The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, DEC. 13.
The Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the
Royal children took their usual exercise yesterday.
The Queen and Prince have not left the grounds of
Osborne.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren-
don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

Mr. Cunard had an interview with Mr. Secretary La-
bouchere yesterday, at the C,,lonial-office.
A deputation from the Luton Union, consisting of
Messrs. Benning, Medland, Lockhart, and Burgess, had
an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. E. P. Bou-
♦erie, the President of the Poor-Law Board, at White-
hall, on the subject of the division of the union.
The Duke of Newcastle has been offered the Garter,
vacant by the death of the late Duke of Somerset.
The Duke of Sutherland left Lilleshall, on Tuesday
last, for Trentham, where his grace was joined, the same
evening, by the Duchess of Sutherland from Stafford
House.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll and family are pass-
ing the season at their villa at Campde❑ Hill.
Among the visitors to thsi Duke and Duchess of Nor-
folk, at Arundel Castle, are Mr. and Lady Elizabeth
Drummond, Mr. and Miss Sloane Stanley, and Mr.
Lyons.

The Earl and Countess of Perth have:left town for
Brighton.

Viscountess Palmerston will receive company to-mor-
row evening, at the family mansion, on the Terrace, Pic-
cadilly.
Lady Molesworth has returned to her residence in
Eaton-place, from Folkestone.
The marriage of Miss Blanche Seymour, daughter of
Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, to Captain Dawson,
93d Highlander; will, it is said, take place in the course
of the next week.
His Excellency M. Fontis di Mello, the Portuguese
Financial Minister, has returned to Claridge's Hotel.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
has given notice that the first examination for the prize
medal for legal stadies offered to the University by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chancellor,!will take
place in Lent Term, 1857.

The London Cattle Show Excursion-trains answered
very well on the South-Western line. Nearly 700 persons
started from Southampton, who had been collected
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lordship originally to fix upon Cannes, in
ment of Var, as his continental residence, have also epart-
fluenced the Emperor of the French to select thesaniin"
delightful vicinage of the Mediterranean coast for the
approaching accouchement of the Empress Eugenie.
MAGISTRATES FOR SWANSEA.—The Lord Chancellor
has added the names of George Grant Francis, James
Walters, Evan M. Richards, John W. James, T. B.
Essery, and M. M. Williams, Esqs., to the Commis-
sioners of the Peace for the Borough of Swansea.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—In our list of the prizes
awarded the names of Messrs. Baker, Tuckers, and Co.,
silk handkerchief printers, of Gresham-street, to whom a
medal was given, were omitted ; and, Fourteenth Class,
Civil Construction, "C. E. Leather, London, might to
have been " John W. Leather, C.E., Leeds."
CRYSTAL PALACE—SHILLING DAY, Dec. 113.—Ad-
missions on payment, 967 ; ditto by season tickets, 1
241; total, 1,211. Corresponding day last year, 700.