The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, J'Jlgt 18.
The following noblemen and gentlemen arrived at the
Castle before one o'clock to day :
The Duke o" Beaufort, the Marquis of Sarisbury, Lord
Chelmsford, the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Aber-
corn, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Ha.rdwicke, Earl
Delawarr, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Lord de
Ros, Lord Stanley, Viscount Newport, Lord Claud Hamil-
ton, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Right Hon. T.
Sotheron-Estcourt, the Right Hon: Sir E. Bulwer Lytton,
the Right Hon. Colonel C.W. Forester, the Right Hon.
Sir John Pakington the Right Hon. Major-General Peel.
and Sir W. G. Hyliiin Jolliffe.
The Marquis of Salisbury had an audience of the Queen
on resigning office as Lord President of the Council.
Lord Chelmsford had an audience, and. delivered to her
Majesty the Great Seal.
The Earl of Hardwicke had an audience, and delivered to
the Queen the Privy Seal.

The Earl of Malmesbury, Sir Edward B. Lytton, Major-
Gen• Peel, Lord Stanley, and the Right Hon. T. Sotheron-
Estcourt had audiences of her Majesty, and resigned their
respective seals as the Queen's Principal Secretaries of
State.
The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli had an audience, and
delivered to' her Majesty his seal as Chancellor of the
Exchequer.

Sir John Pakington had an audience on resigning office
as First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Marquis of Exeter, K.G., had an audience, and de-
livered to the Queen his wand of office as Lord Steward of
the Household.
The Duke of Beaufort had an audience or, resigning office
as Master of the Horse.
The above-named gentlemen quitted the Castle, and re-
turned to London by a special train on the Great Western
Railway.

The Queen held a Privy Council at half-past four
o'clock, which was attended by his Royal Highness the
Prince Consort, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville,
Lord Campbell, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Carlisle,
the Duke of Newcastle, Lord John Russell, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis,
the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,
the Earl of Elgin, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell; Sir George
Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of St.
Germans, and the Marquis of Abercorn.
'The Queen in Council was pleaeed to declavirral Gran-
ville, K.G., Lord President of the Privy sigineil, and the
noble earl took his place at the board.

The Queen delivered the Great Seal to Lord Campbell,
and the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was ad-
ministered to his lordship. The Marquis of Ailesbury, Sir
William G. Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., Jaws Wilson, Esq.,
and Thomas E. Hewllam, Esq., by the Queen's command,
were sworn of her Majesty's Most Hon: Privy Council.
The Duke of Argyll having received from the Queen the
Privy Seal, the, oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was ad-
ministered to his grace.

The Duke of Newcastle, Lord John Russell, the Right
Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, Bart., and Sir
George Cornwall Lewis, Bart., were sworn the Queen's
Principal Secretaries of State, and received from her Ma-
jesty their seals of office.
The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone took the oath
as Chancellor of her Majesty's Exchequer.
Her Majesty in Council was pleased to declare the Earl
of Carlisle, K.G., Lieutenant-General and General Gove-
nor of Ireland.

The Right Hon. James Wilson was appointed Vice-Pre.
sident of the Committee of Council for Trade.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Counci:
in Waiting.

The Earl of St. Germans had an audience of the Queen,
kissed hands on being appointed Lord Steward of the
Household, and received from her Majesty his wand of
office.

The Marquis of Ailesbury had an audience of the Queen,
and kissed hands on being appointed Master of the Horse
to her Majesty.

The Earl of Bessborough had an audience, and kissed
hands on being appointed Master of her Majesty's Buck-
hounds.

The Queen was attended by Earl Delawarr, Lord Cham-
berlain ; Lord Claud Hamilton, Treasurer of the House-
hold ; and Viscount Newport, Vice-Chamberlain.
Previous to the Council, Viscount Palmerston, Lord
John Russell, and Earl Granville had audiences of her

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Majesty, and subsequently the Duke of Somerset and Sir
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!harks Wood.

Lord Raglan and Mr. J. Ormsby Gore were Lord and
Groom in Waiting.

The Ministers left the Castle soon after five o'clock, and
;ravelled to London by a special train on the Great Western

Railway.

After the Council the Queen, with the Princess Alice,
Princess Helena, and Princess Louisa, drove to Virginia

Water. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort accom-
panied her Majesty on horseback. In attendance were
the Duchess of Athole, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon.
Mary Bulteel, Lord Colville, and the Hon. Captain D. de
Roos.

THE THEATRE&

SURREY.

On Saturday evening, " Hamlet" was performed at this
theatre, Mr. Hermann Vezin sustaining the part of the
Royal Dane. If anything could reconcile us to the repre-
sentation of this extraordinary play—the beauty of which
can only be fully appreciated in the quiet seclusion of the
closet—it would be the excellence of this gentleman's
acting. His conception of the part is evidently the result
of long and diligent meditation, and its execution is as bold
as it is successful in its effect. He repudiates, we see,
Goethe's idea that the madness of Hamlet was the natural
—indeed, inevitable—consequence of a burden being laid
on two shoulders too weak to bear, and takes it for granted
that it was a feint throughout. The text, in a majority of
instances,;wouli certainly seem to warrant this hypothesis.
We have said that Mr. Vezin's conception is the result
of long study. Not a scene but evinces proof of
this. His first soliloquy, " Oh, that this too solid flesh
would melt," was declaimed with infinite care. It was not,
as is too often the case, broken up with tedious pauses, but
on the contrary, it was given in a strain of deep, continuous,
heartfelt thought. The scene with the ghost is admirably
played Surprise, awe, horror, indignation were never
more strikingly portrayed, or the shades of difference more
nicely discriminated. His advice to the players was
clearly and judiciously given ; nor must we omit to notice
the unaffected simplicity and tenderness with which ho
exclaimed, in allusion to his father—

"He was a man, take him for all in all,
I ne'er shall look upon his like again."

Decidedly, among Mr. Vezin's most felicitous efforts
was the play-scene, where he probes his uncle
and mother to the quick. Here art achieved a
full and perfect triumph. His moody impatience
for the moment of discovery; his scarcely subdued air of
transport while the plot is ripening ; and his irrepressible
burst of exultation when he finds that the project was.suc-
cessful, developed skill and power of the highest order. The
scene, too, with the Queen was another fine piece of acting,
which would have been greatly heightened had Miss A.
Kemble worked up the interest of the part of the Queen at
this particular point of the play. The acting in the
graveyard scene was nature itself. The utterance of
the words, " Alas, poor Yorick," went instantly to
the heart. The remaining lines of the soliloquy
produced a deathlike stillness we never hoard with-
in the walls of the Surrey Theatre before, but it
was succeeded by the most enthusiastic plaudits. In a
word, Mr. Vezin's Hamlet may with truth be pronounced
perfect. Mr. Calvert's Laertes was a highly judicious
piece of acting. Mr. B. Potter, as the Ghost, was good;
and Mr. Cooper deserves special commendation for the care
with which he gave the part of Horatio. At the termina-
tion of the tragedy, Mr. Vezin, in obedience to the loud
calls of the audience, appeared before the curtain to bow
his thanks—a compliment he received also at the termina-
tion of the second and third acts.