The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at Awn.
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
At the Council Lord Kinnaird was by command..of the
Queen sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable, Privy
Council, and took his place at the Board.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint Sir William
Trelawny, Bart., to be Lord Lieutenant of t'ae County of
Cornwall, Sir William took the oaths appoir,ted to be taken
thereupon.
The custody of the Privy Seal was delivered by beer Ma-
jesty to the Earl of Clarendon, G. C.B.
Her Majesty's Speech, on the opening °f' the Session of
Pariiament this day -*as arranged and agreed u?on.
The Council `:as attended by the Le,d .President, the
Lord C.haricf.7ter, the First Lord of the Treasury, the
Secretar;.es of State for the Home, foreign, and Colonial
DeP:artments, the Chancellor of Vele Exchequer, the First '
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word of the Admiralty, the r, °p'
of the Indian
Board, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the
President of the Board of Trade, the Chief Secretary for 'I
Ireland, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Fo-
rests, the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, the Lord
Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
At the Court the Hon. Ralph Abercromby, her Majes-
ty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Confedera-
tion,was pregented to the Queen on his return from Frank-
fort, by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affaira,
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Marquis of Nor-
manby,
Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Albemarle
Viscount Melbourne. ,and
The Court was attended by Lord Hill, Gold Stick in
Waiting; the Treasurer of the Household, the Co-. 11
troller of the Household ; Lord Byron, the Lord in Wait_ing ; non. William Cowper, Groom in Waiting ; and
Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting.
Accounts were received at Buckingham .Palace yesterday
'
at noon of the death of her Royal Highness the Land_ 1
graving of Hesse Homberg. Her Royal Highness had
been ill for a long time past, but the accounts received in
town a few days ago were more favourable.
Immediately after the Council, her Majesty paid visit f
ofcondolence upon the melancholy event, to the Mer a.
burs of the Royal Family in town.
The French Ambassador transacted business yestel day
at the Foreign Offico.
Mr. D. Hill, Mr. Stansfield, Mr. Wallace, and •Air.
Power had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of :
Nor-
manby at the Home Office.
Full elres,s dinner parties were given last ev' Jrl ; ng by
Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell, at
Queen's Speech on opening tbe Session of Par' which the
slam ant this
day was read by flw two Ministers to, the `tam
re spective
guests. The party at Lord Melbourne-s, •
at hit , official
residence ifu Downing-street, consisted of. L
uetwee n twenty
and Shirty Peers. and Lord John Russel:es, at thl . Foreign
Office, consi,ted of Coo Speaker,
Members of the House of Commons 141 d a large party of
,e niostlycoassi cted with
the Administration.

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