The Sun.
London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council OR Monday
afterre ?on at three o'clock, at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Augustus
of Saxe Coburg and the Princess Royal, took an airing
yesterciay in an oien oarrige and four. General
Viremyss was in attendance on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday, accompanied by his Royal Highness
the Pr;'xice Augustus of Saxe Cobourg, and attended by
Lieut.-Colonel the lion. Alexander Gordor.

Her Majesty- had a dinner party yesterday, at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included her Royal
Highness. the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses
the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg
Gotha, the Duke and Duchess of Buccicucb, Lady
Augusta Bruce, Barcncs.3 de Speth, the Earl of Liver-
pool, Lard Robert Grosvenor, the Right Honourable
Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Honour-
able Sebright Lascelles, and Captain Francis
Seymour.
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The band of the Grenadier Guards, conducted by
Mr. Schott, attended during dinner in the Palace, and
played the followingpi"ye:..:—

Overture, " Masaniello"
WalzPr, Aether Traume " Strauss.
Selection, " Oberon" Weber.
Polka, " Rm a"
lliftilier Mar.;.th

During tile Queen's Ball, at Buckingham Palace, on
Wednesday night, Mr. Mackay, her Majesty's piper,
attended and played in the ball-room, and Scotch reels
were danced by five sets, formed by the Scottish nobility
and gentry present.
The ball was kept up until two o'clock in the morn-
ing, when the numerous and brilliant circle took their
departure front the Palace.

her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent went to
her residence, Frogmore House, near Windsor, yester-
day morning, and returned to town in the afternoon.
Lord Stueirt de Decks had an interview with Lord J.
Russell on Wednesday. The Judge-Advocate General
had an interview yesterday with the Noble Lord.
A deputation on behalf of the Scientific Societies Ex-
emption Act, consisting of the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson, M.P., Mr. E. 11. Bunbury, M.P., Mr. J. Hey-
wood, M.P., Mr. Birkbeck, Mr. Toulmin Smith, and
Mr. Ryland had an interview with Sir George Grey
yesterday, at the Home-office.

Mr. Jan Wood, chaiiman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Tidd Pratt had also an in-
terview yesterday with the Right lion. Baronet, at his
ofli7ial residence in Downing street.

Mr. E. Rice, M.P., transacted business yesterday at
the Office of the Commissioners of Railways in the Board
of Trade.

Sir Edward and Lady Kerrison had a large dinner
party yesterday, at their residence, in Great Stanhope-
street.

THE PATENT ELECTRIC LIGHT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
FlR,—Observing an advertisement in your paper of
an intended exhibition at the Surrey Zoological Gardens,
this evening and succeeding evenings, of what is called
"Le Molt's Electric Light," and which the said adver-

tisement declares "elicited such general astonishment and
delight at its public exhibition in Trafalgar-square," .1
trust that you will, in justice to me, give publicity to
the following statement:—That Mr. Le Molt never ex-
hibited any electric light in Trafalgar-square on any
occasion whatever, but that the light said to have " eli-
cited such general astonishment and delight" was that
known as " Staite's Electric Light," the same which has
several times this season been exhibited in the ballet of
Electra ; or the Lost Pleiad, at the Italian Opera in the
Haymarket, and repeated by me last Tuesday evening,
by special command of her Majesty.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,

W. E. STAITE.
6, Throgmorton•street, Dlay 17, 1849.

Major. General Sir Joseph Thackwell, who com-
manded the cavalry at Chillianwallah, is, it is said, to be
appointed a Grand Cross of the Order of tho Bath.
Major-General Whish, who also distinguished himself
in the recent Indian campaign, is to be appointed a
Knight Companion of the Bath, and Colonel Colin
Campbell, of the 98th Regiment, is to receive the same
appointment as the last-mentioned officer.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT•GARDEN.—fier
Majesty's box was occupied last evening by the Viscount
and Viscountess Brackley, the Viscount and Viscountess
Emlyn, Lord John Thynne, the Hon. Adolphus Liddell,
Mr. Somerset, and Mr. Higgins. Among the visitors
were the Sardinian Minister, the Costa Rica Minister,
his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, the
Countess of Yarborough, the Countess of Lichfield and
Lady Harriet Anson, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of
Bessborbugh, Earl Grosvenor, Viscount Templetown,
and the Hon. Mrs. Fane, Viscount Maldon, Viscount
Clifden, Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lord Ward, Lady
Rendlesham and the Hon. Miss Thellusson, Lady J.
Ellis and Mr. Bentinck, Lord G. Fitzgerald, Lord
Wrottesley, Sir Frederick Thesiger, M.P. and Lady
Thesiger, Sir Peregrine Acland, Bart., and the Misses
Acland, Lady Lushington, Sir John Gibbons, Bart.,
Lady Shelley, Lady Simpkison, Sir John Burgoyne,
Bart., the Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Hon.. Cast
and
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Edward pConhta,rlHesoNn.evEildl_s_ve,
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circumstances:—The
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deceased,under the following I oawppine
was a pupil -in the boarding-school of the Misses Evans
and Matthews, of Brisliugton, situate about two and a
half miles from Bristol, was sitting at her studies in the
academy at the time of the alarming lightning and thun-
der, with which Bristol and its neighbourhood was on
Friday se'nnight visited, when she was suddenly seized
with so much alarm and fright that it was deemed neces-
sary to call in the aid of Dr. Fryer, but inflammation of
the brain rapidly succeeded, and she continued from
that time in a state of stupor, with the exception of once
only, when she was understood to observe, " No music
to-day," and to ask " where was her hair?" On Monday
last she ceased to breathe. Deceased was only thirteen
years of age.
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His Royal Highness Prince Albert, in'addition to
the handsome donation of 501., presented to the London
Society for the Protection of Young Females, has
graciously signified his intention to become patron of
the charity.
Fashionable society is a merry-go-round, that first
makes us giddy And he sick.—Eliza Cook's Journal,