The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the
Princess of Oldenburgh, had an audience of the Queen.
Their Imperial Highnesses wore introduced by Viscount
Palmerston,`.G.C.B., her Majesty's Principal Secretarylof
State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel
the Hon. Sir E. Cast, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of
the Ceremonies. M. de Koudriaffsky, of the Russian
Legation. attended their Imperial Highnesses.
The Hon. William Temple, her Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples, was presented
to the Queen, at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston,
on his arrival from Naples, on temporary leave of
absence.

The Queen gave audience to Viscount Palmerston.
tier Majesty was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the
Palace of Westminster.

His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace at a
quarter before three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting Colonel Bouverie. The Commissioners present
were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Canning, Vis-
count Mahon, Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Russell,
Lord Colborne, Lord Ashburton, the Right Hon. the
Speaker, Mr. Hallam, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Rogers. The
Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at six o'clock.
Her Majesty and the Queen of the Belgians, accompa-
nied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice,
took an airing in an open carriage yesterday. The
Equerry in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, attended on
horseback.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Queen of the Belgians, honoured her Majesty's Theatre
with their presence last evening. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Countess of Desart, Countess Vanderstra-
ten, Lady Carolina Cocks, Lord Byron, Major de Moer-
kerke, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bouverie.
The Countess of Desart has succeeded the Mar-
zlionese of Douro as the Lady in waiting to the Queen.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
ind Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar left town yester-
day morning, on a tour of visits to different Noblemen.
their Royal Highnesses left Marlborough House, the
residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, shortly
before nine o'clock, attended by the Countess of Assen •
burg, Count de Beust, and Baron de Ziegesar, and
proceeded to the terminus of the London and North-
Western Railway, in Euston-square.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by Miss
Seymour and Earl Howe, left town yesterday morning
for bar residence Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her
Majesty returned to marinorougb Hanna i p the evening.
is Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honourea.
the Right Hon. Sir William Fremantle with his com-
pany at dinner yesterday evening at his residence in
Stanhope-street.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured the per-
formance at ,the Royal Italian Opera House with her
presence yesterday evening.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign-
office.

The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George
Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl
of Auckland, Sir John Ilobhouse, the Earl of Claren-
don, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis or
Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat two hours.
The British Museum Commissioners held their first
meeting yesterday at Gwydyr House, Whitehall. The
Commissioners present were the Earl of Ellesmere, the
Bishop of Norwich, Lord Langdale, Lord Wrottesley,
the Lord Advocate, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. R. M. Milnes,
and Mr. Samuel Rogers.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday. The Master General of the Ordnance had
also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at his,
official residence in Downing-street.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury consecrated,
yesterday, in Westminster Abbey, the four new Colo-
❑ial Bishops, viz., the Bishop of the Cape of Good Hope,
the Bishop of Newcastle (Australia), the Bishop of
Adelaide, and the Bishop of Melbourne.

MIDDLESEX lIOsPITAL.—The ballot or the election
of a managing committee for the Middlesex Hospital, a
measure recommended by a large majority at the gene-
ral meeting of the governors on the 7th of May last, will
take place on Thursday next, the Ist of July, between
the hours of two and four o'clock in the afternoon. It
is necessary that the governors of this excellent institu
Lion should understand that the interests of the hospital
require their support, for the list of governors recom-
mended in the requisition signed by the Duke of North-
umberland, Viscount Beresford, Lieutenant-General Sir
James Bathurst, Sir Thomas Dyke Ackland, Sir Robert
Harry Inglis and other influential governors of the
hospital. The names contained in the above list are the
same as those originally proposed by the Hon. Captain
Maude, R.N., and we are informed that his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge has signified his intention
to attend and support the list which has received the re-
commendation of the Duke of Northumberland and the
governors above mentioned.
THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION l?'OR THE RELIEF OF
AGED AND INFIRM TAILORS.—OH Monday an adjourned
general meeting of the above institution was held at the
Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, to receive a
report, and to elect five pensioners from a list of twenty-
seven candidates; Mr. Chambers in the chair. The re-
port stated, that the permanent fund amounted to
12,5031. Bs. 7d., and there was a balance in hand of 5001.
At the dinner, at which Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.,
presided, 7841. 4s. 6d. was contributed, and at a subse-
quent dinner of the journeymen, the subscriptions
amounted to 1451. 2s. With the pensioners to be elected,
there would be fifty-four inmates in the asylum, includ-
ing eight widows. The report was received and adopted,
when Mr. Wain, of the firm of Messrs. Stults and Co.,
was elected a trustee, in the room of the late Mr. S.
Housley, who was connected with the same firm. The
election then proceeded.
TEMPORA MUTANTUR !—The Pope has altered the
manner of reckoning time at Rome, where the people
used the Italian mode of counting twenty-four hours,
from half an hour before sunset, and has ordered the
public clock to be adapted to the common European
reckoning.

LIBERALITY OF TIIE PRESENT Pomp,
IIVe read in
the Mondo Illustrato of Rome:—" A VhAaithy nobleman
desired to constitute one of his two sons his universal
legatee, on condition that he would make a sacrifice of
part of his property to the church. The two sons,
knowing that their father was very eccentric, deter-
mined, whatever will he might make, to divide his
fortune between them. Irritated at this, the father
made a secret will, by which he left a very small sum
indeed to his two sons, and the bulk of his property to
the priest who should happen to say the first mass in
the church in which his funeral ceremony was to take
place. This will he deposited with a notary. On his
death, which took place shortly after, the notary opened
the will, and struck by its singularity, took it to the
Pope. It was late at night that his Holiness became
acquainted with it, but before daylight next morning he
hastened to the church at which the funeral ceremony
was to take place, caused the doors to be opened by
stating who be was, and celebrated the sacrifice of the
mass before any priest had arrived. He thus became
legally entitled to the property of the deceased, and
immediately made it all over to the two sons."
At Derrynane House chapel mass is celebrated
every morning by the Rev. J. O'Sullivan, who resides in
the Abbey. On the right of the altar is a large chair of
pew, where Mr. O'Connell used to sit. It has a back seven
feet high, and this pew is now covered with black cloth,
the door fastened, and no one is to enter it again.