The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JULY 15.
Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur have been at
tacked with scarlatina. Their royal highnesses are going
on very favourably.
The same disease has declared itself in Prince Lea'
pold, who was left at Buckingham Palacein consequence
of a slight accident.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the King of the 13a1'
gians and the Count of Flanders, embarked in the royal •
yacht Victoria and Albeit on Friday afternoon, a°
went towards the Needles. Her Majesty, with the
Princess Charlotte of Belgium and the Princess Royal,
cruised in the Fairy.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fal°l
Howard, arrived on a visit to her Majesty on Friday'.
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Royal'
Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent, and Princess
Charlotte of Belgium, drove out in an open carriage Ye°•
tcr,lay afternoon.
Prince Albert and the Count of Flanders rode a°
horseback. ging
The royal dinner party yesterday included the
of
of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, the Count of
Flanders, the Princess Royal, the Princess Charlotte
Belgium, Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess de 800,
the Baronne de Bowe, Colonel de Moerkerke, Slr
Robert Carswell, Captain Burnell, and Sir James Clark.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon a:
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was attendeu
by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the 301'
quis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argr'
Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, LorJuba
Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Excb6:
quer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vern°"
Smith, Sir William Moleswortb, Viscount Canning, an
Earl of Harrowby. The council !Sat three
hours and a half.

Meetings of the Oxford University Commission wee°
held at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westminster, °llt
Thursday and Friday last. The Commissioners preserr:
were the Earl of Ellesmere, the Dean of Wells, and PP'

John Wither Awdry, with the secretaries. 0;
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her 1‘
jesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting o
Saturday, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall. Tiff
sent : The Lord President, the Chancellor of the
chequer, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines.'
A deputation from the Waltham Holy Cross 14°,call,i,
Board of Health had an interview, on Saturday, s'i""
the President of the General Board of Health, at
office, whitehall, with reference to the Public 1101 t
Bill. The deputation consisted of the Rev. J. F. Shat.
man, Mr. Carr, Mr. Read, and Mr. dessopp, clerk to
the local board.

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THE MINISTRY.—After the separation of the Cabinet
Council on Saturday evening, Lord John Russell le°
town for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond. Viscount Pal'
merston did not leave town, but dined with the 1.01..
quis and Marchioness of Londonderry. The only Ow
munication from the noble viscount to the Queen ivfil

conveyed by one of the ordinary Treasury messengers'
IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE CONSERVATITE Pale'
—A meeting of the Conservative members of the Heal
of Commons took place on Saturday at the residence oci
Mr. Disraeli. The attendance was very numerous,
never was the feeling of the party more cordial and noir
nimous as to the course to be pursued by it.
SUCCESSOR TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL AS COLONIC
SECRETARY.—As we have elsewhere observed, the nay °s
of Sir Wm. Molesworth and Mr. Vernon Smith are MeV
tioned as probable to be submitted as Colonial Sere.
tary ; the name of Lord Harrowby has also been In°
tioned. —Morning llcrald.
Lord Derby has written to Sir J. H. Maxwell, toga,'
that "Parliamentary business" will prevent him troll
being present at the approaching Great Agriculture'
Meeting at Carlisle.
The band of the Ist Life Guards have eonarnen—,,,
playing in the Kensington Gardens selections from t'""
most favourite composers, every Tuesday and FridaP.
from four to six o'clock, and will continue to do so &It
in.- the months of July and August, weather permitting'
'During the week, preliminary arrangements have beeel
made in forming an association to promote the obserf:„'
tion and classification of meteorological phenomena
Scotland. The Duke of Argyle has been nominated 1"
president, the Marquis of Tweeddale as vice-president'
and Mr. A. K. Johnston as honorary secretary, with tb
numerous council.
Mr. Arnaud, the collector of Customs at Liverpool,
who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office upwards tlf
thirty years ago, has just retired, it is stated, upon tb.
large superannuation allowance of 2,2001. a year.'"

Shipping Gazette.
Captain John M‘Dougall, R.N., has been appointeti
Aj.imiralty superintendent of the Southampton Plag
packet station. This officer was made captain in 1.80,1,
and will probably be an admiral before long, when
0°
will ceasa to hold his appointment.. nlO
SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE GRAND CROSS OF
BATH. —Sir Charles Napier received a summons to
tend at Court for the purpose of being installed. Ile:
however, declined the proffered boon. The reason
signed by the gallant Admiral, if not officially givencl;
well known to his friends. "I have been, he "J"'
"censured and degraded, and have been denied the op-
portunity of clearing my reputation. Yet I vf
offered a G.C.B."—United Service Gazette.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge honoured the performances at the
Royal Italian Opera with his presence on Saturdefi
evening. The Queen's box was occupied by the Ball
and Countess of Listowel and Lady Emily Hare, 1-07,
and Lady Macdonald, and Mr. and Lady August°.
Proby.
LIDLLE. RACHEL.--It is definitively settled that this
eminent tragedienne will leave Europe for Anaeri:
early in August, but before her departure she will giY
four performances at the St. James's Theatre, CO
mencing on the 28th or 30th inst. •n•
THE MOUNTGARRETT PEERAGE.—The Hon. -rlelo
Somerset Butler, the p
thlaintiff.in the above memorou,,,
case, applied on Thursday for his discharge, under 00
Insolvent Debtors' Act. After some opposition,

Court granted the application.
General Jomini, the well-known military writer, .497111.
superintended the military education of the late -bre,
peror Nicholas and afterwards became his first aide.l°,B
camp, has, says the Austrian Gazette, obtained from
Emperor Alexander permission to retire to Brussrvi
and is to take up his residence in that city at the begin
of October. The General is 77 years of age• t tbe
immense preparations are said to be making o
Porte St. Martin for the new drama intended to e
brace the history of Paris. the
CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—The following were
nu mbers at the close of the poll on Saturday :---
Berkeley 76g
Ridler
Majority for Berkeley
THE FOREIGN LEGION—We are very happy tO
nonce° that his Royal Highness the Duke of Oof
bridge is to be immediately appointed Generalissimo
the Foreign Legion.—United Service Gazette. OA%
Lady Theresa Lewis had a soiree on Saturday oluhe
at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Eltn''
efli
quer, in Downing-street. Above 300 persons, chi A
members of the Peers and Commons, attended her 01;
ship's assembly. The Right Hon. Vernon Smith vi.be
the only member of the Cabinet present, except

Premier.
THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—DIVIDEND AND REpO or
—lt has been estimated that the dividend of this 0.4%,
pany will be about 18s. 6d. per share for the ellr'm
half-year, or 4s. 6d. per share, or at the rate of 180. "-tog
per cent:less for the year. This corresponds to 0,
,0
°4
20,000/. less profit on the half-year. The gross Wow
are about 11,0001. less. —Herapath,.
toot
STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—We understand that at toy
ing of the council of the Statistical Society, held of
evening, Mr. Scargill was appointed to the office
assistant-secretary, vacant by the :retirement of i„t'i
Cheshire. The fact that Mr. Scargill took a WranC,o
degree in 1849 sufficiently speaks for his qualifiest7
for the appointment. In reference to the retireniel3"
P
Mr. Cheshire the council passed the following oso so'
tion .—" That the council of the Statistical Socieqbeif
cept with extreme reluctance the resignation et
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assistant-secretary, Mr. Cheshire, and take this opr_oos
nity of expressing to him their high sense of the tbe
advantages which have accrued to the society frO $l3O
zeal and ability with which he has discharged sal
duties of his office." r 01f
THE THUNDERSTORM OF SATURDAY.—ShortIy a'"tite
l
o'clock on Saturday morning the metropolis was "/",-rlf
by a violent thunderstorm, which continued for 13808
an hour. The lightning was of a vivid character. tithe
rain fell in torrents, and many of the small streets PTO
east end of London were flooded for several hours-icor
market gardeners' grounds were also inundated, and At
siderable damage was done by the great fall of rai,l3',loll'
Bristol the storm took place an hour or two previ°,;jitt
It commenced about half-past 3 o'clock, and excenbs°
violence anything of the kind that has occurred 10
city for the last 30 years. The thunder was fold tbo
lent, and the lightning so vivid that the captains "heis;
African and Indian ships in the port describe it 0:00
the nearest approach to a tropical tornado that thei pidg
witnessed in this country. Considerable darnalrii tills
done by the hail, which beat the wheat down 11;
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surrounding country, and broke thousands of PEttr"
glass ; and at St. George'q, Glocestershire, the e'-°0;
fluid struck a house near the Don John's-ere/5°,00
stroyed the chimneys, and split the house frool the
to the basement storey. 13%‘
The Turkish Government have granted % 038
elusive concession for a submarine telegraph „frng-000/d
be

Dardanelles to Alexandria. The cost will be 120'nbt
and the line could be completed in twelve 91-13eitirt
An annual subsidy of 4,5001. for twenty 0'
is to he paid by Turkey for the transmiss'°fross
official messages ; and, as the communications 10
India will be accelerated from five to six days ,136,1Ptiel
and the general system of telegraphs now confor-°,olo`
in European Turkey shall have been completed, ehlia-pre'
tional revenue of 10,4001. is calculated upon hY toso,l°
moters from that source. At the same time Prv`,ol7'
are on foot for extending the project to India 11 "ebeehP
ing the communication via Suez and Aden toltorrat pit"
at the mouth of the Indus, where it would conoec'trec'
the lines already in operation, or in course of tout the
Lion, by the East India Company througloihv
various
presidencies. The total length fromthe oto
nelles to Kurrachee is about 4,ooomiles, and the
quirecl for the whole (including the submarine linebeeo
Alexandria), would be 850,000/. Application he%fo,t3
made to the India-house for support, in the shell 0tie.,13
annual allowance of 30,0001. a-year, subject to re:.:101*
in proportion to the ultimate success of the under,L
Thu entire line to India may, it is estimated, by
plated in two years.

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