The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen gave a State Ball last evening at Bucking•
ham Palace. The invitations comprised the whole of the
,iiplomatie corps, the Ladies and G. ntletnen of the Royal
HouNehold, and the principal nobility and gentry, and
numbered about 1,900.
The suite of state saloons were all opened. In the.
White Drawing-room the Queen and Prince Albert re
ceived the royal guests; the Ball-room and the Throne-
room were prepared for dancing, elevated seats being
placed at the sides of each for the accommodation of her
Majesty and her illustrious visit irs, and orchestras being
rected in both for the quadrille bands. The Green
Drawing room was used as a refreshment room, and the
Dinner-room for the supper room, the Picture•gallery
serving as a reception room for the general company
until the ball commenced. All the apartments, and the
two ballrooms in particular, were brilliantly lit with
handsome chandeliers and lustres, and the recesses were
filled with rare and beautiful shrubs and plants.
The guard of the Yeoman Guard lined the Grand
Hall, under the command of Sir Seymour Sadler, the
Exon in Waiting. The ufficers present were Sir George
Lee and Captain Phib

A Guard of Honour of the Foot Gturds was on duty
at the garden entrance.

Her —Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived, attende-d by Lady Georgiana Bathurst and
Colonel the lion. A. Liddell.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and
their Royal highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, were
a tended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Edmond
Mildmay.

Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Hon.
Gtroline Cavendish and the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Maids of
Honour in Waiting ; Colonel Berkeley Drummond,
Groom in Waiting; Colonel Wyld, Groom in Waiting
to Prince Albert; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps, Equerry in Waiting ; and Colonel Bouverie.
Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness Prince George was attended by
Captain J. Macd,inald.
His Royal Highness Princo Leopold Count of Syra-
cuse, was attended by his Excellercy Prince Castelcicala
and the Chevalier de Colonna.

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
was alio present.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was pre-
vented from attending her Majesty's Ball by a slight in-
dispo,tricn. under ...hteh her Rts.val llikhness has been
suffering for some days.
After the, arrival of the Royal visitors, the Queen and
Prince Albert, accompanied by tho Royal circle, entered
the saloon, and afterwards proceeded into the ball-room,
the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Vice-
Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, and the
Comptroller of the Household, preceding her Majesty
and the Prince. The Mistress of the Robes, the Lady
in waiting, and the Maids of Honour, following in the
Royal suite.
The Queen wore a blue silk dress covered with blue
tells en ruche and ornamented with bouquets of sweet
peas and diamonds. Her Majesty's head-dress was
composed of sweet peas and diamonds to correspond to
he dress.

The gem ral company followed the illustrious party
into the ball-room. The National Anthem having been
played, her Majesty opened the ball at ten o'clock in
n quadrille, others of the Royal circle joining in the
dance.

Herr Struss'a band was stationed in the ball room.
The following waltzes, polkas, and qu tdrilles, amongst
others, were danced iu this apartna,nt:—
Waltzes Wanderers L,bewohl, Lande's Farben,
Friedensbothi-n, Landlich sittl:ch.
Polkas— Alice, Fri,derike, Damen Souvenir.

Qindrilles—Almaek's, Martha, Huldigung's.
Dancing commenced soon after ten o'clock in the
throne-room, where Coote and Tinney's bann of 30 per-
rorwers, conducted by Mr. Chas. Coote, were stationed.
During the evening, the following quadrilles, waltzes,
And polkas, amongst others, were danced in this
saloon :
Qtadrilles—D3 Huguenots (first tune). Coote; Le
Vat d'Audorre, Musard; Zerlina, Browne; Enrico, Tin-
ney; Melanie. Coote.
Waltzes—Vernon (first tune), Tinney; Star of the
Night, D'Albert; Victoria, Bosisis; Alberta, Tinney.
Polkas—A Tootle), Coote; Emerald, M`Carroll; Tam •
hour, Strauss; Arid, Tinney.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Cla-
rence House, St. James's. Her Majesty honoured the
Duchess of Sutherland with a visit at Stafford House.
Her Kijesty was attended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr and
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
The Princesses Helena and Louisa visited the Duchess
of Kent yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the studio
of Mr. Thornycroit yesterday, to inspect an historical
group of Queen Osburga encouraging her son, the future
Alfred the Great, to the pur,uit of literature.
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cam-
bridge House.
A deputation, consisting of Mr.Plumptre, Mr. Deedes,
Mr. Fuller, Mr. Frewen, Mr. A. J. B. Hope, Mr. Dodd,
Mr. Hodges, and Sir Edmund Filmer, had an interview
with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday, at the official residence of the First
Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street.
Captain Stanley Carr had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday. Mr. Charles Boyle had also an inter-
view with the Noble Earl yesterday, at the Colonial-
ffice.
Sir Thomas Birch, Bart., M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P.,
Mr. H. Tindal Atkinson, and a deputation of working
operative porters of Liverpool, had an interview with
the Right Hon. 11. Labouchere, yesterday, at the office of
the Board of Trade.
The Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday.
Mr. Herbert, .M.P., had an interview yesterday with
Lord John Russell.

SMITHFIELD MARKET.—On Tuesday the Commit-
tee, atter a prolonged investigation, extending over
twenty sittings, closed the inquiry, Mr. Mackinnon,
the chairman, intimating that the Committee had
come to the resolution to hear no further evidence,
and that at the next meeting they would consi-
der the resolutions it was their intention to come
to. The Committee, since their first assembling, have.
examined some 40 witnesses on the subject of the eligi-
bility of the market. Amongst those who gave evi-
dence in favour of its removal on public and sanitary
grounds were the Honourable F. Byng, Drs. Aldis,
Jones' Gavan, and Lankester, Professor Owen, Mr.
Grantham, Civil Engineer ; Mr. Norris, Com-
mon Councilman, Mr. Grainger, Messrs. Loft, Cooke,
Pocklington, and several graziers. Amongst those who
have given evidence in favour of its continuance on the
ground of its central situation being a convenience to
the trade and to the public, were, Mr. Teed, Common
C,,uncilman, Mr. Deputy Hicks, Messrs. Sharp, Hilyard,
Jacomb, Pocklington, Cox, Guerrier, Shank, Solomon,
Morgan, and a number of master butchers and salesmen.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO LIEUTENANT LEVETT OF
TEM IST LIFE GUARDS.—WhiIe pas,ing down Dean-
street, on Saturday last from Stanhope-gate, Lieutenant
Levett's horse shied at a carriage, and fell violently over
some iron railings placed against the wall of Dorchester-
house. When picked up the gallant officer was insen-
sible, but shortly recovered, and the only injury he re-
ceived was a cut on the inside of his left leg. The horse,
a very valuable one, was severely injured, one of the iron
spikes having entered
.the head below the left eye, and
torn away a large portion
nof the cheek bone, which has
been extracted. As this is by no means the first acci-
dent that has occurred at the same spot, it is to be hoped
that the iron railing now placed in so dangerous a posi-
tion will shortly be removed.