The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-24 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of
Garter yesterday, at Ste James's Palace. The following
Knights attended, viz. !—His Royal Highness the Duke of
Cumberland, the Earl of Westmoreland, Marquis Caniden,
Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Bath, Duke of Dorset, Duke
of Devonshire,and the Duke of Norfolk, and were robed in
the mantles and collars of the Order, in the Portrait Gallery,
by Messrs. Hunter, Adams, and Ede.
The Officers of the, Order in attendance were the Lord
Bishop of Winchester; Prelate, the Hon"; and Rey. the Dean
if Windsor ; Registrar, Sir William Wooili(Clarenceux King
if Arms); Deputy Garter Princ.ipal Kiiig of Arms ; and Sir
Augustus Clifford, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod:
These Officers wore their mantles, chains, and badges.
The Knights Companions Item then called over in the
Entre room by Deputy Garter, and with the Officers of the
Order, were then ushered into the presence of the Sovereign,
in the Throne-room.
His Majesty being seated in the Chair of State, the
Knights Companions, by his command, took their respective
seats at the table, according to the order of the stalls, the
Prelate standing on the ht of the King, and the Registrar,
Deputy Garter, and Black Rod standing at the bottom of the
:able.

The •Prelate they ;;guiiieci to iiia;
R,6yal will and pleasure, that the vacant stall in the etoyi;.-.
Chapel of St. George at Windsor, should be filled. The
cher.l.;!Y.l* tbe Sovereigii'7
Knights tlieil prOceeded d tile End Odle euffrages
having been collected by the Prelate, were by him presented
to the King, who cottimatteled him to declaee his Grace the
Otfee of 13teeletieli duly l'.eefetl a Knight Of the Most Noble
Order of the Garter. • •
•
•By the King's cornmandeepiae-Ceace wee. received at the
door of the Chapter-room by the Duke of—Deveneei., end
.he Duke of Norfolk, the two• junior Knights present,
receded by Deputy Garter (bearing the insignia of the
Order upon a velvet cushion) and by the Black Rod.
The Diike of budcletigh kneeling neer the Sovereign, and
Deputy Garter presenting, on his. knee, the darter', his Ma.
jesty, assisted by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland
and the Earl of Westmoreland, the two senior Knights present,
hackled it on his Grace's left leg, the Prelate pronouncing the
usual admonition.
. Deputy Cart& then preeented in. like, manner the riband
with the jewel, and his Majesty with the asiigfande eft' the
two. junior Knights, put the same over the Duke of Buc-
eleugh's left shoulder, the Prelate reading the admonition.
After which his Grace kissed the King's hand, and, having
received the congratulations of each of the Knights Coin-
eanions, withdrew.
• The Chapter being ended, a precetsion was made to the
Royal closet, beginning with the junior Knights Mid ending
with the King ; after which the Knigiqs withdrew.
The Duke of Buccieugh on receiving the Order of the Gar-
ter, resigned the Order of the Thistle, of which most ancient
and noble Order his Grace was a member.
After the ineeititure, his Majesty held a Privy Council,
which was attended by the Lord Cliandell4, the Lord Pre+
lent, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury,
the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President
of the Board of Centro', the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan-
Aster, the Chief Secretary for frelaud, the Seereterpat-War,
the Paymaster of the Forces, the President of the Board of
Trade, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom
of the Stole, the Master of the Horse.
Viscount Castlereagh and the Heti. leery
..Lowry Corry
were, by command of his Majesty, sworn of his Majesty's liken
Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at
We Board.
The King pricked the list of Sheriffs for a Sheriff of Che-
;hire, and eppeinte4 James Heath Leigh, of Uirappenhall
Lodge, Esq., Sheriff for the pteSetif yeah, itieteed of liid fatliet,
Joseph Leigh, of Belmont, Esq., who had been nominated on
't former occasion.
His Majesty's Speech, on opening the Session of Parlia-
meet, this day, ices ettange4.
Some repei'te of the ifete Po/Al-filed.
The Hon. William Bathurst was • the Clerk of the t °Una
in Waiting.
The Court was attended by the Captain of the Yeomen of
the Guard, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Vice-Cham-
berlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of
the Household, the Mastet of the Robes, Colonel Bowater,
Equerry in Waiting, Mr. Battiiiel Hancock, than of the Yee.=
:lien-of the Guard in. Waiting, ; the Page of Honour, Mr.
Hash and Captain Green, the Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting.
The King gave audiences to Lord Hill, the Marquis of
'Winchester, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, Sir
Henry Hardinge, Duke of Dorset, Mr. Secretary Goulburn,
Earl of. Wilton, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and the Karl of
Rosslyn.
The Earl of Verulam and Sir Joseph Whatley were the Lord
end Groom in Waiting.
The Princess AugUsta, attended by Miss Wynyard, arrived
it her residenCe in St. James's Palace, yesterday afternoon,
'rom Brighton.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked
and drove in the Parks, yesterday.
The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg visited the Duchess
of Gloucester yesterday.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited their Majesties yesterday.
Sir Robert Peel gave a grand dinner last evening at his re-
sidence in Privy Gardens, as Ministerial Leader in the House
of Commons, to a large party of Members, all of whom came
in full Court dress. The King's Speech to be delivered by
leis Majesty this day on opening the Session of Parliament,
was read by the Right Hon. Baronet to his guests in the
course of the evening. There were present the Earl of Lin-
coln, Lords Castlereagh, Stormont, Ernest Bruce, Sandon,
(the Mover of the Address,) Granville Somerset, Ashley,
Lowther, and Mahon ; the Right Honourables Sir Henry Har-
dinge, Sir C. Manners Sutton, Sir John Beckett, Sir Edward
Knatchbull, J. Herries, H. Goulburn, C. W. Wynn, and A.
Baring ; Honourables Sidney Herbert and Henry Lowry
Corry • the Attorney-General, the Solicitor General, Sir John
Beresford, Sir William Rae, Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir
George Clerk, Sir Frederick Trench, Colonel Perceval ;
Messrs. Bramston, ( Seconder of the Address,) W. Ewart,
Gladstone, Shawe, Bonham, Praed, and Ross.
The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner last evening
at Apsley House, to a party, which consisted of the Lord
Chancellor, the Dukes of Dorset, Gordon, and Rutland ; the
the Marquises of Salisbury, Londonderry, Winchester, and
Exeter ; the Earls of Aberdeen, Mansfield, Rosslyn, De Grey,
Roden, Wilton, Chesterfield, Westmoreland, Hardwicke, and
Jersey ; Viscounts Strangford and Gage; and Lords Cowley,
Havtesbury, Maryborough, Ellenhorough, Stuart de Rothsay,
and Wharneliffe.. The Noble Duke read the King's Speech
to the party during the evening.
The Spanish and Greek Ministers transacted business yes-
terday at the Foreign Office.

It is understood that the Address will be moved and
seconded, in the Upper House, by Lords Hardwicke and
Gage, and in the Lower House by Lord Sandon and Mr.
Bramstone. Who is to take the lead in moving the amend-
ment in the Commons is not so surely ascertained; at all
events not so confidently asserted. Our contemporary, the
Standard, assigns the distinction, such as it is, to Mr. Fox
Maule, while the Courier claims it for Lord' Morpeth. It
seems to be agreed on all hands, however, that the amendment
will express want of confidence in his Majesty's Ministers, and
that the Whigs expect to catch the votes of Lord Stanley and
Sir James Graham, who stated that they'had no confidence in
the *Sent Administration. But it is one thing to refuse an
Administration general confidence, and another to join in a
factious combination against them. There are not wanting
upon both sides speculators who talk of majorities either way,
but the contest draws too clove for speculation to find much
encouragement on the very eve of certainty. All eyes arc now
bent eagerly forward towards the result. It is a moment of
fearful suspense and agitation.—Morning Paper.

We hear that upon the elevation of Sir C. M. Sut-
ton to the House of Peers, the vacancy caused thereby in the
representation of that Tory borough the University of Cam-
bridge, is to be filled up by the elect►on of Sir F. Pollock, now
the nominee of, Lord Sandwich, at Huntingdon; the latter
place is to be represented by Sir George Murray, who but for
the want of an A.M. degree would have represented the Uni-
versity. Nye cannot help thinking this is rather a roundabout
way of managing the matter. The Tories do not now stick
.at trifles, and surely tht Senate of Cambridge would have been
found suffieiently pliant to obey the mandate of the Great
Captai►► of the Age, and at once constitute his aide-de-camp
an A.M. ' '

The bets yesterday morning, not at Tattersall's, are
three to one that the Ministers will be left in a minority of at
least 40 on the amendment: to the Addreasi this day.
REPEAL OF TIIE WINDOW meeting Of
the Committee, which has so strenuously exerted itself to ob-
tain the repeal of the window tax, will be held this evening, at
the British Coffee-house, to arrange the manner in which the
deputation is to attend the appointment made by Sir Robert
Peel for the ensuing day. Another meeting will be held to-
morrow evening, at the rime place, for the purpose of an-
nouncing the result of the conference.

The only appointtnents in the gift of the Speaker of
the 1-lonse are his secretary, chaplain, and train-bearer.
•
TIIE LATE ROBERT OLlVER.—Respecting this
distinguished individual, whose death lately took place at Bal-
Vmore in the United States, we find the following passage in
the speech of General d'Evereux, at a late dinner of the SoL
cieti Encyclopedique of Paris. The memory of Mr. Oliver,
as a benefactor of mankind, had been given from the chair,
whereupon. General d'Evereux rose and pronounced a glowing
eulogium on the deceased, " who had," he said., " rendered
himself illustrious by the acquirement of an immense fortune
(upwards of a million sterling), through the exertion of ptiwer-
ful intellect, unwearied industry, unimpeachable-probity and
integrity, yet with the concurrent practice of splendid hospi-
tality, and unbounded charity."

CAPTAIN PECIIELL.—The cause of the gallant
member for Brighton being absent from the division m the
Speakership, was an accident which occurred to him a week
since (a fall from his poncy) which occasioned great inflam-
mation in the seat of his former injury, and opened afresh one
of the wounds which had, for some time, apparently been
healed. The gallant officer has not been enabled to leave his
house since.--11ampshire Telegraph.
A correspondent, on considering the large propor-
tion of inquests held upon the horrid deaths of children, by
tire, makes public the following tried precaution ac-
quaints us that the careful wife of the clerk of his parish,
whenever she was obliged to go to the neighbouring shop, or
to be absent from her children, accustomed them to the
wholesome restraint of being secured to the Jeg of her kitchen
table..By having a few play-things within their reach., they
were safe and contented.—Herorcl Journalt

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, FEI3RUAItrY 24, 1835.