The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-18 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager. attended by the Countess
Brownlow, visited the Queen yesterday a't, moon.
Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell had audiences
yesterday of her Majesty.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert yesterday.
The Royal Dinner Party at Buckingham Palace last evening.,
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Se-
rene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leininger., Lady
Anne Maria Dawson, Baroness Spaeth, Earl of Erroll, Earl of
Surrey, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Morley, Viseeunt Mel-
bourne, and Lord Robert Grosvenor.
The Princesi Sophia Matilda and the Prince and Princess
of Leiningen, xisi-ed her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
yesterday at. Clarence House, St. James's;
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Cam-
bridge yesterday at Cambridge House, St. James's.
Mr. John Easthope, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P.,
ith a deputaion consisting of the Rev. Dr. Liefchild, Rev.
Dr. Vaughan, Eev. Mr. Mansell, Dr. Thomas Price, Wil-
liam Greig, Robert Fletcher, Rev. John Burnet, Rev. Thos.
Binny, and the Rev. Fletcher,Drhad an interview with
Viscount Melbourne yesterday at his fficial residence in Down-
ing-street.
Lord Portman and Mr. Muntz, M.P., had interviews
with the Marquis of i‘ormanby yesterday at the Home-office.
The Marquis of Northampton and Sir Charles Lemon had
an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday;
Despatches from the Governor of Gibraltar were receives!
yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Capta:n Rowland Mainwaiing, R.N., had an interview yes-
terday s' ith Viscount Melbourne.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday,
and resumed the hearing of the appeal, " Sir Matthew Wood
and others v. Goodlake and another," from the Prerogative
Court. The Lords present were Lord Lyndhurst, the Master
of the Rolls, the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Baron Parke, and Sir
J. Littledale.
The Court rose at fours o'clock.
The Queen gave a concert last evening •at Buckingham
Palace.
The grand saloon was fitted up as a music room for the con-
cert, and the picture gallery and yellow drawing-room were
olso opened.
The company began to arrive at half past nine o'clock,
and were conducted into the picture gal:e7.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by
Lady Augusta Somerset, Baron Ktiesebeck, and Major Ste-
phens, arrived at the Palace soon after ten o'clock, and were
received by the Hon.'Aliss Alurray, and the Hon. Miss Lister,
Maids of Honour in Waiting, Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in
Waiting, and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert.
Her Majesty and 'Prince Albert, preceded by the Lord
Chamberlain and the Lord Stew ar,l, entered the saloon soon
afterwards, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge, and the Prince and Princess of Leiningen. The con-
cert then commenced.
The following was the Programme of the Concert :
. PARTE PRIMA.
Quartetto, "Pieta di noi," Madame Persiani,
Signori Rubini, Tamburini e Lablache (l'Ar-
bure di Dian I) ...
Duo, " Per to rinunzio al Soglio," Madame
Grisi, e Signor Mario, (Fausta)
Duo, " Far calzette," Madame Viardot e Signor
Lablache, (Sciocca per Astuzia)
Air, " Addio nembi," Signori Rubini, (Gianni
du Calais)
Trio, " Murena it genitor," Maclaine Persiani,
Signori Mario e Tamburini, ( L'Esule di Roma) Donisetti
Air, "Io talor piu nol rammento,"Madame
Sangia di Castiglia)
Nature°, Notte the at tristi e piaci," Mesdmes
Persiani e Viardot, Signori Rubini e Lablache Costa
PA. RTE SECONDA.
Trio, " Sol tu, gran Din," Madame Viardot,
Sib-
norinl Bubini e Lablache (La Creation)
Air, "Non mi air," Madame Persiani ( Don Juan) Mozart
Due, " Parl ir sp;egar," Signorini Rubini e
Tamburini (Mo-e)
Air, " Non, je ne veux pas chanter," Madame
Viardot (I.e Bidet de Lotterie)
Duo, " Si fuggire," Mesdames Grisi e Persiani
(Capuletti e Montecchi) .
Romania, "La douce Paix," Signor Mario
(L'Altente)
Quintetto, " Sento oh Dio," Mesdames Grisi e
Viardot, Signori Rubini, Tamburini, e La-
blache (Cosi fan tulle)
Signor M. Costa presided at the piano-forte.
The following had the honour of leceiving, invitations :-
Ihe Austrian Ambassador, Prince Nicholas Esterhazy; Baron
de Nieumann, Count Valentine Esterhazy; the Turkish ism•
bassador, and Fuad Effendi, Chief Secretary ; the Prussian
Minister; the Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjerna ;
the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto ; the Sardinian
Minister ; the Portuguese Minister; the Russian Minister and
Baroness Brunow, and Count and Countess Chreptowitch ;
the Hanoverian Minister; the Saxon Minister; Baron do
Bourqueney, French Charge d'Affaires; M. Charles Drouet,
Belgian Charge d'Affaires, and Messrs. Theophilus and Vic-
tor Van de Woestyne ; the Archbishop of York ; the Lord
Chancellor; Lord Pultimore, Lord in Waiting; Lady Anne
Maria Dawson, Lady in Welting on the Duchess of Kent;
the Speaker; Major Stephens and Baron Knesebeck, attenit-
ing on the Duke of Cambridge ; Count D'Aglie, M. D'Aglie,
and the following
Dust ES—Buccleuch, Rutland, Norfolk, Wellington, North-
umberland, Beaufort, Bedford, Hamilton, Devonshire, Somerset.
Du ex ESSES—lnverness, Buceleuch, Somerset, Northumber-
land, Hamilton, Bedford, Beauford.
AI ARQ UISS ES --Headfort, Northampton, Camden, Clanri-
carde, Douro, Westminster, Landsdowne, Tavistock, Ailes-
bury, Anglesey, Conyngham, Normanby.
Manostoisesszs—Westminster, Lansdowne, Douro, Nor-
manby, Ailesbury, Camden, Clanricarde.
EA R L s—Belfast, Charlemont, Charleville, Cawdor, Morley,
Bathurst. Beauchamp, Howe, Ilchester, Grey, De Gray, Cla-
rendon, Fitzwilliam, Cowper, Erroll, Lucan, Liverpool, Lis-
towel, Minto, Sheffield, Stanhope, Zetland, Sandwich, Roden,
Surrey, Somers, Tankerville, Uxbridge, Albemarle, Mount
Edg,combe.
COLT NT llSSES—Charlemont, Charlevil'e, Dowager Chiches-
ter, Belfast, Eroll. De Grey, Minto, Clarendon, Lucan,
Unnidge, Mount Edgecombe, Cowper, Surrey, Tankerville,
Listo,el. Roden, Somer.. Dean,h..ip, Stanhoro, C-wdor,
Grey, Sandmen, Sheffield, Zetland, Albemarle.
VlSCOUNTS—Torrington, Jocelyn, Melbourne, Palmerston,
Powt rscourt, Barrington, Sydney, Alford, Mahon, Bere.ford,
Ossu'ston, Noueys, Morpeth.
Viscose NTESSES—Beresford, Barrington, Mrhon, Norreys,
Jocel) n, Powerscourt, Palmerston, Sydney, Torrington;
Selina, Milton.

Martini

Donizetti

Rossini

Nicoli

13ellini

Loans—Byron, Barham, Burghersh, Hill, Hatlierton,
Robert Grosvenor, F. Gordon, Fitzalan. Fitzgerald and Vesci,
Ellenborough, Dalmeney, Paget, Alfred Paget, Clarence
Paget, George Paget, Duncannon, Compton, Leveson, Mon-
' tague George Lennox, Leigh, Kinnaird, Saltoun, Edward
Russell, John Russell, Charles Russell, Lilford, Radstock,
Portman, Poltimore, Sudeley, Stanley, Worsley, Seymour,
Willoughby de Eresby, Templetown, Wharucliffe, Ashley,
Frederic Fitzclarence.

LADIES—Pelham, CottingLam, Elizabeth Campbell, C.
Campbell, Katherine Cavendish, Louisa Cavendish, Caroline
Capel, Mary Cal,el, Amelia Capel, Burghersh, Byron, Agnes
Byng, Bowater, C. Barrington, Augusta Somerset, Barham,
Augusta Baring, Harriet Baring, Harriet Bagot, Johnstone,
Olivia Taylour,Haterton, Georgina Grey, Gardiner, C. Ver-
non Harcourt, C. Strangwa.l s, Robert, Grosvenor, Augusta
Gordon, Mary Fox, Albmia Foster, C. W. Fitzwilliam, D.
Fitzwilliam, Couper, Louisa Cores, John Hay, Fitzalati, A.
M. Dawson, Harriet Clive, F. Elliot, E. Elliot, Montagu,
Clifford, Ouseley, Lilford, Leveson, Leigh, L. Fitzmaurice,
Kinnaird, Adeliza Manners, Charles Russell, Radstock, Port-
man, Poll imore, Pechell, Peel, Isabella Wemyss, Mary Howard,
Wilhelmina Stanhope, Stanley, Seymour, C. Cocks. F. Cocks,
Wheatley, Wharneliffe, Mary Wood, Worslev, Eleanora Paget,
Constantia Paget, Vivian, Willoughby d'Ersby, Adams, Ma-
rianne, Alford, Adelaide Paget, Ashley.
Brstrors—London, Norwich.

RIGHT ROHM! RA IMES—Sir Robert Peel, M.P., T. Ma.
clulay, M. P., F. T. Baring, H. Labouchere, G. S. Byng;
Sturges Bourne.

HI;NOURABLES—Misses Pepys, Miss Cavendish, Georgiana
Liddeil, Miss Byron, C. Cavendish, M.P., Captain George
Campbell, Mrs. George Campbell, Miss Noel, Locke King,
Mrs. Locke King, Miss Littleton, C. Howard, Miss Ponsonby,
Miss Devereux, Hugh Fortescue, Wm. Cowper, F. Maule,
M.P., Mrs. Fox Maule, Miss Montague, Berkeley Paget, Mrs.
Berkeley Paget, Charles Noel, M.P., Miss Lister, Misses
Leigh, Miss Pitt, Miss Paget, E. J. Stanley, M.P., Mrs.
Stanley, John Strangways, Misses Tracy, Mrs. Anson, Miss
Drummond, Wm. Ashley, Mrs. Ashley.
SlRS—George Couper, Edward Bowater, Henry Wheatley,
Robert Adair, John Hobhou'e, John Johnstone, ."amuel
Hig-
gins, Augustus Clifford, Gore Ouseley, Charles Adam, George
Anson, John Pechell, Hussey Vivian, Augustus Foster, RoLert
Gardiner.

MEssiEuas—Cavendish, M.P., William Cavendish, F. Ca.
vendish, Clive, M.P., G. E. Anson, Brand, Granville Berke-
ley, Baring, M.P., Cotes, C. Wood, M.P., Charles Greville,
hogers, William Russell. _

SitsraEssEs—Sturges Bourne, Brand, Bouverie, Stanley,
Grenville Berkeley, Luttrell, Blomfield, Shaw Lefevre, Labou-
chere, William Russell, Waymouth.
MrssEs—Bourne, Cavendish, Bagot, Gardiner, Clifford,
Clive, Ouseley, Percy (two), Stanley, Anson, G. Vernon
Harcourt, Wheatley (two), Wynn, Webster, Gurney, Peet.
COLONELS Wylde, Wemyss, Fox, Vernon Harcourt,
Bouverie.

MAJoft—Waymouth.
The company were served with refreshments during the
evening. in the Green Drawing-room, and at half-past eleven
o'clock supper was served in the Dining-room.
The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards attended
at the Palace during the dinner yesterday evening.

LIFE OF HENRY GRATTAN.--The third
volume of Mr. Grattan's "Life and Times " of his illus-
trious father comes most opportunely at the present
moment, when the very existence of Government—
whether the Government in esse or in posse—hinges upon
• Irish affairs. lt contains matter more pregnant with
political importance, as well as personal interest than
either of the. two preceding volumes, especially in the
original letters from the most distinguished men of their
day which are now for the first time made public ; some
of these throw an entirely new light on important points
in English as well as Irish history: the admirable ones,
for instance, of Mr. Fox, to the Lord-Lieutenant,' those
of Lord Northington in reply ; those of General Bur-
goyne to Mr. Fox, &c. The " characters," t00,,0f some
of his most distinguished contemporaries, by Henry
Grattan himself, are are least equal in political and per-
sonal interest to those from the pen of Lord Brougham,
which lately excited such attention. This volume evinces
great care and research in the author, and contains pas-
sages (especially those describing the public characters
of the day) of strong and sterling eloquence.
THE NIGER EXPEDITION.--,The Albert
steamer, Captain Henry Dundas Trotter, and the 'Wil-
berforce, Commander W. Allen, sailed from this port
for their destination. on Wednesday evening last, at
half-past six. Great interest was felt ,to witness, their
departure, as it was supposed they
would sail ear-
lier. There was a considerable number of spectators on
Mount Wise, Cremill Point, Plymouth Garrison, &c.,
throughout the day. As the steamers neared the men-of-
war in the Sound, viz:—the Impregnable, 104, Capt.
Forrest, C. 8., Belleisle, 74, Capt. Toup Nicolas, C. 8.,
Edinburgh, 74, Capt. W. Henderson, K. 11., Bellerophon,
80, Capt. Austen, and the Trinculo, 18, Commander
Coffin, they each manned their rigging and gave the
steamers three hearty British cheers—the bands of each
ship playing " God save the Queen." The Albert and
Wilberforce, as they passed each man-of-war,• returned
the compliment, and proceeded to sea with as fine a wind
as could be desired. Captain Trotter and his bravecom-
panions take with them the prayers and best wishes of
the inhabitants of these towns, and of the nation at
large, for their health and success in the highly interest.
ing mission in which they are engaged.—Pymoutli Inde-
pendent,