The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

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Lord Pann►ure had an audience of the Queen on Sa.
till-day at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge ♦isited her Majesty.
The Royal family took their usual exercise in the gar-
den of the Palace.

The Royal dinner party in the evening included the
United States Minister and Miss Lane, the Earl and
Countess of Clarendon, Visceunt Hardinge, the Right
Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Major the Hon.
Arthur Hardinge, Major-General Simpson, and Major-
General Wylde.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the
Prince of 'Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and
the Princess Alice, the ladies and gentlemen of the
Court, and the domestic household, attended Divide
Servici in the private chapel of Buckingha►n Palace.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the De3,n of Windsor offi-
ciated. _ _

A Cabinet Council was held, on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex.
chequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Vis-
count Canning, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat four hours.

The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-street,
Spring-gardens, on Friday. The commissioners present
were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of
Blandford, M.P. the Earl of Harromby, .the Bishop of
Oxford, the Hoe. 'auk -,11.4v.,11:- U._ Villiers, -the Rev.
Dr. Wordsworth, and the Rev. Canon Selwyn.
A deputation consisting of the Rev. T. I. Mills, Mr.
J. Platt, the Mayor of Oldham, Mr. Alderman Worth-
ington, Mr. E. A. Wright, Mr. George Barland, and
Mr. Henry Radcliffe, accompanied by Mr. Heywnod,
M.P., Mr. Brown, M.P., and Mr. Cheatham, M.P.,
had an intorview with Sir George Grey on Friday at
the Home-office.

Despatches for the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-office.

Her Majesty will give a splendid entertainment on
Friday next at Buckingham Palace, to his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge, General Sir de Lacy Evans,
the Earl of Cardigan, kc , on their return from serving
with the British army in the Crimea.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—Lord John Russell is much
better ; the cold under which his lordship has been suf-
fering is gradually leaving him, and the noble lord at
present adheres to his intention of taking his departure
on his important diplomatic mission to-morrow.
The Right Hon. Henry l?itzroy's successor, as Under
Secretary of State for the Home Department, is not yet
named, and the right hon. gentleman continues to act at
the Home-office.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a nume-
rous dinner party on Saturday evening, at their new
mansion in Piccadilly (formerly the residence of the late
Mr. Beaumont). The Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Premier and his lady with his company. In the
evening, the Viscountess had a very numerous assembly,
amounting to about 400. The hones still contains all
the fine specimens of ancient and modern art collected
by the late Mr. Beaumont.
THE ADMIRALTY.—Rear-Admiral Henry Eden, ap-
pointed to succeed the Hon. Admiral Dundas at the
Admiralty Board, will enter on his duties next week.
The following were the only naval appointments made
at the Admiralty yesterday :—Jas. M. Hillyer, clerk to
the Agamemnon ; George Gann, surgeon, to the Phoe-
nix ; Sherard Osborne, commander, to the Vesuvius.—
Sunday Times. •
THE FOREIGN-OFFICE.—A-special courier was sent off
late on Friday night with despatches from the Earl of
Clarendon to his Excellency Lord Stratford de Redcliffe,
at Constantinople, and from Lord Panmure, the Secre-
tary at War, for Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, in the
Crimea. We regret to learn over work and the incle-
mency of the weather in the East have rendered several
of the Queen's Cabinet messengers unable to fulfil their
duties, and that the ordinary staff of the Foreign Secre-
tary's messengers have been called on to officiate on
those distant journeys.—Sunday Times.
THE SPEAKER'S SECOND PARLIAMENTARY DINNER.—
The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his second Parliamen-
tary dinner on Saturday, Feb. 17, when the following
noblemen and gentlemen were
present :—Theßiglat Hon.
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Stanley, Right Hon. Lord
Naas, Right Hon. Viscount Newport, Right Hon. C.
Forester, Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Right Hon
Spencer Walpole, Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Right
Hon. R. A. Christopher, Right Hon. Mr. Beresford,
Right Hon. Sir John Trollope, Hon. H. T. Liddell, Hon.
Captain Doncembe, R.N., General Sir Geo. Berkeley,
K.C.8., Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, R.N., K.C.8.,
Sir F. Thesiger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Colonel Knox, Mr.
Bateson, Mr. Stafford, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Grogan,
Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Knightley, the Rev. Mr. Gamier,
and the Secretary. The following gentlemen were pre-
vented from attending :—The Marquis of Granby, Right
Hon. George Bankes, and Right Hon. Joseph Napier.
DEATH OF LADY dOLDORNI.—We regret to announce
the demise of Lady Colborne, widow of the late peer,
whom she has survived only a few months. Her lady-
ship expired on Saturday morning, shortly before six
o'clock, at her house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square,
after a short illness. The deceased lady was eldest
daughter of the late Right Hon. Thomas Steele, and was
married to the late Lord Colborne, brother of Sir M. W.
Ridley, Bart., in June, 1818, and leaves issae three
married daughters.
We regret to reccrd the death of Captain Arthur
Lowther, second son of Col. the Hon. Henry Cecil
Lowther, M.P. and the late Lady Eleanor Lowther,
who died on Thursday last, at his father's residence, in
Bruton-street, in the prime of manhood, being in his '
35th year. He was Lrother of Capt. Henry Lowther,
M.P. and the families of the Earl of Lonsdale, Lady
Frederick Bentinck, Lord and Lady Win. Powlett,
Lady Annie Beckett, Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck,
&c., are placed in mourning by the distressing event.
SIR CHARLES NAP= AND THE BALTIC FLEET.—
Sir Charles Napier has addressed the following letter to
a contemporary ;—" I think 'Lit would have been only
common justice to publish my reply to Captain Elliott's
remarks on my saying, in my speech at the Mansion-
house that the Baltic fleet was very badly manned, and
worse disciplined.' Everybody but Captain Elliott know
very well the Baltic fleet was badly manned. I never
wish to see a fleet sent to sea in such a state again.
When we first sailed half the men could hardly go
aloft, and every sailor knows the meaning of want of
discipline, which is, simply, that men get hastily together
rennet be in a state of discipline, and every officer is not
possessed of the transcendant abilities of Capt. Elliott.
who can discipline his ship by simply hoisting his pen-
nant. So muck use has been made of that expression
that I beg at once to say, no reflection was intended on
the officers ; on the contrary, if there had not been the
greatest exertion on the part of the captains and officers,
and willing obedience on the part of. the men, the fleet
never could have returned to England in the state it
was ; and, had that fleet bad an opportunity, I will
answer for it that it would have given a good account of
its opponents. Depending on the gunnery of that fleet,
I had no fear of leaving Admiral Martin at Nargen with
a third of the force of the Russian fleet when I was at
Bomarsund, nor did I fear to lie in Baro Sound with a '
third of their force or at Nargen with half ; and there
was nothing t) hinder the Russians landing at Sweaborg,
had they chosen. _