The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Mejesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took a drive in
an open landau and four yesterday afternoon. The
Equerries in Waiting, Major-General Buckley and Lieut.-
Colonel F. H. Seymour, attended on horseback.
Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morn-
ing, attended by Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The royal dinner-party at Buckingham Palace last
evening included the Duchesi of lent, the Princess
Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Breadalbane, Lord John Russell, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Major-General Sir George
Bowles and Colonel Wylde.
The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham
Palace after dinner on Tuesday evening and performed
the following compositions :

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Overture, "Le Cheval de Bronze" Auber.
Duo brillante, two harps, "Les Hugue-
nots," Messrs. Wright and Oberthur Meyerbeer.
. Selection, "Faust" Spohr.
Fantasia, three harps, Messrs. Oberthur, Wright, & Trust.

The Duke and buchess de Nemours visited the
Duchess of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence-
house, St. James's.

The Earl of Roseberry had an interview with the Earl
of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

bispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
office to the Governors of Australia and to the Governor
of Gibraltar.

The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of a
Baronetcy upon Dr. Henry Holland, one of her Majesty's
Ph ysicians Extraordinary.
In consequence of the death of Lord Skelmersdale,
the meeting of Conservative members of Parliament
which was to have taken place at Lord Derby's on
Monday next, has been postponed until the, ensuing
Saturday.

The Earl of Winchilsea's motion, in reference to
Maynooth, has been postponed from the 14th to the
18th inst.

POLITICAL REUNION.

Mrs. W. E. Gladstone held her first reception last even-
ing at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in Downing-street.
The following members of the corps diplomatique were
present :—The Austrian Minister and the Countess Col-
leredo, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Prussian Minister and Madame and Mademoiselle Bun-
sen, the Peruvian Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the
Bavarian Minister, the Greek Minister, and Madame Tri-
coupi, the Sardinian Minister and the Marquis Massimo
d'Azeglio, the Swedish Minister, the Turkish Minister,
and Madame Musurus, the Brazilian Minister and Made-
moiselle Macedo, the Minister for the Netherlands, the
Danish Minister and Madame de Bile, the Spanish Minister,
Count Flemming, Colonel T. B. Lawrence, Count Louis
Corte, the Marquis d'Oldrini, Count Castigliane, Baron
de Geer, M. Maurice Delfosse, M. and Madame Figaniere,
M. and Madame Comyn, Count Alfred Reventlaw, &c.
The general circle comprised, among others--The Countess
of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton, Earl Jermyn, the
Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Earl and Countess of De-
von, the Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Lincoln, Vie-
count and Viscountess Canning and the Ladies Emily and
Margaret de Burgh, Viscount Emlyn, M.P., Viscountess
Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Miss Canning, Lord and
Lady Ly ttleton and the Hon. Miss Seymour, Lord and Lady
-Monteagle Lord and Lady De Tabley, Lady Stanley of Al-
derley and the Hon. Miss Stanley, Lord Harry Vane, M.P.,
Lady Rendelsham and the Hon. Miss Thellusson, Lord
and Lady Alfred Hervey, Lord and Lady Lovaine, Lady
Mary Wood, Lord Robert Clinton, M.P., Lord Sey-
mour, M.P., Lord Elphinstone, Lady Graham and Miss
Graham, Lady Weir Hogg and the Misses Weir Hogg, Ad-
miral the Hon. W. Gordon, M.P., Col. the Hon. C. Grey
and Mrs. Grey, Captain the Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., the
Hon. Mrs. J. Stuart Wortley and the Hon. Mrs. Law-
less, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. S. Lyttelton, the Hon.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Neville, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bou-
verie, the Hon. Mr. Egerton, the Hon. G. S. Smythe,
the Hon. G. Byng, M.P. the Hon. P. W. Talbot, the Right
Hon. E. Strutt, M.P., and Mrs. Strutt, the Right Hon. H.
Tufnell, M.P., and Lady Anne Tufnell and Lady Louisa
Primrose, the Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., and Mrs.
Hayter, the Right Hon. C. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon.
E. Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mr.
Fellowes, M.P., and the Hon, Mrs. Fellowes, Mr.
Lewis and Lady Theresa Lewis, Colonel Lockyer Freestun,
M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Colonel Malcolm and
Mrs. Malcolm and the Misses Johnstone, Captain Clifford,
Captain Inglefield, Sir Robert Peel, M.P., Sir Robert In-
glis, M.P., Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Sir John
Shelley, M.P., Sir John and Lady Harrington Sir William
and Lady Clay, Sir Frederick Smith, Sir Walter James,
M.P., Sir John Hanmer, M.P., Mr. Christy, M.P., and
Mrs. Christy, Mr. Hodgson, M.P., Mr. H. Drummond,
M.P., Mr. Seymour, M.P., and Mrs. Seymour, Mr. John-
stone, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Grenfell, M.P.,
and Mrs. Grenfell, Mr. F. Peel, M.P., Mr. Stafford,
M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., and Miss Mary Hume, Mr.
Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Mr. H. A. Herbert,
M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, Mr. Bowyer, M.P., Mr.
'Fitzgerald, M.P., Mr. Rich, M.P., and Mrs. Rich, Mr.
Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Townley, M.P., Mr. Raikes
Currie, M.P., Mrs. Raikes Carrie, and Miss Ratikes Currie,
Mr. Phillimore, M.P., and Mrs. Phillimore, Mr. Walter,
M.P., and Mrs. Walter, Mr. Adderley, M.P., and Mrs.
Adderley, and the Hon. Liss Leigh, Dr. Locock and Mrs.
Locock, Mr. Forbes, Mr. G. Smith, Mrs. Henry Baring
and Miss Baring, Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, Miss Gladstone,
Mr. Drummond, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Heneage, Mr. Alexan-
der Wood, Mr. Trescott, Mr. W. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Munro, Mr. Severn, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. Arthur Russell, Mr. Bankes and Miss Bankes, Mr.
Swinton, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Mr. Vyner, Mr. H. Roberts,
the Misses Clifford, &c.

SILVER.—The dollars and bar silver brought by the
last West India packet were sold yesterday at the former
rates—namely, 59id. for the dollars, and ma. for the
bar silver.

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES.—It appears,
from a return to Parliament, just issued, that the ex-
pense of the Oxford Commission defrayed last year was
1,2201. 45., and of that relating to Cambridge, 4001.
THE COAST DEFENCES.—A Board of Ordnance, com-
prising Lord Raglan, the Master-General, Sir John
Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications, &c.,
visited Portsmouth and Gosport yesterday, and made
an inspection of the batteries and outworks connected
with the port of Portsmouth.
KAFIR WAR, CAPE OF GOOD ITOPE.—The estimate
of the further sum required to be voted towards defray-
ing the expenses of the Kafiri war, beyond the ordinary
grants for army, navy, ordnance, and commissariat ser-
vices, to the 31st March, 1851, is 200,000/.

BIRTH OF A PRINCE.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 7.
At a quarter past one o'clock this day the Queen
was safely delivered of a Prince.

There were present on the occasion in her
Majesty's room his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilley, the monthly nurse.
In the adjoining apartments, besides the other
medical attendants (Sir James Clark and Dr. Fer-
guson), were her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and the
following Officers of State and Lords of the Privy
Council, viz. :—The Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Gran-
ville, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Welling-
ton, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of
Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, and the Lord Chan-
cellor.