The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on
Wednesday it eluded the L-Rd Chancellor and Lady
Lyndhurst, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Liver-
pool, the Earl Delawarr, the Earl and Countess of Arun-
del atid Surrey, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, the
Right Hon. Sir George Cockburn, the Right Hon. Sir
John Hobhouse and Mr. Hallam.

Her Majesty's prirate band attended in the Palace
after dinner.
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The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the royal
gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of her Majesty yes-
terday.
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an
airing in the royal gardens yesterday.
The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yes'
terday included the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of
Granby, the Earl and Countess Bruce, the Earl and
Countess of Verulam, and Lady Jane Grimston, Lord
and Lady Dalmeny, and Lord and Lady Leveson.
In the evening his Royal Highness the Hereditary
Grand Duke of hfecklenburgh Strclitz, his Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Earl and
Countess Delawarr, and Lady Mary Seavflle West,
Lady Anne Primrose, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley,
and the Misses Wheatley, Mr. George Edward and the
Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Captain the lion. James Many,
joined the royal circle at the Palace.
His Excellency the Minister of the Netherlands was
prevented from attending her Majesty's Levee on Wed-
nesday, in consequence of Mademoiselle Dedel having
recently had the measles.
A deputation from the North Wales Railway Com-
pany, consisting of Sir John Rennie, Mr. Archer, anst
Mr. Johnson, transacted business at the Railway De-
partment of the Board of Trade yesterday.
Mr. Dowding, Surveyor-General of Customs, Mr.
Amend, Collector of Liverpool, Mr. lier, Collector of
Bristol, and Mr. Maclean had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr.
Dean, Chairman of the Customs, yesterday,
The Attorney-General transacted business yesterday
at the Home• office.

Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Sir
W. James, Sir J. Ilanmer, and a deputation from the
manufacturers of Turpentine, had an interview with Sir
George Clerk on Wednesday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.

The Earl of Powis, Mr. Clive, and Mr. SpoDner, M.P.,
had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie on Wed-
nesday, at the office of the Board of Trade.

WOOLWICH, MARCH s,—The Erebus and Terror,
experimental vessels, were commissioned at Woolwich
on Tuesday, and the following officers have been ap-
pointed to them :—To the Erebus—Captain Sir John
Franklin, MCAT., to have the command of the Arctic
expedition; Commander James Fitzjames (1842), for-
merly commander of the Clio, 16-gun sloop on the East
Indian station ; Lieutenant Henry T. D. Le Vescomte
(1841), formerly serving in the Clio; Mate Charles F.
Des Vceux (1844), from the Excellent gunnery-ship, at
Portsmouth; 'Second Master H. F. Collins, from the
Shearwater steam-vessel, employed by Captain Wash-
ington in the surveying service; Clerk G. F. Tinhorn,
Gunner J. G. Robinson, Boatswain J. G. Terry, Car-
penter W. Weekes. To the Terror—Captain F E. M.
Crozier (1841), Lieutenant Edward Little (1831),
Lieutenant G. H. Hodgson (1842), Carpenter Thomas
Honey. The serew-propeller steam-frigate, ordered to
be built upon Mr. Lang's plan, is to be named the Watt.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Orange gave a most splendid Lai costume last week at
their
rpalace
at
the
Hague, at which the King and Queen
of Holland, the Ministers of State, the members of the
corps diplomatique, and upwards of six budred of the
elite of the city were assembled. After the arrival of the
King and Queen in the saloon, a procession of fifty-
five couples passed before their Majesties, attired
in character, mostly from Sir Walter Scott's "Quentin
Durward." Three sets of quadrilles were subs.-
Mr. Hudson
Prince
Lowe, Alexandersirstraff
quently formed, viz., a quadrille of Highlanders(in
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Strafford Baronland
V. Hardenbrock, Count do Noailles, and Baron V. Bo-
gaude, were remarkable for their superb dresses)
quadrille in costumes of the period of Louis XV., and a
quadrille representing characters of the time of Francois
L The Prince of Orange represented Louis XV., and
in the course of the evening appeared as Louis XIII.
The Princess of Orange was attired as Constance of
Arragon, and Princess Frederick of the Netherlands as
Jeanne de France. The Queen of Holland's costume,
that of Margueritte d'Anjou, was literally covered with
brilliants and other precious gems. Their Royal High-
nesses Prince and Princess Frederick of the Nether-
lands will also shortly give a bat costume, in conse-
quence of the ecki with which the one given by his royal
brother went off.

Lord Middleton has given the sum of 100/.
towards the funds for the erection o the Ronne Ott:tolls
Church in Lambeth.
day
last COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.— OD ,r; J. u.y
last the election of Lord Rector of the Marischal Cogent, Aberdeen,
fir the ensuing year took place, when Mr. Sheriff Alltson, of Lanark-
shire, was chosen by a considerable majority of all thd uatieui
the Right Lim T, B .Macaulay,