The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
honoured the Lyceum Theatre with their presence
last evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Vis-
countess Canning, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Earl Somers,
Major-General Bouverie, and Captain Du Platt.

A deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir
Benjamin Hall, President of the General Board of
Health, on the subject of the gas companies on the
southern side of the Thames. The deputation consisted
of Messrs Archer, Gregory, Harris, Reece, Lock, Hand-
cock, John Harris, Brown, and Love.
Mr. John Wood and Mr. Timm had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his
official residence in Downing-street.

The Hon. Colonel A. Manvers Percy, of the Grena-
dier Guards (second son of the Earl of Beverley) has,
we have the pleasure to state, nearly recovered from the
effects of Lis wounds received at Alma and Inkerman.
The gallant officer, since his return from the Crimea on
sick leave, has been staying with Lord Beverley.
Sir Robert Peal has accepted the office of a Lord of
the Admiralty, vacant by the appointment of the Hon.
NV. Cowper to the Under Secretaryship for the Home
Department.

The Right lion. Vernon Smith has appointed Mr.
Fitzpatrick Vernon his private secretary. Mr. T. C.
Brown, Inspector-General of Customs at Liverpool, has
been promoted to the Surveyor-Generalship of Customs
at the port of London. Mr. W. Lee, senior Landing.
Surveyor at the port of Liverpool, has been promoted to
th 3 office of Inspector General of that port.

GOVERNORSHIP OF THE LEEWARD ISLANDS.—Mr. C.
H. Darling has been appointed to the Governorship in
Chief of the Leeward Islands, and he will proceed at
once, probably, to Antigua. It will be remembered
that Mr. C. H. Darling lately held the Lieutenant-Go-
vernorship at the Cape.
MODEL OF SEBASTOPOL.—Their Majesties the Em-
peror and Empress of the French opened the exhibition
of the Model of Sebastopol (in the Boulevard Rations,
Paris) executed by Mr. Wyld, geographer to the Queen
and H.R.H. Prince Albert, on Tuesday, the Gth inst.
Their Majesties, after remaining an hour, expressed
their great satisfaction to Mr. Wyld, and were accom-
panied by him to their carriage, amidst the cries of
" Vive l'Empereur et l'Emperatrice."
ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. --His Boyal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, with their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured the
diorama illustrating the events of the war with a ♦isit
on Wednesday evening. The Earl of Cardigan paid a
second visit to the gallery on Wednesday afternoon.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.--Evening meetings,
Monday, the 12th of March, at half-past eight eight.
Papers to be read-1. Late journey from El-Medina to
Mecca, down the " Dacb el Sharki," on the eastern
road (hitherto unvisited by Europeans). By Lieutenant
Barton, of the Bombay Army. 2. Memoranda on
Abyssinia, communicated by the Foreign-office. 3.
Account of a tour up the Gambia to Salem, by J.
Smyth O'Connor, Esq., Governor. Communicated by
the Colonial-office. 4. Despatch from Mr. Gabriel, at
Loanda, respecting Dr. Livingston's exploration of
Central Africa. Communicated by the Foreign-office.

PRESENT TO THE Loan MAYOR.—Considerable curio-
sity was excited yesterday in Farringdon-market, and
along the principal thoroughfares leading to the Man-
sion-house, in consequence of the following somewhat
novel scene :--AbJut twelve o'clock the beadle of the
.Fruiterers' Company entered the market in his robes of
'office, bearing a silver mounted staff, when 12 of the
:market men, dressed out in black, came forward, each
shouldering a bushel basket filled with apples and bound
saver with a white cloth. They then formed themselves
into procession, headed by the beadle, and walked to the
Mansion-house, where the 12 bushels of apples were pre-
k‘avecantatue,pdeinctkoaeitdtleie Lord Mayor, as the annual present to his
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