The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-27 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty went in State yesterday to the House of
Lords, to open the Session of Parliament with a Speech
from the Throne. The Royal Procession wes formed at
Buckirghorn Palace at half-past one o'clock, and her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert, conducted by the Earl of Ux-
bridge, Lord Chambarlain, and preceded by the Lord
Steward and the Master of the Horse, left the State
Rooms and &se 'nded the Grand Staircase to the state
carriage, her Majesty's train being borne by the Pages of
Honour in Waiting.
The State Procession left the Palace in the following
order :—A carriage drawn by :ix hays, conveyin,, Mr.
Blackwood, Mr. Hobhouse, ;and Colo,cl l)igglc, Gentle-
men Ushers; and Mr. Samuel HancoA, Exun in Walting.
A carriage drawn by six bays, conveying Lord Alfred
Paget, Equerry in Waiting; Captain Seymour, Groom
of the Robes; Masters Wernyss, Byng, and Wilson,
Pages of Honour in Waiting ; and the Silver Stick
in Waiting. A carriage drawn by six bays, con-
veying Lord Kinnaird, Master of the Buck Hounds,
the Right Hon. George Stevens Byng, Comptroller of
the Household ; Mr. Rich, Groom in Waiting; and Col.
Bouverie, Equerry to Prince Albert. A carriage drawn
by six bays, conveying the Earl of Ilehester, Captain of
the Yeomen of the Guard; Lord Hill, G.C.8., Gold
Sick in Waiting ; Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the
Household ; and the Earl of Morley, Gentleman of the
Bedchamber to Prince Albert. A carriage drawn by six
black horses, conveying the Marchioness of Normanby,
Lady of the Bedchamber ; the Earl of Errol, K. T., Lord
Steward of the Household ; Lord Robert Grosvenor,

Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert; and the Earl of
Listowel, Lord in Waiting. The Queen's Marsha!men
two and two, the Queen's Footmen in State liveries two
and two, a party of the Yeomen of the Guard in their
Coronation costumes, the State coach driven by Roberts.
in which were the Queen and Prince Albert (his Royal
Highness wearing a Field Marshal's Uniform, with the
collar sod star of the Most Noble Order of the Garter),
Lady Portman, Lady in Waiting, and the Earl of Albe-
marle, G. C. H., Master of the Horse. The Royal cortege
was escorted fi orn the Palace by a party of the Royal Re-
giment of Horse Guards.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at
Buckingham Palace on their return by the Lord Cham-
berlain. The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty in the
Grand Hall, and the Queen's Guard of the Grenadier
Regiment of Foot Guards were on duty with the band of
the Regiment on the Palace Lawn, and received her Ma-
jest ,r;eh the usual honours.
Previous to the Queen's departure 10T tile Hutu,. of
\Wenn taxa prpspntpd to her Majesty by
the Master of the Horse on being appointed one of the
Pages of Renner to bee Majoaty. - .
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was pre-
vented from dining at Buckingham Palace on Monday
evening by slight indisposition.
Lady Fanny Howard and Colonel Cowper joined the
Royal Circle at Buckingham Palace at dinner on Monday
evening.
The band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in
attendance during dinner.

The Royal dinner party last evening included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marchioness of Nor-
manby, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Albemarle, and Lady
Fanny Howard.
The band of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
attended at the Palace during the evening.
The Bishop of London had an interview with Viscount
Melbourne yesterday, iu Downing street.
Despatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, British Guiana, Mauritius,and Newfoundland were
received yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Colonel Peel, M. P., and Lady Alice Peel have arrived
at Farrance's Hotel, from Marble Hill, Trfekenham.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Douro left
Strathfieldsaye yesterday, for town.
The Duke of Wellington visited the Marquis of
Wellesley, at Kingston House, on Sunday last. His Grace
stayed with his venerable brother for nearly an hour. We
understand the Noble Marquis is in a feeble state.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, who, with
their family, arc at Dalkcith Palace, near Edinburgh, do
not contemplate coming to Montagu House before the first
week in April.
HOLDER NESSE HOUSE.—Orders have been re-
ceived from the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry,
to prepare for their reception early in March.
The Earl of Liverpool left Pitchford Hall,
near Shrewsbury, yesterday, for Fife House. The
Noble Earl dines with the Duke of Wellington, at Aps-
ley House, this evening.
The Earl of Harrington, we hear, is suffering
from ill health. The Noble Earl and Countess are at
Brighton, where they repaired at the solicitation of the
Earl's medical attendants.
The Earl of Ilchester, accompanied by Vis-
count Stavordale and Lady Caroline Strangwst s, arrived
in town on Saturday last, from a tour of several months
on Use Continent.
The Marquis of Abercorn has arrived in Lan-
easbire, from Baron's Court, Ireland, and the Mar.
:diocese bas joined 'the Noble Marquis, from Scotland.
The Duke of Wellington gave a grand banquet
on Monday, at Apsley House, to a large party of lh
political supporters in the House of Lords. Among the
distinguished guests were, the Dukes of Rutland, Beau_
fort, Buckingham, and Dorset ; Marquises of lute,
Downshire, Hertford, and Salisbury ; Earls of Aberdeen,
Joisg, Ike Grey, Shaftesbury, Devon, Clanwilliami Ches..
Delawarr, -I.l*edington, Ripon, Tankerville,
Vcrulam, Wicklow, and Harrowby ; Viscounts Beresford,
Canterbury, and Strangford ; Lords Lyndhurst, Cowley,
Stewart de Rothessy, Maryborough, Lyndhurst, Cowley,
Covers were laid for 46, and 42 sat down to dinner. The
Noble and Gallant Duke gives a similar banquet to-mor-

row evening.
A man of the name of Clifford, suspected of
having robbed Mr. Cats, the Zonmereial traveller, at the
One. Bell Inn, Bury St. Edmunds, on Monday the 18th,
WU committed on Tuesday to take his trial for stealing
several beaks from the waiter.
THE DUKE OF SUSSEX.—The present• Christ-
mu is the first, for many years past, that his Royal jiigh-
nese the Duke of Sussex has passed at Kensingtp4 Pa-
lace, the Royal Duke having always spent the bolidayS at
the splendid mansion of his old friend Lord Dinprben,
near St. Asaph's. Circumstances connected with: his
Grand Mastership of the Fraternity of Freemasons kept
the Royal Duke in town to a later period than usual,
previous to Christmas, and the state of his health, since.
the demise of his late illustrious sister, has given such
anxiety to his medical attendants, as to induce them to
advise him to abandon his intended winter visit this year
altogether.— Court Journal.
DEATH OF PEELISNI.—On the 17th instant,
of mortification, after a lingering illness of five years,
" The Glasgow Peel Club." The disease had been per.
ceptiblc almost at birth ; and though the symptoms were
deemed gentle at first, it proved of so malignant a charac-
of the collected empiries of
ter as to baffle the ingenuity
the district, backed by the whole faculty of the College.
The title is extinet—tor 'although there are several claim-
ants, the grounds of claim are understood to be, in all
vases, either spurious or utterly uotenablo., " Sic transi
&tit mundi !"—Glasgow Rffonners
DEATH OP HATFIELD, THE LUKATIC
James Hatfield, who was tried at the Old Bailey, in the
month of September, 1802, fur firi_ j,nr, a loaded pistol, in
Drury-lane Theatre, at his Majesty KingiGeorge 111., and
acquitted on the ground of insanity, died on Saturday,
the 23d inst., in the 69th year of his age.
A prebendal stall in the Cathedal Church of
Durham has become vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr.
S. Smith, of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire. The office
will not be filled up, but its revenues will pass into the
bands of the Ecclesiastical CoMmissioners, under the pi 0-
visions of the bill passed •in'tlielait S'essi6n of Par!iarce I
for the regulation of Cathedral Duties and levely.tc. .
The present is the first stall that has lapsed in Durha:;
Cathedral since the new erne into operatic
derlana Hera

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS.

THIS EVENING, JAN. 27.
Will be repeated Shakspere's
MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM.

Theseus, Mr. Cooper ; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr.
Harley ' • Flute, Air. Keeley • ' Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug,
Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame
Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First
Fairy, Miss Rainforth.
Atter wbteh,
The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be
THE CAb ILL Ol.rTriVikifq tiii; dual, CI zu...cAzukot

AND THE GIANT HELMET.
Harlequin, Mr. C J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ;
Pantaloon, Mr. MorPlli ; Calumbine, Miss Fairbrother.
To-morrow, The Midsummer Night's Dream, with The New
Pantomime.

Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Tickets and places for the Bon?. to be taken of Mr. Grogan,
et the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may no had upon application.
Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price.
Is. ; Gallery, Is.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. And: ews, bookseller
!67. New Bond-street.

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