The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord John Russell had in audience of the Queen yes-
terday at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Alice, and
attended by the Viscountess Canning, took an airing yes-
terday in an open carriage and four. His Royal High-
ness Prince Albert rode out on horseback at the same

time. The Equerries in Waiting, Lieut.-Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps and Captain the lion. A. H. Gordon,
attended her Majesty and his Royal Highness on horse-
back.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage
and four.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the
Princess Helena, took airings yesterday in the royal
gardens.

The Queen and the Queen Dowager visited her Royal
Highness the Princess Sophia yesterday, at her residence
at Kensington.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes-
terday, included his Serene Highness the Prince of
Leiningen, Prince Leichtenstein, the Duke and Duchess
of Buccleuch, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, and Captain
Francis Seymour.
It being the Queen's intention to hold a Drawing•
room at St. James's Palace on Thursday, the 27th inst.,
to celebrate her Majesty's birthday, the exhibition of the
royal pictures must close alter Saturday next, the 22d
instant, and it will be resumed on Saturday, the 29th
instant, the interval being necessary to prepare the
Palace for the Drawing-room.
No tickets to view the royal pictures will be issued
from Saturday next, the 22d instant, to Saturday, the
29th instant.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper,
honoured the Achbishop of York with her company at
dinner yesterday, at his residence, in Grosvenor-square.
His Grace received the Noble Directors of the Concerts
of Ancient Music. _ : _

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Their Royal Highnessess Prince Albert and the
Duchess of Kent honoured the performance of the
Concert of Ancient Music with their presence yesterday
evening at the llanover square Rooms.
A deputation from Windsor, consisting of the Rev. Dr.
llawtrey, the Rev. E. Coleridge, Rev. W. G. Corberley,
and the Rev. E. H. Pickering, had an interview with
Viscount Morpeth on Tuesday, at the office of the Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place.
The Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., will not meet at
the Lord Chancellor's on the first day of Trinity Term
(Saturday next).
The Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Ex-
cellency had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon at
the office of the Board of Trade. _ _

A deputation of tbe Severn and Wye Railway Com-
pany, consisting of Mr. Joseph Cookson, the Chairman;
Mr. Edward Thomas, the Treasurer; Mr. Stephen Jar-
rett, Rev. H. Sheets, Mr. 0. C. Lane, Mr. Coates, the
Parliamentary agent; and Mr. Bigg, the solicitor to the
company, had an interview with the Commissioners of
her Majesty's Woods and Forests yesterday.
A deputation from the Birkenhead and Lancashire
Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Laird, Mr. Coch-
rane, and Mr. Lister, had an interview yesterday with
the Right Hon. Edward Strutt at the office of the Com-
missioners of Railways in Great George-street.
Captain Hayes had an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday at the Colonial-office.
Major-General Sir Charles Smith had an interview
with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday,- at his official residence in Downing-
strt et.

Lord Northland and Admiral Sir Charles Adam had
interviews yesterday with the Right Hon. E. Strutt.
Mr. Aldam, M.P., and a deputation of the Surveyors
of the Highways of Leeds, consisting of Messrs. Brock,
Jackson, Rosson, R. Roberts, and Barrett, accompanied
by Mr. Btckett, M.P., had an interview with Viscount
Morpeth yesterday.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial Office for the Governor of Ceylon, and for the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.

BRITISH AMERICAN LAND
COMPANY.

A general Court of Proprietors of the British
American Land Company was held on Monday, at
the London Tavern. The meeting was specially con-
vened for the purpose of considering the provisions of
a Bill now before Parliament, for amending a former
Act, and granting the company further powers.
The chair was taken by Alexander Gillespie, Esq.
Mr. B. BALDWIN, M.P., said he felt bound to op-
pose this Bill, which sought to confer unnecessary
powers. He would ask whether any proxies obtained
under the circular that had been issued would autho-
rise the directors in proceeding with this Bill. '
ee
protested against engaging in new works in the pr
sent circumstances of the company. He trusted that
the course taken by the directors would not be sanc-
tioned. It was his determination to oppose this Bill
in every stage.
Mr. BISCHOFF, solicitor to the company, read a
copy of the Bill. In addition to provisions respecting
the payment of interest, it provides that new powers
shall be conferred upon the company. Clause 6,
which provides that the company shall be authorised
to subscribe to other undertakings, was the principal
matter about which difference of opinion arose in the
meeting. It provides as follows :—That it shall be
lawful for the said company to subscribe towards, or
become shareholders in, any existing or future under-
taking for making or working any railway, canal,
road, bridge, dock, port, harbour, mine, or other
public works of like nature in the several provinces
and colonies in North America in the said charter re-
spectively mentioned, or their dependencies, the esta-
blishment whereof may appear to the said company
likely to further the objects for which the said com-
pany was constituted ; and also to make any loan or
loans for the purpose of enabling any such public work
to be made or worked, &c.

Mr. B. BALDWIN and Mr. SAUNDERS objected to
conferring such large and extensive powers on the
directors.

After some discussion,

Mr. ROBINSON (ex-governor of the company) pro-
posed the following resolution :—" That this meeting
approves of and sanctions the Bill now read, entitled,
&c. ; and that the directors of the company be hereby
authorised to take all the necessary steps to carry the
same Bill through Parliament."
After some discussion, it was proposed, in order to
obviate the opposition of Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Saun-
ders, that words of limitation should be inserted, so as
to limit the powers to be conferred on the company to
engage in undertakings, and to subscribe only to
public works " affecting the lands of the company,
and being either within such lands or immediately
contiguous thereto."
The resolution in its amended form, as proposed by
Mr. Tl.,,,biuson, was F. econded by Mr. Gould, and wa
ti;,7n uoaulinously :greed to

Afti;:r some routine lace
louiued.

thA meeting

The price of bread at Brussels for the second fort-
night of May has undergone a reduction of one centime per
kilogramme.