The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, MARCH 17.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen left Osborne for Ports-
Mouth yesterday.
The Queen and Prince and the Royal children walked
and drove out yesterday.

MAR CH 18.
The Queen and Prince and Prince of Leiningen drove
out yesterday afternoon.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministrrs pre-
soot were Viscount Palfmrston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord
Panwure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William
Molesworth, and Viscount Canning. The Council sat
four hours.

A deputation from the Rusholme Local Board of
Health and from the Guardians of the Poor of the Charl-
ton Union had an interview on Saturday with Sir B.
hall, President of the General Board of Health, at his
office, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Mr. Cor-
nelius Randall, Chairman of the Board of Guardians,
and a member of the Local Board ; Mr. Lawton, Sur-
veyor to the Local Board ; and Mr. Burdett, Solicitor,
Clerk to the Guardians and to the Local Board.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of the
Privy Council had a meeting on Saturday at the Coun-
cil-office. Present—The Lord President, the Duke of
Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Canning,
Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on
Saturday from the Governors of"AuStralia and New
Zealand.

The-specie arrivals of The week have amounted to
nearly 800,0001., all in gold, The exports have been
insignificant.
The Oliver Lang bad left Sydney for Liverpool, and
is expected to bring gold. The Arnon, from Launcee-
ton for London, has 1,422 ounces and 16,000 sovereigns,
making a total of 21,7001.
The Argo screw steamer, which arrived yesterday,
from Australia, has already been taken up by the Eng-
lish Government for the conveyance of cavalry. She is
of 1,850 tons burden and 300-horse power, and the con-
tract is for six months. The Natal, of 680 tons and 100-
horse power, also belonging to the General Screw Com-
pany, has been chartered for a similar period by the
French Government. The latter vessel has sailed, and
the Argo is expected to be ready in 10 days.
The accounts from Adelaide, South Australia, reach
to the 2d of January. The successful resumption of
mining operations was indicated by increased shipments
10f copper ore. Burra Burra shares were quoted 1561. 10s,,
and the rates for money ranged from 10 to 20 per cent.,
according to the security. The Victoria had sailed for
London with 30,000 sovereigns, in addition to a general
cargo of wool and copper ore. Six or seven vessels
were loading wool for this port, and two or three others
were expected to follow.
The Maidstone Journal dates that the gentleman who
has been requested to stand on the Tory interest for the
county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the regretted
retirement of Sir E. Filmer, is Sir Walter Riddell, Bart.,
recorder for the borough SMaidstone. Sir Walter has
consented to become a candidate.
ROYAL MEDAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS.-.-
The Queen has, by a letter from the Hon. Colonel Phipps
to Earl de Grey, approved and sanctionel the award of
her Majesty's gold medal to M. Hittorff, architect,tof
Paris.—The Builder.
HANOVER-SQUARE Roosts. —The fourth of the after-
noon vocal concerts, dedicated 'to the illustration of the
music of Sir Henry Bishop, which took place on Satur-
day, at the Hanover-square Rooms, was exceedingly
well attended—occasioning the public announcement
that another series would he commenced after Easter.
The selection comprised Several of the compositions
which had been performed at:ithe former meetings ; and
there were no less than four encores. The pieces were
rendered with the greatest possible taste by Mr. Francis,
Mr. Benson, Mr. Land, Alr. Lawler, Mr. Buckland,
and the Cathedral boys, and no vocalism of the concerted
class was ever more sweetly and delicately executed.
We observe that a concert, on a large scale, is to be
given by Mr. Mitchell, on the 27th instant, at Exeter
Hall, when the vocal force will extend to 200 voices, and
certain of Sir Henry Bishop's most popular tenor ballads
be sung by Mr. Sims Reeves.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The following full storekeepers
are about to proceed on foreign service :—Mr. W. H.
G. Johnstone, deputy storekeeper, Fort St. George,
N. 8., to Ceylon ; Mr. John Drew, deputy storekeeper
on half-pay, to Sierra Leone ; Mr. J. C. Rowland ;
Ordnance clerk, Pail-mall, to Hong Kong. An
Ordnance establishment is being formed in the
Bosphorus. Mr. E. F. Sandys has been appointed
temporary clerk in the Audit-office, Somerset-house,
vice Irving, appointed to the Admiralty. Messrs.
M. Hume and E. D. IVladdy have been appointed first
clerks, and Messrs. F. Drake, W. Walter, and R. G.
Harwood, have been appointed third clam clerks, in the
Charitable Trust Commission. The appointment of third
class clerk in the Circulation Department of the General
Post-office is vacant, caused by the death of Mr. Daniel
Dixon, in the gift of the Postmaster-General.—Civil
Service Gazette.
THE FUNERAL CORTEGE OF TEE LATE CZAR.—The
Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 10th publishes a sup-
plement of twelve pages, setting forth the ceremonial
approved of by the Emperor Alexander, for the funeral
cortege on the occasion of the removal of the body of the
late Emperor Nicholas from the Winter Palace to the
Cathedral Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and
Paul. In some respects the regulations are not
unlike those adopted at the funeral at St. Paul's of the
late Duke of Wellington. First is an extraordinary dis-
play of banners and military ; and then representatives
of the Court, the civil Government, and various 'cor-
porations and philanthropic societies. Chanters from
the convent of St, Alexander Nevaky and those of the
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Casan, followed by a long
train of clergy, holding lighted tapers in their hands,
and two pictures of saints, and lastly the confessor of
the late Emperor—immediately precede the funeral car
The Emperor Alexander follows, and at stated distances
other members of the Imperial family. We observe
mentioned as in the first part of the procession the
saddle-horse of his late Majesty, richly caparisoned, and
led by two superior officers in uniform and in deep
mourning.

FRENCH ASSISTANCE TO BRITISH WRECKS.—Her Ma-
jesty's Consul at Boulogne has addressed a letter to the
Earl of Clarendon, relative to the services rendered by
Generals de Courtigis and Borelli, and their troops, to
British vessels recently wrecked near that port. Four
British trading vessels were stranded between the 25th
and 20th ult., in consequence of the dense fog. For-
tunately no lives were lost. Generals de Couittgis and
Borelli, in command of the camps of Equihan and Am-
bleteuse, furnished the soldiers required by the marine
department as working parties, with officers, to assist
in saving the cargoes; and most effectually it was done.
One of the ships, the Mangosteen, of London, of 383
tons burthen, from India, with a very rich cargo, derived
very great benefit from the military, 300 in number, in
making a road over the rocks, so as to enable carts to
get to the wreck, which was most expeditiously executed,
and a very considerable portion of her cargo was safely
lauded, which otherwise could not have been effected
previous to the ship's breaking up.