The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert left town at a quarter
past ten o'clock yesterday morning, for her Majesty's
marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. ,Her Majesty
and his Royal Highness, acccompanied by the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, occu-
pied a carriage and four. Prince Alfred and the Prin-
cess Helena were in the next carriage and four, accom-
panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Equerries
in waiting, Col. Buckley and Col. Bouverie, occupied a
chariot and four. The Princess Louisa, the Countess of
Desart, Lady in waiting, Hon. Miss Macdonald, Maid of
Honour in waiting, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and
Major-General Bowles followed in two carriages and four.
The QuCen and Prince Albert were conducted to their
carriage by the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Earl of Merton, Lord George
Lennox, Sir Frederick Stovin, and Col. Wylde.
The august party proceeded from the Palace to the
terminus of the London and South-western Railway at
Nine Elms, and left by a special train for Gosport.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bernhard of Saxe
Weimar visited the Duchess of Kent, yesterday forenoon
at her residence Clarence House, St. James's.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by
Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness do Speth, and Sir George
Couper, left town, at hall•past one o'clock yesterday
afternoon for Frogrnore House, Windsor.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Duke of Wellington with his company yesterday
evening, at Ansley House, at the dinner given by his
Grace to the Noble Directors of the Concert of Ancient
Music. His Royal Highness afterwards accompanied
the Duke of Wellington to the performance of the Con-
cert at the Hanover-square Rooms.
A deputation from Bradford, Yorkshire, consisting of
Mr. William Murgatroyd, Mr. William Rand, Mr. Alfred,
Harriss, Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. W. Walker, and Mr. H.
W. Ripley, were introduced by Lord Morpeth, M.P.,
Mr. Richard Cobden, M.P., and Mr. William Bushfield,
M.P., to Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home Office.
A deputation, including Mr Arthur Mills, Mr. Francis
Scott, and Mr. "lodges had an interview with Lord John
Russell on Tuesday.
Sir John Davis' Bart., from Hong Kong had an in-
terview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial Office.
A deputation from the Steam Shipowners' Association
of London, comprising 21 companies, and representing
upwards of 100,000 tons of steam-shipping, had an inter-
view with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted
of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Williams, Mr. W. J. Hall, Sir John
K. James, Mr. Morgan (Secretary), and Mr. Bryden
(Parliamentaryr Agent), and was accompanied by Mr.
B,Tvn.j!il•P-, and Mr. French, M.P.
no Marquis of Salisbury had an interview yesterday
with Sir G.Grey.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office, from the Governor of Canada, and from the Go-
vernors of the other North American' Previnees.
Lady John Russell gave last evening the first of se-
ries of assemblies at Russell in Downing. Stthreeeotfficial residence of Lord John

VISIT OF pRiNcE GEORGE OF
CAMBRIDGE TEOd%OaOLWICH.
WOOLWICH, JUNE 7. jei
of Anglesey, K.G., G.C.8., and acral the Marquis
of the Ordnance, attended by Lord ~ Master-General
aide-de-camp
Paget,
secretary, and Major Thurlow,
Master• General, arrived at the garrison
joine-cdslimorPtlafter
to the
eleven o'clock, A.m., today, and were Lieute-
nant Sir Thomas Downman, C. 8., and K.Cy.I3 ,
com-
mandant of the garrison, Major-General J. iVete
Smith, C. 8., director-general of the Royal Artillery ;
Colonel Campbell, Colonel Cleveland, Colonel J. E.
Jones, Assistant Adjutant-General ; Lieut.-Colonel
Cruttenden, Lieut,-Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director-
General ; Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, C. 8., and K.H.,
Lieut.-Colonel Hardinge, K.H., Lieut.-Colonel Ander-
ion, Lieut.-Colonel Warde, Captain Tylden, Deputy-As-
sistant Quarter-Master General, Captain Wingfield, and
Captain and Adjutant Menlo, Acting Brigade Major.
The Master-General, the Commandant, and the staff of
officers, proceeded to the front of the Repository
Grounds, and waited there about twenty minutes, until
the arrival of the Major-General his Royal Highness
Prince George of Cambridge, his Royal Highness Duke
George of Mecklenburgh Strelits, and his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Hesse, and then accompanied the
royal visitors to the common, where the Royal Horse
Artillery were drawn up in review order, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Bell. The exercise of
the guns, and the evolutions of this branch of the corps,
were gone through with great celerity, precision, and
effect.

Their Royal Highnesses appeared much gratified, and
with the Gallant Marquis, the Commandant, and staff,
galloped to every position taken up by the Royal Artil-
lery, to have a closer inspection of the manmuvres, in-
stead of remaining at the staff-flag, as usual on former
occasions.

After the review on the common, their Royal High-
nesses proceeded to the mortar battery, where they wit-
nessed excellent practice with mortars and howitzers
firing at a flag•staff 150 yards distant, the gunners being
under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Wavle. On
leaving the mortar battery, their Royal Highnesses
visited the barrack-rooms of the men, and then entered
the mess-room, where they partook of an elegant
d4jeune with the officers of the garrison. At three
o'clock the royal visitors proceeded to the marshes, and
witnessed firing from a garrison battery 700 yards dis-
tant from the target, and from two of Captain Grant's
9-pounder guns tor the itoyal Horse Ai am.. j, cgwol in
weight only to the former 6-pounder guns of that
branch of service. The practice was also carried on
with these guns with a howitzer, and a field
battery of 9-pounder guns, at 1,100 and at 1,200 yards
range; and the firing was excellent and effective at the
latter distance. A number of rockets were discharged
from Boxer's tube and salvos from the ground, and
practice carried on at the ricochet battery. The royal
visitors left immediately after the rockets were fired,
being desirous of returning to London by six o'clock.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

In compliance with the wish, as it was stated, of
several suburban residents, a morning performance was
announced to take place yesterday, at Covent-garden
Theatre, of the Nozze di Figaro. The house probably
would have been filled had this chef d'ccuvre of Mozart
been played, but the " sudden indisposition" of Grisi
occasioned the substitution of the Cenerentola, and con-
sequently the attendance was comparatively small. The
audience at first expressed considerable dissatisfaction at
the change, hut the delicious singing of Alboni soon put
them into good temper, and they forgot the disappoint-
ment they had experienced. An excuse was made at the
outset of the entertainment for Salvi, on the score of
hoarseness. This popular tenor, however, seemed hardly
to require the services of an apologist, for there was but
little indication of vocal incompetence in the style with
which he delivered the music. Alboni was encored in
the largo which introduces the famous " Non piu mesta."

LYCEUM THEATRE.
The hero of the farce entitled Anything for a Change,
brought out last night at this theatre, is a Mr. Swop-
ping ton—a personage endowed with the inconvenient
propensity of coveting everything that is not his own—
his neighbour's watch, stick, servant, or coat, no matter
which, and to obtain the evanescent object of his wishes
he is anxious to buy or swop, as the case may be. Now,
his friend Honeyball, urged by certain inscrutable mo-
tives, perceives in him a desirable husband for his sister,
and, in order to accommodate matters to his peculiarity,
instructs his wife and sister to exchange places, knowing
that Mrs. Honeyball, because she is Mrs. Huneybali,
will be likely to attract the notice of the mercurial suitor
rather than some one who is not already appropriated.
And so it turns out. And it also turns out that Mr.
Honeyball is made jealous, but that is soon cleared up,
and the whimsical Swoppington finds himself matrimo-
nially engaged, when lie calculated only on an elope-
ment.

Such a piece as this, it is clearly apparent, depends
for its salvation solely upon the quickness and neatness
of the acting. The capricious bwoppington is repre-
sented with eligible liveliness by Charles Mathews, who
creates a great deal of diversion by his brisk mutabili-
ties and constitutional disregard of the obligations of
meum and tuurn. His friend Honeyball, who prides him-
self on being " a man of intellect," is equally well sus-
tained by Harley, whose nervous and spasmodic alarm
when he fancies that his scheme has not taken the di-
rection ho intended, is highly comic. Miss Kathleen
Fitzwilliam plays the young lady who absorbs the fan-
tastic Honeyball very prettily—taking occasion to sing
a ballad or two, and to exhibit some dexterous facilities
on the pianforte.
The farce looks as if it were a translation from the
French, whether it is so or not, report assigns it to Mr.
Shirley Brooke.

SPECIAL CONSTABLES.—Yesterday, pursuant to
notice for the renewal of the warrants of special con-
stables, and the appointment of others, the magistrates
of several police offices were engaged in this duty. The
appointments are to continue in force for six months on
this occasion instead of three as on the last. The re-
mainder of this and the whole of the following week have
been fixed by the magistrates for swearing in special
constables.

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RETURN OF LORD lIOWDEN FRONI THE BRAZILS.—
His Excellency Lord Howden arrived at Portsmouth last
night hi her Majesty's steamer Firubrand, having left
Rio de Janeiro on the 28th of April. By this arrival we
hear of the effects of the news upon the Braids of the
revolutionary affairs of continental Europe, which were
unexpectedly astounding. French business was stopped;
monetary business was suspended; and a blank Bourse
on their part was all but the result. The exchange with
England was at 25 to -1. The Emperor was in Rio,
much affected by the expatriation of the House of Bour-
bon, with which he is so closely allied. The affairs of
La Plata are mending, but so slowly as to be almost
imperceptible.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Weimar
and suite embarked at Blackwall yesterday morning, on
board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Giraffe, for Rotterdam.