The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday,
at Buckingham Palace.
Lord Panmure had an audience of her Majesty.
Prince Albert rode on horseback in the forenoon, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred,
and attended by Captain Du Plat.
The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took
equestrian exercise in the Riding school.
Iler Majesty- had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included the Duchess of Kent, the P:ince of
Leiningen, Prince Nicholas of Nassau, the Saxon Mi-
ni,ter, the Marquis of Ereadalbanc, Viscount Hardinge,
Viscoont Monck, Lady Fanny Howard, Cilona the
George Cadogan, Lady Elizabeth Bolted, and
Major-General the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey.
The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance in
the Palace, and played during dinner.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince, Alfred, the Prin.
C 333 Alice, the Duchess of Kant, the Prince of Lein-
ingon, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the
Domestic Household, attended Divine Service in the
Private Chapel of Buckingha.ni Palace. Tie Rev. H.
G. performed the morning service, and preached
the .cierrnon.

The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanuy
Howard, visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Friday
evening, at Gloucester-house.

The—Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary,
and the Prince of Leiningen, visited the Duchess of
Kent yesterday, at Clarence-house, St James'e.

THE COURT. —On Wednesday, the 4th •i April, as at
present arranged, her Majesty the Queen and the Prince
Consort, accompanied by the younger branches of the
Royal family, and attended by the ladies and genticm2n
of the 1n will leave Beckingham Palace for
'Windsor Castle, wherz; her Majesty will, as usual, spend
the Easter holidays. It is understood that the sojourn
of the Court at Windsor will not exceed ten days, alter
which period her Majesty will return to Buckingham
Palace.

) Their Royal Highnesses the Dulhes3 of Cambridge
1 and the Princess Mary leave St. James's Palace on Fri-
day, next, for" Cambridge Cottage, Kew, for the Eater recess. Their Royal Highnesses will remain there for a
fortnight, and then return to town for the season. The
Duchess and the Princess Mary visited the Duchess of
Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
1 Her Royal Highness the Ducliess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard, visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester on Friday evening, at Gloucester House.
un— o,nrontess Colloredo has issued cards for an assena-
Lly at Chandos ri:J,,, -- Thursday next.
The Duke and Duchess of Richruonu a.,.-_,. —cifeted
in Pertland-place at present. The family are still oc-
cupying East Lodge, Brighton.
The Earl of Chesterfield and the Lady Evelyn Stan-
hope are expected to arrive in t rvin for a few days this
week. -The family are at present at Bretby Park.
The Earl and Con teas of Durham are expected in
town on Thursday or Friday.
The Earl of Cardigan has now succeeded his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge as Inspector-General
of Cavalry of the United Kingdom.
Mr. C. H. Darling, late Governor at the Cape, has
been appointed Governor of Newfoundland, in the room
of Mr. Kerr Millie Hamilton, appointed Governor-in-
Chief of the Leeward Islands.
The anniversary dinner of the Literary Fund is
announced for May 22, with the Bishop of Oxford in the
chair.

The Marquis of Anglesey is forming a costly and
valuable racing stud.
Madame Viardut has just signed an engagement to
appear at the Royal Italian Opera this year. •
A number of English grooms (says the Gazette de
Lyon) have just passed through this city, in care of 12
fine hunters, and 30 English hounds, purchased for the
King of Sardinia.
It is stated in a letter from Vienna, in the Germax
Journal of Frankfort, that Abd-el-Kader has requested
permission to pay a visit to Constantinople.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers
present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the Right Hon. It. Vernon Smith, Sir Wil-
liam Molosworth, and Viscount Canning. The Council
OA four hours.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday at the Council Chamber. A motion from Ben-
gal, "Gungudhur Seal v. Jaddornoney Dossee' " and
" Luchmeechund and others v. Zorawur Mull," for ex-
tension of time to alter conditions of order restoring
appeal, were disposed of ; and an appeal from Canada,
"Holmes v. Mathews," was heard. The Lords preserl
were—the Lor.ls Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Sir Edward
Ryan.

regret has been occasioned at Cambridge by
the death of Mr. Mackenzie, an undergraduate of Trinity
Colley, only surviving son of the late Lord Mackenzie,
and grandson of the celebrated Henry Mackenzie, the
author of "The Man of Feelin7." Mr. Mackenzie was
oducat td Ghisgow and Edinburgh, and was in his
third year at Trinity, where his career had secured for
him soveral prizes, and the universal esteem and respect
of the authorities.

Tee Right Hon. the Speaker gave his seventh and last
Parliamentary dinner on Saturday. The following no-
b.e and honourable gentlemen were of the company :
Viscount Duncan, Hor. Henry Brand, Sir Denham
Norreys, Bart., Lieutenant-General Sir John Fitzgerald,
K.C.8., Mr. Johnstone, Mr. Danby Seymour, Mr.
Muntz, Mr. Beaumont, Mr. H. Gore Langton (Bristol),
Mr. Massey, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Hutchins, Mr. Mangles,
Mr. Marjoribanks, Mr. Phillipps, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Oh-
veira, Mr. D. O'Connell, Mr. Charles Forster, Mr. Will-
cox, M. George Duff, Mr. Whatman, Mr. Morris, Mr.
Loftus Bland, Mr. Bass, Mr. Aleock, Mr. John Mac-
gregor, Mr. Cowan. The following gentlemen were
prevented :—The Earl Grosvenor, the Hon. Locke
King, Mr. B. W. Grey, Mr. Hayworth, Mr. Laing, and
Mr. Montague Chambers. The Rev. Mr. Garnier and
the Secretary were present.
Ant )ngst the company who attended the private view
of the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, Suf-
folk-street, on Saturday, were :—The Duchess of Suther-
land, the Duchess of Argyll, the Marchioness of Ailes-
bury, Lady Blantyre, Lady Monson, Miss Burgett
Coutts ; the Earls of Fitzhardinge, Carnarvon, Devon,
Bradford, 'and Lanesborough ; Lords Viscount May-
nard, Orkney, Galway, and Chelsea ; Lords Monteagle,
Blantyre, and E. Bruce; the Archbishop of Canterbury;
the Bishops of London, Oxford, Carlisle, and Lichfield ;
the Baron de Rothschild ; Sirs W. G. Stirling, Bart.,
Jos. Bailey, Bart. E.Bart., Lacon, Fred. Currie,
Bart. ; Sirs Jae. Parke and G. Pollock ; Cardinal Wise-
man ; Wm. Marshall, M.P., W. 0. Gore, M.P., G.
Banks, M.P., Gore Langton, M.P., &.c. ; the Lord
Mayor, and Aldermen Salomons and Kennedy, &c.
-DR. ANDREW SMITH is no longer Director-Geaeral of
the Medical Department of the Army. Amongst the
reforms in course of preparation in the several depart-
ments of the War-office, it is contemplated to place the
Army Medical Department, as well as the Ordnance aid
other Boards, under the more direct and immediate con-
trol of the responsible Minister for War. The Army
Medical Board will, amongst other changes, be rein-
forced with an accession of civilians, who will be men of
business, acquainted with the general conduct of its
executive affairs apart from mere professional duties.
SIR HENRY Bisnor's CONCERTS.--The success which
attended Sir Henry Bishop's " Vocal Afternoon Con-
certs " at the Hanover-square Rooms, has induced the
spirited entrepreneur, Mr. Mitchell, of Bond-street, to
give another entertainment of a similar kind, though on
a much more extensive scale, which is announced to take
place te-morrow evening at Exeter-hall. The services
of our greatest English tenor, Mr. Sims Reeves, and of
Miss Rrih, have been secured, in order that the fullest
justice may La done to some of the most popular solo
works of one of England's best composers, for whose ad-
mirable, concerted, and choral pieces a worthy render-
ing Las also been insured by the engagement of those
excellent glee singers, Masters Sullivan, MaLsch, Cooke,
Norton, Messrs. Francis, Benson, Land, Buckland, and
Lawler, together with an efficient choir amounting to
200 voices. We sincerely hope that this new and lion-
oerablc effort of Mr. Mitchell's in favour of native art
may be duly appreciated a.ld substantially supported by
the musical public. We understand that the "After-
noen Vocal Concerts" are to be resumed after Easter.
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