The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. O.
The following had the honour of dining at the Royal
table yesterday :—ller Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Truro, the Lady in
Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth,
the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord and Lady
John Russell, Viscount Harding.; the Countess of Shel-
burne, the Right Hon. Fox Maule and Mrs. Maule,
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieutenant-Colonel
Francis Seymour.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in
the Castle during dinner, and performed the following
pieces:—

Overture Ressiger.
Selection, " Matilde e Shabran"
••• Rossini.
Waltz, " Traume ant dem Ocean" • ••• Gungl.
Fakel Tanz Meyerbeer.
Qalop, " Queen's"
.„ ••• •.• D'Albert.
Rev Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
performed the following selection:—
Overture, " Le Serment" Auber.
Selection, 2d act, " Stradella" ••• Flotow.
Romance, " Guido et Genevra" ..• . . lialtry.
The Queen did not tako her usual walk this morning.
owing to the unfavourable st,ite of the weather, but her
Majesty rode in the Riding-house in the forenoon.
The Prince of WuleF, the PriumEs Royal, Prince
Alfred, and Princeas Alice, also rude iu the Riding-
house.

His Royal Highness Prineo Albert went nut shooting
this foienoon, accompanied by the Viscount Hardinge,
Lord John Russell, and the Right Hon. Fox Manic, and
attended by Colonel Hoe. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hon.
Charles Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour.
Field-Marshal Count Nugent, and Colonel Count A.
Nugent, arrived at the Castle this afternoon on a visit to
her Majesty.
During the royal dinner this evening, the band of the
Grenadier Guards was in attendance, and played the
following pieces:—
Overture, " Ali Baba"
Duetto, "I Puritani" ••• Cherubini.
••• Bellini.
Ariette et Cheeur, "La Fille du Regiment" Donizetti.
Romance, " Guido et Genevra" Halevy.
Walzer, "Die Schonbruner" •
• ... Lanner.
Galop, "Die Venitianer" Lanner.
The fourth dramatic performance at the Castle took
place this evening. The plays selected upon this occa-
sion were a comic drama, by J. B.Planchii, in two acts,
entitled The Jacobite; and a vaudeville, in one act, by
Thomas Haynes Bayly, entitled The Swiss Cottage; or,
Why don't she Marry? and the parts were filled accord-
ing to the following programmes:—
THE JACOBITE.

Sir Richard Wroughton, Bart.
Major M urr ay ... ... ...
John Duck ... ... ...

... Mr. Ryder.
... Mr. A. Wigan.
... Mr. Buckstone.

- -
Ralph (a servant) ... Mr. Clark.
Corporal ... „.. Mr. Coe.
Lady Somerferd . Miss Murray.
Widow Pottle (Landlady of " The Crooked
Billet") ... ... Mrs. Stanley.
Patty (her daughter) ... ... Miss Robertson.
Soldiers, &c.
THE SWISS COTTAGE; or, WHY DON'T SHE MARRY.
Natz Teik (a young farmer) ... ... Mr. Keeley.
Max (a Swiss soldier) . ... Mr. A. Wigan.
Lisette Gierstein (sister to Max) .. Mrs. Keeley.
Louise... ... Miss Vivash.

Janet ...
Swiss Soldiers...Me,ssrs. Daly, Rolleston, Collis, Hains
Barnes. and Parsloe.
Swiss Peasants.. Misses Desborough, E. Lovel, Walstein,
Murray, Startin. and Newman.
Director
Assistant Director Mr. George Ellis.

The theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr.
Thomas Grieve. _

About eight o'clock her Majesty the Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the elder Princes
and Princesses of the Royal Family, and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, entered the Rubella'
Room from the north corridor, accompanied by the Lord
Chancellor and Lady Truro, Lord and Lady John Rus-
sell, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Aberdeen, Field
Marshal Count Nugent, the Countess of Shelburne,
Viscount Hardinge, the Right. Hon. FQX Maule,
the Hon. Mrs. Fox Maule, Colonel Count A. Nugent,
and Lieut. Colonel Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty was attended by the Lady in Waiting,
the two Maids of Honour, the Lord in Waiting, the
Master of the Household, the Groom in Waiting, and
the Equerry in Waiting.
Prince Albert was attended by his Equerry in Wait-
ing, and the Duchess of Kent was attended by her Lady
in Waiting and the Baroness do Speth.
Her Majesty and her august circle having taken their
elevated seats fronting the temporary stage, and the
Queen's private band having played some introductory
music, the performances commenced.
In addition to the visitors staying at the Castle, the
following party of the Nobility and Gentry had the
honour of receiving invitations to witness the perfor-
mances:—Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington, Colonel
Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel Hon. Charles and
Mrs. Grey and Miss Bulteel, the Hon. and Rev. Mr.
Cast, Lady Anna Maria and two Misses Cust, the Hon.
and Rev. E. Moore, Mrs. Moore, and Miss Moore, Sir
George and Lady Couper, Miss Coeval. and Mr. R.
Couper, Lady Mary Berkeley, Lady Frances and Mr.
Hotham, Colonel and Mrs. Knollys, Lieut.-Colonel Hon.
C. Forrester, Commanding Officer; Cornet Lord George
Lennox, and Cornet Bellington, of the Royal Horse
Guards; Colonel Crawfurd, Commanding Officer, Lieu-
tenant the Hon. Ashley Ponsonby and Lieutenant
Maxee, of the 2d Battalion Grenadier Guards; the Rev.
the Provost of Eton and Hon. Mrs. Hodgson, the Rev.
F. and Hon. Mrs. :Anson, the Rev. Seymour Neville,
Mr. and Lady Sophia Tower, Mr. and Mrs. Cballoner,
Mr. H. Cox, Miss Cox, Mr. F. Cox, and Mr. A. and
Miss Greville.

The assembled company were served with refresh-
ments in the Throne Room.

The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yes-
terday at the official residence of the First Lord of the.
Treasury, in Downing-street. Present the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, the Rev. G. IL S. Johnson, and
the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).
Mr. Charles Villiers had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Clerk to the Local Board of Health for Great
Yarmouth, Mr. C. Cary, had an interview yesterday
with the General Board of Health, at their Offices,
Whitehall.

Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
at his official residence in Downing-street, yesterday.
A Deputation from the Association of Employers of
Operative Engineers, consisting of Mr. Field (of the
firm of Messrs. Mandalay, Sons, and Field), Mr. Raven-
hill (of the firm of Miller, Ravenhill, and Co.), Mr.
Penn (of the firm of John Penn and Son), Mr. T. Fair-
bairn (of the firm of Messrs. W. Fairbairn and Sons),
and Mr. J. Blyth (of the firm of J. and A. Blyth), had
an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the
Home-office.

-- Dispatches from the Governor of West Australia were
received at the Colonial-office, on Thursday evening.
Dispatches were received yesterday from the Governor
of Gibraltar.

Dispatches were sent to the Governor of Canada yes-
terday, from the Colonial-office.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLI-

GENCE.

The yachting prospects for the coming season look
brighter than they have done for many years past.
There is, indeed, quite a yachting mania. The numbers
building and being Americanized exceeds anything
we remember.

Mr. Joseph White has in his yard a new cutter
yacht of 90 tons, for John Grey, Esq., of the
Royal Yacht Squadron.
A schooner of 120 tons, for Sir Percy Shelly.
A brigantine of 120 tons, for the Earl of Mount-
edgecumbe.
A schooner of 130, for a Russian Prince.
A schooner of 100 tons, lengthened at both ends
from the Fennella cutter, originally 47 tons. She is
on the American lines.
Lord Godolphin's yacht, the Coquette schooner, is
having eight feet added to her bow.
The Marquis of Conyngham's yacht, the Constance,
of 225 tons, is being lengthened by the bows 12 feet.
Mr. Michael Ratsey is building in his yard an
American clipper schooner of 100 tons, for Jose h
Gee, Esq., of Hull. She is on the line of theenizfathmepend.
American pilot boat Mary Taylor. is i
ing the Flower of Yarrow 12 feet by the bow for
Lord John Scott, she will be 220 ten, ; and Earl
Fitehardinge's cutter yacht,
Imogene, 8 feet by the
bow.
Mr. Wild is lengthening his
hyacht,act bt
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n 1 agr my
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r2dos
feet by the bow ; indeed, all they
are crammed full of vessels
which are being pushed
on with all possible dispatch.
American builder of the America,
Steers,
iis
constructing
r attwe do
yachts, a cutter, and a
schooner, to shame us with
next season ; he promises that he will be at Cowes with
them by July next.

E„ATA.--in -----
our report of the dinner given to the
Members for
Thom for
s Bradford on Thursday, in line 67 of Colonel
speech, for barker d backer, and line 15
from
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THE AUGMENTATION OF THE ARMY.-The amended
scheme for the augmentation of the army is still an official
secret, but we have good reason to regard the following
statement as substantially correct, and give it accordingly ;
The regiments at home of 750 rank and file are to be in-
creased 100 men each (not 130 as at first intended)-viz.,
Ist Foot (each battalion of the Ist Foot, 100), 4th, 7th, 9th,
14th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 27th, 28th, 31st, 33d, 35th, 38th, 39th,
40th, 46th, 48th, 50th, 52d, 57th, 62d, G3d, 77th, 79th,
81st, 82d, 85th, 88th, 89th, 90th, 93d, and 95th-say 34 at
100 each, 3,400 men ; and the following depots (service com-
panies abroad) are to be also increased to the extent of 100
men each-viz. depots 2d, 3d, 6th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 34th
43d, 54th, 55th, 58th (2d battalion), 60th, 65th, 66th, 68th,
72d, 73d, 74th, 92d, and Ist battalion Rifle Brigade-say
20 at 100 each, 2,000 men; total augmentation, 5,400 men.
On the other hand, it is proposed to reduce the following
depots about 150 men each-viz., depots 26th, 30th. 36th,
41st, 42d, 47th, 49th, 67th, 69th, and 2d battalion Rifle
Brigade-say 10 at 150, decrease 1,509 men; increase about
3,900 men. One or two other depots may be probably re-
duced, but we believe the above is in the main a correct
statement. There will also be an addition to the Artillery,
which will increase the augmentation from about 3,900 to
5,000 infantry, which (after what has been said by the press)
is the maximum number of the increase to be at first pro-
posed to Parliament.
Lord Brougham has arrived in Grafton-street, from
Paris. The Noble and Learned Lord, we are happy
, ,
is considerably improved in health and will resume his Far-
. uamentary duties next week. to state