The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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The Queen went in state yesterday to the House of Lords,
to open the Session of earliament with a speech from the
Throne. The State Procession was formed at Buckingham
Palace at a quarter before two o'clock, in the following
order :
A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Mr. Heneage,
Mr. Des Voeux, and Mr. Greville, Gentlemen Ushers; and
Captain Sadler, Exon of the Yeoman Guard.
A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying Captain the
Hon. Joseph Denman, Groom in waiting; Colonel Wylde,
Groom in waiting to the Prince; and Messrs. George Ca-
meron and Alfred Crofton, Pages of Honour.
A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying Captain the
Hon. Alexander Gordon, Equerry in waiting to the Prince-,
and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon, Charles B. Phipps, Equerry in
waiting.

A carriage, drawn by six bays, conveying Lord Alfred
Paget, Clerk Marshall; Colonel Thornton, Field Officer in
Brigade in waiting; the Right Hon. William Sebright Las-
celles Comptroller of the Household ; and Colonel Hall, Gold
Stick in waiting.
A carriage, drawn by six bays 2 conveying Lord Elphin-
stone, G.C.H., Lord in waiting; Lord George Lennox, Lord
in waiting to the Prince ; and Lord Marcus Hill, Treasurer of
the Household.

A carriage, drawn by six black horses, conveying the
Viscountess Jocelyn (Lady in waiting), the Earl Fortescue
(Lord Steward), Viscount Combermere, G.C.B. (Gold Stick
in waiting), and the Marquis of Abercorn, K,G. (Groom of
the St,,le to the Prince).
The Queen's Marshalmen, two and two.
The Queen's Footmen in State liveries, two and two.
A party of the Yeomen Guard.
The State coach, drawn by eight cream-coloured horses,
conveying her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the
Prince Albert, KG., the Duchess of Sutherland (Mistress of
the Robes), and the Duke of Norfolk, K.G. (Master of the
Horse).

Her Majesty and the Prince were conducted to their car-
riage-by the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain.
The Queen's Guard (of the Goot Guards), stationed on the
lawn in the garden of the Palace, received the Sovereign
with the usual honours, the band playing " God save the
Queen."

The Crown was conveyed to the House of Lords by Sir
William Martin, Gentleman Usher.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert returned to Buckingham
Palace at three o'clock, and were received on alighting from
their carriage by the Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Cham-
berlain,

- The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Vicountess
Jocelyn (Lady in Waiting), left town in a carriage and four
at twenty minutes past four o'clock yesterday afternoon for
Windsor Castle. The royal suite consisted of Lord Elphin-
stone, Major-General Bowles, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, Captain the Hon. Joseph Renman, and Lord
Alfred Paget.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted to
the garden entrance by the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham-
berlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole,
Lord George Lennox, and Captain the Hon. A. Gordon.
The august party went from Buckingham Palace to Pad-
dington, and left by a special train on the Great Western
Railway for Slough.
Mr. Thornycroft had the honour to submit to the Queen
two statues in bronze—one, of .his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred, and one, of her Royal Highness the Princess Alice,
which received her Majesty's gracious approval.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
attended by the Lord and Lady in waiting, the Master of
the Household, the Groom in waiting, and the Equery in
waiting, arrived at the Castle from the Slough station, at
twenty minutes past five o'clock this afternoon.
Mr. Gregory, Governor of the Bahama Islands, left town
yesterday to embark for those colonies.
The Master-General of the Ordnance had an interview
with the Chanceller of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. John
Wood had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
The usual search under the Houses of Parliament was made
yesterday morning by Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., Gentle-
man Usher of the Black Rod (officiating for Lord Willoughby
de Eresby), attended by a party of the Yeoman Guard, under
the command of Captain Sadler.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colo-
nial- office for the Governors of the West India Colonies.