The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domes-
tic household, attended divine service yesterday in the
private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Hun. and
Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday in the royal garden.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday, attended by his Equerry iu waiting
Colonel Bouverie.

Their Royal iiighnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Princess Helena, took their usual airings in the pleasure
grounds of Buckingham Palace on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Charlemont, the Earl of Morton, Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Bouverie,
honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence on
Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent (attended by Lady Augusta Bruce), and 'their
Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
(attended by Baroness Hammerstein and Baron Knese-
beck), also honoured the performance at the Royal
Italian Opera House with their presence on Saturday
evening:

Her—Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended Divine
service yesterday in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The
Prayers were read by the Rev. C. Haden, the Lessons
by the Rev. G. Repton, and the Communion Service by
the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. C. E. Dering, who took his text from Psalms
lxxiv. verse 18. The anthem was " Lord let me know
my end" (Greene). The sacrament was administered
..14* the Bishop of London.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Viscountess
Barrington, and Earl Howe. The Dean of Hereford
was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in waiting. Among
the nobility present were the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort, the Marquises of Anglesey, Northampton, and
Granby ; Ladies Wilton, St. Germans, and Somerset ;
Lords Granville, St. Germans, Cawdor, Essex, Wilton,
Emlyn, and Ebrineton.

Tile Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of An-
glesey attended the early service in the Chapel Royal
St. James's yesterday, The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated,
and the Rev. C. E. Dering preached the sermon.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess
of Gloucester on Saturday. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness yesterday
at Gloucester House.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
her Majrsty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Aarl-
borough House.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yes-
terday in Grosvenor Chapel. Major Stevens was in
waiting on his Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge visited and inspected the
Exhibition of the Royal Academy on Saturday.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yes-
terday at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Committee of Council on Education had a meet-
ing at the Privy Council-office on Saturday, at which
the Lord President of the Council, Lord John Russell,
the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Auckland, the Earl
Minto, the Viscount Morpeth, Sir Charles Wood, and
Sir George Grey were present. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth
was in attendance.

Mr. Perle), her Majesty's emigration agent for New
Brunswick, had an interview with Earl Grey on Satur-
day, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from the Southwark Improvement Com-
missioners, consisting of Sir William Molesworth, Bart.,
M.P., Mr. Richard Moser, Mr. William Griffith, Mr.
Joseph Sterry, and Mr. Alfred James Hiscocks, architect
to the Commissioners, waited upon the Commissioners of
the Metropolitan Improvements, on Thursday.
Senor X. Isturiz, the Spanish Minister, had an inter-
view with the Earl of Clarendon on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.

The Right Hon.' E. Strutt had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official
residence, in Downing-street.

The Earl of ZetlarUi had an interview with Sir George
Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--*The Conde de Mon-
temolin, attended by the Marquis de Villa Franca,
General Don Juan Montenegro, and Colonel Merry,
was present at the performances at her Majesty's
Theatre on Saturday evening. Her Majesty's box was
occupied by the Countess of Desart, the Hon. Mr. and
Lady Caroline Duncombe and party. In the Queen
Dowager's box were the Countess of Jersey and Lady
C:ementina Villiers. The Count and Countess de
Jarnac, Lord Foley, the Hon. Miss Foley, and party,
occupied her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge's
box. There were also present the Prince Louis
Napoleon, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the
Baroness Brunnow and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, the
Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Clanricarde and Lady E. de Burgh, the
Marquis of Granby, the Marquis of Huntley, the Earl
and Countess of Harrington and Lady Jane St. Maur
Stanhope, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Lonsdale,
the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl Fitzwilliam
and the Ladies Fitzwillianz the Countess of Blessington
and the Misses Power, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord
Otho Fitzgerald, the Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Mun-
ster, Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Clifden, Lady Lynd-
hurst and the Hon. Miss Copley, Lady Foulis, the Count
de Bache, M. de Couttoy, Baron Rehausen, Baroness
Rothschild, Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild,
Baron Nicolai, Count and Countess de Jarnac, the
Comte D'Orsay, Count de Courcy, M. C. de Koudriaff-
sky, the Hon. Misses Maynard, Hon. G. S. Byng, Mr.
and Mrs. Ewing, Mr. Hubert de Burgh and Miss Tre-
lawny, Sir John Guest, Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir Henry
Meux, Sir Ralph Howard, Lady Palmer, Mr. and Lady
Augusta Wentworthi.• Colonel- Wrottesley, Colonel
Bowers, Colonel Wildman, Captain Mulcaster, Captain
Smith, Major Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Phillips, the Misses Carrol, Mr. Barry Baldwin,
M.P., &c., &e.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN.—Ier
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured
the Royal Italian Opera on Saturday night with their
presence. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Cherie-
mont, Lord Morton, the Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Hon.
Colonel Bouverie. Also, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady. Augusta Bruce.
There were also present their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron
Knesebeck, the Earl of Cardigan, Lord Henry Lennox,
the Right Hon. Lord Brook, Lord Granville, Lord and
Lady Carrington, Earl of Strathmore, Earl and Countess
of Malrnesbury, Earl Druce, Earl of Liverpool, Lord and
Lady Suffield, Viscount Cantalupe, Honourable Spencer
Cooper, Colonel and the Hoa. Mrs. Fitzgibbons, Hon.
Robert Lawley, lion. A. Dillon, Hon. A. D. Willoughby,
Hon. H. Norton, Hon. C. C. Cavendish, Hon. E. S. Rus-
sell, Hon. W. H. Peel, Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sr William
De Bathe, Sir William Abdy, Sir Charles Kent, Sir Bel-
lingham and Lady Graham, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Wm.
flerries, Sir William and Lady Nfolesworth, Sir James
and Lady Hogg, y M
g, Lad. Poulett, Lady Quintin, Lady
Tyrwhitt, the Countess Dowager of Essex, Lady
M.Farlane, Lady Ingleby, Mr. William and Lady Ca •
vendisb, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Dennison, Mrs. Milner
Gibson, Captain Wemyss, Captain Meynott, Dela-
field, Esq., Miss Haward, Mrs. Auldjo, Mrs. Bates, Mrs.
Charles Mills, &c.
THE COURT, &c.—The Queen, the Prince Consort,
and a portion of the Royal Family—the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal most probably—will leave Buckingham
Palace on the 7th instant for the Isle of Wight, to pass a
few days at Osborne, previously to the state ball on the
14th instant, for which the Court will return to London. It
is also probable that the Queen (agreeably to her Majesty's
custom) will then pass
I
in-
cluding her two or three days at Claremont,
• birthday, the 24th instant, and return to town
for the state drawing-room on the 27th. The Court, it is
understood, will return to Windsor Castle on the 29th or
alit, tv in preggat st Ascot Heath ss, oil the let of jime.