The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Queen.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening,l
eluded the Marquis of Hertford, Marquis and Marchiene;
of Westminster, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Surrey, s
and Countess of Clanwilliam, Earl of Morley, Visco
Melbourne, Lord and Lady Norreys, Col. and
Isabella Wemyss, and Sir William Lumley. rag
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Gear
was in attendance at the Palace during the evening. r..
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager rode out yesterdal
Clinto
ternoon in the Parks, attended by Frances Lady "'
Hon. Miss Anne Gore, Sir Horace Seymour, Earl HO
and the Rev. J. R. Wood. fisa
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by A
an
Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, honoured the puke
last
ur
Duchess of Buccicuch with their company at dinner
evening, at their residence in Whitehall Garden'. .1 e.
The Duchess and the Princess Auffusta of Cambrlug
visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Clarence Houses
St. James's.
The Duchess Ida, with the Prince and Princess of Sale
Weimar, took an airing yesterday afternoon, in a pony
phaeton and four.
Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, Lord Ashburton' litnde
Robert Inglis, a Deputation from the Trustees °, b
' of
British Museum, had an interview with the Chancellor
the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street. with
The Marquis of Downshire had an interview
Viscount Melbourne yesterday, in Downing-street.
Sir John Guest and Lieutenant Littlehales, of her
5•
jesty's brig Dolphin, had interviews with Lord John g"
sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Earl of Zetland, Dr. Bailey, the
M. and Mr. Price, had interviews. yesterday, wit"
Marquis of Normanby, at the Home-office. 'anti
Despatches from Governor Light, at British Guinn
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Gibson

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Her Majesty will give a grand concert on frk.
day week, at Buckingham Palace. --
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Her Majesty the Queen Dowaucr, atten"°- '
Earl Howe, the Hon. Captain Curzon, Sit; Horace S,ernplak:
&c., rode on horseback yesterday afternoon in Hy
veil "I.of
Her Majesty wore a purple riding habit, and a gauze „
the same colour. The young Princes, of Saxe Weimar -
Lady Georgiana Curzon were mounted on ponies.
the Prinote ant Princess of Capua ate expectit
at Alivart's Hotel to-morrow, from Brighton, accompanieo
their family.
ACOUSTIC INSTRUMENT.-111r. Curtis, in hi°
new work on Aural Surgery, states that several years ago be,
introduced the French Artificial Ears,
Ear-Cornets, thinking at the time that they were new in Est
Eicnoaourr country; tTr yu ,
than
b; e buts fi
or
rt has a
Voice-Conductors,
, yearslatelyoic e -
a go
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whichm Ae
it informed . b
sy- Mr.
. Wicker'
V o i
waenveci-reiCr
doy.nuad,neud: Voice-Conductors,
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I made saver
by the
Duchess of Brunswick, sister of George the
Lady Collingwood ; ansl that Messrs.-Philp
James's-stree., have made Ear-Cornets upwards of twe2.tey
years. These, as well as his original Hearing-Trumpets,ir:
raphonites, and other improved instruments, may he haul of I
Gifford, Chemist, 101, Strand. eV,
LEIPSIC BOOK FAIR.—The catalogue of n
~..
works issued at the Easter fair of Lei sic contained 4,4.50,,_
articles, without reckoning 448 which are announced, but bv:
and Wicker, .f S .
not yet appeared. Among those published there are 170 rio76
or romance.:, 35 theatrical pieces, 83 geographical snaps,
.7..
works on foreign literature, written in eleven European at
guages. Of these there were 082 published at Leipsic, 93...,..
Berlin, 263 at Stuttgardt, 187 at Vienna, and 150 at Ham,
burg. The catalogue of the preceding fair contained only 3'
works. her
ASTLEY'S—Her Majesty has postponed frar
private visit to the Amphitheatre till to-morrow. ,hods
of Wellington were represented last night. It is a siliec•:-A
worthy of the character which this theatre hasjnstly oital" it
for the production of military and equestrian spectacles. ,cr
gives a detail of the campaigns in which our illustrious leo
has beets engaged, commencin, with the capture of Seringalf
tam, comprising the death of Sir John Moore, the storming „f
Badajos, and ending with the glorious victory on the plains "
Waterloo.
Oil
DEATH OF ONE OF THE ETON BC11(•'*---..opt
Saturday evening an Eton boy, named Montavue, was 9-,,, t
from a skiff by the towing rope of a barge into the Thaines,,t-:f
Life
Wir.dsor Bridge. Captain Blaine, of the 2,1
the is
Life Guards, stationed at Windsor, plunged into the st"--,,ye
and at the peril of his own life attempted, but in vain, to 9
that of the la
nd. • the
THERECENT MURDE rt.—A writer In
Post, who contends that the Police Force are wholly imltha
quite to the task of detecting criminsls, asks " where wereLef
police who ouglv. to have been on duty in Norfolk-street;
Ashley, it is said, has ' sagaciously' remarked that they to
drawn off by a simulated alarm of fire. Bet ought they by
have been so drawn off ? Would soldiers have been dor-
such a ruse?"
, more.
.JEALOUSY AND SUICIDE.—On Monda; ,o for
ing the dead body of a man named Nutter, a plasterer, if f.,"olico-
- in
whicb, too,
cdkeeddinupGirnotttoh-epansesgageen,esnearnalli,larylebone i $ll
api:earance, it had been several.days. The. unfortunate ma" tant
on Wednesday told by a neighbour that his wife was ince7that
,falwl-ohrricihnginmt eollritglienngceliteßsc
oton him,
mittcd the suicidal deed.
Th :Marquis nyde(die suddenly muchquitt quitted on
home, his
'Li "Li co::
come to Dudley House next week, from the
e and Marchioness of Abere -
Priory Sktiisong
more, where the Marquis and Marchioness hare been ~„re,:ssell.
in retirement since the melancholy death of Lord Win. 7,105 e
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby left town at the "
of the past week for the Continent.
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