The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and remained
to lunch with her Majesty and Prince Albert, and their
Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians. In the
afternoon, the Royal Duchess, accompanied by the King
and Queen of the Belgians, took an airing in an open
carriage and four.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex visited his
Royal Highness Prince Albert yesterday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the
Princess Royal were taken an airing yesterday in a
carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager Lady
Lyttelton.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking-
ham Palace. The Company included their Majesties the
King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of -Kent, M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian
Minister ; his Excellency Saeed Ali Ben Nasser, Envoy
from, the Imaum of Muscat ; Mahoirted Ben Hamees,
Dragoman to his Excellency; Count Phillippe de Chabot;
Earl of Liverpool, Earl of Aberdeen, Countess of West-
moreland, Right -Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel,
Sir Henry Wheatley, Mr. George .Edward and the liOn.
Mrs. Anson, Countess of Charlemont, Countess de Me-
'rode, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Honourable Miss
Stanley, Hon. Miss Hamilton, Baroness Lehzen, Baron
Stockinet-, Baron de Dieskau, M. de Moerkerke,Viscount
Hawarden, Hon. C. A. Murray, Hon. Sir William Lum-
ley, lion. Colonel Grey, and Colonel Bouverie.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The
company consisted of the Earl and Countess Grosvenor,
and the Ladies E. and M. Grosvenor, Lord Fitzgerald
and Vesci, Sophia Lady Rendlesham and the Hon.
Misses Thellusson, Lord and Lady Colville, Sir George
Couper, Bart.-, Sir Robert Adair, and Captain- Francis
Si ymour (Scots Fusilier Guards).
Her Majesty's private Band was in attendance during
the'evening.
Sir William C. Ross, A.8.A., had the honour of
taking the last sitting for a portrait of the King of the
Belgians, which he has painted, by command of her Ma-
jesty.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, left town at
twelve o'clock yesterday fur Kew.. In the afternoon
their Royal Highnesses visited her Majesty the Queen
Dowager and the I)uehess of Saxe Meiningen, at Bushy
House, Bushy Park.
His Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen,
attended by Baron d'Erffit arrived iii town yesterday
morning from Bushy Park. His -Serene Highness left
Marlborough House at half-past five o'clock, on his re-
turn to Bushy.
Sir Robert Peel arrived in town late on Sunday night
from a visit to Sir Henry .Hardinge, at his seat South
Park, Penshurst. Sir Hubert attended the meeting of
the Privy Council yesterday at the Home-office. The
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Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday morning
from the Priory at Stanmore, and also attended the
meeting at the Home-office. The Earl of Ripon, Lord
Stanley, the Earl of Haddington, Lord Fitzgerald, and
other members of the Cabinet were present ' • and the
Earl of Jersey and other principal officers of the Royal
Household also attended. Sir Henry Hardinge arrived
in town yesterday, and joiued the other members of the
Privy Council at the Home-office at too o'clock. The
Attorney-General wa4 in attendance. Before the exa-
mination Sir Ribert Peel went to Buckingham Palaee,
and soon after four o'clock, when the meeting broke up,
the Right Hon. Baronet again went to Buckingham
Palace.