The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-26 00:00:00

COURF CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 25.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Mary Seymour,
the Rev. Frederick Anson, and Captain Mercer (officer
commanding the V4th Regitnentl.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during
dinner, and her Majesty's private band afterwards.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived last evening, had an
audience of her Majesty, And afterwards returned to
London.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds ad-
joining the Castle this morning.

A Cabinet Council Council was held yesterday at the
Foreign-office. The Ministers present were the Earl of
Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the
Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of Exchequer, Sir James Graham,
Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat three hours, The Earl of Aberdeen left
London after the Cabinet Council for Windsor Castle,
to have an audience of her Majeuty.
Despatches were received 'yesterday at the Colonial.;
office from the Guvernor-General of Australia.

Arrnoaonibro Msnaiaaa 'Zr 7<3roit I_,PO.—A mat ri_
nionial :alliance is arranged to take place bete-cell the
Earl of Portsrnouth and the Lady Evelyn Herbert,
sister to the Earl of Carnarvon.

Up to the lit of December the Admiralty had ex-
pended 0,7:),3/. in the maiutenance of Russian priaoners
of war.

We believe that Captain Sir Richard Grant will com-
plete his time of service as flag-captain of the Victory.
The departure of the Iberia steamer for the Peninsular
ports is delayed from the 27th to the 29th inst.
The Me/lite/1r of yesterday publishes the bill adopted
by the Legislative Corps for calling out 140,000 men of
the class of 1854.

THE NEW SCOTTISH JUDGE.—Some rumours being in
circulation to the effect that the vacant seat on the bench
is likely to be taken by the Lord Advocate, we can state,
on sufficient authority, that ae such arrangement is in
the least probable.—Scotsman.
The merchant ship Duke, belonging to Liverpool
Captain J. Atkinson, with 12,000 bags of sugar, from
Mauritius the 29th of October, bound for Londo, was
off Plimouth oa Wednesday—all well.
BURLINGTON-HOIISE.—The first house erected in Pic-
cadilly was the mansion built by Lord Burlington' then
in the midst of fields and lanes. It is said that when
the King asked the owner why lie preferred living so
far from London, he replied that he wished for solitude
and repose, and felt certain that he had found a place
where no one could build near him. e:
The Rev; Henry H. Hardy, A.m.,
has been collated
by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the
n the Deanery of the Forest,
Vicarage of Preston, i
county of Gloucester, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. Chas. Bryan.
We have to report to-day the death of Sir John Boyd,
which took place at Boulogne, on the 14th inst., after
a short illness. He was the son of the second baronet,
by the daughter of the Right Hon, Thomas Harley,
grand-daughter of the third Earl of Oxford. He was
born in the year 178 G, and married in 1818, and is sue-
ceeded by his heir John .Augustus, bora in 1818. The
deceased baronet was su his 68th year.
SHIPBROXERfe AND SHIP AND CUSTOM-HOUSE IGINTS'
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY MaFriera.—The second annual
general meeting
~of this society was held yesterday at
the Hamburg Coffee-house; W. Phillips, Esq., in the
chair. Two more pensioners, J. Woolcombe, aged 67,
30 years ehipbroker, and J. nearlyParish,aged
68, a Custom-hous• agent front 1827 to 1846, at 201. per
annum, were unanimously elected. The receipts during
the pestyear exceeded the expenditure byll6/.185.5d.,
after payment of the pensions.
.The total amount of stock
invested in the name of the society is 1,000/. A resolu-
tion to admit widows as recepients of the funds of the
society was carried. More than 2001. was collected at
the close of the proceedings.
NOTTINGHAM TISADE.--Lace business exhibits this
week a shade of improvement upon last week, but it
must be observed that last week was perhaps the dullest
of our whole season's dulness. For January, the hosiery
trade is also comparatively dull, for business is still sus-
tained by oce market alone—the home one—and our
manufacturers kelieve that they nust await patiently the
turn of two or three months' eveats before foreign
transactions again become active. —Neteinghainshire
Guardian.
STATE OH TRAM---Business is evidently decreasing
week by week, not only in London, but throughout the
United Kingdom, and with the failures of the last few
days promises to become still worse. The advises from
abroad are generally the reverse of favourable. The
German posts are now closed by Ice, and the only
operators at present in our marketsi for manufactured
goods are the Greek houses n the Levant trade. The
advice! from new Tork give no tangible hope of any
great improveraent in the import trade. The numerous
failures throughout the Union must unquestionably pro-
duce distrust sooner or later, and check business. The
latest accounts give the names of no lees than eight
banking and commercial firms which had suspended in
the course of three or four days.
CHINA.--According to the telegraphic accounts from
China yesterday,
which
. reeeh to the 12th of December,
there has been a slight rise the rate of exehange,
culated to increase the ehipii.sents of silver from this
country. By the previous mail the quotation ;:t Canton
was 4s. 86,, and it is now 4a. Bkd. ; while at Shanghai
it has advaced from 6s. sd. to 6s. qd. The export of
tea to date was 44,000,0001 b , and, as the total, which
lately showed a deficiency, has thus reached an amount
exactly equal to the export up to the corresponding
period of last ryear, and no supplies are coming from
Canton, the shipments from I 00-ci ioNy-foo and Shang-
hai roust' have been unexpectedly active. Of silk the
export was 26,600 bales, against 28,000 last year,
and the stock at Shanghai was
in the
1,500 bales of in
ferior quality. Political affairs the south were in a
position more critical than ever, and the Canton autho-
rities had applied officially for assistance to the English
and American Consuls, with what result is not stated,
although it is to be presumed all Interference will bo
avoided. No produce bad arrived from the interior, and
she trade of the port was completely suspended. The
long-vexed question as to the payment of the arrears of
export duties on tea at Shanghai, claimed by the Impe-
rial Government, in the absence of all power on their
part to collect them, is stated to nave been settled, as
far as the Americans are concerned, by an agreement to
. pay up one third.