The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales and the Princess Royal, took an airing yesterday
morning in an open barouche and four. The Equerries in
Waiting, Colonels Arbuthnot and Bouverie, were in attend-
ance on horseback.
The Princess Alice and Prince Alfred were taken for pony
and walking exercise yesterday, in the royal gardens of Buck-
ingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for promoting
and encouraging the Fne Arts in the rebuilding of the Palace
of Westminster. His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, arrived at Gwydyr House at a quarter before three
o'clock. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Colborne, the
Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir
Robert Peel, Lord Mahon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay,
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., Dar.
Henry Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Thomas Wyse,
The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, and attended by the Lady in Waiting, took
an airing in a carriage and four yesterday afternoon. Colonel
Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Palaee. The company included her Royal. Highness the
Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of
Hesse Philippstahl, Sarim Effendi, Turkish Ambassador, and
Monet Agop, Secretary, Interpreter of the Embassy; the
Saxon Minister and the Baroness de Gersdorff; Lady Anna
Maria DaWson, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of Hadding-ton, the
Countess Wratislaw, Lord George Lennox, and the Hon. and

Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay.
Iter Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester has been
slightly' during the last few days. Yesterday her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Misses
Mitchell and Eden, paid a visit to her Royal Highness at
Gloucester House.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her resi-
dence, Frogmorellouse, shortly before three o'clock yester-
day afternoon, for town, and arrived at Clarence House, St.
James's, at five o'clock, attended by Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, Countess W ratislaw, and Sir George Couper.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess
Sophia yesterday at Kensington.
The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden.—Her Royal
Highness, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron
Roth de Schreckenstein, visited the Bank of England yester-
day forenoon. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister,
accompanied the Grand Duchess during her inspection of the
different departments and offices. Her Royal Highness and
suite afterwards partook of a dejeunt.
In the afternoon the Grand Duchess, attended by the
Baroness de Strumfeder, visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager at Marlborough House.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. The Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, and the Deputy Governor, were present. Mr. Higham,
Secretary and Comptroller General, was in attendance.
His Excellency M. Dedel had an interview with Lord
Aberdeen yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Dispatches for the Governor-General of Canada and for
the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were sent
off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office.
The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland has arrived at her re-
sidence in Seymour-place for the season, from her seat Newton
House, Yorkshire.

MAIDS OF HONOUR, A TALE OF THE COURT OF
GEORGE L—This work is exciting considerable atten-
tion. Besides affording us (observes the New Monthly
Magazine) a view of almost all the celebrated characters
of the period, the work 'introduces us to the scenes in
which they flourished. At Court we are taken to the
levee, to the state ball, to the King's musical parties, to
his Majesty's curious interviews with his mistresses, to
the King's Cabinet, to the private apartments of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, to the pleasant company
in Mrs. Howard's room, to the love-making going on in
the apartments of the maids of honour, to the Arcadian
amusements at llampten Court, and to behold various
`her glimpses of Palace life. Besides which, we enter
dm,
.^:shionable chocolate-houses, participate in one of
the evie,:sals of the Hell-fire Club, and stop at a certain
.jr,,,.:kenham to see Pope declaring his passion
villa at
for the seducc y.' Lady Mary Wortley Montague. More-
`ratall the assignations, elopements,
over we are prep,,:con,:arences, and confidences, in which
abductions, duels, and aro thus enabled
the maids of honour are ca.:ncerned,
antry, sentiment, and
to enjoy as varied a dish o; gallantry,
the reader in the shape
humour, as ever was preaeatectte:
of three volumes_
ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL G.46l.2)m.—This fa*
not fort
with
h its
voured place of amusement will shortly
attractions for the season. We have been twlN:ured
a view of the works, so nearly ,nt
arrived at conil;2etion,
and could scarce believe our eyes--neW and eleg*
erections in every part, and the entire eorepletelY renal'
vated and decorated. .
On Thursday morning, -between two- end threo
o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises .of Biwa:Church.
Tack-
field, wholesale watch manufacturer, No. 7,
street, Spitalfields, which was not subdiNti Wail Ong.
derable property had been destroyed.