The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

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The Court is expected to return to Buckingham Palace this
afternoon, from Claremont.

The Earl of Delawarr' as Lord Chamberlain, at tke com-
mand of her Illajesty, has issued invitations for a grand
dinner on Thursday next.
The Duchess of Kent will return to this country on Mon-
day next, on the morning of which day she will embark at
Ostend on board the Princess Alice, Dover mail packet,
Master Commander L. Smithett, who is ordered to Ostend
on the 7th to be in readiness. The Princess Alice will land
her Royal Highness at Woolwich.
Preparations are in progress at Cambridge House for the
reception of their Serene Highnesses the Ilereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenbutgh Strelitz, who are to ar-
rive on Thursday next, to remain some weeks on a visit to
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
The Grand Duchess (Princess Augusta of Cambridge) comes
expressly to stay it, is said, until the close of September,
with her illustrious parents.
The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch give a grand enter-
tainment,
on the 10th inst., to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester; and on the 12th a similar banquet to
meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge.
The Earl and Countess of Essex were honoured by the
company of a select and brilliant circle of the nobility at
Cashiobury Park, near Watford, Herts, on Saturday last.
His. Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, Duchess de. Coigny
and Madlle. Coiguy, Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen-
tina Villiers, Earl of Mansfield, Lady Lyndhurst and Hon.
Miss Copley, Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers,
the Rev. John Massey Stanley, Viscount Cantalupe, Lord
Forester, Mr. Spencer de Horsey and Miss do Horsey, &c.,
were among the visitors.
The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., and Dowager
Countess of Leicester, arrived at Longford Hall, the Dowager
Countess's seat in Derbyshire, on Tuesday, where they pur-
pose residing some weeks, before going to Scotland.
Earl and Countess de Grey are not expected to arrive in
St. James's-square, from Dublin Castle, until the end of the
month, as it is understood to be his Lordship's intention to
make a short sojourn at Buxton Wells, en route from Ireland.
His Lordship will afterwards visit his seat, Brest Park, Bed-
fordshire. _ _ _

Mr. Baring Wall, M.P., received his Excellency M. Dedel,
Lord and Lady Ashburton, and Hon. Miss Baring, Lord and
Lady Jemima Eliot, Lord and Lady Methuen, Lady Morgan,
Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Mrs. Mildinay, Mr. and Mrs.
Vivian, Mr. Barrington, Mr. Ward, and a select party at
dinner on Thursday last, at the honourable gentleman's
house in Berkeley-square.
His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambas-
sador, left Hertford House on Friday for Dover, on his way
to Paris. His Excellency's conge is limited to the Ist of Sep-
tember, when the Ambassador will return accompanied by
the Countess de St. Aulaire.

Joe Smith, the Mormonite, is a candidate for the Presidency
of the United States, and is said to have a better chance than
" Jack Tyler."

The annual distribution of prizes to the students of the
East India Company's College' at Haileybury, near Hertford,
took place on Friday last, attended as usual by a deputation
from the Court of Directors.

The Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway
have given instructions that the eleven o'clock a.m. down
train stop at Harrow on Thursday next, July the 4th, being
the day of the speeches.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has dismissed Mr. Cornelius
O'Brien from the magistracy, for presiding at a meeting to
express sympathy for Mr. O'Connell.
A Glasgow paper says Mr. James Rodger, butcher, of Ayr,
has let twe acres of Allower croft (for which he pays his
landlady 21. an acre) to the committee of the Burns's festival,
for one day's use, for 201. The national enthusiasm will be
beneficial to one individual, at all events.

--Z.: Vincent Fitzpatrick has received from an anonymous
friend 150/. towards the payment of O'Connell's fine of 2,0001.
Mr. Corbally, M.P. for Meath, refuses to attend at Con-
ciliation-hall instead of the House of Commons, upon the
summons of some of his constituents. This act of insubordi-
nation will most likely insure him his dismissal from the
county's representation.
" We hear," says the Bury Post, "that there are nine pri-
soners at our gaol on the charges of arson, and one for send-
ing threatening letters; at Ipswich gaol, ten for arson, and
two for sending threatening letters; at Beccles house of cor-
rection, four prisoners for arson, and one for threatening to
burn, waiting for trial at the next assizes.