The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The infant daughter of Lord and the late Lady John
Russell was christened yesterday in Buckingham Palace,
by the Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, her Majesty stand-
ing sponsor. The ceremony was performed in the saloon,
in the presence of her Majesty, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, Lord John Russell, Marchioness of
Lansdowne, Eirl Spencer, Lady Georgiana Russell, Hon.
Miss Lister, Mr. and Lady Theresa Lister, Marchioness
of Normanby, Lady Flora Hastings, Hon. Miss Anson,
Miss Davys, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord
Byron, and Hon. C. A. Murray.
The font, of silver gilt, formerly belonged to George 111.
A dejeuner was afterwards served, to which all present
at the ceremony remained, except Lord Johu Russell.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Queen.
Lady Portman has succeeded the Marchioness of Nor-
manby as the Lady in waiting on the Queen. Sir Robert
Otway has succeeded Colonel Armstrong as the Groom in
waiting on her Majesty.
The American Minister, Lord Talbot, Lord Clive, Lord
Fitzroy Somerset, Sir George Grey, and Mr. Labouehere,
had interviews with Lord Juhn Russell yesterday at the
Home-office.
Mr. Mora transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-
office.
Judge Carter and Mr. G. W. Wood had interviews with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial-office.
His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the American Mi-
nister, transacted business at the Foreign• office and at the
Treasury.
Despatches from the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The company to meet the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Russia at the state dinner on Monday, at Lansdowne
House, included the Russian Ambassador, the Netherlands
Charge d'Affaires, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer.
ston, Viscount and Viscountess Hovvick, Count Orloff,
Count Charles and Countess Pozzo di Borgo.
The Duchess of Gloucester had a grand assembly last
evening at Gloucester House, to which a large party of the
nobility were invited, to have the honour of meeting her
Majesty.
The suite of state rooms was opened, and were bril-
liantly illuminated, and the dining-room on the ground
floor was prepared for dancing. In the parlour adjoining,
her Royal Highness received her visitors.
The Queen arrived at twenty minutes before eleven
o'clock, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, and attended by Lady Portman, Hon. Miss
Anson, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Earl of Uxbridge,
Lord Byron, Sir Robert Otway, and Lord Alfred Paget.
Lady Flora fiastings was in waiting on the Duchess of
Kent. Her Majesty was received in the entrance hall by
Lady Caroline Legge, Lady in Waiting on the Duchess
of Gloucester, and Sir Samuel G. Higgins.

His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Russia, arived immediately after the Queen, accompanied
by Prince Frederick Henry of the Netherlands. and at-
tended by Viscount Torrington, and Count Orloff.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess
Augusta of Cambridge, came attended by Miss Kear and
Baron Knesebeck. . .

Her Majesty, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the
Royal Visitors entered the Dining Room, Weippart's Qua-
drille Band playing " God save the Queen." Sets for
Quadrilles were formed, and dancing commenced.
Among the company were the Danish Minister and
Baroness Blome, the Belgian Minister and Madam Van
de Weyer, the Hanoverian and Saxon Ministers, the
Prussian, Netherlands, and French Charges d'Affaires,
Duke of Wellington, Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe,
Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Earl of Tanker-
vine, Earl and Countess Resebery, Lady Ann Primrose,
Lord Dalmeny, Marquis of Granby, Sir Robert and Lady
Peel, Miss Peel, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Foley,
Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Viscount
Melbourne, Earl and Countess Craven, Honourable
Colonel and Honourable Miss Cavendish, Marquis
Lansdowne, Duchess of Somerset, Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Breadalbane; Miss Baillie, Lady Cecilia
Underwood, Marquis Anglesey, Lady A. Paget, Lord
George Paget, Lord and Lady Margaret Marsham, Lady
H. Scott, Earl and Countess Wilton, Count Charles and
Countess Pozzo di Borgo, Lord Stavordale, Lady Strang.
ways, Mrs. J. Strangways, Sir William Freemantle, Miss
Harvey, Miss Bathurst, the Lords Clinton, Countess
Dowager Pembroke, Lady E. Herbert, Earl and Coun-
tess of Dunmore Mlle. D'Este, Duchess of Richmond,
Lady C. Gordon Lennox, Earl of March, Ladies
Eleanor and Constantine Paget, Hon. Charles Gore, Mar._ _

quis Downshire, Lady Charlotte Hill, Marquis of Douglas,
Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, Lady Temple, Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Eiy, Lady Loftus, Sir George,
Lady and Miss Seymour, Lady and the Hon. Miss Wil-
loughby, Duchess of Northumberland, the Misses Percy,
Earl and Countess Stanhope, Lady W. Stanhope, Earl
and Lady G. Grey, Lady and Misses Lyttleton, Lady
Cowley, Earl and Countess Minto, Ladies Elliot, Earl
and Countess of Erroll, Lady Adelaide Hay, Sir H.
Hardinge, Sir Walter James, Countess Albemarle, Earl
and Countess of Surrey, Lord and Lady Mahon, Countess
Zavadowsky, Count and Countess Woronzow, Countess
Potocki, Countess Choiseul, Lord Cowley, Hon. Miss
Wellesley, Lord and Lady Ashley, Countess and Lady F.
Cowper, Miss Harcourt, Hon. Capt. Grey, Lord Loftus,
Lord Leveson, Mr. Lawley, Earl Compton, Viscount and
Viscountess Sydney, Lord Melgund, Capt. and Miss
Pitt, Viscountess Falkland, Earl of Clarendon,
Honourable William Cowper, Marchioness of Ailesbury,
Lord and Lady Yinnoull, Earl and Countess Hadding-
ton, Lord and Lady Stuart de Rotbsay, Miss Stuart, Mr.
' C. Scarlett, Hon. Mr. and Lady H. Clive, Miss Clive,
Sir Edward, Lady, and the Misses Paget, Lady Francis
Egerton, Lady Keith, Sir C. and Lady Knightley, Colonel
Macdonald, Countess of Euston, Lady L. Fitzroy, Lady
Charles Somerset and Mr. Somerset, Lord and Lady F.
Somerset, Miss Somerset, Mr. Greville, Count Stroganoff,
Earl and Countess Cawder, and Ladies Campbell, Lord
Villiers, Countess Clan william, Lord Maidstone, Captain

and Mfrs. Villiers, Lord and Lady Burghersh, Countess of
Verulam, Lady M. Grimston, Mr. Grimston, Lord Grim-
ston, Earl and Countess Delavvarr, Lady E. West, Mr.
Bruce, Prince Bariatinsky, Sir Charles, Lady and Misses
Bagot, Mr. Macdonald. General Kolorine, Lord Fitz-
gerald, Lord and Lady Birrington, Earl and Countess de
Grey, Mr. and Lady M. Viner, Captain Seymour, Earl
and Countess Mansfield, Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Lord Can-
tilupe, Lord Folkestone, Countess Grosvenor and Ladies
Grosvenor, Lord and Lady Seymour, M. De Berg, M.
Kisseleff.

His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Russia and
Prince Frederick Henry of the Netherlands visited
Sutherland House yesterday for the purpose of viewing
the collection of pictures. The Princes also inspected
the collection of Lord Francis Egerton at Bridgewater
House.

We are authorized to state that Sir Edward
Smyth, Bart., has recently purchased Mr. Richard Brins-
ley.Sheridan's mansion in Grosvenor-square.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Captain Row-
land Smyth led to the altar, in St. George's Church, Han-
over-square, on Saturday morning, the Hon. Miss Abbott,
daughter of the late and sister of the present Lord Ten.
terden. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of
Gloucester. A sumptuous dejeune ala fourchette was
afterwards given at the family mansion in Portman-square
to a large pat ty.
The Moniteur announces that the treaty con-
cluded on the 9th of March last between France and
Mexico was ratified on the 25th of the same month.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset held a levee yesterday at
Horse Guards, which was attended by Major-Gen. Sir
James Simon, Sir Neill Douglas, Major-Gen. Wright,
Royal Engineers, Colonel Dixon, Captain Campbell, and
about thirty other officers.
LADY PETRE.—We understand that, during
the last week, the Hon. Lady Petre has been suffering
from a severe attack of quinsey. The disease, on Friday
se'nnight, became so violent, that her Ladyship's life was
considered in danger, but we are glad to state that
through the prompt exertions of Dr. Prichard, who was
immediately sent for at the commencement of the attack,
her Ladyship is now recovering. —Essex _Herald.
PENNY POSTAGE.—Mr. Rowland Hill's plan
of a penny postage has been partially tried as an experi-
ment in Gloucestershire. The postage from Stroud to
Nailsworth, which was fourpt nee, has been reduced to one
penny, and the consequence is that on an average there are
forty letters between those places where there was only one
at the high rate.— Worcester Journal.
LA SONNAMBULA.—" Between Saint Sever
and Huguelnau, in the Landes," says the Courier de
Bordeaux "is an immense Druidical stone, in a field near
the road-side. Late at night, on the 30th ult., as some
peasants were coming to the market of Mont de Marsan
by moonlight, they were much alarmed at seeing a figure
clothed in white walking round the stone singing a solemn
air ; and they concluded it was the ghost of some long de-
parted Gaul. They summoned up courage to call out to
it, and at last approached it, when they found the supposed
phantom to be a young girl from a neighbouring village,
en chemise et en jupe, making this sort of pilgrimage round
the stone in her sleep. She was awakened with` caution
and conducted home, crying with saame at having been
discovered in such a condition."

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INSULT ON FEMA LES.—A person named
Moxham was yesterday brought before Mr. Gregory. at
Queen-square, charged with assaulting a young lady (Miss
Taylor) in the Green Park. Mr. Gregory regretted that
females could not take an airing in the parks without some
fellow molesting them. It was impertinent and unmanly
to accost a female in this way ; and an assault having been
clearly proved, he should convict the defendant in the
penalty of 205., and in default of payment to 15 days' hard
labour, which he hoped would deter others from a similar
practice.
POSEN, MAY 2.—The accounts of the publica-
tion of the sentence of the Archbishop has caused great
sensation here, as it was hoped that the differences would
be amicably adjusted. It appears that the Archbishop
will not return to Posen. He has written a letter to his
sister, directing her to sell the household furniture, and to
quit the Archiepiscopal Palace, and to leave Posen.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On
Friday night, a man named Benjamin Bickers, occa.ional
waiter at the inns in this town, met with his death in the
following singular manner :—He had been employed during
the day at the White Hart Inn, and left there about nine
o'clock, having had a pint of beer ; soon afterwards he
called at Wm. Golding's beer.shop, and appeared rather
fresh ; he did not take any beer, but returned home at
about a quarter to ten o'clock. He went up stairs, and
sitting down nearly on the top of the staircase, it is sup-
posed fell asleep. About half-past eleven Mrs. Holbrook,
a lodger in the house, hearing a noise on the stairs, went
to ascertain the cause, and found Bickers lying at the bot-
tom quite senseless, his head resting on the last step: His
wife came in immediately after, and on further examination
it was discovered that he was quite dead. Mr. Bird was
sent for, and he ascertained that there was a partial dislo-
cation of the clavicle vertebras of the neck, which caused
death. There was no other external injury. Deceased
was about 33 years of age.—Yesterday an inquest was held
on the body, at the Greyhound, before C. C. Lewis, sq•,
and a verdict returned of " Accidental death."—Essex
Herald.