The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-15 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Count de Reventlow, the Danish Minister, had an
audience of the Queen to present the official notifica-
tion of the death of his Majesty the late King of
Denmark, and also to present his credentials from his
present Sovereign. His Excellency was introduced
by :,Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Right Hon. Sir Stratford Canning, G.C.8.,
was presented to her Majesty by Visccunt Palmers-
ton, on his return from his mission to Switzerland,
and to take leave on his departure for Constanti-
nople.
Mr. David Morier was presented to the Queen, at
an audience by Viscount Palmerston, on the termi-
nation of Ms mission in Switzerland.
Her Majesty gave audience to Viscount Palmers-
ton.
The Queen was attended by the Earl of Morley,
Lord in waiting, and Colonel Berkeley Drummond,
Groom in waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg,
accompanied by Count Arthur Mensdorff, and at-
tended by Madame la Baronne de Wangenheim, Cap-
tain the Hon. A. Gordon, and Baron Fritsch, visited
Westminster the New Palace at yesterday, and in-
spected the House of Lords.
Her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn,
Lady in Waiting, and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in
Waiting, visited the Princess Sophia yesterday, at her
residence at Kensington.
The royal children took their usual airings yes-
terday.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Saxe Coburg, and Count Arthur Mensdorff, honoured
the performance of the French plays with their pre-
sence yesterday evening. The royal suites consisted
of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Madame la Baronne de
Wangenheim, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley,
Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, and Baron Fritsch.
A deputation from the London and South-Western
Railway Company, consisting of Mr. Chaplin (Chair-
man), Hon. F. Scott, Mr. Read, Mr. Mill, Mr.
Bircham, and Mr. Bassalgate, had an interview with
the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday at the Office of
the Commissioners of Railways in the Board of
Trade.
Lord Campden had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Honr-office.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
and Mr. Pressly, Secretary to the Board, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer pester-

day at his official residence, in Downing-street. Mr.
John 'Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had also an in.
terview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet.
A deputation from the Waterford and Kilkenny
Railway Company, consisting of ➢lr. G. Anderson
(Deputy Chairman), and Captains Currie and Moor-
som, had an interview with the Commissioners of
Railways yesterday on the subject of the Company's
application to Parliament for power to make certain
improvements in the Railway.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•
office from the Governors of the North American
provinces.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were the Archbishop
of York, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the
Judge of the Admiralty Court. After disposing of an
Appeal from the Court of Arches, " Shore v, Barnes,"
their Lordships commenced the hearing of "The
Representatives of Count de Wall v. the Commis-
sioners of French Claims."

HER 11.1A.JEST Y'S THEATRE.
Her Majesty's Theatre opens on Saturday, and, as
has always been the case since Mr. Lumley under-
took the management of this great lyric establish-
ment, opens in reality, and not in name only; the
anti-paschal season has never :been slovened over
by Mr. Lumley, as it had invariably been by
his predecessors; and, accordingly, we find that at
the very commencement of the season we are to have
Gardoni, Signor Beletti (the admired baritone, from
La Pergola, Florence), Signor Cuzzani (the great
tenor, from La Scala), and Mademoiselle Sofia
Cruvelli (the prima donna of the Fenice at
Venice). These will appear in Verdis's opera
of Ernani, which will be followed by a
new grand ballet by Paul Taglioni, entitled.
Fiorita, in which Caroline liosata and Marie Tag-
lioni will appear. This is a good beginning, but
better is to follow, and the season of 1848 bids fair
to eclipse in brilliancy any of its predecessors, and to
cast even the glories of 1847 into the shade. Of
course Jenny Lind is to be here; the Nightingale
arrives in March, and will appear in several novel
and interesting characters in a succession of new and
established operas. It was a complaint last season,
and one not altogether ill-founded, that on the nights
which were not Jenny Lind nights there was no prima
donna worthy of the high reputation of her Ma-
jesty's Theatre, as Madame Castellan, although
a very sweet singer, was scarcely equal to the situa-
tion into which circumstances had thrust her. That
complaint has been most effectually remedied.
Madame Erminia Tadolini, whom the studious*, of Ls
Scala and of all the other great Italian theatres hare
long since hailed as the prima donna of Italy, and
whom the audience of Vienna hailed as (with the ex-
ception of Jenny Lind, with whom she has often held
friendly contest) the prima donna of the world, has
been engaged, and will, we understand, appear on
alternate nights with Jenny Lind during the greater
part of the season. We sincerely congratulate Mr.
Lumley on his having secured the services
of Madame Tadolini, and we congratulate the
English dilletanti, also as having now, for the first
time, an opportunity afforded them of hearing the
greatest of female Italian artistes. Mademoiselle
Adelaide Moltini, of whom the habitues of the
opera have many pleasing reminiscences, is also
engaged ; and Mademoiselle Schwartz, of whom
report speaks as the most marvellous contralto in
the world, will make her debut early in the season.
Mademoiselle Abbadia, who has been winning golden
opinions at La Scala, and Signora Sofia Vera, are
also engaged. Gardoni, of course, is here ; and
Cuzzani who makes his debl2l on Saturday,
has long been prima tenore at La Scala, and,
comes to us with an established Italian re-
putation. Another Signor Labocetta from Berlin,
is also engaged. We have already alluded to the
engagement of the baritone Peletti, but he is an addi-
tion to the corps operatique, and not a substitute for
any seceder, for we are also to have Coletti, Bouehe,
F. Lablache, and the Lablache, in every sense
of the word the greatest actor and singer in the
world. The band and the chorus, which will be
complete in every part, and in which great improve-
ments have been made, will be as heretofore under
the direction of Balfe, with Tolbecque as leader. The
ballet will be, as it always has been at this theatre,
the first in the world. We are to have Carlotta Grist,
Caroline Rosati, Marie Taglioni, and Cerito, with her
husband St. Leon, and Perrot, and Paul Taglioni, as
the maitres de ballet, each of whom will produce a
new ballet in the course of the season. With such
attractions we are not surprised to find that the sub-
scription list is so rapidly filling up. Mr. Lumley
deserves success, and in general those who deserve
attain it.