The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON SATURDAY EvENING, OCTOBER
.20_,1855

COURT CIRCULAR,

WINDSOR, OCT. 19.
T-Ter Majesty held a Court and Privy Council at 3
o'clock this afternoon, at the Castle. Present at the
Council :—Prince Albert, Earl Granville, Lord Presi-
dent, Viscount Palmerston, First Lord of the Trea-
sury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the
Home Department ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs ; Lord Panmure Secretary
of State for War ; Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the
Admiralty ; Earl Spencer, Lord Steward ; and Lord
Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain, officiating for the
Lord Chamberlain.
At the Council Parliament was ordered to be fur-
ther prorogued from Tuesday, the 23d inst., until (it is
understood) Tuesday, the 11th December.
Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
The Turkish Minister and the Portuguese Minister
had audiences of her Majesty, to which they were in-
troduced by the Earl of Clarendon, the Queen's prin-
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Bishop of Sierra Leone had an audience of the
Queen.
Her Majesty gave audiences to the Earl Granville
and the Earl of Clarendon.
The Right Hon. Sir Richard Pakenham, K.C.8.,
late her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Portugal,
had an audience of her Majesty.
The Sheriff of London and the City Remembrancer
arrived from London, and also had an audience of the
Queen.
Lord Byron was the Lord in Waiting, and Colonel
the Hon. N. Hood the Groom in Waiting.
Viscount Palmerston and Lord Panmure remain at
the Castle on a visit to her Majesty.
His Excellency Count de Lavradio, his Excellency
M. Musurus, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Spencer,
Lord Paurnure, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren-
don, Sir Charles Wood, ard Mr. Greville travelled
from London to attend the Queen's court by a special
train on the Great Western Railway ; and at the end
of the court, the same party, with the exception of
Lords Palmerston and Panmure, returned to town by
the same route.

Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yes.
terday from the Governors of the West India Islands,
Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governor of
Canada.

Yesterday the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess
Mary of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Man-
chester, Lord Mandeville' Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Lord
and Lady Newport, Lord Canterbury, and Col. Parker,
who have been spending the week at Heaton Hall, near
Prestwick, with the Earl and Countess of Wilton, vi-
sited Manchester, and spent some time at Mr. Grundy's
Repository of Art, Royal Exchange-street. The distin-
guished visitors afterwards went through Mr. Houlds-
worth's silk manufactory, in Portland-street. They were
accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Wilton.
The Duke of Devonshire is expected to reach Chats-
worth early next week en route from Ireland. His grace
has derived benefit from his residence at Lismore Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwioke are receiving a
select circle of visitors at Wimpole Hall, near Cam-
bridge.

Viscount and Viscountess Barrington and family are
passing the season at Becket House, near Faringdon.
Lord and Lady Milford have left the St. George's
Hotel for Picton Castle, South Wales.
Sir Thomas Gage has arrived at Edwards' Hotel from
Paris. Colonel Alston and Mrs. Alston, and Mr.
Graham and Miss Graham, have left the same hotel for
Liverpool ; and Mr. Elliott and Miss Eiliott for New
York, United States.

Lady Ashford has arrived at the St. George's Hotel.
Major Macdonald has arrived at the same establishment.
The Rev. Frederick Askew Bickmore, 8.A., has been
instituted to the United Rectory of Cranwich and
Vicarage of Didlington, with the Rectory of Colveston
annexed, in Norfolk.

The postmastership of Exeter has become vacant by
the death of Paul Measor, Esq. The deceased gentleman
held the office for nearly half a century.
The Emperor of the French promises that a part of
the cannon taken at Sebastopol shall be employed in
casting the colossal statue of the Virgin to be erected on
the Corneille Rock, in the Puy-de-Dome.
Strangers are still flocking to Spa ; the last list pub-
lished shows the number of arrivals since the beginning
of the season to be 7,334.

Baron Bruno w, formerly the Russian Ambassador in
England, left Berlin iu the evening of the 14th, for St.
Petersburg.
The 15th was the anniversary of the birth of the King
of Prussia, and of his entrance into the army 50 years
ago. This double commemorative festival was cele-
brated at Berlin on Monday with much splendour.
APPEALS FROM THIS REVISING BARRISTERS.—The pre.
sent revision must be concluded by the end of the month,
and appeals be entered for hearing in the ensuing Mi.
chaelmas Term. The annual expense of the revision is
17,850/.
BANE RATE or DISCOUNT.—In consequence of the
advance in the Bank rate of discount, the joint-stock
banking houses have advanced their terms for deposits
of money on call.
SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by the Peninsular
and Oriental steamer Indus amount to 318,9281., of
which 45,8711. is gold for Alexandria, Bombay, Ceylon,
and Madras, and '273,057/. silver for Bombay, Madras,
and Calcutta. The two previous fortnightly remittances
were 456,0501. and 505,8591., and the present total,
therefore, shows a large comparative decrease.
Loss OF THE FRENCH STEAMER CYGNE. PARIS,
Oct. 11.—The Cygne (French steamer), Magnate from
Marseilles, was run into and sunk off the entrance of
the Bosphorus by an Austrian steamer, previous to the
9th Oct. ; crew saved.
The Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A., of Exeter Col-
lege, Oxford, lecturer of St. Ethelburga's, Bishopegate,
has been appointed curate of All Saints, Knightsbridge.
The cardinals and prelates of the Vatican were not
present at the " Te Daum " celebrated for the fall of
Sebastopol, whilst their presence was remarked at the
palace of the Russian legation on St. Alexander New-
ski's Day.
The French Academy has at present three receptions
of new members to make—those of M. Leeouve, the
Duke de Broglie, and M. Ponsard. The Academy of
Sciences Las two vacancies to fill up—those caused by
the deaths of M. Mirbal and Dr. Majendie.
The Cologne Gazette states that the Russian General,
Baron Korff, has been deprived of his command, on ac-
count of his conduct near Eupatoria, and that he is to
be brought before a courtemattw.
The Austrian police haie prohibited the circulation of
General Klapka's work, entitled, "The War in the East
during the Years 1353 and 1854."
Three of the most popular foreign musical composers
of the day—Rossini, Meyerbeer, and Verdi—are now in
Paris.
DEATH OF AN EMINENT AGRICULTURIST.—Died, a few
days ago, Mr. John Gillett of Erizenorton, Oxon, who
was distinguished as an agriculturist, but more especial,y
as a breeder of Cotswold Down Sheep.
REPRESENTATION OF HEREFORD.—A vacancy follows
in the representation of Hereford by the bankruptcy of
the Whig M.P., Sir Robert Price, Bart., iron merchant,
whose name appears in the Gazette of last night.
RISE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—On Thursday there
was a general rise in the price of bread of one half-penny
per 4 lb. loaf, making it 91d. and Bid. (seconds) at the
cheap bakers. The full-price bakers are charging 101 d.
and 11d.
FOUNDERING OP THE BRITISH BARQUE KENT.—LIMA,
Sept. 11.—The Kent, British barque, from Callao to
England, founded on the 3d Sept. in lat. 13 S., lon. 79
W. ; crew saved and arrived at Callao.
Osman Pacha, who was wounded and taken prisoner
at Sinope, has been exchanged, with 44 of his seamen,
for Russian prisoners, and is now at Constantinople.
Sir Samuel Morton Pete, Bart., has consented to lay
the foundation-stone of Kingsgate Chapel, Holborn, on
Wednesday, the 24th inst. An address will be delivered
on the occasion by the Rev. William Brock, minister of
Bloomsbury Chapel.
LEAMINGTON MORALITY.--The Cheltenham Guardian
says the Leamington magistrates resolve to discounte-
nance the prosecution of persons keeping houses of ill-
fame, of which there are 47 in Leamington, on the
ground that it will drive all the gentlemen away, and the
town will be ruined.
The Place St. George (Paris) is at present covered
with straw, in consequence of the serious illness of
Madame Tillers, wife of the ex-minister of King Louis
Philippe.
The workmen engaged on the New River Company,
laying down pipes at Pentonville, yesterday morning,
came in contact (to all appearance) with the foundation
of an old building, about four yards distant from the
place where the late mysterious disco,very of a coffin and
skeleton, took place, about two feet in thickness, and as
hard as iron, with a layer of mortar an inch thick, which
appears to be as hard as rock at the present time.
A conference, ccnsisting of the plenipotentiaries from
the Saxon duchies' of Weimar and Gotha and the two
principalities of Schwarzburg, was to be held last Thurs-
day at Weimar, to deliberate respecting various legisla-
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tive projects. Among the latter will be the measures
decreed by the German Diet relative to the " abuses of
the press."
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St. George's-road, was accidentally killed under the fel,-
lowing circumstances :—The deceased was in the erne
ployment of Mr. W. Wilson, builder, High-street, Lam-
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Leth, who is repairing the interior of the palace ; he fell
from a high scaffold, and was picked up in a state of
insensibility, and expired while being conveyed to Guy's
Hospital.
MINES.—The mining market has not been in a very
active state this week, arid great fluctuations have
taken place in two or three descriptions of shares.
The further, and almost unprecedented, increase in
the rate of discount which has been announced by the
Bank directors, however much it may check the ex-
port of gold, does not tend to encourage speculation,
or to improve prices of purely speculative mines. In
dividend stock prices are better sustained.—Mining
Journal.
FATAL ACOIDENT.--A fatal accident occurred on
Thursday on the high road leading from Woolwich to
Loudon, by which a young girl was killed and three
children more or less injured. It appears the mother of
the children had placed them in a small cart to take them
for a short ride, when, while proceeding along, a large
waggon came up at a trot, and before the cart could be
drawn out of the way one of the wheels of the waggon
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