The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR•

The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince
Albert yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
Le Commandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian Charge
d'Affaires, had an audience of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert yesterday. M. Lisboa was introduced
by Captain Seymour, Groom in Waiting on his Royal
Highness.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater and Captain Sey-
mour, rode out on horseback yesterday.
Among the Nobility and Gentry who called yester-
day at Buckingham Palace to inquire the state of her
Majesty and the infant Princess Royal, were the
Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjcrna, the
Belgian Minister and Madame VAR de Weyer, the
American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson, tL3 Spanish
Minister, the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame
Murphy, Marquis of Hcadfort, Bishop of London and
Mrs. Blomfield, Countess Dowager of Dunmore, Earl
and Countess of Cadogan, Countess of Errol and Lady
Ida Hay, Lord and Lady Friroleston, Lady and Miss
Foley, Lord Rayleigh, Vice-Admiral Sir Charles and
Lady Adam, Colonel and Lady Mary Fox, Mrs. G.
E. Anson, Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, and Captain and
the Hon. Mrs. Pechell.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her
suite, left her residence, Marlborough House, Pall
Mall, at ten o'clock yesterday morning, for the station
of the London and Birmingham Railway, near Euston-
square. Her Majesty and suite consisted of the Vis-
countess Barrington, Lady in Waiting ; Hon. Miss
Gore, Maid of Honour in Waiting ; Earl Howe, Lord
Chamberlain ; Sir Andrew Barnard, Clerk Marshal ;
the Rev. J. R. Wood, Chaplain ; Lady Georgiana
Curzon, Lady and Miss Gore, and Viscount Barrington.
Her Majesty and suite left by a special train at half-
past ten for Sudbury Hall.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager on Wednesday evening at Marlborough House.
The Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Lister, and Mr.
Vizard had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby
yesterday at the Home-office.
The Right Hon. H. and Mrs. Labouchere left town
yesterday for Brighton.
Despatches from the Governor of Newfoundland were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

THE RHINE.—The Mannheim Journal, in ap-
pealing to the humane in the lower circle of the Rhine in
favour of the sufferers from the inundations in France says,
" Let us retain the words of the song which everybody is
now singing, They shall not have the Rhine I' which will
resound throughout Germany, whenever pretensions of
foreigners shall require them to be acted upon ; but at this
moment, when we see the south of France a prey to the
deepest affliction, let us forget our national differences, and
see nothing but fellow-creatures living like ourselves by
agriculture, struck by a catastrophe to which we may one
day be ourselves exposed."
The Earl and Countess of rt^le
rived at their town re,"
poned the:-

who have ar-
_.,..unce from Ramsgate, have post.
. visit to Leamington until after the Royal
,urtstening, when they propose to proceed here for the
beaefit of the Countess's health. Her Ladyship is suffer-
irotn an accident, which confines her. to the sofa,
and obliges her to be carried up and down stairs; nor can
she rise from the sofa without the aid of crutches.--
LeaMingem Chronicle.