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

COURT 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 Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council, and took his seat at the
board.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of thd
Council in Waiting.
At the Court, Mehmed Pacha, Ottoman Ambassador,,
had 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 Secretary
oi State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, her Majesty's Master
of the Ceremonies.

Commander William Winniett (Royal Navy), Lieut.-
Governor of the Guld Coast, was presented to the Queen,
at an audience, by Earl Grey, Secretary 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 Lana-
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 Hon. 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 Edgecumbe, Lady
in Waiting; the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon.
Elizabeth Frederica Lennox, Maids of Honour in Wait-

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ing;_ Lord Waterpark, 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 Waiting to
his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge received
the Queen, on alighting from ber carriage—the Master
of the Horse and the Lord Chamberlain also attending
at the entrance. Her Majesty took the arm of her Royal
uncle, and in the entrance bail was received by. Lady.
Georgina Bathurst, Lady in Waiting to the Duohess of
Gloucester; and by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Au-
gustus Liddell, Comptroller of the Household of her
Royal Highness, who conducted the, Queen and the
Prince to the State Drawing:room, where her Royal

Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
Alvesty.
U.'beir Royal Highnesses the Duchess Cambridge,of
feeeived fier
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Straits,
and the Princess Mary, were attended by Lady Augusta.
Cadogan, Lady in Waiting, and Mr. Edmond Midway,
Equerry in Waiting, and were also conducted to the State
Drawicg-room,_

The Duke of Wellington arrived early, Lord and Lady
John Russell, and Sir Robert and Miss 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 needlework, and presented to the Royal Duchess 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 rare and beautiful shrubs and
plants in flower.
Soon after the Queen's arrival, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, accompanied by her Majesty
and Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, -
the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelits,
and the Princess Mary, descended the grand staircase,-
and entered the ball-room.

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 band, on the arrival of her Majesty, played " God
save the 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 Majesty honouring the
Marquis of Granby with her hand; the opposite couple
being his Royal Highness the Prince Albert and her
Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meek-
lenburg-Strelitz.
Other quadrille and waltzes followed.
Refreshments were served in an ante-room during the
evening.

At 12 o'clock supper was served in the most recherché
style of elegance and splendour iu the banquet-room.
Among the company present were the Belgian Minister
and Madame Van de Weyer, the Danish Minister and
Countess do Reventlow and Madlle. de Reventlow, the
Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo, the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Russian Minister
and Baroness de Brunnow and Madlle. Olga de Lechner,
the Netherlands Minister and Madlle. Schimmelpen-
ninek, the Hanoverian Minister, the Prussian Minister,
and Madame Bunsen, Madlle. Bunsen, Prince Metter-
nich, Prince Schonburg, Baron Koller, Baron Harden-
burg, Earl and Countess Kinnoull, Lady Frances Ilay,
Countess of L'clific.ld, Lady Harriett Anson, Lord and
Lady John Russell, and Hon. Miss Lister, Lord Ed-
ward Howard, the Duke of Wellington, Marchioness
of Westminster, Lady O. Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor,
Captain Mercer, Marquis of Breadalbane, Lady An -
gusta Gordon and .b 11666 Kennedy Erskine, Coun-
tess of Morton, Lady Ellen Douglas, Lord and Lady
Bloomfield, Lady Georgina Bathurst, Duke and Duchess
of Norfolk and Lady A. 'Toward, Lady Caroline
and Lady Elizibrth Murray, Lord and Ludy Fitzroy
Somerset an't Miss Somerset, Marchioness of Clanri-
carde, Lady Emily de Burgh, Sir James and Miss Gra-
ham, Lady Howard do Walden, Hon. 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 Lady
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 Clive, Countess of Rosebery and Lady Louisa
Primrose, Viscount Hawarden, Miss A. Maude,
Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Duchess of
Northumberland, Lady Cottenham, Hon. Miss Pepys,
Hon. Mr. Pepys, Lord de Lisle, Hon. Miss Sidney,
Earl of Besborough, Lady H. Ponsonby, Lieutenant-
Colonel and Lion. Airs. 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- -
tnerset, Miss Somerset, Captain Steele, Lady and Miss
De Ros, Sir George Couper, 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
Hardinge, Hon. Mr. Hardinge, Lord Elphinstone, Mar-
chioness of Londonderry, Lady A. Vane, Countess
Brownlow, Lady Caroline Cust, Miss Macdonald, Mr.
Fitzroy, Duchess of Buccleucb, 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 Eddiabury 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 Cholmondeley, Viscountess Palmerston,
Lord and Hon. 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 Miss Peel,
Viscount and Lady B. Dupplin, Mr. H. Ponsonby, Earl
Pomfret,.Earl and Countess of Wilton, Captain Dal-
rymple, Mr. Knightley, Earl and Countess Desart, Miss
Seymour, Viscount Canterbury, Mr. F. Peel, Lord
Ossulton, Lady Lyndhurst, Hon. Miss Copley, Mr.
Egerton, and Lord and Lady William Graham.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert took the chair at
the annual meeting of the Trustees and Managers of
the St. Martin's Provident Institution, of which his
Royal Highness is President, on They afternoon, at
three o'clock.
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Highness the Duchess of Kent has been
cold from attending the
of her Royal evening
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Her Royal . returned to Buckingham Palace
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deapructhabiytoinoaneeonsisting of the following--the Earl
of Gleugall, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of King-
ston, Lord Cremorne, Sir IL Winston Barron, Bart.,
M.P., Sir John Guest, Bart., M.P., Mr. Wm. Monsen,
M.P.., Mr.' R. Lelor Sheil, M.P., Mr. J. Sadler, M.P.,
Mr. I'. Meagher, M.P., Mr. S. Dickson, M.P., Mr. P.
L. Butler, M.P.. and.
,Major Snow, Messrs. Galway,
Sargent, and Massey, directors , 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., bad an interview, at the Trea-
sury, with thhe Right Hun. W. G. Havter, yesterday,
on business relating to the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
The Vice-Warden of thi Stannary Courts, Mr. Gardi-
ner, and Sir Charles Lemon, had an interview with the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the office of the Board of
Trade, yesterday.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday, and commenced the hearing of " appeal from
Van Diemen's Land, " Montagu v. The Governor and
Council of Van Diemea's Land.

PRESERVED MEATS.—The vessel LouiieCliiirei,
arrived at one of the wharfs on the river side, from
Charante, has brought 34,197 packages of preserved
meats, the produce of France. These preserved meats,
which are of considerable service as ships' stores, are not
usually imported in such large quantities from France,
being generally from Central Germany, and the impel.
Wiwi is 9f some interest.