The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her 31Ijesty the Queen of the Belgians took leave
of the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, and quitted
Buckingham Palace at twelve o'clock, attended by
the Countess Van der Straten (Dame du Palais)
and Col. de Moerkerke, for Clarence House, St.
James's, where her Maj.-sty partook of luncheon
with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and
after wards lefr, at half-past one o'clock, for the Lon-
don-bri,!ge terminus, proceeding to St. Leonard's,
attended by her suite.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by
their Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the
Princess Helena, the Princess Louisa, and the infant
Prince, and attended by the Countess Gainsborough,
Lady in Waiting ; Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Maid
of Honour in Waiting ; the Master of the Household,
General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ; Lieut.-Col.
Francis Hugh Seymour, Equerry in Waiting to
Prince Albert, and Mr. Birch, left town at twenty
minutes before three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for
Osborne, Isle of Wight.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were con•
ducted to their carriage by the Lord Steward, the
Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Vice-Chamberlain, Lord Waterpark, Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Viscount Clifden,
Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Colonel Wylde, Cap-
tain Francis Seymour, and Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. 11• Gordon.
The august party went from Buckingham Palace
in five carriages to the Nine-elms Station, and tra-
velled by a special train on the London and South-
Western Railway.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge dined
last evening with the officers of the Coldstream
Guards of which regiment his Royal Highness is
Colonel, in the State Banquet Room, in St. James's
Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
received her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam-
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received a small evening party.
The Building Committee of the Royal Commission
for the Exhibitionest(nn
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Palace of
Cubitt, Mr. Barry, Mr. C. R. Cockerell, Mr. Brunel,
and Mr. T. L. Donaldson. Lieut.-Col. Reid and Mr.
N. Digby Wyatt were also present.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of the North American
colonies, also from the Governors of the West Indies,
New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, and New
Zealand.

The Marquis; of Lansdowne (Lord President)
arrived in town yesterday, from his residence at
Richmond.

PASSAGES IN THE LIED Or MRS. MARGARET
MAITLAND, OF SUNNYSIDE. WRITTEN DT Hazsimr.—" A
new edition of this charming work has just appeared. In
all things this pleasant story is a Scotch novel'—scotch
in
its scenery, characters, incidents, and sentiments—its lan-
guage is also Scotch of the pure, quaint, expressive kind.
Our readers will enjoy its genuine nationality of tone arid
sentiment, its refined and poetic homeliness, its strokes of
quiet humour, and its air of unaffected piety. The autobio-
graphical self-portraiture of Mrs. Maitland is very well ma
.
naged, and the character is as clearly defined, though of a
totally different order, as is the similarly delineated portrait
of Jane Eyre. In many respects the present author is worthy
of being compared with the eminent Swedish novelist bliss
Bremer. She is extremely felicitous in sweet home scenes;
in delicate sketches of character, and in affecting touches of
pure and quiet pathos. In the pathetic element we are not
unfrequently reminded of Wilson's Lights and Shadows'."
Scotsman.
MARRIAGE OE VIE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE WITH
THE IIEREPITANT PRINCE OF LF.ININGEN. —A letter from
Prince of ladningen will be celebrated this even-
Berlin of the 18th instant says—" The nuptials of her Royal
rlottenburg, Seven o'ch.ck, in the pre:, nee of
Highness the Princess Charlotte with his Highne-s the
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their
ception. To-morrow they will, however, return, and hold
and of those persons having the entree. The Royal couple
oPotsdam,
re-
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a Court, and receive congratulations in the Palace at Berlin,
after which they will again return to Potsdam, where
there will be a succession offc'tes, which will last until Wed-
nesday. The marriage trousseau of the illustrious bride has
been exposed to public view in the palace during two days,
and has attracted numerous spectators, especially of the fair
sex, who looked with longing and admiring eyes upon the
rich dresses, costly jewels, exquisite Brussels lace, tantalising
shawls, massy silver toilette and dinner services, and the
prodigious stock of linens, cambrics, and embroidery spread
before them. The greater part of these articles were presents
from their Majesties and the Royal Family, and from Prince
Albrecht and the Princess's Royal mother. Among the
prettiest articles exposed was a piece of embroidery, the joint
labour of Lady Rose Fane, the Misses Howards, and other
young ladies, prepared under the guidance and with the aid
of her Royal Highness Princess Louisa, the fair And graceNl
cousitt of the bride."