The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

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Yesterday the anniversary of the Queen's atal day was
celebrated at Claremont. The band of the Coldst eam Guards,
attended at an early hour in the morning in front of the man-
sion, and performed, the following pieces as a serenade;—
Morning Hymn—" God of Israel" (Joseph), by Mehul ;
German Air, composed by his Royal Highness Prince Albert;
Echo Chorus (Preciosa), Weber; "Merry Belle," " Rule
Britannia ;" " God Save the Queen.'
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived to break-
fust, before nine o'clock, from town.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, and
the Counts. Mensdorf, afterwards walked in the grounds.
The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray arrived in the forenoon,
and Lady Caroline Cocks, and the Hon. Miss Devereux,
in the afternoon.
Her Majesty had a dinner-party in the afternoon. The
company consisted of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
his Excellency Count Mensdorf, Count Hugh Men.dorf, Count
Alphonso Mensdorf, Count Alexander Mensdorf, Count
Arthur Mensdorf, Lady Portman, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Hon. Miss Liddell, Hon. Miss Paget, Lady Caroline Ckcks,
Hon. Miss Devereux, Baroness Lehzen, Earl of Liverpool,
Earl Delawarr, Earl of Jersey, Marquis of Exeter, Colonel
and the Hon. Mrs. Arbuthnot, Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner,
two Misses Gardiner, Sir George Coupar, Bart., Mr. George
Edward Anson, Captain Francis Seymour (Scots Fusilier
Guards), the Marquis of Ormoude, Hon. C. A. Murray,
Captain Duncombe, and Colonel Wylde.
The Band of the Coldstrearri Guards attended during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band attended in the evening. •
A very tine trout, caught in the Weir at Windsor, and
weighing upwards of twelve pounds, was forwarded as a pre-
sent to the Queen yesterday forenoon, at Claremout, by ;gr.
R. Tebbutt.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert inspected last week, at
Buckingham Palace, two splendid pictures, 'by Leonardi da
Vinci and Correggio, submitted by Mr. John Gibson, and was
pleased to express himself highly gratified.

THE SEASON AND THE CROPS.—The abundant
and most seasonable rain of the last and the present week have
clothed the whole country With beauty and richness, and give
reason to hope that the present year will be one of great
plenty for man and beast. The country never ilooked more
lovely or more promising at this season. The spring crops of
every kind have been got into the ground early, and from the
high condition of the soil, and the seasonable supply of moisture,
they have germinated immediately, and are now springing up
with the greatest luxuriance. The rain has come precisely at
the right time, that is, not too early for the cleaning of the land,
and yet in sufficient time for the nourishing of vegetation. and
there is at present every :prospect of one of those delightful
s' old-fashioned" seasons, in which abundant showers early in
the months of May and June gave vigour to the growing crops, and
freed the clouds from any excess of moisture before the time
for the ripening of the harvest. Such a season would do more
for the revival of trade than all that the wisdom of man can
devise, as it would give all classes food at reasonable prices, and
would leave something to spend on the comforts of life, after its
necessities had been supplied, which has not been the case for a
considerable time. The present seasonable weather has already'
covered the meadows and pastures with abundance of herbage ;
it is bringing the potatoe and turnip crops rapidly through the
most ei itical part of their growth ; it has caused the oats and
barley to spring up with unexampled luxuriance ; it has im-
proved the colour and encouraged the growth of the wheat
wonderfully, and has covered the fruit trees with the promise
of abundance. It is years since the face of the country has
been so verdant at this season, or the whole aspect of nature so
delightful either to the eye or the mind.—Liverpool Times.
PRICE or WHEAT.—Corn is rising in price. The
speculators hold back the grain now in bond. The food of the
people is, in fact, as much as ever the subject of gam-
bling operations. We ask only for another fortnight's expe-
rience of the working of the new scale to: prove to the most
sceptical the truth of what we always asserted, viz., that the
present law is an insult and a mockery of a suffering people. To
our readers we say, in the meantime, oblige us by watching the
weekly averages.—Liverpool Chronicle. •