The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Yesterday was the Queen's birthday. The Court being
at Claremont, a serenade was performed at seven u'elock
in the morning at Claremont by the band of the Scots
Fusilier Guards, under the direction of Mr. C. Bouse.
The performance commenced with a choral, " Line
feste Burg ist unser Gott," Adelaide—Beethoven.
The band afterwards played a selection from the
" Zaberflote"—Mozart, and concluded the serenade with
the Juual overture—C. M. Von Weber.

The royal circle at breakfast consisted of her Majesty
the Queen, his Roy al Highness Prince Albert,her iloyal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his Serene Highness
the Prince of Leiningen.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended dur-
ing breakfast and played a selection from the Sonnum-
bula—Bellini; and afterwards performed quadrilles trum
Wallace's opera of Matilda of Hungary—C. Coote.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early. walk.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Roy al, and the Princess Alice
*Walked and rode out in the Park.
The Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, the Maids of
Honour in Waiting, arrived at Claremont from town:
At luncheon the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards
again attended at Claremont, and played a selection from
Muse in Egitto (Rossini), and also waltzes " Les Ger-
maines i Paris" (Tolbecque).
Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir George
Couper, Lord James Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel F.
Hugh Seymour, Captain Francis Seymour, and Sir
Frederick Stovin, arrived in the after-boon, arid had
the honour of joining the august circle. Sir Robert and
Lady Gardiner, the Misses Gardiner, and Captain
Lynedoch Gardiner, had also the honour of joining the
royal circle at dinner.
A number of the Nobility and Gentry called and left
their names yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Amoi.g
them were the Belgian Minister and Sladame Van de
Weyer, the Duke of Rutland, and Lady Adeliza
Manners, Lord George Manners, the Marquis of Exeter, )
the Marquis of Granby, the Dowager Marclaiones,
of Downshire, Hon. Major and Lady Mary Hood, the
Marquis of Worcester, the Earl and Countess of Murton.
Lady Ellen Douglas, the Countess Dowager Somers,
the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Ladies Anne and
Louisa Primrose, Lord Daltneny, Earl and Countess of
Kinnoull, Lady Sarah Hay,Viscount Dupplin, Lady Eliza-
beth Dawson, Lord and Lady Ebrington, Colonel, Mrs., and
Miss Damer, Miss M. Seymour, Earl and Countess
Warwick, Lord Brooke, Colonel and Lady Sarah
Lindsay, the Ladies Gore, Captain Hon. Robert Gore
Dowager Lady and the Misses Napier, Lord John Man-
ners, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, the Misses Wheat-
ley, Mr. and Mrs. Bates, Major General Sir Harry and
Lady Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Hope Johnstone, Colonel Sir
George and Lady :;duper, Miss Couper, Sir Edward and
Lady Bowater, Lady and Mits Ouseley, Viscount and
Viscountess Falkiand, Viscount and Viscountess I3eres-
ford, Viscount and Viscomitess Milton, Lort and Lady
Camoys, Sir Edmund and Lady Antrious, the Misses
Antrobus, Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, Sir George Anson,
Lord Waterpark, Hon. Captain and Mrs. George Camp-
bell, Sir Edward Codrington, Misses Maria awl Emma
Codrington.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar landed at Wool-
wich yesterday afternoon from Rotterdam, en route fruit.
the Hague. The Master of the Hers, to the Queen
Dowager received the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Grand Duchess on their landing, and conducted them
into one of her Majesty's carriages and-four. Theis
Royal Highneres' attended by their suite, proceeded to
town, and arrived at Marlborough House at half-past
three o'clock. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess took a carriage drive early in the evt-ning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge vi.
sited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at
Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness honoured
the performance of the French Plays with her presence
last evening.
'The state apartments in Windsor Castle were closed
yesterday, and will not he re-opened until after Mon-
day the 7th of June next.
The Governor of the Bank of England, and the De-
puty Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.
A deputation, including Mr. Braithwaite, engineer to
the Eastern Counties and Harwich Junction Railway ;
Nlr. Bruff, engineer to the Eastern Union and Harwich
Junction ; and Mr. Saunders, secretary to the Eastern
Union and Harwich Junction, had an interview with the
Commissioners of of Railways, in Great George-street,
the TheCommissioners
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yesterday.
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terday at the Foreign-office.
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Debt, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
Dispatches for the Governors of Hong Kong and
Ceylon were sent off yesterday evening from the Cebu-
nial-office.

TIIE JESUIT AT CAMBRIDGE.—A new work of an
extraordinary character from the pen of Sir George
Stephen, has just appeared under the title of " The
Jesuit at Csmbridge. It is a narrative of events sup-
posed to have occurred at the university, thrown into
the form of a novel ; the principle personages both
Catholic and Protestant, having been drawn, it is said,
from existing originals, and the whole movement to-
wards Popery displayed and illustrated in a manner as
entertaining as it is truth-like. We are, indeed, very
much inclined to discredit the author's statement that
the work is but partially founded on tact ; for extra-
ordinary as some of the incidents would be in real life,
there is so much probability in the narrative, that they
seems introduced to preclude any recognition of personat
ide"tity- This clever work will doubtless be perused
with deep interest even by the ordinary novel reader,
and at our univer.iiies it will not cialy be read but
studied.

Tun NEW NOVELS.—Among the many works of
distinguished novelists for which this season has been
remarkable, the following may be regarded at: among
the most popular :—Mrs. Trollop Turee Cousins,
and "Father Euwace," Mrs. Gascoigne's .6 Evelyn Har-
court," Mrs. Gore's " Temptation and Atonement,"
Mrs. Crowe's "Story of Lilly Dawson," and the author
of " Whitefriars' " historical romance of " Cvesar
Borgia "
BREAD TICKETS AT VIENNA.—On the 12th the
municipality of Vienna began to distribute tickets to the
poorer classes to enable them to purchase bread at less
than the market price. The house of liothschild gave a
sum of 3.000 florins (about 3120 to increase the number
of st ch tickets.