The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon
at Buckingham Palace.
Count de Persigny, Ambassador from his Imperial Ma-
jesty the Emperor of the French, had an audience of the
Queen, and delivered his credentials.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess George of
Saxony and his Royal Highness the Duke of Oporto arrived
at Buckingham Palace at twenty-five minutes before five
o'clock yesterday afternoon on a visit to the Queen.
The Queen had a dinner p arty last evening. The com-
pany included their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice,
the Duke of Oporto, the Prince and Princess George of
Saxony, and the Duke of Cambridge ; the Duchess of
Manchester, Comtesse de Holzendorff, Mademoiselle de
Zedlitz, the Duke of Beaufort, the Saxon Minister, the
Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Abercorn, Earl Dela-
warr, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Malmesbury, Cheva-
lier d'Oliveira Silva, M. de Koennetitz, M. de Helldorf,
Colonel F. H. Seymour, Lieutenant-General Viscount de
Campanha, Captain Sergio, M. Sampayo, and the Equerry
in Waiting to the Duke of Cambridge.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Lord
Ronald Leveson Gower have returned to Stafford House,
from Cliefden. Hall, near Maidenhead.

The Duchess of Norfolk and family have left
town for the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood.

The Duke of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Poulett
are daily expected home from Paris.
The Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Dalkeith
have joined the Duchess and Ladies Scott in Belgrave-
square, from Dalkeith Palace, N.B. _ _

The Marchioness of Salisbury and her youthful
family will leave town to-morrow for Hatfield.
The Marchioness of Ely and family have left town
for Loftus Hall, Wexford.

The Countess de Persigny, who arrived in London
two days ago with his Excellency the Count, has returned
to Paris for a few days.

The Countess of Derby will give a ball on the
3d of June, at the official residence of the Premier in Down-
ing-street.

The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and Talbot
are expected in town in a few days, for the season. The
noble earl has taken a residence in Chesham-place.
The Earl of Coventry has arrived in town from
Worcestershire. His lordship has taken a residence in
Chesterfield-street, Mayfair.

The announcement that the Earl and Countess of
Fife had suffered the loss of a daughter, after a few hours'
illness, was made on Monday last in error. It was the
Countess of Erroll, sister-in-law of the Countess of Fife,
who had the misfortune to lose her daughter, and not Lady
Fife.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at
Cambridge House yesterday, from Brocket Hall, Herts.

Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for India, will
give an entertainment this evening, at the Clarendon, to
celebrate her Majesty's birth-day, to which the following
invitations have been issued :—His Highness the Maharaja
•Dhuleep Singh, his Highness Prince Gholam Mahomed,
his Highness Prince Feroze Shah, his Highness Prince
Ferukt Bukht, Sir F. Currie, Bart., Mr. C. Mills, Sir J. W.
Hogg, Bart.,Mr. Macnaghten, Mr. Mangles, Capt. Eastwick,
Mr. Prinsep, Mr. Willoughby, Sir R. Vivian, K.C.8., Sir
H. Montgomery, Bart., Sir P. Cautley, Sir H. hawlinson,
Colonel Durand, Mr. Arbuthnot, Right Hon. Sir J.
Lawrence, Bart., Sir George R. Clerk, Mr. J. C. Melvill,
Mr. C. 11. C. Plowden, Mr. T. C. Robertson, Mr. D.
Eliott, Mr. J. M. Macleod, Mr. It. L. Reid, Mr. Raikes,
Sir P. Abbott, Sir A. Wilson, Sir G. Pollock, Sir J.
Shiel, Colonel Tombs, Major-General Montgomerie,
Major-General Hancock, Lieutenant-Colonel Wilde, Rev.
W. Whiting, Ranald Martin, Esq., H. Wake, Esq.
Major Bowie, Sir John Jones, Sir C. Rawlinson, Mr.
Howard Russell, Mr. Lynch, Major Probyn, Dr. Forbes
Watson, the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan, Mr. F. Prideaux,
Mr. Hawkins, Mr. I.3urdillon, Mr. Kaye, Mr. J. Dan-
vers, Mr. W. T. Thornton, Mr. J. C. Mason, Mr. T. N.
Waterfield, Mr. Baillie, M.P., Professor Wilson,
Sir James Melvin, K.C.8., tho Hon. C. A. Murray,
C. 8., Right Hon. Holt Mackenzie, Dr. Lechie, Mr. Leach,
and the Hon. G. Talbot.

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.—
Handers great choral oratorio, " Israel in Egypt," will be
performed on Friday, the 27th of May. Principal vocalists,
Madame Clara Novello (her first appearance this season),
Miss Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Thomas, and Signor
Belletti.

ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Mr. Sims Reeves and Miss
Arabella Goddard will appear at the performance of the
Vocal Association on Wednesday evening next, May 25th,
when Handers " Ads and Galatea" (with Mozart's addi-
tional accetnpaniments) and Mozart's "Concerto" in C
major will be performed. The band and choir, under the
direction of M. Benedict, will number 400 performers.
THE NEW K.C.B.'s.—Col. Robt. Walpole, C. 8.,
of the Rifle Brigade : Col. George Robert Barker, C. 8., of
the Royal Artillery ; and Col. John Douglas, C. 8., of the
79th Foot, whose elevation to the dignity of Knights Com-
manders of the Bath (Military Division) we chronicled yes-
terday in our columns are all of them officers with whose
names the public are familiar in connection with the Indian
mutiny. Sir Robert Walpole is a brother of the Right
and late Secretasryurroefy StateeftoirmethEe Department,nHvooymeExtra
Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, M.P. for Cambridge University,
(som
'Plenipotentiary from Great Britain to the
being the third son of the late Thomas Walpole, Esq., of
ordinary
anCSotagdurtbAurorYifnisPlttmiaerrkeh), by Margaret, eighth daughter of John,
second Earl of Egmont. He was born December Ist,
1808, and received his first commission in the army
in May, 1825. He became lieutenant in 1826, captain in
1834, major in 1844, and went on half-pay as lieutenant-
colonel in 1847. He has recently attained the rank of
colonel, and was for some time deputy quartermaster-gene-
ral in the lonian Islands. Sir Robert married in 1846 Ger-
trude, dauotter of the late General Ford,bywhom he has
a youthful' Barker
family. Sir George Robert is a much
younger
man, his earliest commission as second lieutenant
brevet major in
dating from June, 1834 ; he was promoted to the rank of
army as ensign in 1833, captainsir
o! 1845,npoug1 a
Douglas
nendtetoretdhatht
the army
lieutenant-colonel. in 1857.
1812, major in 1852, and colonel i .
be-
came lieutenant in 1836, captain
sent from France to Frankfort, in return for French and
Large amounts of gold and silver have lately been
other securities transmitted to Paris for sale, and hoarding,
it is said, is being practised to a considerable extent,
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