The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the garden
at Claremont on Monday afternoon, after the return of
the Prince from town. Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, were also taken on the lawn in front of the
mansion.

Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert
walked in Claremont Park. _

The Royal Family were taken their accustomed daily
airings in the gardens of Claremont yesterday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert will, it is expected,
leave Claremont early this afternoon, and return to
Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yes-
terday in an open barouche and four, attended by the
Hon. Charlotte Hudson and the Hon. Caroline Boyle,
Maids of Honour in Waiting. Her Majesty drove
through Regent Park and Hyde Park, and also paid a
visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester,
at Gloucester House. Her Majesty afterwards returned
to Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
in town from his residence at Kew. His Royal High-
ness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester in the afternoon.

A deputation from the general meeting of Artists, on
the subject of the suppression of Art-Unions, consisting
of Mr. Wyse, M.P., Mr. R. W. Buss, Mr. George Raphael
Ward, Mr. J. B. Py,ne, Mr. Christopher Moore, Mr.
Augustine Aglio, Mr. W. Finden, Mr. Alfred Clint, Mr.
Richard Bothwell, ,‘fr. Edward Goodall, Mr. James
Stephanoff, 'Mr. Frederick Y. Hurlstone, Mr. Henry
Warren, and Mr. James Fahey, had an interview with
Sir Robert Peel yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
' The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop
of Bangor, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Bishop of St.
Davids, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Hereford, the
Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop
of Ripon, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Wor-
cester, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Chichester,
the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, and the Dean of West-
minster.
His Highness the Prince of Oettingen Wallerstein,
and his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, transacted husi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Earl of Ripon arrived in town yesterday from his
residence on Putney Heath.
The Governor of the Bank of England, and the De-
puty-Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Lord and Lady Stanley's grand dinner party and
assemblage on Saturday evening next are unavoidably
postponed, in consequence of the death of the Hon. R.
Bootle Wilbraham.

Lord Worsley and Sir Francis Doyle, had interviews
with the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone yesterday at the
office of the Board of Trade.

MR. WILSON'S ~ JACOBITE
RELICS•"

On Monday night Mr. Wilson produced, at the Store-
street Room, a new entertainment under the above title.
His object appears to have been to describe the birth and
growth of what may be called the Jacobite muse of
Scotland—to trace the origin of that body of poetry and
music, inspired by enthusiasm for the Stuart dynasty,
which contributed to keep alive a Jacobite feeling in
Scotland long after it became, politically and rationally,
a mere absurdity. In his lecture Mr. Wilson went back
to the very commencement of Jacobitism—to the period
when Graham of Claverhouse—Viscount Dundee—fell
on the last of his fields in the cause of the last of the
Stuarts. He gave _ a narrative of the insurrection of

1714, into which he introducedan-u-mbei Of lyrical effu-
sions produced by the enthusiasm of that period ; and
he brought the subject down to the great rebellion of
1745 ; thus connecting his present entertainment with
the very popular one which is founded on the occur-
rences of that period.
Mr. Wilson's entertainment was characterised by the
same qualities as his former ones—great good sense and
judgment in the choice of his topics—a simple and un-
affected, yet very animated delivery--a variety of inte-
resting and amusing aiecdotes,—and, above all, a num-
ber of beautiful Scottish Jacobite ballads, sung as Wilson
alone can sing them. The Killiecrankie songs, with
which he commenced, are full of racy Scottish humour;
but we should have thought it impossible to make them
at all intelligible to an English audience, had it not been
for the great hilarity they produced, and the applause
with which they were received. There were several,
however, of a plaintiff and melancholy cast, with which
every listener must be delighted and moved. Among
these we were enchanted with the beauty and pathos of
" Derwentwater's Farewell," and " The sun rises bright
in France." In this last some of the sweetest poetry
imaginable is united to a most expressive melody. The
first four lines strike us as exquisite :
"The sun rises bright in France,
And fair sets he;
But he has tint the blink he had
In my ain countrie."
Mr. Wilson also introduced the well known song of
" Lewie Gordon," but gave it; all the charm of novelty
by the manner in which he sang it.
Taken altogether, this is a most interesting entertain-
ment; and it will, we have no doubt, have the success
which has attended Mr. Wilson's previous efforts.