ebe Court.
TIIE King and Queen arrived in town from Windsor on Monday after- noon. Soon afterwards, they proceeded to the British Institution,
accompanied by the Marquis of Winchester, the Earl of Belfast, Ead and Countess Howe, and several other ladies and gentlemen. In the evening, the King gave a grand dinner at St. James's Palace to the members of the Jockey Club ; including the Dukes of Rielintorid, Cleveland, Rutland, Grafton, and Portland, the Alarquises of West- minster and Exeter, Lord Lowther, Lord Wharneliffe, Sir Mani Wood, Colonel Peel, and Mr. Houldsworth. On Tuesday, his Majesty held a Levee, which was much more nu. merously attended than they have generally been lately. Amorig the company were the Dukes of Wellington, Bedford, and Hamilton, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Archbishop of Armagh, Lords Lyndhurst, Byron, Ebrington, and Monson, Sir Frederick Roe, Sadi Onibark Benbey, Mr. Jeffrey (on his appointment to the Bench), Mr. Mosier, O'Connor Don, &c. In the evening, their Majesties gave a dinner party. In the same evening his Majesty received the resignations of the four Ministers who have quitted the Cabinet. 'The King's birthday was celebrated on Wednesday, by a Drawing' room at St. James's Palace, the attendance at which was unusually numerous. The Knights of the different orders wore their proper ribands, stars, &c. 1'he Foreign noblemen and gentlemen were abo splendidly dressed in their Court attire, and made a brilliant display of diamonds and jewels. The members of the Royal Family, the Lord Chancellor, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, came in state. The following are the names of some of the most distinguished
personages who were present,—M. Dupin, (presented by Tal- leyrand), Prince and Princess Lieven Duke and Dutchess of 13ur- cletigh, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earls of Tanker- vide, Carlisle, and Mulgrave, Mr. E. G. Stanley, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Mr. Horries, Sir Charles Wetherell, and Mr. Littleton. 'The King and Queen had a select party to dinner in the eveoing. Dinner-parties in honour of the day were also given by Earl Gress Lord Althorp, Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston, and ,11r. Stanley.
The King took an airing in Kensington Gardens on Thursday. Ile gave audiences to Earl Grey and the Marquis of Lansdowne in the course of the morning.
The Queen visited the Asylum for the Sons of the Clergy in St John's Wood ; and in the evening attended the performance of Don Giovanni at the King's Theatre. The birthday of the Princess Victoria was celebrated at Kensington on Saturday. On Thursday, the Dutchess of Kent, accompanied by Sir John Conroy, dined with the Earl and Countess of Lichfield, and
acted as sponsor to an infant son of the Earl, who was christened by the Archbishop of York.
The Standard gives, with glowing expressions of pious gratitude, an account of a speech supposed to have been delivered by the King in reply to a congratulatory addresl presented ta him on Wednesday by the Archbishops of Canterbury and Armagh. The Standard believes that the following were the very words of the King, but does not men-
tion the name of the reporter.
bass been, by the circumstances of my life, and by conviction. led to support toleration to the utmost extent of which it is justly capable ; but toleration most net be suff, red to go into licentimamess ; it has its bounds, which it is my duty anti which 1 am re.adved to maintain. I am, from the deepest conviction, attached to the pure Pro- testant frith a Ilia this Church, of which I am the temporal head, is the human means Of ditbrsing and preserving in this land. "I cannot forget what was the course of events that placed my family on t throne which 1 now till. These events were consummated in a revolution which was rendered fleVeSt,lt V. ;Wit was effilecil. not, as has sometimes been most erroneously stated, merely for the sake of the temporal liberties or the people, but for the preservation of their re. ligion. It was ibr the defence of the religion of the country that was made tan? settle- ment of the Crown, winch has placed me in the situation that I now fill; anti that re- ligion, and the Church of England awl Ireland [Ireland with peculiar emphasis], the Prolate, of which are now before tie, it is toy fixed purpose, determination, and resolu hon. to maintain. " The present Bishops, I am quite satisfied (and am rejoiced to hear from them and from all, the sante of the Clergy in gese•ral under their governance). have never been excelled at any period of the history of our Churelt by any of their predecessors in learning, piety. or zeal, in the discharge of their high ditties. If there are any of the inferi.,r arrangements in the discipline of the Church, which. however. I greatly. Iberia epression u.f doubt leas twain elelirered by his Majesty with smut emph,t,is ; -I hat require amendment, I have no distrust of the readiness and ability or the Prehoes now hobo, one to correct such things ; and to you, I trust, they will be left to correct %%int S'011 r :OAR/ray IMIMIlaired and unshaekled. "I trust it will not be supposed that I am speaking to you a spee.211 which I have got by heart. No, I am declaring to you my real and gelatine sentiments. 1 have almo.a completed my 69th ear; and though blessed by Goo with a very rare measure of heah II, not having known what sickness is for some years, yet I do not blind myself to the idain anti evident truth, that increase of years must tell largely upon me when sickness shall come. 1 cannot, therefore, expect that 1 shall be very long it, this; %%VIM. It is under this impression that I tell you, that while I know that the law ol the land considers it impossible that I should do wrong—that while 1 know there is no earthly pater a Inch can call me to account—this only makes me the more deeply sensible of the responsibility under which I stand to that Ama Lowry Ott sit, before W111/111 111,14 all one day appear. \Viten that day shall come, von will know whether 1 am sin- cere in the thclaratiou which I now make, of tirm attachment to the Church, and result. non to maintain it.
" 1 have spt.ken more strongly than usual, because of unhappy circumstances that have forced themselves upon the observation of all. The threats of those alto are enemies of the Church, make it the more necessary for those who feel their duty to that Chinch to speak out. The words which you hear from me are indeed spoken by my mouth, but tlwy flow from my heart."
The Standard adds— Ills Maje,ty WaS affected to tears during the delivery or this declaration, awl eon- eluded the interview by juts it lag the l'relates to partake of the !holy Communion aith
him at the Chapel lioy.d, T uestla y the 2thl of June.'
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