The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Prin-
cess's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening.
Tho Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart,
Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Alfred Paget,
and Colonel Bouverie.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back yesterday morning, attended by Colonel Bouverie.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by
Mr. Birch, took a drive yesterday morning in an open
carriage.
Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal, the
Prince Alfred, and the younger members of the Royal
Family took their aocustomed pony and walking exer-
cise yesterday, in the garden of Buckingham Palace.
The Marquis of Breadalbane and Sir Roderick Mur-
chison had an interview with Lord John Russell, at his
official residence in Downing-street, yesterday, and pre-
sented an appeal from tho British Association for the
Advancement of Science, in favour of a sufficient Par-
liamentary grant to ensure within a reasonable time the
completion of a map of Scotland. The British Associ-
ation made a similar appeal in 1834, when that body
first visited Scotland, and yet a sixtieth part only of that
kingdom has been mapped within the intervening
sixteen years. The other members of the committee,
the Duke of Argyll, Sir David Brewster, and Professor
James Forbes are in Scotland. The memorial was
backed by the cordial approval of the Dukes of Rich-
mond, Buccleuch, and Roxburgh, and Lords Eglinton,
Cawdor, Minto, and many proprietors in Scotland.
Mr. Beale, Mr. J. Ellis, and Mr. Carter, a deputation
from the Midland Railway Company, transacted business
yesterday with the Railway Commissioners, at the office
of the Board of Trade. Mr. Saunders and Mr. Hunt,
from the Great Western Railway Company, also trans-
acted business with the Railway Commissioners.
A deputation, including Mr. J. Gratrix and Mr. J. S.
Collins, had an interview yesterday with the Commis-
sioners of Railways, at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation on he subject of the proposed repeal of
the certificate duty on attorneys, solicitors, proctors, and
others, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor, MY,
Charles
-
Charles Cowan, M.P., Mr. Richard Harrison, President,
and Mr. Benjamin Austen and Mr. John Coverdale,_
' members of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society,
and Mr. Robert Maugham, Secretary, had an.interview
with Lord John Russell, at his official residence in
Downing-street yesterday.
Dispatches were received yesterday fit
.the Colonial.
office from the Governor of New South Wales.

of a letter,
FARis.—Exteract
ITALIAN OPERA IN
dated Sunday :—" A real success wak achieved here last
•htby a young Italian composer, Alnry, with a new
night -e sparklin with
opera buffs, entitled Le Tre Noz., _ g sprightliness
and gaiety from beginning to end.ad ofLablache, as an unfor-
tunate lover, suitor for the h r La Sontag, plays and
sings with a verve and gaiety indescribable. Imagine La-
blaChe dancing the polka to propitiate a capriciousos mistress,
and guess the roars! Madame Sontag als dmirably
suited, and warbled Alary's music most enchantingly. The
audience, generally so cold on first representations, insisted
on the composer coming forward twice during the representa •
tion, and also at the close of the opera, 'with the principal
artistes. The curtain fell amid a perfect hurricane of trans-
port on the part of the public, occasioned by Madame
Sontag's splendid execution of the finale. The air is that of
the polka above-mentionei, but with variations so brilliant
in themselves, and sung with such thrilling power by this
wondrous vocalist, as to excite an enthusiasm we never saw
' surpassed. The piece is got up in a style of elegance, rare
even in Paris. The house was crammed to the very roof."

The I.ev. T. William Herbert has been appointed
to the Chaplaincy of the Devonport Borough Prisons, and to
the orgy 9f St. Michael, Stoke Dameral.