The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty arrived in town at ten minutes past three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage and four
from Windsor Castle. Her Majesty was accompanied by
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and their
Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen.
Tire Royal Suite followe:i in three carriages and four'
and included Lady Lyttleton, Lady Flora Hireling:. Ho-
nourable Miss Spring Rice, Honourable Miss Paget,
Lady Gardiner, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Fingal!, Ho-
nourable Major Koppel, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel
Buckley.
The Royal Party were escorted by a party of Light
Dragoons. On her Majesty's arrival, the Royal Standard
was hoisted from the marble arch at Buckingham Palace.
The Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the Household, re-
ceived her Majesty at Buckieghain Palace.
The Earl of Surrey and Lord Byron joined the Royal
Dinner Party at the Palace last evt ning.
At Windsor Castle on Wedneaday evening dancill,
commenced at eleven o'clock. Weippart's band being In
attendance. The Queen danced in quadrilles during the
night with the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, Prince
cderick Henry of the Netherlands, the Earl of March,
and Lord Levesen. At half past two o'clock her Majesty
led off a country dance with the Heriditary Grand Duke
of Russia. Quadrilles were also danced at the Castle on
Tuesday night.
The Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, accompanied
by Prince Fred, rick Henry of the Netherlands, and at-
tended by Viscount Torrington and the Noblemen of his
suite, went yesterday to Deptford in one of the Queen's
carriag, s. His Serene Highness Prince Ed ward of Saxe
Wenner, accompanied by the Rev. J. H. Wood, also ar'
rived at Deptford from :Marlborough House, the resi-
dence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager. The three
Princes embarked on board the Firebrand steam packet'
on their return to the Hague.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
The Princess Augusta took a drive to Kensington
yesterday in a carriage and four.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the
Earl and Countess of Wilton with their company at din-
ner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor-square.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta
yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's.
Viscount !Melbourne returned to town at three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, from a visit to her Majesty at
sor Castle. Lord Stuart de Decks had an interview with
the Noble Viscount in Downing. street.
The Turkish Ambassador and the Prussian Charge
d'Affaires transacted business yesterday at the Foreign
Office.

Lord Chichester, Lord Stuart de Decies, and CiPtain
Hobs n, had into rviews with the Marquis of Normanby at
toe Colonial Office yesterday.

MEETING IN FAVOUR OF TiO
POLES.-EXTRAORDINARY ROW.

A meeting of the " Friends of Poland " was summoned yere
terday evening at the Assembly Rooms, Theobald's-road.
an early hour the room was filled with a very mixed audience,
a large proportion being working men. The gallery was
crowded, and exhibited many respectable females. The ell.-
was to be taken at eight. That hour having passed, and v°
symptoms of a Chairman, considerable impatience began to he
manifested by the crowd ; at last some person proposed that a
General, or Major, Beniowsky take the chair. This w„,.e
as
the signal for an explosion of frantic fury on the e-
of a portion of the crowd which defies description•
and all that we could gather, for a period of something
like half an hour, wa- that another person had proposed Dr;
Wade. What was the origin of this tremendous outbreak wa
could not divine. But certain it was, that the people as
began a fierce attack upon each other—blows were dealt ovn
energetically and indiscriminately ; and a hundred voices!
hoarse with rage, all shou ing at once, rendered the scene
exciting as it was unaccountable. The platform was regvii.sco"
" stormed," a dozen or two times, and lost as often ;
below pulled the occupants of 'he disputed position down by 1
legs. Those above kicked ferociously their assailants, an
precipitated headlong into the crowd such as had daringly as-
cended. Innumerable single combat., mingled with trios, qua:
tets, and ever.) other description of pugilistic encounter:.
diversified the general affray ; and many a bloody visage',l4,b
tered hat, and blackened eye betokened the sincerity co,lphe
combatants. All we could do was to watch the issue, 11";''",
turned out, as in most similar cases, that all parties livv;r:
seothle t
bumped and bellowed themselves to exhaustion, began °The
what it was about, and found that it was " a mistake. Wad,
Chartists had " come upon them," and objected to Dr'
(as we were informed), and the Poles generally were infuriated
against Beniowsky, whom they considered as a spy; and as!fuor;
fortunately, they all began to tight before they knew whbea`t
and as, when men once get into a row, they are seinew one is
capacitated trom argument ; and as, indeed, whelk el
an
shouting no one can be heard, it was impossible that atTlis de-
but sheer exhaustion could terminate the battle. "h;r King
sirable consummation was attained it was agreed that a •
should take the chair, and he endeavoured to
of the meeting which we collected to be, to convey to
Polish exiles the expression of the sympathy of the wt
ikcit
classes for the oppression and cruelty which had been infl
on them by the Russian Emperor. In the horrible confusion
of the meeting, of course note-taking was out of the question'
The The audience, however, appeared cordially to concur i
sentiments of 'Mr. King, and a resolution was agreed to es_
Pressive of the abhorrence of the atrocities which had been
explain the object
of
practiced on Poland, and their contempt for the Grand Doke'
now on a visit to this country.