The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a privy council at three o'clock on
Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was at-
tended Prince Albert ; Earl Granville, Lord President ;
Viscount Palmerston, first Lord of the Treasury; 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 ; the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, President of the Board of
Control ; Viscount Canning, Postmaster-General ; Earl
Spencer, Lard Steward ; the Marquis of Breadalbane,
Lord Chamberlain ; and the Duke of Wellington,
Master of the Horse.

3Mr. Edward Horsman' Chief Secretary for Ireland,
was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's
most Honourable Privy Couneil, and took his seat at the
board.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting. The Earl of Carlisle had an audi-
ence of the Queen previous to the Council, and took
leave of her Majesty on proceeding to Ireland.
Her Majesty afterwards gave an audience to the Earl
of Clarendon, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Granville, and
Lord Panmure. The Queen was attended by Viscount
Drumlanrig, Comptroller of the Household, Earl Somers,
Lord in Waiting, and Colonel the lion. A. N. Hood,
Groom in Waiting.

The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took eques-
trian exercise in the riding-school.

Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of
Leiningen, the Duchess of Inverness, M. Maoedo (the
Brazilian Minister), Earl Spencer, Lady Fanny Howard,
the Baroness de Spetb, the Earl and Countess of
Malinesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Colonel
the Hon. R. Brucc (the Grenadier Guards), Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. H. Percy (Grenadier Guards), the
Right Hon. Sir William and Lady Molesworth, the
Right Hon. Sir Chrrles and Lady Mary Wood, the
Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtun and Count Henckel
(Prussian Legation).

The band of the Ist Life Guards attended and playe:l
in the Palace during dinner.
The Prince of Leiningen arrived at Buckingham
Palace, at half-past ten o'clock on Friday night, from
the Continent, on a visit to the Queen.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Alber', the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Prin-
cess Alice, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and
the domestic household, attended Divine service in the
Private Chapel of Buckingham Palace. The lion. and
Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, en Saturday afternoon. The Ministers
present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of
Argyle, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth,
and Viscount Canning. The Council sat two hours.
A deputation from the Institute of British Architects
had an interview en Saturday with Sir Benjamin Hall,
President of the General Board of Health, at his office,
Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Mr. B. Ferrey,
V.P., Messrs. J. J. Scoles, and C. C. Nelson, hon.
secretaries, and Mr. H. L. Donaldson, hon. solicitor.
Sir Culling Eardley, the Rev. Wm. Acworth, and Mr.
Macgregor, M.P., transacted business on Friday at the
Home-office, in reference to the drainage of the Thames
Marshes.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the youthful mem-
bers of the Royal family, leave Buckingham Palace,
according to present arrangement, on Thursday next, for
Osborne, for a brief sojourn at the royal marine resi-
dence. The Court, it is said, will pass the Easter recess
at Windsor Castle.

The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his fifth Parlia-
mentary dinner on Saturday last.
The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his second and
last levee nn Saturday nest, March 17.
The Earl of Shaftesbury is appointed Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster. •
Admiral H. Eden has entered on his duties as a Lord
Commissioner of the Admiralty ; Mr. Walter Drum-
mond will be his private secretary.
Lord Carlisle has resigned the Presidency of the Royal
Society of Literature on going to Ireland as Lord
Lieutenant.

The Earl of Carlisle leaves Grosvenor-place to-day en
route to Dublin, to succeed the Earl of St. Germans as
Lord-Lieutenant.

Captain Ponsonby, of the Grenadier Guards, is ap-
pointed aide-de-camp to Lieutenant-General Sir George
Brown, K.C.8., commanding the Light Division in the
Crimea.
NAVAL MEDICAL OFFICERS.—The movement in favour
of the naval assistant-surgeons, so admirably originated
at the Middlesex Hospital, has been followed by the
pupils of all the other metropolitan schools. On Tues-
day last an important meeting was held, attended by
delegates from all the London hospitals, to organise an
effective opposition to the recent unjust regulations of
the Admiralty, admitting youths of 18, and who had
only just finished their first medical sessions, into the
Royal navy to rank with, but subordinate to, that of
the acting assistant-surgeons. The provincial schools
are about to co-operate with the metropolitan in addres-
°jug Putitiona Parliament on this important subject.

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