The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAIt.

The Queen bad a Dinner Party yesterday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company consisted of her Royal Hitrii-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Northumber-
land, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of
Buceleuch, Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, Lady
Adelaide Pa,/et, Earl of Errol, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount
and Viscountess Fitz Harris, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady Anne Maria Dawson,
Hon. Miss Paget, Baroness Lebzen, Earl of Fingall,
Hon. Charles A Murray, Hon. W. Cowper, Colonel
Wemyss, Colonel Wylde, Mr. Francis Seymour, Barons
de Lowenfels and de Gruben.

The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attended during dinner.

Her Majesty had afterwards an Evening Party. Soon
after ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert entered

the Picture Gallery, where the company were assembled.
Her Majesty's Chamber Band, in an elevated ante-room
at one end, playing " God save the Queen." The gallery
was opened on this occasion for the first time since the re-
cent alterations. It has been greatly improved, and now
presents a very magnificent and splendid appearance ; the
walls and ceiling have been re-coloured, and the latter has
been embellished with gilding, the rosettes, guilloches, and
the numerous ornaments and mouldings in the carved stucco
work of the different compartments into which the ceiling
is divided: having been richly gilt. The capitals of the
Corinthian columns in the alcove, the entablature which
they support, and all the ornaments of the superb doors,
panelled with plate glass, both at the sides and end of the
gallery, have also been newly gilt, the furniture is of crim-
son and gold, and several handsome ormolu chandeliers il-
luminated the apartment.
Among the company were Count Pollon, the Sardinian
Minister; Baron Munchhausen, the Hanoverian Minister;
the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires and Madame Lisboa;
Count and Countess Zichy Ferraris, the Spanish Minister;
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady A. Somerset;
Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, Marquis of Northamp-
ton and Lady Compton ; .viarquis and Marchioness
of Normanby; Countess of Minto and the Ladies
Elliot; Lord Melgund ; Earl of Ilchester and Lady
Strangways ; Countess of Uxbridge, the Ladies Paget,
Mr. Berkeley, and Miss Paget; Countess of Errol, Lady
Ida Hay, Countess and Lady W. Stanhope, Countess and
the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, Earl of Car-
digan, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess Cowper,
Earl of Euston and Lady Fitzroy, Lord Ipswich, Lord
and the Hon. Misses Foley, Lord Levesca., Lady Seymour,
Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Frances Cowper, Lord aul
Lady Ashley, Lady Barham and Hon. Miss Noel, lion.
Mr. Noel, Lord George Lennox, Lord Tullamore, Lord
Cremorne, Mr. Edward Howard, Miss V. Harcourt, Mr.
George E. Anson, Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, Hon. Mr. Ash-
ley, Mr. and the Hon. Miss Lyttletun.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had a dinner party
yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duke and Du-
chess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended
by Miss Kerr, were among toe company present.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by a nu-
merous suite, rode on horseback yesterday to Fulham.
Prince George of Cambridge left town yesterday morn-
ing for Brighton.
The Duke of Sussex visited the Princess Augusta on
Sunday.
The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester
took an airing together yesterday in a carriage.
Her Majesty graciously did Mr. Hayter the honour to
sit yesterday for the picture of the Royal marriage.
On Saturday her Majesty honoured Mr. E. H. Baily,
R. A., with a sitting for the nuptial medal.
The Duke of Sussex honoured Sir William Newton
with a sitting yesterday for the Coronation picture, wherein
his Royal Highness is represented doing homage.
Mr. Gillespie had yesterday an interview with Lord
John Russell at the Colonial-office.
Sir M. Wood and the City Remembrancer had an in-
terview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the
Home-office.

The Portuguese Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign-office.
The Earl of Albemarle and Lord Hill had interviews
with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Oowning•strect.
The Rev. R. Buchanan and Mr. Dunlop bad an inter-
view yesterday with Lord John Russell at the Colonial-
office.

The Lord Mayor, Sir E. Wilmot, M.P., Dr. Duncan,
Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Disney, and
Mr. Alston had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of
Normanoy at the Home office.
His Excellency Noury Effendi, Ambassador Extraordi-
nary, on a Special Mission from the Sultan to this Court,

arrived on Sunday, from Paris, at the Turkish Embat,sy in
Bryanston-squ3re.