The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Fin. 13.

The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High-
nes§ the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth,
Lieut. Colonel Hon. J. Macdonald, Lieut. Colonel Tyr-
whitt, and Major Clifton.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during
dinner, and the private band after dinner.
The Doke of Cambridge took leave of the Queen this
morning, and left the Castle for London, attended by
Lieut. Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald, Lieut. Colonel
Tyrwhitt, and Major Clifton.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert and Prince Alfred
skated in the Home Park this forenoon. Her Majesty,
attended by the Marchioness of Ely, was present.
The Gentlemen in Waiting skated with his Royal
Highness.

A deputation from the City, consisting of Mr. T. H.
Hall (chairman), Mr. H. L. Taylor, Mr. Blake, Mr.
Hawkins, the City Remembrancer, and the City Archi •
teet, had an interview with Sir William Molesworth
yesterday at the office of Public Works, in Whitehall-
place.
A deputation from the Committee of Anglo-Peruvian
Bondholders bad an interview with Lord Wodehouse at
the Foreign-office yesterday-. The following gentlemen
attended :—Messrs. Thornton, Hodgson, and Ward.
Despatches from the Governors of the North Ameri-
can provinces, and also from the Governors of the West
Coast of Africa, were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

A Cabinet Council was held to-day at the Admiralty.
We have much pleasure in stating that, on the nomi-
nation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Lord Dun.
donald was recently elected an Honorary Elder Brother
of the Corporation of the Trinity-house.
We believe that Lord Goderich will succeed Mr.
Lowe as Secretary to the Board of Control. Mr. Lowe
resigned office upon the accession of the present Minis-
try. No appointment has, we believe, been yet made in
the room of Mr. Peel as Under-Secretary for the Co.
lonies.

THE COII3[ANDEE•IN-CHIEF OF THE EA ST INDIA Co'e-
PANT'S FORCES.—A. Court of Directora was bold at the
East India House on the 7th inst., when Major-General
Sir. Henry Somerset, K.C. 8., was appointed Commander-
in-Chief of the East India Company's forces on the Born.
bay establishment, and second me mber of council at that
presidency. -
The Duchess of Beaufort gave birth to a son, on Fri-
day last, at Badminton. Her Grace is going on well.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe and the Lady
Ernestine Edgecumbe have left Farrance's Hotel, for
Mount Edgecumbe, Devon.
The Duchess of Leinster, according to accounts re-
ceived at the noble Duke's mansion in Carlton-terrace,
from Carlton House, was recovering from her late severe
indisposition.
The Marquis and Marchioness Cholmondeley have
arrived in Carlton-terrace from Houghton-hall, Norfolk.
The Earl of Wilton, who has been staying some days
in Grosvenor-square, has left town for Egertoa.lodge,
Melton Miwbray, where the continued inclemency of
the weather has interrupted the sports of the field.
Notices have for some days past been posted at South-
ampton inviting shipwrights to apply at the Portsmouth
Dockyard for employment.
Mr. Bowyer, M.P. for Dundalk, has arrived in town
from the continent, where he has been detained by severe
indisposition.
The Board of Trade has hired the extensive and
eligible house at No. 14, Rue du Cirque, for the offices
of the British section of the Universal Exhibition.

The Gavazzi trials are over at Quebec, and one man,
named Hearn,. has been convicted of simple assault.
There has been a very heavy fall of snow, and the
mail trains cogid not leave Vienna on the eight of (the
10th). The telegraphic communication between Bucha-
rest, Kronstadt, and Vienna is interrupted.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—The half-yearly ac-
counts just published show the following as the general
result of the working of the railway during the past half
year :—Gross receipts, 152,7451. 6s. ; working expenses
(68,420/. Bs. 11/d.) and fixed charges (38,8781. 6s. 4d.),
107,2981. 15s. 31d. ; balance, 45,4461. 10s. BIJ. The
directors recommend the declaration of a dividend on
the ordinary stock of the company, at the rato of 4 per
cent. per annum, leaving a balance of 1,0201. 10s. Sid. to
be carried to the reserved fund.

FIRE NEAR FLEET-STREET.—Last night, about eight
o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises, No. 3, Flee,-
doll-street, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, occupied by Mr.
John Thorburn, bookseller. The two lower shops, be-
longing to Mr. Thorburn, were nearly burnt out, and
the building severely damaged. The contents were in-
sured in the Sun and Unity Fire Offices. The adjoining
premises of Mr. Adams, publisher of " Bradshaw'.
Railway Guide," were also damaged by fire and water.
The fire is said to have been caused by the gas burners.
We have advice. front Manilla to the 11th instant.
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villages in the suburbs ; but its ravages were confined
to the soldiery and that class of natives who were unable
to obtain medical assistance. No Europeans had been
attacked.
Tear, TRIP OF THE NEW DOVER MAIL STEAM-
PACKET EMPRESS.—This fine vessel, of 305 tons, built
by Messrs. Mare and Co., of Blackwell, proceeded down
the ricer yesterday, under the command of Captain
&althea, to try her speed and the working of her
oscillating engines of 100 nominal horse-power, by
Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, Salkeld, and Co. The vessel
is elegantly fitted and remarkably commodious for the
service in which she is to be employed—the conveying of
the mails from Dover to Calais and vice versa. Captain
Jenkins, Mr. Churchward, Mr. Tayler, Mr. Godbold,
Mr. Harrington, Mr. Ravexhill, &c., were on board to
witness the trial, which was most satisfactory, as the
result of six runs in the Lower Hope, below Gravesend,
gave a speed of 14,661 knots, or fully 16 statute miles
per hour. The vessel will be ready to take her duty on
the Dover station by the sad 3f the present week.
The Canadian Parliament will meet on the 23d of
next month, when much important business will be
transacted. The new governor, Sir E. Head, is so far
much liked, and the belief is that he will make a popu-
lar governor.
The Canadian sympathy for the Allies is strong, and
every steamer's news is anxiously looked for. Subscrip-
tions to the Patriotic Fund continue to flow in from all
parts of the country. Meetings are held everywhere for
this purpose. Toronto and Hamilton have voted each
1,0001. Quebec has subscribed 6001., and other places
in like proportion.
Two BIIA,S ON BILLS OF EXCHANGE.—TWO bills are
to be discussed in the House of Commons on bills of ex-
change. One is by Lord Brougham, and has passed the
House of Lords. It is proposed that after protest judg-
' meat shall be forthwith obtained. The second bill is by
Mr. Keating, to obtain judgment within eight days, in
a summary manner, where there is no defence.
Mr. Allcroft has announced his eighteenth annual
concert for Wednesday next, which is to take place at
the Lyceum Theatre, and for which he has engaged all
the most distinguished foreign and native talent in Lon-
don ; and there can be little doubt but it will be as bril-
liant and successful as in former years.
THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.—Last evening a public meet-
ing of the inhabitants of St. George-the-Martyr, South-
wark, in furtherance of the Metropolitan Improvements
Bill, as introduced by Sir B. Hall, in so far as it relates
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highways,ua was held at the Equestrian Tavern,
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A PROPHECY—TALL OF THE CZAR.—Our Assynt cor-
respondent sends us a dream and a very lideral interpre-
tation of it ! He says—" A man here lately had a dream
which, as it is somewhat curious, may interest your
readers. The person in question conceived he was standing
at the base of a hill ; that near the summit of this hill
was a gigantitc stone which began to descend until
it came a good way down, when suddenly it was ob-
served to be stationary : that, shortly afterwards, the
stone was again in motion, and continued rolling down
the declivity till near the foot of tke hill, when, on a sud-
den, it became fixedtotheground, and began gradually to
sink until at last it totally disappeared. He then, with-
out awaking, interpreted the dream in this way--the
stone which he saw revolving down the hill represented the
Cazar of Russia; its becoming suddenly stationary in its
course denoted the reverses and defeats which the Czar's
forces experienced from the Allies ; while its final disap-
pearance in the earth meant his ultimate failure in the
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EXTRAORDINARY GEOLOGICAL PRODUCTION. Con-
siderable interest has jest been excited by the discovery
in the upper chalk of Kent, of a large group of that ex-
tremely rare fish the Beryz superbus, in a remarkable
state of preservation, and it is supposed to be the only
group of fossil fish ever found. To the geologist this
discovery is most interesting, for the bodies are uncom-
pressed, the mouths open, the gills and the fins ex-
tended, proving undoubtedly that the fish must have
been living, and all grouped together when they were
surrounded by the chalk. Upwards of eight weeks
bare been consumed in the development of this unique
and wonderful geological specimen, which may now be
seen at 113 e, Strand.
LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUX.—Yesterday, the fortieth
anniversary festival, is aid of the above charity, was
held in the London Tavern, the Duke of Wellington pre-
siding, supported by the Earl of Verulam, Lord R. Gros-
Tenor, Mr. Sheriff Crosley, and several of the most influ-
ential members of the Steck Exchange. The chairman,
in recommending the institution to the benevolent notice
of the company, mentioned the important fact that at
the present moment 415 children were receiving pro-
tection and benefit from it. In addition to this, the direc-
tors had munificently given six presentations to the army
in the Crimea, to be distributed equally among the
orphans left in the various classes of that army. The
health of the children was most satisfactory, only two
having died during the recent epidemic. His Grace
concluded his observations by forcibly appealing to the
benevolence of the company on behalf of the Lon-
don Orphan Asylum. The list of the subscrip-
tions was then read by the treasurer, including 50
guineas from the chairman, 101. each from Lord It.
Grosvenor, Earl of IT !- erulaai, Mr. Sheriff Crosley, and
the stewards, amounting in the whole to 1,5001. In
the course of the evening the children of the school were
introduced, and their clean, healthy, and respectable ap-
pearance was the subject of general notice and commen-
dation.