The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen received an Address of Congratulation yesterday
morning from the Eton Scholars, which was presented to her
Nlajesty in the Grand Hall by the two Senior Scholars, Messrs.
Browning and Hulse, just previous to her departure from
Windsor Ca,tle for town.

The Address was most graciously received, and her Majesty
and Prince Albert quitting the Castle directly afterwards (at
half-past eb.ven o'clock), were most enthusiastically cheered by
the Eton scholars, who had assembled on the Mount.

Her Majesty and the Royal Suite were escorted from Wind-
sor, by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, to the
Slough Station of the Great Western Railway, and were con-
veyed by a special train to the Paddington terminus, where the
Royal equipages were waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Excel-
lency Count Mensdorf, and Count Hugh Mensdorf, arrived at.
Buckingham Pollee, escorted by a party of Hussars, at twenty
minutes before one o'clock, and were received by the Lord
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and Lord George
Lennox, Lord-in-Waitirg on Prince Albert. The CoUnts
Alphonso, Alexander and Arthur Mensdorf, and the Countess
,f Dunmore, followed in another carriage; and also the Hon
Misses Stanley and Hamilton, the Maids of Honour in waiting.
Their Royal Hignesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton and
Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, arrived at Buckingham
Palace from Windsor Castle, at a quarter past one o'clock.
Her Majesty hel l a Court and Privy Council at Buckingham
Palace, after her arrival.

At the Court, Sir James Graham; her Majesty's Principal
Secretary of State for the Home Department, presented the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman Magnay,
and Mr. Rogers, accompanied by the City Remembrancer.
to the Queen, at an audience, to receive her Majesty's com-
mands relative to the presentation of a congratulatory Address,
from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of
London. Her Majesty was pleased to appoint Wednesday next
(to-morrow) at two o'clock, for the reception of the Address.
Count Kielmanseg4e, the Hanoverian Minister, had an au-
dience of the Queen. His Excellency was introduced by the
Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., her Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Hobert
Chester, Master of the Ceremonies.

The Privy Council was attended by hii Royal Highness
Prince Albert, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Presi-
dent, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the Frst Lord
of the Treasury, the Duke of Wellington, the Secretaries of
State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the
First Lord of the Admiralty, the Presidcnt of the Board of
Control, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Lord Chamberlain,
and the Master of the Horse.

At the Cdtancil the Queen made a declaration, signifying her
approbation of the marriage of his Royal Highness Prince
George of Cumberland with the Princess Alexandrina Mary,
daughter of his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Alten-
burg. _

A
Proclamation was ordered to be issued respecting a new
coinage of II alf-tart hings.
The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in
waiting.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Sir Robert Peel, the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Fitzgerald, and Lord Wharncliffe.
The Court was attended by the Marquis of Exeter, Groom
of the Stele to Prince Albert, the Vice Chamberlain, the
Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the House-
held, and Lord Hill, Gold• Stick in waiting.
Lord Rivers and Mr. Ormsby Gore were the Lord and
Groom in Waiting, and Lord Charles Wellesley (Clerk Mar-
shal) the Equerry in Waiting.
Messrs. Magnay and Rogers, the Sheriffs of London and
Middlesex, had an audience of his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The
Sheriffs were accompanied by the City Remembrancer.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Counts Mensdorf, and attended by the Countess of Dunmore,
Lord Rivers, Lord Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater,
honoured the performance of the French plays with their pre-
sence last evening.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady
Anna Maria Dawson, arrived at her residence, Clarence House,
St. James's, at six o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Frogmore
LoOge, Windsor. In the evening her Royal Highness, attended
by Lady A. M. Dawson and Colonel Sir George Cooper,
Bart., honoured the performance of the German Opera with
her presence.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princesses Augusta and
Mary of Cambridge, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager
yesterday at Marlborough House.
Theft Serene Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe
Meiningt n, and the Hereditary Prince, the Duchess Ida and
the Princes and Princesses of Saxe Weimar, and their respec-
tive suites, visited and inspected, yesterday, the Bank of Eng-
land, the Royal Mint, the East ILdia House, and other public
buildings in the metropolis.
Despatches from the Governer of Gibraltar were received
yesterday at the Colonial-office.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.
Novelty is the order of the day at this house, and in making
it so Oxberry shows his good sense. Novelty and enterprise
are the two great elements of success in these days, and whezi
judgment is added to them, success is certain. Last evening
he produced two new pieces, both of which were decidedly suc-
cessful. The first was entitled The Kiss, or Bertha's Bridal.
This is a fairy tale of the Mountain Syiph school, depending
for its success mainly upon the music and the scenery. The
latter does great credit to the pencil of Mr. Nicol& The moon-
light view of the Fairy Lake struck us as exceedingly beau-
tiful. The music is by Mr. Clement White, and evinces great
taste and considerable originality. The melodies are very
sweet, and from this specimen of his abilities as a
composer, we hope the day is not far distant when
we may expect to meet him as the composer of a regular
classical opera. The other novelty was a glorious pieee of
fun in two acts, from the pen of our old friend Peeke, entitled
Uncle Rip, .1 he materials of which this farce is composed are
exceedingly sight, but it is full of fun and pun from beginning
to end, and kept the audience on the constant grin. It turns
(von a series of mistakes, consequent upon there being two Mr.
R. Falcons. One Mr. Roderick ( Hemming), a quiet, staid
youth, who is ardently attiched to Sophia Jennings (Miss
Hughes), and is, consequently, exceedingly desirous to be in-
troduced to her guardian, Mr. Twitter (a. Mathews), an old
procter ; and the other, Mr. Rippirigton (Harley), uncle to
Roderick, Uncle Rip, as Roderick calls him, a regular rollick-
ing old boy, who plays all sorts of mischievous pranks, " just
for the fun of the thing." By mistake he gets a note intended
for Roderick, inviting him down to Old Twitter's country-1)06e,
where archery, rifle-sheoting, and various other aristocratic
amusements are going on, the whole to be
wound up with a turtle and venison dinner, cooked
in a patent steam-kitchen. Uncle Rip arrives, gives
various hints about " wetting his whistle" to the honour of the
ladies; makes love to the housekeeper, to the horror of her
husband, a black footman, excellently acted by Oxberry ; shat-
ters a tureen of turtle by making it his target for rifle-shoot-
ing; and ends by turning the steam off from the steam•kitchen.
when Old Twitter turns him off the premises. Voderick soon
after arrives, when all is explained, and the curtain falls. Har-
ley came forward at the conclusion, and " just for the fun of
the thing," announced the piece for repetition every evening,
to which the audience signified their unanimous assent. We
advise all who enjoy a hearty laugh to call on Uncle Rip at the
Lyceum, "just for the fun of the thing." Pretty Miss Murray.
with her crew of Water Witches followed, and the evening's
entertainments concluded with the drama of Lucille, in which
the acting of Miss Faucit. as the heroine, was beautifully pathe-
tic. This very talented young lady bids fair to become, in do-
mestic tragedy, what her sister already is in tragedy of a higher
order. The,house was very well filled.