The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-02 00:00:00

COUR r CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties had a full-dress dinner party last evening, at
their Palace at St. James's. The party included the Duchess of
Kent, the Princess Augusta, attended by Miss Wynyard, the
Duke of Gloucester, Count Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Am-
bassador, and Princess Lieven, the Neapolitan Minister and
Countess Ludolf, the Bavarian Minister, the Prussian Minister
and Baroness Bulow, the Duchess de Dino, the Swedish Minis.
ter and Countess Bjornstjerna, the Baron de Wessenberg, the
Austrian Special Minister, Duke and Duchess of Richmond,
Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, Marquis and Marchio-
ness of Lansdowne, Earl, Countess, and Lady Georgina Grey,
Earl of Belfast, Earl and Countess Albemarle, Earl and Coun-
tess Brownlow, Viscount Palmerston, Lords Hill and Cowley,
Sir Charles Bagot, Sir Robert Gordon, the Treasurer of the
Household, the Chamberlain and Vice-Chamberlain to the
Queen, the Comptroller of the Household, the Principal Equerry
to the King, and Colonel H. Seymour.
The company assembled in the State-rooms, and dined in the
Ballroom. The Queen's band were in attendance during the
evening, and performed several pieces.
Their Majesties visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday,
at Gloucester-house.
The King gave audience, yesterday, to the Judge-Advocate-
General.

The Queen visited the Duchess of Kent and the Princess
Victoria, yesterday, at the King's Palace, at Kensington.
The Princess Augusta entertained her Majesty, the Duke of
Gloucester, and Prince George of Cambridge, at dinner, on
Thursday evening, at her residence, in St. James's Palace.
The Duke of Cumberland left town, yesterday, for Hastings.
The Turkish and Belgian Ministers visited Viscount Palmer-
ston, yesterday, at the Foreign office.
The Mexican Minister had an interview, yesterday, with Lord
Auckland, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Viscount Palmerston had an interview with Earl Grey, yes-
terday, at the Treasury.

PADDY'S METAMORPHOSIS.

(FROM AN IRISH CORRESPONDENT.)

About fifty years since, in the days of our daddies,
That plan was commenced which the wise now applaud,
Of shipping off Ireland's most turbulent Paddies,
As good raw material for settlers, abroad.
Some West-India island, whose name I forget,
Was the region then chosen for this scheme so romantic;
And such the success the first colony met,

That a second, soon after, set sail o'er th' Atlantic.
Behold them now safe at the long.look'd-for shore,
Sailing in between banks that the Shannon might greet,
And thinking of friends whom, but two years before,
They had sorrow'd to lose, but should soon again meet.
And hark, from the shore, a glad welcome there came,—
" Arrah Paddy from Cork, is it you, my sweet boy ?"
While Pat stood astounded, to hear his own name
Thus hailed by black devils, who capered for joy !
Can it possibly be ?—half amazement—half doubt,
Pat listens again,—rubs his eyes and looks steady ;
Then heaves a deep sigh, and in horror yells out,
" Father's blood I—only think,—black and curly already!
Deceived by that well-mimick'd brogue in his ears,

Pat read his own doom in those wool-headed figures,

And thought, what a climate, in less than two years,
To turn a whole cargo of Pats into niggers.
MORAL.
'Tis 'Tis thus,—but, alas, by a marvel more true
Than is told in this rival of Ovid's best stories,—
Your Whigs, when in office a short year or two,
By a lusus naturce, all turn into Tories.
And thus, when I hear them " strong measures" advise,
Ere the seats that they sit on have time to get steady,
I say, while I listen, with tears in my eyes,
" Father's blood only think,—black and curly already!"
Drumcondra. E. o.—Times.