The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

FRIDAY.

The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on
Thursday included Madame Marques Lisboa, wife of
the Brazilian Minister ; Mrs. Bancroft, wife of the
American Minister ; the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis
and Marchioness of Exeter, the Earl eh(' Countess of
Dalhousie, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lady
Byron, Lord Charles Wellesley, Sir George Couper, and
Mr. Hallam.
The band of the Coldstream Gu irds attended during
dinner, and performed the following piec,s:—
Overture •• Le Barcarole " Auber.

Waltz, The Garland Koenig.
Scena e Cavatina, "Mia letezie" (I Lom-
bardi) Verdi.
Polka, The Camelia Jullien.

Doublar March Schultz.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yesterday
afternoon, at a meeting of the Commission for promoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the
Palace of Westminster.
The meeting was held in the new Palace. Prince
Albert arrived shortly before three o'clock, attended by
his Equerry in Waiting, the Hon. Captain Gordon.
The Commissioners present were the Earl of Aber-
deen, Lord Ashburton. Lord Colborne, Viscount Mor-
peth, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Sir
Robert H. Inglis, Mr. Hallam, Mr. S. Rogers, and Mr.
Wyse. 'I he Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at a quarter past five o'clock,
when Prince Albert took his departure,' attended by the
Hon. Captain Gordon.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended
by Major Stephens, honoured with his presence last
evening the Sacred Harmonic Society's performance of
Dr. Mendelssohn'a Oratorio Elijah, at Exeter Hall.
The Rev. Dr. Alder, general secretary of the Wes-
leyan Missionary Society, had an interview with Earl
Grey on Thursday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Alderman Kershaw,
J. P. (Manchester). Mr. Edward Dawson, J. P. (Lan-
caster), Mr. john Cheetharn; J. P. (Staley bridge), Mr.
Abel Buckley. J. P. (Ashton-under Lyne), Mr. Aid r
man Burd (Manchester), Rev. Dr. Vaughan (Manches-
ter), Rev. Dr. Massie (Salford), Rev. S. T. Porter (Dar-
wen), Rev. D. Hewitt (Rochdale), Mr. Thomas Barnes
(Farnworth), Mr. William Morris (Salford), Mr. John
Hamer (Preston), and the Rev. J. Poore (Salford), had
an interview with the Lord President of the Council and
Lord John Russell yesterday, at the Privy Council-( Brice,
respecting the minutes of the Committee of Council for
August and December, 1846.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
airings yesterday in the Royal gardens.
The Queen honoured the performance of the Frt?nch
plays with her presence yesterday evetung. Her Majety
was attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe,
Hon. Miss Kerr, Lord Byron, and Major-General
Wemyss.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert h-inoured the
performance in the Music Hall, Store-street, with his
presence ia.t. evening. His Royal Ilighnes was attended
by Lard George Lennox, Captain Francis Seymour, and
Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. The Prince after-
wards joined her Majesty at the performance of the
French plays.
Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., Chairman of the Great
Western Railway Company, and Mr. Saunders, the
Secretary, had an interview with the Right lion. Edward
Strutt yesterday, at the office of Commissioners of Rail-
ways in Great George-street.
Sir John Pelly had an interview with the Earl of Cla-
rendon on Thursday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
General Pasley had an interview with the Noble Earl
yesterday.
Bishop Griffiths bad an interview with Earl Grey yes-
terday. Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P., had also an interview
with his Lordship.
Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Cole, of the Glasgow and Ayr
Company, had an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. E. Strutt.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of the North American
Provinces. _

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Calonial Office for the Governors of the West India Co-
lonies, and also for the Governor of Gibraltar.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentle.
men of the Court, and the domestic household, attended
Divine Service yesterday morning in the private chapel
in Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie
Courtenay officiated.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their ac-
customed early walk yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took
airings yesterday in the Royal gardens.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen on Saturday, and remained to luncheon with het
Majesty and Prince Albert at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday attended by the Hon. Capt. Gordon.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual pony and
walking exercise on Saturday.
Her 'Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Countess of Mount Edgcurnbe, lion. Miss Kerr, Hon.
Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, and Major General
Wemyss, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with
their presence on Saturday evening.
We understand that her Majesty, anxious to comply
with the wish expressed by. many persons to be allowed
to see the pictures lately painted by Mr. F. Winterhal,er,
namely, one representing her Majasty, his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, arod the Royal children; the other.
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales iu a sailor's
dress • has been graciously pleased to command that
they ;hall be exhibited in the banqueting room in St.
James's Palace.

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On inquiring at the Lord Chamberlain's office we find
that it is intended that tickets shall be issued by the
Lord Chamberlain from thence to commence on TiteAav
"text, the 20th instant. The hours of adaJission to be
from two to five o'clock.
At first the tickets will be limited to the Foreign
Ministers; the Members of the late and presi-nt Cabinets;
and the Great Officers of State. After the 28th instant,
ticket* will be issued for about three weeks to ladies and
gentlemen upon personal applieati':n at the Lord Cham-
berlain's office, between the hours of twelve and four, at
the end of which time tickets may be obtained in the
same manner as the orders to view the state apartreents
in Windsor Castle, upon application to Messrs. Paul and
Dominic Coleaehi, prirtsf Ilers, No. 14, Pali- mall East ;
Mr. Moon, printselter, No. 20, Threadneedle-street; Mr
Mitchell, bookseller, No. 33. Old Bond-street; Messrs.
Ackermann and Co., printsellers, No. 96. Strand, until
the end of June. when the pictures will be removed to
Osborn, her Majesty's private residence, in the Isle of
Wight, for which place they were painted.
Mr. Moon has purchast d the copyright from Mr.
Winterhalter, and engravings of the Two Pictures, in
the highest style of art, will be published by sub-
scription.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited ber
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday. His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge also visited her Ma-
jesty yesterday, at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended
divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel,
South Audley-street.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadocan, Baron
Kneseheck. and Major Stephens, honoured her Ma-
jesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
A Cabinet Cowlll was held at two o'cleck on Satur-
day afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Via-
count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Earl Auckland, Sir
John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the
Earl of Clarendon. the Marquis of Clanricarde, the
Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. H.
Labouchere.
The Council sat three hours. •
A deputation from the metropolitan gas companies,
consisting of Mr. Bateman, from the Chartered Gas-
light and Coke Company ; Mr. Gainsford, from the
Pbcenix Company; Mr. Hinde, from the London Com-
pany ; Mr. Sangster, from the City of London Com-
pany; Mr. T. B. Simpson, from the South Metropolitan
Company; Messrs. Townend and Grattan, from the In-
dpendent Company; Mr. Haminick, from the Ratcliffe
Company; Mes.,rs. Tyrrell and Richards, from the Im-
perial Company; and Mr. Holdship, from the Equitable
Company, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth at
the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and
Forests in Whitehall-place on Saturday.
A deputation from the Supperters of the Government
Minutes on Education in Birmingham, waited on Lord
John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The deputation consisted of the Rev.
John C. Miller, Rector of St. Martin's ; the Hon. and
Rev. G. M. Yorke, Rector of St. Philip's ; Mr. T. Lane,
High Bailiff ; and Mr. John Aston, and were intro-
duced by Mr. R. Spooner, M.P.
The O'Conor Don and Mr. French, M.P., had an in-
terview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the
Home-office.
Mr. C. K. Murray bad an interview with Lord John
Russell on Saturday.
A deputation of the New River Company, consisting
of Mr. Richard Beauvoir Berens, Governor ; Major-
General Ellicombe, Deputy-Governor ; Mr. E. W.
Webster, Treasurer ; Mr. Henry Hulse Berens, and the
Rev. C. Keene. Directors ; and Mr. C. Mylne, Engineer
to the Company ; had an interview cm Saturday with
Viscount Morpeth, at the office of the Woods and
Forests.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Frederick Trench
attended the early Service iu the Chapel Royal St.
James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev.
Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev.
J. R. Wood. At the daily service the prayers were
read by the Rev. Dr. H. I takins, and the lessons by the
Rev. Dr. Knapp. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. J. R. Wood. The anthem was " 0 eive thanks "
(Purcell). The Ladies St. Germans and Somerset, the
Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of Anglesey and Wor-
cester; Lords Fortescue, St. Germans, Cawdor, Jocelyn,
Cantilupe, and Ebriegton, were among the nobility
present.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood arrived at thar new residence in Downing-street
on Saturday night.
Sir Edward ant Lady Kerrison have arrived at their
residence in Great Stanhope-street from Brighton.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The spectacle of The
Desert, at the very moment it is drawing all play goers to
this theatre, is to be unexpectedly cut short in its career. it
having been found impossible to obtain a renewal of Mr.
Hughes's engagement. His entire establishment leaves town
the end of next week.
THE CORN RIOTS AT BUZANCAIS—EXECUTION OF
THE PRISONERL—The three men condemned to death for
having, during the corn riots at Buzaugaist fallen upon and
killed a person:who attempted to defend his property, were
executed ea Monday: