The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yester-
day afternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for
promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-
building the Palace at Westminster.

His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace at
three o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour.
The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Colborne, Viscount
Mahon, the Right lion. the Speaker, and Sir Robert H.
Inglis. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Princess Helena, took their accustomed airings yes-
terday.
The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the per-
formance at her Majesty's Theatre yesterday evening
with their presence. The royal suite consisted of the
Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Hon. Miss Murray,
lion. Miss Macdonald, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of
Morley, Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge also ho-
noured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre last
evening with her presence.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at
Gloucester House, and their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Cambridge House.
The Countess of Alount-Edgeeumbe has succeeded
the Countess of Desart as the Lady in Waiting to the
Queen. The Earl of Morley has succeeded the Earl of
Ducie as the Lord iu Waiting to her Majesty ; and Mr.
R. Ormsby Gore has succeeded Sir Edward Bowater as
the Groom in Waiting to the Queen.
Sir William C. Ros,, R.A., bad the honour of taking
the last sitting, yesterday, for a likeness of her Royal
Highness the Princess Alice ; painted by command of
the Queen.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured Mr. T. M.
Joy, by inspecting, at Buckingham Palace, his por-
trait of Rear Admiral Sir Charles Napier, and were
graciously pleased to express their approbation.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal highness
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester
House.
A Deputation from the Great Western Railway Com-
pany, consisting of Lord Barrington, Captain Bulkeley,
Mr. Alfred Fowler, Mr. Henry Cook, Mr. John Ro-
berts, Mr. Henry Darvill, and Mr. W. 0. Henry had
an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the
Office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, in Whitehall-place.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the perform-
ance with their presence yesterday evening. The royal
suite included the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, the
Baroness de Spaeth, the Hon. Miss Murray, the lion.
Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour. His Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge also honoured the theatre with
his presence. His Royal Highness Prince Waldemar of
Prussia, attended by Baron Laner, was also present.
The Duchess of Cambridge's box was occupied by Miss
Burdett Coutts and a large party, including Sir "Frede-
rick Trench, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Miss Burdett, Mr.
Cave, &c. Amongst the company were, the Duke of
Wellington, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Prince
Troubctskoi, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro,
the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Marchioness of Westmeath, the Countess of Powis and
Lady Lucy Herbert, the Earl and Countess Desert, the
Earl of Cardigan, the Baroness Brunnow, the Hon. Miss
Irvine and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Chevalier
Correa de Sa, Viscount Dungannon, Viscount Clifden,
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Misses Copley,
Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, Lady Brougham,
Lord
Sandys, Lord Saltoun, Lord Macdonald, Lady Col-
borne and the Hon. Miss Colborne, Lord Adolphus Fitz-
clarence, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Shaw Stewart,
Baron Nicolay, M. C. de lioudriaffsky, Sir Alexander,
Lady, and the Misses Woodford, Si; E. Codrington
and Miss Codrington, Sir
J. Wilson, Sir R. Price, Sir
G. and Lady Palmer, General the lion. A. Upton, the
Hon. J. Brown, the Hon. W. Bathurst, the Right Hon.
Mr. Arbuthnot, Colonel and Mrs. Leeke, Colonel and
Lady Laura Meyrick, Major Buckley, Captain Blane,
Mr. H. De Burgh, Co]. King, Mr.,
bits., and Miss W.
Wynne Williams, Mr. Broadwood,M.P., Mr. Errington,
Mr. B. Baldwin, M.P., Mr. and Miss Holford, Hon. G.
Byng, Sir H. Meux, &c.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.—
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Baden,
and the Marquis of Douglas, occupied her Majesty's
box at the Royal Italian Opera on Tuesday evening.
Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the Baroness
Hammerstein, Baron Roller and Baron Knesebeck.
There were also present the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort aid Lady Blanche Somerset, the Dowager Duchess
of Bedford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Donegal, the
Countess of Lincoln, Earl Grosvenor, Earl Delawarr, the
Countess of Portarlington, Earl Compton, the Countess
of Orford and Lady Dorothy Walpole,
D'Orsay and the lion. Mrs. Norton, Count Louis de
Noailles, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Countessh
of Hopetonn, the Dowager Countess of Glasgow,ht e
Earl and Countess of Harrington, the Countess of Cn es-
terfield, Viscountess Newport and the lion. Mrs. Aasston,
Lady Harriet
Viscount Canterbury, Viscount and Viscountess
tCle•
reagh and Lady Georgians Codrington,
Dup-
plin, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount MaYnar r lr the
lion. o ing-
Hon. Miss Maynard, Viscount and Viscou
Viscodunandteld, Lord and
ton, Lord Bateman, Lord and Lady
Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady WallscourStutd Mr. Lock,
Lady
Chichester, Lady William Paulett, Lord and Lady
Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley,E 1
Edward
Frances Gordon, Lady Georgians Grey, Lady Elizabeth
Dawson, Lady Augusta Baring, the Right lion. Sir
James and Lady Graham, Sir Bellingham and Lady
Graham, Sir Wm. and Lady de Bathe, Capt. de Bathe,
Kent, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir U.h. • Ibbotson,
Sir William Gordon
Sir Henry Webb, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart,
asSilCharles
Sir Henry Paulet, Sir C. Marshall, a
on
—raßilos Lirhosfen, JULYab
Curnmini., Sir G. and Lady Baker, B Austen, Baron
Fortescue, and Mrs.
A. and Lady Spearman, lion' Hug
Henry Baring.
Palaicini, Hon. Spencer Cowper. Ilhon.rJ. Macdoald, Sir
_FRIGHTFUL RAILWAY.
'dent occurred on the Manches-
ter very dreadful accident
evening.
ter and Bolton line, on Saturday, 0. g. The en•
gincer of a luggage train, consisting
25f 36. waggons,
which left Bolton for Blanchester at. minutes past
eleven, saw something lying . ,
six miles from the Salford station, but not till the engine
' On reaching
the Salford station it
was close upon it, 1 of three of the
was found that the wheels . waggons were
od. On returning to the spot
nearly covered with blo
with •
A ions across N
the.
an engine, the bead
where the shock took place,
were found without the rails;
and chest of a human body .
and about three yards further. and on the other side
the rails, the legs and the lower part of the body. It
-atchman, employed at the coal-
pits,
the property of the late Mr.
eleven o'clock h -e left a beer-
Fletcher, of Clifton.
At
d th r fo
house in the neighbourhop ,t ras
hee
arward in liquor,
in company with his wifc,lp him hd to keep watch
that night, the latter left and .
returned home.
The man must have got over a fence, in order to cross
the line, which was somewhat nearer than the way he
ought to have gone • and as he was in the habit, when
sober, of lying,:lovvn, and resisting all attempts to
rouse him, it is very probable that he had lain himself
down on this occasion, and thus met with so melancholy
a fate.
DISTRESS IN CAVE BRETON —• APPREHENDED
FemiNE.—Sunimer is at hand, and what are the hus-
bandman's prospects? The cattle everywhere dying in
hundreds—the farm horses too feeble, from starvation,
to perform the labour of ploughing; and, lastly, more
than three-fourths of the farmers in the country. wholly
ticslitut.? or ijoilitc„..3 or srain for t,..1., "1 lie ( 1 •:)._liti,n
of the country is frikhtful; nor is the above picture over-
coloured or exaggerated. The island is menaced, if not
inot,ailis,tely, at ica:zt rrosrtetivflY, '' 1 :- t'':. 1101 TON C.
actual famine. Upwards of 200 cattle, we are informed,
have died from want of food in the settlement of Middle
River alone. Many farmers in other parts of the coun-
try have lost their hire otycls.--Capo rpton
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