The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-26 00:00:00

COURT' CIRCULAB.

WINDSOR, JAN. 25.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Mary Seymour,
the Rev. Frederick Anson, and Captain Mercer (officer
commanding
eband
of the R
the 94t ho
Royal
Regiment).lacr se Guards played during
T h
dinner, and her Majesty's private band afterwards.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived last evening, had an
audience of her Majesty, and afterwards returned to
London.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds ad.
joining,the Castle this morning.

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A Cabinet Council Council Was held yesterday at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were the Earl of
Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the
Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of Exchequer, Sir James Graham,
Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat three hours. The Earl of Aberdeen left
London after the Cabinet Council for Windsor Castle,
to have.an audience of her Majesty.
Degnatehe..--r• r.ceived yesterday at -the Coloniaki
office from the Governor-bleneral of Australia.

APPROAVIIING Malt=anti ~.tiZwzi jf.rxra.—A matri-
monial alliance in arranged to take' pla:ins, between the
Earl of Portsmouth and the .Lady Evelyn Herbert,
eister to the Earl of Carnarvon.

Up to the tat of December the Admiralty had ex-
pended 6,7931. in the maintenance of Russian prisoners

of war.

We believe that Captain Sir Richard Grant will com-
plete his time of service as flag-captain of the Victory.
The departure of the Iberia steamer for the Peninsular
ports is delayed from the 27th to the 29th inst.
The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the bill adopted
by the Legislative Corps for calling out 140,000 men of
the class of 1854.
THE NEW SCOTTISH JIIDGE.—Some rumours being in
circulation to the effect that the vacant seat on the bench
is likely to be taken by the Lord Advocate, we can state,
on sufficient authority, that no such arrangement is in
the least probable.—Scotsman.
The merchant ship Duke, belonging to Liverpool,
Captain J. Atkinson, with 12,000 bags of sugar, from
11ons—The first house erected in Pic-
Mauritius the 29th of October, bound for London, was
egnb
eryigrand
theed
d..
in
by
the Wednesday—all well.
7mansion built by Lord Burlington, then
foNaduGssttrth°hoN; fields and lanes. It is said that when
ocitnhaffl333ltFihKluilityimmLnwig asked the owner why he preferred living so
far from London, he replied that he wished for solitude
and repose, and felt certain that he had found a place
where ne one could build near him. ---ve
The Rev. Henry H. Hardy, A.M., has been collated
by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the
vicarage of Preston, in the Deanery of the Forest,
county of Gloucester, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. Chas. Bryan.
We have to report to-day the death of Sir John Boyd,
which took place at Boulogne, on the 14th inst., after
daughter of the Right Hon. Thomas Harley,
a short illness. He was the son of the second baronet,
daughter of the third Earl of Oxford. He was
year 1786, and married in 1818, and is suc-
Augustus, bora in 1818. The
deceased baronet was in his 68th year.
SHIPBROICERS' AND SHIP AND CUSTOM-HOUSE AGENTS'
his heir John
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY MEETING.—The second annual
general meeting of this society was held yesterday at
the Hamburg Coffee-house; W. Phillips, Esq., in the
chair. Two more pensioners, J. Woolcombe, aged 67,
nearly 30 years a shipbroker, and J. M. Parish, aged
63, a Custom-house agent from 1827 to 1846, at 201. per
annum, were unanimously elected. The receipts during
the pastyear lead exceeded the expenditure byll6/.185.5d.,
after payment of the pensions. The total amount of stock
invested in the name of the society is 1,0001. A resolu-
tion to admit widows as recepients of the funds of the
society was carried. More than 2001. was collected at
the close of the proceedings.
NOTTINGHAM TEADE.—Lace business exhibits this
week a shade of improvement upon last week, but it
must be observed that last week was perhaps the dullest
of our whole season's dulness. For January, the hosiery
trade is also comparatively dull, for business is still sus-
tained by one market alone—the home one—and our
manufacturers believe that they must await
patiently the
turn of two or three months' events before foreign
transactions again become active. —Nettingiamhire
Guardian.
STATE OE TRADE.—Business is evidently decreasing
week by week, not only in London, but throughout the
United Kingdom, and with the failures of the last few
days promises to become still worse. The advices from
abroad are generally the reverse of favourable. The
oGermanpe and the only
manufactured
goods are the Greek houses in the Levant trade. The
advices
from
new York give no tangible hope
operators P:titga
presentre in
onoosvor croloasrekdethsy
for manufactured
of any
great improvement in the import trade. The numerous
failures throughout the Union must unquestionably pro-
duce dietrust sooner or later, and check business. The
latest accounts give.
firms which had the names of no less than eight
banking and commercial . . suspended in
the course of three OT four day,.
CHINA.—According to the telegraphic accounts from
China yesterday, which reach to the 12th of December,
there has been a slight rise in the rate of exchange, cal-
culated to increase the shipments of silver from this
country. By the previous mail the quotation at Canton
was 4s. Bd., and it is now 4s. Bid. ; while at Shanghai
it has advanced from 6e- sd. to Os. 64d. The export of
tea to date was 44,000,0001 b, and, as the total, which
lately showed a deficiency, has thus reached an amount
exactly equal to the export up to the corresponding
period of last i'year, and no supplies are corning from
Canton, the shipments from Foo-chow-foo and Shang-
hai must have been unexpectedly active.
Of silk the
export was 26,609 bales, against 28,000 last year,
and the stock at Shanghai was only 1,500 bales of in-
ferior quality. Political affairs in the south were in a
position more critical than ever, and the Canton autho-
rities bad applied officially for assistance to the English
and American Consuls, with what result is not stated,
although it is to be presumed all interference will be
avoided. No produce had arrived from the interior, and
the trade of the port was completely suspended. The
long-vexed question as to the payment of the arrears of
export duties on tea at Shanghai, claimed by the Impe-
rial Government, in the absence of all power on their
part to collect them, is stated to have been settled, as
far as the Ameriemes aro concerned, h
pay up one-third. "y an agreement to