THE KING'S COURT.—His Majesty held another court on Monday. at

Wind- sor Castle ; which was attended by most of the great officers of state. Mr. James Parke kissed hands on being appointed one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, and received the honour of knighthood. The Recorder was introduced to the King in Council, and made his report of the convicts capi- tally convicted during the October sessions. The King afterwards gave au- diences to several of the Ministers. The Court broke up soon after six o'clock, when the King returned to the Royal Lodge.

His MAJESTY'S HEALTH.—The visible improvement in the health of our beloved Monarch was the theme of general remark and congratulation among the distinguished individuals who attended the Council at Windsor Castle. alighted from his carriage, and walked up the grand staircase of the fd`astlestepJnd without assistance ; and his Majesty's general blia1111 iravo m sham to Ware, much batter than it has been fora long -k time past. With the exception of the Recorder's report, little business was transacted at the Council. This happened, we understand, on account of its having been determined to hold another Council in about a fortnight ; by which time it is expected that all the necessary Cabinet arrangements will be completed, and it will then be decided on what day Parliament is to assemble for the despatch of business.—Standard, Tuesday.

The King visited the Castle yesterday afternoon, with the intention of wit- nessing the gas in the various departments ; but owing to the unfortunate cir- cumstance of one of the principal retorts bursting at the gas works, his Ma- jesty, at the Castle, as well as the good people of Windsor, were left in total darkness. His Majesty returned to the Royal Lodge quite disappointed.— Morning Post, Saturday.

The Court goes into mourning to-morrow, for her late Majesty the Dow- ager Empress of Russia.

The Duke of Sussex has perfectly recovered from the effects of his late accident.

There are two Blue Bibands now vacant.

The place of Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports has become vacant by the death of Lord Liverpool. It is rumoured that the office will be of- fered to the Duke of Clarence.—Morning Herald.

PASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS.—The Earl and Countess of Eldon have arrived at their residence in Hamilton Place, from their seat in Dorsetshire.

Lord Stuart de Rothsay and his lady were last week introduced to the King and Royal Family of France. It is said to be the intention of the Marquess of Hertford to go to the South of France, as soon as his health will permit.

Mr. Charles Grant, Mr. Horace Twiss, and Mr. Quintin Dick, have left town for Paris.

Major-General Stewart left town on Wednesday, to proceed to the Govern. ment of St. Lucia.

THE CHARITY COMMISSION.—It appears by the Report of the Commis- sioners for inquiring into charities, that the income of all the charities inves- tigated and reported upon, amounts to between 480,0001. and 500,0001. per annum. The report embraces only twelve counties.

OFFICE OF SECONDARY.—At a meeting of the Common Council yesterday, it was stated by Mr. Legge, that the Court had no power to compel the Se- condary to surrender his office at their pleasure, as it was a freehold office, which must be granted for the life of the holder. It was ultimately agreed, that a Committee " should be appointed to consider the fees and duties of the office of ,Secondary; and whether any, and what, alterations should be made therein, and to report the same to the Court."

KING'S COUNSEL. MR. DeNmaN.—We have much pleasure in announc- ing that the Duke of Wellington has spontaneously, and without solicitation, given a silk gown to Mr. Denman. This is an act of justice ; for, whatever may have been the learned Serjeant's disqualifications when Mr. Brougham was honoured with a similar distinction, the time had passed by when they should be remembered, and Mr. Brougham's elevation alone rendered it de- sirable that they should be forgotten. The whole bar, we have no doubt, will be gratified by this act of good feeling on the part of the noble Premier.— Morning Journal.

It is stated that the first intimation the learned gentleman received of the intention to confer upon him this mark of distinction was by a written com- munication from the Duke of Wellington, in which his Grace stated, that his Majesty's attention having been again directed to the learned gentleman's standing at the bar and rank in his profession, he was, after the most attentive consideration of the subject, inclined to believe that the unguarded expressions made use of by Mr. Denman on the occasion of the Queen's trial were prompted by zeal fur his client, and used in the heat of argument. His Ma- jesty was, therefore, pleased to order that the learned gentleman should be promoted to a silk gown ; and further, that his patent should bear the same date as those of the King's counsel last appointed.—Standard.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.—The Earl of Liverpool expired on Thursday the 4th instant, at his seat at Coombe Wood, where his Lordship had been staying ever since his removal from town after his first dangerous ill- ness. His Lordship hail been in his usual state of health for some days pre- vious without any symptoms calculated to excite apprehension having ap- peared, and had breakfast as usual in the morning. About half past nine o'clock the Noble Earl was attacked with convulsions and spasms. A mes- senger was immediately despatched to Mr. Sandford, one of his Lordship's medical attendants, who resides in the neighbourhood ; but before that gentle- man could arrive his Lordship had breathed his last—about ten o'clock. Time Countess of Liverpool, the Hon. Cecil Jenkinson (brother to his Lordship, who has been staying at the residence of his afflicted relative for some time past), and Mr. Child, his Lordship's steward, were in the apartment when his Lordship expired.—Court Circular.

The recovery of the Earl of Liverpool from the melancholy malady into which he fell nearly two years ago (17th February 1827), being from the first hopeless, its termination in death was an object rather to be desired than de- precated : and now that the event has actually taken place, we should con- sider it as a relief, and not as a new affliction, to his surviving friends. The day of death is with some the season of panegyric. It is, no doubt, the time at which all enmities should be appeased,—all injuries forgiven ; but there is no mra at which the truth, the unadorned truth, ought not to be spoken of public men : and Lord Liverpool neither provoked enmities nor inflicted injuries. Of all the statesmen who have lived in our day, he was one who diverged least from his course, to excite indignation, or instil hatred, by personal attack or wanton insult. It was his habit, simply and frigidly, to defend his own mea- sures, and to oppose those of his political antagonists, by the best reasoning 6f which he was master. For the purity of his moral conduct, the rectitude of his mind, and the uniformity of his political principles, be was much and de- servedly respected. Indeed he was never tempted to swerve from the course which was prescribed to him by his father, and was adopted in early life, by any extraordinary irradiation of genius, any burst of fancy, or any sudden perception of innate and late-waked sagacity. But if everything with him was moderate, everything was steady, sedate, and even dignified.—Times. Robert Bankes Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, was born on the 17th June 1769. His father, whose work on the coin is well known to political econo- mists, had made his way, by ability for the details of office, from comparative obscurity to the wealth and rank of which he died in possession. The late Lord entered on life under more favourable auspices. After quitting Oxford, where he was distinguished among his associates (of whom the late Mr. Can. Wag maim), rattler for aosirluous attention to this. studies- than for showy qualities, he visited the continent, and was in Paris at that interesting period when the Bastile was destroyed. On his return to England he entered Par- liament in 1791, and made his maiden speech on the debate on Mr. Whit- bread's motion respecting the armament against Russia. This speech was considered one of the mostsuccessful efforts ever made by a speaker at the commencement of his career. His Lordship was appointed one of the Com- missioners for the Affairs of India in 1793. In 1794, he received the Corn- mission of Commander of the Cinque Ports Cavalry. In 1796, he was appointed Master of the Mint, made a Privy Councillor, and named one of the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. On the change of Ministry in 1801, he succeeded Lord Grenville as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and when Mr. Pitt returned to office in 1804, on the renewal of the war, he quitted the Foreign forthe Home Office. When Mr. Pitt died in 1806, Lord Liverpool, then Lord Hawkesbury, attempted to perform a much more prominent part than he had hitherto done on the political stage ; but the pub- lic, at that time, by no means seconded his wish to remain at the helm of affairs, and a new Ministry was demanded. When the Whigs quitted office, Lord Liverpool again took a place in the Perceval Administration. On the death of Mr. Perceval he became First Lord of the Treasury, and he continued Premier till the termination of his political career. As a politician, his Lord- ship continued to rise in reputation to the last. He was never supposed to possess talents of the highest order; and his speeches, during the discussions on the Bullion question—the Orders in Council—the various measures con- nected with the Bank Restriction and the Return to Cash Payments—the Corn Laws, and commercial affairs in general, indicate great vacillation, and the possession of any thing rather than connected views. With respect to foreign politics he ranked still lower. Lord Liverpool, with all his official ability and talents for business, was what is called a secondary character. He gave way to others of a more determined stamp. Lord Liverpool was fond of domestic life, and we believe greatly beloved by his friends. His character stood always high in the country. He exerted himself much to promote the effi- ciency of the Church Establishment by the judicious distribution of patronage. He was a patron of Bible Societies, consequently inclined to Evangelical principles. On the whole, Lord Liverpool, whatever his defects, is one of those names which will appear with advantage in the page of history.—Morn- ing Chronicle.

As a good man and a good patriot, the Earl of Liverpool may challenge comparison with any name in English history ; but it were a compliment in- viting insolent contradiction to place him in competition as a statesman with his master, Mr. Pitt, or the successor who now so auspiciously administers the government of the empire, or even with his colleagues, the Marquis of Londonderry and the Earl of Eldon. We are very far from saying that the noble Earl, whose less we deplore, was a man of inferior understanding—by no means. He was at least equal, in all the qualities of a statesman, to either of his two immediate successors, with this transcendent advantage over Mr. Canning, that he was unswayed in his actions by any motive of personal pas- sion or personal ambition, and with this somewhat less, though still great ad- vantage over Lord Goderich, that he was not committed to any pestilent mea- sures, or any absurd and mischievous system. The Earl of Liverpool's mind was, however, but of the second order, though holding a high place in that order ; and such minds stiffer not only in degree, but in species, from those by which the destinies of a mighty state like this ought to be directed. No mul- tiplication of second rate minds will make a first rate mind,—this we are will- ing to confess, in literature. and in all other sciences, and there is no reason why the rule should not hold in the science of state policy.—Standard. The natural death of the Earl of Liverpool, so long after his political de- mise, is a matter which scarcely demands anything beyond a passing notice ; yet it naturally leads us to think of the remarkable changes which, if he ever recovered the powers of his mind, he would have witnessed before his death. He would have seen a party arise from among those whom he considered the most devoted supporters of his policy, to condemn his whole administration as destructive of the character and the interests of the country. What would his astonishment have been to have seen the letter of the Duke of Newcastle, in which the days of Perceval are reverted to as the last period of political wisdom and virtue, and the commencement of his—of Lord Liverpool's Ad- ministration, spoken of as the commencement of an " accursed system," by which right and wrong were confounded.—Globe.

CAPTAIN CANNING'S FUNERAL..—The remains of the Hon. Capt. Canning were interred on Wednesday morning, in the cloisters at WestminsterAbbey, by the side of his late father. The funeral, which was as private as possible, left Harcourt-house, the residence of the Duke of Portland, about half-past nine o'clock. It consisted merely of a hearse and three mourning coaches, in which were some of the immediate connexions and intimate friends of the lamented young officer. ROYAL SOCIETY.—At the anniversary meeting, on Monday, the officers of the Society for the ensuing year were elected. Mr. Davis Gilbert is Presi- dent. The Morning Chronicle says that some observations were made on the proposed Admiralty job, alluded to in our last paper. "The President stated that there was but one feeling in the Council on the subject ; but he did not think that the Admiralty intended any insult to the Society by the proposal. He had not yet seen any of the Commissioners of the Admiralty on the mea- sure ; but he trusted that it would undergo some modification, so as not to be objectionable to either party." SCOTTISH HOSPITAL—The St. Andrew's festival of this charity was cele- brated by a dinner on Monday, in the City of London Tavern. In the ab- sence of the Duke of Clarence, the President of the Society, owing to the de. licate health of his Royal Highness, Major-General David Stewart of Garth presided. The Vice-Presidents were also absent. The Times, speaking of the advantages of this charity, mentions it as a matter of reproach, that " there was not a single individual of rank or member of Parliament connected with Scot- land present." The dinner, however, was attended by nearly three hundred persons. The gallant chairman made great exertions to promote the objects of the charity ; and lie was well supported by Colonel Barrow, an English offi- cer, and some others. Mr. Irving, of the National Scottish Chnrch, who is chaplain to the Hospital, also pleaded the cause of his poor countrymen with earnestness and effect. The subscriptions in the room amounted to 2701. The funds of this Society are dedicated to three important purposes, which, though more directly connected with Scotland, are not insignificant to the inhabitants of this great metropolis. In the first place, it maintains, by a contribution of 101. a year about seventy or eighty poor persons, chiefly widows above se- venty year of age ; secondly, it relieves, at their own houses, by smallsums, such poor persons from Scotland as have no chains to parish relief by the laws of England ; and lastly, it provides a free passage house for such as, having been uufortunate in England, wish to returnee try to better their fortu.ne, or to deposit their bones in, their own country. LONDON MECHANICS Iesurtrricte.—The fifth anniversary meeting was held on Tuesday night, at the rooms in Southampton Buildings. Two prizes of 10/. each, founded by Dr. Fellowes, were presented by the Chairman, Dr. Birkbeck, to Mr. Ward and Mr. Holmes. The Chairman at the same time, took the opportunity of expatiating on the advantages of such institutions. Mr. Hume described the state of the Mechanics' Institutes in Scotland. Mr. Denman in moving the thanks of the meeting to the Chairman, pronounced an eloquent eulogium upon him, as the first promoter of Societies for the diffu- siots of scientific knowledge. In the course of the evening, the vast increase of Mechanics' Societies in England, Scotland, and Ireland was mentisned ; and it appears that the taste for improvement has reached Australasia even, and to a country to which it might least have been expected to travel—to the centre of, prejudice and ign3rance—Spain. Both Van Dieman's Land and Madrid possess Mechanics' Institutions. LONDON Docxs.—The proprietors, at a meeting on Tuesday, authorized the Directors of the London Dock Company to raise a sum not exceeding 300.0001. to be applied in making an entrance to the Docks from the river at Shadwell Dock, which is nearly a mile lower than the present entrance. The advantages of tide, and the increased accession of business, by a new entrance, are the objects which the Directors have in view. ST. KATHARINE DOCKS.—The proprietors met on Thursday, to consider of the best mode of making some acknowledgment to the Directors for their services. Before the meeting entered upon this question, the Chairman, Mr. Tooke, stated that since the opening of the western dock, fifty-two vessels (registered tonnage 11,559 tons) had entered with cargoes ; and twelve vessels (registered tonnage 2285 tons) had entered to load outwards ; exclu- sive of a great number of small craft. No inconvenience had been sustained, nor had the slightest accident occurred. The Chairman and the other officers of the Company having retired, a short but amicable discus-ion followed on the particular question for which the proprietors had been called together ; and it was unanimously resolved that a salary of 2001. per annum should be paid to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman, and 150/. to each of the other Directors.

ST. SAVIOUR'S Cliuncre—At a general vestry meeting of the inhabitants of St. Saviour's Southwark, held on Thursday, it was resolved that this ancient and fine edifice should he put in a state of complete repair. The expense of the proposed repairs will be nearly 5000/. One individual was for palling it down altogether, and building a " smaller and more comfortable

church ;" but his project met with few supporters. •

NORWICH NEW CORN EXCHANGE.—The opening of this splendid building was celebrated by a dinner on the 28th ultimo, at which the patriotic Mr. Coke of Norfolk presided. The dinner was attended by a great portion of the opulent landholders.

FRYS AND CHAPMAN'S BANKRUPTCY.—The first meeting under the com- mission against this house took place on Tuesday, at the Bankruptcy Court, Basinghall-street, before the Commissioners, Messrs. Smith, Hudson, and Holroyd. The number of persons in attendance was very considerable. The debts proved amounted to nearly 40,000/. It was remarked, that though a large portion of the bankrupts' connexions were among the Society of Friends, only three persons of that persuasion were among the creditors who proved.

WHITCHURCH Bese.—The bank of Messrs. Cawser, Nayler, and Hassan, at Whitchurch, stopped payments on the 28th November. The failure of Messrs. Frys and Chapman, their London agents, caused a general demand to be made upon them for the balances in their hands. It is believed, however, that the firm will ultimately pay in full. GLOVE TRADE.—The Custom-house returns for the last month show the im- portation of French gloves to have been 2720 dozens. In November 1827, there were 5714 dozens, imported : so that the return shows a falling off in the import to less titan one-half its amount. This is a sufficient answer to the apprehensions of the destruction of the glove trade by the importation from abroad ; for gloves are among the articles which at the present rate of duty it is confessedly not worth while to smuggle.—Globe. Doce-YARDS.—The Naval Administration of this country has at all times manifested great liberality of feeling in giving foreigners access to our dock- yards, for the purpose of-instruction. Directions have been received, within these few days, to admit a Turk, of the name of Mahomet Effendi, to be in- structed in naval architecture, for the future service of the Pacha of Egypt. —Hampshire Telegraph. An Egyptian officer is now on board the Shannon, fitting at Chatham. He is going out in this ship in order to learn naval tactics and seamanship, under the sanction of Government.—Maidstone Gazette.

Suescnieriors FOR TILE REFoorns.—The list of benefactions for the relief of these exiles amounted on Saturday, to upwards of 4,3001.

An additional subscription of 491. As. has been received from the Univer- sity of Oxford for the Spanish exiles.

PORTUGUESE REFUGEES.—A report prevailed last week that it was the in- tention of Government to disperse the refugees resident at Plymouth to other quarters. The inhabitants of Plymouth have taken alarm at the report ; and a public meeting, the Mayor at its head, was held on Tuesday to "endeavour to avert the calamity with which the Portuguese are threatened." Resolutions were voted expressive of the wish of the inhabitants that the exiles should be allowed to remain,—on the ground of their sufferings in the cause of constitu- tional liberty, their good conduct, and their residence at Plymouth being ad- vantageous to that place. A memorial embodying the resolutions was ordered to be presented to Mr. Peel. THE RECORDER'S REPORT.—A correspondent in the Morning Chronicle, referring to the obloquy heaped upon the Recorder, avers "that it is most undeserved ; that the learned gentleman is made a cat's-paw of in the affair of the report; and that, in fact, it was not he who caused the delay, but a personage too exalted for censure, who refused his approbation of it, until Tuesday forenoon, contrary to the wish of the Council and to all former pre- cedent. It was brought to town as soon as signed." No delay retarded the report of the decision of the Council held on Mon- day. Of twenty-seven convicts whose cases were reported, his Majesty has. respited them all except four—Joseph Hunton for forgery, John James for stealing in a dwelling, house, Joseph Mahoney for housebreaking, and James Abbott for cutting and maiming his wife, are ordered to be executed on Monday next. Much sympathy has been manifested for Hunton and Abbott. For Hun- ton, in consequence of the integrity of his previous conduct, and the ascer- tained fact that his creditors can lose nothing by him. In the case of Abbott, his humane disposition, and the insults and provocation which he received front his wife, have been urged as extenuating circumstances sufficient to warrant a commutation of his sentence. HIS constant inquirieS are for his wife and children. His wife has been at the gate of the prison, and left him linen and other articles; but she has always refused to see him, or even to notice his pathetic appeals conveyed to her in the following letters :— " Newgate Cell, Saturday Night. " Dearest Wife,--I write these few lines to you, and hope you will come to see me. Remember when we was use to spend happy hours together, and your dear • little ones playing about around us like iambs, and when our home was a little heaven below ; and now you know, all through your own misconduct, you have brought on yourself and me disgrace. But I forgive you with all my heart, as I hope and trust you will me. Pray come and see me, and let us part in friendship us we meet in friendship ; and remember the night this accident happened you told me you was going to be out all night, and would not tell me where you was going, nor would you be friends with me. But I did kiss you,-as you swore ; nor did not use you so as you have sworn. You know it did not happen so but if I have done you wrong, you have done we wrong ; and forgive me as I forgive you. Whether I die, or whether I live, pray come and see me, once for all, and let me see my dear little ones, for Christ's sake. " J. A."

" Newgate Cell, Tuesday Morning.

" Dearest Life—Look what I am come to ; I um to be hanged on Monday morn- ing. Only consider, nay dear wife, what my feelings must be; see what disgrace you have been the cause of bringing upon our poor babes. Only for once imagine the horrible and frightful situation I am in; confined in a dark and dismal dungeon, and her who has been the cause of all my downfall, and whom I am to devoted to, refuses-to come and console my aching heart. For God's sake, if you do nut consider me, come and see me. Now glad should I be if I could only see your face through the hole of my dungeon door; how it would please me—it would relieve my feelings so much, that I could meet my death manfully ; but I am quite sure that, if I don't see you, I shall never live till the morning of my execution. Do come, my angel, and bring our sweet children with you, that I may kiss them for the last time. Never mind what people say to you about me ; you know, as well as I do, that you was the sole of my heart, and you can say so if anybody says to the contrary. if you come to the gate, or see Mr. Cotton, you will be admitted without delay, so there's no excuse for you. I received the flannel waistcoat and shirt which you left at the door, but I would rather see you ; you ought to be the only consolation under my afflicting circumstances. Now, for the last time, let me implore you, on my bended

knees to come and see me. "J. A."

HUNTON'S PROPERTY.—The property belonging to this unfortunate convict was sold on Wednesday, by Mr. Farebrother, the auctioneer, and brought 3,450/.

Hunton's estate in Bishopsgate-street will pay full 20s. in the pound. As a proof of the very great respect his creditors had for him, all, except about ten who were not in the way at the time they were waited on, signed a petition in his behalf as well as the assignees.—Letter in the Timis. •

DINNER TO LORD Monrwrin—Thisrnational banquet was given in Dublin on Thursday week ; and was attended by about three hundred persons, in- cluding atom!, train of Irish noblemen, members of parliament, and gentlemen of rank and influence ; the Duke of Leinster presiding. The speeches were distinguished by the absence of political asperity.

THE RE NT.—The Catholic rent for last week amounted to 735/. 4s. 9d.

NUNs.—On Saturday, two ladies were admitted to the black veil, and made their religious profession at the Ursuliue Convent of Limerick, North Strand.—Dublin Morning Register.

Cot= OF COMMON PLEAS.—Lady Gresley was on Wednesday the de- fendant in two actions of debt. Mr. besot' sought to recover 72/.for groceries furnished to her Ladyship. His counsel observed that the defendant seemed never to pay a bill without alawsuit. The Jury gave averdict for the amount claimed. in the next case, Mrs. Moses, a washerwoman, recovered 28/. 10s. for ten months washing done to Lady Gresley. An attempt was made to defend both actions. The Lord Chief Justice, in remarking upon the latter case, observed to the Jury, "that he should never cease to think that persons in the defendant's rank of life disgraced themselves by defending such actions as these, unless they could make out a better case than the defendant had done in this instance."

PERJURY. —III the course of a case of no public interest yesterday, John Richardson, a witness, prevaricated cossiderably in his evidence; and the jury, on giving their verdict, declared that they did not believe him. Lord Chief Justice Best called the witness before him, and lamented that he had not, like the Judges on the Circuit, the power to order a prosecution for per- jury, and to allow the expenses for it. The power which he had he was de- . termined to exercise, for the purpose of " endeavouring to put a stop to this frightful practice of perjury, that is daily increasing in the Courts." He then ordered the witness Richardson to be imprisoned in the Fleet during the pre- sent sittings. The other day, his Lordship fined a witness for prevaricating in his testimony.