The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen lield a Court ()a afternom at
Duckiegfiam Palace.
His Excellency the Duke tic Broglie had en audience
of her 'Majesty, to deliver his credentials as Ambassador
l'xtraordmary fr•nn his Majesty the King of the
French. llis Exe. I:eney was introduced by Viscount
Palmerston, G.C.8., her Mjeay's principal Secretary
of Stare for Yireigu .1 ilwr s. 41,1 c,4,ntiucte,i by t.%ului el
the Hon. S:r Edward Cust, K.C.il., her Majesty's ,es-
ter of the Ceremonies.
The Quren Bove aulicnee to Viscount Palmerston.
Her Majesty v.-ns ntteryled by bird 13) run, Lord in
Waiting, and Sir Edward aP.vater, Groom in WiAtiug.
The Queen awl Prince Albert rode out on horseback
on Saturday, attended by the Ii n. Miss Murray, Colo-
nel Buckley, and Lieut.-Cc:lonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Q teen Dowager, and their Royal
Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited the Queen and Prince
Albert on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her
Majesty and her Royal Consort.
His Royal Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh vi-
sited the Queen on Saturday.
His Royal ilighneis Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at-
tended by Baron de Diner, Count Oriola and Count
Groeben, visited her Majesty the Queen ut the Belgians
on Saturday, ut Buclrin4ham Palace.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by
Pr. Carswell, returned to Buckingham Palace from
Claromont, at half-past five o'clock on Saturday after-
noon. _

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured
the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suites con-
sisted of the Countess of Desart, the Countess Vander-
straten, Lord Byron, Major do Moerkirke, Colonel
Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Sax ; Weimar, and Prince Peter
of Oldenburgh, honoured the performance at her
Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, with her
presence. Her Majesty and then. Royal Highnesses
were attended by the Countess of Sheffield. the Countess
of Assen burg, Hon. William Ashley, Count de Beust,
and Baron de Ziegesar. Their Ruyal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron
Bamtnerstein, also honoured the performance with their

presence.,
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton,
took a carriage drive on Saturday, and their Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal took
pony and walking exorcise. Yesterday the Royal
chil tren took their usti4.l airings.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the Bel-
gistni, the Ladies and th.ritlemeli of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday,
in the private chaps lin Buckingham Palace. The Hon.
And Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at
Marlborough House.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester and
their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, visited their
Her Majesty
Kin,' and Queen of the Belgians yesterday.
tier at4jestv the Queen Dowager, and his Royal
Llighntss the Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar,
attended Divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal,
St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev.
J. V. Povali, and the lessons by the Rev. T. lid...
'f be sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley,
from St. Luke. chap. 8, verse 2. The anthem was " 0
Lord give ear" (Green). The sacrament was adminis-
tered by the Rev. Dr. Wesley.
Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Shef-
field and the lion. William Ashley. The Hereditary
Grand Duke was attended by Count de Beust.
The Bishop of Norw:ch, Clerk of the Closet, was in
Waiting. Among the nubility present were Ladies
Fortescue, Wilton, and St. Germans, the Duke of Beau-
fort, the Marquises of Angles.ea, ()monde, and Win-
chester ; Lords Bandon, Si. Germans, Wilton, and
Cawdor.

The Duke of `Veiling on, the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans, and the Marquis of Anglesea, attended the
early service, yesterday. in the Chapel Royal. St. James's.
The Rev. Mr. Haden officiated, and preached the sermon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager, on Saturday, at
Marlborough House. .

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary at-
tended Divine service, yesterday, in St. Michael's Church,
Cheater-square. Baron Knesebeck and Baroness Ham-
merstein were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses.
The Duke of Cambridge attended D vine service, yes-
terday, in Grosvenor Chapel. Sir William Davison was
in waiting on his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured Viscuuntess
Palmerston with her company on Saturday evening, at
her residence in Carlton-gardens.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia, at-
tended by Baron Laner, Count Oriola, mid Count roe-
ben, visited the Exhibition of Drawings of India and the
punjaub, by the Hon. Charles ilardinge, on Saturday, at
bir. McLean's gallery.
His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of Prussia
honoured the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, with
his company at dinner, on Saturday, at his residence in
Carlton House-terrace.
Mr. Bond Cabbed, M.P., and Colonel Reid, had an
interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the
Home-office.

The French Ambassador visited Viscount Palmer-
ston on Saturday, at the Foreign Office.
Baron de Ziegeser left town yesterday for the Con-
tinent.

Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the
Colonial Office for the Governor General of Canada,
and also for the Governors of the other North Ameri-
can Provinces.

Sir Benjamin Brodie, Mr. Hammick, and Mr. Ed-
ward Rushton, had interviews with Sir George Grey on
Saturday at the Home Office.

FOREIGN CORN AND HiiRVEST.

Eight vessels have entered the harbour of Antwerp
laden with rye, and one with wheat.
Our markets on Wednesday were not well sup-
plied, and there were only 250 sacks of potatoes,
which were sold at a lower price than at Friday's
market. In potatoes there was, as might have been
expected, a great fall in the price. The old potatoes
did not find many purchasers, in spite of the manoeuvres
of certain sellers. New potatoes were sold retail
at 12 to 14 centimes per kilogramme. Vegetables of
every kind follow the general movement in becoming
much cheaper, caused by the prospect of the most
magnificent and abundant harvest which we have
seen for years.
The Prussian State Gazette publishes the medium
prices of corn during the month of May in the diffe-
rent provinces of the Prussian monarchy. The
medium price of corn was—
In the Province of Prussia
17 Posen .
B ran den berg
17f. 25c.
Pormerania...
Silesia . l6r. 25e.
11
Saxe .. . .
Westphalia 21f. 60e.
Rhenish Provin es
We thus see that in the Rhenish Provinces provi-
visions obtained the highest price.
COPENHAGEN, JUNE 20.—1 t is stated that a decree
is about to be published which will prohibit the sales
of standing corn in Denmark. 'This decree not only
imposes heavy fines for every breach, but sets aside all
contracts which may have been already made. The
ships Hecla and Bellona have returned from Russia,
richly laden with corn, and immediately after landing
their precious freight, have returned to the storehouse
of Russia for a fresh supply. The prices of corn have
again fallen. The magnificent appearance of the
crops, the continued aids afforded to our poor, as well
as the continued free icpportation and suspension of
the mill system, gives .every prospect of a happy
future.

A CIDER DRINKER.—An old man, named Abra-
ham LiiHard, approaching fourscore, who has livt d in the
family of the llolintns, large farmers, at Glastonbury,
for the last forty years, as farm bailiff, has had through
the whole of that time one gallon of cider daily allowed
for his own drinking, from his master's stores, and
though he is now too aged to work, he is still seen going
for his favourite beverage. The lather of the present
Mr. Holman, at his death, left in his will Bs. per week,
to be given to this faithful servant as Ling as he lived ;
this he (the old man) regularly has been paid, and his
daily potation of cider drawn fur 11:m also; during that
forty years this man must have received 14,600 gallons
or 270 hogsheads 20 gallons, which at 40s. the hogs.
bead, uould have realised 54.01. and up wards.— Sherburne
Journal.

DEATH OF A CHILD BY SWALLOWING A CHERRY-
ATONE.—On Thursday afternoon the following extraor-
dinary and fatal csse was admitted into St. Thomas's
Hospital. It appears that the deceased, a remarkably
fine girl, about seven years old, named Emily Harriet
Durban, whose friends reside in George-street, Croy
don, on the morning of Friday last, when eating some
fruit, accidentally swallowed a cherrystone, and on the
following day, feeling some ill effects in consequence,
complained to her parents, and Mr. Bird, the surgeon,
of Croydon, was called, and tried every means to extract
the stone, but without success. The little creature grew
worse, and ultimately, at the recommendation of Mr.
Bird, she was conveyed to the above hospital, and placed
under the charge of Mr. Barnewell, one of the resident
medical officers, who, with the assistance of the dresser,
was about to introduce the probe, but upon seeing this
the deceased made a sudden turn, and was seized with
convulsive efforts, and expired in a few moments.
Shoals of fellows are tramping the county, attempt-
ing to entrap and deceive the unwary. Some represent
themselves as surgeons ; others as broken-down clerks ;
others, again, as persecuted and banished schoolmasters
from Ireland. In their wake come others who do not
assume so lofty pretensions, but content themselves with
selling religious tracts to some and dissolute songs to
others. These fellows ar., undoubtedly of the same fra-
ternity. One fellow, who represented himself as an
Irish schoolmaster, was rceog,nised as Ling one of the
London runners," although ho had been, according to
his own version, imported only a fortnight.. When
taxed with the fact, he politely walked away. All
would do well to ref o,e any relief to such vagabonds, who
are impostors from Lioni.lo4 04 their summer tour.—
Brighton Gazette.