THE PROPRIETORS of the COURT JOURNAL, with due acknowledgments for the highly gratifying reception their work has already met with, beg leave to point out to readers in general the advantages of their publication in its present improved form. The occupations, engagements, and amusements of the higher classes of society had long required a record; they found it in the Court Journal. The fête champêtre, the sumptuous banquet, the concert, the soirée, the ball, the public and private habits of royal and noble life, those habits which give the tone to manners throughout the empire, were depicted with a freshness and accuracy hitherto unattempted; and, in all instances, with the most attentive avoidance of injury to personal feelings. It may be easily imagined that those details could not have been supplied from ordinary sources,--thus the connexions of the Proprietors afforded them peculiar opportunities, and many of the articles of the Court Journal were contributed by individuals, whose rank and fashion gave even a pledge at once for the good taste and the truth of their descriptions. But something more was still required, to realize the original idea of the publication. It was hitherto the Journal of an elevated but exclusive class; the purpose was to render it available to all classes, retaining its anecdote, pleasantry, and spirit of high life, to make it the vehicle of intelligence of every interesting kind; the companion not only of the boudoir but of the breakfast table and the study,--a Journal in which not merely the woman of fashion might find the round of her engagements for the week brought gracefully before her eye; but the politician, the student, and the various orders of intelligent society might find the species of information suited to their purposes; to make the Court Journal a WEEKLY NEWSPAPER of the most improved and valuable nature. For this object a Stamp was necessary, and the Proprietors did not hesitate to subject themselves to the serious additional expense, that they might give the public their paper in its complete state, feeling confident that the claims of the work to great popularity and extensive circulation would be duly estimated by the public at large. THE COURT JOURNAL is regularly published every SATURDAY MORNING on a handsome sheet of 16 quarto pages, containing 48 columns, price 10d. and may consequently be received on Sunday in all parts of the country. Published for HENRY COLBURN, by W. Thomas, at the office, 19, Catherine Street, Strand. Orders are received by all Booksellers and Newsvenders throughout the kingdom; and those who desire to become subscribers are particularly requested to give their orders to the Bookseller or Newsman in their own immediate neighbourhood, as the best mode of receiving it regularly. N.B.--Advertisements or orders sent from the country to the office must be accompanied by a reference for payment in London. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: