The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,
his Excellency- Count Mensdorf and his sons, visited her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at her
residence, Clarence House, St. James's.

Their 'Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duke of Cambridge, visited the King and Quten
of the Belgians yesterday morning, at Buckingham PalaCe.
.His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
bis Excellency Count Mensdorf, the Duke of Welling-
ton, and the Counts Hugh, Alphonso, Alexander, and
Arthur Mensdorf, honoured Mr. Babbage with a visit
yesterday, at his residence in Dorset-street.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday.

The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accom-
panied by the Hon. Lady Lyttelton, were taken their ac-
customed airing yesterday.
The Royal Dinner-party at Buckingham Palace in-
cluded their Majesties the King and Queen of the Bel-
gians, his Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, M. Van
de Weyer, the Belgian Minister ; Lady Anna Maria
_Dawson, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Melbourne, •
Lord George Lennox, Right Hon: Sir James and Lady
Graham, Countess de Merode, Baron de Dieskau, M. de
Moerkerke, and Sir George Couper, Bart.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The
company consisted of his Royal Highness Prince George
of Cambridge, the French Ambassador and the Countess
de St, Aulaire, Baron de Barante, M. de Barante,
Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister .; the Duke
of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland,
and the Ladies Elizabeth and Evelyn Gower, the Earl,
and Countess of Delawarr, and the Ladies Elizabeth
and Mary West, Earl and Lady Catherine Jermyn, Earl
and Countess of Jersey,
..and Lady Clemintina Villiers,

Earl and Countess of Haddingto'n, Earl and Countess
Stanhope, and Lady W ilhelmina Stanhope, Earl of
Liverpool, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Viscount
Clifton, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Baroness
Keith, and Maddle. de Flahault, and Maddle G. do
Flahault, Lord Alfred and Lady Adelaide Paget, Mr. G.
Edward Anson, Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley.
The yearly impection of her Majesty's Body Guard of
the Yeomen of the Guard took place at St. James's Pa-

lace on Tuesday, ►hen thil whole of the corps was in-
spected by the Captain, the Earl of Beverley, attended
by the Clerk of the Cheque and the other Officers of_ the
corps. _ _ .

The Lords of her • Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council held a meeting yesterday morning in the office
of the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer for the trial
of her Majesty's coins in the Pix of the Mint. The
Lords present were—the Lord Chancellor, Lord \Vharn-
c iffi, the Lord .President, Right Hon. H. Goulburn,
Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Monteagle, COmptrol- •
ler-General of the Exchequer ; the Duke of Buceleuch,
Lord Privy Seal ; Earl of Haddington, First Lord of the
Admiralty ; Lord -Fitzgerald, President of the Board of
Control ; Sir Henry Hardinge, Secretary at War ;- Lord
Lowther, Post-•Master-General ; Right Hen. W; E: Glad-
stone, Master of the Mint; and Lord Bexley.
The Lord Chancellor charged the Jury (composed of
Goldsmiths) relative to their assay of the specimens of
the- different coinages, gold and silver, deposited in
the Pix of the Mint since the last trial. - At the conclu-

sion of his address, his Lordship delivered the trial-
plates to the Jury, and appointed four o'clock, in the
House of Lords, to receive their verdict, should they
by that time have finished the assaying of all the coinages.
The Foreman of . the Jury invited the Lord Chan-

cellor and all the Privy Councillors present to dine with
the Goldsmiths' Company, in their Hall in the evening.
The French Ambassador and the Swedish Charge
d'Affaires transacted business at the Foreign-office.
A model illustration of an improved mode of stopping
and preventing. collision in railroad travelling was on
Tuesday submitted by Mr. Lee to the Earl of Ripon
and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, at the office of the
Board of Trade.

The Cabinet Ministers dined with Lord Stanley yes-
terday, at his residence in St. James's-square.
Captain Fitzroy had an interview with the Earl of
Ripon yesterday, at.the office of the Board of Trade.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes-
terday. The Lords present were the Lord President,
Lords Wynford, Brougham, and Campbell, and the
Judge of the Prerogative Court.
" Smith v. Fell," from the Prerogative Court of Can-
terbury,..and "Sparrow v.- Harrison, . from the Dean of
Arches, were heard and disposed of.
Sir William and Lady Gomm have left Farranee's
Hotel for Chester.

FOREIGN STEAM-VESSELS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Silt,—l have been much pleased with the manner in
which you have exposed the unjustifiable hostility shown
by the Belgian Government, under cover of the Antwerp
Company, to English steam-vessels. This is very dif-
ferent conduct to what is experienced by Belgian steamers
in British ports. Indeed' consider-the indulgence shown
to these steamers, in many instances, most unfair to-
wards 'the vessels of our own country. By what authe-.
rity, for instance, does the BritiSh Queen, now Belgian
property, call at Southampton and take in passengers fur
New York, haVing Made • her clearance at the port she
.belongs to l?. and. thus, in a.manner, robbing the British.
sh4aowner of hii fair freight. What, I would ask, would
become of an English ship were. she to attempt to call at
a foreign port under similar circumstances ? The owners
would be made to pay dearly for their trial. Again, by
what arrangement are these foreign ships brought higher
up the River than Limehouse, that being the limit
wisely laid down and adhered to until it became the
fashion to give up the interest of British shipowners for
distribution among, foreigners, in which they have been
in nowise backward of availing themselves ?
' I really hope something will be done to check the un-
due support afforded to the enemies of the British ship-
ping interests.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
June 22, 1842. AN ENGLISHMAN.