The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-27 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR.
Their M jesties the King and Queeh of the Bel-
gians received the Foreign Diplomatic. Corps on Sa-
turday at Buckingham Palace. Their Excellencies,
attended by their Secretaries and Attaches, arrived

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one o'clock; and had the honour of being_ pres •nted to
their Majesties by M. Vande .WeYer, the Belgian

Minister:

Among those present werel—Aly Effendi, Otto-
man Ambassador, and Fuad Effendi, Secretary of the
Embassy ; Baron de CettO, the Bavarian Minister ;
Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister ; Baron de
Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister; M. Fortique,
the Venezuelan Minister; Baron de Brunnow, the,

Russian Minister ; and Count Chreptowitch, First
Secretary to Legation ; Count Kielmansegge, the Ha-
noverian Minister ; Baron de Hugel, the Wurtember;
Minister ; M. Tricaupi, the Grecian Minister ; and

M. Phocion Roque, Secretary of Legation ; Chevalier
Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, and Baron Charles de
Canitz, Secretary of Legation; Le Commandeur
Marques de Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister ; and Le.
Chevalier A. de Paiva, Secretary of Legation ; Count
de Reventlow, the Danish Minister,' and Baron Brock-
dorff, Secretary, and M.' de 13ielke, Attache to the
Legation ; Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minis
ter, and Baron Kollor and Baron Lebzaltern, Secre-
taries, and Count Esterhazy, Attache to the Lega-
tion ; Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister, Mr. eol-
qiihoun, Diplomatic Agent, and Consul-General for
the -Ilanse Towns ; M. Mosquera, Charge d.Affaires"
from New Grenada ; Baron Beptinck, Nether-
lands Chaige d'Affaires; M. de Vanden], M.
Rabaudy, Count de Noailles, and Count Chabot,
Secretaries and Attaches of the French Embassy ;
General Castelcbmla, Le Vicomte de Tonghe ; and
Mr. Charles Castellain, Belgian Vice-Consul.
Their Majesties• Were attended, during the recep-
tion, by the Countess de Merode, Baron de Dieskau,
and M. de Moerkerke.
Mr. Charles Drouet, Secretary of Legation, at-
tended His Excellency the Belgian Minister.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and Her Serene
Highness the Duchess of Saxe Meiningen, attended
by their respective suite, arrived at 7Marlborough
House, at eleven o'clock, on Saturday morning, from
Bushy House, Bushy Park. Soon after one o'clock,
Her Majesty and the Duchess, accompanied by Prince.
Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by Madlle.-
aas, the Earl of Denbigh, and Baron d'Erffa,
honoured the Earl and Countess of Brownlow with a
visit, at their residence in Belgrave-square.
After partaking of a dejeune with the Earl and
Countess, the Queen Dowager, and the Duchess of
Saxe Meiningen, attended by the Countess Brownlow
and Madlle. Kaas, went to Buckingham Palace, to visit
the Queen .and Prince .Albert, and the King and
Queen of the Belgians.
The Queen Dowager remained upwards of an hour
with the. august party.
The Duchess of Kent iisited the Queen and their
Belgian Majesties on Saturday.
• His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Sir
Edward Bowater, rode out on horseback on Saturday
afternoon. _ _

• The King and Queen of the Belgians and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent honoured the Italian
Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The
Countess de Merode, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baron de Dieskau, M. de Moerkerke, and Lord
Charles Wellesley attended.
The Address of the City of London to the King of
Prussia, illuminated by Mr. Dowse with the insignia
of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, and also with
the Orders of the Black Eagle, the Iron Cross, the
Order of Brandenburgh, the Order of Merit, and other
Prussian Orders, was submitted on Thursday to her
Majesty and Prince Albert, who were graciously
pleased to express their approbation.
The Queen and Prince Albert, and the King of the
Belgians, attended Divine Service yesterday morning
in the Chapel Royal, St, James's. The Sermon was
preached by the lion. and Rev. N. Grenville, from
St. Luke, chap. 24, verse 44.• The Prayers were
read by the,Rev. J. Povah, the Lessons by the Rev.
Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service, by the
Rev. Dr. Wesley and the Rev. J. Povah. The Ohant
was the Earl of Mornington's, the Te Deum and
Jubilate in G, Aldrich, the Sanctus and Responses in
G, Hawes. The Anthem "In Jewry is God known"
(Whitfield) was sung by Messrs. flawkins, Hobbs,
and Charm, and Masters Lyon and Deane. Sir
George Smart presided at the Organ.
The Dean of Hereford was the Deputy Clerk of
the Closet in Waiting. The Royal suite included
the Countess of Charlemont, Hon. Miss Stanley,
Hon. Miss Hamilton, Viscount Hawarden, Lord
George Lennox, Gen. the Hon. Sir W. Lumley, Lord
Charles Wellesley and Sir Edward Bowater.
Ladies Wilton, Palmerston, J. Eliot, and Rendle-
sham, Lords Bandon, Wilton, Effingham, Gosford,
Errol, Palmerston, Eliot, Canterbury, Wrottesley,
and Cantilupe, were among the nobility present.
The King of the Belgians left town yesterday after-
noon, for his residence at Claremont.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen of the Bel-
gians yesterday.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and her Serene
Highness the Duchess of. Saxe Meiningen and suite,
lefc town at five o'clock on Saturday afternoon, on
their return to Bushy House, Bushy Park.
The Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George and
the Princess Augusta of Cambridge attended divine
service yesterday afternoon in Westminster Abbey.
Lady Augusta Somerset and Major Stephens were in
waiting on the Royal Duchess.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cam-
bridge honoured Lady Rendlesham with their com-
pany on Friday evening.
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince
George and the Princess Augusta of ICambridge, ho-
noured Mr. Dunn's Chinese CollectionAvith a visit on
Friday.
Sir John Yarde Buller, M.P., and a Deputation on
Irish Communication, had an interview with Sir Ro-
bert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The Deputation consisted of Lord
Duncan, • Lord Emlyn, M.P. ; Lord Chelsea,
M.P. ; Hon. M.P.daptain Howard, M.P. ; Mr. Labou-
chere, M.P. ' • Lord Courtenay, M.P. ; Mr. Miles,
M.P. ; Dr. Nicoll, M.P. ; Mr. Pendarves, M.P. ;
Sir Thomas D. Acland, M.P. ; Mr. Acland, M.P. ;
Captain Layard, M.P. ; Colonel H. Baillie, M.P. ;
Mr. Villiers Stuart, M.P.; Mr. Wise, M.P. ; Mr.
Richard Blakemore, M.P. ; Sir Thomas Esmonde,
M.P.; Sir Denham Norreys, M.P.; Mr. Sergeant
Stock, M.P. ; Colonel Butter,
M.P. ; Sir R. Bulkeley
Phillips, M.P. ; Mr. Cripps, M.P. ; Mr. Holland,
M.P. ; Mr. Dickinson, M.P. ; Sir John Guest, M.P.;
Mr. Russell, M.P. ; Mr. Rundle, M.P. ; Sir J. E.
Colebrooke, M.P. ; Mr. Sergeant Murphy, M.P. ;
Captain Bryan, M.P. ; Mr. Montague Gore, M.P. ;
lion. Robert Gore, M.P. ; Mr. W. S. O'Brien, M.P. ;
Mr. J. 11. Vivian, M.P. ; Mr. D. Morris, M.P, ; Capt.
Plumridge, M.P.; Mr: F. Hodgson, M.P. ; Mr.
Broadwood, M.P.; Mr. Divett, M.P. ; Mr. Latouche,
M.P. ; Mr. Pusey, M.P. r Mr. M'Geachy, M.P. ; Mr.
Gill, M.P. ; Mr. Buck, M.P. ; Mr. Codrington, M.P. ;
Mr. J. 0. Brien, M.P. ; Mr. Charteris, M.P. ; Hon.
J. Howard, M.P. ; Colonel Wood, M.P. • Mr. John
O'Connell, M.P. ; Hon. Grantley Berkeley, M.P.;
Mr. Vincent Stuckey, Mr. S. Guppy, Mr. Bianconi,
Captain Claxton, R.N. ; Mr. J. Houldsworth ; Air.
Samuel Ricketts, and Mr. Samuel Dickson.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. More O'Fer-
rall, and Sir Augustus D'Este, had interviews with
Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Mr. Stuart Wortley, Mr. Wood, and a Deputation,
including Mr. Raud and Mr. J. Horsfall, from Brad-
ford, Yorkshire ; Mr: George _Kissel, from Manches-
ter ; and Mr. Edward Akroyd, had an interview, on
Saturday, with Sir Robert Peel, in Downing-street.
Despatches were receivad yeSterday at the Colonial-
office, from the Governor of the Mauritius.
A Deputation of merchants trading t ti the East In-
dies, had an interview, on Siturday, with Sir Ro-
bert Peel.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
on Saturday, and resumed the hearing of an appeal
from Bengal, " Sheikh Imdad Ali v. Mussumat
Kootby Begum."
Mr. Loftus Wigram, Queen's Counsel, Mr. Ed-
mund Moore, and Mr. Lloyd, were heard for the re-
spective parties. • Judgment was not given.
The Lords present were Lord Brougham, Lord
Campbell, Mr. Justice Erskine, and the Judge of the
Admiralty Court. Sir Alexander Johnstone sat as a
Privy Councillor.
The Duke of Wellington, accompanied by the Earl
and Countess of Wilton, visited the panoramas of
Waterloo and Caubul, on Saturtty,
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Hon.
Mrs. Goulburn, had a dinner party on Saturday, at
their residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Minto has left Farrance's Hotel, for
of his seat in Scotland.

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A NARROW ESCAPE.—The Sentinelle of Bayonne
gives an account of an accident that happened in that
city in the afternoon of the 13th inst., which might have
been attended with the most -awful consequences. A
train of six artillery waggons, laden with fifty barrels of
gunpowder, for the arsenal, in going down the Rue
Matibec, which is very steep, had one of the wheels of
each waggon locked to stop the rapidity of the descent.
When they arrived at the gate of the gendarmerie bar-
racks, the brigadier perceived smoke and sparks of fire
issuing from one of the locked wheels, and gave the
alarm. Abundance of water was immediately brought,
and the fire was extinguished. On examining the wheel,
it was found that the tire had been rendered redhot by
the friction, and had set fire to the felloe.
A violent thunder-storm, accompanied by rain and
hail; burst over Montesquieu-Volvestre ( Haute-Garonne) on
the 14th, about eight in the evening, and continued raging
until eleven. It passed from south to north, and, after the first
fall of rain, the streets and roads were transformed into impe-
tuous torrents. The gutters of the houses overflowed, and the
upper apartments were filled with water. The Rise, a little
stream near the town, swelled to a height of 12 feet, and, over-
flowing its banks, did considerable damage. In a country
house, close to the town, the furnittire was floating in the
ground floor, and the electric fluid, entering the out-houses,
. killed two oxen. No other life was lost, but the amount of da-
mage is very considerable.