The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen acd Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales and the Princess Royal, went yesterday afternoon
to Astley's Theatre. The royal suite followed in two
carriages, and consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, the
Dowager Lady Lvttelton, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss
Devereux, Lord Rivers, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Lord Charles
Wellesley, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater.
The royal party left Buckingham Palace at ten minutes
before four o'clock, and returned shortly before silt o'clock.
Their Royal Highneses Prince Alfred and the Princess
Alice were taken airings yesterday in the royal gardens.
The Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Countess of
Charlemont as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lord
Rivers has succeeded Viscount Hawarden as the Lord in
Waiting to her Majesty; and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore has suc-
ceeded Captain Meynell as the Groom in Waiting to her Ma-
jesty.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended during
dinner at Buckingham Palace on Monday, and performed the
following pieces :-
0 varture—Libella—Reisiger.
Polka—Scots Fusilier Guards—Carrol.
Selection—" Guillaume Tell"—Rossini.
Quadrille—" Maritana"—Coote.

Selection—'

." Alma"—Costa.

Galop—" Mephisto"—Labitzki.
His serene Highness Prince George of Meiningen arrived
at Marlborough-house, Pall-mall, the residence of the Queen
Dowager, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Conti-
nent. After the arrival of the Prince, her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, accompanied by his Serene Highness, went to Cla-
rence House, St. James's, to visit her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the
Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing
in a carriage yesterday.
Mr. Higham, secretary and comptroller-general to the
Commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, had
an interview with the Chanceller of the Exchequer yester-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.

[The following brief notices of two of the leading
Sunday journals has just appeared in a pocket volume of the
" Newspaper Press Directory for 1846, containing particu-
lars of each newspaper published in the United Kingdom, a
work of great utility for general reference, as affording a com-
plete pictur,p of the newspaper press, edited by Charles
Mitchell, (474 pages). 1
" THE OBSERVER.

" Sunday and Monday, Price 6d. Established 1792.
ADVOCACY.—Liberal—Theatrical. Not any of the news-
papers published at the close of the week display more activity
or success than this in the acquisition of news which, after
the priceding six days has been swept and exhausted by the
immense resources of the dailys ; and this is the great diffi-
culty in a weekly. The Observer is remarkable for the terse-
ness of its political and literary criticism, and exceeds most
of its contemporaries in the amplification of news.
However eager and active the numerous papers may have
been in collecting it from town and country, The Observer
is at all times sure to contain a great deal of original infor-

mation ; and that air of novelty which other journals un.

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successfully aim at, The Observer attains by extraordinary
exertions in the way of ' Exclusive Intelligence,'' Additional
Accounts,' and ' Further Particulars.' Hence, for the active-

minded middle and upper classes, as wells the circles el

royalty, it is very appropriate and acceptable. It seeks not
to clothe the topics of the week with hypothetical conjectures,
but to enlarge upon them, and give the best and completest

summary of general intelligence. It certainly possesses sources
of information of no ordinary character; for if there be a
rumour, or on dit' current, however secretly, in circles poli-
tical or polite, in The Observer it is sure to be announced, and
great shrewdness of conjecture often anticipates public events
rather remarkably. To these and other spirited arrange-
ments is its success attributable ; and it is obvious that no
pains are spared to secure t dent of the most efficient kind—
in illustration of 'which we may state, as a well-known fact,
that there are no less than five editors. It should not be lost
sight of, that it is almost entirely of a political complexion,
at least deals chiefly with the more public topics of the day.
It gives, however, great prominence to Drama—wherein its
opinions are deemed ' classical' as an authority.
Published by William Clement, 169, Strand."
" BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON.

" Saturday, Price 6d, Established 1820.
" ADVOCACY.—LiberaI—SPORTING. Its name almost suf-
ficiently describes it : importing, as it does, its character as
emphatically the sporting paper: sports and gatnes of all de-
scriptions are advocated and depicted in its ample columns—
from pedestrianism to pugilism, cricketing, sailing, racing,
hunting—profound in all the mysteries of the " turf," or of
the " ring,"—very deep in betting : and shrewd in conjec-
jecture as to winners and losers ; looked up to by " trainers ;"
appealed to by sporting characters all over the country. Its
editor often referee or stakeholder, and arbiter of occasional
disputes; and regarded as a sort of guardian of the interests
and honour of the sporting world. The success of this jour-
nal is mainly attributable to the business- like discernment of
its spirited proprietor, Mr. Clement, who has never lost sight
of judicious amalgamation and first-rate talent.
"Published by William Clement, 170, Strand."
ALGERIA. AND TUNIS IN 1845. Mr. Colburn, of
Great Marlborough. street, has this day published "Algeria
and Tunis in 1845," by Captain J. Clark Kennedy, 18th
Royal Irish; an Account of a Journey made through the
Two Regencies by Viscount Feilding and Captain Kennedy,
in 2 vols., with illustrations, price 21s. bound, which can
now be bad of all Booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just
published-2. The Sixth Volume of the Nelson Letters and
Dispatches.-3. Seven Years' Campaigning hirthe Peninsula
and the Netherlands, by Sir Richard D. Henegan, 2 vols.,
21s. bound.-4. General Count Montholon's History of the
Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena, 2 vols. Bvo.—and, 5.
Russia under the Autocrat Nicholas 1., by Ivan Golovine, a
Russian Subject, 2 vols., 21s. bound.
THE RoBERTSES ON THEIR TRAVELS.—To illu3trate
the class of persons from whom foreigners frequently take
their notion of the English character, Mrs. Trollope, in her
nevi novel, sets a vulgar fine fami'y of the middle class on a
continental tour, with small means,. yet a desire to cut a
dash and to get into society above their station. The subject
is well adapted to Mrs. Trollope's pen. She has immortalised
herself by her Barnaby ; and Mrs. Roberts is, with slight
variation, Barnaby on the continent. The course of her ad-
ventures exhibits so much of the roguery of every-day life,
that it is sure to amuse. If critics were as precise as natu-
ralists, they would place "The Robertses on their Travels"
in the same genus as " Gil Blas."—Britannia.
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newly-invented spectacle lenses are placed before imperfect vision,
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Also the most powerful achromatic telescopes, opera glasses, and
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not in any way sonnectel with a person of the same
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mistakes, be cautious, and observe—only to be had at sa, Am•rmarie-
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THE MISFORTUNE OF FORTUNE.--The following col-
loquy is related by the Journal des Vallenges to have passed a
few days ago between a gendarme and a thief named Fon
taine, whom he had arrested at Trevieres (Calvados) :
Gendarme—" Foolish and wretched man, how could you, at
your advanced age of 71, commit a crime for which you
must make up your mind to pass the rest of your days in
prison ?" Fontaine—" I am not so unfortunate as you
think. I have been a thief for 60 years, and this is the bra
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