The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

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COUR7O CIRCULAR. t
The Queen gave lagt evening a Concert, to which`
of between three and four hundred, comprising Om
Family, and illustrious Foreign Visitors, the Dipl4
Corps. and a numerous circle of the principAt ni

were itivited.
Her Ro; al Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at
Btickieglnim Palace, accompanied by her Royal Highness
the Prineesa Mary of Cambridge, ant attended by Lady F.-
Howard, Baroness de Spat); and Lord James P. Murray.
His Royal Highile,s the Duke of Cambridge was attended
by the Hon. James Macdonald.
His Royal Highness the Prince Henry. of the Netherlands
arrived at halt:past nine o'clock, attended by the Chevalier
Van Rappard and the Chevalier de Casembroot.
The general company were ushered on their arrival to the
Picture Gallery.
Shortly before ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert
were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Grand
Saloon, which was fitted up for music. Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness were accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses the Ductless of Kent, the Duke of Cambridge,
the Princess Mary, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, •
P! ince Frederick William of Prussia, Prince Henry of the
Netherlands, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting cn her
Majesty and Prince and their royal guests, attended the
august circle, arid were followed into the saloon by the ai-
sembled company.
The concert then commenced. Mr. Costa presided at the
pianoforte.
Refreshments were served to the company during the
evening, and at eleven o'clock supper was served in the
principal dining. room.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations:—
, His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the
Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, tile Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Argentine Minister. the
Ruiedan Minister and Baroness de Brannow,• the Sicilian
Minister, the llanoverian Minister, the Prussian glinister,
and Madame Bunsen, the Brazilian Minister and Madame
M.Krerils Lisboa, the Danish Minister and Countess
ventiow, the Netherlands Minister and Countess Schmm-
melpenninck, the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister axid
Baroness Rehausen, the Costa Rica Minister, the Bolivisia
Minister, the United States Minister and Mrs. Lawrence,the
Sp tnis.t Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Greek
Minis-
ter and Madatne TricOupi, the Nicaragua Minister, the
Turkish Minister, the Austrian Chargé d'Affaiies. the
French Charge d'Affaires, the Portuguese Charge d'Affaires,
eni Major
Heinz,
the Mexican Charge d'Affaires, the Peruvian Charge
d'Affaires, the Tuscan Minister, the Couniess A. de
.liacy,f,,
the Countess Louise Oriolla,Coun Count
ePuutke arn, t v
roe
Boyen. Count Goltz, Colonel Fischer,
the Chevalier van Rappard, the Chevalier de Casembroot,
Baroness de Speth, Count de Flahault, Prince Pignatelli,
Moany
Mousier de Viebahm, Count Harrach, Monsieur Stein, Baron
C. Dupin, Prince Victor Bariatinsky, Etc., &c.
The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales
and Prince Alfred ac _ompanieeby the Prince and Princess
of Prussia, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, paid an.,
early visit yesterday to the Exhibition of the Industry a au
Nations in Hyde-park. The Royal suites consisted of the
Countess A. de Hacke, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley,
Colonel
the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieuteuant-Colonel Francis
Hugh Seymour.
t riuce Albert afterwards went to the opening of the
Museum of Practical Ge logy, in Jermynestreet His Royal
Highness was attended by Lord George Lennox, Colonel the
Honourable Clrrles Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H.
Seymour.
The Prince was received at the Museum by Lord Seymour
' Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Fotests, and by the
tellowing officers of the Museum, viz.. Sir H. T. De la Beche,
Dr, Lynn Playfair, Professor Forbes, Professor Ramsay, Mr.
R. Hunt, and Mr. T. Reeks.
Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace shortly be-
fore two o'clock.
Prince Albert presided, at three o'clock in the afternoon,
at a meeting of the Royal Commission for he Exhibition of
the Works of Industry of all Nations. His Royal Highness
arrived at the Exhibition building in Hyde-park, attended
by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel F.
H. Seymour.
The Commissioners present were the Earl of Rosse, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, OLP., Sir Richard Westma-
cott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Barry, Mr. Thomas Bazley,
Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, hie. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John
Gott, Mr. Philip Pusey, M.P., Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P.,
Mr. John Shepherd, and Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P.
Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Scott Russelt,'and,Mr. Edgar
Bowring, Secretaries to the Royal Commissioners, were i
attendance.

Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Dr.
Lyon Playfair, and Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioners,
were present.
The meeting broke up at a quarter before five o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal
Highness the Princess of Prussia, Went to Claremont yes-
terday, and visited the Duchess d'Urleans and toe Duchess
de Nemours.
The Prince of Prussia, Prince Frederic William, and the
Princess Louise of Prussia, attended by Countess A. de
Backe, the Countess Orient', lion. Beatrice Byug, Lord
Waterpark, Al.ijor Von Buyen Colonel Fischer, ant4Lieu-
te..unt Von Heir z, left Buckingham Palace, at twelve
o'clock yesterday, travelled by the Great Western Railway
to Windsor, and immediately proceeded to the Castle, where
lui.clieun was served.

In the afternoon the Royal patty took a drive in three
open carriages and four, and viaited..the gardens at Frog-
more.
At a quarter, past four Mit* be illustrious party returned
to Backtug,ham ,Patace, travelling to town by the Great
Western Railway.
Pritice Arthur and the Princesses Heleca and Louisa took
a tidy% )esteraay, iu an open carriage and four.
A deputation, on the sm,ject of bonding foreign goods in
Manchester, had an i‘lterview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his 1 fficial residence in Downing-
street.. The deputatior, consisted of Mr Thomas Agnew
( Mayor of Salford), Mi. homas Bazley (Chairman of the
Chamber of Comm mt.; Manchester), Mr. James Aspinal
Turner (Chairman of the Manchester Commercial Associa-
tion), Mr. Alderman ,Valker (Manchester), Mr. Alderman
Kay (Salford), and Messrs. James Atherton, Wm. Gibb,
Tool:Ras Benyos, I vo. Mackie, John Hunter, and N.
Crompton ( Alauchester_t. The deputation was accompa-
nied by the Right 11.. n. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr.
Bright, M.P., ...tar. W. T. Egerton, M.P., J. Brother..
ton, M.P., Mr. J. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr.
Brown, M.P., Mr. Alex Henry, M P., and Mr. C. Himi•
ley, M.P.
Sir James Brooke had an interview yesterday with Lord
John Russell, his official residence iu Downing strea.
Sir IVilliam Gibson Craig, Mr. J. R. Gardiner, Mr. Charl-
ton Lane, Mr. 0. K. Davis, and Mr. Simpson, had an in-
terview with Lord Seymour relative to the improvement of
Kennington-common, at the office of her Majesty's Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place, yes-
terday.
Mr. Morris (from Canada) had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office
Sir M. Barrington, Bart., and Mr. Jeffers, had an :inter-
view with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday at the
Board of Trade. Mr. Thornely, M.P., and Messrs. Baldwitt
and Bew (of Bilston), had an interview on Saturday with
the Commissioners. _ _

Mr. . -alrymple had an interview yesterday with Lord
John Russell.
Lady John Russell's party, in Downing-street, for May
14, is unavoidably postponed to June 4.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—Yesterday it rained
heavily during the ::fternoon, and so unfavourable was the
state of the weather that we expected to find the Crystal
Palace half deserted. Public curiosity has, however, great
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perseverance whel once fairly excited, and, notwitbstanqndel-n4
so formidable a drawback, 1,6001. was taken in 55. 3
at the door. The sale of season tickets also experienced
decline, but not so great as might have expectedbpeeanvera_
nearly 750/. was collected in this way,ths,ool. havingaverage
for some days past considerably exceeded settled more
Com-
mission have, after lengthened consideration,
upon which the jurors
P fof
Its of their.
shall make their awards, bat the.r
specifically than hitherto the grounds
' deliberations
boelNkreopot
Lpwrilcatiel..
garrison assem-
wit\hr referencelslT
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THEto trshiusKsuEbjoeFctcw;mlle,usiugt il.sysGtahsideT,
in; t
he undressi7th un if
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on A.M.at 10 o'clock—the Horse Ar-
end proceeded to the common 1 NAV 12.—The whole of the troops in
bled at half-past nine o'clock
tillery, under Lieuten
under Lieutenai
the right under Lieutenant-Colonel
ir.colonel Lawrenson ; the Foot Artillery,,
in three hattationse,
(to which was attached Captain Harri-
with gunners dismounted, and
tin-Colon toel day
yll
,s pounder
9-pounder battery, with gunners dise
1 reer
Lieutenant-Colonel Stowe, the left battalion
mounted) under
CsWoanipl ltiaalin:l2.s, thecesnt9br
moun
the three under Colonel rettenden ; the Royal Marines, under
under Lieutenant-Colonel Thorndike, and
batta-
lionsl.7eiitennn L
Lieutenant-Colonel Pratt; and the light field batteries of
Artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson. On the line
being formed on the common it extended to such a length
from the south edge of the barrack-field that the Horse
Artillery on the extreme right were out of sight of the posi-
tion at the flag staff, the entire line extending, although
formed at an angle, across the common to near the Shooter's-
hill-road. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman, C.Be
K.C.H., accompanied by his staff, arrived shortly before
eleven o'clock, and joined his Royal Highness aro
Duke of Cambridge, who had just arrived in plain clothes.
His Royal Highness, accompanied by Sir Thomas Down-
man, then proceeded to the part of the common where the
17th Lancers were drawn up in line, the Duke of Cam'
bridge being Colonel of that gallant corps, and Lieutennant
Colonel Lawrenson rode forward to meet his Royal .11,igh__,..d
The troops afterwards broke into open columns and. laeru"corp,
past at slow time, each band playing their resp 1!
eentArtillery
past the Lieutenant-General. The Royal
and the 17th Lancers changed their fronts,
and
dthe hill, four
a canter. The troops were again drawn up
bland two troops
troops of the Lancers on the extreme right,, inspected them
on the extreme left, and his Royal Llighro% agam marched
in that position. At theconclusion, thtrieliro F Herreturned at
barracks. Shortly
past at quick time, and proceeded to. left the common
liness
after twelve o'clock his Royal Mg and went to visit the
with Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrenson,
Mire.
barracks of his regiment in the Wrest-eq
E 00,1.8,--5.1r. Beard, of
DAGUERREOTYPE FC:Ztly added another to the many
has recently
in making in the Ddguerreo-
King-William-street,
improvements he has
latest
improvement c,nsists of a mode of
ype process. The la
even be washed like an oil paint-
] to by means of which it is no' liable
injury. The advantage does not
naabrneetlalrinngishtheed,sialivernitgeniganay;
ing without sesta n
for under this improved process the
A brillianc) and depth of tone hitherto un-
,93lours acquire
d some of the specimens now exhibited in Mr.
attainable, and
stop here, 11011,0er+.
will bear comparison with the best miniatures.
Daguerreotype portraits appear so harsh and
Beard's g
The earlierT--- • contrast with those now produced, that it is difficult
crude in
de oneself they are results of the same process.
to nersua
__Times.
We are happy to inform the public that want
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valuable specimens of natural history have been this wee
added to the Hon. East India Company's museum, "
Leoaf ball-street, among which the following are wor!.h.v_ _ Ovis
no-
tice:—Ovis Ammon, male and female, fromjhinueVmale;
Alahura, male and female, from Thibet ; Ovisvig
Capra, domestic
Ovis Vignei, domestic sheep of Thibet; nquiis Kiang,
goat ; Capra Ibex, domestic goat of Kunio!
isn 6e tour-horned
wild ass of Thibet ; Tetracerus Quadricor
inesented by Captain
antelope. The whole of them have been_P
historian is deeply in-
R. Strachey, to whom the naturald
arranged by Air. J.
debted; and beautifully stuffed,a,n pany and to the British
B ker, animal preserver to
the
ientific naturalists generally
Mnseum, who is admitted by ec
to he the most successful animal preserver in Europe.
LONDON NEWS.—We
THE FRENCH ILLUSTRATED
second number of the Illustrated
have now before us the
London News in French. It is admirably got up, written in
praise when we consider the " Strat-
pure French (no small
of much of our newspaper French),
ford by the Bowe" stylel
printed, and the illustrations are
is carefully and correctty.
We congratulate the spirited pro-
of a high order
of complete succese of an experiment wholly
prietors on the esottnorP,
) of journalism.
unique in the history
x ARCHERY MEETING.—This meeting
will take pIaceLEaLEAMINGTONt
non the 25th and 26th inst.,
instead of the
at Leamington
and 27th, as stated iu our paper of ) es-
" terdaY.

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