The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-17 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

The Lord President of the Council, accompanied by
the Countess Granville, returned to town yesterday from
visiting the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs.
Herbert, at Wilton House, near Salisbury.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood
arrived at the right hon. baronet's official residence, at
the Admiralty, yesterday morning from Wiltshire.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has left Lansdowne House
for Bowood-park, Wilts. The noble marquis will be in
town early in the ensuing week.
Lord Panmure was detained up to a late hour last
evening at the War Department, and all the officials
were busily engaged in making up the despatch bags for
the seat of war in the East.
Viscount and Viscountess Canning joined the circle
assembled at Wilton House, on a vi,it to the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. Herbert, on Wednesday
last. The noble viscount returned to town last evening.
The Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith has left town for
his seat in Northamptonshire.
The Earl of Clarendon left the Foreign-office, in Down-
ing-street, last even ing, for the Grove, near Watford,
Herts. A. Queens Foreign-office messenger (Mr.
Moore) left by the mail train last night for Folkestone,
et, rout,. for Constantinople via Marseilles, bearing de-
spatches for his Excellency Lord Stratford de Redcliffe,
from the Earl of Clarendon ; for the General-Command-
ing-in-Chief (Sir W. Codrington) at the Crimea, from the
Minister of War ' • and for Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund
Lyons, from the Lords of the Admiralty.
The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it
is said, intends to remain in town until about a week
before Christmas, when the Right Hon. Baronet goes to
Harpton-hall, Herefordshire.
Viscount Palmerston is expected to leave Broadlands,
Hants, on Tuesday morning for town. Lady Palmer-
ston will also come to town, as the noble Viscount does
not intend to return to his country seat until just before
Christmas.

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The Earl of Lucan arrived in Hanover-square' from
his seat, Castlebar, county Mayo, on Wednesdab and
on Thursday left town for his seat, Laleham
Staines. near
The Earl of Dartmouth has arrive dat his mansion in
Grosvenor-square, from Sandwell-park, near Bir-
mingham.
The Earl and Countess of Wicklow will leave town
on Monday next, for Brighton, where his Lordship has
taken a mansion for the season.
Viscount Balgonie, eon of the Earl of Leven and Mel-
ville, who arrived at Melville House, Fifeshire,
refrom the
Crimea only a few days ago, and who was to 'have been
entertained at a public dinner in Cupar-Fife yesterday,
was taken suddenly HI on Monday, owing to the
bursting of a blood-vessel. The intended banquet has
been postponed.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst are expected in town,
the latter end of next week, from Turville Park.
Mr. Alfred Bulkley has left Salisbury for the Earl of
Radnor's, Coleshill-house, Berkshire.
The Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P:, has re-
turned to town from visiting the Earl of Radnor at
Coleshill-house, Berkshire ; also the Right Hon. Sir G.
and Lady Grey.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam have returned to
Grosvenor-square from visiting the Countess of Caledon
at her seat in Ireland.
Mr. Monckton Milnes, M.P., has returned to his
house in Brook-street, from Viscount Palmerston's,
Broadlands, Hants.
A correspondent writes from Oxford : —" It is ru-
moured in circles lik you to be well-informed that there is
a probability of the ythful Prince of Wales becoming
a member of this university."
ANTICIPATED VISIT OF THE _MING OF SARDINIA TO
THE CITY.—We are informed, upon good authority, that
during his stay in the metropolis the King of Sardinia
will honour the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and the
Corporation of London with his royal pres that Mr.
ence.
We are pleased to be able to announce
Locke, M.P., continues toprogress very favourably.—
Galignani.
The opening of the next session of the Prussian Cham
hers has been postponed from the 25th to the 30th inst.
DEATH OF RETIRED COMMA.NDICII LIIMSDALE.—COM-
mander Alexander Lumsdale (1846) died suddenly at his
residence, St. Andrew's,Southsea, on the 13th inst.
COMMITTAL OF Mn. CLAYTON, THE BARRISTER.—At
the Hammersmith Police Court, yesterday, Mr. Charles
Bradwell Clayton, the barrister, and reporter to the Jus-
Use of the Peace, was sentenced to 24 days' imprison-
ment for deserting his wife and seven children.
MEETING 02 OPERATIVES AT MANCHESTER. —On
Thursday evening about 2,000 factory operatives, mostly
very young people, assembled in the People's Institute,
Manchester, to discuss the questions, " Why are provi-
sions dear 'I" and " Why is employment scarce ?"
The Duchess d'Orleans, together with the Comte de
Paris and the Due de Chartres, arrived at Eisenach on
the 11th inst., on a visit to the Court of Saxe Weimar.
On the forenoon of the previous day a fire had broken
out in the palace of the Grand Duke, near the rooms
occupied by the children, but was extinguished promptly,
without doing any considerable amount of damage.