The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court Mr. George Simpson, Governor of the
Hudson's Bay Company's Settlements, and Mr. Robert
Horsford, Solicitor-General of Antigua, were presented
to her Majesty by Lord John Russell, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The following Foreign Ministers had audiences of her
Majesty :
His Excellency Chekib Effendi, the Turkish Ambas-
rador ; Baron de Biome, the Danish Minister ; Baron
de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister ; Count de Polion, the
Sardinian Minister ; Baron da Torre de Moncorvo, the
Portuguese Minister ; M. de Montezuma, the Brazilian
Minister ; Count de Keilmansegge, the Hanoverian
Minister ; Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister.
Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted
by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secre-
taries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial
Departments, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chief Commissioner of
the Woods and Forests, the President of the India
Board, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chief
Secretary for Ireland, the Secretary at War, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the
Horse.

Her Majesty's Speech on opening the Session of Par-
liament this day, was arranged and agreed upon.
Mr. C. Greville v►as the Clerk of the Counoil in
Waiting.
Her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of Nor-
manby, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Earl of Albemarle,
Viscount Palmerston, and Viscount Melbourne,
The Court was attended by the Comptroller of the
Household ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the
Earl of Listowel, Lord in Waiting ; Mr. Rich, Groom
in Waiting ; Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting ;
and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting on Prince
Albert.

His Excellency M. de Montezuma, the Brazilian
Minister, attended by M. Macedo, Secretary of Lega-
tion, after having presented his credentials to the Queen
yesterday afternoon, had an audience of his Royal
Ilighness Prince Albert, at Buckingham Palace.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday,
and lunched with her Majesty and Prince Albert.
Mr. George Hayter had the honour of submitting
to his Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday, a
splendid whole length portrait of her Majesty seated on
the Throne, in the Imperial Dalniatic Robes, previously
to its being presented to the goldsmith's Company.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting, paid visits yes-
terday afternoon to the Duchess of Gloucester, at
Gloucester House, and the Duke of Cambridge, at
Cambridge House.
Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister, had
an audience of her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent yesterday, at Ingestre House, Belgrave-square.
Prince George of Cambridge went to Coombe Wood
yesterday, and spent the forenoo❑ shooting, returning
to town in the afternoon.

The Marquis of Lansdowne was prevented from at-
tending the Privy Council yesterday afternoon, by an
attack of gout.
Full dress dinner parties were given last evening by
Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell, the for-
mer at his official residence in Downing-street, to a
large party of Peers, and the latter at the Foreign..
office, Downing-street, to a numerous party of Mem-
bers of the House of Commons. In the course of the
evening, both Ministers read the Queen's Speech to
their respective guests.
Viscount Melbourne's dinner party included the Lord
Chancellor, the Dukes of Bedford, Somerset, Norfolk,
Devonshire, and Cleveland ; Marquises of Anglesea,
Hcadfort, and Normanby ; Earls of Ducie, Erroll,
Lovelace, Lichfield, Fingal], Albemarle, Uxbridge, Cla-
rendon, and Ilchester ; Viscount Duneannon ; Lords
Beaumont, Monteagle, Lurgan, Segrave, Portman,
Carrington, Sudeley, Kinnaird, Poltimore, Byron, Foley,
and Strafford.

Lord John Russell's dinner party included Viscount
Palmerston ; Lords Dalmeny, Morpetb, Seymour, and
Alfred Paget ; Right Honourables R. L. Shell, G.
Stevens Byng, F. T. Baring, H. Labouchere, Sir J.
llobhouse, and T. B. Macaulay ; Honourables Fox
Maule, Colonel Anson, W. Cowper, and E. A. Stan-
ley ; Sirs G. Grey, Bart., Hussey Vivian, Bart.,
Thomas Wilde, J. Campbell, R. S. Donkin, H. Parnell,
Bart., T. Troubridge, and Charles Adana ; Messieurs
Edward Horsman, R. Bernal, Henry Tuffnell, William
Clay, R. Gordon, R. More O'Ferrall, John Parker,
Henry Rich, and Thomas Wyse.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has returned to town
from a visit to the Duke of Beaufort at Badminton,
Gloucestershire,

WARD ofFARRINGDON WITHOUT.

Yesterday, at eleven o'clock, the inhabitants of this po-
pulous Ward congregated in great numbers in the New
Court Justice Hall, Old Bailey, for the purpose of electing
sixteen fit and proper persons to represent them in the
Court of Common Council, the former election having
been declared null and void. After some discussion the
show of hands was in favour of the following sixteen gen-
tlemen :—Blackett, Anderton, Clemmitt, Obbard, Wells,
Burn, Edkins, Harding, Hodgson, Ramshaw, Taylor, Gal-
loway, Bedford, Barnard, Wollatt, and Gresham. A poll
was demanded for Messrs. Beckwith, Price, Marriott,
Sweet, and Charles. At the close of the poll, at four
o'clock, the numbers were as follows, riz. :—Barnard, 31 ;
Wollatt, 28; Taylor, 28 ; Hodgson, 26 ; Wells, 25 ;
Blackett, 24; Bedford, 24; Gresham, 23; Anderton, 22 ;
Beckwith, 21; Galloway, 21 ; Obbard, 20 ; Edkins, 18;
Burn, 18; ,Ramshaw, 18 ; Harding, 17 ; Charles, 16 ;
Price, 14; narriot, 12 ; Sweet, 3 ; and Clemmitt, 3.

TIIE SWINBURNE CORRESPONDENCE.—The
author of this work, Henry Swinburne, Esq., a son of Sir
John Swinburne, Bart., possessed of a handsome inde-
pendent fortune, whilst making what was styled the Grand
Tour, was received at the several Courts he visited—par-

titularly at Paris, Naples, Rome, Madrid, and Vienna,
with unusual respect, and having a mind capable of
making the most of the adv.:Antages he enjoyed (exhibited
by him in his admirable work an Spain), his description
of the numberless objects of inteosts presented to him in
his travels—his anecdotes of the n:any distinguished pub-
lic characters with whom he associated, and his criticisms
on the works of art every where throon upon to his in-
spection, will doubtless unite to make his coi.respondence,
about to be submitted to the public, at °in.-t the most
entertaining and the most perfect picture of the Continent,
towards the close of the last century, that has ever anileared
TikmwoRTH—POLITICAL SUICIDE.—Kr R.
Peel delivered a lecture " on the Advantages of Know-
ledge to the Working Classes," to the subscribers to th,..
newly-established library and reading-room, on Wednesday
last, in the Town-hall. If Sir Robert's lectures become the'
instrument of converting the humble burgesses of Tam.
worth to that great " knowledge" of their paramount in-
terests which alone can give them solid " advantages," h,
will be the instrument of their moral and political emanci-
pation, and of a death-blow to the faction by which lie
himself is sustained.--Sidebrdshire
R. A. Reynolds, EN., will, it is most confi-
dently rumoured, be very shortly restored to his
.rank in
the army, ,
same say, to his old regiment. —Brighton
Het