The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Royal Highness Prince Augustus of Portugal honoured
M. de Moraes Sarmento, the Portuguese Minister, with his
company to dinner on Saturday. Besides the four noblemen
of the Prince's suite, Marquis Ficaiho, Count Mejeant, Vis-
count Bandeira, and Baron Billing, there were present to meet
his Royal Highness, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Vis-
count Mahon, Mr. Under Secretary Backhouse, the Belgian;
Danish, Bavarian, Grecian, Brazilian, and Spanish Ministers,
the Austrian, French and Swedish Charges d'Affaires, Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarenee, Sir Andrew Barnard, Messieurs
Jabat, Mendizabal, Carbonel Van Zeller, &c. Sir Robert
Peel sent an excuse, as his absence from London, on account
of his election, did not permit him to be in town on that day.
In the evening several Portuguese gentlemen called at the
Legation of her Most Faithful Majesty, to pay their dutiful
respects to the Prince, and take leave of his Royal Highness.
In the forenoon of Saturday the Prince honoured M. Mendi-
with his company to a dejeune.. Several of the foreign Minis-
ters, Lord Seaford, Lord Holland, Colonel Fox, and all the
Portuguese Nobility in town were present.
Prince Augustus of Portugal left town at an early hour yes-
terday morning, attended by Sir Andrew Barnard and the
Noblemen of his suite, for Windsor, where his Royal High-
ness was expected to inspect the Castle, and afterwards to
proceed to Salisbury, there to pass the' night. This day the
Prince is expected to arrive at Exeter, on his way to Falmouth,
where his Royal Highness will embark for Portugal. The
Portuguese Minister, M. de Moraes Sarmento, left town at an
early hour yesterday morning for Falmouth.
The Duke of Cumberland honoured the Hanoverian Mi-
nister with his company at dinner last evening at his residence
in Grosvenor-place.
Sir Robert Peel returned to town from Tamworth on Sa-
turday night. The Right Hon. Baronet visited the Duke of
Wellington yesterday.
The Duke of Wellington was engaged for some time on
Saturday morning with Mr. Jenkinson on the business of
Dover Harbour. In the afternoon Count Seckendorff, the
Prussian Charge d'Affaires, the Marquis of Bristol, Earl
Powis, and Lord Cowley, visited his Grace at the Foreign-
office.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of the Mauritius.

FRENCH PLAYS.

LYCEUM AND ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.

The histrionic campaign of the French company commenced
on Saturday night last at the above elegant and commodious
theatre under very flattering auspices. We observed some al-
terations in the arrangements for the accommodation of the
audience, which are calculated to be productive of warmth
and convenience during the continuance of the chilly weather.
The entertainment consisted of Ninon, Moliere, et Tartuffe,
Les Deux Divorces (two vaudevilles of trifling pretensions,
but which enabled Mdlle. Vilmain, from the Theatre du Vau-
deville, in Paris, and M. Dobourjal, from the Varie,t6s, to
make successful debuts, and convey a favourable impression of
their talents), and Le Mere et la File, a comedy in five acts.
The latter piece was deservedly the prominent attraction of
the evening. M. Duresnel was powerfully supported by M.
Frederic Lamaitre. La Mere et la Fills was much applauded
throughout, and at the fall of the curtain the approbation be-
came enthusiastic, mingled with cries for Lamaitre, who even-
tually came forward to receive the compliments to which his
fine delineation of M. Duresnel had fairly entitled him.