The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

PALACE OF ST. CLOUD, AUG. 22.
The Queen and Prince visited the Exhibition of In-
dustry, in company with the Emperor of the French,
this morning. Their Majesties and his Royal Highness
were accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Princess
Royal.

After minutely inspecting the various parts of the
building, her Msjesty drove to the Tuileries with the
Emperor, where luncheon was prepared. At 7 o'clock
the Royal party returned to St. Cloud.
Last night the Queen and Prince accompanied the
Emperor and Empress of the French to the Opera.

FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF SOMERSET.—The
mortal remains of the late Duke of Somerset were depo-
sitA in the vault selected by his grace, in the cemetery
at Ken,al-green yesterday.
The Duke of Buckingham arrived early in the past
week at his shooting box, in Perthshire, where his
gram is surrounded by a select circle of friends.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford have arrived
at Tarbet House, N.B.
The Marchioness (Dowager) of Londonderry has left
Wynyard-park, near Stockton on Tees, for Garron
Tower, her seat in the North of Ireland.
The Earl and Countess of Derby have arrived at
Blair Athol!, Perthshire, on a visit to the Duke and
Duchess of Athol!, from Elsington House, Lord
Etavensworth's seat in Durham. A select party is in-
vited to meet the noble earl.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left town for
Monington, Herefordshire. After a short stay, the right
hon. baronet, accompanied by Lady Theresa Lewis, will
proceed to his seat, Harpton Court, Bington, Here-
fordshire.
The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, who arrived
at the noble earl's shooting quarters last week, from
Heron Court, Hants, will remain in Scotland until the
end of the ensuing month.
Viscount and 'Viscountess Ingestre have arrived at
Eglinton Castle on a visit to the Earl of Eglinton, from
Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire.
Lady Mary Wood has accompanied Sir Charles Wood
in his official visit to the Channel Islands,
At the date of the la,,t advicei the Duke of Newcastle
was staying at General Bentinck's tent near the Fourth
Division Flagst.ff on CAthcart's hill.
DUCHY OF LANCASTER LANDS.—By an act of the late
session, the Chancellor and Council of the Duchy of
Lancaster are the better enabled to sell and purchase
land in right of the duchy.
'DEFAMATION SUITS IN ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.—An
act of Parliament recently received the Royal assent by
which the jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical Courts in suits
for defamation is abolished.
The Oriental Company's steamer Sultan arrived at
Southampton yesterday. Her mails, consisting of the
heavy portion of the India and China mail, were brought
to England in the Alster steamer last Friday, on ac-
count of the Sultan breaking down between Malta and
Gibraltar.

M. Kossuth is staying with his family at Ventuor.
The Hon. C. Langdale has withdrawn from an agri-
cultural society in Yorkshire in offence at Lord Lonties-
borough's proposal. at a late meeting of the society, of
the toast, "The Archbishop and Clergy of the diocese."
" I coulii not," he says, " consistently as a Catholic,
assent to the sentiment implied by such distinction of
thM EstabliNhed Church,"

It appears that M. Soul 6, the ardent American an-
nexionist, despairing of a successful attack upon Cuba,
seeks to induce the Americans to take advantage of the
disorganised state of Mexico to annex the peninsula of
Yucatan.

Count Crotti sent by the King of Piedmont to pay
respects, in hie MajeAty's name; to our Queen, has been
honoured with an audience. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert made some very flattering remarks to the Count
relative to the valiant conduct of the Piedmontese army
in the Crimea.

The mills in the United Kingdom cannot produce a
?sufficient supply of gunpowder, as no less than five car-
goel, manufactured in Belgium and Holland, on account
of the British Government, have recently been imported
and housed at Purfleet.

Mention is made in the last Australian advises of the
death of Sir Robert Nickle, the Commander of the
Forces at Melbourne.
The first pocket of bops, the growth of 1855, has
reached the Borough market this day, from Mr. Jas.
Hartridge, of Yalding, Kent, consigned to Satter,
Au4en, and Sons, and sold by them to Messrs. Wolton
and Co., cf Norwich, at 10/. 10s. per cwt.
THE FOREIGN LEGION.—HELIGOLAND, August 20.
Her Majesty's stearn•ves,el Alban arrived here on Fri-
day, and embarked yesterday 150 recruits for the camp
at Shorncliffe. Upwards of 100 fine young men arrived
here from the north of Germany during the course of
last week, and yesterday another batch (136) landed on
the island and reported themselves to the commanding
officer.

THE MISSING HERRING BOATS.—SHIELDS, Wednesday
Night.--Both the herring boats that were missing after
yesterday's gale have cast up. The Brothers came into
the Tvne to-day, and the Blanche has been telegraphed
from Hartlepool.
THE FRENCH RATE or EXCHANGE.—The French rate
of exchange exhibits considerable firmness, but, unless
this favourable tendency should further increase, a large
portion of any gold arrivals that may take place will
probably be sent to Paris. The rate, however, is at pre-
sent sufficiently high to render it unprofitable to take
gold for remittance from the Bank of England. Accord-
ing to the Australian advices published yesterday, some
large supplies may
soon be expected from Melbourne,
the Eagle, which was to be followed by other vessels.
having sailed on the 31st of May with 175,0001., while
there is likewise a prospect of augmented receipts-from
Califoi rda.

A Vassar, BLOWN UP BY GIINPQWDER.—Yesterday
advices were received, under date Santa Martha, July
the 16th. On the 11th of July the ship Velocity, Cap-
tain Moult, arrived from New York, with 300 barrels of
gunpowder on board. Shortly after anchoring, she was
found to be on fire. An attempt was made to scuttle
her, but it failed ; the passengers and crew scrambled
into the boats, and had hardly reached the shore, when
the•veesel blew up with a terrific explosion, scattering
portions of the wreck to great distances.
The Piedinontese Gazette of the 20th announces
that the Due de Grammont, the French Ambassa-
dor at Turin, wailed upon the King the day before
to congraulate his Majesty on the brilliant proofs
of valour given by the Piedmontese troops in the
late action of the Tschernaya.