The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday af-
ternoon at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and
Encouraging the Fine Arts, in the re-building the Palace of
Westminster.

His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel Bouverie, arrived
at Gwvdyr House, Whitehall, at a quarter before three
o'clock.. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Viscount Canning, Lord Ashburton, the Right
Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, Viscount Mahon,
Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Mr. Hlallam, and Mr. Wyse. The
Secretary (Air. Eastlake) was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at half-past four, when Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Commissioners and the Secretary,
proceeded to the :New Palace of Westminster to inspect the
works. _

Their Royal Hignesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by
the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an
open carriage and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence
House, St. James's.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge honoured the Earl and Countess of Wilton with their
company at dinner yesterday, at their residence iu Grosvenor-
square.
His Excellency the Portuguese Minister transacted busi..
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office..
The Postmaster-General had an interview with the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. .Mr. Wickham,_ Chairman of the Stamp-,
had also an interview with the Right Hon. Gentleman.
Dispatches werereceived yesterday at the Colonia-office
from the Governor of Gibraltar.

The Earl of Lincoln arrived in town yesterday from Salt-
bill.

The Countess of Romney expired on Thursday night at
her residence in Wilton-crescent. Her Ladyship was daughter
of the late, and. sister of the present Duke of Buccleuch.

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S
THEATRE.

Mademoiselle Dejazet, the espiegle Dejazet, the fasci-
nating Dejazet, the pet alike of Paris and of London,
made her debut for the season here last evening in her
two favourite characters of Vert- Vert. in the vaudeville
of that name (of which the English play, The Pet of
the Petticoats is almost a literal translation), and
Catherine Biancoli in La File de Dominique.
Never did she look, or act, or sing better.
Her Vert Vert was the Prince of Pickles, and
her costume became her exceedingly. The powdered
wig, and square-cut coat, and flapped and embroidered
waistcoat and tight smalls seemed really a
picturesque costume when set off by the graces
of Dejazet. In La F ille de Dominique she
assumes a variety of characters. The daughter of
a deceased actor, she is desirous of obtaining an engage-
ment among the servants of his Majesty Louis XIV.,
but Baron, the ruanaker, refuses to see her, and puts her
off by a variety of civil excuses. She then according to
the old plan, assumes a variety of disguises, and fasci-
nates him as Margot, a country girl—half pleases and
hall terrifies him as a fine lady of quality, who has gone
mad from love of him, and quite terrifies him as a
young soldier, the lover of Margot, who demands satis-
faction for his abduction of the rustic beauty. Having
sufficiently teased him, a discovery takes place, and she
who, as Catherine Biancoli, had been rejected unseen
and unheard by the troupe, is, as Madame Baron, re-
ceived with acclamation as the acknowledged prima donna.
Her provincialisms, as Margot, and her strut and
swagger, as the young soldier, kept the house in a rear.
She was called for at the fall of the curtain, and enthu-
siastically applauded by a house crowded to the ceiling.

THE FORD ABBEY ESTATE
(PARTICULARS AND DRAWINGS JUST ISSUED).
It is difficult to describe the immense sensation pro-
duced by the publication of these voluminous papers.
Toe description of the estate, with its beauteous park
and ornamental waters, which from time immemorial
has been accounted the great and proud feature of the
county—the demesne of 2.0001. a year—the sporting,
with the seductive auxiliaries of fishing and hunting—
all this (and the great leviathan of the west claims
much more than it has credit for in this brief outline)
would indeed be enough to awaken the latent spark
of curiosity, but the historical account arouses extra-
ordinary sensation, and furnishes an interesting and
perfect reminiscence of the