The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

SUNDAT.—The Queen will hold a Privy
Council to-morrow (Monday) afternoon at the Castle,
at half-past two o'clock.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert walked in
the forenoon in the pleasure-grounds of the Castle, after-
wards his Royal Highness went out shooting in the
royal preserves, attended by Viscount Sydney, Colonel
Bouverie, and Mr. George E. Anson. The Prince
returned to the Castle before two o'clock.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode
out in a pony phaeton, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales, and attended by Major-General Wemyss
and Colonel Bouverie.

The Royal Family were all taken airings yesterday.
In the afternoon the Princess Royal, accompanied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, was taken a carriage
drive.

Messrs. Daniel had the honour of submitting to
Prince Albert a specimen of the service executing by
them for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia,
of which his Royal Highness expressed his appro-
bation.

This morning the Queen and Prince Albert and
the Court attended Divine worship in the Private
Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. Charles L,
Courtenay officiated.
The Duchess of Kent attended Divine service this
forenoon in the parish church. Lady Charlotte Dun-
das was in waiting on her Royal Highness. The
Royal Duchess afterwards visited her Majesty and
Prince Albert.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked this morn•
ing in the pleasure-grounds about the Castle.
The Royal Family were taken their accustomed air-
ings to-day.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz returned on Saturday to Kew, from the north.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meek-
lenburgh Strelitz arrived in town on Friday. Their
Royal Highnesses returned to Kew in the evening.
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Phi-
lippsthal, left Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, on
Saturday morning for Witley Court, Worcestershire,
on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager.
Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Minister, and Count
Reventlow, the Danish Minister, transacted business
on Saturday at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of South Australia, and also
from the Governor of the Mauritius.

Lord Stanley left town on Friday for Knowsley
Hall, Lancashire.

Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence left his residence in St.
James's Palace on Saturday morning for Woolwich,
to embark on the royal steam yacht, and afterwards
proceed to Portsmouth.

VISIT of the KING of the FRENCH.
Preparations are talked of on every side for a
splendid entertainment to be given to the officers who
will attend his Majesty Louis Philippe to this country.
We believe several plans are in contemplation, on an
unprecedently magnificent scale. One is a grand
ball and supper in the Royal Naval College, to be got
up by the officers of our navy. exclusively, five or six
day's pay from each officer being subscribed for the
purpose of conducting the entertainment upon the
most hospitable and brilliant scale. This certainly
would amount to a handsome sum, the number of
naval officers now at the port in commission being
considerable. Another plan is the erection of a very
large tent, capable of holding conveniently about
2,000, in which to give a ball and supper, also upon a
superb but less exclusive scale, naval, military, and
civil officers being reported the projectors. Of course,
many rumours are afloat respecting what will and
ought to be done to give eclat to the visit of so im-
portant a personage as the King of the French, the
above, among the rest ; but a few days will determine
which is the right. The guns of the platform saluting
battery have undergone two courses of paint, as also
those of the King's bastion, in anticipation of the
royal visit; but whether this will prevent the French
officers from seeing how wretchedly they are pointed
we much doubt. certainly they are on the peace
establishment. Spithead begins to look lively, and
with a few line of battle ships, in addition to the five
brigs of the experimental squadron now at anchor and
the other three which will shortly join them, together
with the Firebrand and another fine steam-frigate or
two, will look imposing, and confirm the celebrity
which has long been given to that matchless road-
stead.—Hampshire independent.
His Majesty Louis Philippe, who, in early youth,
bore the title of the Duke de Chartres, was, with his
brothers and sisters, educated at home under the direc-

tion of Madame de Genlis,;i;ci;;eil known as the
writer of several agreeable works of fiction. The
young Prince entered the army early; he was at the
battles of Gemappes and Valmy, in which the French
were victorious. Dumourier, who after the death of
Louis XVI., was appointed General in Chief of the
Republican armies, found so much discretion and
prudence in the young Duke, that he formed the
project of overthrowing the Republican Government,
and placing on the throne the Duke de Chartres,
who was at that time one of his Aides-de-camp.
For this purpose, Dumourier entered into secret
negotiations with the chiefs of the Austrian army;
but the dreadful defeat of his troops at Der winden
excited the suspicion of the National Convention ; he
was deserted by hit!_own soldiers, and reduced to pro-
vide for his safety by flight. The young Duke ac-
companied him, and upon the death of his father,
which took place shortly afterwards, he took the title
of Duke of Orleans. A few years before the fall of
Napoleon, he allied himself, by marriage, to the Bour-
bons of Naples ; and the present Queen of the French
is the aunt of the Duchess of Berry and of Christina,
the ex-Queen of Spain. After the battle of Waterloo,
the Duke of Orleans became a great favourite with
the liberal chiefs, owing to the good opinion entertained
of him by Napoleon. At the same time, the high tone
of morality that reigned in his own family was
praised by all. The Parisian saw with delight his sons
frequenting the public colleges and zealously pursuing
their way to scholastic honours, as if their father had
been but a private gentleman ; the leaders of the Op-
position were always welcome at the Palais Royal.
At the death of General Foy, his Majesty sent
4001. to the subscription then raising to erect a
monument to his memory; and when the celebrated
Casimir de la Vigne was, on account of a piece
of poetry too liberal in its sentiments, dismissed from
his post of librarian by Count de Peyronet, the
Minister of Justice, the Duke of Orleans offered to the
poet a similar situation at the Palais Royal. Thus
by several deeds of well-directed liberality, the Duke
of Orleans ingratiated himself considerably with the
French nation.—Observer.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. s—His Majesty the King of
the French and suite will embark at Treport, on
Tuesday next, for this port, attended by five steam-
vessels, to pay the proposed visit to her Majesty at
Windsor, where every preparation is already made
to receive his Majesty, in that distinguished manner in
which hermost gracious Majesty and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert were welcomed at the recent visit
to the Chateau d'Eu. Among many other distin-
guished characters who will accompany his Majesty,
will be M. Guizot. One of the French historical
painters from Paris, Monsieur Edouard Pingret, has
already arrived in this country, for the express pur-
pose of aiding in the painting of the proposed picture,
delineating the meeting of the French and British
Monarchs. It is_understood that his Majesty will
bring over valuable presents for her Majesty, in re-
turn for those with which he was honoured at the
Chateau d'Eu. Amongst them will be some splendid
articles of Sevres porcelain, and others of French ma-
nufacture. The Royal Squadron will consist of the
following :
comer, 24 guns, King's steamer yacht, Admiral
La Susse, Captain Goubens, Lieut. Seuette, Lieut. De
Laronciere, Ensign Le Pertues, Ensign Sallye, 450
horse power, equipped at Cherbourg.
Elan, steamer, Lieut. Dieudonnez, Ensign Deff-
resne, Ensign Sage, Ensign Berenger, 220 horse
power, equipped at Cherbourg.
Caithman, steamer, Lieut. 'Valmont, Ensign Cour-
net, 220 horse power, equipped at Cherbourg.
Fulton, steamer, Lieut. Marreau, Ensign Rosier,
Ensign Villemorin, Ensign Vrigneau, 160 *horse
power, equipped at Cherbourg.
Reihe A niche, .the Ring's sailing yacht, C; pt.
D'Harcourt.

The King will reach this port on Wednesday
morning, where every preparation is making to re-
ceive him, and, immediately afterwards, landing at
the Clarence Victualling-yard, will proceed, by spe-
cial train, to Farnborough, where his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, with several royal carriages, will
be in waiting to receive his Majesty, and conduct him
to Windsor. His Grace the Duke of Wellington
and a Board of Admiralty, with the First Lord, will
be in attendance here to receive the King; guards of
honour will be posted at the Clarence-yard and Rail-
way terminus, and the troops in the garrison and at
Gosport will line the road between these points. They