The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Melbourne, and
Lord John Russell had audiences yesterday of the Queen.
Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday, attended
by the Baroness Lehzen, Viscountess Forbes, Miss Quen-
tin, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Byron, Right lion. George
Stevens Byng, Colonel Buckley, and Sir Frederick Stovin.
Abraham Van Buren, Esq., eldest son of the Presiden
of the United States, accompanied by hislady and her bro-
ther, Mr. Singleton, were among the passengers recently
arrived in the Great Westerm, and reached London on Sa-

turday last.
Mr. John Van I3uren returns to the United States this
week.
Captain Hobson and Mr. Roebuck had interviews with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Lord Clive, the Right lion. C. Wynn, Sir John Seale,
and Colonel Clive, had interviews with Lord John Russell
yesterday at the Home Office.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne gave a
State Dinner last evening at Lansdowne House to his
Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia,
and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Henry of the
Netherlands. Covers were laid for 26.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester-
day included the Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount Melbourne,
the Ladies Eleanor and Constance Paget, the Right lion.
George Stevens Byng, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and
the Hon. William Cowper.
Her Majesty gave a concert last evening. The grand
saloon was fitted up as a music-room, and the drawing-rooms
leading into the saloon were also opened for the reception
of the company. Refreshments were served in the green
drawing-room during the evening.
The following was the programme of the concert :
PRIMA PARTE.
Duo, " Bel Paese," Signori Tamburini c La-
blache ( Regina di Golgonda) Donizetti.
Duo, " Chiedi all' aura," Madame Persiani e
Signor Rubini (Elisir d'Amore) Donizetti.
Barcarole, " Urea Barchetta in mar," Signor
Tamburini (Gianni da Calais) Donizetti.
Duo, " Con pazienza," Madame Grisi e Signor
Lablacho (II Fanatico) ..
Aria, " Quando it core," Mademoiselle Garcia
(Ines de Castro) Persiani.
Duo, " Un tenero core," Madame Grisi e

Fioravanti.

Signor Rubini (Roberto D'Evreux.) Donizctti.
Aria, " Oh cara memoria," Madame Persiani
( Adele di Lusignano) Carafa.
Quartetto, " A to, o cars," Madame Grisi,
Signori Rubini, 'Famburini, e Lablache (I
Puritani)
SECOND& PARTE.
Aria, " L'Amor sue mi fe beata," Madame
Grisi (Roberto D'Evrcux) Donizetti.
Duo, " 11 Pallor," Madame Persiani e Signor
Tamburini ( Lucia di Lammermoor) Donizetti.
Aria, " A to diro," Signor Rubini (Roberto
D'Evreux) Donizetti.
Duo, " Sappi the un rio," Madame Grisi e
firldlle. Garcia (Bianca e Faliero) Rossini.
Tarantola, " Gia la Luria," Signor Lablache
( Soirees Musicales) Rossini.
Duo, " Sulla Salma," Signor Rubini e Tam-
burini ( Straniera) Bellini.
Cora, Pastorale, " Felice eta," Madame Per-
siani, Mdlle. Garcia, Signori Rubini, Tam-
burini, Lablachc Costa.
Signor Costa presided at the pianoforte.
Among the company were her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, his Imperial

Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, his Royal
Highness Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, Prin-
cess Sophia Matilda, the American Minister and Mrs.
Stevenson, the Danish Minister and Baroness Bionic, the
Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Russian
Ambassador, M. Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Af-
faires ; Mr. John Van Buren, son of the President of
the United States ; Baron Bentinck, Netherlands Charge
d'Affaires ; the Spanish Minister, the Earl and Countess
of Lichfield, Lady Wheatley, the Misses Wheatley, the
Duke of Wellington, Mr. George and the lion. Mrs. An-
son, the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl and Countess of
Rosebery and Lady - Primrose, the Earl and Countess
of Tankerville, Lord Glenelg, Lady A. Fitzclarence, the
lion. Fox and Mrs. Maule, the Earl of Cardigan, Lord
Villiers, Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Baron Knesebeck,
Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Earl of Ilehester, Lord
Stavordalc, Lady Strangways, Lord Adolphus Fitzcla-
rence, Earl of Mansfield, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney,
Earl of Aberdeen, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Lord
and Lady Lilford, Viscountess Forbes, Earl Compton,
Colonel and Mrs. Anson, the Speaker and Hon. Mrs.
Abercromby, Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne,
Lord and Lady Ashley, Earl of Lovelace, Countess of
Sandwich, Earl and Countess Grosvenor, Ladies Grosve-
nor, the Countess and Lady Fanny Cowper, Mr. Vaughan,
Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord Jocelyn, Viscount and
Viscountess Clive, Hon. Miss Herbert, Hon. S. Cowper,
Earl and Countess of Munster, Lord and Lady Gardner,
Lord Folkestone, Earl and Countess Cawdor, Ladies Camp-
bell, Viscount and Viscountess llowick, Lord Melgund, the
Marchioness of Normanby, Lady F. Hastings, lion. Miss
Anson, Lady Harriet Clive, Baroness Lehzen, Miss
Davys, Lord Byron, Colonel Armstrong, Lord Alfred
Paget, Hon. C. A. Murray, Earl and Countess of Surrey,
Lord Fitzalan, Lord Edward Howard, Marquis of Heil-
ford, Lord and Lady Barham, Earl of Belfast, Right
lion. T. Spring Rice, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Earl and
Lady G. Grey, Mr. and Lady C. Barrington, Lady Agnes
Byng, Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, Countess
Dowager of Clare, Lady J. Fitzgibbon, Duke of Argyll,
Countess 'Lavadowsky, Lord and Lady C. Fitzroy,
Marquis of Headfort, Earl and Countess of Harewood,
Lord and Lady Burghersh, Earl and Countess of Zet-
land, Lord and Lady Portman, Earl and Countess of
Dunmore, Marchioness of Tavistock, Earl of Clarendon,
Duke of Norfolk, Lord Carrington, Sir G. Anson,
Duchess of Hamilton, Marquis Douglas, Duchess Dowager
of Richmond, Duchess of Northumberland, Misses Percy,
Colonel Buckley, Sir F. Stovin, lion. C. and Lody
Catherine Cavendish and Misses Cavendish, Hon. Mr.
Clive, Viscount Torrington, Count Orloff, Bishop of Peter-
borough and Mrs. Davys, Earl and Countess of Albemarle,
Mrs. B. Paget and Miss Paget, Earl Delawarr, Earl and
Countess of Wilton, Lady C. Underwood, Sir S. Higgins,
Col. Wemyss, Lord Eastnor, Earl and Countess of Erroll,
Lady A. Hay, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cottenham,
Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Earl and Countess
of Charleville, Count C. and Countess Pozzo di Borgo,
Madlle. D'Este, Earl and Countess of Radnor, Lord and
Lady Stuart de Rothesay, Miss Stuart, Duke and Duchess
of Roxburghe, Lord Saltoun, Lord Emlyn, Duke and
Duchess of Richmond, Lady C. Gordon Lennox, Earl of
March, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord Radstock, Earl and
Countess Minto, Lady F. Elliott, Marquis of Anglesey,
Lord Morpeth, Lord George Paget, Lord and Lady
Cowley, Honourable Miss Wellesley, Lady Adelaide
Paget, Earl Sandwich, Marchioness Dowager Conyng-
ham, Sir \V. and. Lady Maria Somerville,
Earl of Fingall, Duke of Dorset, Sir Hussey and
Lady Vivian, Archbishop of York, Miss Vernon Harcourt,
Viscount Palmerston, Lady Byron, Mr. and the Hon.
Mrs. Coulson, Dowager Lady Cawdor, Earl and Countess
of Durham, Lady Lambton, Earl and Countess Craven,
Countess Manvers, Lady M. Pierrepont, the Ladies
Fitzwilliam, Lord and Lady Vernon, Lord Ossulston,
Hon. Charles Gore, Sir James Clark, Sir John Hob-
house, Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. Rich, M. P., Earl and
Countess de Grey, Lord Leveson, Earl and Countess
Cowper, Lord Hill, Marquis of Tavistock, Countess
Euston arid Lady Fitzroy, Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyt-
tleton, Lord Fitzharris, Viscountess Falkland, Lady How-
den, Colonel Caradoc, Right lion. 11. Labouchere, Hon.
Mr. Fitzwilliam.
Supper was served between the parts, and at the close
of the concert, in the dining-room.