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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Cseeen will hold a Friq Council this afternoon ae
Buckingham' Palace.
Her Majesty had a dinner party on Wednesday at Backing-
; ham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, their Serene Iliglaresses the Duke and Dn-
' chess of Saxe illeiningen, the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Mei-
ningen, her Serene Highness the Duchess. Ida of Saxe
: Weimar, his Excellency Count Mensdosf, the Counts
Hugo, Alpb,onso, Alexander, and Arthur Mensderf
Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister ; the Duchess of Bug:-
el:nu& Lady Portman, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Hcu. 'Mies
Liddell, Hon. Miss Paget, Baroness Lehsen, Earl of Liverpool,
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Hill, Lord Forester, Colonel brtoti,
ar
tsar,
Lord Rivers, Hon.ticurd'Effvrea,Matiau C. A.
de Kaasifrr3ul.aLvt: Captainbeek,Baro3ie)Stnotentke,
Lord Charles Wellesley, and Sir Edward Bowater.
The band of the Royal Artillery ettended during dinner.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening, party. The com-
pany included the MarqurS of lie.aelfort and Lady Olivia Tas-
lour, the Fart Howe, Earl and Countess of Westmoreland,
Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley, Sir George and Lady Coup,er,
Mr. George Edward. soad the Hon. Mrs. Anson. and Czlenet
Berkeley Drummond.
The Count Mensolerf, attended by Captain Frar.eis Seyraett,
visltt el the Pelyreelinie Institution yesterday.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanies! be Count
Mensdor f, and attended by Lady. Portman, Lord Charles Weis
lesley, and Sir Edward Bowater, visited Westminster Abbey
Yestenlay. On leaving the sacred edifice her Majesty stet
Prince Albert, Count. Menstlorf, and Lady Portman entered 4.14
open barouehe and four, ant! took an airing, attended by Lord
Charles Wellesley anti Sir Edward Bowater, the Equerries in
Waiting, on horseback.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of her Majesty yesterday.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing yesterday
forenoon in a carriage and four.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday in.
eluded her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lade Anna
Maria Dawson, end Captain Francis Seymour (Scots 'Fusilier
Guirds).
The band of the Coldstream Guards attended during dinner.
Her Majesty had afterwards an evening pa.ty. The com-
pany consisted of his Hoyal Highness Prince George of Cam-
bridge, the Wurtemberg Minister and -the Baroness de Hugel ;
Baron de Nicumarm, the Austrian Minister ; the Earl and
Countess Delawarr and the Ladies Elizabeth and Mere West ;
the Earl of Liverpool and Selina Viscountees Milton ; Earl
and Countess Jersey and
_Lady Clementine Villiers ; Earl of
Uxbridge and the Ladies Eleanora and Constance Paget; Ease
and Countess of Rusebery anti the Ladies Primrose ; the Earl
Somers. and Lady Caroline Cocks ; the Earl and Cetnitees
Grosvenor and the Ladies Grosvenor; Viscoant and Ties
countess Jocelyn ; Lord Cautilirpe, Lee d Paget, lion. Chas.
Gore, lion. Sidney Herbert, Sir Henry and Lardy Wheatley,
Hon. Sophia .Wheatley and Miss Mary Wheatley , Mr. George
Edgard and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
The inquiries among the Nobility and Gentry at Bucking-
ham Palace on Tuesday and yesterday included Viscount and
Visceuntess Hawarden, Countess of Kingston, Countees of
Selkirk and Lady Katherine Douglas, Hon. Charles and Lady
Isabella Hope, Countess Dowager of Dunmore, Earl and Coun-
tess of Sandwich, Ear) of Arran, Earl of Effingham Earl of
Seafield anti Lady Jane Grant, Countess Dowager of C,:rneath,
Earl and Countess of Poulett, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Wallace.
Dowager Viscountess Galway, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lady
Wetherell, Colonel and Mrs. Charles Sharve, Dean of Here-
ford, Colonel and Mrs. Walton, Hon. Miss Monckton, Mrs.,
Rice Trevor, Mr. J. Balfour, M.P. ; Mr. H. and the Misses
Murray, Lord Walsingham, Mr. and Mrs. Law, Miss and Miss
Frederica Law, Mrs. Henry Coe Goalie, Colonel Sir George
Couper, Mr. Angerstein, Sir 1. Fremantle, Lord Fitzroy
merset, Lord Skeltuersdale and Miss Bootle Wilbraham, Hos,
Captain Thomas arelMrs. Best, Mr. and Lady Mary Stephen -:
son, Lord and Lady l.ilford, Lord and Lady W. oreley, Mr. and:
Mrs. W. Erle, Lieut.-. Colonel Wylde, Colonel and Mrs. Me
-
belly, and Lord de L'hlc.
The Queen Dowager, accompanied by ills Duchieses- of
Saxe Meiningen and Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday in
an open pony phaeton and four.
The Duche ses of Saxe Meining• n and Saxe Weimar, and
his Excellency Count Mensdorf, visited the Duchess of Kent,
at Clarence House, yesterday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited the Queen
Dowager, yesterday, at Mailboroueli House.
The Doke ar d Duchess and Hereditary Prince of Size
Meiningen, the Duchess Ida, and Prince Gustavns and the
Princesses of SaxeWeimar, were present yesterday at St. Paul's_
Cathedral, at the annual meeting of the charity schools of the
metropolis. . .
A deputation, consisting of Mr. M. Philips, Mr. Brother-
ton, Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. Cobden, Dr. Bowring, Mr. J.
Fielden, Mr. P. Ainsworth, Mr. C. 'Blaney, Mr. W. A.
Johnson, and Mr. Walker, had an interview with the Earl of
Ripon yesterday at the cake of the Board of Trade, on the
subject of the duty on raw cotton.
Mr. Justice Brenton, of Newfoundland, and Sir Charles
Broke Vere, had interviews with Lord Stanley yesterday, at
the Colonial-office.
A deputation of Mashinc-makers, including Mr. Matthew
Curtis, Manchester, and Mr. Filched Hacking; Bury, had air
interview with with the Earl of Ripen on Wednesday, at the Board
The French Ambassador transacted business yesterday at the
Foreign-office.
A depu ation of the Directors of the Union Bank of Austra-
lia, ceusisting of Mr. James Rudd'e Tor d, Mr. John Gore,
and Mr. James Cummins, had an interview with the Eerl of
Ripon.
Despatches from she Governor of New South Wales, and
also from the Governor of New Zealand, were received:yester-
day at the Colonial- effice.
Mr. J. 'F. Elliot, from the Colonial Land Busigraelon Board,
had an interview on Wednesday with the Earl of Ripon at the
Board of Trade.

V 0 LTALCO-ELECTIUCAL Exre.
RIMENTS IN Tim SERPENTINE RIVER.
The discovery by Volta, some few years since, of the battery
which bears his name, sod which, by means of the simple ad-
inixture of two acids acting upon a portion of zinc and OW-
!min, is the productive cause of galvanic powers, almost supra-
inorial, has scarcely passed o t of the orbit of men's won-
der, and becou e a fact of familiar acquaintanceship, than the
applications ofi;s powt r are beginning to develope new wrunrulft
in the chem!eal world, no kss nose! in their a..tion, than
astanishing in their ore: throw at of long hitherto establidied
theories.
One of these we witnessed yesterday. It had, heretofore,
been imagined that aquifohn tyuids, such as water, and the
denser solid earth, had neitherof them the capability of acting-
as conductors of el, efficity, and se-conducting it to the battery
after its passage Dr. Franklin,
.a scientific man on the scot,
having tried the former, sought to- convey the electric matter
down two rivers in America,. and to regain the voltaic fluid at
the point. where the battery was erected, but after s.dulous
ex;:erio eats, found it ineffectual. '1 hiS, however, the two
experiments of yesterday completely determined to be practi-
cable, and Messrs. Wright ard Bain of the Polytedmie
Incti-
tutien, who are the operators and di4coversrs, hating obtained
permisSion of the Duke .of Sussex to experiment on the bread
sheet of the Serpentine river, they, at three o'clock yesterday,
demonstrated the truth of their experiments to a number
of scientific gentlemen, among whom was Mr. Herapath
and others.
The method of operation- was thus. Near the house of the
Humane Society, on the rightband of the river,-was stationed
a small voltaic battery, to which one er:d of two ceppet wires
Iv, re affixed by the hands cf the experimentalist, the remaining,
portion of the wires being conveyed, the one to the left, ae.A.
the end just immersed in the water, and the other in like uttaus-
ner carried along the right path of the river up to the brifigai
which divides the park from Kensington gardens : the-end Of •
this latter wire was then permitted to drop into the water over
the bridge. on the top of which part of it was attached-to a
coil of wire and needle. The purport of the experiment
was to shoe that after the wire had been charged with the
volt al': electricity, that fluid passed out from the ends of the wires*
and travelled through the whole intervening length of the See.
pentioe-water, a space of nearly a mile in length, returning to
the battery it had set out from, and thereby completing aeon_
centric circuit of about two miles and a half.
The needle above-mentioned, situated on the bridge as a
test, abundantly proved, by its deflections, the genuineness of
the experiment, and signal-flags stationed at that point, and
communicating with another in a boat down at the other end •
of the river, demonstrated, by their motions, the velocity with
• which the aqueously-conducted electricity travelled: A lecond
experiment, made upon parallel wires extended across the Ser-
pentine, was squally felicitous in its proofs and results.
The experimenters on the occasion subsequently gave us,tio-
understand that they had succeeded as propitiously in conduet-
ing the voltaic electricity through an extensive stratum of
earth, reaching from the banks of the Serpentine to a welt
situated in the precincts,.but not having witnessed this mu-.
larly, and a'most doubtful of its practicability, we are at present
too credulous to ascribe to it ; more particularly, as if anys
moisture pervaded the soil at the time, or any tubular Conduit
or water-pipe be connected with the portion of ground actest
on, the result of the experiment would be of course deceptive ;
but upon this we shall report hereafter.
If there be any department of science at the present day
which more powerfully than any other possesses in itself
capacities fur singular and extraordinary development, no less,
than scope for intelligent and scientific minds to. discover ira it
new properties, degrees, and adaptations, it is lissuredly in the-
profound, and as yet occult powers of galvanism and electricity,
one new and not unimportant phase of which Messrs. Wright
and Bain proved themselves yesterday the discoverers.

FORMATION OF A COMPLETE SUFFRAGN A.SSCAni.
TION AT KiIGHTSBRIDGE.—A meeting of electors klad Other
was held last night at. Thornton's Coffee-house, Knightsbridge,
Mr. Hentlerson in the chair. The meeting was addressed by
Messrs. Elmer, Gifford, Brown, Swatten, and Westerton.- A
resolution was passed dissolving their former association, , and.
forming themselves into one caled " The Knightsbridge
Complete Suffrage Ass.)ciation." Mr. Westeeton announeed
that their future meetings would be held entry Wednesday ja
the same place, and so:icited the en-operation of all in the
neighbourhood who were friendly to the rrinelple3.
WORCESTER, MAY 28.--Within the last few days,
the hop-fly has been noticed in many parts of our plantations,
• and from the reports received to-day, the attack appears to bes•
now general, and by many considered to be very serous, so
touch so, that. bath planters and dealers have withdrawn their
hops from sale to-day; so that scarcely a lot of good 1841'it
has been offered. The. few parcels on sale were generally otf
an ordinary character, but these were readily disposed of,
.at
an advance, too, of ss. • to 7s. per cwt. upon last week's rates.
Tho plant looks healthy, and is growing rapidly, and-it is yet too,
early to form an opinion as to the effect the attaa of fly may
have. upon the crop.
The Queen has conferral the honour of Knight-
hood on Mr. Henry Ili:hop, Professor of Music in the Ifni,-
versity of Edinburgh.
We learn front Berlin that, on the 15th inst., the
axletree of the four-wheeled engine, the Hecla, while running
on the Berlin and Dessau railroad, broke down between Treb4
and Lackenwalde, but fortunately the effects of the shock did
not extend beyond the tender and live waggons, with goodw
which followed the locomotive, and they were only slightly da-
maged. The carriages, in which wore the passeugets, slid not
receive the slightest injury. Another engine was put on, and
the whols train was br...ught safe to Berlin.

Thein
aiceite in
rc the quartier • Stunt:
Paul, has been
of Paris, to ba preservedi
as a national monument, as being the only edifice in Paris:
purchased
lizt:e 1 ;t4 r
evily
bearing the characteristics of the obi feudal times. It be-.
longed to the Arelibi,hops of Sens, and vim purchased of
Wil-
liam of Melun, in 1363, by Charles V., for the purpose of ew-
larging his Hotel St. Paul. It was, however, rebuilt at_ rfsw
beginning, of the fifteenth century, by Tristan de SalazarbArch-
bishop of Sens, and has ever since remained as it now appears
liaoK IN,: A AfAGPIE.—.A. spurting gentlenam,
partaking of souse refreshment a sew days since on. a fishiage&-
eusion on the Dart, fixed his rod in the ground,. and, 'main&
to a shady bower at a short distance to take a, thila ?if skenl—
bOn t his o
t return, to his astonishment, a snag'4 leak taitened by!
its ill he fish-hook, which no doubt the, way' pie interalsdi
to swallow with the fiy.— IVorcestershilg Oe.
Captain Fisher, R.N , the prize ii arhour-nnt ster
has been instructed to clear. the Thair.es. .:near Gravesend, of
the obstruction made by the sinking •.,/ the e oilier Veper, about
eighteen months ago, near the. tOVn of Ora, .esend. The uwaus
he intends to try consist of cer.Atin experina eats by the galvt:
process, and the nperation n.ux it is expel ed,cogninente an `"`
ensuing week.