The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Hie MAJESTY gave audiences yesterday to Earl GREv.
the Hanoverian Minister, and the Earl of AtarsrwaLE.
The Duke and Duchess of CUSIBERLA.gp came to town
yesterday from their residence at Keay. Their Royal
Highnesses dined with the KING and QUEEN in the even-
in,;, at the Palace at St. James's.
'The Duke of Sussex, the Duke Of GLOUCESTER, and
the Princess SOPHIA, visited their MAJESTIES yesterday.
The report of the state of the Duchess of GLOUCESTER
yesterday was, " Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER is progressively better." The Princess
AUGUSTA and the Princess SOPHIA visited their Royal
sistar yesterday at Gloucester-house.

Viscount A1.T11011.1. visited Earl Guar yesterday at tl.e
Treasury.

31EDITERRANEAN.

(From the Nautical Magazixt.)
TO MARINERS.
While the volcanic island, on the cos•st of Sicily,
showed itself in so conspicuous a manner by its height,
and volumes of steam and smoke, navigators had a suffi-
cient warning of their being near it. But since it has
gradually decreased, and is now some feet beneath the sur-
face of the sea, it has become a dangerous shoal, which
seamen cannot be too well acquainted with. The im-
portance of this is a sufficient reason, although late, to add
the following to the first number of tbeNuutical Ma-
gazine.

Lieutenaflt A. Kennedy, commanding his Majetty's
steam vessel, Messenger, gives the following particulars of
the shoal :

" The French brig of war L' Orient passed near the
new volcanic island, on the 28th of January, but would
not have been aware of the danger, hail it not been calm,
and by observing a ripple over it ; in consequence of which
Captain Marin was obliged to lower his boats, to tow his
vessel clear. He afterwards went to it in his boat, and
found that the island had totally disappeared, lesving'a
shoal with from two and a half to three feet water over it.
" On the 4tk and sth of February, Lieutenant Ken—
nedy passed it in the Messenger steam vessel, and found a
sensible change in the smoothness of the water, whenlunder
its lee for a short time. A heavy cross sea was running,
and the wind was strong."
Lieutenant Kennedy adds, that " it is in latitude 37
deg. 11 min. north, and longitude 12 deg. 44 min. east,
and• in the following position with resptct to the land :
" It bears from point—
._

" Cape St. Marco, N.E. N. 22.
" Cape Granitola, N. by W. W. 24.
" Cape Bianco, N.E. by E. E. 22."

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.--.An aeci
dent, fortunately not attended with any serious conse-
quences, befell Miss IiiVERARITY, on Weduesd,,y night,
during the performance of the Fiend Father. As she was
leaving the stage at a running pace, she came in contact
with a trap-door, which had not been properly closed, and
fell flat on her face with considerable violence. She was
immediately assisted off. The audience appeared much
concerned at the accident ; she, however, appeared shortly
afterwards, and went through her part, though she must
have been suffering from the effects of the fall.

TiEA TRICAL DEVILRIES.—The town is
really devil mad, if we are to judge from the theatres.
The Fiend Father is at Covent Garden, The Demon
at Drury Lane, The Devil's Son at the Adelphi,
Olyntp:c Devils at my friend the widow's, and a Devil on
the most magnificent scale at the Opera House. This is
really quite touching to our feelings; we will take care
that the public shall have enough of us in the long run !
Devil in London.

At the conclusion of the usual service at the
Scotch Church last evening, the Rev. Mr. lavistc, in al-
lusion to a statement which had appeared in the Times,
that he had resigned his pastorship, informed the congre-
gation that what be had stated on this subject on Sunday
" had been much misrepresented—that nothing had ytt
occurred tending to the interruption of the usual service."
It was understood in the church that the question be-
tween the Rev. Gentleman and the trustees has not been
brought to a settlement. It is rumoured that several dis-
tinguished personages are taking a very warm interest in
the decision of the question, and that, should Mr. IRVING
be finally ejected, a chapel at the west end of the town is
in readiness for his reception.—Morning Paper.
That there is distress in the silk trade at pre-
sent seems to be generally admitted ; but then it has
always been a ricketty trade in this country; and even
now, while the trade is falling off in some places, it is in-
creasing at Manchester.--" It was curious to observe,"
..aid Mr. Poutarr THOMSON, " how regularly, though
gradually, that town drew towards itself almost all the
manufacturers of the country." The wonder is, that the
manufacturer should have struggled so long in Spital-
fields, where everything is so much dearer than in Man-
chester. Ten shillings to a weaver in this last town must
he at least equal to thirteen or fourteen in Spitalfields.
An inquiry will be of benefit in putting an end to the
senseless cry about free trade (the trade is anything but
free); but we are at a loss to see how it esn benefit the
manufacturers of Coventry, Spitalfields, and Macclesfield.
Mr. BARING, who has long enjoyed the reputation of not
only answering one day the speech he made on a former,
but of making one part of the same speech answer another,
apologised last night for his inconsistency. We suspect
he will not benefit much by his apology. Who denies
that changes ought to be made gradually ? Who says that
branches of trade ought to be rapidly extinguished, and
that the people ought, without ceremony, to be consigned
to the workhouse ?—Morning Chronicle.

The answer which Ministers prevailed upon
his MAJESTY to give to the address of the: loyal Corpora-
tion of Dublin has naturally caused a great sensation in
Ireland. The terms i❑ which the reply is couched are
certainly the reverse of what might have been expected.
It is afflicting to witness the total disregard of the pre-
sent Revolutionary Cabinet to the dignity of the Crown
and the character of the Sovereign. The language
which his MAJESTY used on that occasion was not his
own, but that of his Ministers; and it is a subject of uni-
versal regret that it was neither gracious, appropriate, nor
polite. It was worthy of his MAJESTY'S present ad-
visers, but it was wholly unworthy of himself. And to
this lamentable situation is the good-natured MONARCH
reduced, in consequence of being in the hands of an in-
capable set of men, who endeavour to cover their notorious
imbecility by the exercise of the most delusive expedients,
and the employment of the most insidious arts.—Morning
.Post.

It has been calculated that the Jesuits, before
the suppression of their order, possessed in various parts
of the world a revenue of 273,000,000 f. The Society
comprised 22,589 individuals. They had 340 different
residences, 61 noviciates, 24 professed houses, and at
Rome a General, wlso directed (as he still direct.) all these
establishments, whose existence had, and still has, so
powerful an influence over the fate of towns, provinces,
and even kingdoms.

An important and very judicious Order in
Council has been received at the Custom-house in Leith,
and has been transmitted to the different Custom-houses
throughout the kingdom, directing that no interruption
shall be given to inland navigation, and that all restraint
as to quarantine shall be removed from vessels sailing from
one post of Great Britain to another, with the exception
of Liverpool ; it being the desire of the Lords of the Coun-
cil that the late regulations relative to this port shall fur
the present continue in foree.—Scotsman.

TILE OPERA.—The success of the new
novel under the Above title may, in a great degree, be
attributed to the strong light in which it places the ab-
surdity committed by English fauoilies of distinctio❑ in
soliciting the presence, in their domestic circle, of foreign
female singers, and their being surpri'ed at the natural,
though disastrous consequences, of such familiarity. The
incidents of the story, incredible as the assertion may ap-
pear, are of almost annual occurrence among men of
fashion.

The French Papers of Tuesday have found
a curious topic for discussion in a fatal accident which had
nearly befallen the KING. As his MAJESTY was walking
with the QUEEN in the Place de Carousel, before his Own
Palace, he was nearly rode over by M. A. BERTIIIER
driving furiously in his cabriolet. As M. BERTIIIEB. is a
violent Carlist, and an enemy of the present dynasty, it is
supposed that he put the KING'S life in jeopardy with
malice prepense. He has therefore bleu arrested and im-
prisoned ; his house has been searched and his papers
seized. The question which the Paris Journals now agi-
tate is, whether BERTNIFIL, had he killed the KiNa, in the
circumstances above-mentioned, would have been guilty of
high treason? He himself declares, that in driving to-
wards kis MAJESTY he was not aware that it was Louis
PHlLlP—that the KING, in maintaining his character of
citizen, was in a bourgeois habit, and therebre not distin-
guishable from other citizens; and that he did not recog.
nice him till be turned round and saw the " enormous,.
tri-coloured cockade in his bat. Most people, however,
think that BEKTHIEE intended to do the KING some bo-
dily mischief, and his imprisonment therefore excites nei-
ther surpristno