The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon.
Amelia Murray, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Col.
Fssncis Hugh Seymour, visited the Exhibition of the
Works of Industry of all Nations yesterday morning.
Thu Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by
Mr. Birch, also paid a visit to the Exhibition yesterday
forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
and Sir George Couper, also visited the Exhibition yes-
terday morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the
Marquis of Abercorn, Viscount Ciifden, Colonel the
lion. Charles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel F. IL Seymour,
left Buckingham Palace at five minutes before three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the Nine-elms station of
the South-Western Railssay, and travelled by special
train to Windsor, to be present at the dinner of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England.
The younger members of the Royal Family took their
ususl exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham
Palace.
Her Majesty had a dinner party yesterday at Buck-
ingham Palace. The company included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, his Royal Highness the Princeof Wasa, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane,
the Marchioness of Ely, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady
Georgiana Bathurst, Baroness de Speth, the Earl end
Countess of Shaftesbury, the Earl and Countess Grey,
"ivisjor Biddulph, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, and M.
Fizer.
The bend of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and performed the following selcction:—
Overture--" Fra Diavolo"
.•. Auber.
Waltzer--" Henrietta"
•• Browne.
•• ••• •
Selection—"Lucrezia Borgia"• Danizetti.
Quadrille_ Swiss Jullien.
Polka—" Russian Battle" Minasi
Galop—" Victory" Tinny.
God tiave the Queen,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at
her residence, Clarence House, St. James's.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Mr. Philip Miles, and a deputation, had an interview
with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at
the office of the Board of Trade.
Lord Harris had an interview with Earl Grey yester-
day, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Rowland Hill had an interview yesterday with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Dispatches from the Governor of Hong-Kong were
received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

We-attended last evening the Literary and Scien-
tific Institute, in Ahlersgate-street, to hear a selection of
national melodies sung by Mr. Milne, the Scotch vocalist.
We were by no means strangers to Mr. Milne or his style
of singing, but we confess ourselves pleased beyond our
anticipations with the evening's entertainment. The memory
of poor Wilson is still fresh in our minds, and we would not
do injustice to the dead to gratify the ambitious views o
the living, but we are bold to cay that, in many respects, Mr.
Milne even surpasses his distinguished predecessor. The
manner in which the business of the evening was conducted
waa alike creditable to Mr. Milne and the managers of the
Institute.

MUTUAL DOPE, ASSITRA.NCE SOCIETY.—The haif-
;s_,early Itideting of this society was held yesterday at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, Mr. J. Clayton in the
chair. The half-year's accounts were read, and appeared to
bc, most satisfactory. The balance at the Bank on the Ist of
January was 11,309/. 14s. 7d. The premiums on 63 new po-
licies assuring 27,6971., in the half-year ending :.36th June,
amounted to 9751. 3s. 11d. The amount received on policies
renewed, was 14,3431. 10s. 7d. The receipts from mortgages,
loans, and capital invested, brought the gross up to 44,5281.
19,. 4d. On the other side the sum paid in claims was
3,700/. ; the general expenses were 1,4651. 4s. 7d., and the
balance in the bank on the 30th of June was 25,220/. 6s. sd.
The Chairman said it would appear there had been an in-
crease of something like 20,000/. in the sums assured since
the 31st of December last; the sum paid in claims had been
3,7001., and the capital of the society bad increased upwards
of 10,0001. From a table prepared by Mr. Brown (the ac-
tuary), the claims paid and claims allowed stood
for the last three years and a half thus—Claims
paid-1848, 12,3001. ; 1849, 6,550/. ; 1850, 5,200/. ;
first half-year of 1851, 3,700/. Claims allowed —lB4B ,
4,100/. ; 1849, 3,450/. ; 1850, 9,1001. ; first haif-year
of 1851, 1,7001. The Chairman left it to the proprietors to
draw their own conclusions from this statement, which must
be considered highly favourable to the prosperity of the so-
ciety. The five retiring directors and one retiring auditor
were re-elected. The accounts were passed, and thanks
having been given to the chairman, directors, and auditors,
the meeting separated.

SINGITLAIt ACCIDENT.--On Tuesday morning as
James Parlitt, one of the porters in the goods department of
the Great Western Railway Company, at Paddington, was
passing along the platform, in his ordinary duty, a small
cask suddenly exploded, the head of which came in contact
with the poor fellow's chin, and tossed him some eight or ten
feet into the air, when he fell upon the ground about three
feet lower than the platform. Upon inquiry, we find the
contents of the cask to have been yeast, which had been
sent up the line. The motion of the train probably brought
it to so high a state of fermentation as to cause the explo-
ion. The poor fnllow died in about a glutrtor of au hour,