The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince
Alfred, and the gentlemen in waiting, skated on Satur-
day morning on the ice on the waters within the Buck-
ingham Palace Gardens. Her Majesty and tie Royal
Princesses promenaded in the garden.
The Duke and Duchess of Nemours visited the Queen
en Saturday.
Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prin-
cess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge ; the French
Ambassador and the Countess Walewski, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the
Earl of Carlisle, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon, the
Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield, Vice-Admiral
Deans Dandas, Lady Suffield, Major Home Mures, and
Lieut. Col. Tyrwhitt.
The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attend-
ance, and played during the dinner.
Her Majesty's private band performed a selection of
music in the evening.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and
Princess Alice, attended divine service in the private
chapel of Buckingham Palace.
The Hon. and Very Rev. the Deai of Windsor
officiated.

The lad;.a and giAnth.m.n ;n Two;i4rtu tl,e
household also attended the service.

A Cabisiet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord
Paranure, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth,
the Earl of Carlisle, and Viscount Canning. The Council
sat three hours and a half.

Meetings of the Oxford University Commission were
held at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westminster, on
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, during the
last week. The Commissioners present were :—The
Earl •f Harrowby, Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Dean of
Wells, Sir John W. Awdry, and Sir George Cornewall
Lewis, with the Secretaries, Mr. Goldwin Smith, and
the Rev. S. W. Wayte.

Count d'lngelheint has been nominated ambassador of
Austria to the courts of Hanover, Oldenburg, and
Brunswick, in the room of M. do Koller, appointed In-
ternuncio at Constantinople.
DEATH OF LORD PONSONBY.—This veteran diploma-
tist, who for roany years represented the court of St.
James's at the Porte, died on Thursday at Brighton, at
the advanced age of 84.
THE EARL OF LUCAN.—The late commander of ca-
valry in the East is daily expected in London.
Major-General Vivian is appointed to the command of
the Turkish contingent.

THE REPRESENTATION OF MONTROSE.—The Cam-
bridge Independent of Saturday states that Mr. Trelaw-
ney, the late candidate at Bedford, has issued an address
to the electors of Montrose. A movement is in pro
gress to invite Mr. Burnley I:lutne to fill the vacancy
occasioned by his father's death.
THE SreAKER's DINNER.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker gave his third Parliamentary dinner on Sa-
turday, when there were present :—The Right Hon.
Lord Seymour, the Right Hen. Lord Grosvenor,
the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, the Right Hon. H.
Labouchere, the Right }lon. Sir Francis Baring, Bart ,
the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir John Shelley, Bart.,
Sir William Heathcote, Bart., Sir Robert Ferguson,
Bart., Sir John Duckworth, Bart., Sir James Weir
Hogg, Bart., Mr. Wm. Beckett, Mr. Loftus Wigram,
Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Robert
Palmer, Mr. Greene, Mr. Henry Herbert, Mr. Deedes,
Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Raikes Currie,
Mr. George Dundas, Mr. Spencer Waddington. The
following gentlemen were prevented :—Sir Thomas D.
Acland, Bart., General Sir De Lacy Evans, K.C.8.,
Colonel Wilson Patten, Mr. Sotheron, Sir Robert Peel,
Bart., and Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart. The Rev. Mr.
Gamier and the Secretary were present.
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS.--Mr. William Henry
Roberts, of the Midland Circuit, is appointed Recorder
of Grantham ; Mr. George Boden, of the Midland Cir-
cuit, is appointed Recorder of Stamford ; Mr. F. Wil-
ford, of the Home Circuit, is appointed Recorder of
Saffron Walden • Mr. Maurice W. Midlane is appointed
first class clerk, Mr. Thomas C. Grant second class
clerk, and the Hon. H. C. Elliot third class clerk in the
Admiralty, Whitehall ; Lewis Irving is appointed third
class clerk in the Comptroller of Victualling Depart-
ment of the Admiralty, Somerset house ; Mr. Arthur N.
Birch is appointed a junior clerk in the Colonial office,
Downing-street.— Observer.
On Friday the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee
awarded 2501. for the immediate use of the coalwhippers;
100/. to the fellowship porters ; and sums varying from
10/. to 50/. to each of the wards of the City for the
starving poor.
On Friday m orn in g,at Marlborough-street Police-court,
Luigi Baranelli, the Italian, was brought up from
Newgate by habeas, for the purpose of undergoing ai
examination before the magistrate. The evidence having
been read over, the prisoner was remanded till that day
week.
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Tho members of the London Commercial Sale Rooms
and ethers in the immediate neighbourhood of Mineinee
lane commenced a guinea subscription on Friday for tire
relief of the poor, and collected 2101., which was handed
to the police-magistrates of the Thames, Southwark,
and Worship-street offices.
On Saturday a number of the medical officers attached
to the Government civil hospital at Smyrna left the
London-bridge station to proceed to their destination via
Paris for Marseilles. They were accompanied by a body
of 40 orderlies. It is expected that next Saturday the
nurses will be sent out by the same route.
On Saturday morning the ',team transports Imperial
and New Pelton left the London I)ocks fully laden with
hospital stores, medicines, and medical comforts, for the
Easf. The supplies by the Imperial are intended fur
the 13r1tish hospital et Scutari, those by the New Felton
fer the hospital about to be opened at Smyrna. The
cargo of the Imperial includes the handsome present of
354 dozens of the best port wine from the merchants of
Oporto for the use of the hospital at Scutari.
TIIELATE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE NEAR BLICRFRIIRS-
BRIDGE. -On Friday afternoon, at` 3 o'clock, Mr.
Wm. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, resumed,
at the Elght Bells Tavern, Cross-street, Blackfriars-road,
the adjourned inquest on the body of Mr. Thos. Parker,
Jackson. The jury returned a verdict to the effect,
" That the deceased lost his life at a fire which took
place in the saw•mills, but how the fire took place there
was no evidence to prove."