The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Ro;";.1 Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Lein-
ingen, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their pre-
sence last evening.
The Royal suite consisted of the Duchess of Athol!,
the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Earl Somers, Major-General Bon-
verse, and Giptain Plat.
Prince rt, nccompanit.d by Prince Alfred and the
icce of Leiningen, visited Mr. Scott Russell's Iron-
works at Mill-wag yestcrlay, for the purpose of inspect-
ing the new floating batteries and the large steamer in
course cf construction there.

MeAinzs of the Oxford Universty Commission were
held at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westminster, on
Tuesday p.,.‘1 yesterday. The Commissioners present
were—the Fail of Eilesmer, the Earl of Harrowhy, Sir
G. Cornewall Lewis, the Dean of Well 4, and Sir Julie
Awdry, v.ith the Cecretnries, Mr. Goldwin Smith, and
the Rev. S W. Way to.
De=ratehes from the Commander of the Forces in the
CrTneit were brought by a messenger to Lord Panmure
ye,terilay,

Fier Highne-gs the Duchess of Kent visited her
Itoyal Highness the Duche?,s of Gloucester ye6ttrday, at
Gloncs?ster House, Piccacli:ly.
T,le Countess Colloredo will have an assembly this
evening, at Chandos House.
The Earl and Countess of• Durham have arrived at
the Clarendon, from Brooke, 11!.11, Herts.
Tl.e Earl and Countess of Camperdown gave a select
ctir:er party, last evening, at their residence in Wilton-
b)rrAce. Lord Panmure, the Earl of Kintore, Mr. and
Lady Agnes Duff, and Mr. Hastie, M.P., were among
the guests preent._.

Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge gave a select
dinner party, on Tuesday evening, at their residence,
Great Stanhope-street, when the illa,rquis and Mar-
chioness of Londonderry, the Marchioness of Blandford,
the Earl and Ccuntess of Portarlington, Lord Dynevor,
and the Hon. Miss Rice Trevor were among the guests
present.

Sir R Ebert and Lady Gerard have arrived at the
Clarendon, fr)m Roehampt)n.
The Sultan has been pleased to confer the first class of
the Order of Abdul-Medjid on F. M. Lord Raglan and
Lieut.• General Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.B.
The King of B%var:a has pronounced the dissolution
of the Bavarisn Diet, reserving to himself to fix here-
after the time f)r the elections of the Second Chamber,
within the interval determined by the Constitution.
The English consular agent at Kiel bas been officially
informed of the approaching arrival at that port of the
flying squadron. Preparations are being made for the
provisioning of the entire fleet.

General Viscount de Foissac-Latour, grand officer of
the Legion of Honour, for some years on half-pay, ex-
pired two days past at his estate of Rouge-Maison, near
Vailly-sur-Aisne, in his 73d year.
We regret to have to announce the death of Sir Wil-
liam Miincr, Bart., well known as Milner, of Nun-
appleton, and one of the most extensive landed pro-
prittors in Yorkshire. The deceased was in politics a
Whig, and his son and successor is now, and has
been for some years, the representative of the City of
York.

(A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office,
Downing•street. yesterday afternoon. It was attended
by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey,
the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, and 'Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat two hours and a-half.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert,
and suite visited the Haymarket Theatre yesterday
evening, the performances being for the benefit of Mr.
Wilde, the treasurer.

_ .
LYCEUM THEATRE.—Mr. Allcroft has announced his
farewell concert this season, at the above fashionable
theatre, to take place on Monday, April 2, for which he
has engaged all the most celebrated artistes, both native
and foreign, and there can be no doubt but it will be
one of the most brilliant of the present season.
Government have called upon a number of the most
distinguished officers now in England both of the
Queen's and the Indian armies—to state, in writing,
their opinions as to the advisability of amalgamating the
two services. Sir Erskine Perry has given notice of a
motion, beating on this subject, for to-morrow (Friday).
SOCIETY OT ARTS.—Dr. W. H. Smith, of Philad'
phia, read last night before the society a paper "On the
Utilisation of the Slags or Molten Mineral Products of
Smeiting Furnaces."

The Postmas.ter•General has just paid a fifth part of
the life assurance annual premium of every Post-office
official in the kingdom who has insured his life.
THE MARCH EDITION OF KELLY & CO.'s SUPPLEMENT
TO THEIR POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY has just been
issued. Among oth ,r matter it contains a Peerage and
Parliamentary Directory, with town residence during
the present session, and country seat of every Peer and
Member of the House of Commons, with the offices held
by each, and a complete Postal Directory corrected up
to the date of pubication. One fea'ure of it is deserving
of particular notice. We mean the list of supplemental
name., consisting of persons who have commenced busi•
ness since the completion cf the Post-office London Di-
rectory for 1855, and alterations of names which appear
therein, so that while the Supplement recommends itself
to all classes by the completeness of its Parliamentary
and Post-office information, which is given, so far as we
can discover, with remarkable accuracy, its purchase will
he deemed an absolute necessity by the possessors of
the larger work.
ESCAPE AND CAPTURE OF RUSSIAN] PRISONERS.—
LEWES, March 28.—This morning the town was thrown
into a state of great excitement by the escape of three
prisoners from the war prison, and their subsequent
capture. It appears that between 9 and 10 o'clock
Lieutenant Mann, the Governor, took a party of pri-
soners out on the DOWES for an airing ; and while they
were gone the three prisoners made their escape from the
prison dressed in plain clothes. They were first seen in
the streets about a quarter to 11, but were supposed to
be either Frenchmen or German musicians. They took
the shortest route for the railway station, and arrived
there just after the ideparture of the up-train, so that
it would appear they contemplated startingby train.
They then turned up a lane towards High-street, and
then found the prison guard were pursuing them, upon
which they ran off up High-street as fast OA they could,
followed by a large mob and a butcher on horseback ;
they turned up Fisher-street, and ran into the back-
yard of the White Hart Hotel, in a stable attached to
which one of them was captured, and another ran into
the kitchen. The third managed to elude his pursuers,
but he was shortly afterwards discovered under some
trees in the Castle-gardens, and in a few minutes he was
in the grip of a couple of pensioners, who marched him
back to prison. They are said to have scaled the wall,
which is built of brick and very high, by means of
ropes:

PETITIONS TO PARLIAMENT.—The 20th report, issued
yesterday, includes 2 petitions for the abolition of church
rates signed by 213 persons (including one person on be-
half of a public meeting) ; a petition from the Liver-
pool " Working Men's Protestant Reformation So-
ciety," for the enforcement of the Ecclesiastical Titles
Assumption Act ; 65 petitions against opening places
of public amusement on the Lord's-day, signed by
11,758 persons ; and 16 in favour of opening such
places on the Lord's-day (after 1 o'clock), signed by
8,119 persons ; 2 petitions against the Marriage Law
Amendment Bill, signed by 44 persons (including 15
clergymen of the rural deaneries of Middlewich and
Nant sich) ; 4 pttitions for closing public-houses and
beer-shops on Sunday, signed by 232 persons ; 19 pe-
titions in favour of the Newspaper Postage and Stamp
Duties Bill ; and 1 against the Newspaper Stamp
Duties Bill (in addition to former petitions) ;
123 petitions for an abolition of the mileage duty
on carriages, signed by 543 persons ;• 37 petitions
against the distillation of alcohol from grain,
signed by 11,547 persons ; 35 for prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors, signed by 715 persons,
and 61 for prohibiting their sale on Sundays, signed by
13,645 persons ; 11 petitions against the Nuisances Re-
moval Bill, 83 against the Public Health Bill, and 1 in
favour of the latter measure, and 20 petitions for a re•
pe4l of the Sale of Beer Act of 1854, signed by 60,345
persons, &c. There is also a long petition from the
Metropolitan Sanitary Association praying for inquiry
as to-the meaning and intention of the. Metropolitan
water Aet, and as to the respective merits of the rival
IT.tltillage systems, so that d
an end may be put to the ex-
ng state of doubt an antagonism, and the great
sanitary works of the metropolis be for the future car-
ried on in enformity with the best (proved) system,