The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-28 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Lord Stanley bad an audience of the Queen yesterday
afternoon, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
walked yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by his
Equerry in Waiting, rode out on horseback yesterday
morning. In the afternoon his Rnyal Highness, nttenthd
by Lieut.• Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon, visited the
building in Hyde park for the Exhibition of the Industry
of all Nations.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince
Altred, attended by Mr. Birch, took a carriage drive
yesterday.
Iler soya gighnese the Princess jtoysi,_•ed the

younger members of the Royal Family took their ac-
customed pony and walking exercise yesterday.
At her Majesty's levee on Wednesday, Mehemet Bey,
captain of a frigate, was presented to the Queen and
Prince Albert by Cabouly Effendi, Chart:6 d'Affaires of
the Ottoman Embassy.
M. de Sauk was presented by M. de Marescalchi, as
Second Secretary of the French Embassy.
Sir Godfrey Webster, Bart., Commander R.N., was
presented to her Majesty, on his return from foreign
service and promotion, by Sir Francis Baring, Bart.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in
Buckingham Palaco cn Wednesday evening, and played
the font:ming pieces.—
Overture, " Oberon,"
Weber
Entre Acte, Cfceur et St a- ie, " Le Pro-
ete"
Terzctto, " Vampyr"
The Oxford University Commission met on Tuesday.
Present, the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle,
the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, the
Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley
(Secretary).
The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland had a dinner
party on Wednesday, at her residence in Seymour-place.
The company included the Duchess of Inverness, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Lord and Lady
Ponsonby, Lady Elizabeth and Miss Bulteel, Colonel
and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel and Mrs. Grey, Lord Harry
Vane, Lord Mulgrave, Mr. Ellice, and Mr. Henry
Milbank.

The Earl and Countess of Lichfield arrived at their
residence in Great Stanhope-street, 3 esrc-rday.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYWUTH, THURSDAY.—The Apollo troop-ship,
Commander James Rawstorne, sailed yesterday for
Queenstown.
The Avon steam-vessel sailed on Tuesday for Ports-
mouth, with supernumeraries for the Cumberland, 70,
Captain George F. Seymour.
Her Majesty's brig Kingfisher, 12, Commander Henry
Harvey, came in last evening with her foremast head
badly sprung between the true pendant and the neck-
lice, which was discovered on the 13th of February, in
lat. 31 33 north, 27 30 west.
The Kingfisher left Ascension on the 15th of January,
arrived at Sierra Leone on the 24th, and left on the 26th.
At Ascension the store-ship Tortoise. The island healthy.
At Sierra Leone the Centaur steam-frigate, 6, Com-
modore A. Fanshawe; Cygnet, 8, Commander Richard
D. White; and the Harlequin, 12, Commander Arthur
P. E, Wilmot. The last two sailed on the evening of the
24th—the Harlequin for the Bights of Benin; Cygnet
to the north coast. Captain Patten, of the Hound, is
promoted to the Centaur, as flsg captain, vice Captain
Buckle, invalided; and Lieutenant Hall, first of the Cen-
taur, to the Hound, vice Patten. The coast is ♦, ry
healthy. Not much slaving for the last tour or five
months, bur the bar racoons on shore are said to be full,
The Kingfisher was commissioned on the 12th of
October, 1848, and left Plymouth on the 3d of Novem-
ber, with the mails, and has brought home all her
officers, excepting Mr. Symons, assistant-surgeon, who
tied; and a lieutenant, who exchanged. She has taken
three prizes, and was present at the capture of a fourth.
One of her prizes, the Tam O'Shanter, an American
schooner, was full, having 319 slaves on board. She bad
been only twenty-four hours in the possession of her
then owners, showed no colours, and called herself the
California, but was well known to be the Tam O'Shan-
ter, having been previously cruising on the coast for
several weeks; and fourteen days prior to her capture
she had acquainted the Kingfisher that the brig's pin-
nace had taken the Varetta slave schooner.
The Kingfisher has brought from different ships on
the coast eight invalided seamen and marines, and
twelve seamen whose term of service had expired, and
has the chief engineer of the Wasp steamer, and her
cylinder, which was injured by the breaking of the
piston rod.
After losing the trade winds, the Kingfisher has ex-
perienced nothing but severe gales from the N.N.W.
round to N.E., and from that to S.
The Kingfisher was bound to Portsmouth, but put in
here in consequence of her disabled stato and the strong
wind blowing down channel.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—Prince Regent, 90, will
be paid off to-morrow.
Avon steam-vessel,Second-Master Commander Veitch,
came into harbour from Devonport, with supernumeraries
for the Cumberland, 70, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Sir
G. Seymour yesterday. The Cumberland is hourly ex•
pected to receive her advance.
The American line of picket ship Prince Albert, Cap-
tain Meyer, arrived to-day from London, and sailed for
New York.

Shear% ater steam surveying-vessel, Lieutenant Tur-
nour commanding, passed through Spithead to-day
from the westward, on her way to Woolwich, to be
paid off.