The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULA It.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen on
Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Duchess
of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. His Royal
Highness, attended by some officers of his household, rode
out on horseback on Saturday.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Royal High-
ness the Princess Augusta, attended Divine Service yes-
terday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
sermon was preached by the Bishop of Rochester, from
St. Matthew, chap. 20, verse 16. The Prayers were
read by the Rev. Mr. Packman, the Lessons by the Rev.
Mr. Povale, and the Communion Service by the Bishop
of London and the Rev. Messrs. Packman and Povale.
The Chaunt, Sanctus, and Commandments were by
J. B. Sale. Dr. Arnold's Service in F, and the anthem,
" Thou, 0 God, art praised in Sion" ( Greene), were
sung by Messrs. 'Vylde and Horncastle ; Mr. J. B. Sale
presided at the organ.
The Rev. J. Vane was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet
in Waiting. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager was at-
tended by the Viscountess Barrington, Hon. Miss Mitchell,
and Earl Howe. The Princess Augusta was attended by
Miss Wy nyard.

The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service Yes-
terday morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge
attended Divine Service yesterday afternoon in St. Jamesef
Church. Miss Kerr was in waiting on their Royal
Highnesses.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine Ser-
vice yesterday afternoon in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Her Majesty visited the Princess Sophia at Kensington on
Saturday.
The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Gloucester
on Saturday, at Gloucester House. The Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge also visited the Royal Duchess.
Mr. Hutton and Mr. Nicholls, two of the Committee for
superintending the Parliamentary Grant for the support
and maintenance of the Forts on the Gold Coast of
Africa, introduced Prince William Quantaraissah, and
Prince John Ansah, Nephews of the King of the Asbantees,
an d also their Tutor, the Rev. Thomas Pyne, to Lord
John Russell, on Saturday, at the Colonial Office.
A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was at-
tended by all the Ministers.
The Council sat three hours.

Lord Sandon and Mr. Mark Phillips had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on Friday, ill
Downing-street.
Deputations from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of
Jamaica, was received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Lord Adolphus Fitz Clarence has returned to town from
a visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at his seat, Dean Park,
Northamptonshire.
Captain Pringle had an interview with Lord John Rio'
sell, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
The Right Hon. Edward Ellice had a Dinner Party on
Saturday, at his residence in Arlington-street.

k ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland ; the
Duchess of Hamilton ; Viscount Maynard; Mr. Loehr
M.P., and Mrs. Loch ; Mr. B. D'lsracli, M.P.; Sir G.
Pocock ; Viscount Liford; Lord Kelburne; Captain
Hamilton, M. P. ; Sir A. and Lady Maclaine; Mr. Bas-
set, M.P., Sir Thomas and Lady Bating; General Sir
Moore Disney ; Lord Cremorne ; the Hon. Fred. Cal-
thorpe ; the Hon. Somerset Maxwell; the Duke of Marl-
borough and Lord Albert Churchill ; the Hon. Spencer
Montagu; the Hon. William Sebright Lascelles ; Lady
Francis Ley ; the Duke of Buccleuch and Lord Mar-
sham ; Mr. and Lady Emily Pusey ; Lady Oranmore and
the Hon. Miss Browne ; the Hon. Fred. Bruce ; Colonel
Richard Armstrong; Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Webb; Lord
and Lady Henry Cholmondeley ; B. Williams,: Esq , in
Portland-place, front Admiral Sir Edward Codrington's, at
Portsmouth.
DEPARTURES.
The Duke of Buckingham, for Stowe Park ; Lord
Charles Russell, M. P. for Bedfordshire; Earl de Grey,
for Wrest Park, Beds; Mr. Townley, M, P., for Ful-
bourne ; Hon. T. Spencer, for Althorp Hall; the Hon.
and Rev. Fred. Powys, for Leamington Spa ; Mr. and
Mrs. Ross, from Fenton's Hotel; Lady Mary Stanley
and family, for Leamington Spa; Capt. Sutton, 7th Hus-
sars, for York ; Lord and Lady Wenlock and the Hon.
Mrs. Lawley, for Escrick Park, near Heslington, York-
shire; Mr. Alexander and Lady Malet, for the Hague;
Mr. Ross, 90th Regiment, for Dover Castle; Sir Frede-
rick Johnstone, Bart., for Combe Abbey ; Lord Fol".
stone, for Coleahill Park, Berks.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert intend to accept
the invitation of the Duke of Devonshire to a brilliant and costly
' fete, to be given by his Grace at Devonshire House, after
Easter.
The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville gave
a sumptuous dinner, on Fridry evening, at his house in Ha;
milton-place, to the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Ear'
and Countess of Carlisle, and Lady Elizabeth 'Toward, Honour-
able Wiliam and Lady Caroline Lascelles, Honourable Hugh
Chohnondeley, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Luttrell, and the Rev.
Sydney Smith.
LORD LYNDFLURST.—We are hoppy to inform
our readers that at a late hour last evening his Lordship Was
going on favourably.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire
are staying at Hillstorough Castle, near Downpatrick, until
Easter.
Lord and Lady Poltimore are still staying at
Poltimore, their seat near Exeter. His Lordship intends to
be in town shortly, and after his arrival a series of dinners will,
be given to his Lordship.
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence has returned to
town, from a visit to the Earl of Cardigan, at his seat, Dean
Park, Northamptonshire.
We understand that there is no foundation for
the statement in the French Papers, of the intention of the
Duchess of Kent to accompany the Princess Victoria of Saxe
Coburg to Faris.
His Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe
Coburg is expected to return to town to-day, from a visit to the
Duke of Beaufort, at Badminton Park.
Lord Brougham. by special invitation, will visit
the King and Queen of the French, at the Tuileries, en route
to England.
THE EARL OF DURHAM.—The Noble Earl
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is, we understand, quite recovered from his severe indisposition.
The Earl of Stair died at his hotel in the Rue
de Clichy, in Paris, on Friday last. His Lordship was in the
sGth year of his age.
The Earl of Chesterfield is expected to leave
Chesterfield House to-day for N.rthampton, the Noble Earl
having quite recovered from his cold The Countess leaves
shortly for Brighton, where the youthful Lord Stanhope and
the Lady Evelyn have arrived.
Earl and Countess Cadogan have issued cards
for grand dinners this evening and on Wednesday nest, a'
Queensbury House.
Sir Frederick Hamilton, Bart., will give his
second grand dinner, in Great Cumberland-place, on Wednes-
day evening.
Lady de Clifford had a soiree on Saturday even-
ing, at her mansion on Carlton House-terrace. Upwards (4
100 members of the Nobility were present.
The Marquis Id Anglesey gave a sumptuous
banquet on Saturday evening, at Uxbridge House, to their
Royal Highn uses the Duke of Sussex and Duke of Cambridge.
The Duke of Norfolk, Duke of Sutherland, Marquis of Nor"
manby, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Erroll, Earl of Chester-
field, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Temple-
town, Lord Hill, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Adolphus Fitz-.
were Clarence, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, and Mr. George Byng,
among the distinguished guests who met the Royal pa-tY a'
dinner.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, through her
Treasurer, the Hon. William Ashley, has contributed 201.
to-
wards the erection of the Beverley Minster chapel of ease.
Sackville Lane Fox, Esq., M.P., has sent 201. • Sir wallet
James, Bart., M.P., 10/. towards the same desirable object, A
Friend to the Church also has contributed 100/.
It is said that the Countess of Jersey will enliven
the fashionable world with another ball before Easter.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel have a dinner party on
Saturday next in Whitehall-gardens.
OLYMPIC THEATRE...—
Under the spirited,
beral, and successful management of Mr. Butler, this house is
rivalling in prosperity what it was in the most flourishing days
of Madame Vestris. A new piece was produced here o.°
Saturday evening, written by Mr. Bernard, and excellentlY
acted by the performers engaged in it. The Happiest Ma"
Alive is the title of this rely clever production, and the Erin-
eipal character is supported by Mr. F. Vining, from the Her
market. To give details of plots of dramatic entertainments has
always appeared to us absurd, and we, therefore, refrain from
doing so in the present instance ; let people go and judge for
themselves. All that is needful to be
said is, there i enough
an
to excite attention and create interest. The Han ,s
na'4
Alive is likely to have permanent existence. •

EVEN ENO EDITION .-1

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LITERATURE.

NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE ALONG THE
SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN,
6-e. By W. R. TYrLnrc, M.R.I.A. In 2 Vols.
Dublin, William Curry and Co. ; London, Longman
and Co., 1840.
These volumes are the production of a medical gen-
tleman who, in the autumn of 1837, formed one of a
party on a voyage in pursuit of health. He visited
Corunna, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Madeira, Algiers, Egypt,
Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and
Greece, and his impressions and remarks upon these
places furnish materials for two of the most agreeable
volumes that it has been for some time our good for-
tune to meet with. Though the ground trodden by
Doctor Wilde has been gone over a hundred times by
rambling tourists and sketch writers, he has contrived
to furnish a mass of useful information, for which the
reader will look in vain in the pages of most of his pre-
decessors. He has a plain every day way of looking at
objects, and of describing them, without at all dimi-
nishing his enthusiastic appreciation of the mental
associations which they awaken, which acts upon the
fancy of the reader like a panoramic exhibition. Of
this description is his account of the aqueduct of AL:
critara—the ascent of the Teneriffe—the view of Al-
giers—the night scene at the Pyramids—and the
touching relation of the approach to, and state of, the
Jews at Jerusalem. Dr. Wilde is not one of those
who think the French conquests in Africa either ad-
vantageous to French aggrandizement or to British
commerce. The French, he found, had done nothing
for Africa, and his conviction is that they can do
nothing for it, because they are detested by the native
Population. There is no confidence, and no intimacy,
between the French and the Arabs beyond the range
of the guns at the blockhouses. Of Mehemet Ali he
has, on the contrary, a very high opinion. He describes
the reforms which he has effected in Egypt as most
astonishing, considering the genius of the people,
and he endeavours with praiseworthy anxiety to re-
commend the continuance of a peaceful policy. The
worst evil he witnessed in the dominions of the
Paella was the impressment—an evil wholly resulting
from the terror in which he is kept by the threats if
the Great Powers and the hostile intentions of the
Porte. Dr. Wilde's observations on the erection of the
Pyramids, and the whole of his account of the site of
Jerusalem, are exceedingly curious. He appears to
have walked, Bible in hand, through every part of the
Holy City, and to have carefully examined all that is
worthy of notice in the writings of previous travellers.
Thu portion of his travels will not fail to attract the at-
tion of the religious world. In conclusion, these volumes
are handsomely illustrated with wood-engravings ; and
in the beauty of their " getting-up "—to use tFe lan-
guage of the trade—may court a comparison with the
newest productions of the London Press.