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

CO URT CIRCULAR.

The Queen gave a State Ball last evening at Bucking•
ham Palace. The invitations comprised the whole of the
diplomatic corps, the Ladies and G. ntlemen of the Royal
Household, 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
erected in both for the quadrille band. 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 ball-rooms in particular, were brilliantly lit with
tlandstnne chandeliers and lustres, and the recesses were
tilled 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 4,fficera present were Sir George
Lee and Captain Phib is.

A Guardot Honour of the Foot Guards was on duty
at the g ,rden entrance.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived, attendtd by Lady Georgians Bathurst and
Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and
:heir Royal highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and
and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Srrelitz. wen-
tended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Edmond
Mildmay.
Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Hon.
Caroline Cavendish and the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Maids t.f
Honour in Waiting ; Colonel Berkeley Drummond,
Groom in Waiting; Colonel Wyld, Groom in Waiting
'o Prince Albert; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B
Phipps, Equerry in Waiting ; and Colonel Bouverie,
Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness.
llis Royal Highness Prince George was attended by
Captain J. Macd•inald.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold Count of Syra-
cuse, was attended by his Excellency Prince Castelcicala
and the Chevalier de Colums.

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
was also present.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was pre-
vented from attending her Majesty's Ball by a slight in-
disposition, under which her Royal Highness has been
suffering for some days.
Atter the arrival of the Royal visitors, the Queen and
P, ince Albert. accompanied by the 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, end the
Comptroller of the Household, preceding ber 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
tulle 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 general 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
4. quadrille, others of the Royal circle joining in the
dance.
Herr Struss's band was stationed in the ball-room.
The following waltzes, polkas, and quadrilles, amongst
others, were danced in this apartment:—
Waltzes Wanderers Lvbewohl, Lande's Farben,
Friedensbothen, Landlich sittlicb.
Polkas— Alice, Frit derike, Damen Souvenir.
Quadrilles—Almack's, Martha, Huldigung's.
Dancing commenced soon after ten o'clock in the
throne-room, where Coote and Tinney's bann of 30 per-
runners, conducted by Mr. Chas. Coote, were stationed.
Dining the evening, the following quadrilles, waltzes,
and polkas, amongst others, were danced in this

,aloon :
Quadrilles—Les Huguenots (first tune), Coote; Le
Vat d'Andorre, Musard; Zerlina, Browne; Enrico, Tin-
ney; Melanie. Coote.
Waltzes—Vernon" (first tune), Tinney; Star of the
Night, D'Albert; Victoria, Bosisis; Alberta, Tinney.
Polkas—Arundel, Coote; Emerald, WCarroll; Tam -
bour, Strauss; Ariel, 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 Majesty was attended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr and
Lieut.-Colonel the Hun. C. B. Phipps.
The Pt incet,ses Helena and Louisa visited the Duchess
Ott Kent yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the studio
Hof Mr. Thornycro't yesterday, to inspect an historical
group of Queen Osburga encouraging her son, the future
Alfred the Great, to the pursuit 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 B‘tyle had also an inter-
view with the Noble Eail cstisreray, at Ills o.l.aial-
, 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. H. 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, after 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, Gevun, and Lankester,. Professor Owen, Mr.
Grantham, Civil Engineer ; Mr. Norris, Com-
mon Councilman, Mr. Grainger, Messrs. Loft, Cooke,
Pockiington, and several graziers. Amongst those who
hare 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
Councilman, Mr. Deputy Hicks, Messrs. Sharp, Hilyard,
Jacomb, Pockiington, Cox, Guerrier, Shank, Solomon,
Morgan, and a number of master butchers and salesmen.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO LIEUTENANT LEVETT OF
THE IST LIFE GUARDS.--While pasving 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 wss insen-
sible, but shortly recoverei, 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 of 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-
tin i 1U ehortly be removed.