The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THIRSDAY.
Her Majesty walked this morning in the grounds
around the Castle.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airing.
Prince Albert went out shooting this morning,
accompanied by his Royal Highness the Hereditary
Prince of Parma, the Earl of Lincoln, Sir George
Grey, Sir Charles Wood, and the Right Hon. Tho-
mas Pemberton Leigh, and attended by Captain the
Hon. A. Gordon.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, attended
by his Gentlemen in waiting, Admiral Arnens and
Captain Gudicher, is expected to arrive at the Castle
this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty and Prince
Albert. _ . .

His Excellency Count Schimmelpenninck, the
Netherlands Minister, is also expected to arrive this
evening at the Castle.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, their Royal
Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of
Parma, her Serene Highness the Princess Amelia of
H(ihenlohe Schillingsfurst, his Excellency Count
Schimmelpenninck, Lady Fanny Howard, the Coun•
tess Lopez (in waiting on the Princess of Parma),
Baroness de Speth, the Countess of Jersey and Lady
Clementina Villiers, the Earl of Lincoln, the Right
Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. Sir
Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. T.
Pemberton Leigh, Admiral Arnens (in waiting on
the Prince of Orange), and Captain Guidicher (in
waiting on the Prince of Orange).
The Queen's private band was in attendance in the
Castle yesterday evening, and performed the following
pieces :
Overture, " Die Waldnymphe"...W. S. Bennett.

Finale, 2d Act, " ZauberflOte" ...Mozart.
Tanz—Signale Walzer ..Strauss.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Knesebeck, returned to his residence
at Kew, yesterday, from honouring the Marquis of
Winchester with a visit at his seat, Amport House,
Andover.

The following Cabinet Ministers dined with Lord
John Russell on Wednesday, at his residence in Ches-
ham-place :—The Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Mint°, Earl Grey, Sir Francis
Baring, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labou-
chere, Sir John Hobhouse, the Marquis of Clanricarde,
and the Earl of Carlisle.

Lady John Russell had an evening party on Wed-
nesday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday, at their office, in White-
hall-place.
A deputation, including the Rev. J. E. Tyler and
the Hon. and Rev. H. Montagu Villiers, had an inter-
view with the Earl of Carlisle yesterday, at the office
of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial•office, for the Governor of the Cape of
Good Hope.

SCOTTISH CONCERT.--The Fraser family (father,
two sons, and two daughters,) are at present giving
their musical entertainments, and they have brought
forward a pleasing novelty among their usual pieces.
The admirable poem of Barns, the " Cotter's Saturday
Nigh-," has been set to music, and arranged, in airs, cho•
ruses, solos, duetts, and trios, the character of each
being adapted to the sentiment of the part. This beau-
tifully mural piece could not have been gone through
with any effect were it not lightened and rendered inte-
resting by this arrangement,
and indeed the different
scenes presented in the poem require a varied mode of
harmonic treatment. The beautiful picture presented in
this composition deserves the attention of the public; it
is only to be wished it should be sufficiently appre-
ciated. In this part of the kingdom it may not be so
suited to gratify the audience as other compositions, but
all musical, like other entertainments, are rendered more
useful by their morality.
THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS' BALL.—The ball at
the London Tavern, last night, in aid of the funds of
that excellent institution, the Licensed Victuallers'
School, went off to the entire satisfaction of a very nu-
merous company. The ball-room was ()petted at seven
o'clock, and dancing, which embraced every variety of
quadrille, waltz, and polka, was kept up with unflagging
spirit for some hours after midnight.
THE CONVICT MITCHELL.—It appears that letters
have reached the Government from Bermuda, describing
the health of John Mitchell, the convict, as exceedingly
precarious. It has accordingly been determined that he
shall be removed to another colony, the climate of Ber-
muda being calculated to aggravate the symptoms of the
disease he labours under.

THE PARLIAMENT GINGERBREAD.—An amusing
absurdity has recently appeared under this facetious
cugnomen. The skeleton of the fly-leaf—for it is a
mere fly-leaf printed in the form of a regular Parlia-
mentary enactment—has been evidently suggested by the
comic Acts of Parliament lately published from the pen
of Albert Smith. Here, however, the similitude terminates.
The humour of the political squib is altogether un-
borrowed. It purports to be " An Act for Promoting the
more effectual Relief of the Resolute and Able-bodied
Poor, and the Destruction of Industry in Ireland." By
a singular blunder, the document is dated January Ist,
1849—Victoria Regina, Anne VI. and VII. One of
the best " points " is the tenth clause in the enactment,
worded as follows:—" X. And, further, whereas it has
been suggested to impose an Income-tax in Ireland (ex-
empting interests under 2001. per annum) in aid of the
Townland Rate aforesaid, to be collected and applied as
Parliment may direct, for the benefit of the Labouring
Classes and the general good, Now be it enacted, and
it is enacted, that it is infinitely better to draw on the
Imperial Treasury, or totidem verbis,' to dive into the
pocket of John Bull tbau to make Ireland support her
own poor, which, under such a system, she is well able
to do."

DEATH OF LADY C. MAITON.—Lady Charlotte
Mahon died on 'Tuesday night, at her residence in Ste-
phen's-green, Dublin. Her Ladyship was in her 85th
year. She was the youngest daughter of Peter, second
Earl of Altamont, sister of John Denis, first Marquis of
Sligo, the Right Hon. Denis Browne, and Anne Countess
of Desst t. Lady Charlotte married John Mahon, Esq.,
who died in 1834, brother of Sir Ross Mahon, of Cas-
tlegr.r.
We regret to bear of the death (after but a few
hours' illness) of the son of the Rev. Henry Chaplin,
nephew of Charles Chaplin, E. sq., of Blankney, and heir
to that gentleman's extensive landed estates. Thus,
another instance is added to the number of uncertainties
iu all human calculations.—Lincoln Times.
Lord Palmerston has attached Mr. Wolff, son of
the Rev. Dr. Wolff, to the regular staff of clerks em-
ployed at the Foreign-ofliceN that gentleman having pre-
viously been assistant to the head clerk.