The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-18 00:00:00

COURT. CIRCULAR.

Her royal Highness the Duches3of Kent visited the Queen
and Prince A..bert early yesterday morning.
Her Majesty to ~k an airing yesterday afternoon in an open
carriage and four, attended by the lion. Miss Stanley and
lion. Misi Hamilton, the Maids of Honour in Waiting.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rose out on horseback at
the same time, and the Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles
Wellesley and Sir Edward Bowater, attended on horseback.

His 'loyal Highness Prince Albert, and Count Alexander
Mensdoif, visited the Duchess of Kent 3esterday at Clarence
Houk, St. James's.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess
Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were
taken an ailing yesterday, in a carriage and four.
His Excellency Count Mcnsdorf and the Counts Hugh, Al-
phouso, aud Aril.ur M nsdorf, attended by Captain Fr:nc.s
Se:mour (Scots Fusilier Guards), returned to Buckingham
Palace yesterday afternoon; from P..rtsmoul h.
1 he Count Mensdorf and his sons, attended by the Hon. C.
A. Murray, visited the manufactory of Messrs. Mortimer and
Hunt, on Wednesday, to inspect the magnificent service of
plate just completed of Count Wormizow Daschkaw. his Ex-
celLlicy and party of erwards went over the whole of the dif-
ferent departments in the factory, including that in which the
cutting of diamonds is performed. The value of the service is
40,000/.

The Royal donor party at Buckingham Palace yesterday
evening included her Royal Highnes the Duch, ss of Ken►,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Capt. Francis Seymour.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Serene Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Ale flinger, the Hereditary
Prince of Saxe Aleiningen, the Viscountess Liarringtow,
lion. Miss Anne Gore, 'Abate. de .Baas, Earl Howe, Ea►l of
Denbigh, Sir David Davies, and M. Lubeck, arrived in town
from Southampton yesterday atternoon by a special train on
the South Western Railway. The Royal party arrived at
Marlborough House soon after six. o'clock.

Their Rola' llighrie,Ses the Duke and Duchess of Cant-
biidge, and the Pr.ncess Augusta of Cambridge, attended.by
Lady Augusta Somerset and Major Stephens, honoured the
Countess of latilierville with their ct mpany on Tuesday evening.
A Deputation from the Committee of the Church Missionary
Society, consisting of the Eat! of Chichester, Sir,T. D. Ac.
land, Mr. \V. Evans, Sir R. IL Inglis, Mr. J. P. Plumptre,
Sir G. H. Roe, Rev. IL Davies, and Mr. D. Coates, had an
interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
A Deputation from the Union 13atik of Australia, consisting
tsf Sir J. Johnstone, Mr. Cumming, and Mr. Gower, had an
interview, yesterday, with Lord Stanley, at the Colonial-
office. thr. Mikes, M.P., and Mr. 11. Petre, had interviews
also with his Lordship, yesterday.
Lady Peel arrivt-d in town on Thursday, from Drayton
Manor, Staffordshire.

DENTH OF COUNT MATUS-
CHEWITZ.

One of the noblest ornaments of the diplomacy is now no
more. Count Matuschewi!z expired, at St. Petersburgh, on
the 2d instant, of dropsy of the heart. This news will impart
so much the more sorrow to his numerous friends in England
from its sudden and tinexpected nature. It was but yesterday
that he was with us in health and buoyant spirits, trying his
energies, as he was wont to do, by those active sports of the
field in which he so much delighted.
Any empty idler may, if he possess sufficient influence,
become a diplomatist, copy a despatch, and wear an em-
broidered coat at Court galks and fetes, and even run out
a full career, dealing in the mere grimace and nonentities
of their profession. But to represent a great nation,
above all Russia, with which diplomacy is the chief arm of
conquest, requires exalted talents, and these Count Ma-
tuschewitz eminently possesSed. Ile was one of the young
Poles Napoleon had placed in that unrivalled polytechnic
school which has produced so many students of surpassing
merit. At this scho..l, in which it was a triumph even to
enter, co severe were the examinations, Count Matuschewitz
carried away the chief prizes. Napoleon, in his temporary
amity wish the great and good Alexander of Russia, having
been asked fur some distinguished eleves, as models for the new
institutions constantly rising in Russia, sent Matuschewitz,
amongst other eleres, to the Imperial Autocrat. In the di-
plomatic service of this amiable Sovereign, young Matusche-
witz ultimately entered, and nut many years elapsed before we
saw him in England, on a special mission, seconding the efforts of
Prince Lieven, and counterbalancing the diplomatic reveries of
the Asmodeus of diplomacy. The lamented Count played a
principal part in the great conferences regarding the settlment
of Greece, of the Belgian and other questions, whilst the revo-
lution of his own country passed over his head, trying deeply
his equanimity of mind. Endowed with great buoyancy of
temper, with an esprit naturel, showing itself through the me.
dium of the most amiable manners, his love of British sports en-
deared him to our countrymen, and extended the circle of his
friends far beyond the number which generally falls to the sla-e
of a foreign visitor in the land. Count Matuichewitz's devotion to
hunting w..s a real passion, requiring great physical energy to
endure the feats he undertook. We have seen Count Matus-
chewitz when obliged to attend a meeting of the great Belgian
Conference, start en horseback from Newmarket, and with
relaj's on the road, reach London at the appointed hour, con •
stantly riding on as if he were following the hounds over the
Melton sward. Arrived at the meeting of the greatest
diplo-
matists of the age, the lamented Count was as cool, collected,
and as fell of a propos as if he had fre•h risen from his bed.
When he definitively left London, and filled missions at Naples
and in Sweden, on his return to St. l'etersburgh he always
found moans to take England and its sports in his way back,
and at the other Courts of Europe where he latterly resided,
particularly at Stockholm, he consoled himself for his eloigne-
meet from England by living with those who were or who could
speak English, and had some portion of the Anglomania, his
t tiling passion. On the spur of the moment we regret we cas•
nut do full justice to the memory of this distinguished man,
but the deep regret the news of his decease will create
amongst his numerous friends in England will form the best
of all epitaphs.