The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

BALMORAL, SEPT. 23.
The Queen and the Prince, with the Prince of Wales,
the Princess Royal, and Prince Frederick William of
Prussia, drove yesterday to Alt na Guissach, and rode
thence on horseback to Loch Muick and the Phu Loch.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The mini-ters pre-
sent were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Mclesworth, Lord
Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Sir
Charles Wood. The Council sat three hours.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town on
Sunday evening, from his seat, Harpton Court, near
Kington, Radnorshire.
Despatches were received at the Coloria'.•office yester-
day from the Governors of the North American pro-
vinces, Victoria, Vancouver's Island, the Lord High
Commissioner ot the lonian Islands, and the Governors
of Ceylon and the Mauritius. Despatches were sent
yesterday to the Governors of the "West Coast of Africa
and Malta, and the Lord High Commissioner of the
lonian Islands.

At a Council held at Balmoral yesterday by her Ma-
jesty a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving was directed to
be prepared, and to he wed on Sunday, the 30th inst.,
for the signal and repeated successes obtained by the
troops of her Majesty and by those of her allies in the
Crimea, and especially for the capture of the town of
Sebastopol.
Sir R. Peel, Bart., ALP., has returned to Prince's-
gate, from Drayton Manor, Staffordshire.
The Earl of Ellenborough has taken up his residence
at South= House, Gloucestershire, for the autumn,
and will not return to town until Parliament meets.

Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., makes his annual visit to his
constituents at Oldham on the 7th November, when a
tea party and ball are to be given in honour of the occa-
,ion.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, 11. P., has taken
Lady Stuart de Rothesay's mansion on Carlton-house-
terrace, for a term. The mansion is undergoing repairs
preparatory to the right hon. gentleman taking posses-
sion.

Lord Goderich is at present in Scotland, the guest of
William Stirling, Esq., of Kier, near Dumblane.
The Marquis of Bath is entertaining a distinguished
company at his seat, Longleate House, Warminstt r.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset and family have
arried at their seat, Maiden Bradley.
Verdi's last opera, "Les Vepres Siciliennes," is in
preparation at La Scala, rebaptised as Giovanna di
Guzman.

CRYSTAL PALACE. SHILLING DAY, SEPT. 24.
Admissions on payment, 8,965 ; ditto by season tickets,
330. —Total, 9,295. Corresponding day last year, 7,201.
LORD ABERDEEN.—We understand that the Earl of
Aberdeen, Chancellor of King's College and University,
has intimated his intention to appoint the Rev. Peter
Colin Campbell, A.M., presently Professor of Greek in
the College, to the vacant office of Principal. This
appointment causes a vacancy in the' cbair of Greek.—
Aberdeen Journal.

HONORARY DEGREE.—The College of Princeton,
New Jersey, U.S., has conferred the degree of Doctor
of Divinity on the Rev. Andrew Somerville, Mission
Secretary to the United Presbytarian Church, Edin-
burgh, Scotland.
BANQUET TO MR. DUFFY.—The Dublin farewell ban-
quet to Mr. Duffy will come off on the 10th of next
month ; and the tenant right meeting, which was fixed
for next week, has been postponed to the same day.
REWARD OF MERIT.—A first-class gold medal has been
awarded by the French authorities to Captain Currie,
of the English merchant vessel Robert Finnie, of Dum-
fries, for picking up and keeping on board his vessel for
42 days the shipwrecked crew of the Louis le Grand, of
Bordeaux, in May last.
LANCASTER AND PRESTON JUNCTION RAILWAY.—The
report of the directors recommends a dividend of 21. ls.
3d. per whole share, of 1/. 7s. 4d. per three•quarter
shafe, of 10s. 10d. per quarter-share, of 3s. 7d. per
twelfth-share, and of is. 9d. per new 111. ss. share, less
income tax.
REPRESENTATION OF CLARE COUNTY.—Calculating
upon a contingency which is nut likely to happen at
present, Mr. Piers° Creagh, of Mountjoy-square,
has issued a long address " to the bishops, clergy, gentry,
farmers, and electors of Clare."
THE COURT-MARTIAL AT PLYMOUTII.—PLYMOUTH,
Monday Evening.—The court-martial held on Lieute-
nant Wood, commanding the Castor, adjourned from
Saturday, was conclu,led to-day. The court were of
opinion that the second and third charges were mischie-
vous, and that the first charge was not proved. The
court then proceeded to try the prosecutor in the previ-
ous case, Lieutenant Knight, of the Chatham division of
marine., and serving on board the Castor, on the charge
of his having been absent from that ship on the 16th and
1. 7th inst. without leave. The charge wag proved, but
in consideration of the high testimonials of his previous
conduct, read by the prisoner, he was sentenced to be
placed at the bottom of the list of lieutenants.
CORN. IN SOUTHERN NEBRASKA.—There are farmers
within one mile of Nebraska City who will bet hand-
some sums that they have fields of corn which will yield
one hundred bushels to the acre. We believe that there
never was such corn growing as there now is within the
counties of Otue and CAS.—Nebraska News. _

LIMERICK AND FOYNES RAILWAY.---The Earl of Dun.
raven presided on Saturday at the half-yearly genera]
meeting of the Limerick and Foynes Railway Company.
The report, which was passed unanimously, stated that
the line would be opened for traffic to Adare next month]
and to Rathkeale very early next spring.