The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

The.Qua:m and Pri77a, ", the ladies and gentle
men of the U mrt, and the d,..mestic household, attended
Divine service. yesterday morn:ag iu the private chap)
in Buckingham Palace.- The sermon was preached by
the Rev. Mr. Stanley ;: the prayers were read by the
C. ie. Con, tenay..
Her Majesty and• her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday... ...
Their Royal.Highnestes the Prince of Walis, nine°
Alfred; the Princess Royal, the PrittcessAliee, and the
Princess Helena, took their accustomed airings yester-
day,

Royal Highness the lJereqitary Grnd Duke of
Saxe Weimar visited his Royal kgliness Prince Albert
on Saturday morning to take leave o his Reyal Highness.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went o❑ Saturday
forenoon to witness the consecration by the Biihop of
Landon, of the Mariners' Church, Dock• street. His
Royal highness was attended by Viscount Clifton, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. PhippQ, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen. Dowager, attended by her
Lady in Waiting, visited the Queen and Prince Albert
on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess
Alice, and the Princess lick na, accompanied by the
Dowager .Lady. Lyttelton, took an airing in an open
carriage and four on Saturday.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the perform-
ance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on
Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Desert, Hon. Misses Macdonald, Baroness
tie Speth, Earl Ducie, Colonel Buckley, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Seymour. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke
and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta
Cadogan, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmond Milduaay,
also honoured the performance with their presence on
Saturday evening.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and their Royal
Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, honoured the performance of
the French Plays with their presence on Friday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, attended by the
Countess of Assenburg, the Earl of Denbigh and Count
de Beust, left Marlborough House, the residence of the
Queen Dowager, at half past twelve o'clock on Satur-
day, to embark at Woolwich, en route to the Hague.
His Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday at
Marlborough House.
Her Majesty the Qseen Dowager, attended by the
Countess of Sheffield and the Hon. Miss Eden, left town
in- a carriage-and-four at a
,quarter b'eforefive o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, for her residence; Bushy House,
Bushy Park.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning
in Grosvenor Chapel.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at-
tended by Lady Georgiana Bathurst, honoured Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence with her company at dinner on
Saturday, at his residence in St. James's Palace. The
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl and Countess of
Wilton, the Earl and Countess cf Chesterfield, and the
Hon. Captain Macdonald, were present to meet her Royal

Highness.
The Committee on Education of her Majesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council held a meeting ,on Saturday,
which was attended by the Lord President, Lord John
Russell, the Earl of Min to, the Earl of Auckland, the
Viscount Morpeth, the Right lion. Sir George Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon.
Thomas B. Macaulay. Mr. Kay Shuttleworth was in
attendance.
A number of Members of the House of Commons,
holding office in the Administration, had a meeting with
Lord John Russell on Saturday at his official residence
in Downing-street. The Secretary at War, the Master
of the Mint, the Judge Advocate-General, the Under
Secretaries of State, the Lords of the Treasury, the
Lords of the Admiralty, the Ccmmissioners of the
Board of Controul, the Members of th Board of Ord-
nance, and the Secretaries of the Treasury, attended the
meeting.
The Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans, the Marquis of Anglesey, and Sir F. Trench,
attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. The s, rmon was preached by the Hon. and
Rev. W. Capel. At the daily service the prayers were
read by the Rev. T. Ilelmore, the Lessons by the it v.
Dr. Vivian, and the Communion Service by the Rev.
Dr. Wesley. The Anthem was " Save, Lord, and hear
us" (Hayes). Mr. Tulle presided at the organ. The
Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis of Granby,
Ladies Wilton, St. Germans, and Somerset, were among
the nobility present.

PRINCE WALDEMAR of PRUSSIA.
On Saturday his Royal Highness paid visits to his
Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, to Westminster Abbey,
St. Paul's, and the Bank of England.
In the evening his Royal Highness and the noblemen
of his suite, accompanied by his Excellency the Chevalier
Bunsen and his Highness Prince Lowenstein, were en-
tertained by the Chairman and Directors of the East
India Company at the London Tavern.
Yesterday the Prince remained at home until one
o'clock, at which hour he went to visit the Earl and
Countess of Jersey at their residence in Grosvenor-
square.
His Royal Highness subsequently proceeded alone to
Westminster Abbey, and remained there until the close
of Divine service.
The Prince and his noble attendants dined with the
Queen and the Prince Consort at Buckingham Palace
last evening.
There is to be an investiture of the most Honourable
Order of the Bath this afternoon at Buckingham Palace,
when the Prince will be invested with the insignia of
that distinguished Order as Knight Grand Cross.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen and Prince
Albert honoured the performance at her Majesty's
Theatre on Saturday evening with their presence. The
royal suite included the Countess of Desart, Baroness de
Speth, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Macdonald, Earl
Ducie, Lieut.-Colonel Seymour, and Colonel Buckley.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary, attended by Lady Augusta
Cadogan, Baron Knesebeck, Mr. St. John Mildmay, and
Mr. and Lndy Charlotte Lister, were also present.
Amongst the company were the Duke of Wellington.
Prince Louis Napoleon, Duke and Duchess of Cleveland
and Lady Augusta Paulett, Duke of Montrose, his Ex-
cellency the Duke de Broglie and suite, Marquis and
Marchioness of Douro, Marquis of Huntley, Marquis of
Granby, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Mar.
quis of Conyngham, Prince Troubetskoi, Earl of Shel-
burne, Countess of Blessington and the Misses Power,
Countess of Glengall, Earl and Countess of Arlington
and Lady Jane Stanhope, Earl of Milton, Earl Bruce,
Earl of Munster, Earl of Cardigan, Baroness Mallhoff and
Madlle. Olga de Lechner, Viscount Clifden, Viscount
Ranelagh, Viscount and Viscountess Pollington,
Viscount Newport, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount
Somerton, Lord Mountcharles, Lord Otho Fitzr„erald,
Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord Saltoun, Lord Sandys,
Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Misses Copley, Count
D'Orsay, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA COVENT- G ARDEN.—On
Saturday evening her Majesty's box was occupied by the
Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, the Hon. Misses
Macdonald and Major Sir William Pallier Gallwey.
Among the visitors were his Excellency the Danish
Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, Mar-
quis of Bristol, Countess of Lovelace, Earl and Countess
of Caledon, Earl and Countess Craven, Countess
Dundonald, Earl and Countess of Bradford and
the Ladies Bridgeman, Earl Grosvenor, Countess
Dowager of Essex, Viscount and Viscountess Folke-
stone, Viscountess Forbes, Viscount and Viscountess
Canning, Lord and Lady Hotham, Lady Sophia Wynd-
ham, the Prince of Centola Doria, Viscountess Newport,
Lady William Powlett, Lord and Lady Carrington,
Lord Charles Manners, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Henry
Lennox, M.P., Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord Suffield,
Lady Abinger, Lady Cecelia Des Veux and the Misses
Des Veux, Sir Richard Vyvyan, Sir Heneage Dering,
Sir John Duckworth, Sir William de Bathe and Captain
de Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Talbot, Lady
and Miss Talbot, the Hon. Sir E award and Lady Butler,
Sir William and Lady Molesworth, Sir Charles Kent,
Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Sir John and Lady Yarde
Buller, Lady Georgians Codrington, Lady Geraldine
Somerset, Sir William Abdy, Sir Peregrine Ackland
and the Missei Ackland, Lady Macfarlane, Sir Richard
Paul Jodrell and Lady Jodrell, Baron Paraviceni, Sir R.
Price, Lady Morgan, &c. &c.
Tan CROPS.—We hear from correspondents who
have taken journies, which include that valuab!e part of
Devonshire from Bovey Tracey to Exeter—and thence
westward including the South coast, and the South
Hams to Plymouth, that the yeomanry speak most
highly of the prosperity of the future harvest. In most
parts the wheat and barley are strong in the ear, the
former generally in blossom in the South, and if the
weather continues fine and warm, the kerning will be
most prolific. There is a larger breadth of land now in
wheat and barley than last year, in consequence of the
failure of the potato crop. The farmers this year, to
provide against such a contingency again occurring,
have provided in many instances other vegetables for the
winter—peas, carrots, and parsnips. But it has yet to
be seen whether the small tillage of potatoes in the
ground will be a failure. At present in all parts of this
division of the county, they are looking most healthy,
and those that have already been nroduced at family
tables are really most excellent. the hay harvest is
now general, being well saved, with heavy crops. The
plough, harrow, tormentor, and roller, have been most
actively employed during the last month for the turnnipf
crop, and there is every prospect of good abundance
his winter food for cattle. Apples are also in
dance with the greatest certainty of cider bringsaolbdunai
a very low price.—Plymouth Journal
DIABOLICAL ACT.—Ari old and respectableow rscorre-
spondent,writing from the Carse of Goes
" Whole fields of potatoes have beenar
e newdestroy dn i
Glasgow,n vari o various
parts of Scotland ; and three
who have confessed that they Tan
ewnere bribed by certain
parties (large speculatoys. in gram) to sprinkle these
fields with water, containing a strong solution of
pliurie acid." Had we not the fullest confidence in our
correspondent we should have refused insertion to this
statement ; but knowing his veracity we do not hold
ourselves free to suppress such a fact, however painful it
is to us as men and Christians to see the love of money
urging individuals to the commission of such a diabolical
crime.--Bell's Weekly Messenger.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.
—The Bishop of Winchester is seriously indisposed ;
and in consequence of this untoward event the Bishop of
Oxford was prevented from preaching yesterday morn-
ing, according to advertisement, at Trinity Church,
Cloudesley-square, Islington, he having been summoned
to the bedside of his Right Reverend Brother Prelate.