The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited their
Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess
Alice yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and also paid a
visit to the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester-house.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at
Clarence-house, St. James's. •

The Duchess of Cambridge and, the Princess Mary (at-
,ended by Baron Knesebeck), and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz (at-
tended by their Equerry in Waiting►) honoured the per-
formance of the German plays with their presence last
n I evening.

A deputation from St. John's, Southwark, consisting
of the Rev. J. Rolph (rector), Mr. J. N. Viner, Mr. S.
M. Astell, Mr. John Abrahams, and Mr. W. G-. Jack-
son (churchwardens), accompanied by Mr. Robert Slee
(vestry clerk), had an interview with Viscount Palmer-
ston yesterday at the Home-office.

A -deputation, on the subject of a public park at
Hampstead-heath, had an interview with Sir Win. Moles-
worth yesterday at the Office of Public Works, in
Whitehall-place. The deputation consisted of Lord
Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Sir Benjamin Hall, M.P..
Rev. Thomas Ainger, Mr. John Gurney Hoare, Mr.
Thomas Turner, Mr. C. R. Cockerell, RA., Mr. Ed-
ward M. Browell, Mr. Edwin Field, and Mr. Thos.
Toiler (vestry clerk).
The Bishop of Oxford and the Bishop of Salisbury had
an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday at
the Colonial-office.

The Cathedral Commission had a meeting yesterday.
Present—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of
Blandford, the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Lon-
don, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth,
the Rev. Canon Selwyn, and Rev. Richard Jones
(secretary).

Sir Glinne Welby and Lord Wm. Graham, the mem.
hers for Grantham, had an interview yesterday with Vis•
count Palmerston at the Home-office.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial.
office from the Governors of the North American pro•
vinces and tho West India colonies.

A deputation, consisting of Lord Wrottesley, the Earl
of Rosse, the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Oxford,
Sir Robert Inglis, M.P., and Mr. J. Heywood,
M.P., on the part of the Parliamentary Com-
mittee of the British Association, assisted by Col.
Sabine, R.A., President of the British Associa-
tion, and Sir Roderick Murchison, late President
of the Royal Geographical Society, had an interview
yestesday with Sir James Graham, First Lord of the
Admiralty, at Whitehall, on the subject. of Lieutenant
Maury's scheme for improving navigation. Lieutenant
Maury is an officer of the American navy who has dis-
covered a plan of navigating vessels which considerably
shortens the distance they have to traverse to reach their
destination.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF PORTSMOUTH.—This vener-
able nobleman, who many years since was declared of
of unsound mind, died at the family seat, Hurstbourne-
park, Hants, on Thursday last, in his 84th year. His
lordship dying without issue, is succeeded in the earldom
and family estates by his brother, the Hon. Newton
Fellowes, married to a sister of the present Earl For-
tescue, whose eldest son, Mr. Henry Fellowes, now be-
comes Lord Lymington.
KENSINGTON GARDENS.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge, with their attendants, were among the company
attracted to the fashionable promenade in Kensington-
gardens on Sunday afternoon, by the unexpected fine-
ness of the weather. This delightful place, which, in
consequence of the continued rains lately, presents an
unusually fresh and verdant appearance for the season
of the year, was thronged with the most respectable com-
pany on Sunday, and presented a very gay appearance.
MANSION-HOUSE.—It is understood that the Lord
Mayor has issued invitations for a dinner on Saturday
next, the 23d instant, to her Majesty's ministers and a
distinguished party of the nobility, members of the House
of Commons, and other gentlemen and their ladies. And
his lordship gives a second civic entertainment on the
2d of August next.
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS.—Wednesday next is the
last day for paying rates and taxes due on or before the
sth of January last, to qualify Parliamentary electors
for the present year. The quarter's house-tax due at
Christmas, although not demanded, should be paid.
DISTRESSING AND DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A GEN-
TLEMAN.—Yesterday morning Mr. James Leech, a
highly-respectable surgeon, residing at 13, New Dorset.
place, Clapham-road, committed a most determined act
of self-destruction. At about ten o'clock the maid-ser-
vant of the deceased entered the back drawing-room, and
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NEW OPEs.t.—ltis said that the Opera-Comique is
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actually in possession of a new opera by M. Meyerbeer
—a high honour for that theatre as well as a certain
source of prosperity, should it prove correct. The opera
alluded to is not, it is positively asserted, "Le Camp de
Silesie," of which there was some talk for this theatre
last year. A short time, however will enable us to give
our readers more precise information on the subject.