The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-26 00:00:00

KING'S COURT„

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His Majesty held a Court at tire o'Chwk yesterday after-
coon at his Palace at Windsor, which wait it.tetured by the
Lord Chancellor, the Lord Piesident of the, Council, the
First Lord of the Treastiry, the Secretaries of State for
the Home and Foreign Departments, the Judge Aelvoate-
General, the Lord. Steward of the Household', the
Treasurer of the Household, Sir William .Keppel. (as •
Groom in Waiting.) .
Sir John Beckett (the Judge AdYocate-General) had. an
audience of the King, and laid before his Majesty the ,pro-
ceedings of some courts-martial. . , •
His Majesty held a Privy Council, at which Mr..guller
attended as clerk ; the King pricked for a Sheriff for
.I,4t-
tinghamshire, which was postponed at the last Council,: ~
when hi.; Majesty pricked for the Sheriffs fin' the Alf-
ferent counties in England and WaW. &Veral altera-
tions were also made in the list of Sheriff, for the other
counties. .

His Majesty gave audiences to the Duke of Welling-
ton, Earl Bathurst, and Mr. Secretary Peel. The Mi-
nisters, on their arrival from town, were entertained with
a clijeuni.
After the breaking up of the Court the Duke of Wel- •
lington, Earl Bathurst, the Earl of Aberdeen,. Sir John
Beckett, and Mr. Secretary Peel, remained at the'P‘lace
to dine with his Majesty.

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The Duke and Duchess of o:deuce-came to
town yesterday morning from their residence in 11 by
Park their Royal Highnesses visited Sir ThoMailaivrence
at his residence in Russell-square, ama afterwards :pro-
ceeded to the residence of the Princess Augusta, in the
King's Palace, - St. James's, where the Duke of CuMber-
land joined his Royal relalives ; , the party partook .of a -
clijegni at two o'clock. Count Munster afterwards paid
a visit to the Duke and Duchess. Their P.oyal Highnesses
returned to Bushy in the afternoon.

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A deputation of thirty Silk Matiufileturers'
and Throwsters7of Silk, from different pares oelliegland,
attended at the Beard of Trade, Whitehall, . yesterday
afternoon, and were admitted to a conference, with the
President and Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and
a gentleman holding a high official situation in the Cus-
tom-house. The conference lasted about tbree hours
and a half.

Admiral Sir Sidney Smith had an interview
with Sir George Murray, at the Colonial Office, yester-
day, and also visited the Chancellor of the Excheqty.
Major-General Woodford (late second in
command at the lonian Islands) and General Bourke
transacted business yesterday at the Colonial Office. •

Viscount Melville held a levee yesterday at
the Admiralty, which was very numerously attended by
naval officers.

The Marquis of Lothian transacted business
•esterday at the Foreign Office, Downing-street.

Prince Lieven had a grand dinner party yes-
terday at Ashburnham House, Dover-street. In • the

evening the Princess entertained a large party of the
haut ton.

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The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury en-
tertained a large party of.fashionables yesterday eyening.
in Arlington-street.

Mrs. Baring had a distinguished evening party
yesterday at her house in Piccadilly.

The Marquis of Hertford is at present resid-
ing at Naples.

The new Bishop of Calcutta owes his aPpoint-...
rent to Lord Ellenborough, the President of the Board.
'to whose nephew, Lord Castlereagh, Afr, Turner, w' he,
lieve, was tutor.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at
the East India House, when Lieutenant-General the ,Earl
of Dalhousie, G.C.13., was appointed commander-in-Chink. •
of the Company's Forces in India. The following Com-:
manders took leave of the Court, previously to departing ,
for their respective destinations—viz. Capt. James Keith I.
-F4rbes, Thames ; and CApt. Thomas Haviside,
Madras and China. , ,

Yesterday the despatches for St. Helena,
Prince of Wales Island, and China, by the ship Nellie.
Castle, Capt. Edward L. Adams, were• closed at the East.
India I louse, and delivered to the Purser of that ship,_
READING COACHES.—Mr. Hone's• Read-.;'L
ing coach is engaged from London, through Reading, :tO.
Oxford. Gentlemen intending to support Mr. Peel, and.'
wishing a conveyance by that line of road, are reque3testtu
apply at the Committee Room. ' .

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THE ODD `FELLOWS, OR A NEW
OF BURKISTS. —Daring the past week 'persons were sett
in the dark of the evening prowling about the &indite of 4:'
Heigham, Trowse, and Lakenhem; to the .greal dreod-of
the peaceable inhabitants of those parishes, who saw in the
cautious, quiet, and watchful step of the party; -the fortts.
and visages of resurrectionists, with " all their appliances..
and means to bout." Fear haunted the best, and theyslenk..
quietly to their resting places, blessing their stars that they •
had not been delayed on their road. At last one da,
bravest ventured cautiously to look from his bed-room
dow, when, "horrible to beliold,"' he saw the party enter
One of the houses quietly, and after a few minutes of suspense
he imagined he saw his neighbour brought faith and ionme-„,
diately led•away. - During all this time no sound of alarm
escaped his neighbour, and the looker-on instantly rev'!"
tected the story of the pitch-plaster so industriously circa-
hated here last winter, and since 'Parke'e death revived; and •
he set his friend down as lost to the world. Fear kept
him fixed to the spot, and denied him utterance. Again.,
be saw another house entered, another body of a neighbour_ •
quietly snatched—a third and even a fourth. He then,
sew them stop at his own dwelling—he heard the door
open—his head swam round, and he sunk on the door.. ,
On awaking from his trance he found himself in the Odd
Fellows' room at the Dog public-house,
.St. Paul's, " where
amazed he star'd around," for his imagination still painted
to him the BurkiSts, and be could scerce believe that he
had not taken a sudden trip to the world below, for therre.
amid the circle he saw those neighbours and friend; whera.,,..
he had pictured to himself as torn from the'arme of their
families, and their career in this world blighted, by a pitch.;
plaster. A few short minutes with half a pint of Patteson .
convinced him that he was in the land of the living instead
of the dead, and that the only Styx o'er which be bad
passed was the Wensum. He learned that on that night _ •
an election for the treasurer of the Wellington Club of Odd
Fellosys was to take plaCe, fur which a sharp contest bad .
been going on between Mr. E. Cork, a founder, Past
Grand, and an old odd fellow, and Mr. Rising, a junior
fellow. The former having recurred to the expedient
of making subscribing members to increase his Notes,
his opponent immediately-commenced 'similar means,:atid.
the Lodge was
.very shortly composed of 800 tnembell', •
some of whom were made by proxy while. snug-in thei_e37"
beds, and sonie were drawn again into light-by the elec...
tioneering industry of the latter candidate's party,,.wboul
our worthy friend of the pitch plasters had cooverted iuto,
Burkists, and who, thus having had his fears set at.reete
remained and voted for Mr. Riving, the Succas.sful candi-e,
date, the numbers heing.—for Mr. Cork 116, for,
Rising 155, being a majority of 39 in his 'feet*:
landlord as well as our friend was fully convinced before
the night was o'er that their mouth* were for from being'
hermetically sealed.—Norerich Mercury. • •