Star.
London, England, 1830-06-10 00:00:00

COURT INTILLIGENCE.

Inn Kiwo.--His Majesty received visits yesterday
from their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Clarence and
Cumberland, who arrived at the Palace soon after twelve
o'clock, within a few minutes of each other—the former
from Bushy Park and the latter from Kew. The Duke
of Wellington arrived about the same time as the Royal
Dukes, from London. His Grace had an audience of the
King. - The Duke of Wellington left a little after three
o'clock, on his return to town. At half-past four o'clock
the Duke of Clarence took his leave, and returned to his
residence in Bushy Park. Both the Physicians remained
in attendance yesterday on the King.—At the King's
Palace, St. James's, Lord Clinton (Lord) and Sir Wil-
liam Houston (Groom) were in waiting.

Prince Frederick of Prussia honoured the Austrian
Ambassador with his company to dinner yesterday even-
ing, at Chandos-house. The Prussian Minister, the new
Russian Minister, and a select party, were present, to
meet his Royal Highness.
The Duke of Sussex visited the Princess Augusta yes-
terday.
A Conference was held yesterday at the Treasury, re-
specting the culture of tobacco in Ireland ; there were
present Lord F. L. Gower, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Mr. Frankland Lewis, Ind Sir H. Parnell.
A very numerous deputation of master manufacturers,
headed by Mr. Littleton, the member for the county of
Stafford, had a very long interview with Mr. Herries yes-
terday, at the Office of the Board of Trade.
Sir Edward Knatchbull, and a deputation of the agri-
culturists of Kent, had a conference with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at the Treasury.
The Duke of Wellington, after returning to town last
evening from attending his Majesty, joined the whole of
the Cabinet Ministers, who were assembled at the resi-
dence of Lord Ellenborough, in Grosvenor-place, his
Lordship giving a Cabinet dinner to his colleagues.
The name of Francis Mundy, Esq. M.P. for Derby-
shire, was by mistake inserted in the majority of 118,
who voted against Sir James Graham, on Monday night
—Mr. Mundy was not in the house during the debate.
LEWES.—The preparations for a general election are
going on here with activity. The friends of Sir John
Shelley met at the Royal Oak on Friday. At the
Public Temple, Mr. Donovan's friends are preparing to
assemble, and two hundred tickets have been issued.

We are happy to learn that Lord Viscount Torrington,
after a most painful and dangerous illness of ten weeks,
was enabled to quit his chamber on Wednesday last, and
is gradually becoming convalescent.
So confidently were the reports afloat on Monday of
hia Majesty'a dissolution believed, that an upholsterer in
Whitcomb-street, Haymarket, actually closed his shop.
The M.P. who canvassed his constituents a few weeks
since denies that he did so " in contemplation of a demise
of the crown." Then what was his reason?

An elegant monument has just been erected in the
' Temple Church, to the memory of the late John Reeves,
Esq. who was ono of the Benchers of that Society.
Monday the Rev. Augustus James Tharp, A.B. was
licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of Denston. Suffolk, on
the nomination of Wm. Pigott, Esq. of Denston Hall.
The present is the third attempt which has been made
to establish a betting-room in St. James's-street, the two
previous ones having failed.
There is at Belvoir Castle a chair elegantly carved, the
wood of which was brought from the plains of Waterloo.
The following is the inscription at the back:—" This
chair is formed out of a tree which in fame must be con-
sidered as surpassing every tree of the forest, being that
which stood behind the farm of La Haye Sainte, close to
which the Doke of Wellington frequently took his station
during the battle of Waterloo. The tree was purchased
by George Childers, Esq. who kindly gave the Duke and'
Duchess of Rutland sufficient wood from it to form this
chair."

A serious accident had like to have taken place to the
Princess Sophia of Gloucester, on leaving St. Mary's
Chapel, Hastings, Sunday afternoon last. As the car-
riage was coming down the hill in Pelham-crescent, one
of the horses fell, and plunged in a most violent manner.
The Princess was speedily removed from the carriage,
and was driven to Bohemia in a fly. Her Royal High-
ness is greatly improved in health since her residence in
the neighbourhood of Brighton.
It is not true that the Bishop of Lincoln is appointed
tutor to the Princess Victoria. The report may have
originated in the fact of Dr. Kaye being about to resign
the Mastership of Christ's College, the object for which
he has retained that situation of late years being now
secured,—namely, the election of the Rev. Graham,
Senior Fellow of Christ's College, as his Lordship's
successor.

VISITORS AT THE COLOSSEUM.—Princess Ester-1
hazy ; Princess Lieven ; Duke of Gloucester ; Duke ofi
Devonshire ; Duchess of Roxborough ; Marchioness
Chandos ; Dowager Marchioness Northampton ; Countess
of Wilton ; Lords Radatock, Cassilis, Templeton, Teign-
mouth, Galloway, Clifford, Mark Kerr, Geo. Cavendish,
Killeen, Radnor, Sidmouth; Earls Surrey, Bradford;
Viscount Galway; Marquis Sligo ; Sir W. W. Wynn ;
Sir John Phillimore ; Right Hon. Stratford Canning;
Hon. Mr. Dundas; Colonels Strutt, O'Reilly ; Bishops
of Raphoe, Bath and Wells; Ladies Brownrigg, Cle-
ments, Nelson, Reilly, Cork, Bc.
BIRTH OF GRORGE IV.—ln the present melan-
icholy state of the King's health, it may be curious to
peruse the Court account of his birth. That account
is as follows :—" On the 12th of August, 1762, at
seven o'clock in the evening, her Majesty (Queen
Charlotte) was safely delivered of a Prince in St.
James's Palace. Her Majesty felt indisposed about
two o'clock in the afternoon, when an express was
sent to the Princess Dowager (Mother of George III.)
who arrived at the Palace at four. Orders were sent to
the Great Officers of State, who immediately attended.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dukes of Devonshire
and Rutland, the Lords Hardwicke, Hunti on, Talbot,
Halifax, Bute, and Marsham, and all the . des of the
Bed-chamber and the Maids of Honour, were pre-
sent. Her Majesty's midwife was Mrs. Draper ; but
Doctor Hunter remained in waiting, lest the ser-
vices of his medical skill should be wanting. The
person who communicated the joyful news to the
King of the birth of an heir-apparent, and of her
Majesty's safety, received a present of 5001. Imme-
diately on the announcement of this event, whilst the can-
non* were firing in the Park, a long train of waggons,
guarded by grenadiers, was passing down St. James's-
street, containing the treasures of the Hermione frigate,
one of the richest captures recorded in the history of the
British Navy. His Majesty and the nobility were invited
to the windows over the gateway of the Palace to view the
procession, and joined in the acclamations of the people.
For the gratification of the public, it was announced, be-
fore the young Prince was twelve days old, that his
Royal Highness would be seen at St. James's from one
until three o'clock on the drawing-room days. It is
remarkable that the birth of the Prince of Wales should
have happened, reckoning by the old style, exactly 45
years from the accession of the present Royal Family."