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

THE QUEEN'S COURT.
(FROM THE COURT NEWSMAN).
The Queen held a Court at twelve o'clock yester-
day at Buckingbarn Palace.
The Earl of Carlisle had an audience of her Ma-
jesty. and resigned his seal of office as Chancellor of
the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster.
The Right Hon. R.A. Christopher had an audience
of 11,r Majesty, and was sworn in Chancellor of the
Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster, receiving
from her Majesty the seal of office. '
Mr. Danvers, Clerk of the Council and Registrar
of the Duchy Court of Lancaster, attended the cere•
monv.
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Lord Foley had audience of the Queen, and re-
signed his gold stick of office as Captain of the lion.
Corps.of 'Gentlemen at Arms.
The Earl of Sandwich had an audience of the
Queen, end received from her Majesty his gold stick
of cffiae as Captain of her Majesty's lion. Corps of
Gentl( men at Arms.

The Queen was attended by Lord Elphinstone,
Lord in Waiting, and 111,ijor General Berkeley
Drummond, Groom in Waiting.

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary arrived in town at two o'clock
yesterdays afternoon from hew, to pay a visit to tho.
Queen. Their Royal Highnesses went to Bucking-
ham Pelaces, and plrtook of luncheon with her Ma-
jesty and, Prince Albert. At three o'clock the Duchess
and Princess Mary took their departure, returning to
,Tier 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
o'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, rd.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. M.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Bow-
ring (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 Majesty bad a dinner party yesterday at
Buckingham Palace. The company included her
Royal Highness the Duehess 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,
Ladv 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 Weib:r
von W indsor... 11/4; icolai.
Glee—" Mynheer Van Dunck". . Sir H. R. Bishop.
Waltz--" Alexander"
Potpourri.—" Lucrezia Borgia" .. Donizetti.
Polka—" Hamburg" . Leutner.
Ballet aus der opera " Rienzi" Wagner.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Friday
next at BuckingbamTalace. 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
llon. Sir J. Pakingtor, 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
Oolche!ter 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 rent yesterday to the Governors
of the .West India islands, and.to the Governor of New
Zeeland.

THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE
EXCHEQUER AND HIS CONSTITUEN N.
The Right lion. B. Disraeli has just published
the following address to the electors of the county
of Buckingham : •
Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been graciously
pleased to call me to her Majesty's Privy Council, and
appoint me Chancellor of the Exchequer, I resign into
your hatids, according to the salutary 'principle of the
Constitution, that office 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 I2th instant, in our county hall, I shall again ven-
ture to claim your suffrages 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 tbo obvious difficulties of our posi-
tion, we have felt thst to shrink from encountering them
would he 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 ; but, at no distant period, we loie,
with the concurrerce of the country, to establish a
policy in conformity with the principles which in oppo-
sition we bare felt it our duty to maintain.
"We shall endeavour to terminate that strife of
classss which, of late years, has exercised so pernicious
an influence over the welfare of this kingdom; to ac•
complish those remedial measures which great produc-
tive interests, 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 inorease
the effi2iency, 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,
61 London, March 111852: " B. DISRAELI."

BRITISH PREMIERS.
The following is a list of British Premiers during the
last hundred years:—
Appointed. Time in office.
Yrs. Days.
1754, April 5 Duke of Newcastle
1762, May 29 Earl of Bute
1763, April 16 G. Grenville
1705, July 12 Marquis of Rockingham 3
1 21
1766, Aug. 2 Duke of Grafton.
1770, Jan. 28 Lord North
1782, March 3 Marquis of Rockingham 0 132
1722, July 13 Earl of Shelburne .. .
1783, April 5 Duke of Portland 0 260
1783, Dec. 27 William Pitt ,17 80
1801), March 17 Lord Sidmouth
1804, May 12 William Pitt 1 ' 246
1806, Jan. 8 Lord Grenvill© l,, 64
1807, March 13 Duke of Portland
1810, June 28 Spencer Percival
307
350
1812, June 8 Earl of Liverpool ....... .. 14 121
4
1827, April 11 George Canning ••..•"". 0 13
1827, Aug. 10 Lord Goderich ........... . 0
2 301
1828, Jan. 25 Duke of Wellington
1830, Nov. 22 Earl Grey
1834, July 11 Lord Melbourne ..
1834, Nov. 16 Duke of Wellington . .
1834, Dec. 8 Sir Robert Peel 0 131
.1835, April 18 Lord Melbourne .. 6 138
1841, Sept. 3 Sir R9bert Peel
1845, D.c. 10 Lord John Russell
1845, Dec. 20 Sir Robert Peel
1846, Juno 26 Lord John Russell . 5 239
. ..........
185° Feb. 22 Earl of Derby .......•• • •
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A SON.—At a imeting
TZ'
• Ii.OSSUT ii PRESENTED IPI,
leder from the wife of a clergyman
say to
in Ohio the following
was handed to Governor Kossuth
redemptiothne "Honoured Sir,—Permit me, a humble lady, to
you that, f the
in view ° • . and
of Hungary,
.ahieve
through
your democratic exertionn„
id to oaring
neither silver no
NS preSent you with as a a 4. 1
deem it a 'duty, connected liti' a Privilege t nlent, I
with my sov, -who is dearer to my a • , 0 preunt you
silver or gold ;and, on the
anxious heart S. -
day in which liberty, ir, than
proclaimed to Hungary, to have my
Kossuth, now near eleven months old, grandson Hannon
his little hat in honour to God 81 trained as to raise
and
liberty
"MRs. P *
- - -‘Ey• J. T. DoNAntrE."

...New York Herold.
AN 'non ExcusE.—An Irish piper, who now and
then indulged in a glass too much, was accosted by I
Vase
Irian with—" Pat, what makes your face so red?' "gentle
yet honour," said Pat, " I always blush when I *aka to a
gentleman."