The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne and Lord Hill, had audiences yes-
terday of her Majesty.
The Queen left town in an open carriage and four,
with outriders, at twenty minutes past four o'clock yester-
day afternoon, for Windsor Castle. In the carriage with
her Majesty were, her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen. Three of
the Royal carriages and four followed, containing Lady
Lyttleton, Lady Flora Hastings, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon.
Miss Spring Rice, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Baroness
Lehzen, Earl of Fingal], Hon. Major Keppel, and
Colonel Buckley.
The Earl of Belfast, Vice Chamberlain, conducted the
Queen to her carriage, and on her Majesty quitting the
Palace, the Royal Standard was lowered from the marble
arch. A party of Light Dragoons escorted the Queen.
Her Majesty had a large dinner party yesterday, at
Windsor Castle. The Company expected were her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Imperial
Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, his Royal
Highness Prince Frederick Henry, of the Netherlands ;
their Serene Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Lei-
ningen, the Russian Ambassador, the Netherlands Charge
d'Affaires, Count Orloff, Duke of Agyll, Earl and Coun-
tess of Uxbridge, Ladies Eleanore and Constance Paget,
Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Errol, Dowager Countess and
Lady Frances Cowper, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount
Torrington, Count and Countess Woronzow, Countess
Pototska, Prince Bariatinsky, Prince Dolgorouky, Hon.
Henrietta Anson, Hon. Miss Lvttelton, Lord Charles
Fitzroy, Hon. Colonel and Miss 'Cavendish, Lady Lyt-
telton, Lady Flora Hastings, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss
Spring Rice, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Baroness
Lehzen, Baron de Lieven, General Kaveline, M. De
Tolstoy, M. Adlerberg, M. Joukovsky, M. Youviewitch, M.
de Patkul, Captain Arriens, Earl of Fingall, Hon. C. A.
Murray, Hon. Major Koppel, and Col. Buckley.
The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Augusta, the
Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, v'sited her Majesty, the Queen
Dowager, yesterday, at Marlborough House.
The Princess Augusta, and the Ducheßs of Gloucester,
visited the Adult Orphan Asylum yesterday.
The Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princesses Au-
gusta arid Mary of Cambridge, attended by Miss Kerr and
Baron Knesebeck, left town yesterday for their residence
at Kew.

The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia visited the
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House.
His Imperial Highness, accompanied by his Royal High-
ness Prince Frederick Henry of the Netherlands, and
~ttended by Viscount Torrington, and the Counts Orloff,
Kinsky, Zavadowsky, and Dulgorouky, did Mr. George
Hayter the honour to visit his studio on Sa-
turday, to see hfs portrait of her Majesty in the Im-
perial Dalmatic robes ; also the state portrait of her Ma-
jesty, painted by command for the City of London, and
his great pictures of the Coronation, and the House of
Commons in 1833.

The Duke of Cambridge visited the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Russia yesterday at Mivart's Hotel.
The Rev. Mr. Cunningham had an interview with the
Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Despatches from Major-General Napier, Governor of
the Cape of Good Hope, and also from the Governor of
Newfoundland, were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office.

PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE. The
Acheron steamer arrived at Malta on the 30th ult., with
his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and
suite, from Gibraltar. His Royal Highness was saluted by
all the squadron, aud, on his landing, by Fort St. Angelo.
His Royal Highness, on landing at Marina, was received
by the Governor and staff, and a guard of honour of the
59th Regiment. His Royal Highness rode on horseback
to the Palace, where be was received by another guard of
honour of the the 47th Regiment, with the usual military
honours.—Hampshire Telegraph.
FASHIONABLE PARTIES.—The Marquis and
Marchioness of Thomond entertained a distinguished party
at their residence in Belgrave-square, on Saturday last.
Lord and Lady Rolle had a large party to dinner, on Sa-
turday evening, at their mansion, in Upper Grosvenor-
street. Colonel and Lady Susan North had a select din-
ner party, on Saturday, at their elegant residence, in Ar-
lington-street. The Earl and Countess of Verulam bad a
dinner party, on Saturday, in Grosvenor-square.
Lord Morpeth intends to give a fete of peculiar
splendour on the 22d of next month, at Chiswick, the seat
of his Lordship's uncle, the Duke of Devonshire.
The Marquis of Ely purchased at Covent-garden
Market, on Saturday, a single bundle of asparagus of the
usual number of heads, but weighing 461b5., for 403.
Mr. Rayner, who built the Strand Theatre, is the
most likely person to become the lessee of Drury-lane, that
gentleman having made proposals, and offered such secu-
rity as may prove satisfactory to the Committee.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The introduc-
tion on the stage of Pauline Garcia who on Saturday
again enacted the part of Desdemona, reflects honour
on that management. Her " Assisa a pie d'un salice" was
encored, and, on the curtain dropping, she was called for-
ward to share with Rubini the acclamations of the audience.
The next opera in which Mdlle. Garcia is to perform is
Rossini's Cenerentola, and next will probably succeed.Ninc
a part for which she is said to have prepared herself by re-
peated visits to the melancholy inmates of the Charenton
asylum. The Queen and the Duchess of Kent honoured
the opera with their presence, and occasionally con-
descended to testify their approbation of the evening's
performance.
MARRIAGE OF MISS BRAHAM WITH MR.
WALDEGRAVE —This marriage, which has been talked of
for some time in various circles, was celebrated on Satur-
day at the Brompton new church in presence of a numerous
company of the relatives and friends of the parties. The
church, and the immediate even es leading to it, were
crowded with spectatators, anxious to catch a glimpse of
the bride and bridegroom. Attor the ceilemony the newly
married pair and their friends returned to the Grange, the
residence of Mr. Braham, where a most sumptuous repast
was provided. The whole lower suite of apartments of the
house were thrown open to the guests, and to increase
the pleasures of the occasion several eminent vocalists
contributed their talents, relieved at intervals by the per-
formance of a quadrille band. The company were in num-
ber about 200, amongst them were Lord Waldegrave, the
bridegroom's brother, Lord Burghersh, Lady Winterton,
Sir Burrowes Camac, &c. The Duke of Sussex sent a
letter, excusing his unavoidable absence, and congratulating
Mr. Braham on the marriage of his daughter. The bride
and bridegroom, after receiving the congratulations of their
friends and partaking of the dejeune, d. parted in a new tra-
velling chariot with four gray horses to Brighton. Part of
the company left at the same time, whilst part remained
for some hours afterwards to enjoy the pleasures of the day.
THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD'S GRAND
PARTY.-The above Noble Marquis rice a grand enter-
tainment to his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alex-
ander of Russia. A distinguished circle was invited to
meet the Illustrious Prince. After dinner there was a
grand ball, at which his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke of Russia, Prince William Henry of the Netherlands,
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, and Duchess of Glouchester, Duke of Wellington,
Marquis of Salisbury, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Countess of Albemarle,
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl and Countess of Ches-
terfield, Earl and Cotr)tesi of Wilton, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Downshirc, Lady Charlotte Hill, Lord and
Lady Lyndhurst, Earl and Countess De Lawarr, Lord
Cantilupe, Lord and Lady Powerscourt, Count and
Countess Charles Pozzo di Borgo, Count Revel, Baron
Bourqueney, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lady E. West, and
Countess Miniver', Lady M. Pierrepont, Earl and Countess
of Verulam, Lady Mary Grimston, Lord Grimston, Earl
and Countess Bruce, Earl and Countess Kinnoul, Dowager
Countess of Pembroke, Lady Emma Herbert, Lord and
Lady Jemima Eliot, Sir John and Lady Shelley, Sir Fre-
derick Trench, Lady Cowley, Hon. Miss Wellesley, Sir
Charles and Lady Bagot, Misses Bagot, Dowager Coun-
tess Cowper, Lady Frances Cowper, Count and Countess
Woronzow, Countess Choiseul, Lord Castlereagh, Lord
Jocelyn, Lord Leveson, Hon. W. B. and Lady Harriet
Baring, Earl and Countess Falmouth, Countess and Lady
Wilhelmina Stanhope, Lord and Lady Brougham, Lord
and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. Miss Somerset, Earl of
Cardigan, Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay, Hon. Miss
Stuart, Countess of Radnor, Lady Bouverie, Lord Shel-
burne, Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, Lady Anna Lof-
tus, Lord Ossulston, Baron Munchausen, Earl of Aber-
deen, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge, Marquis of
Anglesey, Sir John and Lady Anne Beckett, Miss Bec-
kett, Lord Hill, Lady Augusta Somerset, &c., were among
the company.

MANUFACTURING ENTERPRIZE.-it affords
us sincere gratification to observe a spirit of manufacturing
and commercial enterprize—not in Newcastle merely,
but in the neighbouring towns. In Morpeth it is in agita-
tion to establish an extensive woollen manufactory, and,
from the facilities which are presented in that locality for
prosecuting the trade, we think the experiment is very
likely to be successful. A prospectus has just been is-
sued for raising the necessary capital in shares as a
Joint Stock Company ; the amount proposed is 30,0001.,
in shares of 201. each. A similar project is, we are glad to
hear, entertained at Stockton ; and as it is in the hands of
respectable parties, we think there is no reason to fear
that it will be speedily carried into effect.— Tyne Mercury.
THE CHARTIST MEETINGS.-The Chartist
meetings, which it was held out, would this week " fright
the isle from its propriety," have so far passed over quietly ;
and if any reliance can b• placed on the newspaper calcu-
lations of numbers, there has been a great falling off in
their anticipated magnitude. At Carlisle the tone of the
speakers was greatly subdued—the delegates spoke RS if
turned into reasonable men by some recent spefl---al ray s
excepting alr. George Julian Harney, a gentleman who i,
evidently in want of the sympathy and care of friends.
Carlisle Jonrnal.

EVENING EDITION.

LITERATURE.

BISHOP GOODMAN'S HISTORY OF HIS

OWN TIMES. 2 Vor.s.
Bentley, London, 1839.
From the title of this work we were prepared to expect
much curious, and, perhaps, some valuable information
respecting the times of Queen Elizabeth, and James the
First, to which the volumes almost exclusively refer.
We have, however, in some degree, been disappointed
in our expectations, for the Bishop, who is an incom-
parable twaddler, adds little more than the " widow's
mite" to the stock of information we already have re-
specting good Queen Bess's " golden days." Some
gossip, indeed, there is about the origin and proximate
cause of the Gunpowder Plot, but it throws no new
light on the subject, dealing much more in hypothesis
that fact. The most acceptable portion of the work is
that which is devoted to the delineation of character,
such as those of Queen Elizabeth, Lord Salisbury, and
the Duke of Buckingham, wherein the author displays
considerable tact, and grace of manner. He was born
in the year 1583, was raised to the Bishopric of Glou-
cester in 1625, lived in obscurity in Westminster durirg
the great rebellion, at which period it is supposed that
he composed these memoirs, and died in 1655, having
borne, throughout his career, the character of an inge•
nious, upright, inoffensive man.

FAIR ROSAMOND. 3 VoLs.
album, London, 1839.

Fair Rosamond is the production of Mr. Miller, a
writer of great natural ability, and who has the rare
merit of having won his way to popularity under the
most adverse and blighting circumstances, with no
other help than that afforded by a manly thirst for dis-
tinction ; and a cheerful, healthy nature. His present
tale is not, on the whole, so interesting as " Royston
Gower ;" still it contains scenes wrought up with great
effect. Among which we may mention the visit of the
stern infuriated Queen Eleanor to Rosamond's laby-
rinth at Woodstock, whom she compels in her presence,
to drink off a goblet of quick and subtle poison. Mr.
Miller's language is generally remarkable for its grace
and fluency.

POETRY OF THE PENTATEUCH. 2 Vols.
Churton, London, 1839.

Considerable time and labour have been bestowed on
this work, and they have not been bestowed in vain.
Mr. Caunter, the author, has pointed out, and insisted
on, the poetical beauties of the Pentateuch, with a
fervor, an elegance, and a discrimination worthy of
the highest praise. That his task has been a " labour of
love," is evident in every page ; and we think we maY
venture to assure him that the most refined and re-
flective of his readers will derive as much pleasure
from the perusal, as he did from the composition, of
his volumes. In a discreet and modest preface, al'
luding to the authorised translation of the Bible, 11Ir.
Caunter justly observes, " I have generally adhered
to the reading of our venerable version, and have
maintained with my best endeavours its truly extra-
ordinary and almost undeviatiug integrity. Upon the
whole I am convinced it will never be surpassed,
most probably never equalled." The most eloquent
and effective, though not perhaps the most critical 00
learned, chapter of Mr. Caunter's work, is that wherein
he speaks of the effects of poetry upon the mind and
heart, and its peculiar adaptation to sacred subjects.