The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, took an
airing yesterday in an open barouche and four. The
Equerries in Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel
Bouverie, attended on horseback.
their Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the
Princess of Oldenburgn visited th-ir Majesties the King
and Queen of the Betians yesterday at Buckingham
Palace.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians visited his Im-
perial Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburgh yesterday
at the Clarendon Hotel.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess' Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Princess Helena walked and rode on ponies yesterday in
the garden of the Palace.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included their Majesties
'the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal High.
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, their Imperial High-
nesses Prince Peter and the Princess of Uldeeburgh,
his Royal Highness Prince George, his Excellency M.
Van de Weyer, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland, the Countess Vander-
straten, Lady Georgiana Bathurst, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Douro, Viscount and Viscountess Palmer.
stun, le Comte de Lalaing, M. de Koudriaffsky, Major
de Moerkerke, and Dr. Carswell.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following pieces:—
Sr lection from Mose in Egitto Rossini.
NV alta—Olga, or the Princess Jullien.
Glee—" Mynheer Van Dunck" Sir H. R. Bishop.
Grand March, composed by her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent.
Polka Labitzky.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The
following had the honour of receiving invitations:—The
Portuguese Minister and the Baroness de Moncorvo,
the Baroness de Brunnow, the Duchess of Sutherland
and Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, the Duke and
Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady
Emily de Burgh, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the
Countess of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of
Shelburne, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, the Earl of
Liverpool, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, the
Bishop of Oxford, Lidy Alfred Paget, the Dowager
Lady and the Hon. Miss Lyttelton, the Right Hon. Sir
George and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. Sir James and
Lady Graham, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady
Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert,
Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, General
the Hon. Arthur Upton, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Sir
Robert and Lady Gardiner and 'two Misses Gardiner,
and Colonel Charles and Mrs. Bentinck.
A concert was performed during the evening. The
following was the programme:—
PARTE PALMA.
Overture (Prometheus)
Aria--“ Dove sono," Mdlle. Lind (Let Mozart.
IVozze di Figaro)
Air—" Non piii andrai," Sig. Lablache Mozart.
Tema con Variazioni—Pianoforte and 1
Beethoven,
violin, Mrs. Anderson & M. Sainton
Canzonette—" La Festa," Mdlle. Lind Geraldy.
PARTE SECONDA.
Kruges Marsch—(Athalie)
Aria Napolitana—Signor Lablache.
Fantasia, violin—M. Sainton Sainton.
" Der .Neugierige' "
Lieder " Der Muller and der Bach," Schubert.
Mademoiselle Lind.......
Mrs. Anderson preiide.; at the pianoforte.
Her Majesty's private baud attended under the direc.
tion of Mr. Anderson.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and Prince George, and their Imperial Highnesses Prince
Peter and the Princess of Oldenburgh, visited her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough
House.
A deputation from the parochial schoolmasters of
Scotland had an interview yesterday with the Lord Pre
sident of the Council and the Earl of Minto, at the Privy
Council office, with reference to the recent minutes of
the Committee of Council on Education.
Mr. W. Sandom and a deputation from Deptford, re.
specting the Health of Towns Bill, had an interview wi
Lord Morpeth yesterday, at the office of the Commis•
sioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
Captain Denham, R.N., had an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon on Tuesday.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office for the Governors of New South Wales and
South Australia.
Lord John Russell had a Parliamentary dinner-party
last evening, at his residence in Chesham-place.
The Astronomer Royal and Mr. Airy had an inter-
view with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Tuesday, at the
office of the COW mi*sion3rs of Railways in Great George-
street.
The Chevalier Bunsen, Prime Minister, had an inter-
view with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the
Foreign-office.
Colonel Brereton, C. 8., has arrived in town from
Canton, and had yesterday an interview with Earl Grey
at the Colonial-office.

Mendelssohn.

THURSDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on. horseback ,
yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Miss Dawson, ,
Colonel Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel Seymour.
Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday, at Buckingham Palace.
The Queen and the Queen of the Belgians took an
airing yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Prince
Alfred and the Princess Mice, in an open carriage and
four. Colonel Buckley attended on horseback. His
Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback
attended by Lieut. Colonel Seymour.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Helena, walked and
rode in the pleasure-grounds of the Palace.
Prince Alfred and the Princess Mice, accompanied by
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing in an open
carriage and four.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured
her Majesty's Theatre with their presence last evening.
The Royal suites consisted of the Countess of Desert,
the Countess Vanderstraten' Lord Byron, Major de
Moerkerke, Col. Buckley, and Lieut.-Col. Seymour.
The Hon. Miss Murray and the Hon. Miss Macdonald
have succeeded Lady Caroline Cocks and the Hon. Miss
Paget as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to the Queen.
Colonel Buckley has relieved Lord Alfred Paget
(Clerk Marshal) in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to
the Queen, and Lieut.-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour
has relieved Colonel Bouverie in the duties of Equerry
in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Tneir Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the Prin-
cess of Oldenburgh visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester on Wednesday, at Gloucester
House, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at
Cambridge House.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan,
honoured the Earl and Countess of Wilton with their
company at dinner last evening, at their residence in
Grosvenor-square.
Commander Rubidge had an interview with Earl
they yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Commissioners of Metropolitan Improvements
had a meeting at the office of the Woods and Forests in
Whitehall-place. There were present Viscount Mor-
peth, Lord Colborne, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Robert H.
Inglis, the Hon. C. A. Gore, and Mr. A. Milne.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
general meeting yesterday at their office in Whitehall-

Place.
Captain Russell Eliott (Royal Navy) had an interview
wish Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-

street.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governors of the West India
Colonies.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean arrived on Tuesday
last at their beautiful residence, Key Dell, in Hampshire,
after a peasant voyage, by the splendid ship the Swit-
zerland, from New York. These favourites of the public
have made a double professional tour of the United
States, hitherto unattempted by any of our theatrical
visitors. Their success, by all accounts, has been immense.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The celebrated
composer, Spohr, arrived in London on Wednesday,
having come to England at the invitation of this Society,
to conduct a series of performances. lie will appear on
Friday next, when The Fall of Babylon will be pro-
duced. The result of the concert lately given by the
Society, in aid of the distressed Scotch, was a profit of
1,102/. 10s.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE GRAND DUKE OSCAR
OF SWEDEN.—A letter from Elsineur (Denmark) of the
21st gives the following account of a narrow escape of
Prince Oscar of Sweden:--" The Swedish frigate
Eu,Y6nie, on board of which the Duke Oscar Frederick,
third' son of the King of Sweden and Norway, serves as
sub lieutenant, has narrowly escaped being sunk. In
the afternoon of the 19th this vessel, which came from
England, and which, favoured by a strong north wind,
entered the sound with great rapidity, ran against a
three-masted Norwegian ship, the Glommen, which was
anchored in the little bay of llornbeck. The shock was
so violent, that all the prow of the Eugenie was destroyed
and two of its masts were broken, and fell on the deck.
Fortunately no one was either injured or killed on board
the frigate, everybody haying hastily descended to the
interior of the vessel on seeing that a collision was Ine-
vitable. The Danish steamer Hjerte, and the war
steamer the Smeloi, forming part of the Russian fleet,
hurried to the assistance of the Eugenie, and towed her
up to off Elsineur, where she will be repaired. Prince
Oscar Frederick disembarked at Elsineur, and after hay-
ing stopped some hours, took his departure for 'lasing-
borg, in Sweden. The Glommen has also sustained very
great damage. At the mcment of the accident there
were o:dy five or six men on board, two of whom re-
c( ived contusions."
CARTHORSES FROM BELGIUM:A sale of Belgian
carthorses twit place at Di3EOl3'S repository on
Friday last. They resembled in a great measure the
Suffolk horses, having small heads, high crests, and very
good legs. They are more active than carthorses of
English breed usually are, and a judicious cross would
probably greatly improve our native stock.
Mr. William Scrope Ayrtoll, Registrar of the
Court of Review, has been appointed Commissioner of
the District Court of Bankruptcy at Leeds, vacant by
the resiratien of the late centnassigher,