The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-06 00:00:00

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Ais Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse visited
tie Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, at Buckingham t
Palace.
Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty 1
yesterday.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and
the Princess Royal, and attended by the Marchioness of
Douro, Lady in Waiting, and Colonel the Hon. Charles
Grey, Equerry in Waiting, visited her Royal Highness
the Princess Sophia yesterday, at her residence in Ken-
sington.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
'afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-building the
• . Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at
three o'ei.ek at the NeGordon,alace, attended by Captain
the Hon. Alexander Go -Equerry in waiting:—
The Commissioners present were Lord Colborne the
Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon. the
Speaker, Sir James Graham, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr.
Benjamin Hawes, Mr. Hallam, and Mr. Wyse. The
Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. The
Meeting broke up at five o'clock.
Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice took airings
yesterday in the pleasure-grounds of the Palace, and the
incess Helena was taken an airing.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by the
Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princesses of
Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday in an open car.
Xiage and four.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at .Marlbo-
• ronh House.
Mr. Dod. M.P. for North Salop, had an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday, p
at the Home-office, to re-
sent an address.
Mi. Bent, Chief Justice of British Guiana, had an
interview with Earl Grey yesterday. Mr. John White-
' • ford had also an interview yesterday with the Noble
Earl, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Joseph
Allday, Mr. Joseph Corbett, Mr. William Kerkhoff, Mr.
James Baldwin, and Mr. George Goodrick, a deputation
appointed at a public meeting of rate-payers at Bir-
mingham, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yes-
terday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioneis of
Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place.
The Duke of Beaufort and the Earl of Harewood
bad interviews yesterday with Sir G. Grey, at the
Home-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of the West India Colonies.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the
Colonial-office for the Governor of Canada, and also for
the Governors of the North American Colonies.

A deputation from the " Associate Institution for
Improving and Enforcirg the Laws for the Protection
of Women," consisting of the Earl of Mountcashel, Lord
Robert Grosvenor, Sir Edward Buxton, Bart., M.P.,
Mr. Cabbell, M.P., Mr. Spooner, M.P., Mr. Jon Dean
• Paul, and Mr. Astbury, bad an interview this morning
with his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lam.
Beth Palace.
THE CoLossEns.—The following distinguished
parties honoured the Colosseum with a visit yesterday
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afternoon:—The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the
and Duchess of Argyle, Countess of Carlisle,
Lady Ann Campbell, Lady C. L. Gower, Lady Dover
*Aid daughters, &c.. &c., and, we believe, had an opper•
tOsitrof viewing the new grand panorama of Paris.