The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Queen yesterday morning at Buckingham
Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
paid a visit to her Majesty in the afternoon.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yester-
day afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for
promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-
building the Palace of Westminster.

His Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace of
Westminster at three o'clock, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. The Commissioners
present were Viscount Canning, Lord Colborne, the
Speaker of the House of Commons, Viscount Mahon,
Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert H. Inglis, and Mr.
Hallam. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in at-
tendance. Mr. Bezzi, Assistant Secretary, also at-
tended.

The meeting broke up at five o'clock.
The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her
Majesty the Queen of the Belgians yesterday, at
Buckingham Palace.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales,
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess
Alice, the Princess Helena, and the Prineeas Louisa,
took their usual exercise yesterday in the garden of
Buckingham Palace.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen
plid a visit yesterday to his Royal Highness Prince
Albert.

We are authorised to state that, upon the return
of the Court from Osborne, about the middle of June,
the Queen will hold the usual drawing-rooms, and
that it is also her Maejesty's intention to give
balls, &c.
A very numerous deputation of chairmen, di-
rectors, and officers of the railway companies of
England and Scotland, had a conference yesterday
with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere and Sir
Edward Ryan, Commisioners of Railways, the Right
lion. M. 'l'. Baines, First Commissioner of Poor-
laws, and Mr. George Cornewall Lewis, Under Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department, on the sub-
ject of the rating of railways. The interview took
place in the Privy Council Chamber, Whitehall.
Lord Kinnaird, Hon. Charles Howard, M.P., Sir
Charles Douglas, M.P., Mr. Chaplin, M.P., Mr. Ed-
ward Ellice, jun., M.P., Mr. Greene, M.P., Mr. Mar-
shall, M.P., Colanel Reid, M.P., Mr. Stanford, M.P.,
and other Members of Parliament, accompanied the
deputation.
Mr. Baz!ey had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
The Earl of Zetland had an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.

The anniversary meeting of the Westminster
Ragged Dormitory and Colonial Training School was held
yesterday, at St, Dlartin's llall, and presided over by Lord
Ashley. l'he grateful thanks of the society were returned to
the committee of the Leicester-square soup • kitchen, for the
abundant supply, during the last three months, of 576 gallons
of meat soup and 144 quartern loaves of bread. It appeared
that among the ragged schools, whose destitute children are
now enjoying the bounty of this admirable kitchen, is the
ragged and indultrial school in Pye-street, Westminster, and
it is pleasing to know that the generous continuation of this
timely relief is a great incentive to the little half-starved
outcast seeking the shelter, protection, education and train-
ing of a ragged school. So good and practical a devotion of
food will serve as the best answer to those who think the
poor are not hungry in warm weather, and, at the same time,
it is hoped will establish a good reason why the useful
kitchen in Leicester-square should now receive the hearty
support of the wealthy and the benevolent.

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SALE or THE ADVOWSON OF BRAINTREE, ESSEX.
—Yesterday the perpetual advowson and next presentation
to to the vicarage of Braintree, Essex, was put up
and
a(i,.!oc. i
The
the Auction Mart, by the Messrs. Hogged aof
80
years of
present incumbent was stated to be upwards.
WatAas
age. The gross annual income of the living was
36q. per annum, the tithes being commuted 1 taken e nThaet
The auctioneer
left 168/. clear, with the parsonage hoseuss,
enteen years' pur-
deductions were 100/. for rates, and 100 .
e. for a
curate, which
knocked down
valued the property at 2,1001.,
chase. The firzt offer was 1,2001., and it
for 1,6401.
ME SOCIETY.—The annual
FEMALE SERVANTS' being
was
was held on Thursday at Exeter
assemblage principally
Hall. The room wash tie
meeting of this society.
i female servants, some of whom it
composed of respectable
te to Australia in the course of a
was stated are to emigrate filled with an
fewdays.
The Rev. J. Brown was in the chair. The Se-
cretary Rev.
Mr. Simpson) read the report, which
stated that the number of female servants received in the
(the
Home of this valuable society, now in existence for a period
of fourteen years, has been, during the past year, 423, of
whom 3,3 were provided with situations. On the 31st of
March last there were 34 servants in the Home; Since
1835, the year of its foundation, the society has extended its
aid to 3,600 servants. From the commencement of the re-
gistry system, in 1814, 17,000 servants have placed their
names on the books, and 5,180 families have applied to be
provided with domestics by the society. During the last
year 3,041 servants have registered, and 1,080 families have
made application. The total receipts have been 5411. 14s. 3d.
Balance in the banker's hands on the 31st March,l6/.195. sd. ;
1001. of the mortgage of 7001. with which the society is en-
coumbered has been paid off. Four servants, who had ob-
tained situations from the Home, and retained them with
good characters for three years, were presented with a hand-
somely bound Bible and a sovereign. Their names were,
llannah Raymond, Ruth Gray, Sarah Moris, and Sarah
Richardson. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. J.
Ilutchin, Rev. W. Sloman Rowe, Rev. W. Hall, Mr. J.
Rock, Mr. C. Cochrane, and other speakers, who dwelt at
length ou the advantages afforded I,y the society and its
claims upon public support. The proceedings terminated
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

reDIRECT WEST-END AND CROYDON RAILWAY.--
After much deliberation, the Master in Chancery Turner has
decided that Mr. Aldermen Hooper must be held liable as a
contributor in connexion with this concern, principally on the
evidence of a letter written to the secretary, stating it was
agreeable that his name should be on the provisional cooin
mittee, although be took no charts, attended no meeut with
,
nor consented to act on the provisional committee, b
others in that capacity paid 751. towards discharging the
debts of the company.
SEVEN YEARS' WOOL ON nsa BACK.--The Down
ewe, bred by Mr. John Moore, of Littleeot farm, near Pew-
sey, which has attained so much celebrity from the
received
bounties.at many agricultural shows, died on Thursday last,
weihed tortyfour cla.—
with seven years' wool on her back. Inflammation of the
lungs was the cause of death. The wo l measured twenty-
five inches in length, and g- p n
Wilt-
shire Zndeperident.