The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yestcrday was the birthday ,
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. In ti e
morning the Royal Horse Guards (dismounted) and
the first battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards
marched from their barracks into the Home Park,
and were inspected by the Queen and Prince Albert.
After performing a variety of evolutions, the Scots
Fusilier Guards fired a feu de joie in honour of his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's birthday, and
then gave three hearty cheers.
The two regiments defiled in review order, formed
in line, and presented arms, the bands playing " God
save the Queen ;" after which her Majesty and
Prince Albert retired, and the troops marched off the
ground, their respective bands playing popular
marches. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness ex-
pressed their approbation of the regularity and pre-
cision of the evolutions performed by the troops.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied
her Majesty, and the whole of the Court were present
at the inspection, viz., Lady Portman, Hon. Miss
Paget, Hon. Miss Liddell, the Earl of Liverpool, the
Earl Delawarr, the Earl of Morton, Captain Meynell,
Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde, and also Admiral
Sir William Parker.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
the Queen and Prince Albert yesterday, to offer her
congratulations on the auspicious event.
After the inspection, her Majesty and Prince Albert
promenaded on the Terrace and the grounds adjacent
to the Castle.
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an
airing in the middle of the day.
Sir Robert Peel left the Castle yesterday morning
for town. Earl Delawarr and Admiral Sir William
Parker also took their departure from the Castle
yesterday.
At noon the Queen and Prince Albert took eques-
trian exercise for some time in the Great Park, at-
tended by Colonels Arbuthnot and Wylde.
The royal dinner party yesterday included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte
Dundas, Countess Wratislaw, Dowager Lady and
Miss Lyttelton, Mr. George Edward and the Hon.
Mrs. Anson, Sir George and Lady Couper, Colonel
Richardson, Colonel Montagu, and Captain Francis
Seymour.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in
attendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private
band attended and performed the remainder of the
evening.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert took
their accustomed early walk.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the
Princess Alice, were taken for pony exercise.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service this morn-
ing in the private chapel of the castle. The Hon.
and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay officiated.
The Duchess of Kent attended Divine service in
the parish church this morning. Lady Charlotte
Dundas and Sir George Couper were in waiting on
the Royal Duchess. Her Royal Highness afterwards
received the sacrament.

The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town on Friday
night, from Scotland. The Noble Earl had an inter-
view with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had as inter-
view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satur-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Sir Robert Peel arrived in town on Saturday
morning, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor
Castle. Sir James Graham and the Chancellor of
the Exchequer had interviews with the Right Hon.
Baronet. In the afternoon Sir R. Peel left his resi-
dence in Whitehall-gardens, for Brighton.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governor of Gibraltar.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO
NORTHAMPTON.
At a public meeting of the county of Northampton,
convened by the High Sheriff, held on Saturday, and nu-
merously attended by noblemen and gentlemen, the fol-
lowing address having been moved by the Marquis of
Exeter, and seconded by the Marquis of Northampton,
was unanimously adopted :
" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
" We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects,
the nobility, gentry, clergy, and other inhabitants of the
county of Northampton, in county meeting assembled,
beg to approach your Majesty with the expression of
the high gratification we feel at the honour your Ma-
jesty has done us in visiting our county. We take this
opportunity of assuring your Majesty that, however
much your Majesty's conduct has endeared you to every
class of your Majesty's subjects, none can feel more
strongly than we do the most ardent wishes for your
Majesty's health and happiness; and it is our most
earnest prayer to the Almighty that he may be pleased
to grant to your Majesty a long and peaceful reign,
during the whole course of which you may witness the
increasing prosperity of your people."
The Marquis of NORTHAMPTON, in seconding the ad-
dress, said, the fact of her Majesty honouring their
county with her presence would have been quite sufficient
to call forth an unanimous feeling of loyalty.—(Cheers.)
When her Majesty came into the county, she would un-
doubtedly feel great pleasure at finding herself traversing
the halls of the descendant of the great minister of Queen
Elizabeth.—(Hear, hear.) She would feel proud that
she, also a female Sovereign, was visiting the halls once
inhabited by one of the greatest statesmen that ever
swayed the destinies of this country ; and her Majesty
would feel, and the country would feel, it to have been a
proud thing that a female Sovereign should have been
able to command the services of such a man as Lord
Burleigh.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty had always been
most anxious to forward the prosperity of the manufac-
tures of the country by patronising them in her court,
therefore that would be a reason for those among them
who resided at Northampton greeting her Majesty
with a cordial welcome. With respect to those who fol-
lowed the most important of all arts, that of agriculture,
it was needless for him to say that Prince Albert was
the first and greatest farmer in the land—first in station,
and most anxious for the promotion of agriculture.
Earl SPENCER proposed a vote of thanks to the High
Sheriff for having been kind enough to call that meet-
ing, and said it must be most gratifying to every inhabi-
tant of the county that an address to her Majesty on
the present occasion should have been unanimously
adopted by the great county of Northampton. Her Ma-
jesty, as it had been well said by his noble friend who
had preceded him, deserved the attachment and devo-
tion, as she had them, of the people of this country.—
(Loud cheers.) It was a good thing that the country
should congratulate itself that her Majesty was in the
habit of going amongst her people, to see what they
were—to see the people over whom she had the honour
to reign—a people attached to her by their loyalty gene-
rally, but particularly attached to her in consequence of
her exemplary conduct.—(Loud cheers.) It was also
important that the Sovereign of this country should see
what it was that so endeared her to her subjects ; it
was desirable that, being, as she was, an example of
domestic life, she should see that to that princi-
pally she owed her popularty.—(Loud cheers.) But
i
it was not only as an example of domestic life that she
had shown herself one of the best monarchs that had
ever blessed this country, it was also in her political
capacity that she had signally distinguished herself.—
(Cheers.) He did not recollect in the history of this
country any reign in which it had not been possible for
some surmises to be stated against the Sovereign as to his
conduct to his administrations. They had seen her Majesty,
however, in the beginning of her reign surrounded by an
administration in which she seemed to have
th the most
perfect confidence. That administration, by e will of
Parliament and of the nation, was dismissed, and another
placed in its stead. Had there been the slightest sy.mp-
tom of want of confidence in the present administration?
On the contrary, had it not been proved during the whole
course of its existence that her Majesty had given to
bis
it
the most careful and complete support?—(Cheers.) T
was the conduct that endeared her to the hearts of a free
people.—(Cheers.) It was very possible that there might
have been some Sovereigns who knew that such a course
ought to have been pursued, but be did not recollect any
occasion when the administration had been changed that
room had not been given for some surmises relative to
the conduct of the Sovereign. With such principles,
connected with such general good conduct as her Majesty
had shown, it was very desirable that she should see
what the effect of it was upon her subjconductects, that she
might be encouraged—though she wante no encoura
which
-
ment—to persevere in the same line of
had endeared her to the people of this country, and made
her a guardian and a blessing to them all.—(Cheers.)
Such being his feelings with respect to what they ought
to do, and their having voted the address unanimously,
he thought there was every reason why they should
concur in thanking the High Sheriff for calling that
meeting.—(Cheers.)
The HIGH SHERIFF returned thanks.
Three cheers were then given for the Queen, and three
cheers for the Marquis of Exeter, and the meeting sepa-

rated.
A meeting of the Mayor, magistrates, aldermen, and
other authorities of the borough of Northampton, has
also been held, at which the same feelings of loyalty
and unanimity were displayed. The following is the
address voted
" TO TUE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
" The humble address of the Mayor, magistrates, alder-
men, and councillors of the borough of Northampton.
"Most Gracious Sovereign,
" We, your Majesty's faithful subjects, the Mayor,
magistrates, aldermen, and councillors of the borough of
Northampton, beg leave to approach your Majesty to
hail your Majesty's auspicious presence in this ancient
borough. We beg to assure your Majesty of the devoted
loyalty and attachment of this town, and that all classes
of inhabitants are deeply sensible of the benefits en-
joyed under your Majesty's enlightened rule. We most
earnestly pray that, under the protection of Divine ro-
vidence, your Majesty's reign may be long, prosperoP us,
and peaceful ; and that your Majesty's subjects may
long feel the benignant influence of those private vir-
tues which adorn your Majesty and your Majesty's
illustrious Consort, and which endear your Majesty to
the hearts of the

IMPROVEMENTS AT BROMPTON.— Among other
buildings and improvements now in progress in the
neighbourhood of Brompton, may be noticed the new
Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, of
which his Royal Highness Prince Albert laid the first
stone in June last. The western wing is rapidly pro-
gressing, and, it is hoped, will be roofed in before the