The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their MAJESTIES gave a ball in honour of the birth-day
of the Princess VICTORIA, at St. James's Palace, on
Thursday evening, to the juvenile branches of the Nobility
and Gentry.
The State-rooms were prepared in a similar manner to
the late State ball, with Mr. J. WEIPPERT'S hand in the
Throne-room, and that of CoLLINErr and MUSARD in the
ball-room. The floors of both ball-rooms were chalked
with the same designs as at the State ball. Tables for
cards were set out in the entree or drawing-room. A
number of extra bracket lamps and branches were distri-
buted at the sides of the rooms, and raised seats were
placed down the sides of the ball-room, to afford the com-
pany a better view of the youthful dancers. The whole
of the attendants appeared in their State uniforms, and the
King's Guard were stationed in the principal Court-yard
of the Palace. The juveniles began to arrive at the Palace
at a quarter before eight o'clock. Their dresses (new for
the occasion) were very tasteful and elegant. Most of
the young ladies carried nosegays. •
A few minutes after eight o'clock the Duchess of KENT
and the Princess VICTORIA, attended by the Duchess of
NORTHUMBERLAND, Lady CATHERINE JENKINSON, and
Sir JOHN CONROY, arrived at the Palace-court, and were
received with the usual honours by the King's Guard.
Their MAJESTIES, accompanied by the Duchess and
Prince GEORGE of Cumberland (who were attended by
Lady SOPHIA LENNOX, Baron LINSINGEN, and Colonel
POTEN ), the Princess AUGUSTA (attended by Lady
MARY TAYLOR and Sir B. STEVENSON), the Princess
SOPHIA, the Duke of GLOUCESTER, and their suite, entered
the State-rooms at half-past eight o'clock. The KING
and QUEEN received the juvenile guests in the most affable
manner. Sets for quadrilles having been formed, dancing
commenced. The Princess VICTORIA danced the first
quadrille with Prince GEORGE of Cumberland. Her
Royal Highness danced all the quadrilles during the
evening, and had for her partners Prince GEORGE
of Cambridge, Prince LIEVEN, the son of the Russian
Ambassador, and also the sons of the Dukes of RICHMOND,
RUTLAND, and LEINSTER, and of the Marquess of
DOWNSHIRE. Waltzes were occasionally introduced.
Mr. HENRY KENDON, dancing-master to the two
young Princes GEORGE, officia'ed as Master of the Ce-
remonies.
Their MAJESTIES and the Royal Family, and the Ladies
of the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, sat on the ele-
vated platform at the top of the ball-room. The KING
wore a Fie'd-Marshal's uniform ; the QUEEN had a mag-
nificent diadem of diamonds, and had also a brilliant dia-
mond stomacher. Between tie dances the QUEEN occa.
sionally mixed with the company.
Refreshments were served in the Portrait Gallery during
the evening.
A few minutes after eleven o'clock supper was served in
the Banquetting-room. The band played " God save the
King" as their MAJESTIES and the company quitted the
ball-room.

The supper included pines, cherries, strawberries, and
other choice fruits, raised in the Royal gardens, pastry and
confectionery in great variety, and every kind of refresh-
ment suitable for the occasion. Models of cathedrals,
towers, and romantic scenery, were ingeniously represented
by the pastry centre ornaments.
The Duchess of KENI and the Princess VICTORIA left
at twelve o'clock.

Their MAJESTIES and the Royal Family returned from
the supper-room at twenty minutes before twelve; E,,allo-
pades were then introduced, and dancing was kept up with
great spit it.
The Hon. Mr. ASHLEY officiated as Vice-Chamberlain
to the QCEEN.
Among the compluy were—
The Russian Ambassador, Princess Lieven, two boys ;
Prince Paul Lieven, the Netherlands Ambassador, the French
Ambassador, the Duchess de Dino, one daughter ; the Neapo-
litan Minister and Countess Ludolf, the Bavarian Minister and
Baroness Cetto, the Prussian Minister and two daughters, Ma.
dame Bermudez, the Lady of the Spanish Minister, the Wur_
temberg Minister, the Mexican Minister, Madame Gorostiza,
one boy, one girl ; the Hanoverian Minister and Baroness
d'Ompteda (nee Countess de Slippenbach;, the Saxon, Brazilian,
and Buenos Ayres Ministers, the Danish, Swedish, Sardinian,
Austrian, and United States Charged'Affaires, Count Mastuze.
wic, the Russian Minister, the Duke of Northumberland, two
nieces ; the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Wellington,
Marquess Douro, Lady Cowley, one girl; Earl Howe, two
cons; Countess Carlisle, one boy, one girl; Viscount Strang-
ford, two sons, two daughters ; Earl and Countess Albemarle,
Marquess and Marchioness Clanricarde, Lord and Lady Broil,
one girl ; Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge, one son, one
daughter; Lord Foley, two Hon. Misses Foley, three boys, one
girl; Duke and Duchess of Gordon, Duke of Rutland, two
boys ; Marchioness of Lansdowne, one daughter ; Sir Henry
and Lady Wheatley and one daughter ; Lord and Lady Lynd-
hurst, two daughters ; Sir R. Peel, one son, one daughter; the
Right Hon. G. Dawson, Mrs. Dawson, and four sons ; Mr. W.
and Lady Jane Peel, two boys, one girl ; Mr. Lawrence Peel
and two boys; Earl and Countess Wicklow, three girls; Sir
William Gomm, Colonel and Hon. Mrs. Disbrowe, Miss Dis-
browe, and one girl ; Mr. and Mrs. W. Banks, two girls ; Vis-
count and Viscountess Gage, one boy, two girls ; Lady Stan.
hope, one girl; Mr. and Mrs. Clive and two girls; Duke and
Duchess of Leinster, two boys, one girl; Lord E. Somerset,

one boy, one girl: Hon. Captain and Mrs. Pellew and one girl;
Mr. and Lady Catherine Melvil, one boy, one girl; Mr., Lady
Catherine, and Miss Harriet Cavendish ; Marquess and Mar-

chioness Worcester, one boy ; Lord and Lady Granville Somer.

set, one girl; Earl and Countess Warwick, Lord Brooke, Earl

and Countess Gower, two girls ; Lord Tullamore and one

daughter; Miss Bury, Marchioness Ormond and two daugh-
ters; Countess Verulam, one boy, two girls ; Marquess and

Marchioness of Downsiiire, one boy; V Colonel and Mrs.

Hugh Baillie and two girls ; Viscount and Lady Lucy

Clive, Earl and Countess of Errol, Lady Mary Fox, Ear;

and Countess Winchilsea, one girl; Mr. and Mrs. Bowles,

one boy, two girls ; Sir John and Lady Conroy, one son and
one daughter; Colonel Higgins, Sir Herbert Taylor, Earl and
Countess Rosebery, Mrs. Lady Louisa and Mr. William La-

scelles, Lady C. Egerton, Lord and Lady Elliott, one girl ;
Earl and Countess Kinnoul and Lady Louisa Hay, Lord and
Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Mr. and Lady Louisa de Horsey,

one girl ; Viscount Combermere, Lord and Lady Brownlow

and five girls; Lady and Miss Blackwood, Lord and Lady
Robert Grosvenor, Sir C. Wynne, one boy, one girl; Lord
and Lady 3faryborough and Hon. Miss Wellesley, Lord and
Lady Fitzroy Somerset, one girl ; Earl of Belfast, Colonel
Molten, Sir Win. Freemantle, Miss Harvey, one boy, one girl ;
Earl Jersey, one boy, two girls; Lady Dover, one boy; Co-
lonel and Mrs. Fair, two boys; Earl and Countess Lichfield-

one boy, one girl; Lord James O'Bryan (Lord in Waiting;

Sir Henry Blackwood (Groom in Waiting), Master Graves
(Page of Honour), Lord and Lady Manners, one son; Colo-
nel and Lady Eleanor Lowther, one boy, two girls; Mar-

chioness of Stafford, Sir James Kempt, Marquess of Abercoro,
Sir Robert Gordon, two boys ; 'Marchioness of Bristol, two
Ladies Harvey, two eons ; Lady Graham, one son ; Earl and

Countess of Denbigh, two girls ; Lady Georgiana Grey, Duke

and Duchess of Richmond, three boys, one girl; Lord John
Russell, Marquess and Marchioness of Winchester and Lady
l'aulet, Lady Harriet Corry, Viscount and Viscountess Gran-
ville, two Hon. Misses Gower, and one boy, Sir Andrew Bar-
nard, Sir Philip and Lady Sidney, Lady Taylor, two girls;
Mrs. Paget, one boy ; Marchioness 'Wellesley, Duchess of

Bedford, Mrs. Hope, Countess of Pembroke, Hon. Sidney Her.

bent, Lord and Miss de Roos, Lady Harriet Mitchell, one
boy, one girl ; Lady Templemore, Mr. James Hudson, 3far.

guess Graham, Sir John Hobhouse, Marchioness of Westmeath,
Lord Hill, Viscount Palmerston, Sir T. Beresford and the

3ti,ses Beresford, Rev. Mr. Jelf, Master Wyke.

Their Majesties, the Princess AUGUSTA, Prince GEORGIC
Of CUMBERLAND, and Prince GEORGE of CAMBRIDGE,
attended by the Marchioness of ELY, Earl HowE, Lord
and Lady FREDERICK FITZLLARENCE, Rev. Mr. JELF,
Rev. Mr. Woon, Sir BENJAMIN STEVENSON, Lady MARY
TAYLOR, Sir PHILIP and Lady SIDNEY, Hon. Mr. ASH-
LEY, Sir ANDREW BARNARD, and Miss EDEN, left town
in five carriages and four, yesterday morning, for the
Queen's Lodge in Bushy- park.
The Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA drove
and walked for some time in Hyde-park yesterday.
Sir FREDERICK ADAM, the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, transacted business at the Colonial Office,
with Viscount GODERICIL Sir FREDERICK has recently
arrived from the lonian Islands.

The Russian Ambassador transacted business with
ViscountPALMERSTON, on Thursday, at the Foreign Office.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER honoured the performance of
the French plays, at the Haymarket Theatre, last evening,
with his presence.

A meeting of several of the respectable inha-
bitants from different parishes in the Tower Hamlets, took
place on Thursday the 24th inst., for the purpose of consi-
dering the best means of securing the return of fit and in-
dependent members to the Commons House of Parliament.
Several animated speeches were made by the gentlemen
present, on the necessity of having members pledged to
act on the spirit of the Reform Bill, and to remedy the
enormous abuses that a long Government of misrule has
engendered. It was stated that the Hamlets district con-
tains a population of 360,000, possessing great wealth and
intelligence,—that the interests of the Hamlets consist of
a vast quantity of shipping, and involve the very impor-
tant and depressed silk trade of the metropolis. Several
resolutions were passed.
THE EARL OF MULGRAVE.--The new
Novel, " The Contrast," by this noble author, is now pub-
lished by Messrs. COI.EUItN and BENTLEY, New Bur.
liogton-street, of whom may also be had Geoffrey
Crayon's New Sketch-Book " The Alhambra"-2.
Ar-
lington. By the Author of " Granby"-3. The Fair
of May Fair-4. Stanley Buxton. By the Author of
Lawrie Todd." And in a few days, " Henry Masterton,
the Young Cavalier." By the Author of " Darnley," •