The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert
walked this morning oa the Eastern Terrace and Slopes.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and tho Princess Alice took
walking and pony exercise to-day. Her Royal Highness
the Princess Helena was also taken an airing.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode
out in a pony phaeton and pair, the Prince driving.
Lieut.-Colonel Seymour attended on horseback.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle, this evening,
is expected to include his Serene Highness Prince Low-
enstein, Viscount and Viscountess Emlyn, the Hon. and
very Rev. the Dea❑ of Windsor and Lady Charlotte
Neville Grenville, and Colonel Hall (commanding the
Ist Regiment of Life Guards).
The band of the Ist Life Guards attend during din-
ner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards at-
tend in the Castle.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited
the Royal Hospital at Chelsea on Monday.
The Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki, re-
turned to town yesterday, after a short sojourn at
Brighton.

M. Van do Weyer transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign-office.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the Trea-
sury. There were present Lord Langdale, (Master of
the Riills), the Governor of the Bank of England, and
the Deputy-Governor. Mr. Higham, Secretary and
Comptroller-General, attend. d, and Mr. William Rus-
sell, Accountant-General to the Court of Chancery, was
also in attendance.

Mr. Thistleton had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.

The Marquis of Lansdowne, (Lord President), was
better yesterday.

THE MINISTRY.-We are informed that all the
members of the Cabinet are expected to assemble in
town on Monday next.
We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon.
Joseph Planta, which took place on Monday last- at his
house at Fairlight, Sussex, in the 60th year of his age.
Mr. Planta was the Son of the late Joseph Planta.
F.R.S., a native of Switzerland, who long domiciliated
in England, became at length Librarian to the British
Museum, and Secretary to the Royal Society. His son,
Mr. Joseph Planta, early en ered life as a Precis Writer
in the Foreign (Mice, and at length became Under Se-
cretary for Foreign Affairs, which place he filled for
neatly ten years. lie accompanied the late Marquis of
Londonderry, as private secretary, to the Congresses of
Paris, Vienna, and Aix-la-Chapelle, and was much
trusted by that nobleman, to whom his attainments as
linguist and publicist stood in good steed. From May,
1827, to November, 1830, Mr. Planta was one of the
joint Secretaries of the Treasury, and though he never
took a prominent part in the business of the House, as
Member for Hastings, for which borough he sat in the
Parliaments of 1826 and 1837, yet he was known to of-
ficial men and to Members generally as a most able, in-
structed, and capable man. For the last seven years
his health had been most wretched, and his death,
though sudden, was not unexpected, for his physicians
had long pronounced that it might happen at any mo-
ment.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— The first spring meet-
ing was held yesterday afternoon at the rooms in Re-
gent- street, when there was a very large show of the
most interesting horticultural novelties of the season.
The chair was taken by Dr. Henderson. The best of
the flowers were in the orchidaceous plants, which were
very numerous. The prizes awarded were the silver
Knightian medal, to Messrs. Loddige, of Hackney, for
a collection of six orchidaceous plants; Banksian medals,
to Mr. Henderson, of Pineapple-place, Mr. Roilison, of
Tooting, and Mr. Donald, for similar plants; and certi-
ficates of merit to Mr. Thorpe for apples, and Mr. Davis
and Mr. Gleudinning for plants. The extract from the
meteorological register kept at the gardens at Chiswick,
from 16th March to Gth April, gave—Barometer,
highest March 26th, 30-017 inches, lowest April 2d,
29.247 inches. Thermometer, highest March 26th, 64
deg. F., lowest March 30th, 20 deg. F.; and quantity of
rain 0.40 inches.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT TIIE NEW HOUSE OF
LORDS —Yesterday evening, an accident, which termi-
nated fatally, occurred to a lad named William Quick,
aged fifteen years, who was employed at the new House
of Lords. The deceased was on the top scaffold, in the
act of lowering a pulley, when, by some means a chain
attacked to a crane struck him on the head, and preci-
pitated him to the ground. He was picked up in a
senseless state, and carried to the Westminster Hospital,
where be was found to be quite dead.