The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-06 00:00:00

CO al' CI ULAIL,

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Frithy after-
neon, at hali•past two o'clock, at Bmknigharn Palace.
Iler Majesty and Prince Albert, attendt..d by the
Countess of Charleinont and the Gentlealen of the royal

suite returned to Osborne House, after an excursion in
the royal yacht, at half-past five o'clock on Monday

afternoon.
There was no addition to the royal dinner party i❑ the
evening.
Yesterday morning their Royal Ilieanesses the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Roytir, and the Princess Alice,

were taken an airing in an open carriage.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Usborne House at
half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, and em-
barked in the Fairy steam-packet to meet his Majesty
the King of the Netherlands.
The King of the Netherlands, after his return to town,
on Monday evening, from dining with the Queen Dow-
ager, at Bushy Park, went, uttenthd by M. Boud, ,
Viscount Hawarden, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count
Bylandt, and the Hon. Captain Hood, to honour Cvlonel
and Lady Laura Meyrick Nish his company at•the Grand
Ball given at their new residence in Curzon-street.,
ly the town residence of her Royal Highness the
late Princess Sophia Matilda. his being the first lace
given by the Colonel and Lady Laura since the altertr •

tion and refitting of the mansion,
The King arrived soon after twelve o'clock, and was
met on the grand staircase by Colonel Meyrick, who
conducted his Majesty into the principal thawing-room,
or ball-room, where Lady Louisa Meyrick received the
august visitor.
Coliinet's band, which was stationed in this apartment,
commenced playing a Dutch national air on his Majestys
entrance,.

His Royal Highness Prince George, and his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who also
arrived from .Bushy Park, followed immediately after
the King.
At half-past twelve o'clock his Majesty and Lady
Laura, Meyriek, followed by Prince George, Prince
Edward of Saxe Weimar, and Colonel Meyrick, and the
distinguished visitors, descended from the ball-room to
the dining-room, where a most sumptuous supper WO
served.
At ten minutes past one o'clock the King of the
Netherlands, attended by his suite, and also by Viscount
Hawarden, and the lion. Captain Hood, the Lord and,
Groom in Waiting, took his departure, being conducted
to the entrance-hall by Colonel Meyrick.
Among the company to meet his Majesty were Baron
de Cetto, Bavarian Minister ; Prince Castelcicala, Sici-
lian Minister ; the Danish Minister and Countess Re'
ventlow, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Duchess of
Grafton, the Marchioness of Londonderry and Lady A'
Vane, the Marquis of Wii,chester, the Marchioness of
Westmeath, the Countess of Essex, the Countess of
Jersey and the Ladies Clementina and Adela Villiers, the
Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary Sackville West'
Lord Cantilupe, the Countess Brownlow, the Countess St,
Germans and Lady Louisa Eliot, the Earl and Countess
Beauchamp, the Earl of liinnoull, Viscount and ViS'
countess Palmerston, and about, three hundred of the
principal nobility and gentry.
Dancing was resumed after his Majesty's departUret
and was kept up until near five o'clock.
Yesterday morning, at a quarter past nine o'clock, the
King left town, in one of the Queen's carriages, for the
terminus of the South-Western Railway, and took hie
departure by a special train, en route to the Isle of Wight"
to pay a visit to the Queen and Prince Albert.
The gentlemen of his Majesty's suite left town in the
forenoon for Windsor Castle, returning in the afternoon
to Mivart's Hotel.
The King returned to town at a quarter before seven
o'clock, from paying a visit to her Majesty.
The King of the Netherlands honoured the Earl Deli'
warr, Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, with his company
at dinner yesterday, at his Lordship's residence in Upper
Grosvenor-street.
The company consisted of his Majesty the King of
the Netherlands, his Royal Highness Prince Georges
his Excellency Baron Dedel, his Excellency M. Bond'
Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count Bylandt, the Earl e_
Wilton, Viscount Hawarden, Lord and Lady Ernest
Bruce, Lord and Lady de Kos, Mr. and Lady Elizabetn,
Hastings Russell, Lady Mary Sackville West, Viscount
Cantilupe, Captain the Hon. Mortimer Sackville %Vest'
and the Earl and Countess Delawarr.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by
their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe Wre';
mar and the Princesses Anna and Amelie of Sax
Weimar, arrived at Marlborough House, in a carriage
and four, soon after six o'clock yesterday afternoudt
from her residence, Bushy House, Bushy Park. La
Gore and the lion. Miss Gore followed in another °ir'

rise and four.
he Queen Dowager, the Duchess Ida of SI
Weimar, Prince Edward, and the Princesses Anna I`l3l
Amelia of Saxe Weimar, honoured the performaneev;
the Italian Jpera with their presence yesterday ererg:,l•evi
The Rev. Dr. Smith, of Triaidad, had an 'Me" -
with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial office,' „ter,
The Bavarian Minister, the United States 3111:"'
and Count de Jarnac, French Charge d'Affaires,
sgeted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. , the
The Commission for promoting and encouraging
Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster,
held a meeting at half-past two o'clock yesterday after-
noon at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, Lord Colbert],
Viscount Mahon, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Ben'
jamin Ha.ii es, &e., attended. The meeting broke up
soot after four o'clock.
The lion. Captain Hotham, Chairman of the Brigli:
ton and Chichester Railway Company, Mr, Rowland
Hill, Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway
Company, and a deputation, had an interview with the
Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the oilice of the Board
of Trade.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the Pe;
puty Governor had an interview with the Chancellor 0'
the Exchequer yesterday.
Sir Robert Schomburgh and Mr. Black had an ater
view yesterday with Lou' Stanley.
tionort
Lady Peel left town yesterday for Drayton
Staffordshire.
Dispatches from the Governors of the West ,
JO
Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-(0e-"
yo.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-Genera'
the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Neti°,3l4.,/
Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview yesterwl
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The chiiirtts
of the Customs had also an interview with the n'b
lion. Gentleman.