The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court on Saturday afternoon at
Buckingham Palace.
Mr. Fortique. the Venezuelan Minister, had an
audience of the Queen to deliver a letter.
Mr. Gonzalez, Envoy Extraordinary an I Minister
Plenipotentiary, upon a special mission from the Queen
of Spaip, had an audience of her Majesty to take leave.
Their Excellencies were introduced by Viscount
Palmer: ton, G. C. 8., her Majesty's principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir
Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.

Her Majesty was attended by Viscount Torrington,
Lord in Waiting, and Major the Hon. George Kappel,
Groom in Waiting.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended Divine
Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St,
James's.. The Bishop of Rochester preached the ser-
mon, taking his text from St. John, chap. 8, verse 51.
The Prayers were read by the Rev. \Y. Povah ; the
Lessons and Litany were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley,
and the A'tar service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath, Rev.
Dr. Wesley, and the Rev. W. Povah. The musical
service was Nares in C. The Commandments, Sanctus,
and Chant, were Sale's. The Anthem was " Give the
King thy Judgment" (Boyce). Mr. J. B. Sale pre-
sided at the organ.
The Rev. Dr. Short was the Deputy Clerk of the
Closet in Waiting. The Royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount Erigcumbe, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon.
Miss Devereux, Viscount Torrington, Earl of Morley,
Hon. Major Keppe!, Lord Alfred Paget, and Sir E.
Bowater.

The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty
the Queen Dowager yesterday afternoon, at Marl.
borough House. Her Majesty came attended by the
Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, in an open barouche
and four. His Royal Highness arrived on horeeback,
attended by Sir E. Bowater and Lord Alfred Paget.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the British
Museum on Saturday afternoon, and were received on
their arrival by Sir fit nry Ellis, and other officers of
the institution.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended
by the Countess of Mount Elgcumbe, Hon. Miss De-
vereux, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Major Keppel,
Lord Alfred Pagct, and Sir Edward Bowater.
The Royal party remained two hours at the Museum.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty on Sa-
turday.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen
on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, Viscount Tor-
rington, Earl of Morley, Hon. Major Keppel, Lord
Alfred Paget, and Sir Edward Bowater, honoured the
Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, also honoured the
Opera with her preence.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
Divine Service yesterday morning- in Trinity Chapel,
Sloane-street. Lady Anne Maria Dawson and Colonel
Cooper were in waiting on her Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel
Keate, took a drive on Saturday to Richmond and
Kew. The Duchess of Gloucester paid a visit. to his
Royal Highness on Saturday. His Royal Highness
Prince Albert visited the Royal Duke yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Mi-
nisterc. The Council sat two hours.

A Deputation respecting coffee, headed by Mr. Pa ti-
son, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Labouchere, on
Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Despatches from Sir J. Franklin, Governor of V.in
Diemen's Land, and also from the Governor of Gibral-
tar, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Sir George Young and Mr. Lister had intervie•vs
with the Marquis of Normanby, on Saturday, at the
Home-office.

Mr. Hawes, M.P., and a Deputation, hid an inter-
view with Mr. Labouchere, on Saturday, at the Board
of Trade.

Captain Francis Seymcur left Buckingham Palace
on Saturday, for the country.
Viscount Melbourne had a Parliamentary dinner
party on Saturday, at his residence in South-street.
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The Earl of Minto had a party on Saturday, at his
residence in the Admiralty.

ODE ON THE DEATH OF MOORE.

Every reader of Pope will remember the well•know❑
line•—

Garth did not write his own Dispensary ;
all, too, who are familiar with the lives of our Poets,
must recollect a shame-faced claim made in Ireland to
rob Akenside of his right to the authorship of his well-
known Pleasures of Imagination. These were attempts
made while their authors were yet alive—but in the
Edinburgh Advertiser of the 19th of March we find in-
serted a tong correspondence, with credentials and affi-
davits of several kinds, to give to a new claimant the
far-famed ode on the burial of Sir John Moore--
Not a drum was heard, &c.
a poem heretofore attributed, without contradiction, to
the Rev. C. Wolfe, the author of a few poems of a very
plaintive and beautiful caste. The correspondence is
too long for insertion, but the drift and nature of it is
to this effect :—That the poem was. never claimed by
Wolfe, that it was first printed in the Newry Telegraph
of the 19th of April, 1817: that its real author was
Mr. A. Mackintosh. in 1816 a student at Edinburgh,
and at this day parish schoolmaster at Temple, wear
Edinburgh ; that a Mr. A. M. Hartley, of Glasgow,
had ',wad Mr. Mackintosh read it as his in 1816 or
1817 ; there are two other witnesses to the truth of
this, and the whole is vouched by the Rev. William
Muir, Assistant Minister at Temple, who seems to
have dragged Mr. Mackintosh from his comparative
obscurity into a little notice. Is there not something
suspicious in a claim so long delayed—resting on insuffi-
cient testimony to do more than uesettle a very univer-
sal belief that the Ri v. Charles Wolfe was its author—
and the two facts that the poem first appeared in an
Irish, not a Scottish nee spaper, and with the initials of
Mr. Wolfe :—C. W., not A. M. for Mr. Mackintosh ?
Wolfe might have written it—he has poems to attest
his abilities, but Mr. Mackintosh has none. We know,
however, that there was such a person as Single-speech
Hamilton, who made his ovt n one speech ; but we want
fresh vouchers before we believe in Mr. Single-song
Mackintosh.—Athenceum.

PRESENTATION OF A CUP TO
T. S. DUNCOMBE, ESQ.

On Saturday at twelve o'cock, the following gentle-
men, members of the Adelphi company, viz. Messrs.
Yates, Paul Bedford, Wilkinson, 0. Smith, Wright,
George Wieland, Lyon, and Cullingford, waited upon
Mr. Duncombe, Member for Finsbury, for the purpose
of presenting a richly traced and highly chased and cm•
bossed cup, weighing fifty-seven ounces, to the Hon.
Member for the important character he recently per-
formed in " St. Stephen's Chapel" in the cause of the
drama. The cup was subscribed for by the members of
the Adeiphi company, and cost fifty guineas, and was
got up in sp:endid style by Messrs. Green and Ward.
It had two massive handles ; on one side the arms of
Mr. Duneombe were beautifully engraA en, and on the
opposite side was inscribed—

" TO THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE, ESQ., M.P.
" MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

" This cup was presented as a small token of gratitude
for his exertions in the Commons House of Parlia-
ment in behalf of the drama and its professors, by
the following members of the Adelphi company."
Mr. Yates, in a very appropriate address, presented
the cup. and
Mr. Duncombe, in answer, defended the advantages
arising from a proper representation of the drama in all
civilized countries.

Mr. Keeley and Mr. Hemming (though unconnected
with tl e theatre) subscribed liberally to the cup.
Mr. Paul Bedford (on the depuation taking leave),
as an cctive member of the Drury-lane Theatrical Fu ad
Committee, solicited the honour of Mr. Duncorabe's
compv.ny to dinner on Wednesday next, at the annual
festiva of the fund. The Hon. Member, th.nugh he
would not make a positive promise to attce d, said he
would make the most strenuous effort to do so.

At a special meeting of the ;:iroprietors of the
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, held at Birming-
ham ou Tuesday, a proposition " That one morning and
one evening passenger train (in addition to the mail train
now running) be despatched front Birmingham to Glou-
cester every Sunday," was met by an amendment, " That
no other trains ace required on the Sabbath than these
now running for the conveyance of the mails." Upon a
disi,ion the amendment was carried by 41 to 30.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRICAL FUND'--
Bartley, one of the treasurers of this excellent institution,
has intimated to the Committee that his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge has appointed Thursday, the 29th
of April, for the celebration of its annual festival.
EFFECTS OF RAILWAYS.—There is, perhaps,
no town in the kingdom where tratjc has suffered to so
great an extent as that of Egham, through which, before
the Great Western and Southampton Railroads were
ore: ei, Le:ween seventy and eighty long stages passed
during the day. For some time past only one coach, the
Nisrth Devon, has proceeded through thetown, and that,
it in stated, will be " off the road,' and finally cease run-
ning, on Monday next. Several of the inns are entirely
closed, and the proprietors :of many of those which still
continue open are scarcely getting " salt for their per-
iidge." Inns which formerly let for from 100/. to 1501.
and more per annum, may '.tow be had for less than 30/.
and 401. for the same term,
REPRESENTATIQN OF MANCHESTER.--
About a month ago, we stated that the Manchester To-
ries had it in contemplation to propose Mr. Entwisle, the
son-in-law of Mr. Edward Loyd, as a second candidate
for the representation of the borough. This statement
the Manchester Chronicle affected to deny at the time,
and characterized it as " nonsensical and impertinent."
The fact, however, is, that a requisition has this week
been hawked about in various parts of the town, requesting
Mr. Entvvisle to offer himself as a candidate; so that our
information as to the intentions of the Conservatives turns
out to have been a little more accurate than the Chronicle.
.-Manchester Guardian.