The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at
Buckingham Palace.
Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess.
Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent,
and the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, attended divine
service yesterday morning, in the private chapel of
Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wel-
lesley officiated. The ladies and and gentlemen in wait-
ing, and the domestic household, also attended the
service.

Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, al
tended by Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour.

The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna
Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, visited the
Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water
Colours, in Pall-mall, on Saturday morning.
The Duchess Augusta of Saxe Coburg visited the
Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence-house, St.
James's.

The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess
Adelaide of flohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna
Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honoured the
Royal Italian Opera-house with her presence on Satur-
day evening.
A deputation from the Committee of Portuguese Bond-
holders, accompanied by Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr.
Wm. Williams, M.P., Mr. Matthew Forster, M.P.,
Mr. Richard Thornton, Mr. Thomas Thornton, Mr.
James Hutchinson (Chairman of the Committee of the
Stock Exchange), Sir Henry Pynne, Captain Gardiner,
and Mr. C. Quende, had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon, on Saturday, at the Foreign-office, when Mr.
Thornton, the chairman of the committee, presented a
memorial to his lordship, praying his lordship to inter-
pose his good offices in obtaining redress for the griev-
ances and continued injustice inflicted by Portugal on
her long-suffering foreign creditors.
A deputation of directors of the East Kent Railway
Company had an interview with the Right Hon. E.
Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Saturday, at
the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Lord
Sondes (chairman); Mr. Alderman Salamons (deputy-
chairman), the Right Hon. S. R. Lushington, Sir J. M.
Tylden, and Mr. C. M. Lushington (directors), Sir
Edward Dering, Bart., M.P., Mr. Sadlier, Mr. William
Cu bitt, and Mr. Mills, the engineers, and Mr. C. Fresh-
field, the solicitor for the company.
A deputation on the part of the magistrates, merchants,
bankers, and citizens of Rochester, Chatham, and Gil-
lingham, in Kent, who had memorialised the Board of
Trade on the subject of the proposed Kentish railways,
now before Parliament, also had an interview with the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley,
on Saturday. The deputation included Sir Thomas
Herbert Maddock and the lion. F. Villiers, M.P.s for
Rochester, Mr. W. H. Nicholson, and Mr: Manclark.
Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, and Mr. Pressly, had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Saturday, at his official
residence, in Downing-street.
Mr. Hutt and Mr. Ailhuson had an interview with
the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, on Saturday, at the Board
of Trade.

Mr. Weston Wood had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, on Sa-
turday.
Dispatches were sent from the Colonial-office, on Sa-
turday, to the Governors of the West India Islands.
A deputation on the subject of a reduction in the colo-
nial rate of postage, including Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P.,
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Brother-
ton, M.P., Mr. Macgregor, M.P., Mr. Marshall, M.P.,
Mr. Thomson Hankey, jun., and Mr. Matthew Uzielli,
had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen, on Satur-
day, at his official residence, in Downing-street.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were—The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood,
the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Moles-
worth. The Council sat three hours and a half.