The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
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the Queen yesterday.
Ilis Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out en
horseback yesterday, accompanied by his Royal Ifigh-
ness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and attended by his
Equerry in Waiting
Their Royal Highnesse3 the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, tale Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, took their usual airings.
:oil Highness the Duchess of Kent dined
wiHrtheherßomajesty and Prince Albert yesterday even-
ins, r..c Buckingham Palace.
':heir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
Augustus of Saxe• Coburg, and their three infant
children, have been received at Buckingham Palace
by her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, and are for the present residing there. The
infant daughter of the Duke de Nemours is likewise
for the present receiving her Xsjesty'iaospitality.

Her Royal Highness the Duch of Gloucester
visited their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge, yesterday, at Cambridge House.
A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock
yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The
Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir
John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth,
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, and the Right Hon.
T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat an hour and a half.
Prince Castelcicala, the Neapolitan Minister, and
the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, transacted
business yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and the Town-Clerk of
Manchester, had an interview with the Right Hon.
Edward Strutt yesterday, at the office of the Commis-
sioners of Railways in the Board of Trade.
Mr. M. Bell, M.P., had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
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Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colo-
nial-office, from the Governors of Hong-Kong and
the Mauritius.

Sir William Heathcote, M.P., had an interview
yesterday with the Right Hon. Edward Strutt.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were—the Master of
the Rolls, Lord Campbell, the Judge of the Preroga-
tive Court, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall. Appeals from the Admiralty Court,
" Harrison v. Cheesman" (ship George), and" Crosby
v. Watson" (ship Endeavour), were heard.

THE EX-ROYAL FAMILY OF
FRANCE.

Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours
did not leave the French Embassy, where his Royal
Highness is at present sojourning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Font repaired to
Hertford House, at ten o'clock, and there visited her
illustrious relatives their Royal Highnesses the Prince
Angustus and Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha. The
Royal Duchess remaiaed about half an hour with the
Prince and Princess.

The children of the Prince and Princess, namely, the
Princes Philippe, Augustus, and the Princess Mary, and
Prince Louis (Count d'Eu), eldest son of the Duke de
Nemours, in the forenoon, after taking an airing in
Lord Foley's carriage, wero taken to Buckingham
Palace, one of the Queen's carriages having been sent
from the Royal Mews for that purpose, where they still
remain.

At a quarter to four o'clock, the Duchess de Mont
pensier arrived at the Embassy from the London-bridge
terminus of the South-Eastern Railway. Her Royal
highness parted from the King and Queen very shortly
after they left Paris, and under escort of a confidential
friend of the Duke de Montnensier made the best of her
way to Boulogne. At Abbeville the Duchess had a very
narrow escape, having been recognised and attacked by
a mob. Her Royal Highness only escaped by taking
refuge in the house of a gentleman, from the rear of
which she afterwards escaped and ultimately reached
Boulogne, from which port she crossed yesterday.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Naples, Count
de Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples, and, there-
tore, nephew of the ex-Queen of the French, waited on
the Duke de Nemours, and had an audience of some
duration. It will be recollected that, according to the
correspondence frcm Paris, in the
,journals, the Prince
was detained against his will from repairing to Naples in
the outbreak of the political disturbances in Sicily. His
Royal Highness, with much difficulty, escaped from
Paris, and reached our hospitable shores on Sunday
night, and forthwith came to the metropolis yesterday
morning.
We have only further to say, that their Royal High-
nesses the Prince and Princess Augusta of Saxe Coburg
removed from the French Embassy soon after seven
o'clock last evening to Buckingham Palace, to there re-
main while in this country. In case it should be sup-
posed by many of our readers, that it is likely to hurt
our friendly relations with the Provisional Government
of France, we only locution the fact, that the Prince is a
cousin of the Prince Consort. _

The Duke of Wellington called personally at half-
past one o'clock to visit the Royal Duke, and the other
visits of condolence included the Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk and the Ladies Howard, his Excellency the
Bavarian Minister, and Baroness de Cetto, his Excel-
lency Viscount Moncorvo, his Excellency Chevalier
Bunsen, Chevalier Ribero, M. Tacon, the Spanish
Charge d'Affaires, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Lansdowne, the Marquis and .Marchioness of Salisbury,
the Earl and Ladies Fitzwilliam, Viscountess Palmer-
ston, tho Earl of Mansfield, tho Earl and Countess
Granville, the Dowager Countess Verulam, the Countess
(Dowager) Mansfield and Ladies Murray, the Earl
Spencer, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, Colonel
and Lady Alice Peel, Viscount and Viscountess Jo-
celyn, the Earl Fortescue, Viscount and Vicountess
Ebringtcn, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Sir
Stratford and Lady Canning, Viscount Canterbury,
Mr. H. Baring, M.P.; Mr. and Lady Georgiana Fuller-
ton, Lady Brougham, Lion. Colonel Dawson Darner,
Lady Anne Mackenzie, the Earl and Countess of Shel-
burne, Sir Harry and Lady Verney, Vicount and Vi-
countess Dillon, the Earl and Countess of Jersey, and
Lady Clementina Villiers, Sir James and Lady Graham,
and Miss Graham, Viscount and Vicountess Falkland,
Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Lieu

tenaut-Colonel Edward Bagot, the Countess of Gains•
borough, and Lady Catherine Noel, Mr. O'Gorman
Mahon. &c..
The Duke de Montebello called, and had a protracted
audience of the Duke de Nemours yesterday.
At the hour our informant left the French Embassy
no tidings had been received of the Duke de Montpen-
sier, or Louis Phillips and his estimable Consort. The
refuge of the Duchess de Nemours is also unknown.
It is now satisfactorily ascertained that M. Duchatel
is in safety. The general opinion of all persons from
Paris is, that M. Guizot is secreted in the capital (that

is to say up to Thursday last), but an impression i; en-
tertained thnt he escaped that night and fled to the
south. This latter is acknowledged to be only conjecture.

FLANDERS MAIL.
Bausssr.s, FEB. 2G.—Mr. Van Praidli, the Mi-
nister of the Royal Household, has been dispatched
to Paris.
An edict has been issued by the Minister of War,
calling upon the militia of 1843 and 1844 to assemble
beneath their standards.
FEB. 27.—The deepest anxiety prevails here as to
the fate of the ex-King of the French, for nothing
whatever has been heard respecting his movements.
The general opinion is that he will go to England.
Our Queen shows the most admirable presence of
mind under the terrible disasters which have befallen
her family. Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, his
Majesty again held a Privy Council. The Chamber
of Representatives was crowded with anxious au-
ditors, who expected that from the general
intense anxiety which prevailed, that the Mi-
nisters and the Members of the Chambers would
give vent to expressions of the general feeling on this
momentous subject; there was, however, neither dis-
cussion nor explanation, and this might have been
expected.
FEB. 26.—The theatrical representation which was
to have taken place this, evening for the benefit of the
poor of Flanders has been postponed, the manager
being of opinion that during the extreme agitation
which prevails the theatre will be deserted.
After to-day the police will demand to see, the
passports of all persons arriving at or leaving I len-
ders by the steamers.—Journal du Commerce d' Anvers.
GRATZ, FEBRUARY.—The disturbances among the
peasants, though apparently subdued, constantly re-
appeard in a spirit of discontent and opp!oin,
land
manifest themselves in numerous ways, whic ol
out sad forebodings for the future.
The directors of the Brussels Railway have decided
that they will not issue any tickets either forValen-
ciennes or Lille. They will not undertake to carry
passengers farther than Imeorain on the one side and
Monscrou on the other.
King Leopold, although profoundly moved by
these events, appears perfectly calm and collected.
He is continually occupied with Ministers in concoct-
, ing measures which may be called by the extra-

SPORTING IN TELL IGENCE.
TAT I'ERSALL'S.—Y }WEEDILY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
8 to 1 agst Capt. Little's The Chandler—take 9 to I
12 to 1 agst Lord Strathmore's Naworth —take 14 to 1
15 to 1 agst Mr. Brettle's The Curate—taken
15 to 1 agst Mr. Barry's Sir Arthur—nominal
15 to 1 agst Mr. 0. Iliggins'6 Pioneer
20 to 1 agst Mr. Storey na Standard Guard—taken
20 to 1 ag: t Mr. Mosele3 's Jerry
20 to 1 agst Mr. Courteney's Mathew
25 to 1 agst Mr. H. 11. Jones's Wolverhampton—tkn
25 to 1 agst Mr. F. Wilson's Khondooz
30 to 1 agst Mr. G. Brettle's Aristides
30 to 1 agst Mr. Mason's The Sailor—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Elmore's British Yeoman—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Everard ca The Shaver
40 to 1 agst Mr. T. Harrison na Pioneer (b b)—tkn
The price quoted agst Sir Arthur is nominal; no one
would have taken less than 20 to 1. This unexpected
and rapid decline is ascribable to an accident that betel
him on disembarking at Liverpool on Sunday afternoon;
it appears that he fell into the river, and that about
twenty minutes elapsed before the was extricated. In
consequence of this occurrence, The Chandler, Naworth,
Pioneer, and Standard Guard were in considerable de-
mand; the betting, however, was on a very limited scale.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
The only bet laid on this event was 20 to 1 agst Gannet.
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle, 4 yrs, Bst
61b—taken
20 to I apt Mr. F. Clarke's Cracow, 3 yrs, 4st 7lb
40 to
,1 agst Mr. Disney's Keleshea, 4 yrs, 6st 91b —t
40 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Lightning, aged, Bst
21b—taken

DERBY.
7 to I agst John Day's lot
to 1 agst Dilly's lot
13 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Glendower—taken and offd
15 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Springy Jack—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Loadstone—tkn and offrd
30 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's The Stinger—taken to 50/.
33 to 1 agst Mr. Pcdley's Besborough
33 to 1 apt Mr. Payne's Cervus
35 to I agst Major Pitt's Fern---1,000 to 25 taken
50 to 1 age: Mr. Wigram's Keraun—taken to 1001.
50 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Whitstone—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Edie Ochiltree—taken
Scarcely any business doing, but a disposition to back
Springy Jack and Fern was obvious from the first, and
each improved on the previous quotation. 50 to 1 was
taken to nearly 100/. about Keraun, and to 201. each
about Edie ()chiltree and Whitstone. Surplice was in-
quired after, but no price fixed. It is scarcely necessary
to add that business at " the Corner" suffers from the
fearful state of political affairs.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NIGHT.
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, &C.
Handicap of 20 sous. each, and 100 added.
Arrivals—St. Leger, Wolverhampton, Saucepan, Ma-
thew, Father Mathew, The Switcher, The Shaver, Ash-
berry Lass, Cheroot, Sir Arthur, Khoudooz, Sophia,
The Irish Bard, Pioneer, Picton, Awl, Fortune Teller,
British Yeoman, Young Lottery, Sailor, Gipsey Queen,
Doctor, Blue Bell, Iron Duke, Blue Pill, Naworth.
LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP.
King Fisher, Ballinafad, Sir Martin, Brown Fly,
Dipthong, Liston.
Earl of Sefton's Plate of 501.
Lucy Ashton, Administrator, Ballinafad, Liston.