The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

ING, OCTOBER 20, 1851.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, OCT. 18.

The Countess de Neuilly, the Duke and Duchess
de Nemours, and the Prince and Princess de Joinville
arrived from Claremont, and visited her Majesty yes-
terday afternoon.
The Royal dinner circle at the Castle yesterday in-
cluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the
Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness, the
Baroness de Speth, the Count de Buol Schauenstien,
Field-Marshal Count Nugent, Colonel Count A.
Nugent, Lord Seymour, and Major-General and
Lady Isabella Wemyss.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attended during
dinner, and played the following pieces :-
0 varture—" Belisario"

Trio Bouffe—" Sous votre baniere"

(Prophete)
Walzer—" Fruhlings Lieder"
Selection—" Fidelio '
March de la Caravane (Le Desert)
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle, and performed the following selection :
Overture—"Czaar and Zimmermann" Lortzing.
Finale, 3d Act—" Der Freischutz"
Ballet Music—" L' Enfant Prodigue" Auber.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked
in the Slopes. _ _

The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
younger members of the Royal Family took walking
exercise.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Hon. C. Grey and Colonel F. H. Seymour,
left Windsor by a special train of the South-Western
Railway this morning for town, to preside at the
Council for the Management of the Duchy of Corn-
wall, at the Duchy-office, Somerset-house. The
Prince returned to the Castle at five minutes to two
o'clock this afternoon.

The Count de Buol Schauenstein, Field-Marshal
the Count Nugent, Colonel Count A. Nugent, and
Lord Seymour left the Castle this morning.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
arrived at two o'clock this afternoon, from Richmond-
park, to visit her Majesty. The Royal Duchess took
her departure at a quarter past three o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by her Lady in Waiting, the Baroness de Speth,
dined with her Majesty this evening.
The Queen's private band was in attendance after
dinner, and played the following pieces :
Overture—" Zanetta" . Auber.

Packeltang Meyerbeer.
Romance, ov:ear et Couplets. "L'Enfant
Prodigue"
Ballet Music—" L'Enfant Prodigue" Auber.

SUNDAY, OCT. 19.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the Home-
park and the Slopes this morning.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
younger members of the Royal Family, also walked
in the Home-park.
Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the do-
mestic household, attended Divine service this morn-
ing in the private chapel of the Castle.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also
attended the service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Welles-
ley officiated.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Thursday
next, the 23d inst., at Windsor Castle. Summonses
wero issued on Saturday to the Ministers and Officers
of State.

The Belgian Minister had an interview with the
Right Hon. Henry Labouchere on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed eleven o'clock
on Monday, Nov. 3, at his Lordship's residence in
Eaton-square, for the reception of the Lord Mayor
elect, and the authorities of the city of London, on
which occasion the Noble and Learned Lord will
signify her Majesty's approbation of the Lord
Mayor-elect.
___

The Lord Chancellor will, on the same day, at
twelve o'clock, at his Lordship's residence in Eaton-
square, receive the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., it
being the first day of Michaelmas term.
_ _

IVii. H. G. Gordon, chairman of the Oriental Bank
Corporation, had an interview with Earl Grey at the
Colonial-office on Saturday.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with. the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday. Lord Seymour had also an
interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. Baronet.
Lieut.-Colonel Reid had an interview with Earl
Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial-office, and had
also an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor of New South
Wales were received on Saturday, at the Colonial-
office.

THE QUARTERLIES.
ME EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CXCH.
The principal characteristic of the current number
of the Edinburgh is, that its contents are chiefly de-
voted to the consideration of works which may be
classified among the curiosities of literature. Fore-
most among these in position, and we are disposed to
think also in value, is the philological volume com-
piled by Professor Bopp, in reference to the compara-
tive grammatical construction of the Sanskrit, Zzlid,
Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German, and Scla-
vonic languages. To every linguist this very mas-
terly criticism cannot but prove eminently attractive.
It recounts the rise of the modern science of compa-
rative philology, notifying as it proceeds its rapid
and remarkable development. As a science, it is pro-
nounced by the Edinburgh reviewer to be deserving of
that eulogium of Humboldt, who proclaims it in his
" Cosmos" to be among the most brilliant fruits of
modern research. Speaking also of the manner in
which this study has been regarded by the more dis-
tinguished scholars of our age, the critic very sig-
nificantly remarks that Otfried Muller was
one of the first to appreciate fully the value of the
new discoveries which had been made in the field of
language. Immediately before explaining the differ-
ence existing between philology and comparative
philology, the writer also observes that the latter
must not be mistaken for the mere acquisition of
languages—thus he continues, by way of illustration,
the late Cardinal Mezzofanti, the most wonderful
linguist the world has ever known, a man who knew
upwards of thirty different languages, together with
their almost countless variety of patois or dialects, was
not for that reason entitled to the appellation of a
comparative philologist. Having marked down facts
elucidative of the growth of cognate languages—one
of the most astonishing problems in philology—the
writer gives an admirable comparison of those
tongues, and comments also withcifiiooncsaitdern:
consider-
able ingenuity on their superficial classification.
Perhaps the most interesting portions of the whole
of this very singular inquiry are those relating
to the ethnological results of comparative philology
and to the common origin of
i languages. Severalzend,
very curious tables of root words n Sanskrit,
Latin, Greek, and Gothic are scattered through
regard
hgathrde
paper by way of illustration to the context, as
to the word brother, bhrata, brats, frater, vavr,F,
brother. Another strange theme, selected by a con-
tributor to the Edinburgh, is that furnished by the
" Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino," by Dennistoun.
Of the task undertaken by Mr. Dennistoun,
in writing these memorials of the house of
Urbino, it is facetiously said that the surprise
experienced by the public on first seeing his
three splendid volumes could scarcely have been ex-
ceeded, had the reader in lieu of this encountered
" as many portly footmen in blue and gold, clearing
the way in the streets for the Kings of Brentford.'
Unexpected though the purport of the work in ques-
tion may appear, it will on scrutiny, however, prove
to be in every way entitled to examination. A political
curiosity of literature will be found, moreover, re-
ferred to in the pages of this distinguished periodical,
namely, in the review devoted to the recently pub-
lished correspondence between the " Comte de la
Marck and the Comte de Mirabeau"—a correspon-
dence which has at last explained many of the pro-
blematic features in the career of that extraordi-
nary demagogue. A fourth literary curiosity is
examined into in the paper relating to Sir George
Head's translation of the " Metarmophoses of Apu -
lius ;" and a fifth—one of an artistic character—is
scrutinized in the writings of Mr. Ruskin in reference
to the " Sources of Expression in Architecture." Be-
sides these articles, the Edinburgh for the present
quarter contains a vigorous treatise on " Juvenile
Delinquency ;" a very elaborate argument upon the
subject of " eapolitan Justice," in which, by the
way, Mr. Baillie Cochrane is rather severely handled ;
a chapter on the " Anglo-Catholic Theory ;" and a
masterly article of a comprehensive nature suggested
by the " Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition."
The number is wound up by an apologetic note to the
sixth article in the preceding instalment of the
Edinburgh,; in which note the amende honorable is
very gracefully made to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
for an unintentional misstatement to the effect that he
was among the converts to the principles of protection.