The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Charles Frost, Esq., F.S.A. President of the Literary
and Philosophical Society of Hull, a ccorepanied by the
Mayor of Hull, one of the Vice-Presidents, and Mr. W.
Hutt, M.P., had the honour of an interview with Prince
Albert on Saturday.
The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited the Queen
on Saturday.
Prince Albert rode on horseback, attended by Vis-
count Torrington, and visited the Crystal Palace at
Sydenham.
Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa
visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park.
The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday at Buck-
ingham-palace. The company included the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary,
and the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of
Hamilton, the Marquis of Abercorn, Lady Fanny
Howard, the Baroness de Speth, Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Sir George Couper, Major the Hon. J. Mac.
donald, and Baron Knesbeck.

The 'band of the 2nd Life Guards was in attendance in
the Palace, and played during dinner the following
music :

March E. Cust.
Overture, " Son and Stranger"
Waltz—Bertha, " Le Prophet"
Grand Selection—" Le Chalet"
Quadrille—" Hortensia," (Stradella) Flotow.
Polka—" Amor" Kuhner.
Galop—" Miner" Bergman.
March—" Gold Hunter"
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The
following had the honour of being present—the Hano-
verian Minister and Mdlle. Kielmansegge, the Saxon
Minister, Earl and Countess Granville, the Marchioness
of Abercorn and the Ladies Harriet, Beatrix, and Louisa
Hamilton, Lord James Murray, the Earl and Countess
of Elgin, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl and Countess
Delawarr, Lady Arabella and the Hon. William West,
the Earl and Countess of Bessborough and two Ladies
Ponsonby, the Earl of Durham, the Earl and Countess
of Shelburne, the Earl of Mulgrave, Lady Caroline and
Miss Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, Lord Burghersh,
Viscount Valletort, Lord William Paulet, Lord and
Lady Rokeby and two Misses Montagu, Lord Dufferin,
Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley and
--Miss Stanley.
Lord Raglan, Miss and Miss K. Somerset, the Hon. R.
H. Fitzroy omerset, Sir James and Lady
two Misses Graham, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour
and Miss Seymour, Lieut.-Colonel Ttt, and Cap-
tain Clifton. Graham and
The Queen and Prince Albert, the •ce of Wales.
yay
the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Duchess
of Kent, attended divine service
esterd
morning in
the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon.
and Rev. Gerald Wellesley read the prayers, and the
Rev. H. Howarth preached the sermon. The ladies and
gentlemen in waiting and the domestic household also
attended the service.
Yesterday was the birthday of the Duke of Cam-
bridge. His Royal Highness paid visits to the Duchess
of Kent and the other members of the royal family.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Glou-
cester at Gloucester House, and the Duchess of Cam.
bridge, at her residence in St. James's Palace, yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited the
Duchess of Kent, on Saturday, at Clarence House, St.
James's.

Lord Kinnaird had an interview with the Earl of
Aberdeen on Saturday at his official residence, in
Downing•street.

THE NEW MISSILE.-It has been for some time known
that Major Sitwell, unattached, has invented a bullet,
or, more properly speaking, an elongated plug, which
not merely professes to give to the common musket the
range and precision of the Mini 6 rifle, but on trial has
been found to do so. All practical soldiers have appre-
hended inconvenience and confusion
firearms
in war from our
t
supplied with two kinds of and
two kg being
kinds of ammunition, requiring different ua
tirP . It will, therefore, be of the most incalculable-
ariip u l
advantage if we can, by means of this invention, at once
render our present muskets as efficient in fire as the
Minie rifle, and obviate the double inconvenience and
danger of inefficiency to which we have referred.—
Naval and Military Gazette.