The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert drove out in a sledge
yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Matilda Paget,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Captain the Hon. Pulley de
nos.

The Princess Royal, Prince Arthur, with the Hon.
Mary Seymour, and the Equerry in Waiting, drove out
yesterday in a sledge.

The royal dinner party in the evening included Vis-
count and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Paumure,
Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Elizabeth de Ros, and the
Right Hon. the Speaker.

CABINET COUNCIL.-._A Cabinet Council was held at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon.
The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the
Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Lord
Paninure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, S!r James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth,
Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Car:isle. The Coun-
cil sat three hours and a quarter.
Mr. Aldeman 'Leeman, and Mr. Durnford, Parlia-
mentary agent, as a deputation from the city of York,
had au it terview on Tuesday with Sir Benjamin Hall,
Bart., M.P., President of the Board of Health, at the
office, Whitehall.

Despatches were received from the Governors of Cey-
lon and West Australia yesterday at the Colonial-office.

THE NAVVIES AND THE CRlMEA.—Messrs. Crockfora's
steamer the Loire met with an accident at the entrance
of the Dardanelles in attempting to tow Messrs. Peto's
sailing vessel the Wildfire into Constantine')le, by the
hawser of the latter ship fouling the screw. The private
letter giving us this information states that the Loire
arrived at donstautinople on the 7th, and would leave
for Balak lava on the 10th inst.
THE NAVVIES.—Sir S. Morton Pete contradicts the
statemeht that the navvies now eneneed on the railway
at Balaklava are inconvenienced by the want of horses.
" I am glad," he says, to be able to state that the requi-
site number of horses, forage, drivers, stables, and every
requisite were sent with the expedition, his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle having given us the most urgent in-
structions to omit nothing lehicn, in our • judgment
and experience, might be considered as necessary. I beg
also to state that our letters to the present time speak of
the greatest cordiality being shown by all in authority
in the Crimea."
NON-ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICAN MAIL STEAMER.—
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, Five p.m.—The United States
mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Ezra Nye, which was to
have left New York on the 7ti, is now in her fifteenth
day out, and her arrival is anxiously expected. Up to
the present hour no intelligence has been received of
her, and it is extremely probatle, should she not turn up
to-night, the usual Saturday nail for the United States
will be delayed, as the Pacific was appointed to carry it
across the Atlantic. It is believed that the Pacific did
not sail on her day, and her voyage prolonged by easterly
winds.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL SEIVICE.—The Government
have concluded a twelve months' contract with Messrs.
James Baines and Co., of Liverpool, the owners of the
Black Ball line of clippers fran that port to Australia,
for the conveyance of the English mails monthly to that
colony, commencing with Xarco Polo, on the sth of
April. The ,owners bind tiumselves, under penalty, to
deliver the mails 65 days from Liverpool. The Govern-
ment of the colony will arrarge forth) departure of the
homeward mails, but one of the Black Ball liners will
return each month direct to Liverpool from Melbourne.
The James Baines, Lightning, and Boomerang, which
have conveyed the, mails of the last three months, all
belong to the Black Ball line.
THE PENINSULAR COMPaNrig SrnAlfEß EI/XINE,
Capt, Weeks, Admiralty tVeht Lieut, Poole, RN.,
arrived at Southampton yesterday morning with the
heavy portion of the India mill Bhe left Alexandria on
Feb. 5; Malta, 9; Gibraltar, 15. At Gibraltar were
her Majesty's shiploWsar, with troops from Cork, and
her Majesty's steam-sloop Gorgon, trying to get off the
Ilecla. In Malta harbour were the transports Edenall,
Mary Ann, and Canadian with troops, The Euxiite, on
the 15th, exehitnged nuenlews with the steam transports
Severn and Creestls) eteerin; to the east, also transport
178 ; she also spoke the brigs Deslandee and Ottoman.
The Euxine experienced at aibraltar strong gales, with
heavy rain, thunder, c.nd lightning ; and in crosalng the
Ray of Biscay strong gales, rain, and heavy sea.
THE PENINSULAR MAILS,--The Peninsular Company's
steamer Iberia, Captain Christian; Admiralty itgent
Lieut. Tickell, RN., arrival ati Botithanipton yesterday
afternoon, with the Peninsular mails. She left Gib-
raltar Feb. A ; Uadiz, 10th; Lisbon, 12th ; Vigo 15th.
Amongst her cargo were 41boxes of specie. H.M.S.
Heels, on shore at Gibralta., was still holding together.
An English barque was in,Casecom Bay, with a rudder
gone ; a Portuguese ntanol-evait stattner was trying to
take her in tow. At Vigo the schooner Flora, from
Glasgow, laden with iron, was disitaSted, The barque
Edith Roberts, bound to Rio With coals, foundered at
sea ; the crew wee etwtti by
the Swedish brig Diadem,
and landed sit Gtltnaltar. The Iberia exchanged signals
with El steamer supposed to be the Indus, on the 10th
IDP.u. On the 13th she passed two steamers at a distance
and exchanged numbers with screw-steamer Calpe. On
the 15th, at Vigor; sh 4 passed a Spanish screw towing a
brig,_steeritig B,IV. At Gibraltar there were H.M.S.
St. George, wind-bound, in quarantine with small-pox
on board, and H.M.S. Britannia. The following steam
transports, viz , Candid: t 3, Peninsula, Pioneer, Whitty
Park' and Snowdown, had touched at Gibraltar, bound
for the Crimea. H.M.S. Meander was at Lisbon. The
Iberia experienced very boisterous weather along the
Peninsular coast, accompanied by much rain and wind
from west and south, and after entering the Bay of
Biscay she experienced heavy easterly gales.
THE COAL TRADE IN SOUTH WALES.—The demand
for coal continues most active, and in many cases the
supply is not all equel to meet the wants of purchasers.
Along the coast the various docks are full of shipping,
taking in coal for foreign and home ports. The demand
for steam coal continues to be very brisk, and heavy
cargoes have been sent abroad for foreign Governments.
The anthracite coal is coming daily into greater use, and
a number of new pits in the lower basin of South Wales
have been opened to supply this invaluable product for
marine engines. The patent fuel is also much inquired
for, and purchases have been made for the French Go.
vernment.

THE NEW NORTH ADIERICAN FISHERIES Act —Yes'
terday the new act to carry ibto effect a treaty between
her Majesty and the United States, which received the
Royal assent on Monday, was printed. The treaty was
concluded on the sth June last, containing a number of
articles. The object of the statute is to secure to the
inhabitants of the United States, in common with the
subjects of her Majesty, the liberty to take fish of every
kind except shell fish on the sea coasts and shores and
in the bays, harbours, and creeks of Canada, &c., without
being restricted to any distance from the shore, with
permission to land upon the coasts and shores of the
colonies. The liberty granted applies solely to the sea
fishery, and the salmon fishery and other fisheries are
reserved exclusively for British fishermen. Various ar-
ticles enumerated, being the growth and produce of the
British colonies set forth, are to be admitted into each
country free of duty. Grain, flour, animals, meat, fish,
poultry, and other commodities, ale mentioned. The
treaty was ratified on the 9th September, and it is declared
expedient to pass an act on tbe subject, and all acts at
variance with the same are suspended. The act is to
come into operation as soon as proclaimed in Canada,
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's
Island. With respect to Newfoundland, it is enacted
that whenever the necessary laws shall be passed by the
legislature of Newfoundland, and approved of by her
Majesty, the present act is to extend to that colony.
THE LATE CATASTROPHE AT ISLlNGTON.—Yesterday
Mr. Wakley, the coroner, resumed, at the Carved Red
Lion public-house, Lower-road, Llirgton, the adjourned
inquiry respecting the deaths of the seven unfortunate
nersons who perished by the !ailing of a house numbered
2, in Lower-street, I;ling:;on-green, on the night of
Sunday week. Evidence having been adduced, the
Coroner summed up, and the 'jury consulted together
for nearly an hour and a half. On the opening of the
court the foreman announced the following as the re-
sult of their deliberations :—"The jury are of opinion
that the deceased persons lost their lives by the falling
of a house situated at No. 2, Lower-street, in the pa-
rish of Islington, on the night of Sunday, the 11th of
February, 1855, from inadventure ; and that there was
great and culpable neglect on the part of Mr. Henry
Fownes, the owner of the house, in employing an incom-
petent person to repair the premises without previously
giving notice to the district surveyor ; and the jury can-
not separate without expressing their approbation of
the conduct of the late Francis Stocker, police constable
No. 262 of the N division, who lost 11;s life in endea-
vouring to save the lives of several others at the said
period. They (the jury) also wish to testify their admi-
ration of the conduct of William Calvert in saving the
lives of eight persor,s, and they regret th,, injuries Fy,-
t.6ned by the witnesses Jauncey and the police-contable
Best."