The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-19 00:00:00

COURT-PASIZIO?iI'AiILE.

Saturday, the 24th is the twenty-sixth anniversary of her
Majesty's birth-day. The drawing-room and grand official
banquets by the Ministers and grand officers of State in
honour of the event, will not take place until Tuesday, the
27th instant.
The Duke of Sutherland and the Marquis of Stafford left
Stafford House on Saturday for Scotland. The Duchess and
Lady Caroline Leveson Gower have gone on a visit to Baron
and Lady Park, at Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire, but return
to Stafford House to-day. Lord and Lady Blantyre are
expected from their seat, near Glasgow, early in the ensuing
month.
The Marquis of Londonderry has had cards issued for a
grand banquet at Holderness Douce, on the 3(1 of the ensuing
month.
The Earl of Aberdeen will receive the whole of the Fo
reign Ambassadors and Ministers, at a grand full-dress en-
tertainment at Argyll House, on Tuesday, the 27th instant,
in honour of her Majesty's birth-day.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam have left town to
attend the Gorhambury races, which commence on the 20th.
The Noble Earl and Countess will entertain a distinguished
party there during the week.
The Marquis of Waterford, the Earl of Howth, Lord Sal-
toun, Sir Watkins W. Wynn, Viscount Maidstone, Hon.
John Kennedy. Hon. S. Erskine, Sir Alexander Montgomery
Cunninghame, Sir H. Durbar, Sir James Boswell, Colonel
and Mrs. Montgomerie, and Captain Dalrymple were among
the guests who partook of the hospitalities at the Earl and
Countess of Eglinton, at Eglinton Castle, during the face
week.
The Earl of Harrowby has returned to Grosvenor-square,
from a visit to the Iron. G. D. and Lady Georgians Ryder, at
Westbrooke, near Berkhampstead,
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston on Saturday even-
ing entertained at dinner the Marquis and Marchioness of
Clanricarde and Lady Elizabeth De Burgh, the Earl of Bes-
borough, Countess De Grey, Earl and Countess Cooper, Lord
Edward Howard, Dowager Lady Holland, Hon. William
Cowper, Mr. F. Byng, &c. After the dinner her Ladyship
had an assembly, which was attended by the Duke de
Broglie, the Count St. Aulaire, most of the foreign Ministers,
and a very large number of persons of rank.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Much interest is excited in Kent by the agricultural
fete which is to be given on Wednesday next, by Vis-
count Torrington, at his seat, Yoker Court, near Mereworth,
Kent. At the last anniversary dinner of the Kent and Maid-
stone cattle show, the Noble Viscount announced that he was
erecting a suite of farm buildings on the most approved
plan, combining every suggestion of practical utility, and
that when that homestead was completed, he hoped his agri-
cultural friends would come and see it. His Lordship has
issued between three and four hundred invitations for Wed-
nesday, and all the arrangements for the entertainment are
made on a most sumptuous scale.

The Duke of Wellington has engaged-the following vocal
ists for the fifth performance of ancient music, which will
take place on Wednesday evening, under the direction of his
Grace :—Madame Caradori Allan, Mdlle. Brambilla, and
Mdlle. Vera (her first appearance); Messrs. Hawkins, Ma-
chin, Staudigl, and Pischek.
Mr. Hudson, the sub-inspector of the factories in Ireland,
has proceeded against several of the proprietors of factories
in Belfast, for infringements of the law in permitting women
and boys to work on Good Friday—the penalties vary from
10/. to 201.

The symphonies selected for the fifth Philharmonic Con-
certs are Beethoven's in F, and Mendelssohn's No. 2 in A.
Mr. W. S. Bennett will play a pianoforte concerto, by Mo-
zart. The overture to Faust will be performed, followed by
a vocal scene by Herr Staudigl and Herr Oberhoffer.
The London Association for the Protection of Trade have
got up and extensively circulated a petition to Parliament
for a repeal of the Act of last session, abolishing imprison-
ment for all debts under 201. The petition also prays for the
adoption of some better means than at present exist for the
recovery of debts under 20/. contracted previous to the pass-
ing of the late measure.
M. Arban, the celebrated cornet-a-piston player from the
Academie Royal, has arrived from Paris, and will appear at
Vauxhall this evening, and, with Laurent, will perform
Bellini's duet " Deh Conte."
The steam-ship Great Western, Captain Mathews, having
been in port during little more than a week, again departed
from Liverpool for New York, on Saturday afternoon, carry-
ing out from 60 to 70
passengers, amongst whom was the
Count de Talaru,:and the usual mail.
The course of lectures for the ensuing Trinity Term, which
commences on Thursday next, founded by Sir Thomas Gres-
ham, will be read at the theatre of the college in Basinghal 1-
street, City, at twelve o'clock in the forenoon, in Latin and in
English, at one o'clock in the afternoon precisely, on the
days, and by the gent lem en hereunder specified, viz. ;--1 hurs-
day, May 22, and Friday, 23, the Rev. Joseph Pullen, on
astronomy, Monday, 26, and Wednesday; 28, H. H. Southey,
M.D., F.R.S., on physic; Friday, 30, and Saturday, 31, the
Rev. Samuel Birch, on geometry ; Monday, June 2, and
Tuesday, 3, William Palmer, Esq., on law ; Wednesday, 4,
and Thursday, 5, the Rev. Henry John Parker, on divinity ;
Friday, 6, and Saturday, 7, the Rev. Edward Owen, on rhe-
toric; Monday, 9, Tuesday, 10, and Thursday, 12, Edward
Taylor, Esq., on music, at seven in the evening precisely.