The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Wales and the Princess Royal, took an airing yesterday
morning in an open barouche and four. The Equerries in
Waiting, CoroneLs Arbuthnot and Bouverie, were in attend-
ance on horseback.

The Princess Alice and Prince Alfred were taken for pony
and walking exercise yesterday, in the royal gardens of .Buck-
ingham Palace.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for promoting
and encouraging the Fne Arts in the rebuilding of the Palace
of Westminster. His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel
Bouverie, arrived at Gwydyr House at a quarter before three
o'clock. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Colborne, the
Right Hon. the Speaker of the Douse of Commons, Sir
Robert Peel, Lord Mahon, the Right lion. T. B. Macaulay,
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., Mr.
Henry Hallam, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Thomas Wyse.
The meeting broke up at half past four o'clock.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal, and attended by the Lady in Waiting, took
an airing in a carriage and four yesterday afternoon. Colonel
Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting, attended on horseback.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Ernest of
Hesse Philippstahl, Sarim Effendi, Turkish Ambassador, and
Monet Agop, Secretary, Interpreter of the Embassy; the
Saxon Minister and the Baroness de Gersdorff; Ladynna
Maria Dawson, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and Countess of Haddington, the
Countess Wratislaw, Lord George Lennox, and the Hon. and
Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay.
Her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester has been
slightly indisposed during the last few days. Yesterday her
Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. Misses
Mitchell and Eden, paid a visit to her Royal Highness at
Gloucester House.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her resi-
dence, Frogmore House, shortly before three o'clock yester-
day afternoon, for town, and arrived at Clarence House, St.
James's, at five o'clock, attended by Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, Countess W'ratislaw, and Sir George Cooper.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Princess
Sophia yesterday at Kensington.
The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden.—Her Royal
highness, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder:ndeß: oan:
Roth de Schreckenstem, visited the Bank of England yeskr.
day forenoon. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Mutster,
accompanied the Grand Duchess during her inspectiPAa of the
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Dispatches for the Governor-General of Cana. da and for
the Governors of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were sent
off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office.
The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland has arrived at her re-.
sidence in Seymour-place for the season, from her seat Newton
House, Yorkshire.

MAIDS OF HONOUR, A TALE OF THE COURT 01' GEORGE I.—This work is exciting considerable atten-
tion. Besides affording us (observes the New Monthly
Magazine) a view of almost all the celebrated characters
of the period, the work 'introduces us to the scenes in
which they flourished. At Court we are taken to the
levee, to the state ball, to the King's musical parties, to
his Majesty's curious interviews with his mistresses, to
the King's Cabinet, to the private apartments of the
Prince and Princess of Wales, to the pleasant company
in Mrs. Howard's room, to the love-making going on in
the apartments of the maids of honour, to the Arcadian:
amusements at Hampton Court, and to behold various
other glimpses of Palace life. Besides which, we enter
the fashionable chocolate-houses, participate in one of
the carousals of the Hell-fire Club, and stop at q certain
villa at Twickenham to see Pope declaring his passions
for the seductive Lady Mary Wortley Mont-Ague. More-
over we are present at all the assignations, elopements,
abductions, duels, conferences, and crAitidences, in which
the maids of honour are coneernell, and are thus enabled
to enjoy as varied a dish of gallantry, sentiment, Rad
as ever wet re9-,,nted to the reader in the shape •
of three volumes,

ROYAL SCV....SY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—This
fs-
voured pke of amusement will shortly put forth its
attrackions for the season. We have been favoured with
a view of the works, so nearly arrived at completion,
and could scarce believe our eyes—new and elegant
crection3 in every part, and the entire completely reno-
vated and decorated.

On Thursday morning, between two and three
o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr, J. Tuck-
field, wholesale watch manufacturer, No. 7, Church-
street, Spitalficlds, which was not subdued until conai•
derable property had been destroyed.