The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow
(Thursday) afternoon, at three o'clock, at Bucking-
ham Palace.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent ♦isited
the Queen and Prince Albert, yesterday, at Buck-
ingham Palace.
Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty,
yesterday.
The Earl of Powis had an audience of the Queen,
yesterday, and delivered to her Majesty the riband
and badge of the Most Noble Order of the Garter,
worn by his father,;the late Earl of Powis.
The lion. John Stuart had an audience of the
Queen yesterday, and delivered to her Majesty the
ensigns of the Most Ancient Order of the Thistle,
worn by his father, the late Earl of Moray.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out en
horseback yesterday, attended by his Equerry in
Waiting, Colonel Seymour.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took walking and pony exercise yesterday, in
the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken
an airing yesterday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined
with her Majesty and Prince Albert yesterday even-
ing, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, yesterday, at Cambridge House.
A deputation from a meeting of Irish Members, to
request a revision of the area of Poor-law Unions and
Electoral Division in Ireland, bad an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. The
deputation was composed of Sir Lucius O'Brien, Mr.
Monsell, Hon. Mr. Clements, Mr. Herbert, Mr.
Fagan, and Lieutenant-Colonel Dunne.
Sir William Clay transacted business yesterday at
the Office of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
he Colonial Office for the Governor of West Aus-
ralia.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and resumed the hearing of an appeal from
Bengal " Muttyloll v. Robert O'Dowla." The Lords
present were—the Master of the Rolls, Lord Camp-
bell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and
the Judge of the Admiralty Court. Sir Edward
Ryan sat as a Privy Councillor.

EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF FRANCE.

The Duke de Nemours is no longer an inmate of Hert-
ford•house. His Royal Highness, together with
.his
illustrious sister-in-law, the Duchess do Montpensier,
left the Embassy last evening, and they are now occu-
pying apartments at the Belgian Legation in Portland-
place. The reason of this is soon told. At four o'clock
yesterday the Count de Jarnac, French Minister under
the former regime, received dispatches by a special
courier from M. do Lamartine, who has charge of the
Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government, inform-
ing his Excellency officially of the ;retirement of the
Orleans dynasty, and the assumption of power by the
Provisional Government. On receipt of this intelligence
the Duke at once determined to leave the embassy.
At eleven o'clock yesterday morning their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess Augustus of Saxe
Coburg arrived at Hertford-house, from Buckingham-
palace, in one of the Queen's carriages, to pay a visit to
their illustrious relatives.

At half-past twelve his Royal Highness Prince Albert
arrived at the Embassy on horseback, attended by his
Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Seymour. His Royal
Highness was received by the Count de Jarnac, by whom
he was presented to the Duchess de Montpensier and
the Duke de Nemours. His Royal Highness had a
lengthened interview with the Illustrious Princess and
her brother•in-law.
The Duke de Montebello called at the Embassy
during the merning, and had also an interview with the
Duke de Nemours.
The Chevalier de Tacon, Spanish Chargé d'Affaires,
had the honour of an interview with her Royal Highness
the Duchess de Montpensier at an early hour in the
afternoon.

At half-past three o'clock their Royal Highnesses the
Duke and Duchess Augustus of Saxe Coburg left the
Embassy and returned to Buckingham Palace. His
Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours accompanied her,
and had an audience of the Queen on reaching the
Palace. His Royal Highness remained at the Palace
until nearly seven o'clock, at which hour he returned to
Hertford House on foot.
The intelligence of the arrival of a courier with dis-
patches from the Republican Government only reached
the Duke de Nemours on his return from the Palace.
His Royal Highness immediately made arrangements to
leave the Embassy, and his Excellency the Belgian
Minister at once placed his suburban villa at East Sheen
dformerly the residence of the late Earl Grey) at the
isposal of the Prince. A telegraphic communication
from Dover at seven o'clock informed M. Van do Weyer
that a courier had just previously arrived at that port
from Brussels, charged with dispatches for his Excel-
lency. This fact was at once communicated to the
Duke de Nemours, and as it was ascertained that the
courier would arrive in London by the half-past ten P.m.
up-train, his Royal Highness determined to remain with
his sister-in-law at the Belgian Legation, in Portland-
place, for the night, in order to gain the earliest intelli-
gence, which it was hoped might reach town ,by this
source, of the safety of his royal relatives.
Shortly before eight o'clock the Duke and Duchess
Augustus of Saxe Coburg again arrived at the Embassy
from Buckingham Palace in one of the Queen's car-
riages, and remained closeted with their royal relatives
for nearly an hour.
Prince Leopold of Naples, Count de Syracuse, brother
of the King of Naples and nephew of the King of the
French, whose arrival in town on Monday from Paris
we omitted to mention yesterday, called at Hertford-
house at a late hour yesterday evening, and had an in-
terview with the Duke de Nemours.
A report was current during the evening that a letter
had been received in London yesterday morning, by a
lady of title, announcing the safe arrival at Brussels of
Louis Philippe and other members of his family, but on
inquiring the statement appeared to be purely apocry-
phal; and on the arrival of the courier above alluded to,
at eleven o'clock last night, M. Van de Weyer had the
painful task of communicating to the illustrious exiles
under his roof that the dispatches he had received con-
tained no intelligence whatever to the ex-Royal family.
The Duchess de Montpensier was accompanied to this
country by General Thierry, Aide-de-Camp to the Duke
de Montpensier, and M. do Sulpice, an Attache to the
French Legation in Bavaria.
At eight o'clock last evening a courier was dispatched
from Hertford-house with dispatches from the Count de
Joao to Paris.