The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace at half-past one
o'clock, and lunched with his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Her
Royal Highness remained in the Palace during the afternoon, and
then returned to her residence, Ingestre House.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback in the
forenoon, attended by Colonel Wylde.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of his Royal Highness
Prince Albert.
The Countess of Erroll, Viscountess Palmerston, and Lady Ida
Hay paid visits to the Palace during the afternoon, and were re.
ceived by Lady Barham, Lady of the Bedchamber in Waiting oe
her Majesty.
The Master of the Horse and the Vico-Chamberlain attended at
the Palace yesterday.
The Queen and the infant Princess were going on favourably
throughout the day.
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Among the Nobi!ity and Gentry who entered their names yes-
terday on the list of inquiries after the state of her Majesty's health
were—The Prussian, Neapolitan, Saxon, and Spanish Ministers,
the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Bavarian
Minister and Baronets Cetto, the Greeian Minister and Madame
Marrocordato, the Russian Minister arid Baroness Brunow, the
French Charge d'Affaires, the Danish Charge d'A ffaires and Coun-
tess Bille Brahe, the Mexican Charge d'Affaires and Madame
Murphy, Baron Schleinitz, M. de Vanden!, Mr. E. Willett, Mayor
of Norwich ; the Solicitor-General, the Bishop of London, Marquis
and Marchioness of Bute; Earls of Vernier's, Effingham, and Rad-
nor; Countesses Bathurst, Verulam, Effingham, Mountnorris, Bel.
fast, Albemarle, Dowager Chichester, and Dowager Carnwath ;
Viscountess Hawarden ; Lords Kinnaird, Oranmore, Eitzallan,
and Saye and Sete; Ladies William Russell, Methuen, Georgiana
Bathurst, F. Smith, Shelley, Robert Grosvenor, Oranmore, Eliza-
beth Gore, Emily Gore, Grey, De Dunstanville ; Right Hon. Mr.
Justice Erskine; Honourables Mrs. Thomas Erskine, E. Phipps, and
Mrs. E. Phipps ; Sirs E. Lytton Bulwer, M.P.; Sandford Graham,
John de Beauvoir, Bart. ; J. Shelley, G. Grey, H. Dukintiehl, R.
Chester; T. Barrett Leonard, C. R. Vaughan, and Charles Dalbiae;
Archdeacon of Middlesex ; the Rev. Dr. Foord Bowes, Dr. Philli-
more, Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Major-Gen. Sir James Cock-
burn ; Colonels Yarke, Sir Samuel G. Higgins, Sir Frederic Smith
and Ast II; Major Hyde; Messrs. Phillpotts, M.P., Frederick
Hodgson, M.P., Starkie, Queen's Counsel ; John Miller, Queen's
Counsel ; D'lsraeli, Loch, Kinnaird, W. L. Bathurst, Hope Vere,
Prideaux Brune, B. Paget, H. Charles Hoare, Ashley James Mur-
ray, and Stanley; Mistresses William Erie, Blomtield,
Loch, Prideaux Brune, B. Paget, and Montefiore Misses Dormer,
Erskine, Louisa Erskine, Shelley, and Browne.

At Edinburgh last Wednesday afternoon between
600 and 700 gentlemen, friends of civil and religious
liberty, chiefly residing in Edinburgh, though there were
many from a distance, met to do honour to Adam Black,
;(1., with reference especially- to his recent contest in de-
fence of those principles. Lord Dunfermline took the
chair, support, d on the right by Mr. Black, and on the
left by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder; Sir James Gibson
Craig, cf Ric:carton, Bart., doing the duties of croupier.
We postpone until Monday a report of the excellent
speeches delivered on this important and highly interest-
ing occasion.
BANKRUPTCY OF MESSRS. WRIGHT AND
Wright Biddulph, John Wright, Henry Robinson, and
the lion. Edward William I,rnine,harn,bankers and co-
partners, carrying on business in Henrietta-street, Covent-
garden, under the firm of " Wright and Co." Mr. Pitt
Collett, painter and glazier, was the petitioning creditor.
Government have offered a reward of 1001. for
the detection of the pa.rties who made the recent attempt to
poison Mr. klitchins in Nottingham prison by means of a
plum loaf.