The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne bad an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.
Marshal Saldanha, the Portuguese Minister, had an
audience of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on Satur-
day, at Buckingham Palace.
The Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend-
ance at the Palace on Friday evening.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace
at a quarter before three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, in an
open carriage and four,with outriders, for Claremont. Three
of the Royal carriages and four followed, containing the
Countess of Sandwich, Hon. Misses Cocks and Caven-
dish, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Charles A. Murray,
Hon. Major Keppel, Hon. Colonel Grey, Colonel Wylde,
and Mr. Francis Seymour.
The Earl of Erroll and the Earl of Albemarle conducted
the Queen to her carriage.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, and attended by the Royal Suite,
returned to Buckingham Palace from Claremont at twenty
minutes before ten o'clock last night. The Earl of Albe-
marle and Lord Robert Grosvenor were among the Royal
Suite.

The Prince of Lciningen arrived at Buckingham Pa-
lace soon after four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from
the Continent. His Serene Highness was received by the
Hon. Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk Marshal. The Prince
went to Ingestre House, Belgrave-square, the residence of
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and shortly
afterwards left town on a visit to her Majesty at Clare-
mont.

The Duchess of Kent left town at nine o'cleck yester-
day morning, on a visit to the Queen at Claremont. Her
Royal Highness returned to town last night.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. Viscountess Barrington, Lion. Miss Gore, and
Earl Howe were in waiting on her Majesty.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yes-
terday morning in the Foundling Hospital. Major Ste-
phens and Colonel Jones were in waiting on his Royal
Highness.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge
attended Divine Service yesterday morning in Grosvenor
Chapel. Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck were in wait-
ing on their Royal Highnesses.
The Duchess Ida and the Nine and Princesses of
Saxe Weimar, attended Divine Service yesterday morn-
ing in the Royal German Chapel. The Rev. Dr. Kuper
preached the sermon.
The Queen Dowager attended Divine Service, yesterday
afternoon, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Prince George of Cambridge arrived in town on Satur-
day from Brighton. His Royal Highness visited the Queen
Dowager and the Princess Augusta, yesterday.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager
on Saturday, at Marlborough House.
The Queen Dowager, and the Duchess Ida of Saxe
Weimar, took an airing on Satuiday in the Parks, in a
pony phaeton and four.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta
on Saturday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at
the Foreign-office. It was attended by all the Ministers.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Viscount Melbourne left town after the Council, to join
the Royal dinner party at Claremont.
The French Ambassador had a dinner party on Satur-
day, at his residence in Manchester-square.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on
Saturday.
Mr. Edmund F. Moore was heard upon the petition of
Mr. Smith, a barrister, from Sierra Leone, against certain
Orders of the Recorder's Court in that Colony, by which
he had been fined and imprisoned, and ultimately disbarred
—when their Lordships directed the matter to stand over
fur further evidence.
An appeal from Bombay, Carsondass Hemsraz v. Ran-
dass Hurrydass was opened by Mr. Miller, Queen's Counsel.
The Lords present were Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice
Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the
Prerogative Court.
His Excellency Shekib Effendi, the new Turkish Am-
bassador to this Court, arrived yesterday at the Embassy's
residence in Bryanston-square, accompanied by his first
Secretary, Toad Effendi, and by Towpick Bey, Major in
the Ottoman Imperial Guards, beside a largo number o
his suite.