasure to find that his MA-
JESTY'S Government, in their anxiety to secure the pro-
sperity of all the great interests of the country, are prose-
cuting extensive inquiries into the state of various branched
of trafie in the manufacturing districts, the condition of
the pour, and other objects of public interest. The gentle-
man to whom this important duty has been confided in
f trade and commerce, to
his experience, and his
this place holds a responsible influential situation at the
Board of Trade, and is. a man, as we happen to know,
dischargeeminently
enlightened
he views
d qualifiedutyo
:boy: talents,ufihiecd tt.o
ohitn in a manner satisfactory
to the Government and beneficial to the community.
Leeds Mercury.

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justly, of the state of all or most of the Courts in West-
minster Hall, upon which so large a sum of public money
has been recently expended. The LORD CHANCELLOR
avows himself unable to exercise the functions of his office
at the period of the day most convenient to himself, on ac-
count of the well he is obliged to sit in ; while the main
entrances to the Court of King's Bench are necessarily
closed, both winter and summer, to obviate draughts and
noise.

We have just heard, from an authentic source,
that the Emperor of RUSSIA has left, or was about to
leave immediately, his capital, for Berlin. We leave it to
politicians to speculate upon the motives of this journey ;
but it must be something very important to induce the
EMPEROR. to quit St. Petersburgh at this season of the
year; aed we presume that nothing decisive will take
place in the conference until the interview between the
EMPEROR and the King of PRUSSIA shall have taken
place.—Morning Post.

DON PEDRO.---Don PEDRO was to be at
Belle Isle on Friday last, to take the command-in-chief of
the army and land forces against Don MIGUEL. By way
of preparing for the worst, he has, by will, made proper
arrangements as to his private property, which is consider-
able in cash, diamonds, and estates ; but he does not en-
tertain any doubt of success. During his stay in France
he has observed great economy in every respect, so that his
expenditure has very little exceeded that of a private gen-
tleman.— Court Journal.

The commercial portion of the inhabitants of
Bristol have been panic-struck by the intelligence of the
failure of the bank at Carmarthen. The consequences of
the failure will be severely felt in this city, for a very ex-
tensive business was carried on here with Carmarthen.
1 have heard of one or two cases of peculiar hardship.
The traveller of one Bristol house, who was receiving
orders at Carmarthen, paid into the bank there, the
very day befure the stoppage, 1,0001., and received bills
for remittance, which were, of course, of no use. I have
been told that several houses here will be materially af-
fected by the failure.

STATE OF TRADE.—We learn with sincere
satisfi.ction, during a short visit to Lancashire in the pre-
sent week, that the cotton trade has undergone revival
during the last three weeks. The spinning branch in
particular has felt the advantage of this beneficial change,
and the prospects for the spring are thought to be very
cheering, if the manufacturing districts should providen-
tially be preserved from the malady which has produced so
much alarm all over Europe, and from political cholera—
the successive intrigues of the boroughtnongers, which
have so severely afflicted the interests of the country during
the present winter.—Leeds Mercury.

IRISH TITHES AND POOR LAWS.--We
have the satisfaction to find that the Leeds petition to the
two Houses of Parliament, " praying that Parliament will
nut saddle Ireland with any poor laws, till all the church
property which formerly belonged to the poor of that
country is applied to the purpose for which it was in-
tended, namely, to feed the hungry and clothe the naked,"
has been received with so much public favour, that in the
short sp ice of two days and a half no fewer than 3,000
signatures were affixed ! This will be thought the more
extraordinary, when it is known that the former petition,
praying generally for poor laws in Ireland, without men-
tioning the tithes, received only 800 names, though it lay
for signature eight or ten days.--. Leeds Mercury.