The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-19 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, MARCH 17.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen left Osborne for Ports-
mouth yesterday.
The Queen and Prince and the Royal children walked
and drove out yesterday.

MARCH 13.
The Queen and Prince and Prince of Leiningen drove
out yesterday afternoon.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministrrs 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
Paninure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles
Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William
Molesworth, and Viscount Canning. The Council sat
four hours.

A deputation from the Rusholme Local Board of
Health and from the Guardians of the Poor of the Charl-
ton Union had an interview on Saturday with Sir B.
Rail, President of the General Board of Health, at his
office, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Mr. Cor-
nelius Randall, Chairman of the Board of Guardians,
and a member of the Local Board ; Mr. Lawton, Sur-
veyor to the Local Board ; and Mr. Burdett, Solicitor,
Clerk to the Guardians and to the Local Board.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of the
Privy Council bad a meetin, on Saturday at the Coun-
cil-office. Present—The Lord President, the Duke of
Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Cannin,,
Sir George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
the Right Hon. M. T. Baines.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on
Saturday from. the Governore of Australia and New
Zealand.

The specie arrivals of the week have amounted to
nearly 800,0001., all in gold. The exports have been
insignificant.
The Oliver Lang had left Sydney for Liverpool, and
is expected to bring bold. The Anion, from Lauticei.-
ton for London, has 1,422 ounces and 10,000 sovereigns,
making a total of 21,7001.

The- Argo screw steamer, which arrived yesterday
from Australia, has already been taken up by the Eng-
lish Government for the conveyance of cavalry. She i
of 1,850 tons burden and 300-horse power, and Cie con-
tract is for six months. The Natal, of 630 tons and 100-
horse power, also belonging to the General Screw Com-
pany, has been chartered for a similar period by the
French Government. The latter vessel has sailed, and
the Argo is expected to be ready in 10 days.
The aecounts from Adelaide, South Australia, reach
to the 2d of January. The successful resumption of
mining operations was indicated by increased shipments
of copper ore. Burra Burra shares were quoted 1561. 10s.,
and the rates for money ranged from 10 to 20 per cent.,
according to the security. The Victoria had sailed for
London with 30,000 sovereigns, in addition to a general
cargo of wool and copper ore. S x or seven vessels
were loading wool for this port, and two or three others
were expected to follow.
The Maidstone Journal states that the gentleman who
has been requested to stand on the Tory interest for the
county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the regretted
retirement of Sir E. Filmer, is Sir Walter Riddell, Bart.,
recorder for the borough of Maidstone. Sir Walter has
consented to become a candidate.
ROYAL MEDAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS,
The Queen has, by a letter from the Hon. Colonel Phipps
to Earl de Grey, approved and sanctioned the award of
her Majesty's gold medal to M. Hittorff, architectlof
Paris.—The Builder.
HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. —The fourth of the after-
noon vocal concerts, dedicated to the illustration of the
music of Sir Henry Bishop, which took place on Satur-
day, at the Hanover-square Rooms, was exceedingly
well attended—occasioning the public announcement
that another series wc.uld be commenced after Easter.
The selection comprised several of the compositions
which had been performed at:the former meetings; and
there were no less than four encores. The pieces were
rendered with the greatest possible taste by Mr. Francis,
Mr. Benson, Mr. Land, Mr. Lawler, Mr. Buckland,
and the Cathedral boys, and no vocalism of the concerted
class was ever more sweetly and delicately executed.
We observe that a concert, on a large scale, is to be
given by Mr. Mitchell, on the 27th instant., at Exeter
Hall, when the vocal force will extend to 200 voices, and
certain of Sir Henry Bishop's most popular tenor ballads
be sung by Mr. Sims Reeves.
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—The following full storekeepers
are about to proceed on foreign service :—Mr. W. H.
G. Johnstone, deputy steeekeeper, Fort St. George,
N. 8., to Ceylon ; Mr. Jolla Drew, deputy storekeeper
on half-pay, to Sierra Leone ; Mr. J. C. Rowland;
Ordnance clerk, Pall-mall, to Hong Kong. An
Ordnance establishment is being formed in the
Bosphorus. Mr, E. F. Sandys has been appointed
temporary clerk in the Audit-office, Somerset-hotise,
vice Irving, appointed to the Admiralty. Messrs.
M. Hume and E. D. Maddy have been appointed first
clerks, and Messrs. F. Drake, W. Walter, and R. G.
Harwood, have been appointed third class clerks, in the
Charitable Trust Commission. The appointment of third
class clerk in the Circulation Department of the General
Post-office is vacant, caused by the death of Mr. Daniel
Di.son, in the gift of the Postmaster-Generale—Civil
Service Gazette.
THE FUNERAL CORTEGE OF THE LATE CZAR.--.The
Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 10th publishes a sup-
Pletneent of twelve pages, setting forth the ceremonial
approved of by the Emperor Alexander, for the funeral
cortege on the occasion of the removal of the body of the
late Emperor Nicholas from the Winter Palace to the
Cathedral Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and
Paul. In some respects the regulations are not
unlike those adopted at the funeral at St. Paul's of the
late Duke of Wellington. First is an extraordinary dis-
play of banners and military ; and then representatives
of the Court, the civil Government, and various col--
poratirens and philanthropic societies. Chanters from
the convent of St. Alexander Nevsky and those of the
Catheclred of Notre Dame de Casan, followed by a long
train of clergy, holding lighted tapers in their hands,
and two pictures of saints, and lastly the confessor of
the lalk Emperor—immediately precede the funeral ea-.
The E4riperor Alexander follows, and at stated distances
other members of the Imperial family.. We observe
mentioned as in the first part of the procession the
saddleeleerse of his late Majesty, richly caparisoned, and
led by two superior officers in uniform and in deep
niourni; ig.
FREE' CHCH ASSISTANCE TO BRITISH WRECKS.—Her Ma-
jesty's ifionsul at Buu'ogne :.as addressed a letter to the
Earl of Clarendon, relative to the services rendered by
Generals de Courtigis and Borelli, and their troops, to
Drossie vessels recently wrecked near that port. Four
British trading vessels were stranded between the 25th
and f26th ult., in consequence of the dense fug. For-
tune tely no lives were lost. Generals do Courtigis and
Bur( Ili, in command of the camps of Equilian and Ann-
Mete see, furnished the soldiers required by the marine
depai ement as working parties, with officers, to assist
in sa wing the cargoes ; and most effectually it was done.
One of the shire the Mangosteen, of London, of 333
tons inrrthen, from India, with a very rich cargo, derived
very egre at benefit from the military, 300 in number, in
making a road over the rocks, so as to enable carts to
get to tl ie wreck, which was most expeditiously executed,
and a vs ry considerable portion of her cargo was safely
landed, ghich otherwise could not have been effected
previous to the ship's breaking up.