The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her noyal Highness the Duchess of Kent took her
departure yesterday morning for the Continent. The
Queen and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the Kirg
and Queen of the Belgians arrived at her Ho) al High-
ness's residence, Clarence House, St. James's, shortly
before nine o'clock from Buckingham Palace, to take
leave of their illustrious relative. His Serene Highness
tbn Prince of Leiningen also arrived from Buckingham
Palace.

At a quarter past nine o'clock the Duchess of Kent,
accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, left Clarence
House, St. James's, for the railway terminus at London
Bridge, and travelled by the South-Eastern railway to
Dover. The Royal Duchess was attended by Lady Anne
Maria Dawson and Colonel Sir George Couper, Bart.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and their Belgian
Majesties, after the departure of their Royal relatives,
left Clarence-house, and returned to Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his
Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen were expected
to embark at Dover yesterday afternoon, in the Princess
A lkfalMlinffilrdneit TreforXitkih .
back yesterday, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry
in waiting.
The Royal Family were taken their accustomed daily
airings yesterday.
The Marchioness of Douro has succeeded the Countess
of Charlemont, as the Lady in waiting on the Queen;
the Earl of Hardwicke has succeeded the Earl of
Morton, as the Lord in waiting on her Majesty; and
Captain Meynell has succeeded the Hon. Captain Dun-
combo, as the Groom in waiting on her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yes-
terday evening, included his Excellency M. Van de
Weyer, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lard and Lady Stanley,
and Lord and Lady Jocelyn.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited
her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday, at Marl-
borough House.
Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr. Scholefield, and a numerous
deputation had an interview with Sir James Graham
yesterday, at the Horne-office.

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
Winchester, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Car-
lisle, the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Ely, the
Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of
Llandatr, the Bishop of Peterborough, the Bishop of
Ripon, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Worcester,
the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Harrowby, and the
Dean of 'Westminster.
A deputation, including Mr. Bannerman, M.P., Mr.
Oswald, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and the Mayor of
Manchester, had an interview with Sir R. Peel yesterday
at his official residence in Downing-Street.
Nit-. Philips and a deputation had an interview with
Sir J. Graham at the home-office yesterday.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in-
terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yeste.day,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Clare hss left Farrance's Hotel, Belgravc-
street, for his scat in Ireland.

THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH IN
THE COURT OF REQUESTS.
It having been made generally known in the neigh-
bourhood of this Court that the Wizard of the North,
or in other terms, Mr. Anderson, now performing at the
Adelphi Theatre, had been summoned for the cost of a
new hit, alleged to have been damaged during the per-
formance at the Adelphi, by reason of tke said Wizard
having baked a plumb pudding therein, every avenue
was densely crowded.
The plaintiff; a gawky, and unwieldy farmer, named
Fogton, upon being called on to state the grounds of
his claim, produced from a sporting pattern silk hand-
kerchief, the " Londen made," in question, which cer-
tainly bore every evidence of queer culinary treatment,
it being literally marked on the outside with dabs of
paste, and within, and upon the white kid lining smears
of the yolk of an egg, most pertinaciously kept their
place as if in readiness to perfect that adhesion to the
head necessary upon a windy day.
"I am a- thinkin this be enough ground Mustor Sirs,"
said Ft turning over his hat with a most lugu-
brious countenance, which convulsed the Court. "Ye
may laugh—and laugh yer fill, but it am I that can join
yer,
as how I payed a couple of shillings to see the best
bran new
nnwbeaver spoilt, besides the guinea for the hat."
ceuntryman was e%idt ntly working himself
rip into a state of forensic madness, but the Wizard ,
stepped before him, and the laughter was sue-
oeeded by the moat• respeettul silence. With
great blandness of maihner the Wizard ad dressed
the Commissioner, who
appeared to be rather
fidgetty at the near approxunatten of one to whom
is attributed more than mortal .
It powers,
lie stated
that he had no excuse whatever to otrer
awnsas,oit;nntriyn:
advertence. The hat had been returned to the
man in the second seats by his "familiar,"
harry of the performance, without the usual and in
neeethse
eau cabalistic words being mentally muttered over it, reitore it to its original purity. He was sorry, veil'
so: ry, and as soon as he had heard of it—for the man
had made no complaint at the period of the performance
—he had hastened to rectify the effects of his forgetful-
ness. Added he, " Will the Commissioners and the
plaintiff be satisfied with a hat equal in every respect to
what that one was ere it entered the theatre 2::
"A very fair proposition, but the costs—
" I," replied the Wizard, " will pay the costs."
The countryman smiled content, and at this moment
the Commissioner had got the hat in his hand, about to
toss it over the long green baize-covered table, when the
Wizard, suddenly producing a small ivory wand, pointed .
it at the hat, said, in a mild and gentlemanly tone, "It :
Were as well, if it be returned at all, it should be returned
zany." i

to the astonishment of all present, this was the case,
"4617 particle of egg, flour, and the other gastronomic
matter with which the hat was bedaubed, had disappear•
ed, and the brilliancy, yet smoothness of the chapeau,
could scarcely hare been greater had it but just left the
bands of the most fashionable of hatters.

MADZMOISELLE RACEIBL.—A melancholy piece of
*elm which we would most willingly contradict, was last
night rnrrent at the theatres. It was said that Mademoiselle
Rachel retires from the stage,
.the state of her health per-
plittiOg her AO lteger to sae bar profession—Momteur
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