The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke OM! OUCESTER entertained Count ORLOFF,
the Russian Minister on a special mission, to dinner on
Saturday, at Gloucester House, Park-lane. The Nether-
lands Ambassador, the Neapolitan Minister, Count Mictixt,
WortoNzow, the Marquess of ABERCORN, Earl HowE, and
a select party, were present to meet his Excellency.
The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA re•
turned to their apartments at the Palace at Kensington,
on Saturday, from Claremont, where their Royal High-
nesses had passed the holydays.

The Duke of GLOUCESTER attended divine service yes.
terday, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's.

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Divine service was performed ye.derday, before the
Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA, and their
Royal Highnesses' household, by the Dean of CHESTER.

Viscount PALMERSTON came to town on Saturday from
the scat et Earl CowrEa at Pansanger. Prince TAt.r.zy-
R AND, the French Ambassador, and Monsieur BERMUDEZ,
the Spanish Minister, visi.ed his Lordship in the afternoon
at the Foreign- office. The Brazilian Minister transacted
business on Wednesday at the office of the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
The Earl Of DA LEIOUSIE, late Commander-in-Chief in
India, has arrived in town : his Lordship transacted busi-
ness on Saturday at the Colonial-office. The Master-
General of the Ordnance also transacted business at the
Colonial office on Saturday.
Despatches from Sir ROBERT HORTON, the Governor
of Ceylon, were received on Friday at the Colonial-office.
WINDSOR, APRIL 29.—His MAJESTY inspected the
Horse and Foot Guards in the quadrangle of the Palace
this morning ; the bands of both regiments were in at-
tendance.

The KING, accompanied by Prince GEORGE of Cam-
bridge, and a hive party of visitors, afterwards attended
divine service at St. George's Chapel. The Rev. Mr.
GORE chanted tire first part of the service. The Rev. Mr.
GUST and the Rev. Mr. AIARKHAM officiated at the altar;
the latter divine pre iched the set mon.

His MAJESTY has exceedingly improved the
appearance of the 9ch, or Queen's Royal Lancers, now on
duty at Windsor, by substituting for their new dresses
brilliant scarlet instead of blue. The KING is an enemy to
all superfluous military finery and gew-gaw ornament—the
prevalent taste of GEORGE IV. There is great economy
connected with this change of colour. It is produced
from the newly-adopted lac-dye.

WILLIAM HENRY LAMBTON, Esq. the father
of Lord DURHAM, who died in 1797, in Italy, where be
was buried, settled upon his widow. the late Lady ANNE
WYNDHAM, an annuity of 80,0001 a-year, a moiety of
which she was to forfeit in the event of a second marriage,
and which really occurred, when Ltdy ANNE married the
Hon. CHARLES WYNDHAM, whom she survived. Lord
DURHAM comes into the possession of 4,0001. a-year by
his mother's death.

KING'S THEATRE.—The old opera of the
Barber of Seville was performed here on Saturday night,
on which occasion Madame CINTO DA3IOUREAU made
her appearance as Rosina. Her voice is remarkable for
sweetness of quality, and for perfect smoothness and flexi-
bility. LABLACHE was Figaro. Both performers were
received with marked favour by a full House.

Mr. BARTLEY, the indefatigable stage mana-
ger of Covent-garden, and, in his department of the
Drama, one of the few legitimate actors of the Old School,
takes his benefit on Thursday, the 10th of May; having
very judiciously selected for the occasion KNOWLES'S admi-
rable ply of The Hunchback. BARTLEY has likewise
received voluntary offers from En AnAm, and from Miss
INVERARITY and Miss SHIRREFF, to perform the same
evening in the dtlightful musical Entertainment, Midas.
Mr. BRAHASI will personate Apollo, and Miss InvirnA-
ßlTY and Miss SHIRREFF, for the first time, Daphne
and Myatt. We hope this highly respected comedian will
have a bumper.

The Members of the Council for managing
that excellent Institution the Literary Fund, have directed
their Secretary to address a letter to Mr. SHERIDAN
KNOWLES, enclosing a ticket to their annual dinner, and
at the same time to express their anxious hope to entertain
a gentleman who has so largely contributed to revive the
character of the British Drama, by having written the
very b..st modern play, perhaps, that has been produced
upon the stage during a period of more than twenty years

The earliest account we have of the singing
of the cuckoo in the neighbourhood of the metropolis this
season was in Wimbledon-park, on the morning of Tuesday,
the 17th inst. ; and the first recorded song of the nightin-
:ale was heard from the Royal Gardens at Kew on the night
of Sunday, the 22d.—Alkentruni.

The tenants and tradesmen of the Marquess
of LANSDOWNE were yesterday entertained with a splendid
dinner at Bowood, for the purpose of celebrating the coming
of age of Lord KERRY. This young nobleman, we be-
lieve, attained his majority in March; but the celebration
of the event was deferred until the Easter holydays, that his
noble father might have an opportunity of presiding at
the festive board. Lord and Lady LatisnowisE, Lord
KERRY, and Lady LOUISA and Lord HENRY, were of the
party. An elegant dinner was laid out in the conserva-
tory, which was tastefully decorated for the purpose ; the
wines and desert were of a very superior description ; and
the party, consisting of about 140 persons, were highly
ratified by the hospitality and kindness with which they
were treated. There was to be a series of rural amuse-
ments in the park to-day, in which a number of booths
are erected for refreshments, Ste.; and in the evening
here will he a grand display of fireworks. Fifteen bags
.if flour (in bread) were to be distributed, with a propor-
tionate quantity of meat, beer, Bx.—Devizes Gasette
Of Thursday.

Within the last few days an immense number
4,f English families have arrived on the French coast, pre-
paratory to returning home, on account of the cholera.

On Sunday last, during the morning service
in East Dean Church, Brighton, much excitement was
caused by the sudden entrance of a neighbouring clodhop-
Jer, who ran in abruptly without hat or coat, with jaws
extended, and a visage labouring under some great etno.
tion. He Kent his course to a pew, in which his master,
jolly farmer, sat, and delivered himself of the following :
—" Pine, Zur, here lie a letter for you ; 1 think as how
it comes from the Duke of RICHMOND." The effect of this
on the congregation, who had stopped the service, may be
more easily imagined than described.

On Sunday week the ship Transit sailed
'from Warrenpoint to Quebec with 160 passengers ; she
was obliged to put back to Belfast on Thursday, in conse-
quence of three persons on board having died of cholera.
On Wednesday, after arriving at the quarantine ground
Garmoile, the Captain and one of the passengers died.
l'he pestilence is saw raging in that unhappy vessel. God
cnows, if ever there was a case which calls for sympathy
,nd active benevolence, it is this. Here are 160 persons,
.01 poor creatures, seeking another home, enclosed in a
,)!ague-ship ! Had the vessel been two or three hundred
.niles in the Atlantic betore the disorder broke out, the
probability is that not a soul would survive to tell the tale
of the calamity.....—Caledonian Mercury.

ELECTION FOR CHURCHWARDEN AT

HULL.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

The contest which we mentioned in our Paper of Fri-
d ty as then going on in Hull has terminated in the trium-
phant return of the people's champion, Mr. Acland.
On Thursday, at the close of the po'l, the numbers

ware :

Acland
King
Woolley 79

The election finally terminated on Friday, at six o'clock,
after a contest of five days; from the first hour of which
it was evident that the party who have so long had the
parish and parochial jobs in their own hands, had no lon-
ger the shadow of a chance of ever again foisting a crea-
ture of their own upon the parishioners. At the final close
of the poll the numbers were :

A eland
King
Woolley 9l
During the election, bribes and threats were net want-
ing to induce the honest vot.r to forego his purpose, but
in vain ; each man seemed as though he felt the whole
decision of the contest rested with himself, and hence the
gratifying result.
Alter the close, Mr. Acland, accompanied by his friends,
with flags, banners, music, &c., paraded the streets of the
town, attended by an immense concourse of more than
10,000 persons; after which he addressed them from a
window in the mar ket-pl we.
The opponents of the people are evidently chagrined at
the result of the contest, and talk of taking ulterior mea-
sures ; but they are laughed to scorn. Msre good will
accrue from this contest than at first sight appears, as,
under the General Vestry Act, by which the outs claimed
that the election should be conducted, a plurality of votes,
according to the amount of ratedble property, is allowed ;
this, by the 13th Charles 11., is not allowed, and every
inhabitant and householder is entitled to vote, thus esta-
blishing an equal right of all to one vote and no more.
The following is the extract from the Act 13th Charles
IL, c. 2, sec. 10, to which allusion has been made:—
And bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that on Mon.
day in Easter weeke there shall bee two Churchwardens elected
and named for the said parish ; one of them by the Viccar fur the
tyme being, and the other by the Inhabitants or Householders
of the said parish, or the greater number of them, which shall
bee present at such election."

This Act has neither been repealed nor superseded ; and
either the election of a Churchwarden for the parish of
Holy Trinity must he governed by this Act, or the district
must cease to he a parish.
Hull, April 28.