The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Al-
ert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince
of %Vales, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, the Princess
Royal, and the Princesses Alice, Helene, and Louisa, left
Windsor Castle at seven minutes before twelve o'clock
yesterday, for London. The Royal suite consisted of
the Countess of Charlemont, Lady Caroline Barrington,
Honourable Flora Macdonald, Hon. Mary F. Seymour,
Lord Byron, Lieutenant-Colonel lion. C. B. Phipps.
Captain Hon. Joseph Denman (Royal Navy), Colonel
Buckley, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour,
and Mr. Birch.
The august party went from the castle to the Windsor-
station of the Great Western Railway, where a guard of
honour of the first battalion of Grenadier Guards were
on duty. A special train conveyed the Queen to the
Paddington terminus, on reaching which the Royal
Party entered six of her Majesty's carriages, and with
an escort cf Lancers, proceeded to Buckingham Palace,
where they arrived at ten minutes before one o'clock.
Tho Queen and Prince Albert were received at the
Palace by the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the
Household, and Colonel Wylde.
Her Majssty held a Court in the afternoon, for the re-
ception of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of the
Netherlands.
His Royal Highness arrived at Buckingham Palace
at half-past two o'clock, and was received by the Equer-
ries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and Lieut.-Colonel F.
H. Seymour, and the Master of the Ceremonies.
The Prin.° -! Henry of the Netherlands was attended by
Count Schimmelpenninek, the Netherlands Minister ;
the Chevalier van Rappard, Aide-de-Camp of his Royal
Highness ; and the Chevalier de Carsonbroot. Uflicter
d'Ordonnance of his Majesty the King of the Nether-
lands, Attaché to his Royal Highness.
His Royal Highness bad an audience of her Majesty,
to which he was introduced by Viscount Palmerston,
G.C.B , the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs and conducted by Colonel the Hon Sir
Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ce-
remonies. His Royal Highness was also presented to
his Royal Highness the Prince Albert.
The Queen was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting, and Captain the Hon. Joseph Denman, R.N.,
Groom in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the
Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry
of all Nations in 1851. His Royal Highness arrived at
the Exhibition building, in Hyde-park, at a quarter past
three o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C.
B. Phipps, and Lieutenant• Colonel F. H. Seymour.
The Commissioners assembled at four o'clock. Those
present were—The Earl of Rosse, Earl Granville, Lord
Overstone, the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, Sir
Richard Westmacott, Sir C. Lyell, Sir C. L. Eastlake,
Mr. T. Baring, M.P.; Mr. Cobden, M.P.; Mr. Cubitt,
Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, Mr. P. usey, M.P.;
Mr. R. Stephenson, M.P.; Mr. John Shepherd, Chairman
of the East India Company; and Mr. Hopkins, President
of the Geological Society. Sir Stafford Northcote and
Mr. Scott Russell, Secretaries to the Royal Commission,
were in attendance. Mr. Edgar Bowring also attended.
Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee;
Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner; and Dr. Lyon
Playfair, Special Commissioner, were also present.
A deputation from Sheffield had an interview with the
Royal Commissioners. The deputation consisted of Mr.
Henry Wilkinson, Mr. Joseph Bradbury, Mr. Fawcett,
Mr. Potter, Mr. John Hawkswortb, and Mr. John Hall.
The Musical Committee of the Royal Commission,
consisting of Sir George Smart, Dr. Wylde, and Sir
Henry Bishop, had an interview with the Royal Com-
missioners to make the final arrangements for the mu-
sical performances at the opening of the Exhibition.
Viscount Palmerston, the Queen's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Chamberlain, Mr. Norman Macdonald, superin-
tendent of the Lord Chamberlain's department, and Mr.
Mayne, Commissioner of Police, had severally inter-
views with the Royal Commissioners, respecting the ce-
remonial of the inauguration of the Exhibition on the Ist
of May.
The meeting of the Royal Commission broke up at
half-past six o'clock.
A meeting of the Financial Committee bad previously
been held at the Exhibition Building, which was at-
tended by the Earl Glanville, Lord Overstone, the
Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir Alexander Spearman,
Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. F. Gibson, and
Mr. Pap.
Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Edgar Bowring, Se-
cretaries to the Committee, attended. The Committee
sat two hours.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
honoured the Philharmonic Concert, at the Hanover-
square Rooms, with their presence yesterday evening.
The Royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Sutherland,
the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Flora Macdonald,
Hon. Mary F. Seymour, the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Byron, Lord George Lennox, Captain Hon. J.
Denman, Col. Wylde, Col. Buckley, and Lieut.-Col. F.
H. Seymour.
His Royal Highness Prince Henry of the Netherlands
visited the Exhibition Building in Hyde-park yesterday
afternoon, and was conducted through the building by
Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner of the Royal Com-
mission.

His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe
Langenbourg landed at Dover yesterday morning from
the Continent, travelled to London, and in the afternoon
proceeded to Frogmore, on a visit to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent.
The Duke of Wellington had an interview with Sir
Gcorge Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
A deputation from the New River Company bad an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. The depu-
tation consisted of Mr. Richard. Beauvoir Birens (gover-
nor), Mr. Charles Henry fil4rim (treasurer), Mr. Henry
Hulse Birens (auditor), Sir John Johnstone, Bart., M.P.,
Mr. Gathorne Hardy, and Mr. Thomas Mills (directors),
Mr. Frederick Inglis (clerk), and Mr. Wm. Chadwick
Mylne (engineer).
The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with
Secretary Sir G. Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
The Marquis of C lanricarde had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.

Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in town yester-
day from Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park.
The Oxford University Commission had a meeting
yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of
the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present the Bishop of
Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke,
the Rev. H. G. Liddell, the Rev. Professor Powell, and
the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary).
Sir William Clay, M.P., had an interview with Sir G.
Grey yesterday.

THE FASHIONABLE WORLD.
IMPROVEMENTS
as
the
IMPROVEMENTS IN PALL-MALL.
Schombergh House, Pall-mall, better k"
pre-
mises of Messrs. Harding and Co., silk• mercers to the
Queen, with its many historical associations, has been
forced, in its time, to give way to
adapted to the prevailing fashion, and better calculated
a building more
to meet the requirements of its ()wriers. The new
building, which Messrs. Harding and Co.
have erected,
presents a striking illustration of the
progress which
has been made of late years in the
construction of
houses devoted to the purposes of trade
compa-
ratively modern and profuse introduction:The
rich furniture, and articles of virtu in of mirrors,
fashionable shops
is beginning to pass away, and greater attention is being
paid to elegance of design, correctness
and artistic beauty. In these respects there
proportion,
there is no
building in the metropolis, dedicated to similar pur
which can be placed in comparison witposes,
structure which Messrs. Harding and co. have reared
the elegant
in Pall-mall. The exterior is the Italian style el
architecture belonging to the Roman e
chool. The
elevation is executed in brick, with
Caen and
Aubigney stove dressings to the windows and cornices.
The lower portion, including the portico and
its elabo-
rate embellishments, is formed entirely of the latter
material, which is peculiarly adapted to the
P
account of its great hardness and closenessenfrpose, on
texture.
We believe this is the first instance of its employment in
the metropolis. An Italian staircase leads o
the
show-
rooms on the first floor. It is pannelled, and lighted
from above by glass domes, between which is a w
headed covering, following the line of ascent, also
ool-
'n
glass. The whole of the glass used in this portion of
the building is bent, and embossed with flowers and fo-
liage; and its introduction for such a purpose is snother
example of the manifold uses to which this valuable ma-
terial is applicable. A corridor, having pendentive ceil-
ings, divides the front from the back show-rooms; and
the architecture is assimilated, in some degree, to that of
the staircase. The walls of the front show-room are
covered with paper in silver tissue, wiW, ariched cor-
nices picked out in gold and colwrs. The apertment
behind is divided into a series of arches, the pilas-
tres and spandrils intervening being filled with ara-
besques those in the pilastres on a gold ground.
The ceiling is richly pannelled, and the decorations,
generally, are painted in white and geld, with
here and there flowers and foliage coloured in
the most delicate tints. A boudoir is attached
to this apartment, with walls and ceiling also richly
pannelled. The whole of the work on this and the
ground floors is executed in Parian cement. The ground
floor, upwards of 130 feet in depth, is decorated atter the
same elegant design. A magnificent Swedish stove
(Jeakes' patent) warms the apartment, and is constructed
so as to carry the smoke under the floor. It is manu-
factured of brown steel, with ormolu enrichments and
arabesque pannels in encaustic tile, on a crimson em-
bossed ground. Glass lamps, of globular shape, of an
entirely new form, light the entrance, ground floor, and
corridors. Some idea of the dispatch with which the
works have been carried on may be gathered from the
fact that Messrs. Holland, the builders, who aro also the
contractors for the new Ordnance-office adjoining, did
not commence preparing the foundations until the end
of October last. The new building is in keeping with
the pnlotial character of this portion of Pall-mall, and
must be acknowledged as one of the most tasteful resorts
of the fashionable world in the metropolis.
The architects are Messrs. Lawford and Heneker; the
builders Messrs. Holland ; and the decorators Messrs.
Trollope and Son. The stoves have been supplied by
Mr. Jeakes; the chandeliers by Messrs. Hughes and
Forest; and the glasses by Mr. Blandford, of the Thames
Plate Glass Company.

The Duke of Northumberland, with his usual
liberality and consideration, has given instructions that
during the period of the ensuing Great Exhibition in the
metropolis his Grace's mansions of Northumberland-house,
London, and Sion-house and gardens, Middlesex, shall be
open fur the inspection of parties visiting London, more espe-
cially those connected with the county of Northumberland.
By applying personally or by letter at the commissioner's
office, Aluwick Castle, introductions for this purpose may be
obtained.--Newcastle Journal.

During the last week fifteen vessels put to sea
from the Birkenhead Docks, and there arc at present in
dock sixteen vessels.—Liverpool

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