The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
morning in a pony-phaeton.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.
Her Majesty had a dinner party on Monday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company included the Swedish Minister
and Countess Bjornfajerna; the Danish Minister and Ba-
roness de Biome; the Netherlands Minister and Madame
Dedel ; the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Earl of
Errol, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Viscount and
Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess Can-
ning, and Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor.
'l'hc Band of the Coldstream Regiment cf. Foot Guards
was in attendance at the Palace during the evening.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Hereditary Prince of Saxe Cobout g-Gotha, honoured the
performance of Mr. Charles Kemble, as Benedick, in
Much Ado about Nothing, at Covent- garden Theatre last
evening with their presence. The Royal Suite included
the Marchioness of Normanby, Earl of Listowel, Mr.
Rich, Hon. Colonel Cavendish, Colonel Bouverie, and
Mr. Francis Seymour.
At the Queen's Levee on Monday, Mr. John Dixots,
Mayor of Carlisle. accompanied by Mr. Philip Howard,
M.-P., and Mr. William Marshall, M.P., presented an
Address of Congratulation to the Queen on her Majesty's
anarriage, from the Corporation of the City of Carlisle.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess
Augusta on Monday, at Clarence House, St James's.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, dined with her Ma-
jesty last evening at Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Inverness had an audience of the Duchess
of Kent yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert did Mr. Hayter the
honour to sit yesterday for the picture of the Royal Mar-
riage.

The Princess Augusta took a carriage drive yesterday,
and visited the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester
House.

The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George, attended
by Colonel Jones, arrived in town at half-past five
o'clock yesterday afternoon from Brighton.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria
Dawson, took an airing on Monday in a carriage.
A deputation from the Sheriffs'-substitutes of Scotland,
who were accompanied by the following Members of Par-
liament, via. Mr. John Elliot, Mr. Wallace, Sir George
Sinclair, Mr. Ferguson of Raith, Mr. Edward Ellice, and
Mr. Campbell of Islay, had an interview with the Marquis
of Normauby yester day at the Home-office.
A deputation on the subject of glass, consisting of
Messrs. Biddle, Mountford, and Co., from Shitinal,
Colonel Lvgon, Mr. Loch, Colonel Anson, and Mr. Clive,
had an into-view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Monday, in Downing-street.
Mr. 3lorison and Mr. Atkinson had an interview with
Mr. Labouchere yesterday at the Board of Trade.
Sir H. Fleetwood, Mr. Hutt, and Mr. Murray, had in-
terviews with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial
Office.
The Earl of Albemarle and Lord Ingestrie had inter-
views with Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing
street.

Sir R. Price and Mr. Hindley, M. P., had interviews
with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office.
Baron de Nieumatin, on a special mission from Austria,
and Mr. Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires trans-
acted business yesterday at the Board of trade.
Despatches from Mr. Stewart Mackenzie, Governor of
Ceylon, and from the Governor of the Mauritius, were re.
ceived yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Mr. O'Connell, M. P., and a deputation of Irish Distil-
lers, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer on Monday in Downing-street.