THE COURT.-The King held a Court on Monday afternoon, at the Palace of Brighton, which was attended by Earl Grey, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Ripon, Viscounts Melbourne and Palmerston, Mr. Stanley, Lord John Russell, Lord Albemarle, Sir William Alexander, and the Earl of Belfast. After the Council, the Cabinet Ministers and the Members of the Household dined with their Majesties.

Baron Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister, arrived at Brighton, and had an audience of the King on Monday.

Earl Grey spent Tuesday at the Palace, and returned to town the next day.

The uncertain state of the weather has prevented both their Majesties, during the greater part of the week, from taking their usual rides.

The King occasionally sits for his picture to Sir Martin Archer Shee.

The regulations at the Palace in every department are observed with the most scrupulous attention. All persons, calling on or visiting the domestics, are required to give their names, which are inserted in a book kept for that purpose, and every article received is duly registered.

Captain Ross and his nephew had an interview with the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, at Kensington, on Thursday.

The Duke of Gloucester has left town for Ickworth Lodge, near Bury, on a visit to the Marquis of Bristol.

BRIGHTON CHAIN PIER-This ingenious work is being repaired under the superintendence of Captain Brown, at the cost of above 20007. The Earl of Egremont has on this, as on a multitude of other occasions, contributed in a most princely manner.

EARTHQUAKE. Chichester has been for a third time of late visited by earthquake. The shocks of the last were so sharp, it is stated, as to cause the clocks to strike. The good people of Chichester had better take heed. Literary Gazette.

WINCHELSEA.-An ancient vessel has been found embedded in the mud near Winchelsea, which is supposed to be the remains of a phenomenon which inundated that coast six hundred years ago.

Charles the Tenth has had an interview, it is said, with the Duchess de Berri, and has returned to Prague. The object of this conference was to induce her to give up the deed of abdication which he had signed in favour of the Duc de Bourdeaux. His exiled Majesty appears to think that he has some chance of being restored to his throne; he was therefore extremely urgent in his demands. But the Duchess was equally peremeptory in her refusal. Indeed it was impossible for her to give up the do

cument in question, as it is lodged in the Govern ment archives at Paris; but she absolutely refused, for herself and her son, to execute any deed, or do any thing to invalidate the claim of the latter to be considered King of France.

CAPTAIN BACK-The Montreal Herald brings intelligence of Captain Back to the 10th of October, on which day the expedition were all well, and the Captain and Dr. King proceeding (as was stated to be their expressed intention) in a light canoe, followed by two boats, to look out for winter quarters.

Brighton has been selected by the Committee of the Agricultural Employment Institution to hold their first meeting out of London. Several noblemen and distinguished visiters have signified their intention of honouring the meeting with their pre

sence.

Earl Talbot has at length purchased the Tixal estate by private contract, for a sum little short of 320,0001.

Till within the last two years, the out-parish of St. Philip and Jacob, Bristol, containing a popula tion of sixteen thousand souls, was destitute of any place of public worship, either in connexion with the Establishment or the Dissenters! It is said that a great proportion of the inhabitants were absolutely in a state of practical heathenism.

A subscription has been commenced for the purpose of erecting a tablet to the memory of the late Hannah More, and also for the establishment of a school to bear her name, in connexion with the new church of St. Philip and Jacob, at Bristol, to the endowment of which she has bequeathed the residue of her estate. Nearly 4007. have been already subscribed. The names of the Bishops of Salisbury, Lichfield and Coventry, Bath and Wells, Lincoln, and Sir R. Inglis, appear amongst the pecuniary supporters of the undertaking.

The pavement lately taken up and re-laid in the nave of Exeter Cathedral, is Bohemian marble, which stone was much used in our churches during the middle ages. It resembles the verde antique of the Egyptians; being of a grey-green colour, varied by black and white spots, called ophites and tephria; but this contains petrified antediluvian remains, which the Egyptian marble does not possess. In a similar marble in Derbyshire, are discovered parts of the starfish; but this stone is of a whitish-brown colour. It may appear surprising how the beauties of this variegated testaceous marble should have escaped observation; but, like the pebble that contains the madrepore, its shades and figures could only have been seen by polishing.

The proprietors of the Clarence Vase, (manufactured and now exhibiting in Birmingham, the cost

of which has been enormous, and the loss to its owners proportionately great,) are attempting, through the medium of Mr. Joseph Parkes, the solicitor, to negotiate a sale with government. It is thought that a native invention of such splendour ought to grace the national galleries of the British Museum. The proprietors are desirous of obtaining, in exchange for the vase, grants of certain Government lands in the Canadas; to which settlements, if granted, it is said several of the proprietors intend to emigrate. The proprietors are for the most part members of the Birmingham Political Council.

SPAIN. Mr. Villiers formally presented his credentials to the Queen Regent at Madrid on the 6th instant. Until then, Lord William Harvey had figured as the official representative of our government, under the title of Chargé d'Affaires. At Madrid, and throughout the southern provinces of the kingdom, the Queen's authority is undisturbed. The partisans of the Pretender are treated with some harshness; a considerable number of military officers and civil employés, in the different branches of the government, suspected of a leaning towards Carlism, have been suddenly dismissed.

In the northern provinces Carlism seems to prosper: the insurgents have driven the Queen's troops from Irun; and have thus closed another line of communication to Madrid General Saarsfield, of whose march upon Vittoria and expected demolition of the rebels, so many reports have been current, was still at Burgos, when the last accounts left Bayonne, seven days ago. Still later accounts have just been received, which state, that the rebels have been completely dispersed by the general.

PORTUGAL.-The war in Portugal is carried on with little spirit: there is a strong disinclination to fight on both sides. The Miguelite army remains within the walls of Santarem: and Pedro seems to be destitute of the means of attacking it with any probability of success. He ordered a portion of his force to be drawn up below the town, by way of bravado, or in order to ascertain whether the enemy would have the folly to leave their fortifications and fight in the open plain; but the Miguelite General only laughed at him, and his troops did not move a foot.

FRANCE. The French Liberals have altered their tone respecting the interference of their Government in the affairs of Spain. A short time ago, they were eager for the despatch of an army to support the Queen and suppress the Carlists. But they have since discovered, that the support of the Queen may be a very different affair from the establishment of a Liberal government; and have a reasonable dread that French arms, if used at all, would be for the benefit of absolutism, or at least, what they abominate nearly as much, the system of the Juste Milieu. Now, therefore, they would prefer to assist the Queen with a loan of money; which would probably answer her Majesty's purpose much better than an auxiliary army of Frenchmen. cording to present appearances, Louis Philip will do neither one nor the other. The Paris newspapers, and the correspondents of the London journals resident there, give us abundance of Spanish news, or rather rumours, but yield no intelligence of interest respecting French affairs.

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BELGIUM. King Leopold's concerns proceed smoothly. The addresses, in reply to his speech, were passed unanimously by both chambers; and it is said that the session is likely to be one of little speechifying and much business. Count Diedrichstein, the Austrian, and Count d'Arnheim, the Prussian ambassador, have reached Brussels. The latter is already very active in his endeavours to form a commercial treaty, the real object of which is to exclude British manufactures from the continent. Great inducements, it is said, will be held out to the Belgian manufacturers to become parties to the Prussian system.

TURKEY.-There is a solitary piece of news from Constantinople, but that is important if true: the combined English and French squadrons have entered the Dardanelles, in spite of the recent treaty between Russia and Turkey, by which such entry was forbidden. This is a proper and spirited pro. ceeding, and we hope that the information of the Standard, from whom we copy the news, may prove to be correct. It is far better to show at once our perfect contempt for the treaty, in this way, than get entangled in the diplomatic net of endless negotiation with a view to alter it.-Spectator.

EVENING DRESS.

Blue watered silk façonnée rayée with tulle and satin folds on the body, and blonde to fall all round, blonde sabots, chip hat with three blue feathers.

Yellow satin dress with a black blond cap and bows of riband, black blonde sabots.— Head-dress of black blonde and riband.

The Guide to Dress.

IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.

Paris, June 20th, 1833.

My Dear Lady Louisa, WITH you the season is still advancing, with us, alas! it is finished. For myself, I have remained at Paris when every body else has quitted it, and have not yet made up my mind when I shall follow their example. The town is most abominably dull, and I cannot express to you with what regret I have seen all my friends leave it for the country, or the different watering places. I am enabled to describe to you a few toilettes which I have lately seen at different breakfasts; but you will, perhaps, find them very simple, compared with the splendid dresses which are displayed at your brilliant parties. As to new materials, we have none, but Lady C. informs me, that, in this respect, you are far more fortunate than we are. I understand you have some beautiful things quite in the

style of former days, and which we shall not see till the winter. In truth, my dear friend, it must in future be from you that I should look for information respecting the fashions, for you have certainly now persons among you who bid fair to eclipse our marchands, and, after what I have seen, are fully competent to give them lessons in taste.

Muslin dresses, or pelisses, organdie brodée lined with different colours, are worn for half-dress, the capes trimmed with a quantity of lace; betwixt the rows of lace are ornaments of gauze riband.

The luxury of habit shirts is carried this year to a greater extreme than ever, and you would scarcely believe to what an extravagant price we go for the collifichets.

In more dressy toilettes I have seen some very pretty gauzes used for those which are made with short sleeves. These dresses are generally à corsages à pointes, trimmed with white and black blonde. Some ladies use old-fashioned laces to trim those which are less dressy. The former have always an under-dress, either of satin, or of gros de Naples of the same colour with the gauze, and sometimes the white ones are lined with colours, pink, blue, lilac, citron, and English green.

I have had some dresses made for a country party in the neighbourhood of Paris, where I am going to spend a week.

I must first, however, mention to you a riding habit, which I intend to take with me to the country for my riding excursions, and which every person to whom I have shown it thinks beautiful. You know that we never

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