The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the
Viscountess Canning, Lord Byron, Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, Sir Edward Bowater, Lieutenant-
Colonel Biddulpb, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey,
and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, left
Windsor Castle at five minutes past twelve o'clock
yesterday, for the station of the Great Western
Railway in Windsor, where a guard of honour of the
Grenadier Guards was on duty with the band of the
regiment.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness left by a
special train, and on arriving at the Paddington ter-
minus proceeded to Buckingham Palace. The illus-
trious party occupied three of the Royal carriages,
and was escorted by a detachment of the Bth Hussars
to the Palace, where they arrived at six minutes be-
fore one o'clock. The Queen and Prince Albert were
received at Buckingham Palace by the Master of the
Horse, the Lord Chamberlain, the Vice-Chamberlain,
Lord George Lennox, and Colonel Wylde.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, attended by Viscountess Canning, Lord Byron,
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, honoured the Princess's
Theatre with their presence last evening.
Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey has relieved Lord
Alfred Paget in his duties as Equerry-in-Waiting to
the Queen.-

Dispatches from the Governors of the North Ame-
rican provinces were received at the Colonial-office
yesterday. Dispatches were also received from the
Governor of Malta.

POLITICAL BANQUETS.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, as President of the
Council, gave a grand Ministerial banquet last evening
at Lansdowne House, to a distinguished circle of Peers,
supporters of the present Government. Covers were laid
for forty in the state dining-room. The guests were the
Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Bedford, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Marquis of Bread-
albsne, the Marquis of Westminster, the Marquis of
Normanby, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Car-
lisle, the Earl of Craven, the Earl Grey, the Earl of
Yarborough, the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Bess-
borough, the Earl of Strafford, the Earl of Zetland, the
Earl Minto, the Earl Granville, the Earl Fitzhardinge,
the Earl Bruce, the Earl Waldegrave, Lord Camoys,
Lord Elphinstone, Lord Hatherton, Lord Mont-
eagle, Lord Foley, Lord De Manley, Lord Col-
borne, Lord Carrington, Lord Beaumont, Lord
Portman' Lord Lilford, Lord Erskine, Lord
Saye and Sole, Lord Cremorne, Lord Wodehouse, and
Lord Leigh. The Noble Marquis was assisted in the
honours of the table by his son, the Earl of Shelburne,
and his son-in-law, the Hon. J. K. Howard. After
dinner her Majesty's gracious speech on the opening of
the session of Parliament was read by the Noble Pre-
sident to his assembled guests. We are sorry to say that
Lord Lansdowne was suffering severely during the even-
ing from an attack of gout which came on a day or two
since, and which prevented the Noble Marquis from at-
tending the Privy Council at Buckingham Palace yes-
terday.

Lord John Russell gave a full dress Parliamentary
dinner party last evening at his official residence, Down-
ing-street, to the following distinguished circle:—The
Right Hon. tho Speaker, Sir R. William Bulkeley and
Mr. Bonham Carter (the mover and seconder of the ad-
dress), Lord Seymour, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Marcus
Hill, Lord Edward Howard, the Right Hon. Sir G.
Grey, the Right Hon. VV. G. Hayter, the Right Hon.
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere,
the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. M.
T. Baines, the Right Hoe. Sir William Somerville, the
Right Hon. Sir David Dundee, Hon. E. Bouverie, Hon.
W. Cowper, Hon. General Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel
Hon. Robert Boyle, the Attorney-General, the Lord
Advocate of Scotland, the Solicitor• Genera/, the At •
torney-General for Ireland, Admiral Berkeley, iSir W.
Gibson Craig, Mr. Frederick Peel, Mr. Bellow, Mr.
Rich, Mr. C. Cornewall Lewis, Mr. T. Elliot, Mr. James
Wilson, Mr. Parker, and Mr. R. W. Grey.
The Earl of Derby entertained a distinguished party
of Peers last evening, at his mansion in St. James's-
equate'. The guests were confined to Opposition Mem-
bers of the Upper House, and among those present
were the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Beaufort,
the Duke of Montrose, the Duke of Northumber-
land, the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis of Exeter,
the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Eglinton,
the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Lonadale, the
y, the Earl of Lucan, the Earl of
tahlelesb
Earl of Wilton, the Earl Talbot, the Earl
oke, the Earl of Winchilsea, the Earl of Glen-
gall,ofSandwich,
the Earl of Enniskillen, the Earl Delawarr, the
Earl of Hardwicke,- Viscount Combermere, Viscount
Strangford, Lord do RO9, Lord Redesdale, Lord South--
ampton, Lord Colchester, and Lord Saltoun. Lord
Lyndhurst, the Earl of Desert, and two or three other
peers were prevented attending by indisposition. The
Noble Earl's table presented a munificent display of
gold and silver plate. In the middle was a superb gold
centre piece, presented to his Lordship's father, as Lord-
Lieutenant of Lancashire, by the deputy lieutenants of
that county, and upon the table were three beautiful
pieces of racing plate won at goodwood and Doncaster
by the gallant Canezou. A desert service of the most
superb description, manufactured by Messrs. Daniell, of
New Bond street, and purchased out of the Groat Exhi-
bition by Lord Derby, was used on this occasion for the
drat time and very greatly admired. There will be a great
meeting of commoners—members of the Noble Earl 'a
party—at his mansion this morning (Tuesday).

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DEATH OF AIMS ANNIE ROMER.
We announce with sincere regret the very sudden and
untimely death of a young dramatic artist and vocalist—
one of the members of a family celebrated for their
musical talents—and who has been for some fears back
a rising public favourite both in London and in the pro-
vinces—Miss Annie Romer. The lamented young lady
in question was a pupil of the Royal Academy of Music,
and gave early and unmistakeable signs of future emi-
nence. Her voice was a pure and fresh soprano of
large compass and finely
sympathetic powers, and an
early appearance upon the stage showed that Miss A.
Romer possessed dramatic talents of a decided cha-
racter. During an engagement at the Princess's Theatre,
in Mr. Maddox's operatic management, Miss A. Romer
made a very favourable and prominent impression,
the sweet and pure qualities of her voice and the simple
naiveté of her style being equally noticeable. Her dra-
matic talents attracting the attention of Mr. Macready,
she more than once sustained the female parts at per-
formances at the country residence of Sir Bulwer Lyt-
ton, and when the amateur performances were got up
for the Shakvere-house Fund, Miss A. Romer filled
the principal female character. "Thou Mr. Webster
getting together his present operatic. company, she was
a member, but afterwards accepted a more prominent
engagement at the Surrey during its recent successful
musical campaign, where one of her last characters was
that of the Princess in The Huguenots. Miss Annie
Romer—we have retained her stage appellation—had
clever
nmarried not above a twelvemonth to Mr. William
Brougb, the elder of the brothers whose exceedingly
burlesques have rendered their names so well
known.

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Tan NEW SECRETARY AT WAIL—We are enabled
to announce that the Right Hon. Robert Vernon Smith has
been appointed Secretary at War, in the room of the Hon.
Fox:Maule, appointed President of the Board of Trade. Mr.
Smith is representative for Southampton. He was a Lord of
the Treasury from November, 1833, to November, 1834; was
Secretary to the Board of Control from April, 1835 to 1839,
and was Under Secretary to the Colonies from 1839 to 1841.
—Herald.

generally reported and
THE NEW JoDoz.—lt was
accredited in Westminster-hall yesterday afternoon, that Mr.
Crompton, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed to
succeed Mr. Justice Patteson in the Court of Queen's Bench
and ,
was sworn in a Privy Councillor yesterday. Mr.
Crompton vacates the jndgeship of the Passage Court, at
Liverpool, which he has for some time filled to the satisfac-
tion of the suitors.
Mr. Justice Patteson was only a " stuff
gown" at the time
edor,totothoseeßaenlcohg,alatnedrmit,
is worthy of remark t
has not " taken silk."
thhatathheiswssos
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es of Leeds to prepare for the
taken by the Liberal burgess
REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS..— Steps are being
and up to the present time those
wards to select candidates,
anticipated dissolution. Meetings have been held in the
likely to be put in nomination are Mr. J. G. Marshall, one
of the present members, and Mr. Joseph Sturge, of Birming-
ham, the rejected candidate of last election. The Conserva-
tives, on the other hand do not appear disposed to yield
their position without a struggle, and it is confidently stated
in some quarters that they will not only bring forward )Ir.
W. Beckett, the present Conservative Member, but unite
with him Mr. John Gott, one of the most esteemed and re-
spectable manufacturers and merchants in Yorkshire.
A DISGRACEFUL CIRCUMSTANCE,—A abort time
ago, we are informed, a poor woman named Jackson was de-
livered of a still-born child at NV haplode Drove. The clergy-
man demanded 9s. 2d. fees, and the sexton Is. 6d., for the
interment of the same. The poor man was not able to
rase this amount; so at midnight he interred his child in a
recently made grave. The circumstance being made known,
the sexton, with his iron " grave-taster," proceeded to search
for the morsel of humanity : he found it, took it up, and it
was placed for one night in a closet in the churchyard.
Afterwards the child was taken and placed before the poor
man's door, accompanied with a most unchristian note. The,
child had been interred about eight weeks I—Stamford
Mercury.