The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Duke of Wellington, Sir William Molesworth, and Cap-
tain. the Hon. Dudley do Ros, went to St. Paul's Cathedral
yesterday morning.
The Royal Dinner Circle at Buckingham Palace last
evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe,
his Excellency the Danish Minister and Madame de Bille,
his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, Lady Fanny Howard,
Baroness do Speth, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the
Earl of Cawdor, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, Viscount
Torrington, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps.
The Band of the Coldstream Guards attended in the
Palace during dinner, and peiformed the following music
Overture, " Alcs,de de Vega" Onslow.
Waltz, " Apthorpe "
Coro e Scena "Matilda" (Malck Adel) Costa.
Polonaise "Pietro it Grande"

Glee, " Blow Gentle Gales"
Galop, " Express"

Sir H. It. Bishop
D'Albert.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess Augustus
of Saxe Coburg visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence-house, St.
James's.

A deputation of the Comnltee of the British and Fo-
reign Anti-Slavery Society had an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign Office, Down-
ing-street. The deputation consisted of the following
gentlemen : Messrs. G. W. Alexander, Robert Alsop,
James Cooper, E. Josiah Forster, Robert Froster, J. Hors-
man, Fisher, the Rev. J. Kennedy, Messrs. Geo.
Stacey, and L. A. Chamerovzow.
A deputation of the tobacco manufacturers of York-
shire, Lancashire, and London, accompanied by the Chair-
man of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview
on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his
official residence'in Downing-street. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Robert H. Wood and Mr. Wm. Hornby
(Leeds), Mr. James Fletcher (Liverpool), Mr. John John-
son (Bolton), Mr. Thomas Walker (Preston), Mr. W. B.
Carrick (Hull), Mr. Williams (Manchester), and Messrs.
Richard Lloyd, James Hill, Charles Lloyd, and Clarke
(London).
Sir Howard Douglas had an interview with the Duke of
Newcastle yesterday. Mr. Ross had also an interview
with the Noble Duke, at the Colonial-office.
The Education Committee of the Queen's Most Honour-
able Privy Council sat yesterday, at the Council-office,
Whitehall. Present—the Lord President, the Duke of
Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon.
Sidney ,Ill3rbert. .

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of the West India Islands.

DRURY LANE.

Mr. Smith, the lessee, took his benefit last night, and
we are glad to state he was honoured with a bumper.
The great event of the evening was the introduction to
the British public of a new sort of acrobat—a Mr. Sands,
from America, who executes the surprising feat of walk-
ing with his head downwards. A scaffold is erected on
the stage, terminating in the platform on which the in-
verted pedestrian is to display his talent, a basket or
swinging chair being placed at each end as his starting
point and his goal. When he has entered those chairs,
by means of ladders, he puts on his feet a pair of san-
dals, or rather platters, and then deliberately lifts them
to the platform above him, which is brightly polished.
The walk then commences, not on all fours, be it under-
stood, but fairly with the head downwards, and the
whole body at right angles to the upper surface. The
secret of the art consists in the power of producing an
adhesion between the 4ple of the shoe and the platform
sufficiently strong to keep the artist from being precipi-
tated with his head downwards by the force of gravity,
yet not strong enough to prevent him from performing
the operation of walking. That the feat is dangerous
may be inferred from the fact that a net is suspended to
catch him in the event of a fall ; and the long pause
which he required in one instance last night in order to
produce an adhesion, showed that the achievement is
difficult even with a man who, like Mr. Sands, has pro-
bably devoted a whole life to the accomplishment of this
exploit. In addition to this ziemarkable performance,
two new pieces were produced on the occasion, one
called the School for Kings, and the other the Turkish
Lovers. In the first the scene is laid in Bavaria,
and the incidents relate to the career of a
certain king of that German principality, who at
some period or other loved his subjects, and successively
lost and recovered his eyesight and his throne. The
piece was divided into three acts, but it was a dull and
tedious affair from beginning to end, and it met with
little or no encourrgement from the audience. The
second piece relates to a story about an escape from a
harem, and the "sayings and doings" of a Cockney tra-
veller who has found his way to Constantinople, and
become enamoured of one of the Sultan's ladies. The
piece is highly embellished with scenery, and with the
aid of its comic incidents, and the introduction of a slight
ballet in one portion of it, will no doubt secure it a
" run."