The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

his Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting
and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the
Palace of IVestminster.

His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House at so
quarter before three o'clock, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners
present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John
Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Ashburton, Lord
Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Lord Mahon,
Sir R. Peel, Sir J. Graham, Sir Robt. Harry Inglis, Mr.
11. Gaily Knight, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Thomas
Wyse.
After attending the meeting of the Commission his
Royal highness Prince Albert went to inspect the new
Palace of Westminster.

Their Royal Highnesses tl .e Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, ac-
companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken
an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four.
The Queen and Prince Albert, and their Majesties
the King and Queen of the Belgians, honoured the
performance at Drury-lane Theatre with their presence
yesterday evening. The royal suite included the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Baroness d'Hooghvorst, the Earl
of Morton, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie, and
Major de Moerkerke.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort with their company at dinner yesterday, at their
residence in Arlington-street. The Duke of Cambridge
afterwards honoured Mr. Parnther with his company,
at his residence in Grafton-street.

A meeting of the Commissioners fur the Reduction of
the National Debt was held yesterday, at the 'Treasury.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of
the Bank of England were present. Mr. Ilighatn, Secre-
tary and Comptroller-General, was in attendance.
Mr. Francis Smith had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly had an interview with Sir Robert
Peel yesterday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a
meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall-place.
There were present the Bishops of London, Ely,
Hereford, Lichfield, and Worcester, the Right Hon.
John Nicholl, and the Dean of Westminster.
Mr. James M'Qucen had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday. Mr. W. Jeffcott had also an inter-
view with his Lordship.
The Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges held,
yesterday, their last meeting for the season, at the
Clarendon Hotel. On this occasion a box of papers
belonging to the Committee of Baronets which sat from
1783 to 1792 (deposited with Messrs. Drummond,
bankers, in the names of the late Sir Henry Hoghton,
Sir Edward Astley, Sir George A. Winn, and Sir Edward
Lloyd, Baronets) was produced and examined. These
valuable documents, which have been lost sight
of fbr upwards of half a century, will have an important
effect in regard to the particular objects for which the
Committee of the Baronetage for Privileges has been
constituted.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
Office from the Governors of the West Indian Colonies.
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial
Office for the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, St.
Helena, and the Gold Coast.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
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HER MAJESTY'S MARINE PALACE IN THE ISLE Or WIGHT.—
Osborne House will soon become but a wing. The new buildings
are proceeding rapidly, and are already up to the ground door ; the
new part will to appearance be about 80 feet square, with a large cir-
cular window fronting the east, and a terrace round the whole. Her
Majesty purposes attending Whippingham Church,and the pews are
to be immediately fitted up for her. The greater part of Barton has
been pulled down ; it was intended to repair and embellish it, and
workmen had:been some time employed on it for that purpose, when
the walls were found so weak that they were condemned, and 'the
new and old work all taken down; the new buildings here are to
be in character with the old.
Moorings were yesterday laid down off Cowes for the royal
yacht. The former visits of her Majesty being only for short
periods, the steamers let go their anchors, but they have now re-
gularappears as if royalty was about to
gisience. Yet this town was never
before so dull at this season of the year, nor was there ever so
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many of the lodging-houses unoccupied.
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The meeting of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron House
here on the 11th instant is expected to be more numerous than at
any similar meeting. There are several candidates to be balloted
for ; the noblemen and gentlemen elect their
members by ballot.
but will not allow Members of Parliament to be elected so.

DINNER TO MR JOHN BRITTON, F.A.5..-Wo
are rejoiced to find that the admirers of our architectural an-
tiquities are about to testify their respect to that most inde-
fatigable and learned antiquary and excellent and kind-hearted
man, Mr. John Britton, by inviting him to a dinner, at the
Castle at Richmond, on Monday next. That which Sit
Walter did for the manners, costumes, and customs of the me-
diaeval ages, Mr. John Britton has done for the architecture of
the same period. He came forward as an active labourer in
the field at a time when such labours were less appreciated
than they are at present; and it must be most gratifying to
observe the steady progress of that taste for medieval archi-
tecture which he has contributed so much to revive. The
gathering will be most interesting.
THE MEMOIRS OF LADY 'TESTER STANHOT•Es
just published, are exciting much interest in the great world.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert, &c.
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