The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIitUULAR.

The Queen held a Court on Saturday afterno.in at
Buckingham Palace.
His Excellency the Duke de Broglie had an audience
of her Majesty, to deliver his credentials as Ambassador
Extraordinary fr An his Majesty the King of the
French. His Excellency was introduced ny Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Mas-
ter of the Ceremonies.

The Queen gave audience to Viscount Palmerston.
Her Majesty was attended by Lord Bjron, Lord in
Waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback
on Saturday, attended by the 11,n. Miss Murray, Colo-
nel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and their Royal
Highnesses the Herenitary Grand Duke and Lirand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited the Queen and Prince
Albert on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her
Majesty and her Royal Consort.
His Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh vi-
sited the Queen on Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at-
tended by Baron de Laner, Count Oriola and Count
Groeben, visited her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians
on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
His .Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by
Dr. Carswell, returned to Buckingham Palace from
Claro,nont, at half-past five o'clock on Saturday alter
noon.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured
the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suites con-
sisted of the Countess of Desert, the Countess Vander-
straten, Lord Byron, Major de Moerkerke, Colonel
Buckley, and Lieut...colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Sax: Weimar, and Prince Peter
of Oldenburgh, honoured the performance at her
Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, with her
presence. Her Majesty and their Royal Highnesses
were attended by the Countess of Sheffield, the Countess
of Assenburg, Hon. William Ashley, Count de Beust,
and Baron de Ziegesar. Their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron
Hammerstein, also honoured the performance with their
presence.

- Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin.
cessAlice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
took a carriage drive on Saturday, and their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Roy al took
pony and walking exercise. Yesterday the Royal
chit 'ren took their usual airings.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the Bel-
gians, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday,
in the private chapel in Buckingham 'Palace. The Hon.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at
Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians yesterday.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and his Royal
Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar,
attended Divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal.
St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev.
J. V. Porah, and the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore.
The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley,
from St. Luke. chap. 8, verse 2. The anthem was " 0
Lord give ear" (Greeu). The sacrament was adminis-
tered by the Rev. Dr. Wesley.
Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Shef-
field and the Hon. William Ashley. The Hereditary
Grand Duke was attended by Count de Beust.
The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in
waiting. Among the nobility present were Ladies
Portescue, Wilton, and St. Germans, the Duke of Beau-
fort, the Marquises of Angleaea Ormonde, and Win-
chester ; Lords Bandon, St. Germans, Wilton, and
Cawdor.

The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans, and the Marquis of Anglesfi,a, attended the
early service, yesterday. in the Chapel ROS'al. St. James's.
The Rev. Mr. Haden officiated, and preached the sermon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on Saturday, at
Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at-
tended Divine service, yesterday, in St. Michael's Church,
Chester-square. Baron Knesebeck and Baroness Ham-
merstein were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses.
The Duke of Cambridge attended D viue service, yes-
terday, in Grosvenor Chapel. Sir William Davison was
in waiting on his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured Viscountess
Palmerston with her company on Saturday evening, at
her residence in Carlton-gardens.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at-
tended by Baron Lauer, Count Oriula, and Count i;roe-
hen, visited the Exhibition of Drawings of India and the
Punjaub, by the Hon. Charles Hardinge, on Saturday, ut
Mr. McLean's gallery.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia
honoured the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian
Minister, with
his company at dinner, on Saturday, at his residence in
Carlton House-terrace.

Mr. Bond Cabbell, M.P., and Colonel Reid, had an
interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the
.Home-office.

The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmer-
ston on Saturday, at the Foreign Office.
Baron de Ziegeser left town yesterday for the Con-
tinent.

Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial Office for the Governor General of Canada,
and also fur the Governors of the other North Ameri-
can Provinces.
Sir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hammick, and Mr. Ed-
ward Rushton, had interviews with Sir George Grey on
Saturday at the Home Office.

FOREIGN CORN AND HARVEST.

Eight vessels have entered the harbour of Antwerp
laden with rye, and one with wheat.

Our markets on Wednesday were not well sup-
plied, and there were only 250 sacks of potatoes,
which were sold at a lower price than at Friday's
market. In potatoes there was, as might have been
expected, a great fall in the price. The old potatoes
did not find many purchasers, in spite of the manoeuvres
of certain sellers. New potatoes were sold retail
at 12 to 14 centimes per kilogramme. Vegetables of
every kind follow the general movement in becoming
much cheaper, caused by the prospect of the most
magnificent and abundant harvest which we have
seen for years.

The Prussian State Gazette publishes the medium
prices of corn during the month of May in the diffe-
rent provinces of the Prussian monarchy, The
medium price of corn was—
In the Province of Prussia l6f,
Posen ... l7f,
Brandenberg
17f, 25c.
Porrnerania...
„ Silesia . l6f. 25e,
Saxe I6E 62c.
Westphalia ... 21f• 60c.
Rhenish Provin es
We thus see that in the Rhenish Provinces provi-
visions obtained the highest price.
COPENHAGEN, 'TUNE 20.—1 t is stated that a decree
is about to be published which will prohibit the sales
of standing corn in Denmark. This decree not only
imposes heavy fines for every breach, but sets aside all
contracts which may have been already made. The
ships Recta and Bellona have returned from Russia,
richly laden with corn, and immediately after lending
their precious freight, have returned to the storeh,,use
of Russia for a fresh supply. The prices of corn have
again fallen. The magnificent appearance of the
crops, the continued aids afforded to our poor, as well
as the continued free importation and suspension of
the mill system, gives us every prospect of a happy
future.

A CIDER DRINKER.—An old man, named Abra-
ham Hillard, approaching fourscore, who has lief d in the
family of the Hobnails, large farmers, at Glastonbury,
for the last forty years, as farm bailiff, has bad through
the whole of that time one gallon of cider daily allowed
for his own drinking, from his master's stores, and
though he is now too aged to work, he is Still seen going
for his favourite beverage. The father of the present
Mr. Holman, at his death, left in his will Bs. per week,
to be given to this faithful servant as Lug as he lived ;
this he (the old man) regularly has been paid, and his
daily potation of cider drawn fur h.m also; during that
forty years this man must have received 14,600 gallons
or 270 hogsheads 20 gallons, which at 40s. the hogs-
head, would have realised 540/. and up wards.—Sherborne
Journal.

DEATH OF A CHILD BY SWALLOWING A CHERRY-
STONE.—OH Thursday afternoon the following extraor.
.dinary and fatal case was admitted into St. Thomas's
.Hospital. It appears that the deceased, a remarkably
one girl, about seven years old, named Emily Harriet
Durban, whose friends reside in George-street, Croy
don, on the morning of Friday last, when eating some
fruit, accidentally swallowed a cherrystone, and on the
following day, feeling some ill effects in consequence,
complained to her parents, and Mr. Bird, the surgeon,
of Croydon, was called, and tried every means to extract
the stone, but without success. The little creature grew
worse, and ultimately, at the recommendation of Mr.
Bird, she was conveyed tc the above hospital, and placed
under the charge of Mr. Barnewell, cne of the resident
medical officers, who, with the assistance of the dresser,
was about to introduce the probe, but upon seeing this
the deceased made a sudden turn, and was seized with
convulsive efforts, and expired in a few moments.
Shoals of fellows are tramping the county, attempt-
ing to entrap and deceive the unwary. Some represent
themselves as surgeons ; others as broken-down clerks ;
others, again, as persecuted and banished schoolmasters
from Ireland. In their wake come others who do not
assume so lofty pretensions, but content themselves with
selling religious tracts to some and dissolute sot.gs to
others. These fellows an- undoubtedly of the same fra-
ternity. One fellow, who represented himself as an
Irish schoolmaster, was 1., cognised as being one of the.
London "runners," although be had been, according to
his own version, imported only a fortnight. When
taxed with the fact, he politely walked away. All
would do well to refuse any relief to such vagabonds, who
are impostors from London on their summer tour.—
Rrighion Gazette.

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INSTALLATION AT CAMBRIDU't:

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)
The interesting and brilliant festivities connected
with the installation of his Royal Highness Prince
Albeit as Chancellor of this University are now close
upon us ; and as the time approaches more near, more
evident become the bustle of preparation and the fever
of expectation. From one end of the town to the
other the note of preparation is loudly heard : one
cannot turn a corner of a street without running
against a ladder, or a can of paint, or a deal plank.
Many and many a day is it since there has been in
this good town of Cambridge so universal a fever, so
thorough a cleansing, so general a beautification, and
so perfect an upset of all ordinary domestic matters as
that which prevails at this present time of writing.
Everybody and everything is in motion ; and if one
could but penetrate a little behind the scenes, a rare
display should we find of puzzled minds and excited
feelings. In a word, the whole town is alive, and no-
thing is talked of or thought of but the approaching
royal visit, and the best means of getting ready for it,
and obtaining the most enjoyment out of it when it
arrives. .

At the conclusion of this account we append a short
programme of the proceedings, and shall now proceed
to report progress in the preparations. Ani first of
all of