THE KING is now apparently quite we I. His Majesty
held a Council at Wind- sor Castle on Thursday ; which was attehded by the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Secretary Peel, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Bathurst, Earl Chesterfield, Sir W. Freeinantle, and Sir A. Barnard. The Recorder, too, at- tended with his report. His Majesty gave a splendid dinner in the evening.
His Majesty held a Court yesterday afternoon ; which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the Lord Steward of the Household, itc. His Majesty gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, Earls Bathurst and Aberdeen, and Mr. Secretary Peel, and finished by entertaining them at dinner. The Duke of Sussex has arrived at Kensington Palace. His Royal Highness attended the Freemasons' dinner on Wednesday. The Duke of Cumberland is said to be suffering from a rheumatic attack. The Duke of Bedford is seriously indisposed at Woburn Abbey.
Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald recovers very slowly. Mr. Herries, it is confidently stated, will succeed him at the Board of Trade, and will be appointed at the same time Secretary of the Navy. The Marquis of Chandos, it is understood, will succed Mr. Herries at the Mint, unless the Mastership shall be previously abolished.
Lord Ellenborough has commenced proceedings against his lady in the Con- sistorial Court. She, it is said, contests his claim. Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Charles Grant left town on Wednesday, to join a shooting-party at Prince Leopold's.
Lord Mount-Charles is no longer a Lord of the Treasury : whether he has re- signed, or has been dismissed, must be a matter of indifference to every body but his Lordship.—Times. The Times of to-day says—" Should Mr. Bosanquet be raised to the Bench, the situations of Principal Standing Counsel to the Bank and East India Com- pany become vacant." Mr. Bosanquet is to be raised to the Bench ; and Mr. W. G. Adam, King's Couniel, and son to the Lord Chief Commissioner, is ap- pointed Counsel for the East India Company. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have, we understand, been in treaty, on behalf of his Majesty, for the purchase of the extensive property of Mr. Elliott, the opulent brewer, at Pimlico. His Majesty, it is said, objects to the quantity of smoke issuing from the brewhouse, in the immediate vicinity of the New Palace. There is a difference, however, in the price offered and that demanded of 500,0001. In the event of the purchase being made, it is in contemplation to form an elegant square of first-rate houses, and to cause a spacious thoroughfare from Westminster to Pimlico, so much wanted at present.—Evening Paper.
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