The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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 Oldenburgh visited their Majesties the King
and Queen of the Belgians yesterday at Buckingham
Palace.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians visited his Im-
perial l iighness 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 Oldenburgh,
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-
ston, 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 :
St lection from Mose in Egitto Rossini.
Waltz—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 ~ (Pl. ...lying invitations :—The
Portuguew ,Minister and the Baroness de Moncorvo,
tho.Aiaq nib_ de Brunnow. the Duchess of Sutherland
.94nilaab ;voi'aroline Leveson Gower, the Duke and
okAtional. ..ilßedford„the Marquis and Marchioness of
HAt--corn. the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury,
' larquis and ikl.archioness of clanricarde and Lady
•Etßily de Bur-o', 'the Earl and .countess Spencer, the
Coptess of,INV estmoreland, the Earl and Countess of
Sbklinvitte, the Earl and Counter of Llncoln, the Earl of
Liver'', 21, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, the
ißishop. of Oxford, Lady Alfred Paget, the Dowager
,&Irly and the Hon. Miss Lyttelton, the Right Hon. Sir
ci,....rge and Lady Grey, the Right Hon. Sir James and
Lad:, 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
Robr-t and Lady Gardiner and tw,9 Misses Gardiner,
and Colonel Charles and. Mrs. Bentinck.
A concert was performed during the evening. The
following was th. programme:-Ti.
PARTE PRIMA.
Overture (Prometheus)
Aria—" Dove sono," Mdlle. Lind (Le}
Aozze di Figaro) Mozart.
Air—" Non piii andrai," Sig. Lablache Mozart. ,
Tema con Variazioni—Pianoforte and } Beethoven. ;-
violin, Mrs. Anderson & M. Sainton
Canzonette—" La Festa," Mdlle. Lind Geraldy. 1 •
PARTE SECONDA.
Kruges Marsch—(Athalie) . Mendelssohn.
Aria Napolitana—Signor Lablache.
Fantasia, violin—M. Sainton
" Der Neugierige,"
Lieder -i" Der Muller and der Bach,"
Mademoiselle Lind........ Schubert.
Mrs. Anderson presided at the pianoforte.
Her Majesty's private band attended under the direc-
tion of Air. Anderson.

Swinton.

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 Mint°, 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 with
Lord Morpeth yesterday, at the office of the Commis-
sioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
Captain Denham, RN., 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 Commissioners 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.