The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-31 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen took a drive in a carriage and four yesterday afternoon
attended by the Lady in Waiting, the Countess of 31ount Edgecumbe
The Equerry in Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley, was in attendanc
on horseback.

His Royal Ilighness Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at
a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the
Fine .Arts, in rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. His Royal
Ilighness arrived at Gwydyr House at a quarter before three o'clock,
attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting.
The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne,
Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Ashburton, Lord Col-
borne, Sir Robert Barry Inglis, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., Mr.
Henry Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Thomas Wyse.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
and the Princes s Alice, wereltaken airings yesterday in the royal
gardens of Buckingham l'alace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of
Leiningen, honoured the performance of the French Plays with their
presence yesterday evening. The royal suite included the Countess
of Mount Edgecumbe, Lord Byron, Lord Charles Wellesley, and
Colonel Wylde.
The Queen and Prince Albert inspected yesterday the drawings for
the illustrations of her Majesty's approaching bat costurml, to be pub-
lished in the Pictorial Times, which were submitted by Mr. Stephen
Sly. Iler Majesty and his Royal Highness were pleased to express
approval of their historic accuracy.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of
Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at
Marlborough House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge took a drive in a
carriage to Kew yesterday, returning to Cambridge house in the
afternoon. Iler Itoy,l Ilighness dined with the Duchess of Glou-
cester, at Gloucester House, in the evening.
llis Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Mr. Ed-
mund Mildmay, dined with the Officers of the 2,1 Life Guards, at the
Knightsbridge Barracks, yesterday evening.
Mr. Fortlque, the Venezuelan Minister, has arrived in town, after
an absence of nearly five months, passed by his Excellency in Spain.
A meeting of the Commissioners for the government of Pentonville
Prison was held at the Council-office yesterday afternoon.
The Commissioners present were Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of
Richmond, the Earl of Devon, Lord John Russell, Major Jebb, Mr.
Craufurd, and Mr. Russell.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting yes-
terday afternoon, at the Office in Whitehall-place. There were pre-
sent the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor, and St. David's, the Right
Hon. li. llobhouse, and the Right lion. John Nicholl.
Mr. John NVoud, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
Dispatches front the Governor of Hong-Kong, and also from the
Mauritius, were resolved yesterday at the Colonial-office.

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about to give to the world a work of fiction, of which all
pletc account yet published of the Russian empire) is
the elements are derived from actual occurrences, or real
characters. It is entitled " The White Slave ; or the
Russian Peasant Girl ;" the scene is laid in the Russian
dominions, the period only a few years removed from
our own. Whilst it; avowed aim is to throw light on
the condition and prospects of the immense white-slave
population of Russia.the description qf manners. customs,
opinions and prejudices, and phraseology et all classes
of the people, which work out the proposed object, vs ill
enable the general reader to gather from it a more com-
plete idea ot that singular empire, than could have been
conveyed by a more serious work. In this respect, it
may be compared to " Anastasius," or the Persian
novels of Morier, being to the imperfectly known Russia
of the present day, what they were to col-icmpt. rane t ' --, A'—
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Greece and Turkey—a living portraiture of men and
things.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION.—We are happy
to hear that since the dinner on Wedneklay evening last, the
East and West India Dock Company have contributed 1001. to
this Institution, and intimated to their clerks that their becom-
ing members of the Association will be favourably thought of by
the Court of Directors.