The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRC ULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal suite, and the
Household, attended Divine Service yesterday morning
in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. The sermon
was preached by the Bishop of London. Prayers were
read by the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay.
On Saturday her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent
visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday morning, attended by Sir E. Bowater.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Sa-
turday evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Earl of Liver-
pool, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. George Edward and the
Hon. Mrs. Anson.

The American Dwarf, " General Tom Thumb," ac-
companied by his guardian, Mr. P. T. Barnum of New-
York, had the honour of attending at the Palace in the
evining, when the General exhibited his clever imitations
of Napoleon, which elicited the approbation of her Ma-
jesty and the Royal circle.
A Cabinet Council was held at five o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe, Earl of Aberdeen, Lord
Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the "Ex-
chequer, Earl of lladdington, Earl of Ripon, Mr. Glad-
stone, and Sir Henry Hardinge. The Council sat two
hours.

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A deputation on the wool duties, from Liverpool,
Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Dewsbury, and the West
Riding of Yorkshire, had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-
street. The deputation was accompanied by Lord San-
don, Sir Howard Douglas, the Hon. J. S. Wortley, Mr.
Charles Wood, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Beckett, Mr.
Stansfield, Mr. Protheroe, and Mr. Aldam.
Captain Polhill, M.P., had an interview with Lord
Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting on Saturday afternoon, at the office in White-
hall-place. The Commissioners present were the
Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop
of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, and the Dean of
Westminster. _ _

Mr. Sheppard, M. P., transacted business at the
Home office on Friday.
Captain Brooke had an interview with Lord Stanley
on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
The Duke of Buccleuch left town on Saturday for
Thames Ditton.

Mr. Sheppard, M.P., had an interview with Sir R.
Peel on Friday.
Lord Stanley had a dinner party on Saturday, at his
residence in St. James's-square.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Rev.
Dr. Wesley preached. the sermon. The Marquises of
Salisbury, Normanby, and Winchester, Lords Delaware
and Ebrington, attended the daily service in the Chapel
Royal. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of
Peterborough, prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wes-
ley, the lessons were read by the Rev. Mr. Barham.
The Rev. Dr. Sleath officiated at the Communion service.

MR. C. H. ADAMS S ORRERY.—Mr. Adams con-
tinues to deliver his popular astronomical lecture at the
English Opera House, to attentive and intelligent audiences.
His clear and succinct explanations of the earth, its attendant
planet, the moon, her influence on the tides, and the theory
of those eclipses common to herself and the sun, are syste-
matically given, and the illustrations afforded by means of a
tellurian, mechanical transparent apparatus, and a magnifi-
cent vertical Orrery, impart additional attraction, and fine ef-
fect to the whole. A more appropriate intellectual amusement
for the Thursdays and Fridays of Lent and Passion-week could
not be conceived, and the patronage he obtains evinces the
popularity of his sterling entertainment.
THE SEES OF ST. ASATH AND BANGOR.—Rather
than take away a Bishop from Wales, give her another. We
do not want a temporal Peer for the purpose of a chief pastor
amongst the mountains of Wales ; we want a laborious,
hard-working man, like the Bishop of Toronto, who is not
afraid of storms of rain, and wind, and snow. We do not
want him to be furnished with a burning chariot and five
thousand a year. This.way is proper for the Bishop whom
the State and Constitution of England have been pleased to
number with the Princes of the land ; but for a Bishop to re-
side in the midst of his rural diocese, and to be engaged in
daily works of necessary performance, we want a plain,
humble, able, and indefatigable man, with an income suited
to his situation.—Church and State Gazette.—[We seldom
concur with this High-Church Periodical, but the remarks in
this paragraph deserve great praise. To this system must
the English Church come at last.—En. Sun.]
The Society of British Artists opened to private
view, on Saturday, their twenty-first annual exhibition, pre-
paratory to throwing it open to the public at large to-day.
There was a considerable number of persons of rank
and consequence present ; and the day being fine, the several
works on view were seen to the greatest advantage. The
number of pictures exhibited this season in the rooms of the
Society of British Artists is seven hundred and forty-six;
the number of marble figures, models, and other works in
the department of sculpture, is twenty-eight, which make in
all seven hundred and seventy-four productions of the pencil,
the chisel, and the modelling stick, as the amount of the en-
tire collection.
MExtco.—We learn that, by warrant from the
Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea-
sury, it is ordered, that all articles, the produce of, and from,
Vera Cruz, when sold for the first time, and by and for the ac-
count of the original importer, within twelve months from
the time of importation, be exempt from payment of auction-
duty ; and also that any sums which may have been levied
as auction-duty on goods imported from Vera Cruz, and
sold by auction as aforesaid, since the ratification of the
treaty of friendship and commerce between this kingdom
and the republic of Mexico, be returned to the parties who
may claim the same on their giving satisfactory proof of
their title thereto.—Licapool Albion.