The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-30 00:00:00

COST CIRCULAR.
) The Queen held a Privy Council and Court, at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Privy
Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of
State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments,
the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, and the Master of the Horse.
Sir David Dundas (Judge Advocate General) was, by
command of the Qiteen, sworn of het Majesty's Jost
Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the
board.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At the Court, Mehmed Pacha, Ottoman Ambassador,
hr.d an audience of her Majesty, to deliver a letter from
the Sultan. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal &ere:err
of State for Foreign Affairs. and condeated by Celontl
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her I.l4jesty s Master
of the Ceremonies.

Commander William Winniett (Royal Navy), Mout..
Governor of the Gold Coast, was presented to the Queen,
at an audience, by Earl Grey, Sccretary of State for the
Colonies.
The Right Hon. Sir David Dundas, Judge Advocate--.
General, had an audience of the Queen, and submitted to
her Majesty the proceedings of some courts-martial. ,
The Queen gave audience to the Marquis of ,Lans-
downe and Lord John Russell.

The Court was attended by the Marquis of London-
derry, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Treasurer of the
Household; the Vice-Chamberlain; the Comptroller of
the Household; Lord Waterpark, Lord in Waiting; and
Lieut.-Colonel the llon.Robert Boyle, Groom in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave
a grand fete to the Queen yesterday evening, at Glou-
cester House.

The distinguished circle honoured with invitations to
meet her Majesty, were invited at nine o'clock, and had
nearly all arrived previous to the Queen, Prince Albert-,
and the Royal suite.:
At twenty minutes before ten o'clock her Majesty
and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert arrived,
attended by the Countess of Mount Edg* cumbe, Lady
in Waiting; the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Kowa
Elizabeth Frederica Lennox, Maids of Honour in Wait-
.
ing; Lord Weterpark, Lord in Waiting; Lieutenant,-
Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle, Groom in Waiting;
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Equerry in
Waiting; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in. W siting to
his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge received
the Qte en, on alighting from' her carriage—the Master
'of the Horse and the Lord Chamberlain.also attending
at the entran- - hleiesty took the arm of her RoYel--
uncle, and it., 11. waa.received by
Georgina Ba. '''tiny" -,the ~by.
,of
-.-.olAcester; • ►,palliekthe..lloniAsete.•
gustus Lidda 'the IToniehekl
Roy al Hi rletor on
ted the Queen and the
Prince to Drawing-room, -where her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester received her
Majesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
the liereditiry Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
and the Princess Mary, were attended by Lady Augusts
Cadogan, Lady in Waiting, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay,
Equerry in Welting, and were also conducted to, the State
Drawing-room.
The Duke of Wellington arrived early, Lord and Lady
John Russell, and Sir Robert arediMiis Peel, were also
among the visitors.
The State Drawing-room, in which the reception took
place, was covered with a very magnificent carpet, worked
in needle-work, and presented to thelloial Duchcss by
84 ladies, every lady having worked a compartment. :This
room, and the other saloons, were brilliantly lit with
handsome chandeliers and branches, and Were most taste-
fully
decorated' with rsre 'and beautiful shrubs.. .and
plants in flower.
Soon after the Queen's arrival; her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, accorepanied by ber Majesty
and Prince Albert, the -Duke- and-Duchess-of-Cambridge,
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz,
and the Princess Mary, descended- the grand staircase,
and entered the ball-room. - • I
Strauss's quadrille band was in attendance in a tem-
porary tent at one end of this apartment, the lower part
of the tent having a screen formed of flowering plants.
The baud, on the arrival of her Majesty, played " God
save She Queen," and on the entrance- of the august
party repeated the National Anthem.
A quadrille was formed, and the ball was opened
shortly before • 10 o'clock, her Mejeety hervanfingr the
Marquis of Granby with her hand; the opposite conide
being:his Royal Highness • the Prince 'Albert and -her
Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of. Meek.
lenburg-Strelitz. t• .
Other quadrille and-wisltses followed.
Refreshments were 'served in an ante-room during the
evening.
At 12 o'clock supper was served in the most rechcrat
style of elegince ancl'splendour in the banquet-room.
Ainenglhe company present were the Belgian Minister
and Madame Van de Weyer: the-Danish- Ministerand
Countess de Reventlow and 3dadlle. de Reventlow, the
Austrian. Minister and Countess Colloredo, the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Ru-ssian Minister
and Baroness de Biunnow and Madlle. Olga de Lechner,
the Netherlands Minister and Madlle. Schimmelpen-
nitwit, the Hanoverian Minister, the Prussian Minister,
and Madame Bunsen, "Dladlle. Bunsen, yrince Metter-
nich, Prince Schonburg, Baron Koller, Baron Hardin-
burg, Earl and Countess Kinnoull, Lady Frances Hay..
Countess of Lichfield, Lady Harriett Anson, Lord and
Lady John Russell, and Hon. Miss Lister, Lord Ed-
ward Howard, the Duke of Wellington, Marchioness
of Westminster, Lady 0. Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor,
Captain Mercer, Marquis of Breadalbane, Lady Au-
gusta Gordon and Misses Kennedy Erskine, Coun-
tess of Morton, Lady Ellen Douglas, Lord and Lady
Bloomfield, Lady Georgina Bathurst, Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk and- Lady A. Howard, Lady Caroline
and Lady Elizabeth Murray, Lord and Lady Fitzroy
Somerset and Miss Somerset, Marchioness of Clanri-
carde, Lady Emily de Burgh, Sir Jamea and Miss Gra-
ham, Lady Howard de Walden, Hen. Miss Ellis,
Countess of Minto, the Ladies Elliott, Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro, Miss Cavendish, Countess St.
Germans, Lady Louisa Eliot, Lord Eliot, Mr. and Lidy
Mildred Hope, Lady Harriet and Miss Corry, Countess
of Chichester, Lady H. Pelham, Mr. Charles Grenfell,
Earl of Verulam, Lord Redesdale, Hon. Miss Mitford,
Marquis of Granby, Lord John Manners, Lady and
Miss Carrington, Mr. Robert and Lady Harriet Clive,
Miss Clire, Countess of Rose bery and Lady Louisa
Primrose, Viscount Hawarden, Miss A. Mande,
Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Duchess of
Northumberland, Lady Cottenham, Hon. Miss Pepys,
HOD. Mr. Pepys, Lord de Lisle, lion. Miss Sidney,
Earl of Besborough, Lady H. Ponsonby, Lieutenant-
Colonel and Hon. Mrs. A. Liddell, Lord George Len-
nox, Mrs. and Miss Morier, Hon. Miss C. Ellis, Lord
Chewton, Earl Darnley, Lord George and Lady 'Ade-
laide Paget, Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementina Vil-
liers, Earl Powis, Lady Louisa Herbert, Lord Brooke,
Lady Caroline and Miss Lascelles, Lady Charles So-
merset. Miss Somerset, Captain Steele, Lady and Miss
Do Ros, Sir George Cooper, Lord James P. Murray,
Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Frances Bruce, Lady and
Miss Seymour, Colonel F. H. Seymour, Earl and Coun-
tess Bruce, Marchioness Breadalbane, Miss Baillie, Lord
and Lady Charles Wellesley, Viscountess and Hon. Miss
Ilardinge, Hon. Mr. Hardinge, Lord Elphinstone, Mar-
chioness of Londonderry, Lady A. Vane, Countess
Browelow, Lady Caroline Cust, Miss Macdonald, Mr.
Fitzroy, Duchess of Buccleuch, Miss Cust, Viscountess
and Miss Barrington, Lady Francis Legge, Countess
Harewood, Lady L. Lascelles, Lord Hinton, Marquis
and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lady Bulwer, Lord
Alfred Churchill, Duchess of Richmond, Lady Caroline
Gordon Lennox, Lord Lennox, M.P., Captain Francis
Seymour, Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Lord and
Lady Eddisbury and Honourable Miss Stanley, Colonel
Seymour, Captain Seymour, Duchess of Grafton, Earl
of Euston, Lady Seymour, Honourable H. St. Maur,
Marchioness of Ailesbury, Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, Lady Somerset, Dowager Marchioness of Ely,
the Ladies Loftus, Lady and Miss Ponsonby, Mr. and
Lady Sarah Ckolmondeley, Viscountess Palmerston,
Lord and lion. Miss Foley, Lord "Cantilupe, Lady
Frances Clinton, Miss Seymour, Countess of Westmore-
land, Lord Burghersh, Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady
Rachel Russell, Right Hon. Sir Robert and Miis Peel,
Viscount and Lady B. Dupplin,' Mr. H. Ponsonby, Earl
Pomfret, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Captain Dal-
rymple, Mr. Kuigbtley, Earl and Countess Desert, Mies
Seymour, Viscount Canterbury, Mr. F. Peel, Lord
Ossulton, Lady Lyndhurst, Hon. Miss Copley, Mr,
Egerton, and Lord and Lady William Graham.
Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert took the chair at
the annual meeting of the Trustees and. Ittapsice.,...rs of
the St. Martin's Provident Institution, 0f.._"113°12., 1411
Royal Highness is President, on Thursday attetneues, et 4
three o'clock.
vael Ho,cigjohcnke.ss returned to Buckingham Pelage
hnoss the Duchess of Kent has-beana t Ls ° u Rtotiy
prevented alligsevere cold from attending the evening
party
Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester'
o
yelisteerrdilaf yh,Yl:ar Yaind likewise from dining with the Marquis..
and Marchioness of Westminster,on the 17th instunt.
A deputation consisting of the following .—the Earl
of Gleugall, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Kiog-
stou, Lord Cremorne, Sir H. Winston Barron, Bart.,
M.P., Sir John Guest, Bad., M.P., Mr. Wm. Monsen,
M.P., Mr. R. Labor Sheil, M.P., Mr. J. Sadler, -M.P.,
Mr. T. Meagher, M.P., Mr. S. Dickson, M.P., Mr. P.
L. Butler, M.P., and Major Snow, Messrs. Galway,
Sargent, and Massey, directors of the Waterford and
Limerick Railway, with Mr. Saunders, the secretary,
had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday.
The Noble Lord was accompanied by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
A deputation of the Education Committee of the
Free Church of Scotland had an interview with the
Lord President of the Council, at the Council-office, yes-
terday.
Mr. Anderson, M.P., had an interview, at the Trea-
sury, with thhe Right Hon. W. G. Havter, yesterds.r,
on business relating to the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
The Vice-Warden of the Stannary Courts, Mr.
Gardi-
ner, and Sir Charles Lemon, had an interview with the
Right lion. H. Labouchere, at the office of the Bosrd of
Trade, yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy
Council sat yes-
terday, and commenced the hearing of an appeal from
Van Diernen's Land, 's Montag'? v. The Governor and
Council of Van Diemen's Land.

PRESERVED NUATS.—The vessel Louise Cliir
arrived at one of the wharfs on the river aide, from
Charante, has br0ught.34,197 packages of preserved
meats, the produce of France. These , preserved meats,
which are of considerable service as ships' stores, are not
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