The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen went in State yesterday to the House of
Lords, to open the Session of Parliament by a speech from
the Throne.
At twenty minutes before two o'clock her Majesty
taking the arm of the Lord Chamberlain, descended the
Grand Stair-case, and passed through the Marble Ilall to
the State Coach, preceded by the Hon. W. Cowper, the
Groom in Waiting, Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting,
the Clerk Marshal, the Master of the Household, the
Comptroller of the Household, Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting, and the Lord Steward of the Household, he:
Majesty's train being borne by Mr. Cavendish, Mr.
Cowell, and Master Wemyss, the Pages of Honour in
Waiting. As her Majesty entered her carriage the
signal was given by a mounted trumpeter of the Life
Guards, the Band of the Queen's Guard (composed of the
Scots Fusilier Guards) receiving her Majesty with the
usual honours. The State Procession was imme-
diately formed, and left Buckingham Palace in the
following order :—A carriage drawn by a set of bays con-
veying the Hon. Frederick Byng, Captain C. Boyle,
R.N., and Mr. Hobbouse, Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting,
and Mr. Samuel Hancock, the Exon in Waiting. A car-
riage drawn by six bays, containing Captain Seymour, the
Groom of the Robes, Colonel Bouverie, Silver Stick i❑
Waiting, officiating (by command of her Majesty) for the
Hon. Colonel Cavend sh, the Clerk Marshal, and Mr.
Cavendish, Mr. Cowell, and Master Wemyss, the Pages
of Honour in Waiting. A carriage drawn by a set of bays,
conveying the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk Mar-
shal, the Right Honourable George Stevens Byng,
Comptroller of the Household, the Honourable William
Cowper, Groom in Waiting, and Colonel Buckley,
Equerry in Waiting. A carriage drawn by six bays
containing Lord Hill, G. C. 8., Gold Stick in Waiting,
Lord Kinnaird, Master of the Buck Hounds, the Earl of
llchester, Captain of the Yeomen Guard, and the Earl of
Surrey, Treasurer of the Household. A carriage drawn
by six black horsey, conveying the Marchioness of Nor-
manby and the Countess of Charlemont, Ladies of the
Bedchamber in Waiting, the Earl of Et roll, K. T., Lord
Steward of the Household, and Lord Byron, Lord
Waiting. The State Coach, preceded by the Queen's
Marshalmen, two and two, the Queen's Footmen in State
Liveries, two and two, and a party of the Yeomen Guard.
0 pposite to her Majesty sat the Duchess of Sutherland,
Mistress of the Robes, and the Earl of Albemarle, G. C. H.,
Master of the Horse. The Royal cortege was escorted by

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a party of the Life Guards.
The Crown was conveyed by Mr. Martins, Gentleman
Usher in Waiting, to the House of Lords, in one of the
Royal carriages.
Her Majesty returned to the Palace at three o'clock, and
was handed from the state coach by the Clerk Marshal.
the Lord Chamberlain conducting her Majesty to the
state rooms.
The Grand Hall was lined by the Yeomen of the Guard
in their Coronation costume, commanded by Mr. Seymour
Sadler, Exon of the Guard, and Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of
the Cheque.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Queen.
Her Majesty, the Queen Dowager visited the Princess
Augusta yesterday, at Clarence House.
The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George visited
her Majesty, the Queen Dowager yesterday.
The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta
yesterday.
The Saxon Minister Resident transacted business at
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The Lord Mayor had an interview with the Marquis of
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Viscount Melbourne's Parliamentary Dinner Party on
Wednesday evening included the following Peers :—The
Lord Chancellor ; Dukes—Norfolk, Somerset, Suther-
land ; Marquises—Anglesey, Westminster, Lansdowne,
Normanby, Headfort ; Earls—Durham, Lichfield, Clareti-
don, Erroll, Uxbridge, llehester, Minto, Albemarle ;
Viscounts—Duncannon ; Lords—Seaford, Sudeley, Mont-
eagle, Hill, Gardner, Foley, Holland, Saye and Sele,
Kinnaird, Denman, Strafford.
Viscount Lismore arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrav--
street, yesterday, from his seat, Shambally Castle, Ireland.

LATE DOWAGER LAN GRANINE

OF HESSE HOMBURG.

FRANKFORT, JAN. 12. Her Royal Highness the
Dowager Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, whose death
was announced yesterday, was a daughter of George 111.,
King of Great Britain, and born May 12, 1770. In 1818
she married his Serene Highness Frederick Joseph, the
Hereditary Prince of Hesse Homburg, and elder brother
of the present Landgrave. Left a widow in 1829. Her
Royal Highness never ceased to be dear to the family of
the Prince, and to the inhabitants of Hesse Homburg,
whose veneration and attachment she possessed in the
highest degree. She continued to reside at Homburg
during the fine season, and passed the winter at Hanover,
where her brother, King William IV., had given her a
palace. It was only during the last three years that she
passed the winter at Frankfort. It was in this city
that she sunk under an inflamation of the intestines.
This disorder, which had been long combatted by
the care and ability of Doctor Downie her own
physician, but strengthened by the advanced age
of the Princess ended in mortification, which carried her
off in a very short time. So far back as last April Dr.
Downie had in vain entreated her Royal Highness to allow
him to call in another physician. It was not till the dc-
order became more alarming that she consented to Dr.
Downie's calling in Sir Charles Herbert, of London, but
the progress of the disorder was so rapid that her august
relations who hastened from Homburg could not have the
consolation of receiving her last farewell. Tbe extreme weak-
ness of the Princess gave reason to apprehend that she would
not have been able to bear the effect of so painful an interview.
However, she retained her faculties till the last moment,
and at eight o'clock in the evening was able to write some
lines ; only two hours before she breathed her last.
Two precious qualities enhanced the splendour of her
birth. If her mild and amiable disposition rendered her
the idol of the companies which she honoured with her
presence—her beneficence and charity made her a second
Providence to the distressed. Independently of a gift of
five thousand pounds sterling, which she made annually to
the Municipality of the town of Homburg►, a great num-
ber of families, both of that place and of Frankfort, sub-
sisted in part by her beneficence, and strict orders v.ere
given to all the domestics of her household never to rend
away unrelieved any poor person who should apply at the
door of her palace. To her may be truly applied the divine
precept, Let not thy left baud know what thy right hand
doeth ; and the greater part of her numerous charities would
have remained in unmerited oblivion, but for the affec-
tionate indiscretion of her servants and her proteges.
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may be imagined how painful her loss will be to her
august relations, and how many benedictions will follow
her to the tomb. She passed through the world doing
good.—Journal de Frankfort.
linussm,s, JAN. 15.—The average price of Wheat last
week was 22f. 54c., and that of Rye, 13f. 79c.

SPORTING INTELLIGENuri

TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY•

In the list of odds given below some changes of consequence
are discernible. The most important is in Confederate, who
was backed freely at the commencement at 25 to 1, afterwards
at a point less, and finally at 20 to 1, in influential quarters ;
this, too; without prejudice to Fitzroy, who cannot be quoted
at more than 40 to 1. Gambia was scarcely in less demand
than Confederate, 25 to 1 having been taken repeatedly, the
layers being the first to shut up. One or two trifling alter-at ions
will also be found amongst the first lot of five. 'rhcon was not
quite so good a favourite as on Monday, 13 to 1 having been
offered currently, and a point mote laid in the early part
of the afternoon. The Angelica colt was backed three
or four times at a fall of one point, and had barely the call of
Launcelot or Bokhara. The last two were nearly equal fa-
vourites, Bokhara, perhaps, having the greater number of
friends present. Several bets were made about outsiders, with
no other effect than to give Assassin a lift of ten points. The
Monops quoted is a blind colt by Action, out of Wings
( Caravan's dam), and was purchased at the sale of the late
King's stud for a small sum. In the Oaks there was nailing
fresh beyond the advance of Black Bess to 10 to 1 (takers of
12 to 1), and the debut of Mr. Asheton Smith's fillies, Japo-
nica and Glimpse. The following is a list of the general odds
at the close, with such double bets and bets between horses as
came within our cognizance :

THE DERBY.
13 to 1 agst Theon—take 14 to 1
17 to 1 agst Angelica—taken
17 to 1 agst Bokhara
17 to 1 agst Launcelot—take 18
20 to 1 agst Confederate—taken
20 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael—take 25 to 1
25 to 1 agst Gambia—taken freely
25 to 1 agst Wardan
25 to I agst St. Andrew—take 30 to 1
28 to 1 agst Ottoman—take 30 to 1
33 to 1 agst Grey Milton—taken
40 to I agst Assassin—taken
50 to 1 agst Monops (Wing's colt)
50 to 1 agst Chameau—taken
3000 to 45 agst Torres Vedras—taken
1000 to 15 agst Dreadnought
1000 to 10 agst Morgan Rattler
600 to 500 on Bokhara agst Muley Ishmael, and 600 to 500
on Confederate agst Muley Ishmael—taken in one bet
500 between Launcelot and Bokhara—taken
1000 to 40 agst Confederate, and the same agst Gambia, in
one bet—taken
1000 to 30 agst Confederate and Dreadnought—taken
1500 to 100 agst they Milton, Fitzroy, and Dreadnought—
taken
4000 to 30 agst Chameau for the Derby, Crucifix for the
Oaks, and the two for the St. Leger—taken
THE OAKS.
10 to 1 agst Black Bess —take 12 to 1
25 to 1 agst Mr. Smith's two—taken
40 to 1 agst Christinetta

Ei3htcen gentlemen were called to the Irish bar
on Saturday ; of this number five were Roman Catholics.