The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-05 00:00:00

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The Queen had a dinner party on Wednesday at
Buckingham Palace. The company included her Royal
Highness the Duchefs of Kent, the Portuguese Minister,
and the Countess Lavralio, the Marquis of Douro, the
Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess of
Malcae4oury, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Right
Hon. the Spoaker and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, Lord Adol-
phus Fitzclarence, the Right Hon. T. Pemberton L4gh,
Sir Charles Eastlake, and Lieut.-General Brown (Ad-
jutant-Generat.)
The Band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner, and performed the following selection:—
Festlicher Hochzeit's Kirsch Mozart.
Resit. and Aria, "Casilda"
Waltz, "Victoria"
Grand Quartnor,

Sommerlatt.
••• ••• ••• ••• ••
``Gemmibsant sous• lo

jong" (Le Prophe;e)... Meyerbeer.
Aria, Vac ... . . H. Neumann.
Po!ka, " Cerito" Sommerlatt.
Her Majesty's Private Band afterwards attended, and
played the following compositions:—
Overture, " Il Pirate," ... Bellini.
FatAasia, Flute, Mr. Richardson ... Richardson.
Finale, Lit Act "Die lestigen Weiber
von Windsor"

Otto Nieolai.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
attended by the Marchioness 01 Ely, Major-General
Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie, went to Claremont yes-
terday atternoon and ♦isited the Countess de Neuilly and
the French Royal Family.
The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Mar-
chiones of Ely, the Honourable Caroline Cavendish,
L rd Bran, Niajor-General Buckley, and Colonel Bou-
verie honoured the Princess's Theatre with their pre-
sence last evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess R)yal, and the younger members of the Royal
Family, took their usual exercises yesterday in the
garden of Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, left town at eleven o'clock
yesterday morning for her residence, Frogmore, near
Windsor.

Lord Fitzroy Somerset had an interview with the Earl
of Derby yesterday, at his official residence, in Dawning-
street.

A deputation from the Irish Submarine Telegraph
Company, consisting of Lord Erskine (Chairman)
Messrs. H. Bridgeman, G. L. Browne, E. H. Sirr, J.
Billing, and F. P. Hoare (Directors), Mr. C. Weil (En-
gineer), and Mr. L. H. Winek worth (Solicitor), had an
interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord
Colchester yesterday, at the Board of Trade.
Lard Romney had an interview with Mr. Secretary
Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office.
A deputation, consisting of the Hon. R. H. Clive,
M.P., chairman of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham
Haikay Company ; Mr. Knox, director ; and Mr. W.
G. Roy, solicitor—and Mr. Carter, solicitor, and Mr.
Stewart, secretary, on behalf of the London and North-
Western Railway Company—bad an interview with
the night )n. J. W. Hunk), and Lord Colchester,
on Wednesday, at the Railway Department of the Board
of Trade.
The Earl of Glengall had an interview yesterday with
the Chencellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
the Treasury
The Ozerd University Commission had a meeting
Yesterday at the official residence of the Fiat Lord of
Rev. Professor OF Norwich in
wning-street. Present—The Bishop
the the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pem-
broke,the
oGw.eltidadn,cili,thJe.
itLe.vD.
A.
ppi.erS,LatslEely.,
(secretary).
Sir T. Fremantle had an interview with the Right
Hon. J. W. Henley
and,Lord Colchester yesterday, at the
Board of Trade.

RorALVAILSTEAMERS
REP MAJES rrs
coo THE ISLE OF MAN.
Liverpool
of the
F 110.4 LIVERPou4
Captain Gill, the lat®
tzl to the Isle of Man,
Tnwald,
having retired into privatcv:t!fseeris,
mar_
a royal mail steamer from
a successful career
in steamers, the shareholders of
of fifteen years in sailing
the and twenty-two years
eatn-Packet Com-
:any and the public have determined
to present him
IWith a substantial testimonial as a token the estima-
tion in which he is held, and of the high
therlo h4s sbus,itsabineeedb
cabmwobingensteehdisatpLasisveehrgpersi, ancetder whichsub-
scription
and tillnth
towns for that purpose. Upwards of too/. has alreadyer
been
,subscribed for this praiseworthy object, and
is little doubt before the list is closed that a very hand!.
,lorne sum will be realised. Her Majesty, in proceedirg
to Scotland a few p ars ago, passed through the M.nz
S:trai,s and along the coast of the Isle of Man, calling in
Douglas and RAins,,y Bajs. Oa that occasion applica-
tion' was made for a pilot for the royal squadron, and
Captain Gill had the honour of being appointed to con-
duct the royal yachts and the vessels in company. The
port of Liv:rpool has also benefited much by the tier-
vices of Captain
Gill, as he was the discoverer of the
new channel, now called the Victoria Chanel, by which
vess, is can now enter the river Mersey at any state of
the tide.

II v
". A. Roebuck, Esq."
thin leknowledgment of this letter, Mr. Roebuck OPPOSITION TO THE ENROLMENT OF THE MILITIA.
Ile w..
On Wednesday a meeting of inhabitants of Southwark was
ti Ist Wrote to me :
held at the Bridge House Hotel, Wellington-street London-
torwa Y, dear Sir,—Nothing can be more straight' bridge, to adopt measures in opposition to the enrolment' of
than
ttta, more fair, and permit me to say more wise, the militia. ApsaleryofPienlNlraatsti,onEswqa,stoiodk the chair. It was
r I anddi tthhaet
cionunatnry
cuargseedGothvaertnt
4.164,3_40 Course you propose to adopt. I find all my mheeniet had ample means of del%
to ,_: Willing to accede et once to your views, and already in its hands. A petition to Parliamengt, etabodyinyg
[ %ben stews, WAS Willed, and Vac uleotiug separated.
R VO the choice of a second, candidateentirely to
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