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

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal llighnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary arrived in town at two o'clock
yesterday afternoon from Kew, to pay a visit to the
Queen. Their Royal Highnesses went to Bucking.
ham Palace, and partook of luncheon with her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert. At three o'clock the Duchess
and Princess Mary took their departure, returning to
Kew.
Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, and
attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe and
Major General Buckley, visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday afternoon at
Gloucester House.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yester-
day afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibition of 1851. His Royal Highness
arrived at the Palace of Westminster about three
&clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
The other Royal Commissioners present were Earl
Granville, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, M.P., the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Sir Richard
Westmacott, Sir Charles Barry, Sir William Cubitt,
Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr.
Bazley, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, Mr. Pusey,
M.P., Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P., Mr. John Shepherd,
and Mr. Alderman, Thompson, M.P.
Mr. Scott Russell and Mr. Edgar Bowring, Secre-
taries to the Royal Commission, attended.
Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr. Cole, and Mr. Dilke were
present.
The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock.
Previous to the meeting of the Commission, the
Finance Committee held a meeting at the Palace of
Westminster, at half-past one o'clock. There were
present Earl Granville, the Right Hon. H. Labou-
chere, Sir Alexander Spearman, Sir William Cubitt,
Mr. Baring. 1V1.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Bow-
ling (secretary.)
Mr. Cole, Mr. Dilke, and Mr. Carpenter attended.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princesses Helena and Louisa, and
Prince Arthur, took their accustomed exercise yes-
terday in the grounds of Buckingham Palace.
Her Mttjesty had a dinner party yesterday at
Buckingham Palace. The company included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland, his Excellency the
American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, his Excel-
lency the Marquis d'Azeglio, the Marquis of Exeter,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Hardwicke,
and Mr. Hallam.
The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and performed the following se-
lection :

Overture—" Die lustigen Weiber
von Wind50r........ Nicolai.
Glee—" Mynheer Van Dunck".. Sir H.R.Bishop
Waltz—" Alexander"

Potpourri—" Lucrezia Borgia" .. Donrzetti.
Polka—" Hamburg"
Ballet aus der opera " Rienzi" .. Wagner.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Friday
next at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were issued
yesterday to the Ministers and Officers of State from
the Privy Council-office.
Major• General Buckley has relieved Colonel the
Hon. Charles Grey in his duties as Equerry in
Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has re-
lieved Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordonin his
duties as Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, visited their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Prin-
cess Mary.yesterday at Kew.
Mr. Hume, M.P., had an interview with the Right
Hon. Sir J. Pakington, yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

Mr. John Macgregor, M.P., bad an interview with
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, at the Board of Trade,
yesterday.
Mr. Rumbold, M.P., had an interview with Lord
Colchester yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday from the Governors of the North American
provinces.
Dispatches were sent yesterday to the Governors
of the West India islands, and to the Governor of New
Zealand.

THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli has just published
the following address to the electors of the county
of Buckingham

" Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been graciously
pleasrd to call me to her Majesty's Privy Council, and
appoint me Chancellor of the Exchequer, I resign into
your hands, according to the salutary principle of the
Constitution, that
offi ea which you intrusted •to me as
your representative in the House of Commons. But as
I will not believe that the favour of our Sovereign can
be any disqualification for the confidence of her Ma-
jesty's loyal subjects, I have the honour to state that on
the 12th instant, in our county hall, I shall again ven-
ture to claim your soff.ages for the high distinction of
being your Member in the House of Commons.
The late Administration fell to pieces from internal
dissension, and not from the assault of their opponents ;
and notwithstanding the obvious difficulties of our posi-
tion, we have felt that to shrink from encountering them
would be to leave the country without a Government,
and her Majesty without servants. Our first duty will
be to provide for the ordinary and current exigencies
of the public service ; hut, at no distant period, we boo),
with the concurrence of the country, to. establish a
po'icy in conformity with the principles which in oppo-
sition we have felt it our duty to maintain.
" We shall endeavour to terizinata that strife of
class( a which, of late years. iia,s exercised so pernicious
an influence over the welfare of this kingdom; to ac-
complish those remedial measures which great produc-
tive interest), suffering from unequal taxation, have a
right to demand from a just Government; to cultivate
friendly relations with all foreign Powers and secure
honourable peace ; to uphold in their spirit, as well as
in their form, our political institutions; and to increase
the effe7iency, as well as maintain the rights, of our na-
tional and Protestant Church.

" An Administration formed with these objects, and
favourable to progressive improvement in every depart-
ment of the State, is one which, we hope, may obtain
the support and command the confidence of the commu-
nity, whose sympathies are the best foundation for a
strong Administration, while they are the best security
for a mild government.
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obliged and faithful servant,
" London, March 1, 1852. " 13. DISRAELI."

BRITISH PREMIERS.
The following is a li3t of British Premiers during the
ast hundred years:—
Appointed.

Time in office.
Yrs. Days.
.54, April 5 Duke of Newcastle
762, May 29 Earl of Bute
763, April 16 G. Grenville
765, July 12 Marquis of Rockingham 1 21
766, Aug. 2 Dake of Grafton
770, Jar. 28 Lord North
,782, March 3 Marquis bf Rockingham 0 132
1782, July 13 Earl of Shelburne 0 266
1783, April 5 Duke of Portland 0 260
1783, Dec. 27 William Pitt
1801, March 17 Lord Sidmouth 3 56
1804, May 12 William Pitt 1 246
1806, Jan. 8 Lord Grenville
1807, March 13 Duke of Portland
1810, June 28 Spencer Percival
1812, Jane 8 Earl of Liverpool ... .
07
1827, April 11 George Canning
1827, Aug. 10 Lord Goderich
1828, Jan. 25 Duke of Wellington ...••• 2 301
1830, Nov. 22 Earl Grey
1834, July 11 Lord Melbourne .. ••• ••
0 128
1834, Nov. 16 Duke of Wellington 0 22
1834, Dec. 8 Sir Robert Peel 0 131
13
1835, April 18 Lord Melbourne
1841, Sept. 3 Sir Robert Peel
1845, Dec. 10 Lord John Russell
1845, Dec. 20 Sir Robert Peel
1846, June 26 Lord John Russell
1852, Feb. 22 Earl of Derby
—.........----.--

KOSSUTH P9.ESENTED WITH A SON.—At II meeting
in Ohio the following letter from the wife of a clergyman
was banded to Governor
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your democratic exertions, and having. neither silver nor gold
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who is dearer to my anxious heart,p
deem it a duty, connee a itti a privilege, to
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with my son.
and, on the day • than
silver or gold ;
to have: in which liberty shall be
proclaimed to Hungary, my
grandso
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Kossuth, non Harmon
his little bat in honour to God and liberty.
so trained as to r • alse
"?this.
- ' Ruv. J. T. DoNmit:,L . "

__New York Herald.
AN Irusu EXCUSE.—An Irish piper, who now and
,bon indulged in a glass too much, was accosted by
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