The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The unfavourable state of
the weather this morning prevented her Majesty or
the Royal Family leaving the Castle.
Prince Albert, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, Col.
the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and 3lajor•General Bowles,
left the Castle early this morning for town, travelling
by the Great Western Railway. His Royal High
nets returned to Windsor about two o'clock.

The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
is expected to include her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting of the
Ducbess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Mr. G. E.
and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Miss Dawson Darner, and
Sir Geeorge Couper.
The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards
attend during dinner. fier Majesty's private band
afterwards attend in the Castle.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Mr. G. E. Anson, Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Major-
General Bowles, arrived at Buckingham Palace yes-
terday morning from Windsor Castle. His Royal
Highness visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at
Marlborough-house, and afterwards, attended by Mr.
Anson, went to Somerset-house to attend a meeting
at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall. Shortly be-
fore one o'clock the Prince proceeded to the Padding-
ton terminus, and left town on his return by a special
train.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at-
tended by Baroness de Speth, arrived at her residence,
Clarence. house, St. James's, at one o'clock yesterday
afternoon, from Frogmore-house, 'Windsor. Her
Royal Highness visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager and her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida
of Saxe Weimar, at Marlborough-house, and at
three o'clock left town on her return to Frogmore-
house.
Viscount Morpeth has arrived in town.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.—The heavy rain
which fell here almost incessantly from nine o'clock until
nearly four, prevented the Queen and Royal Family
from taking their usual out-door exercise ; but at that
hour the rain was succeeded by an hour or two of bril-
liant sunshine, and the Royal Children, with their ponies
and attendants, went out to the lawns and shrubberies
of the Home Park, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, and did not return to the Castle until after
sunset. There have been no arrivals at the Castle to-
day. It is not true, as stated in one of the papers yes-
terday, that the Royal Children were placed in danger
on the previous day, by the running away of the horse
on the Eastern Terrace. Fortunately the Royal Chil-
dren were in a distant part of the Castle with their pre-
ceptress, and did not know of the occurrence until some
hours after.

DEATH OF HENRY HOWARD, R.A.—Mr. Howard,
the royal academician, the secretary to the academy, and
the professor of painting in that institution, died on the
sth instant at Oxford, in the 78th year of his age. Mr.
Howard began to exhibit for the first time at the Royal
Academy in the year 1794. Ho was then at Rome, and
sent for exhibition " The Dream of Cain," from Gesner's
" Death of Abel." In 1795 we find him living in the
Strand, and exhibiting at Somerst-house, " Puck from
Midsummer Night's Dream," " A riel from the Tempest,"
and " Satan awakening in the burning Lake." In 1801
he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and
in 1808, at the same time with the late Mr. Phillips, an
R.A. In 1811, on the death of Mr. Richards, he was
made secretary to the Royal Academy ; and in 1833, on
the resignation of Mr. Phillips, selected to fill the im-
portant office of professor of painting in that institution.
Mr. Howard was the third senior royal academician; the
father of the academy is the estimable president, and the
next in succession Mr. J. M. W. Turner. The new
secretary will of course be Mr. Knight, who has acted as
deputy to Mr. Howard for some time past.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. s.—The barque Tuscan, Captain
Rapson, came in this morning, in a strong gale fron the
south-east, five and a half months from Shanghae. China,
with tea, for London. In 730 west longitude, 50 north
latitude, fell in with the schooner Margaret, of Bideford,
Marshall master, from Newport, with iron,. beund to
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