The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-01 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent attended Divine service yesterday morning in the
Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev.
C. Leslie Courtenay. officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians yesiectlay,
at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday.
The Queen and the Queen or the Belgians visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday. Their Ma-
jesties went to Marlborough House, attended by the
Countess of .1 ;unmore, Lady in Waiting on the Queen,
the Baroness d Hooghvorst, Lady in Waiting on her
Belgian Majesty, and the Hon. Colonel Grey,- Equerry
in' Waiting on the Queen.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen and the Queen of the Belgians, on Saturday.
The . Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on
Saturday, included her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her
Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, her Royal _Highness
the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency th e Belgian Mi-
nister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Dowager Lady
Clinton, the Baroness d'Hooghvorst, Lady Anna Maria
Dawson, Earl Jerilyn, Bad Howe, Major de Moerkerke,
Sir George Couper, and Captain Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the
Hon. Miss Mitchell, visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence House, St.
James's.

Her Majesty. the Queen Dowager attended Divine
service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Archbishop of Canterbury preached the Sermon:from
the 32d Psalm, verses 5 and 6. Prayers were read by
the Rev, Dr. Wesley, the Lessons by the Rev4Dr.
Knapp, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr.
Sleath. The Anthem—" Who is this ?" (Arnold) was
sung by Messrs. Bradbury, Bennett, and Hawkins.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Dowager
Lady Clinton and Earl Howe. The Marquis of Win-
chester, Lords Tyrconnell, Wharncliffe, Palmerston, B.
Bruce Alford, Clive, Ebrington, and Ladies Westmeath
and Palmerston, were among the Nobility present.
The Duke of Wellington and Sir Fred. Trench at-
tended the early service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
yesterday morning. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and
preached the sermon.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her
Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough
House.

The American Dwarf, General Tom Thumb, attended '
at Marlborough House on Friday evening, and exhibited
his imitation of Napoleon Bonaparte and other perform..
ances. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager was graciously
pleased to express her approbation. The General was
accompanied by his guardian, Mr. Barnum, of lityr
York.

Messrs. Peter Dixon, Philip H. Howard. M.P., std'
William Marshall, M.P., a deputation on the subject!of
a repeal of the tax on cotton-wool, had an intervicw
with the Earl of Dalhousie, on Saturday, at the office
of the Board of Trade.

Mr. J. Grey Porter Atthill had an interview with
Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation of the Provincial and London Press hid
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Oa
Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor of the settlement on
the Gambia were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office.

The Earl of Clare and Lord Adare had interrieira
with Sir Robert Poel on Saturday.

Several of the Cabinet Ministers dined with the Cor-
poration of the Trinity House on Saturday evening, at
the Trinity House.
Count Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted bu•
siness at the Foreign-office on Saturday.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview
with the Chance of the Exchequer on Saturday.
Mr. Walker had an interview with Sir R. Peel on
Saturday.
Dispatches for the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands, and also for the Governor of Malta, were
sent off from the Colonial-office on Saturday evening.

IRELAND.
SENTENCE ON MR O'CONNELL.
DUBLIN, INIABen 28.—Some of the most distinguishes
counsel in England, as well as in this country, have declared
it as their opinion that a writ of error must, beyond all pos-
sibility of doubt, lead to the quashing of the verdict against
Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers in the State trials.
But a writ of error does not lie until after sentence ; and the
question, arises are the traversers to undergo the sentence,
and suffer the period of imprisonment which the Court
may think fit to award, whilst the arguments upon the nit
of error are in progress in the House of Lords ? la
cases of capital felony, the prisoner being sentenced in
death or transportation, he remains, of course, 'to
prison whilst a writ of error is pending ; but in
a misdemeanour, where the law limits the pun
ment to fine and imprisonment, the , case .is totally
different. The Attorney-General, as a matter of coUrso,
will allow the writ of error to issue in the ease bf the,
" Queen v. O'Connell and others." That writ will be prose-
suted through all its tedious forms ; but there could be no
reasonable hope that the judgment of the House of Lords
could be obtained before the expiration of the sentence.
Suppose that judgment in favour of the traversers—and I
understand that the plea of abatement alone must secure
such a result—the quashing of the verdict would probably
occur after Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers had been
illegally incarct rated. This appears so monstrous, that it is
difficult to imagine the Crown could permit imprisonment
pending the argument of the legality of the trial and the
verdict.