The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord John Russell had an Ludience of the Queen
on Saturday morning. His Lordship had also an
audience of her Majesty- in the afternoon at Buckingham
Palace. after the breakiug•up of the Cabinet Council,
held at the Foreign-office.
His Royal Higbrr?ss Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the
lion. A. Gordon.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princss Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice,
Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usua:
exercise on Saturday, in the grounds of Buckingham
Mil Ice.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun-
tess of Mount Edge.cumbe, the Hon. Lucy Kerr. Lord
Fdphinstone, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieut-
Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, honoured the Princess's
Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
their Royal Highnesses the Princ.3 of Wales, and the
Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of tho Court,
and tho domestic household, attended Divine service
yesterday morning, iu the private chapel of Bucking-
ham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley of-

The Earl of Darby had an audience of the Queen yes-
terday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
At her Majesty's dinner party on Friday the band of
the Grenadier Guards was in attendance at Buckingham
Palace, and performed the following selection during
dinner:—
Overture—" Ali Baba"

Cherubini.

Ri-cit. and Nachtigallen Duet—" Es war
die Nachtigal die Sang" (Casilda).
Waltz —" Homage a Londr,,s"
Selection—" Cenerentola"...

Koh ner.
Rossini.

Music de Ballet—(Casilda).
March—" Alexander" ... Gungl.
After dinner her Majesty's private band attended, and
performed the following compositions:—
Overture —" Naudeville" ... Maurer.
Scenn du Rondo—"Il Crociato" Meyerbeer.
Fantasie sur des motifs de Mczirt et de Beethoven.

Lori John Russell bed a Parliamentary dinner party
on Saturday, at his residence in Chesham-place. The
compitny consisted of Captain Scobell, M.P.; Colonel
Watkins, M.P.; Mr. Mitchell, M.P.; Mr. Morris, M.P.;
Mr. James Marshall, aI.P.; Sir William Molesworth,
M.P.; Lard James Stuart. M.P.; Mr. Osborne, M.P.;
Mr. Horsman, M.P.; Mr. Romiily, M.P.; Mr. Tancred,
M.P.; Mr. Kershaw, M.P.; Sir B'njsmi❑ Hall, M.P.;
Mr. Leach, M.P.; Mr. John Evans, M.P.; Colonel
Thompson, M.P.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office on Sa-
turday, from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Dispatches were also received from the Governors of
North and South Australia, New Zealand, and the Mau-
ritius.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday in the Council Chamber. The Lords present
were Lord Cranworth, Sir J. L. Knight Bruce, Sir J.
Patteson, Dr. Lushington, and Sir Edward Ryan.
Lowe's petition for extension of patent (part-heard) was
concluded, and Taylor's petition for extension of patent
was heard.

The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The ser-
vice was read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon
was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Phipps. At the
daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Bel-
mere; the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Vivian, and the Com-
munion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon
was preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Phipps.

THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
Immediately affer the dehat of the Ministry in the
Commons on Friday night, Major Beresford, as whipper-
in of the Conservative party, dispatched a telegraphic
message to Swindon, and thence a special messenger to
the Earl of Derby, at Badminton, where the Noble Earl
bad only arrived the same day on a visit to the Duke
and Duchess of Beaufort.
The Earl of Derby returned to London by the mid-
day train on Saturday, and arrived at his mansion in St.
James's-square at six o'clock.
A special messenger arrived at his Lordship's mansion
at seven o'clock on Saturday evening, bearing a commu-
nication from the Queen, commanding the attendance of
the Noble Earl at Buckingham Palace yesterday after-
noon.

Yesterday morning a variety of communications passed
between the Noble Earl and the leaders or his party.
The Earl of Derby proceeded to Buckingham Palace
at half-past two o'clock, and had the honour of an inter-
view with her Majesty.
After leaving her Majesty the Noble Earl had an in-
terview with Mr. Disraeli.

LORD PALMERSTON'S RECEPTION.
Viscount Palmerstou's " reception" on Saturday
evening was again attended by a brilliant circle of the
corps aiplomatique and aristocracy.
Previously to the assembly, the Noble Viscount and
Viscountess entertained a small party at dinner, the
Vnests inc'uding—the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury,
iscount and Viscountess Mahon, Viscount Melgund,
Lord Broughton and the Hon. Miss Hobbouse, Lord and
Lady Stanley of Alderley; How John Fortescue,
Hon. Spencer Poosonby, Mr. Monckton Wines, MT,
and Mr. H. Fleming.

The company invited to the " reception" began to set
down at 10 o'clock.

The Duke of Wellington, as usual, paid his respects
to the Nobte Viscountess, arriving about 11 o'clock.
Amoog the members of the corps diplornatique present
were the French, the Turkish, the Netherlands, the
Sardinian, the Neapolitan, the Belgian, the Brazilian,
the Russian, the Bavarian, the Danish, the Greek, the
Portuguese, the American Ministers and their ladies, the
Spanish Chard d'A ffairs, Count Louis Corti, Ccuut
l3enteroghi, M. de Veillat, M. J. L. Uibiztondo, M. Both-
man Hollweg, Count Penponcher, M. Serrnrier, the
S:.cretary of the Portuguese Legation, Baron do
Geer, &c. . _ _

A great many distinguished foreigners were present
during the evening. AL Thiers was among the early
visitors.

The general circle included, among others, the
Duchess of Inverness, the Duke of Newcastle, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Marchioness
of Salisbury, the Marchioness of Aylesbury and Lady
Hermione St. Maur, the Earl Fitzwilliam and the Ladies
Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and
Countess of Glengall, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and
Countess of Delawarr, the Earl Jermyn, the Countess
Tankerville, the .Countess (Frances) Waldgrave and
Mr. Harcourt, M.P., the Earl and Countess of Desert,
the Count and Countess de Flahault,Viscount Harding°,
Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Chewton, Viscount and
Viscountess Milton, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Anson,
Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Viscount and Vis-
countess Eastnor, Viscount Einlyn, Viscount and Vis-
countess Torington, Viscount Galway, Lord Fitzroy
Somerset, Lady Brougham and Miss Soalding, Lord
Claud Hamilton, M.P., Lord NOrrer, M•P”
Lady Williams, Lord Ernest Bruce, m.p., Lord
Robert Grosvenor, M.P., and Miss Grosvenor,
Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Lord Ashburton, Lady James
Stuart and Miss Stuart, Lard Campbell and the Ba-
roness Stratheden, Lord and Lady Montesgle, Lord
Hobart, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lord Crewe,
Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Lord and Lady Foley, Lady
Morgan, Lady William Russell, Lord and Lady Beau-
mont, Baron Lionel Rothschild, Hon. C. Howard, M.P.,
Hon. George Herbert, Hon. C.. Spring
Rice, Hon. W.
F. Campbell, M.P., Hon. Cecil Fot ester, M.P., Hon. IL
Fitzroy, M.P., and Mrs. Fitzroy, the Right Hon. the
Speaker and Miss Shaw Lefevre, the Right lion. W,
E. Gladstone, M.P., the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
M.P., the Right Hon. IL T. Corry, M.P., and Miss
Corry, the Right Hon. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, M.P., Sir'
Robert Peel. M.P., Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, Sir E. Cole-
brooks., M.P., Sir Thomas Birch, M.P., Sir William
Molesworth, Sir G. Brooke Pechell, M.P., Sir James
Brooke, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir De Lacy Evans,
Sir Benjamin Hall, Sir James Matheson, MX., Sir Mon-
tagu Cholmeley, M.P., Mr. Rich, M.P., Mr. Pinney,
M.P., Mr. J. Duff, M.P., Mr. H. Drummond, M.P., Mr.
Adair, M.P., Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., Mr. Osborne,
M.P., Mr. Roebuck, M.P., Mr. Stafford, M.P., Mr.
Headlam, M.P„ Mr. John Townelsy, M.P., Mr. 11. A.
Herbert, M.P., Mr. George Repton, M.P., Mr. Disraeli,
M.P,, the O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., Mr. Mackinnon,
M.P., Mr. Chisholm Anstey, M.P., Mr. Chichester For-
rescue, M.P., Mr. John Stuart, M.P., Mr. Calvert, M.P.,
Mr. H. Berkeley, M.P., Mr. Tancred, M.P , Mr. H. Baring,
M.P., Mr. P. Howard, M.P., Admiral Bowles, Captain
Loch, M.P., Mr. Tenison, M.P., &c. &c.

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LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
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llert,
I think he E .2nd I
well with the couonitcre of a very proper occasion to retire
at some future and L. ye will come into office again
was spiteful of Lord distant_ time, a greater man. It
must try; and I mint Is.Almerston. Now Lord Derby
for the Protectionists will never that I feel glad that he will,
trade until their friend haante:iserdsit down quiet with free
sure as he attempts to tax bread,
he can do; but FO
shtpP, out he will go, and then the
no matter in what
e
down. Lord Derby is not an honest roan;
will settle
dons prove that. one thing is certain, whoevernian;hispast ac-
nis!er, the sitme course of Liberal Polley must is Ali-
ust be pur-
sued. As to the now Reform Bill, it is ail
new Reform Bill will he of a
.i.umble of
nonsense. No service to the
Whoever is I+ •
country without the ballot. . r Minister must
make great alteration in the Property and Income-tax
Acts, or tbey wont carry it. Lord John always shone
in • • Iso he will again. I suppose Glad-
opposition, and .
stone will be one of the now Ministers.

-----7-.----77=', „,) ---__The Right Hon. me
TEE SPEAKER-8 1J1N,..... ,
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Burghley,Saturday,
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:—LordlNe'nidatintlnneerrs,
Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord John Lord Naas,
Mr. Banker,
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il Hon.l_a ri(lise üßt euni
Boiler,
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John
,Forester,aking t
oSnir,
Major Beresford, Mr. Christopher, Mr. Disraeli,
Mr. Miles, Mr. John Stuart, Mr. Forbes
.Mackenzie,BruCcea,pti‘aiirn
Boldero, Mr. Packe, Mr. Henley, Mr. Cumming
Baillie, Mr. Philip Bernet. Mt. W. Ctibtt, Mr.
Whiteside,
Mr. Napier, Mr. Bramaton, and Mr. Hamilton.
CABINET COUNCIL..—t, Cabinet Council was held
~
at the Foreign-office, Downing,street, on Saturday afternoon.
The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the 'Marquis of Lansdowne., the Earl of Mint°, Sir
George Grey, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Francis Raring, the Right Hon. Fox
Maule, the Right Hon. Henry Labiaichere, the Earl of Car-
lisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Seymour, and the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith. The Council sat an hour and
a half.

LISBON AND THE BRITISII SQUADRON.--It iS re-
ported that so much have the authorities at Lisbon been ac-
customed to rely on the protection afforded by the presence
of a British naval force in the Tagus, that, to prevent the
i
usual applications for the delay of departure t was given out
when Commodore Martin left the Tagus, that he was under
sealed orders.