The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buck
ingham Palace. The company included their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
their Royal Highnesses the Duke end Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick
of Hesse, Count Arthur Mensdorff, Lady Augusta
Cadogan, Madame de Wangen'Lleim, Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, Loid George Lennox, Baron Knesebeck,
Baron Fritsch, and Colonel Wylde.
The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The
company began to arrive at the Palace at a quarter
before nine o'clock, and were ushered up the grand
staircase to the green drawing room.
The Queen and Prince Albert, conducted by the
Lord Chamberlain, and followed by their illustrious
visitors, afterwards entered the picture gallery, where,
at the upper end, a spacious orchestra had been erected
for the fir:t performance of the late Dr. Mendelsfohn',
music to to the " (E:iipus Coloneus," an abri:iged
English vers!en having been written awl adspted to it,
expressly for her Majesty and his Royal highness
Prince Albert.
It was recited by Mr. Bartley, and the author, who,
as upon the occasion of the Antigone's performance,
at Windsor Castle, assisted him as his chorus speaker.
A numerous and judiciously selected mass of voices;
professional and amateur, singing with great effect
the profound and impressive strains which the la•
merited author has woven with this beautiful relic o:
antiquity, their efforts being ably sustained by her
Majesty's private band, increased fur this occasion by
a number of the most eminent instrumentalists of the
Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Anderson directing the
whole performance with his accustomed care and
ability, greatly facilitated the execution of the difficult
and elaborately-wrought melo-dramatic portions of
this noble pen.lant to the Antigone.
: An Invocation for (Edipus to the Powers of Hades
was charmingly sung by Messrs. Genge, Peck, C.
Beale, and Collet, fora ing a quartett, into which the
chorus, at its conclusion, glides most effectively.
The " Descriptive Chorus of Athens as a State,"
"The IVar Chorus," and "The Thunder Chorus,"
went off most impressively.
The following had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—The Belgian Miniqer and Madame Van de
Weyer, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen
and Mademoiselle Bunsen, his Serene Highness
Prince Lowenstein, the Duke of Wellington, the
Duke andi Ducl.ess of Norfolk, the Ladies Mary
and Adcliza Howard, the Marquis of Ariglesey and
Lady Adelaide Paget, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Abercorn, the Earl and Countess Fortescue, the
Countess Spencer, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl
and Ccuntess of Hardwicke, Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Morpeth,
Lord and Lady Ashley, lion. Miss Lyttelton, Lord
Edward Howard, General Hon. A. Upton, Major-
General the Hon. 11. F. and the Ilon. Miss Caven-
dish; Mr. G. E. awl the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Colonel
the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps Sir Robert and
Lady Gardinei and Misses Gardiner (two), Lady
Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Paget.
Refreshments were served during the evening to
the cnmpany in an ante-room.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, rode out on ponies yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was
liken an airing.

A deputation of the metropolitan parishes, relative
to the repeal of the window-tax, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at
his official residence in Drowning-street. The depu-
tation included Viscount Duncan, M.P. ; Mr. J.
Williams, M P.; Mr. James Wyld, M.P.; Captain
Pechell, M.P.; Sir B. Hall, M.P.; Lord Dudley C.
Stuart, M.P.; Mr. George Thompson, M.P. ; and
Lord Robert Grosvenor.
A deputation from the owners of property in Is.
lington, relative to the erection of the London Fever
hospital in a populous part of the Liverpool-road, had
an interview with Sir G. Grey yt stcrdayat the Home-
office. The deputation consisted of the Right Hon.
Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P.; Mr. John Wood
Deane, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Baker, Mr. Johnstone, Mr.
Perkins, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Henshall, Mr. Keasley, and
Mr. F. Minasi.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners of England had
a general meeting yesterday.
Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl, of
Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, the Marquis of C.lan-
ricarde, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Campbell, the Right
Hon. 11. Labouchere, the Right Hon 'l'. B. Macaulay,
the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master
of the Horse, Mr. C. Grcville, and the Hon. W.
Bathurst, were present at the dinner pa.rty given by
the Lord President on Wednesday evening.
11:r. Wickham, Chairman of the 'Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor es,
had
the Exchequer.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of South Australia.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and resumed and concluded the hearing of
a petition for an extension of the term of Purkus's
Patent. _ -

DEATH or SM;,---(3tRORGIE YOUNG, BART.—This
gentleman died on the Bth inst., at his seat, Formosa.
near Maidenhead, Berks, in the 52d year of his age. He
married, in 1830, the daughter of the late Mr. Sergeant
Praed, but leaves no issue.