The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, and partook of a dejeune with her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert, their Majesties the King and Queen
of the Belgians, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Lein-
ingen, at Buckingham Palace.
His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen paid visits
yesterday (to take leave) to her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
at Marlborough House, and to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and the other
members of the Royal Family.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday
in a carriage. Her Majesty went to Buckingham Palace,
and also paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the
Royal. Gardens of Bockirghani Palace.
The Royal Family were taken their accustomed airings
yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, Lads Anna Maria
Dawson, the Earl of Liverpool, and Lord and. Lady Wham
cliffe.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma-
jaesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House.
her Royal Highness the Duchess-of Gloucester, and their
Serene Highnesses the Prince of Leiningen and Prince
Edward of. Saxe 'Weimar, visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the
Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe,
the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Earl
of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Sir Henry Hardinge, and
Sir Edward Knatchbull. The Council sat an hour and a
half.

His Majesty the King of Hanover bas been most gra-
ciously pleased to present to Mr. Sheriff Moon, by the hand
of his Minister Plenipotentiary, Count Kielmansegge, a most
splendid sapphire ring, surrounded with brilliants, in ac-
knowledgment of a fine original portrait drawing, by the late
Sir Thomas Lawrence, of his Royal Highness, the Crown
Prince of Hanover.
Count de St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador transacted
business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-
Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re-
ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. - Dispatches were
also received yesterday from the Lord High Commissioner of
the lonian Islands, and from the Governors of New South
Wales and Sit rra Leone.

ATIONALANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY OF EXETER-
HALL AND MARK-LANE.—The officers of the above Society
have exerted themselves much during the Easter holidays;
they having prosecuted no less than twelve cases of wanton
cruelty at Stepney and Greenwich fairs, all of whom were
severally fined from five to ten shillings.
RELEASE OF CHARTIST PRISONERS.—Four Chartists,
named William Moorhouse, John Fairhurst, Robert Wild,
and James Wild, were liberated from Knutsford House of
Correction on Thursday last, about four months before the
expiration of the term of their imprisonment. These parties
were tried before Lord Abinger, at the Chester Assizes, 1842,
on charges of sedition, &c., arising out of the part they took
at various meetings near Hyde during the great turn-out
factory operatives.
FATAL GIG Accinuisr.--Yesterday, a feW
mi-
nutes before twelve, A.M., Mr. John Standon, livery-stable
keeper, of William-street, New-cut, Lambeth, expired in
Charing-cross Hospital. It appears that the unfortunate
deceased was, on Friday last, driving a gig along Regent-
street, in company with a friend, when the horse suddenly
took fright, and started off at the top of his speed. His
friend jumped from the vehicle and escaped with a few slight '
bruises only, but Mr. Standon was thrown out with consider-
able violence when opposite the Duke of York's column, and,
pitching upon his head, he sustained a fracture of the skull.
of which he died yesterday. The gig was shattered to atom's
by its coming in contact with the lamp-post.