The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen had a dinner party on Wednesday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The company consisted of her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, His Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, Lady Augusta Bruce,
Baroness de Hammerstein, Baroness de Speth, the Marquis
of Douglas, Lord George Lennox, Lieut.-Colonel the Lion. C.
B. Phipps, Lord James Murray, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The fol-
lowing had the honour of receiving invitations :—The Rus-
sian Minister and the Baroness de Brunnow and Mademoi-
selle Olga de Lechner ; the Prussian Minister and Madame
Bunsen and Mademoiselle Bunsen, Prince Lowenstein, the
Marquis of Ileadtort and the Ladies Olivia, Mary, and Vir-
ginia Tayloo.-, the Marquis of Granby, t tie Earl of Minto and
the Ladies Elizabeth and Charlotte Elliot, the Countess of
Morton and Lady Ellen Douglas, the Earl and Countess
Bruce, Viscount Ansos, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson,
lion. Miss Emily Harbord, Mr. J. M. and Lady Blanche
Balfour, lion. William Cowper, and Captain F. Seymour.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,honoured
the performance at Drury-lane Theatre with their presence
yesterday afternoon. The Royal suite consisted of the Coun-
tess of Charlemont, Lieutenant,Colonel the Hon. C. B.
Phipps and Colonel Bouverie. Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, attended by the Countess Howe, lion. Miss Hud-
son, Earl Howe, and the Earl Denbigh, also honoured the
performance with her presence: •-
Her Royal Highness 'the Ditches of Kent visited her
Majesty yesterday. •
His -Royal Highness Prince Alfred took an airing in the
Royal gardens yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
evening consisted of her Royal Highness the Duchess of.
Kent, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, his Excellency
Baron de Moncurvo, J. le Conseiller Dietz, the Marchioness
of Lansdowne, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
viscount and Viseotintuss Villiers, Lord and Lady Beauvale, •
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, the Right Hon. H. and Mrs.
Labouchem

A deputation of the Southwark Improvement Commis.
si.oiers, consisting of Sir William Muleswurth, Mr.
Richard Muter, Mr. ,Williani Griffith, Mr.. Joseph Sterry, and
Mr. Ahied J Ibercocks, architect to the Commissioners,
welted on the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Improve-
ments yesterday. _ .

A deputation- of the Westminster Improvement Commis-
sioners a'so waited on the Commi,sioners of Metropolitan
Improvements yesterday. The deputation included Sir E.
Pearson, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. Kettle.

The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements bad a
meeting yesterday at their office in Whitehall. place. There
were present Viscount Morpeth, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Sir
Charles Lemon, Mr. Alderman Huwphery, Mr. Milne, and
Mr. Barry.
A deputation of magistrates of the West Riding of York-
shire, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at
the Home Office, respecting a portion of the new prison at
Wakefield being transferred to the Government for the use
of convicts under sentence of transportation. The deputation
consisted of Lord Wharnclitfe, Lord Beaumont, Hon. Edward
Lascelles, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. J. Houldsw•ortb, and
Mr. Shepherd, Governor of Wakefield Prison.
A deputation consisting of Lord Courtenay, Sir Ralph
Howard, Mr. Godley, and Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, had
an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official
' residence in Downing-street. Lord Jobn Russell was ac-
companied by Earl Grey and the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, _

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Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, was prevented by
illness, attending her Majesty's Levee on Wednesday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a
general meeting yesterday, at their office in Whitehall. place.
The Earl of Powis had an interview with Sir George Grey
at the Home-office, yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial -office,
from the Governors of the Mauritius, the Cape of Good
Hope, and Malts.

HEALTH OF THE LORD LIEU-

TENANT.

Duzux, APRIL 28.—The bulletin issued this morning
was extremely unfavourable, and, notwithstanding the san-
guine notice of the state of the noble patient's health which
appeared in the Government journal of last night, there is
every reason to apprehend a fatal termination to his Excel-
hiency's malady- After poet hour yesterday, and up to three
lock this morning..the answer given to the numerous in-
quiries was, that there was no change in the symptoms, and
that the Noble Earl was not worse. This day, however, the
prospects of recovery have further decreased, as will be
seen by a copy of the bulletin issued at nine o'clock A.M.
. " April 28,.1847.
llis Excellency continues in a very precarious state."
A little before three o'clock a fresh and equally unfavour-
able bulletin was issued. It is as follows:

" His Excellency continues in a very precarious state up
.o half-past two o'clock."

At loir o'clock there was no change, and it is not expected
here will be another bulletin published before seven o'clock
evening.

DEATH OF LORD COWLEY.
We regret to announce the decease of the above respected
nobleman, who expired at Paris on Tuesday last, after an.
illness of some duration.
The deceased nobleman, as our readers are aware, filled _
the office of British. Ambassador at the French Court up to
a recent period.; on his Lordship's retirement from that office
he came to England, in company with Lady Cowley; but,
-after a short stay in this country, returned to Paris, where,
about six weeks since, be was attacked with the serious ill-
ness which has just terminated in his death.
anti
andas
consequently
son
The deceased Peer, Henry Wellesley, Baron Cowley of
Wellesley, county of Somerset, in the Peerage of the. United
Kingdom, G.C.B. and P.C., was
of Garnett first Earl of Morniugton, by the eldest daughter
the
w youngest
of the first Earl of Dungarvon, fifthn l
brother to the Duke of Wellington, the
late Marquis
Wellesley, and the late Earl of Morning ton. He was born
January 20tb, 1773, and was consequently seventy-four
years of age. His Lordship's widow
pre-
sent Marquis of Salisbury. He has had is a sister of the
two daughters, viz~ the II
Hon. Richard Charles Wellesley,
Secretary of Embassy at C •
onstantm
Cowley), born in 1804 , the Ho Constantinople (now Lord
n. William, Captain R.N.;
the Hon. Charlotte, born •in 1807, and married to Lord Ro-
bert Grosvenor • the
Hon. and Rev. Gerard; and the Hon.
Georgian& Charlotte Mary, born in 1817. Lord Cowley sel-
dom took a •
prominent part in the internal affairs of this
country. His services have been •
almost entirely rendered
abroad in the civil capacity of a diplomatist. In this latter
character, indeed, he distinguished himself on many occa-
sions. For many years he was the British Ambassador at
the Court of Vienna • and on the accession of Sir Robert
Peel to power in 1841, he proceeded in a similar capacity to
Paris, where he remained - during the whole of that Right
Hon. Baronet's administration, mid on retirement was suc-
ceeded by the Marquis of Normanby. In politics the de-
ceased held opinions
trious brother the Duke of Wellington, who held his proxy
in the Upper House. In 1828 he received his Peerage by
patent, the Duke being at the time Premier. He was a Privy
Councillor of 1829. The son and successor of the decease&
the Hon. Henry Richard, already mentioned, married in 1833
the Hon. Olivia Cecilia de Roos, second daughter of the late
Henry Fitzgerald and Charlotte Baroness de Roos. The re-
mains of the deceased nobleman will, it is expected, be
brought to England for interment.

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