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

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buck-
Lrigham Palace. The company included their Royal
Ilighnessthe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
wihßole Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of

,axe-Uoburg his Serene Highness Prince Frederick
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of nesse, Count Arthur -Mensdorff, Lady Augusta
Cadogan, Madame de Wangenheim, Dowager Lady
Lyttelton, Lord George Lennox, Baron Knesebeck,
Laron Fritsch, and Colonel Wylde.
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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 first performance of the late Dr. Mendelstohn's
music to to the " CEdipus Coloneus," an abridged
English version having been written and adopted 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-
mented author has woven with this beautiful relic of
antiquity, their efforts being ably sustained by her
Majesty'a private band, increased for 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 meld-dramatic portions of
this noble pendant 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.
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The " Descriptive Chorus of Athens as a State,,,
" The War Chorus," and " The Thunder Chorus,
went off most impressively.
The following had the honour of receiving invita-
tions :—The Belgian Minister 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 ands Duchess of Norfolk, the Ladies Mary
and Adeliza Howard, the Marquis of Anglesey 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 Countess of Hardwicke, Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Morpeth,
Lord and Lady Ashley, Hon. Miss Lyttelton, Lord
Edward Howard, General Hon. A. Upton, Major-
General the llon. H. F. and the Hon. Miss Caven-
dish, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Colonel
the lion. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Sir Robert and
Lady Gardiner and Misses Gardiner (two), Lady
Caroline Cocks, Hon. Miss Paget.
Refreshments were served during the evening to

the company 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
taken 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 Downing-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 ytsterdayat the Home-
office. The deputation consisted of the Right lion.
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 Clan-
ricarde, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Campbell, the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, the Right Hon T. B. Macaulay,
the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master
of the Horse, Mr. C. Greville, and the Hon. W.
Bathurst, were present at the dinner party given by
the Lord President on Wednesday evening.
Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes,
had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of
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
Pater. t.

DIATII or SIR. GEORGE YOUNG, BART.—This
tA.cu SLR 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
Piled, but leaves no issue.