The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and the Prince Consort, accompanied by
Prince Arthur and the Princess Helena, visited the Zoo-
logical Gardens, in the Regent's-park, yesterday morn-
ing. In attendance were the Hon. Eleanor Stanley,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Col. F. H. Seymour. In the
afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness, attended
by the Equerries in Waiting, visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glouce,ter House.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Ur.
Munro with a visit at his studio, in Upper Belgrave-
place.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by
Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps and Mr. Gibbs, visited the
establishment of Messrs De La Rue, in Banhill-row.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the
Duchess of Wellington, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the
Bon. Lucy Kerr, Lord de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget,
and Col. F. IL Seymour, honoured the Princess's Theatre
with their presence in the evening.

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The Duche,s of Wellington has succeeded Lady Mac-
donald as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lord de
Tabltlf and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West have re
Lord Dafferin and Col. the Hon. A. N. Hood, in
heir duties as the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her
Maj arty.

The Queen held a Privy Cnncil this day (Wednesday)
at Buckingham Palace.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir Couper, honoured the
Oiympic Theatre with her presence last evening.
The funeral of the Countess of Pembroke took place
plac;:t at ‘Viltun, on Thureday last. All the members of
her ladyship's family, male as well as female, followed
the rrmAinis to the grave.

Lady Mary Wood has an assembly this evening, at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
Lady Caroline Towneley's soiree for Friday, the 11th,
is postponed to Friday, the 18th.
Lord Panmure and Sir Charles Wood left town yes-
ti:rday for Portsmouth.
Lor I Saye and Sele and the Hon. Miss Fiennes and
the Lion. Mr. Fiennes have arrived at the family man-
sion, in Grosvenor-street, from Broughton Castle, near
B in bu ry.
ne remains of the Right Hon. George Robert Daw-
son, late Deputy-Chairwan of the Customs Board, were
intin-rcel on Monday in the Necropolis at Woking.
APPROACHING MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.--We un-
derstand a matrimonial alliance is arranged, and will
shortly be celebrate 1, between the Lord Forester and
Adela Viscountess Melbourne, widow of the third and
last Viscount MelboUrne. A matrimonial alliance will
also shortly take place between the Hon. G. F. Boyle,
brother of the Earl of Glagow, and the lion. Montagu
Abercroniby, dauehter of the late Lord Abercroenby.
THE PERMOY PEERAGE.—The Committee for Privi-
leges sat yesterday to consider the claim of Edward
Burke Roche, Lord Ferrnoy; in the peerage of Ireland,
to vote in the election of representative peers for Ire-
land. Lord Redes Jule presided. The Lord Chancellor
referred a question to the judges embracing the facts cf
the case, and asking whether, in their opinion, the ex-
tinction of the earldom of Menrath in 1812 was such an
extinction as was contemplated by the Act of Union to
entitle the Crown to create a new peerage for Ireland.
The learned judges took time to consider the question.
The Persians have taken possession of the 141 at d
of Karate, in the Persian Gulf. The Minister at
War of the Shah is dead. The Khau of Barabchan
has been arrested.