The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-14 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday
ternoon in the Parks in an open carriage and four, with
outriders,

Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her
Majesty.
The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last cycling in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, the Earl of Surrey, Earl of
Morley, Viscount Melbourne, and the Hon. Wm. Cowper.
The Band of the Ist Life Guards were in attendance at
the Palace during the evening.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Princess Augusta and
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday.
Earl Howe had a Dinner Party last evening at his resi-
dence in South Audley-street. Her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess Ida of Saxo
Weimar, and attended by Frances Lady Clinton, and the
Hon. Miss Clore, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady A Somerset and
Baron Knesebeck, and the Noble Directors of the Concert of
Ancient Music, formed the party. Her Majesty, their
Royal and Serene Highnesses, and the Noble Directors,
afterwards accompanied his Lordship (the Director for
the evening) to the performance of the Concert of Ancient
Music at the Hanover. square Rooms.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and Duchess Ha of
Saxe Weimar, visited the Princess Augusta and the Dike
and Duchess of Cambridge yesterday.
After the Juvenile Fete at the Queen Dowager's, on
Tuesday evening, Prince Ernest of Hesse Pnilippsthal
left Marlborough House, on his return to the Continent.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Vis-
count Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lan,-
downe, Earl of Clarendon, Marquis of Normanby,
count Palmerston, Lord ohn Russell, the Chancellor cf
the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Loid
Holland, Mr. Labouchere, Viscount Duncannoo, Loid
Morpetb, and Mr. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

Mr. Williams, M. P., for Coventry. Mr. Mark Philie s,
M. P., Mr. Brocklehurst, M.P., and Mr. Frederick Hodg-
son, M.P., bad an interview with the Chancellor of the
Etchquer yesterday, to recommend a grant to promote
Schools of Design in the manufacturing districts.
Sir G. Chetwynd and a Deputation had an intervie w
with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Hon e
Office.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council, bad a mee 'ng yesterday at the
Council Office. There were present the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Marquis of Normanby. Earl of Clan ndoa,
Mr. Labouchere, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, and
the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. C. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst, Clerks
of the Privy Council, were in waiting.
Mr. T. J. Birch and Mr. Piercy had interviews with
the Marquis of Normany, at the Home Office yesterday.
The Swedish Minister transacted business yesterday, at
the Foreign Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Major Eardley Wilmot, in Mount-street, from Malta ;
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Tollemache and family, in Half-
moon-street, from their seat, Huntsmore-park, Middle-
sex ; Mrs. George Rowley, at Coulson's Hotel, from
Tendering Hall, Essex ; Sir Montague Chapman, Bart.,
M.P., at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, from the
Continent ; T. Duffield, Esq., at ditto, from his seat,
Town.hill House, Bradford ; Captain and Mrs. Robin-
son, at ditto, from the Cape of Good Hope ; G. H.
Ward, Esq., at ditto, from his seat, Northwood, Lle of
Wight ; C. L. Walker, Esq., at ditto, from Bristol ; Mr.
and Mrs. Aubrey, at ditto, from a tour on the Continent;
the Earl of Belfast, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street ;
Mr. and Mrs. Marmaduke Maxwell, at the Burlington-
Hotel ; Viscount Clive and the Hon. Percy Sydney
Smythe, the Dowager Lady Carmath, C. B. Ha-
milton, Esq., M.P., at the Pulteney Hotel; Sir
William Burnett, the Hon. Captain and Mrs. de Sauma-
rez, Mr. and Mrs. Eyre, at the Burlington Hotel ; the
Hon. and Rev Robert and Mrs. Wilson, at the Pulteney
Hotel; Mr. Wyndham, M.P., at ditto; the Dowager
Lady Sitwell and Miss Smith Wright, at the Carlton Ho-
tel; Beckwith, Esq., at the Clarendon Hotel; Mr. and
Mrs. John Mansfield and family ; Lord and Lady Bolton,
at Thomas's Hotel ; the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, Mrs.
Percy, and the Misses Percy, at the Sackville Hotel,
Sackville-street • Mr. and Mrs. Childe and family, at
ditto, from Shropshire ; Lord and Lady Dufferin, at ditto ;
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Brown, at ditto; the Right Hon.
Mr. and Mrs Conyngham and family, at ditto, from the
Continent; Baron Spasburgh and Lady, and two sons, at
ditto, from Rome; Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun and daugh-
ters, at ditto, from Bath; Rev. Mr. Mackie, from Leices-
ter ; the Earl of Belfast, at Fenton's Hotel; Lord Lo-
♦et, at the Burlington Hotel ; the Countess-Dowager
Craven and the Lady Louisa Craven, at the Clarendon ;
Lord John Manners, Lady Charles Bentinck, Lord and
Lady Queensberry, and Lady Georgiana Douglas, at
ditto ; the Earl of Caledon, Colonel Calvert, the Hon.
Major-General Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Burrowes, at the
Burlington; Robert Branaby Cooper, Esq., at ditto ; the
Hon. and Rev. George and Lady Charlotte Neville
Grenville; Lord Wynford, at Beattie's Hotel.
DEPARTURES.

Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., for Dublin, and Mrs.
Barlow Hoy, from Thomas's Hotel, for Hants ; Viscount
and Viscountess Middleton, for Pepper Harrow ; Lady A.
and the Hon. Miss Paget, for Hants ; Lord Rayleigh and
the Hon. Misses Strutt, from Long's Hotel, Clifford-
street ; Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale, from the Carlton
Hotel, for Hants ; Lord William Montagu' for Hemel
Hempstead ; Alexander Cockburn, Esq., from Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street ; the Hon.
Captain and Mrs.
Watson, from Grillion's Hotel, for RoCkingham Castle ;
Lord Verulam and Lord Grimston, for Gorbambury ;
Mrs. Nelson of Mocklenburgh-square, and Mrs. Pitts, of
Pelhsm..creseent, for the Norfolk Hotel, Brighton ; Sir
G. Scott, for Petersham ; the Hon. Captain Liddell, for
Windsor ; William Barry, Esq., from Fenton's Hotel, for
Dublin ; Mr. Harcourt, M. P., fiom the Brunswick
Hotel, for Ankerityke House ; Captain Meade, from
Cox's Hotel ; Captain the Hon. W. Keith, from Mivart's
Hotel ; Lord James 0' Breen, for Bath ; Captain Garth,
R N., from Thomas's Hotel.