The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BLLIGHTO/i, WEDNESDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Al-
bert went out on horseback, accompanied by the suite. Her
Majesty looked extremely well. The Royal party proceeded
up the Marine Parade, through Kemp Town, towards Rotting-
dean, and returned to the Pavilion, entering the north gate
about eleven o'clock.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by several Staff
Officers, attended a review of the 2d, or Scotch Greys. The
regiment went through several evolutions under the command
of General Sir Keir Grant. their Colonel. His Royal High-
ness was habited in the uniform of the 11th hussars, and re-
turned to the Palace shortly after two o'clock.
Ludy Portman arrived at the Pavilion yesterday evening,
and succeeded Lady Jocelyn as Lady in Waiting.
The Dinner Party this evening included her Majesty the
Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Fer-
dinand of Saxe Cobourg, his Serene Highness Prince Augustus
of Saxe Cobourg, his Serene Highness Prince Leopold of
Saxe Cobourg, Baroness Lehzen, the Earl of Liverpool,
Baron Stockmar, Sir George Cowper, Mr. and the Hon.
Mrs. Anson, General Sir William tKerr Grant, Lieut.-Col.
Clarke, Lieut. -Gen. Upton, Le Capitaine Count le Dagen-
field Schomberg, Le Capitaine de Zaitsch, Lady Fanny How-
ard, Dr. Pretorius, the Lord in Waiting, Lord Rivers, the
Groom in Waiting, Capt. Meyrell, the Everry in Waiting on
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent.
Her Majesty's private band, and the band of the Coldstream
Guards were in attendance in the evening.
Among the calls at the Pavilion this day were Captain and
Mrs, Neale, the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Mr. Laurence,
and Lady Jane Peel, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Osborn, Sir
lligos Falkner, Major Sancombe.
In consequence of the afternoon being rather wet, her Ma-
jesty did not leave the Pavilion.
Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, her Majesty and Prince
Albert took an airing in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness
driving ; this unique turn out attracted much attention. The
Royal suite followed in three carriages and four, attended by
outriders. The Royal party left by the south entrance ; pro-
ceeded along the Kings-road as far as Brunswick-square, turned
up into the Western-road, down North-street and the New-
road, towards the Lewes-road, and continued their course until
they arrived at Stanmer Park, the seat of the Earl of Chiches-
ter. The Royal cortege drove through the beautiful park, and
came out on the Ditchling-road, and returned over the hills to
the Pavilion, entering the north-gate a few minutes before six.
Sir J. Adolphus has arrived at Albemarle House.
Major Bayley has taken up his residence at 45, King's-road.
The Hon. Rice Trevor, M.P., and the Hon. Mr. Carew,
M.P., have left to attend to their Parliamentary duties, but
are expected to return after the division on the Corn-laws.
Lady Clarke has arrived at 98, King's-road.
Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mrs. Fitzgerald are amongst the
latest arrivals at the Norfolk Hotel.

Lord Dillon is occupying a suite of apartments at the Bedford.
Apartments are engaged at the Norfolk Hotel for Lady
Webster. _

Hon. W. Melville has arrived at the Bedford Hotel.
Lady Ridley is still sojourning at the Norfolk Hotel.
Mr. Fitzroy Kelly and Mr. Woodruffe are staying at the
Albion.

Colonel Sir Michael Creagh and the Hon. Mrs. Montague
are amongst the latest arrivals at the Royal Pier Hotel.
Departures.—The Hon. Sir James and Lady Wigram, Hon.
T. 'I ollemache, M.P., and Lady Tollemache.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda visited
her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough
House. In the afternoon her Royal Highness left town for
her residence at Blackheath.

Hastie, M.P., had an interview yesterday with Sir
R. Peel, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Alajor-General Sir Dudley Hill had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Postmaster-General had an interview yesterday with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in
Downing-street.

Mr. John Mantel!, Queen's Advocate of her Majesty's settle-
ments on the Gambia, had an interview yesterday with Lord.
Stanley.
Despatches from Sir Charles Bagot, Governor of the Ca-
nadas, and also from the Governors of New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were also received yesterday at the Colonial- office
from the Governor of British Guiana.

HONESTY.—A few days since a lady left her
bag in an omnibus of the Paddington Conveyance Association;
and its contents being a considerable sum in sovereigns, silver,
and other articles of smaller value, which it was impossible she
could identify, she gave it up as lost. Soon after, however,
the lady was agreeably surprised by having her attention di-
rected to an advertisement for the owner of a bag found. This
turned out to be the same, and was restored to her, when the
contents were found to be exactly as she left them—not a penny
missing.

THE LATE SNOW STORM.--FATAL ACCI-
DENT.—On Saturday se'nnight, a crofter, named John M'Cook, set
out front his own house, near Morven-lodge, in Glengairn, to tras
to Strathdon, to bring home a boll of meal. He had a horse with
him, and having received the meal, left Donside, after which no
tidings of him were heard until Tuesday se'nnight, when his dead
body was found in the snow on the bill between Donside and Glen.
gairn. The horse was still alive, and had remained beside the corpse
of its master.—Caledonian Mercury.

Sir Thomas Fremantle and Sir George Clerk had
interviews with Sir Robert Peel yesterday morning at the residence
of the Right Hon. Baronet in Whitehall Gardens.

Sir Edward Knatchbull had a long interview with
Sir James Graham yesterday morning at the Home-office.

The snow has fallen in such abundance in the Py-
renees, that the houses of the village of Gavarni are said to have
the snow up to their roofs. _

IVe learn from Berlin that the King of Prussia
was expected to arrive there on the 15th. The King of Hanover
it is said is to pay his Majesty a visit.

Prince Louis Napoleon, as the National states, is at
present suffering from rheumatic attacks in his prison at Ham.

On Wednesday last the 9th inst., Hananel
Decastro, Esq., was elected Deputy Chairman of the United
Kingdom Life Assurance Company, in place of William Plas-
ket, Esq., lately deceased, and William Railton, the eminent
architect, was elected a Director of the said Company.

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A CHILD BURIED IN THE BANKS OF THE
Itiv ER.—An inquest was held on Tuesday by Mr. Baker, thecoroner,
at the Gun, High-street, Wapping, on the body of a male child,
name and age unknown. It appeared that on Saturday evening
last, as a dredgerman was at work on the banks of the river at
Limehouse, he found a bask et deeply sunk in the sand, and upon
opening it, the body of the deceased was found. From its decom_
posed state, it could not be ascertained whether death was the re.
suit of violence, or even if the child had been born alive. Verdict
" Found dead."

We mentioned, a short time since, that the carriage
of a gentleman going to Blois, was accidentally destroyed by the
embers of a chaufferette used by a lady inside communicating with
some wicker.work at the back of the vehicle, and setting it on fire.
It appears that a countryman was jogging along on his pony be.
hind the carriage all the time, and saw smoke issuing from it, but
gave no alarm to the persons in it. On being questioned, how he
could be so stupid, he repliede There are so many new inventions
now.a.days that I thought your vehicle was perhaps a steam one."

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How TO LEARN FRENCH.--A friend of ours
on a recent visit to Paris, thought it well to make a virtue of
necessity; and, in order to practise only the language of the
country, so as to acquire facility in speaking it, resolved to
board in a house where no English resided. Being satisfied in
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sion forparticulara
month,inquiries
set
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luggage,respect he agreed for his "
and occupied his allotted
apartment. The first day's dinner hour had arrived, and he had
brushed up his French to meet the numerous party who sat
down to it. Besides the head of the establshment there were
twenty-five at table, and they were _all Americans !