The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Tier lt,y,=l Highness the Duchess of Kent visitel the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
:His Rye! Highness the Prince rode on horseback in
the forenoon, attended by his Equerry in Waiting.
Her Maj•:sty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
Prince Arthur and the Princess of liohenlohe Langen-
burg, took a drive in an open carriage and four in the
afterno7n.

Lord Charl•)s Fiizroy and Captain the Hon. D. do
Ros attended on hlreeback.
The Princesi Feodore of iohenloho Langeaburg
visited the Princess Mary of Cambridge.
The Prince of Wales visited the Duchess of Kent at
Ciarence-house, St. James's.
The Princess Royal visited the Duchess of Gbcester
yesterday at Giccester 'house.

J 3 er Illajetty had a dinner party. The company in-
c'uded h s Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, their
Serene Highnesses the Princess of iloheilthe Langen-
burg and the Princess reodore, his Excellency the Persian
Am'oasalor, Feruk Khan, the Duke of Wellington, the
Marquis of Breadalbane, the Earl and Countess of Cia- •
rendon, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Vi3count
Torrington, Mezrza Zeurtn Khan, Meerza Maleutn
Ktian, Me,rzl Ali Nacke, Mahomecl Ali Aga, the
Equerry in Wailing to the Duke of Cambridge, and
Captain Lynch.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at her residence in St.
James's Pslaca.

Despatches from the Governors of the colonies of the
West Indies were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office,.

Despatches were sent to the Governors of the colonies
on the West Coast of Africa.

Her Reyal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Cambridge, yesterday, at her residence in
St. James's Palace.
The Countess of Westmoreland arrived in town, yes
terday, from Aptborpe. The noble earl will leave town
for Northamptonshire to-morrow. •
The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough have arrived
in S•anhope-street, from Bath.
The Viscountess Somerton was safely delivered of a
daughter, at her residence in Prince's-terrace, on Satur-
day last. Her ladyship and the infant are going on
favourably.
The Earl of Bective has arrived at 'Underley Hall,
rear Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland.
The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bruce have arrived
at the St. George's Hotel.
Mr. F. West is suffering from indisposition at his
seat, Itutbin Castle, North Wales.
We understand that Mr. Frederick Cator has so far
recovered from his late gun-shot wound as to render it
probable that he will soon be able to be removed.
His Majesty the ex-King of Oude, attended by a suite
of about thirty, visited yesterday the exhibition of
Madame Tussaud. His Majesty. was most splendidly
attired in an Indian costume.
The Earl of Elgin, the Minister Plenipotentiary Ex-
traordinary, to be sent to China, has, since his arrival in
London from Scotland, had several interviews with Vis-
count Palmerston and the Earl of Clarendon. The noble
earl is at present uncertain when he leaves this country,
but trusts to be able to complete arrangements for his
departure by the second week in the ensuing month.—
Edinburg/6 Courant,
The public debt of Piedmont amounted on the Ist
January last to the sum of 32,346,650 fr. of rents, in-
eluding 4,500,000 fr. for the late war.
I The Poatmaster-Gegeral gave notice yesterday that
the mail-steamer Gambia, which should start to-day
from Plymouth with the mails for the west coast of
Africa, will not leave before Sunday next.
The Duchess Regent of Parma, in order to facilitate
the use of the telegraph in ber states, has decreed that
the p ice of despatches in the interior shall be notably
reduced.
The King of the Belgians has conferred the title of
baron on the Chevalier de Beaulieu, Belgian Minister at
Copenhagen, as a mark of his royal satisfaction at the
services rendered in the negotiatio ecial treaty
concluded between Belgium and Denmarkrelative to
the Sound duos,
DEATH OF Mn. PLAYFAIR.- -We have to record the
death.of the greatest of our northern architects—the man
who, more than any other, has filled the Scottish capital
with monuments of his genius. William Henry Playfair
died on Thursday morning, after a long illness, which
had for some years paralysed his limbs, and for the last
day or two made him insensible to everything. Mr.
Playfair was born in London in Jaly, 1789. He came
of no undistinguished stock. His father was an archi-
tect of note in his day, although his reputation has long
been obscured by the brighter eminence ofhis son ; and
his uncle was the celebrated mathematician and natural
philosopher, Professor John Playfair. He had the ad-
vantage of being educated under the roof of the latter,
at a time when Lord John Russell- was not the only
pupil of mark whom it sheltsred. At a subsequent period
he accompanied his uncle in that continental tour which
occupied the closing years of the geologist's life,—Editt•
6142V4 Couron