The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Fier Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Queen on Saturday at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Mr. G. E. Anson, attended a meeting at the office of
the Duchy of Cornwall, in Somerset-house, on Satur-
day morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg and
Count Arthur Mensdorff, and attended by Captain
the Hon. A. Gordon, Equerry in waiting, rode out on
horseback on Saturday. Baron Fritsch was in wait-
ing on the Duke of Saxe Coburg.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe Coburg and Count Arthur Mensdorff, honoured
the performance at the Lyceum Theatre with their
presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suites
consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Madame de
Wangenheim, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley,
Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, and Baron Fritsch.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duke of Saxe
Coburg, and Count Arthur Mensdorff took an early
walk in the pleasure grounds adjoining Buckingham
Palace before church yesterday morning.
All the Royal children took pony and walking ex-
ercise yesterday forenoon in the grounds.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duke and
Duchess of Saxe Coburg, and Count Arthur Mons-
dorff, and also the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court,
and the domestic household, attended Divine service
yesterday in the private chapel of the Palace. The
Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Sir William C. Ross, 8.A., has had the honour of
attending daily at Buckingham Palace, by command
of her Majesty, taking sittings for a miniature of her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Saxe Coburg.
A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock, on
Saturday, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland,
Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the Right Hon. H. Labeuchere, Vis-
count Morpeth, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay.
The Council sat two hours.
Count de Reventlow, the Danish Minister, trans-
acted business on Saturday, at the Foreign-office.
A deputation of members of the Society of Friends
had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Satur-
day, at the Home-office, on the subject of military
defences. The deputation was composed of Josiah
Forster, Peter Bedford, George Stacey, Samuel
Gurney, Richard Barrett, Robert Forster, and John
Hodgkin.
Mr. Barkly and Mr. Higgins had an interview with
Earl Grey, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation of the Airdrie and Bathgate Railway
Company, consisting of Mr. Steele Nisbet and Mr.
Deans, had an interview with the Right Hon. Edward
Strutt, on Saturday, at the office of the Commissioners
of Railways in the Board of Trade.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a committee meeting on Saturday.
—Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of Van Diemen's
Land.

The Speaker of the House of Commons gave a
grand dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in
Eaton-square.
Sir John and Lady B. Johnstone, and Miss John-
stone, arrived at their residence, in Grosvenor-square,
on Saturday, from Hackness Hall, Yorkshire.
Viscount Nevill arrived in town on Saturday.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, FEB. 12.
WADIIAIi COLLEGE,

Two scholarships, for which founder's kin under
nineteen years of age, being duly qualified, are
entitled to a preference, will be filled up at the next
election. Persons wishing to become candidates are
required to transmit: to the Warden evidence of their
kindred on or before Thursday, the 4th of May; in
default of such candidates, both the scholarships and
a third, which will be vacant, will be open to natives
or Great Britain.
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

Mr. Charles William Moffat, commoner of Exeter
College, has been elected a Michel's Exhibitioner at
Queen's.
The meeting of. the- Ashtnolean Society for the
present term will be held on Monday, the 21st inst.,
and on Monday, the 6th and 20th of March.

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO TRH LYCEUM THEATRE.
—Oa Saturday night the Queen and her Royal Consort,
with the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, and a
select suite, Count Mensdorff, Lady Jocelyn, Colonel
Buckley, and Captain Gordon,' honoured this theatre
with their presence for the first time during the present
management. The royal visit was not known till nearly
five o'clock. The Queen and her illustrious relations
were received at the royal entrance in Burleigh-street,
on their arrival a few minutes before eight, by Mr.
Strutt, Mr. Roxby (the stage-manager), and Mr. Charles
Mathews. The pieces were Askunding Phenomena,
, and Box and Cox. Her Majesty
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remainedneh
till the curtain fell. The house was
crowded in every part.
DRURY LANE THEATRE.—To-morrow evening
(Tuesday.) the indefatigable Mr. Allcroft, of Monster
Concert
selected programme, containing some of the most choice
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vocalists, both foreign and native, each of the highest
selections
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psop a grand musical treat. A well
ular composers of the day,
repute in their respective professions, will appear. From
the extended patronage these concerts annually receive,
coupled with Mr. Allcroft's general attention and kind-
ness of manners, a crowded theatre with an agreeable
evening's entertainment may be expected.
The Duke of Devonshire gave a splendid enter-
tainment at his marine residence at Kemp Tows,
Brighton, on Friday night. A grand dinner preceded
the soiree dansante.

VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIREE.—On Satur-
day evening her Ladyship had a brilliant reception at
the family residence in Carlton-gardens. A select
circle of guests Were entertained at dinner, previous to
the soiree, by Viscountess Palmerston, the Noble
Viscount being at the Parliamentary dinner given by
the Speaker.

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SERIOUS AFFRAY BETWIXT THE POLICE AND THE
STUDENTS.—Betwixt 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday, one of
those collisions took place betwixt the students attending
the University and the police authorities, which have on
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former occasions spread no small consternation over the
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originated in one of tht most trifling possible circum-
stances, being neither more nor less than the running
down of a pup by a carriage on the South Bridge, oppo-
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site the college gate, where knots of students, contrary
to the inaugural admonitions of Principal Lee, are always
assembled. It appears that a policeman having chal-
lenged the conduct of the coachman driving the carriage,
whom the students, who were looking on as self consti-
tuted arbitrators, considered to be blameless, the parties
thus came in contact—the policeman attempting to
capture the driver, and the students rushing to the
rescue. It is also stated that the students standing on
the college steps were considerably exasperated
by a workman throwing the dead dog at them,
and that the return of the compliment on their part was
the principal cause of the row. The day patrol haying
been called on to apprehend the students, a general
engagement ensued, In which the use of sticks and
stones were liberally resorted to, and with such effect,
that in the shape in which the report first reached our
office, it was stated that no fewer than 14 of the police
force had been removed disabled to the infirmary; but
it turns out that only two were severely injured, whilst
20 of the students have been taken as prisoners to the
Police-office. Whilst the stones were flying about in all
directions, during the heat of the battle, the shops in
the neighbourhood of the scene of action were entirely
closed, and, for the most part, continued to be so during
the evening. Dense crowds have filled the streets in the
vicinity during the day; with the descent of night, a
cessation of hostilities has taken place on either part;
but, from the number of students congregated near the
office, apprehensions even yet prevail, as we write, that
the outbreak may be renewed. It is suspected that the
students are arming thems,lves with sticks and blud-
geons, preparatory to a renewal of the onset to morrow.
It is to be hoped, however, that effective measures will
ere then be adopted, by calling out the special constabu-
lary, or otherwise, for the preservation of the peace. A
number of pickpockets were apprehended harvesting in
the crowd.—North British Mail of Saturday.
There is an advance of about ls, per sack in the
price of potatoes on the Trent side. The holders, how-
ever, will now readily sell ; and this they will be bliged
to do shortly, as the potatoes are growing very much in
the heaps.—Stamford Mercury.