The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The cerem ,ny of christening the infant daughter of
Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley took place at twelve
o'clock yesterday in the private chapel in Buckingham
Palace, in the presence of the Queen and Prince Albert,
the Duke of Wellington, Lord and Lady Charles Wel-
lesley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Right Hon.
Henry Pierrepont, the Lady and the Lord in Waiting,
the Maids of Honour, the Master of the Household,
the Groom in Waiting, and the Equerries in Waiting
to her Majesty and Prince Albert. The infant was
named " Victoria Alexandrina." The sponsors were
her Majesty the Queen, the Marchioness of Douro, and
the Marquis of Exeter. The ceremony was performed
by the Hon. awl Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, assisted by
the Rev. Gerald Wellesley.
In the evening the Queen and Prince Albert honoured
the Duke of Wellington with their company at dinner,
at Apsley House. The Royal suite consisted of Vis-
countess Jocelyn, Lord Camoys, Lord Alfred Paget,
and Colonel Bouverie. Their Ro) al Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady
Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. also
honoured the Duke of Wellington with their company
at dinner last evening.
Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen
yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales
and the Princess Royal, and attended by the Viscountess
Jocelyn, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage
and four. Lord Alfred Paget attended on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the
Countess Brownlow, visited the Queen yesterday.
Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess
Helena, took airings yesterday, in the pleasure grounds
of the Palace.

The Queen's copy of Gray's " Elegy," illustrated by
the Etching Club, was presented to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. A
statuette of Una and the Lion, about to be executed in
Parian, at the Staffordshire Potteries was also submitted
to his Royal Highness.

Their goyal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke
and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, attended by the
Countess of Assenburg, Count de Beust, Baron de
Zigesar, and Colonel Cornwall, visited and inspected
the Royal Mint yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary, attended by
Baroness Hammerstein and Major Stephens, honoured
the performance of Mr. Benedict's Concert at her Ma-
jesty's theatre with her pres,nce yesterday morning.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of ;pinto, Sir George Grey, Vis-
count Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhonse, the
Earl of Clarendon, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth,
the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Mac-
aulay, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat an hour and a half.
Mr. Entwisle, M.P., and Mr. I). Derbishire, had an
interview with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt at the
office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great George-
street.

Dr. Lynch, accompanied by the parochial of from
St. Andrew's, St. Bride's, St. Dunstan's, and St. Se-
pulchre's paris.tes—namely, Messrs. Batehelor, Sweet.
in;, Boreton, Brett, and Ilerepath, hail an interview
with Vi,count Morpeth yesterday, at the office of the
Woods and Forests.

The Marquis of Normanby had an interview with
Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
The O'Connor Don had an interview with the Earl of
Clarend ,n yesterday.
The new Bishopricks Commission hod a meeting
yesterday in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners pre-
sent were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Chichester, the Bishops of
London, Durham, Winchester, and Lincoln, and Sir
Charles Wood.

Lord Chichester had an interview with Sir George
Grey yc:terday.
A deputation, consisting of Mr. Frewen, M.P., Sir W.
FieLlen, M.P, Mr. Gren'ell, Alt.. Wilkinson, Mr. Sil-
chester, Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Burchell, Mr. Rigour, Mr.
Sherrard, Mr. Bidder, Mr. McGregor, Mr. Fearon, and
Mr. Clly burn, had an interview with the Right lion. E.
Strutt yesterday.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S
GRAND FE FE TO HER MAJESTY AND THE
PRINCE CONSORT.

The Duke of Wellington gave a princely fete to the
Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert last even-
ing, at Apsley House.
We understand that the Noble and Gallant Duke re-
ceived intimation of her Majesty's gracious pleasure, on
the gleen signifying it to be her intention to stand
sponsor to the infant daughter of Lord and Lady Charles
Wellesley, that her Majesty and her illustrious consort
would honour his Grace by their company at the fete
which was to be given on the interesting occasion.
The Duke of Wellington invited the several members
of the Royal Family and a distinguished cirel to meet
the Queen at the sumptuous entertainment which pre-
ceded the musical reception, the banvetting-table being
laid for about forty guests. Agreeably to the invita-
tions, the guests began to assemble shortly after seven
o'clock.

The full band of the Grenadier Guards (the Duke's
regiment) was s:ationed in the vestibule, and performed
a variety of airs while the august visitors congregated
prior to her Majesty's arrival.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
arrived at halt-past seven, and as the royal carriage
drove into the court-yard were warmly cheered by the
populace congregated in Piccadilly.
The Duke of Wellington was in waiting to welcome
his Sovereign and her illustrious husband, and after a
cordial greeting, the Queen resting on the arm of the
venerable Duke, proceeded to the gallery, where the
majority of the guests had met; Prince Albert, Lord
Charles Wellesley, and the attendants on the Queen and
Prince followed to the picture gallery, Lady Charles
Wellesley advancing to the staircase to meet the august
visitors.

The banquet was served in the noble dining-room, the
table presenting a gorgeous display of plate, from the
celebrated Portuguese plateau occupying the centre,
besides a rare collection of ornamental plate. The whole
was relieved by the choicest flowers, and massive cande-
labra, from which the festive board was illuminated.
The spacious apartment appropriated for the banquet
is hung with the portraits of the continental sovereigns
in alliance with this country during the wars that suc-
ceeded the French revolution.

The following is a list of the dinner circle, in addition
to the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and
the noble host:—Their Royal Ilignesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of
f3edfori, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Duke
and Duchess of Norfolk, the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and Marchiones
of Douro, the Countess of Westmoreland, Viscount
Jocelyn, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord and Lady
Charles Wellesley, the Right Hon, Sir Robert and Lady
Peel, the Right lion. Henry Pierrepoint, the Hon. and
Rev. Gerald Wellesley; and Lord Camoys, Viscountess
Jocelyn, Lord Alfred Paget, Lady Caroline Cocks and
Colonel Mamie, in waiting on the Queen and Prince;
Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, in
waiting on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge; Lady
Georgtana Bathurst, in waiting on the Duchess of
Gloucester; and the Hon. Capt. James Macdonald, in
waiting on Prince George.
Her Majesty retired from the dining-room at half-past
nine o'clock.

His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine
of Russia arrived shortly after ten o'clock. Their Se-
rene Highnesses the Heredi:ary Grand Duke and Grand
Duchess of Saxe Weimar had previously arlivEd. His
Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Lucca was also
among the early arrivals, and among the general com-
pany we observed their Highnesses the Prince Francais
and Princess Lichtenstein, his Excellency the Aus-
trian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein,
his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency
the Prussian Minister, and Madame and Misses
Bunsen, his Excellency the Russian Minister and
Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner,
his Excellency the Portuguese; Minister and Baroness
Moncorvo, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, his
Excellency the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto,
his Excellency Count Schimmelpennick, his Excellency
the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft. his Exceld-
lency the Danish Minister and Countess Reventlow,an
the Countess Hilda Reventlow, his Excellency the
the
Bra-
zilian Minister and Madame Lisbon, his Excellency,xce Excellency
111, Minister and Baroness de Beust,
Hugel, the
ye
M. Van de Weyer.
Baroness Rehausen,
Swedish Charg6 d'Affaires and
_,„erg,
his Excellency Barot g h
conut L'otocki, Sam Al at .9

the Duke 'of Rutland and Lady Adeliza Manners, the
Duke de Palmella, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanbie
the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, tie Marquis and
Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily de Burgh,
the Marquis of Granby, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Ely, the Earl and Countess Spencer and Hon. Miss
Lyttelton, the Fart and Countess of Haddington, the
Countess of Manvers and Lady A. Pierrepoint, the Earl
and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl
and Countess Forteseue and Miss Geale, the Earl and
Countess of Lincoln, the Countess of Clarendon, the Earl
and Countess Grey, the Earl of Auckland and the Hon.
Miss Eden, the Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl of
Ripon, the Earl and Countess of Desert, the Earl and
Countess of Cawdor, the Earl and Countess Delawarr,
the Earl of Warwick, the Earl and Countess of Clan-
william, the Countess of Charlemont, the Earl and
Countess of Minto and Ladies Elizabeth and Harriet
Eliot, the Earl and Countess of Morley, the Countess
of Morton and Ledy Ellen Dnug'as, Viscount Morpeth,
Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Viscount Chelsea
and Lady Honoria Ca,dogan, Viscount Strangford,
Viscount and Viscountess Br ,cklee. Viscount se Vin-
cent and Hon. Mrs. Dice Sombre, Viscountess Palmer-
ston, Vise ,out tut 1 Viscountess Canning. 'Viscount and
Viscountess Falkland, Viscount and Viscountess Syd-
ney, Viscount and Viscountess Combermere, the Lord
Chancellor and the Hon. Miss Pepys, Lord and Lady
Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Lord and Lady Ash-
, burton and Hon. Miss Baring, Lord and Lady De Hos
and Hon. Miss De Ras, Lord Foley and Hon. Miss
Foley, Lord Dunkellin, Lady Blanche B ilfour, Lord
and L•idy Ernest Bruce, Lord Clarence and Lady
Adelaide Pager, Lord an l Lady Beauvale, • Lord
Heystesbury, Lord E. F. Howard. Lady Granville
Somerset and Miss Somerset, Lord Campbell and Lady
Stratht den, and Honourable Miss Campbell, Lord
and Lady Stanley, Lord Lyttelton, Lord and Lady
Fitzroy Somerset and Misses Somerset (2), Lady Marcus
Hill, the Lord Chief Justice and Lady Wilde, Lady
Georgiana Fane, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, Major-
General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Honourable Golonel
and Hon. Mrs. Anson, Hon. Colonel Liddell and Mrs.
Liddell, the Right Hon. Sir James and Lady Graham,
the Right Hon. Fox and Mrs. Maule, Hon. Major West'
Hon. Captain and Mrs. Dancombe, Major-General Sir
Harry and Lady Smith, Sir E. and Lady Bowater, Mr.
and Lady Charlotte Watson Taylor, the Hon. and Rev.
Mr. Coartenay, Mr. G. E. and Hon. Mrs. Anson, the
Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Sir Horace Sey-
mour and Lady Clinton, and Misses Seymour, Sir John
and Lady Macdonald, Sir Willoughby and Lady Gordon,
Hon. S. Pierrepont, Hon. Lieut.-Colonel and Lady Mary
Wood, lion. Mrs. Grey and Miss Copley, Hon. Lieut.-
Colonel Phipps, Colonel and Lady Catherine Buckley,
Captain Meynell, Miss B. Coutts and Miss Burdett, Mr.
and Mrs. Assheton Smith, Captain Pakenham, Lieut.-
Colonel Seymour, Mrs. Shawe Lefevre and Miss Lefevre,
Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Arbuthnot, Mr. Wynne, Mr.
Algernon Greville and Miss Greville, Mr. 11. Greville,
Hon. William Bathurst, Hon. J. Fane, Sir Henry and
Lady Wheatley and the Misses Wheatley, Hon. Is. and
Mrs. Pierrepont, the Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Captain
Francis Seymour, Hon. Mrs. D. Darner and Miss Darner,
the Right Hon. Sydney and Mrs. Herbert, &c.
The concert commenced about half-past ten, and the
subjoined is the programme of the performance:—
PART FIRST.
Trio, " Qual veleta," Madame Grisi, Sig-
nori Mario e Tamburini (I Lombardi) . Verdi.
Duo. " Si reel credi," Madlle. Alboni e Sig
Tamburini (Esule di Granata) Meyerbecr.
Quartetto, " Ave verum," Madame Grisi e
Madlle. Alboni, Signori Mario e La-
blache
Mozart.
Duo, "Ditto tel chiegeo," Madame Grisi e
Sig. Mario (Parisina)
Aria, " Per non istare in ozio," Madlle
Alboni (Maria di Bohan) Donizetti.
Quintetto, " Ah m'illuse," Madame Grisi
e Madlle. Alboni, Signori Mario, Tam-
burini, e Lablache (Zelmira) Rossini.
SECOND PART.
Trio, " Ferma ernelele," Madame Grisi,
Signori Mario e Lablache (Ernani) Verdi.
Aria, " Se d'amore," Madame Grisi (Ales-
sandro nelie Indie) Picini.
Duo, " Bel paese," Signori Tamburini e
Lablache (La Regina di Golgonda) Donizetti.
Aria, " Connais-tu la chanson?" Signor
Mario (La Chanson de Mai) Meyerbeer.
Duo, " Ciel qual destino," Madame Grisi
e Mdlle. Alboni (Bianco e Falliero)
Coro, "Felice, etc," Madame Grisi e Mdlle.
Alboni, Sig. Mario, Tamburini, e La-
blache
'rho instrumental artists enag Costa.
ed , at the violon-
cello, Mr. Lindley; the contrabasso, Mr.were
Howell; and at
the pianoforte, Mr. M. Costa.
Iler Majesty and Prince Albert took their leave of the
noble hog at a quarter to twelve o'clock, the Noble and
Gallant Duke seeing his august guests to their carriage.
His Grace soon afterwards retired for the night, after
taking leave of the Grand Duke Constantine.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 14.—The Polyphemus steam-
sloop, Commander APCleverty, lift the harbour this
morning at daylight (about 2) for Lisbon direct, with dis•
patches frQm the Government for the Briiih Minister
and Commander-in Chief.
We are authorised to state that there is no truth what-
ever in a par graph which has gone the round the
press to the elf et that Cap! ain Cami.be 1, 11 .y,l -Navy,
of Southaca, intended to conte=t the borou,ll or I.',,rts-
mouth, on the Conservative intere,t, v..ith the present
M..mbkrs, in conjatittion with Mr. Junes, the banker, of
l'ortsea.

PLYMOUTH', JUNE 12. —lTer Majesty's ship Caledonia,
120, Captlin Manly 11. axo", h the t 1 of Port-
Adiiiir..l Sir John West, 1i.C.8.. and her Nhijesty's ship
Q we:, 110. CAptiiin Sir 11, nry Luke, left tin it miiorings
in the S. end this m mint, as preeo, ded to rea, Be-
tween One and two ci"e1ocl: n the afternoon they were
observed outside the lirljp-tuoy with ttie Ilead
open. Tho Qiven was about half nh, ad, on the
weather bow, and on being signalised from the Admiral's
ship hoist d her three top-galla.ot sails. Both .liips were
reaching W.S.W., with the wind about S.S.L. In the
evening- it veered more to the westward.
Her Majesty's ship San Josef, 101, Commander Mil,
is to be supplied with 14 six pounder.:, for ihe purpose
of returning salutes in the absence of her Majesty's ship
Caledonia.

Her Majesty's steam-tug Confiance sailei suddenly
on Wednesday for Falmouth with a party of artillery,
two pieces of ordnance, and a detachment of the sth
Fusiliers. She returned on Thursday, and the same
evening, when at her moorings in Hamoaze, a fire, w bleb
originated close to the boilers, was discovered on board
her. The Confiance is not provided with a gun, but
having hoisted a distress flag, the powerful float-engine
manned from her Majesty's dockyard, was soon along-
side, and speedily extinguished the flames, which have
not done much damage. Unfortunately, one of the hands
belonging to the San Josef, in his haste to join that
ship's boat, for the purpose of aiding the Confiance, fell
overboard, and was drowned.

The others and crew of ler Majesty's steam-sloop
Growler, Commander Pothury, were paid advance yes-
terday, and she is cow lying at the moorings of her Ma-
jesty's ship Queen, in the Sound. She will probably sail
to-morrow for Sierra Leone, there to embark Emigrants
for the West Indies.

Captain Ellbrecht and the officers of his Danish
Majesty's corvette Flora, now in the Sound, went yester-
day in the passenger steam-packet Queen up the river
as far as Morwelham, and on their return visited Cote-
hill House, and were much delighted with their excur-
sion. When in the Sound, the steamer passed round
her Majesty's ship Queen, the band of which honoured
the strangers by playing the National Anthem.
Captain Mahommed Ben flames, commanding his High-
ness the Imaum of Muscat's ship Caroline, at anchor in
the Sound, is now on a visit at Mamhead, the seat of Sir
Robert Newman. Bart. The Caroline is the ship which
brought the rich present of Arabian horses from the
Imaum to her Majesty the Quern of England. When
the captain joins her site will sail for Zanzibar.
JUNE 13.—1 n consequence of the thick weather which
came on yesterday afternoon with the westerly wind, her
Majesty's ships Caledonia and Queen returned about 4
o'clock to the Sound. They were accompanied by Port-
Admiral Sir John West, in the Sylph tender, and by
Admiral-Superintendent Sir John Louis, in the Ply-
mouth tender, both of whom went out with the inten-
tion of witnessing the comparative sailing qualities of
the two ships. The Caledonia, with the flag of the Port-
Admiral, red at the wizen, is now lying inside the eastern
arm of the Breakwater, and the Queen, with the flag of
the Admiral- Superintendent, white at the main, is moored
near the western end. The Growler continues in the
Sound. Wind southerly, blowing strong.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 14.—The Hecate steam-sloop,
Commander Joseph Wes', was paid off at this port on
Wednesday, the 9th inst., on her return from the coast
' of Africa, to which place she proceeded in June, 1845.
On her return to England she had not a man on the sick
list, and during her time on the coast the master, boat-
swain, and four of her crew died of fever. These per-
sons had not been more exposed than the rest, and it is
supposed some previous constitutional malady was the
cause of their death. Tile Hecate visited every part of
the coast as far south as Angola, and the excellent pre-
servation of the health of the crew is partly attributable
to her keeping under weigh whenever she could, and
employing the mea in the exercise of their various duties,
and not exposing them to the heat of the sun, or the
miasma off the land One principle was strictly en-
forced on board this vessel to keep her perfectly dry—
whitewash her fore and aft once a week, and keep up a
thorough ventilation. Since her arrival at Woolwich
she has met the approbation of those naval officers who
have visited her, and some idea may be formed of the
efficiency of her crew when it is stated that at the time
her Royal IlLhness the Duchess of Kent embarked at
Woolwich for Ostend, half-past nine o'clock a.m., the
Hecate had royal yards across, and her yards
all her
manned,
and, at twelve o'clock, she was at a gantling, with
spars overboard, and the whole of her rigging in a lump
aloncrside.
The Charon stearn-ves.‘
-e I being old and useless, was
towed d awn to h river to -day by the Monkey steam-
water at Harwich.
vessel, and it is intoided to sink her to serve as a break-

STEAM NAVIGATION IN TIIE PACIFIC.—PANAMA,
Arum 21.—The Pacific Steam aviation Company's steam-
ship Ecuador, from Callao, arrivod here on the 21st of April,
bringing, in addition to her usual patlsengers and cargo, the
mails in continuation with the com pany's steamer Chile,
,
which left Valparaiso on the 28th of March, from the under-
mentioned ports in Chile Bolivia, Yer,o, Ecuador, and New
Granada of the respective dates as undernt.
,ted :—Chile—Val-
paraiso, March 28th ; Coquimbo, 2ath ; EJuasco, 3001; Co-
piapo, 30th. Bolivia—Cobija, April Ist. . Peru—lquique,
April 23; Arica, 3d; Islay, 4th; Pisco, 6th; Callao, 11th;
Payta, llth. Ecuador—Guayaquil, Aril 16th, New Grit.
nada—ikenaventura, April 19th.