The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge took an
airing in a carriage in the Parks yesterday.
Lord Santini:, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., Mr. Mas-
terman, and a deputation of wholesale grocers, consisting of
Mr. George Crosfield, Mr. Absaloin, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Gra-
ham, Mr. Heap, Mr. Wainwright, and Mr. Henry Crosfield,
had an interview with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday, at the official residence of the
Right Hon. Baronet in Downing-street.
Archdeacon Marriott had an interview with Lord Stanley
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the ExcheqUer yesterdity.
A deputation from the Lincoln, York, and Leeds nailway,
consisting of Mr. Singleton, director, Mr. Leather, engineer,
Mr. Lang, Parliamentary agent, and Mr. Blackburn and Mr.
W. B. James, solicitors, transacted business yesterday at the
Railway Department of the Board of Trade.
A deputation of Sugar Refiners, consisting of Messrs.
Davis, Martineau, Faiirie, Hodgson, Lucas, ad% Robert
Macfil, and Kirkland, had an interview with Sir Rcbert Peel
and the Chancellor of the Exchequer' yesterday.
The Rev. Dr. Stewart had an interview with Lord Stan-
ley yesterday.
Mr John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter.
view yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. Barclay, M.P., attended the Board of Trade yeater•
day, and presented a memorial from Sunderland in favour
of the Direct Northern line of railroad from London to York.
Sir Moses Monteflore, and a deputation of gentlemen of
the Jewish persuasion, had an interview with Sir R. Peel
yesterday.
Mr. Wodehouee, MY., had an interview with Lord
Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an
interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
ai-o
Mr. Charles Pressly, had also an interview with the Right
Hon. Gentleman.
Dispatches for the Governor of New Zealand were sent
oseffnff t yesterday:last fervoemninthge
fromeol ttlffice. Dispatches were also
Colonial-office for the oni
Go-
vernor of Malta, and also for the Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.
Viscount and Viscountess Berehaven have arrived at Far-
rance's Hotel, from Brighton.

THE COURT AT BRIGHTON.
BRIGHTON, FEB. I9.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert, at-
tended by Colonel Wylde, the Equerry in Waiting, walked
on the Chain-pier for some time.
In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert drove out
in their pony-chaise.
Mr. G. E. Anson, secretary to Prince Albert, left the Pa-
vilion yesterday for London.
The dinner this evening will be augmented by the pre-
sence of the Marquis and Marchioness-of Donegal, Captain
Frederick Seymour, the Earl and Countess of Kinnoul, Lord
and Lady George Seymour, and the Duke and Duchess of
St. Albans.

LADY CECILIA FARRENCOURT. A NOVEL. BY
HENRY MILTON, ESQ.—
It affords us real pleasure to be
able fully to confirm in our report on Mr. Milton's
second work of fiction, the high anticipations which were
excited by his first book, entitled" Rivalry." We have
no hesitation in saying that " Lady Cecilia Farrencourt"
very greatly surpasses it. In excellence of plot, which
is the most important, yet incomparably the rarest fea-
ture of a modern novel, the present work has been
equalled by very few recent productions of a similar
kind ; and in its general knowledge of actual life in all
its phases, it is worthy to stand beside the productions of
the writer's distinguished relative, Mrs. Trollope ; tht re
are scenes of humour and of satire in it that would in no
degree discredit that inimitable writer. The two lead-
ing characters of the work are the incomparable Lady
Cecilia herself, and the indescribable and inimitable Mr.
Simon Cummins Anent, the one representing tbe highest
and most superfine of our May-fair aristocracy, and the
other being an equally significant type of that apper-
taining to the City ; the aristocracy of the breeches
pocket and the banker's book. The capital way in
which these two individuals are played off against each
other throughout the work affords scope for an unfail-
ing succession of interest and entertainment, and for
several scenes that are not surpassed in any similar fic-
tion of the last few years.—A'aval and Military Gazette.