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

coußr CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 25.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Mary Seymonr,
the Rev. Frederick Anson, and Captain Mercer (officer
commanding the 94th Regiment).
The band of the Royal Rase 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 Majesty.
Deapatchee wwre received yesterday at -the Colonial
office from the Governor-Genernl of Australia.

ApritosiguLtga..***six...4i I.sra.—A matri-
monial alliance is :arranged to talc e be5,„,„.„2 the
Earl of Portsmouth and the .Lady Evelyn Eferbert,
sister to the Earl of Carnarvon.

Up to the Ist of December the Admiralty had ex-
pended 6,793/. in the maintenance of Russian prisoners
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 M oniteur 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 as 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 London, was
off Plymouth on Wednesday—all well.
BURLINGTON-11017SE.—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 he preferred living so
far from London, e replied that he wished for solitude
and repose, and felt certain that he had found a place
where ne one could build near him. --sse
The Rev. Henry H. Hardy, A.M., has been collated
by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the
"Vicarage of Preston, in the Deanery of the Forest,
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
ohi his 68th year.
sHre B :nsBonn
born in the year 1786, and married in 1818, and is suc-
ceeded Augustus, born in 1818. The
da s
AND SHIP AND CUSTOM-110130 AGENTS'
BENEVOLENT
CIETY MEETING.—The second annual
general
of this Society was held yesterday at
eoeibdnyß
l baronetoe hxe itis Rs,
heir
was John
the Haellsurg Coffee-house; W, Phillips, Esq., in the
chair. Two more pensioners, J. Woolcomhe, aged 67,
nearly 30 years a shipbroker, and J. M. Parish, aged
63, a Custom-house agent from 1827 to 1846, at 201. per
annum, were unanimously elected. The receipts during
the pftstyear had exceeded the expenditure byll6/.185.5d.,
after payment of the pensions. The total amount of stock
invested in the name of the society is 1,0001. 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 TEADE.—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 one market alone—the home one—and our
manufacturers believe that they must await patiently the
turn of two or three months' events before foreign
—Nottinghamshire
STATE 07 TEADE.
_Business is evidently decreasing
week by week, not only inLendon
transactionssuardian. again become active.
, but throughout the
United Kingdom, and with the failures of the last few
days promises to become still worse. The advices from
abroad are generally the reverse of favourable. The
German posts are now closed by ice,
and the only
operators at present in our markets for Manufactured
goods are the Greek houses in the Levant trade. The
ee grraatpeleno•of any
meat in the import trade. The numerous
Union must
failures throughout the unquestionably pro-
eismfproromvenew York give no tangible hope
advises
distrust sooner or later, and check business. The
latest accounts give the names of no less than eight
banking and commercial firms which had suspended in
hie
e x o h accountsa
nge , fromoal
.
the course of three ar four days.
China yesterday, .
which reach to the 12th of December,
troiseth: tel
in th
o fromunt
culated to increase the shipments of silver from thi
thereei
export up to the corresponding
country. By the previous mail the quotation at Canton
was 4e. Bd., and it is new 45. 81d. ; while at Shanghai
I:: .s --b---eAe
r:cso, CHINA.--According
slightd ing
it has advanced from 65. sd. to 6s. 6id. The export of
ts from Foo-chow-foo and tea to date was 44,000,0001 b., and, as the total, which
lately showed a deficiency, has thus reaechreedcoamniiaimg
epxearicotdly
oefqulaalstto
lyethare,
andno supplies
Shang-
hai must have been unexpectedly active.
Of silk the
export was 26,600 bales, against 28,000 last year,
and the stock at Shanghai was only 1,500 beles of in-
Canton, the shipments
in-
ferior quality. Political affairs in 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 be
avoided. No prcduce had arrived from the interior, and
the 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 have been settled, as
far as the Americans aro concerned, by an agreement to
pay up ono-third