The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

COURT CIROfTLAR.

The Queen held a privy counci,l at three o'clock on
Saturday afternabn at BUcicingliam Palace. It was 4.
tended PrinCe-Alberk; Granyille; Lord President ;.
-Viscount Palmerstetr,'fiest Lord Of the Treasury; Che
Earl of Clareiden; Secretary .of State for• Forefgn
Affairs ; Lord Panmure, Secretary ,of State for War ;
Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty ; the
11,1ildHcitf.-R:Terniin Sinitb, President, of the bard of
Control ; Viscount Canning, Postmaster-General; Earl,
Spencer, Lord Steward ; the Marquis of lreadalbane,
.ord Chamberlain ;- and the Duke Of
Master of theTtorte. 7 • - .
Mr. Edward Hors:man' Chief 'Secretary for .rreland,
Wait, hy:cornmand of theQaten mem of her Majesty's
most lienenrable Privy Council, and took hit seat •at the-
,
board. " •

The Hon. William Bathurst was ,the Clerk rof the
Council in Waiting. The Earl_of Carlisle had au&
ence of the Queeti previous to the Council, and took
leave of her Majesty on proceeiing to Ireland,
Her Majesty afterwards gave an audience to the Earl
of Clarendon, Viscount Pahnerston, Earl Granville, and
Lord Panmure. ' The Queen was attended by:Viscount
Drumlanrig, -Comptroller of the Househohl, Earl Slime/ a,
Lord in Waiting, and Colonel the lion. A. N Hood,
Groom in Waiting.
The PrineOs Royal and the-Princess Alice took eques-
trian exercise in the riding-

Her 31&estylad a einner party in, the evening. The
company included the Duchess of Kent, the Pence of
Leiningen,. the Duchess of Inverness, M. Macedo (the
Brazilian Minister), Earl Spencer, Lady Fanny Howard,.
the Baroness de Spetb, the Earl and Countess o:
Malmesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Colonel
the Hon. R. Bruce (the Grenadier Guards), Lieutenant 7,
Colonel the Hon. H. Percy (Grenadier Guards), the
Right Hon. Sir William and .Lady Molestvortb,
Right Hen. Sir Chrrles and Lady Mary Wood; th
Right Hon. Sir John Pak;r3ton and Count Henckel
(Prussian Legation).
The band of the Ist L;fe Guards attended and played
in the Palace (luting dinner.
The Prince of Leinipgen arrived at 'Buckingham '
Palace, at half-past ten o'clock on Friday tight, flora
the Continent, on a visit to the,,Qqeen.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Alber , the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the grin'-
cess Alice, the Ladies and Gentletnen of the Court And:
the domestic household, attended. Divine service in the
Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace: The Hop.` and
Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated.. .

A Cabinet Council was held at the
Foreign-office,,
.Downing-street, • -
•Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. The Ministers
preient were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of 'Lansdowne.; the Duke of
Argyle, Sir George Grey, the Earl.,of Clarendon,. the,
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
•Right 'Hon. Vernon Smith,. Sir William •.Moleswertb,.
and-Viscount Canning. The Conncillat two hours. :
A deputation. from the Institute of 13ritielk,Arehitead
had'an interview on Saturday. with Sir Bcpjainin,Hall,
President of the General Board:. of Health, at-bin-oat%
Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Mr, 13. 17errey,,,
Y.P.; Messrs, J. J. Soles, and C. C.:•Nelann,•hon.
secretaries, and; Mr, H. L. Donaldson, lion, solicitor.. .
Sir Culling Eardley, the Rev. Wm. Acworth, and,Mr4
Macgregor, M.P,, transacted business, on ,Friday at thee
Home-offiee,.in reference to the drainage.of the Thames
Marshes. • . •s. .

. .
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the youthful ]ttem-
bers of the Royal family, leave .Buckingham Palace,
according to present arrangement, on Thursday next, for.
Osborne, for a brief sojourn at the royal marine resi-
dence. The Court, it is said, will pass the Easter recess
at Windsor Castle.

The Right Hen. the Speaker, gave his fifth Parlia-
mentary dinner on Saturday last.
The Right,lon, the Speaker will hold his second and
last levee on Saturday next, March 17.
The Earl of Shaftesbury is appointed Chancellor Of,
the Duchy of Lancaster.
Admiral IL Eden has entered on his duties as a Lord
Commissioner of. the .Admiralty,; Mr., Walter Drum-
, mend willbe his Priiate secretary. ,
Lord,Carlisle has resigned the PreeideneY of the Royal
Society; of Literature on going to Ireland as Lord
Lieutenant, .
•The Earl. of Carlisle leaves: Grosvenor-place. to-daY, en
route to Dublin, to succeed the Earrpf St. Germans as
Lord-Lieutenant.
• Captain Tonsonby, of.the Grenadier Guards, ap-
pointed, aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir qeorge
Brown,' K.C.8., commanding the Light Division in the
Crimea.
NAVAL MEDICAL OFFICERS.--The, movement in favour
of the naval assistant-,surgeons, so admirably originated
at the Middlesex ,Hospital, has keen :followed, by the
pupils of all the other metropolitan .schools, . On Tues,
day last an important meeting was held, *attended by
delegates from all the London hospitals, to .organise an,
effective opposition to the rccent .unjust regulations of.
the Admiralty, admitting-youths of 1,8,, and who had
only just. finished their first medical ,sessions, into the.
Royal navy .to Frank with, but aubordinate t 9, ,that.ok,
the acting, assj stan rgeqns,, ;The „prnyinciil6lo9,94
aro about to co-operate with the metropolitan in addree-
Bing petitions Parliament on this important sohject.