The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and
the Court, went to Ascot races to-day.
The royal cortege left the Castle at a quarter-past twelve
o'clock.

The august party returned to the Castle at twenty minutes
past five o'clock.
The Duke of Wellington arrived at the Castle this morn-
ing on a visit to the Queen.
Her Majesty gave a grand banquet in the evening in St.
George's Hall. The service of gold plate was used. The
magnificent " St. George candelabrum " was placed in the
centre of the table, which was brilliantly illuminated with
candelabra of large size, and richly sculptured in gold.
Rows of gold dishes were ranged the entire length of the
table, the larger sort resting on engles of silver gilt ; and on
the plateau, among the different centre pieces, were arranged
several beautiful plants in flower, inserted in vases of silver
gilt.
A buffett of gold plate was erected at each end of the hall,
that at the eastern extremity containing a number of racing
cups, including the "Lincoln Cup " and two Goodwood
Cups. won by Fleur de Lis, the property of his Majesty
George. IV.
Among the remarkable articles on the buffett was the
brilliant Huema, composed of pure plates of gold, closely in-
laid with precious stones, having pearls for its eyes, and
having suspended from its beak a large and valuable ruby.
The Band of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner.
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Lord Camoiihas arrived at the Castle, and has succeeded
the Marquis of Ormonde as the Lord in Waiting to the
Queen. Major the Hon. A. N. Hood has succeeded Sir
Frederick Stovin as the Groom in Waiting, and Lord Alfred
Paget (Clerk Marshal) has relieved Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to
her Majesty.
The Bishop of St. David's had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street. Air. Morris, M.P., had also an
interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
A deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. Lord Sondes,
the Right Hon. S. R. Lushington, Mr. J. Wildman, Mr. N. I
Knatchbull, the Mayor of Faversham, Alderman Cooper, of
Canterbury, Alderman Neame, Mr. E. D. Hilton, the
Deputy of Margate, and the Mayor of Rochester, had an
interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday.
Mr. Riddell had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at
the Colonial-office.
Mr. Fitzstephen French transacted business yesterday at
the office of the Board of Trade.
Mr. Hananel De Castro, director of the Australian Mining
Company, and Mr. Thomas Hanson Peile, solicitor, had an
interview with Mr. Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of
the Board of Trade.
A deputation including Lord Barrington, and Mr. Davill,
from the Windsor Railway, had an interview with Lord
Morpeth on Monday, at the office of the Woods and Forests.
Mr. Curling, chairman, Mr. Wilson, director, and Mr.
Martin, secretary to the Kent Water-works, had an inter-
view on Monday with Lord Morpeth, at the office of the
Woods and Forests.
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of
Russia, accompanied by Admiral Lutke and his suite,His I visited
the the Museum of Practical Geology e.n Monday.
Aerial
Highness was conducted ever the establishment by its
officers.

Mrs. Trollope's " Three Cousins" will certainly
add to her reputation as a novelist. This equal, if not supe-
rior to the best of her productions, in those peculiar qualities
which have won for her the celebrity which she enjoys. Tier
own sex she seems to have studied with profound attention,
and no living writer so keenly satirises the heartless woman
of the world, or so admirably exposes all the elaborate de-
vices by which artificial manners are made to represent natu-
ral impulses. Mrs. Cobhurst, for instance, is drawn with ad-
mirable fidelity. Who has not met with scores of such girlish
widows, where the joyous hilarity of sixteen is pressed into
the service of thirty-four, in order to cover the matronly in-
trigues of the latter period of life? We can hardly persuade
ourselves that the Bishop of soiway an,
audios from uature.—John Bull,