The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, JAN. 10.

The unfavourable state, of the weather prevented
her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
taking their usual morning walk.
The same cause prevented the Royal Family taking
their accustomed airings.
Lord and Lady John Russell left the Castle to-day.
The Royal dinner circle at the Castle this evening
included the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C.
Leveson Gower, the Hon. Charles A. and Mrs. Mur-
ray, and Mr. Birch.
The Queen's private band was is attendance in the
Castle atter dinner. _ _

The Hon. Miss Stanley and the Hon. Miss Sey-
mour have relieved the Hon. Miss Cavendish and
the Hon. Miss 'Dawson in their duties as Maids of
Honour in Waiting to the Queen.
The b.:nd of the Coldstream Guards attended dur-
ing dinner yesterday evening and performed toe fol-
lowing selEction :
Prologue and Selection—" Alma" Costa.
Quadrille—"Tne Prince of Wales"
Duo Concertante, Carnet and Trombone Snell.

Waltz, MS. .. entnpoed by Lady S:rphia Windham.
Irish Air—" As a bee.in o'er the Fem... :Moore.
Quick March—" Le Val d'Aniurre".... Ilalevy.
Her ALjesty's private baud afterwards attended,
and played the following pieces :
Overture—" Ozaar and Zimmermann"... Lortzing.

Saenuta
Finale, Ist Act—"Murie"

Overt

•" 'Toreador"

Beethoven.
Herold.

Adam.

e Rev. William C4pel attended at the Home-
office yesterday, to deliver, through Sir George Grey,
Secretary of State for the Home Department, an ad-
dress for presentation to the Queen, from the inha-
bitants of Watford, in the county of Herts, on the
subject of the aggressicn of the Pope.
Mr. White and Mr. Thomas had an interview with
the Commissioners of Railways yesterday,
,at their
office in the Board of Trade. _ _ _

Lord and Lady John Russell returned to Pembroke
Lodge, Richmond-park, yesterday, from a visit to her
Majesty at Windsor Castle.

PHILLIPS'S HISTORICAL, VOCAL, AND
ARTISTIC E_VTERTALNMEN7', APOL-

LONICAN ROOMS,ST.MARTIN'S-LANE.
We yesterday had an opportunity of hearing Mr.
Phillips's lecture, and little suspected when we en-
tered the rooms what the precise nature of it was.
The very subject—lreland—in these anxious times,
seems to premise a solemn discussion of grave topics,
and we felt considerably relieved when we found that
the view taken by the lecturer of his subject was rather
historical, heroic, and romantic, than political, in the
first instance at least, for after indulging in the
brightest speculations on the remote golden era of the
Emerald Isle, and describing in the most vivid colours
the learning, virtues, industry, and chivalrous spirit
of her sons, the productions of her soil, the treasures
of her mines, the extent of her commerce, the wisdom
of her sages—in u word, her high rank among the
nations of Europe, all of which facts, we have the
lecturer's own admission for it, are held by many to
be somewhat problematical, suddenly we descend
from the glorious visions of ancient history as magni-
fied and sublimated by the interposition of the mist
of time, to that indisputable and undisputed reality,
the wit, humour, good nature, and frolicsome spirit
of her sons in the present day, and inany.an amusing
anecdote tends to elucidate the subject, and to amuse
us. Maybe the transition is rather sudden, possibly
the muse of History wonders at having so near at
hand the mask of Comus—but we were interested,
we are now amused ; any attempt at criticism on this
score were superfluous. Nor should we omit to say
that Mr. Phillips's entertainment is rendered the
more pleasing by his singing with great effect several
of Moore's sweetest melodies, and two comic songs
irresistibly ludicrous. We admired his clear and ele-
gant enunciation in the first part, we wondered at the
perfection of his brogue in the second, and we felt
sure, as we heard him, that no Englishman, even if he
had been born in Ireland (vide Sterne), could have
been more vernacularly correct. But the arts lend
their powerful aid to Mr. Pnillips, and in the latter
part of his entertainment a series of beautiful dis-
solving views are exhibited, sufficient in themselves
to attract and command attention, and relieved by a
variety of anecdotes by the lecturer, either inexpla,
nation of the localities, or on topics illustrating the
character of Irishmen, particularly of the lower
class. In conclusion, we recommend to all who know
Ireland to bear testimony to the fidelity of the scenes
thus portrayed and illustratad, and as for those who
know it nor, let them but bear Mr. Phillips, and we
doubt not the result will be to secure a goodly num-
ber of visitors to the lakes of Killarney, &c., in the
ensuing season, when excursion trains once more
place the south of Ireland within a few hours and
pounds sterling of the great metropolis.

MAGAZINES, &c.—( CON TIN UED.)
BANKER'S MAGAZINE.

An interesting article on the " Withdrawal of One
Pound Bank of England Notes from Circulation in
1821-1822," appears in the current number, com-
batting certain views entertained on that important
measure by The Economist. The writer endeavours,
but we think unsuccessfully, to show that the low
prices of commodities at that period were not ascrib
able to the withdrawal of the one-pound notes from
circulation, but that they grew out of the common
relations of supply and demand. We have ah,o the
first of a series of sketches, illustrating the every-day
business operations of the leading commercial estab-
lishments, commencing with a description of the in-
ternal management of the London General Post-office.
The other papers are distinguished by the usual ac-
curacy and excellent arrangement of information
which marks the paves of' this valuable periodical.