The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert visited the exhibition of
the Photographic Society, in Pall Mall East, yesterday
morning. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were
accompanied by the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and
the Prince of Leiningen, and were attended by the
Viscountess Canning, Major-General Bouverie, and
Captain Du Plat.
Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince
Alfred, afterwards rode on horseback,' attended by his
Equerry in Waiting.
Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa.
visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park.
Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen,
his Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh the Bavarian
Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Earl and Countess
of Clareodon, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de
Speth, Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville, the Right
Hon. Robert and Mrs. Vernon Smith, the Right Hon.
Benjamin and Mrs. DiSraeli, Sir Charles Eastlake, Sir
John Login, Capt. Hamilton, R.N., and Lieut.-Colonel
Tuiloh, Royal Artillery.
Viscount Palmerston and Lord Panmure had the hon-
our of dining with her Majesty on Sunday.

The Edrl of Carlisle left Grosvenor-place yesterday en
route to Dublin, to succeed the Earl of St. Germans as
Lord-Lieutenant.
The Earl of Glengall has returned to town. His
lordship's health has somewhat improved.
The Archbishop of York and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave
have arrived at Belgrave-square, from the Palace,
Bishopsthorpe.
The venerable Duke of Somerset continues to pro-
gress favourably, at Somerset-house, Park-lane ; but
their graces' dinners and soirees have been postponed
sine die.
The Lady Harriet Paget, daughter of George third
Earl of Dartmouth, 8.G., and relict of General the
Hon. Sir Edward Paget, G.C.8.,` died at St. Leonard's-
on-the-Sea, on the 11th inst.
The veteran Rear-Admiral Ricord is dead.
Lieutenant-General Lord Seaton has left Farrance's
Hotel for Dublin.
The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a grand
entertainment in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion
House, yesterday, to the chairmen and the late chair-
men of the committees and their ladies. Covers were
laid for 100.
LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The new American clipper
Donald M'Kay, Captain Warner, built in Boston for
the Black Ball line of Australian packets, arrived in the
Mersey this morning, from Boston, after a capital run
of 16 days.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—It is said that this great
lyric establishment will not open until after Easter. Mr.
Gye, the director, is at present at Berlin. Among the
artistes who are spoken of as being engaged are Mdlle.
Jenny Ney, Mdlle. Bosio, Gardoni, Lablache, Formes,
and Mario.
TRIESTE, March B.—There is little change in the price
of goods to-day. Spirits, steel, almonds, tin, and resin
are lower. In corn and oil less difference in price.
Cotton higher; Macao from 36 to 47 per cent.
The Midland Great Western Railway (Ireland) will
declare' a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent., free of in-
come tax, at the approaching half-yearly meeting.
Letters from Pavia, of the 7th, state that a railway
was to be constructed between that town and Milan.

The Opinione of Turin of the 9th inst. states that the
bill relative to the suppression of religious establishments,
adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, would be presented
to the Serate on that day.
The attempt to publish a Russian journal in Berlin
has been stopped by the police.
It is stated in a letter from Warsaw that cholera and
typhus fever were making great ravages in that city.
Intelligence has reached Paris that a serious and well-
organised plan of revolution has been discovered at
Rome.
The Premien, Blatt learns from Braila that the Rus-
sian flotilla is again cruising below Reni. Two steamers
and several gun-boats lie at the mouth of the Pruth,
which is quite free from ice.
THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—A Toronto paper states
that the Six Nation Indians on the Grand River, deeply
sympathising with the sufferers by the war against
Russia, have liberally and unanimously contributed the
sum of 1001. sterling towards the Patriotic Fund.
COLOSSAL STATUE OF THE VIRGIN AT ROME.—The

Pope is about to erect a colossal statue of the Virgin
Mary at Rome, in celebration of the triumph of the Im-
maculate Conception dogma. Three hundred medals are
to be struck of virgin Australian gold.
METROPOLITAN IrarnovEmENTe.—Yesterday workmen
were busily employed in pulling down a number of
ancient houses adjoining the Royal Mint, Tower-hill, for
the purpose of wirir ning the main thoroughfare leading
to the London and St. Katharine's Docks.
PRESENTATION OF AN ADDRESS FROM THE ST.
JAMES'S BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION TO GENERAL SIR DE
LACY EvaNs. —Yesterday a deputation from the a'mve
institution, consisting of Mr. Robert Arminger, chair-
man ; and Messrs. Jones, Page, Saunders, Holmes, and
Armstrong*, subscribers and supporters of the above
laudable institution, which is held at the Goat and' Star
Tavern, Swallow-street, Piccadilly, waited upon General
Sir De Lacy Evans, at his residence, 26, Bryanston-
square, for the purpose of presenting him with an ad-
dress congratulating the gallant general on his safe re-
turn from the seat of war.

PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—The first concert of the
Philharmonic Society, of this season, took place at the
Hanover-square Rooms last evening, when Herr Richard
Wagner appeared for the first time in the capacity of
conductor of the orchestra. The programme of the per-
formance presented no novelty, but consisted of pieces
of the highest excellence.
DEATH OF SIR GEORGE LARPENT, BART.—We have to
record the demise of this gentleman, formerly well known
in political and commercial circles. He died on the Bth
inst., at his residence in Conduit-street, aged about 67.
Sir George, in 1847, was a candidate, on Liberal prin-
ciples, for the City of London, and he ran Mr. Master-
man to three votes. He had previously been M.P. for
Nottingham for a short time ; also an unsuccessful can-
didate for Ludlow.
PANAMA RAlLWAY.—Accounts received state that this
line, though so recently opened, has been much damaged
by the rains, and that the bridge over the Chagres river
has been partly carried away by the floods. Surely this
is not good engiueering. The engineers should have
known the country, and what was to be expected from
rains and floods.
BORDER MARRIAGES.—We un'erstand it is the in-
tention of Thomas E. Headlam, Esq., M.P. for New-
castle, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Durham, to
bring in a bill to prevent the celebration of the irregular
Border marriages which have long been a curse to
society.

Layard, M.P., in returrdng his acknowledgments
for his election as Lord Rector of Marischal College,
Aberdeen, regrets his inability, from the nature of his
duties as a member of the committee of inquiry into the
state of the army in the Crimea, to state definitely the
day on which he could come to Aberdeen. Mr. Layard
is the youngest rector on the roll, being but 38 years
of age.

THE NEW VICEROY.—DUBLIN, Monday.—llis Ex-
cellency the Earl of Carlisle, accompanied by Mr. Hors-
man, the new Chief Secretary, will arrive this evening
by special steamer at Kingstown, and will proceed at
once to the Viceregal Lodge, where, during his stay, be
will be the guest of Lord t. Germans. The undress
levee will be held to-morrow at half-past three by Earl
St. Germans ; after which the new Vioeroy will be
sworn into office.
At a meeting of the Port Royal and St. Andrew's
(Jamaica) Mining Company, held yesterday afternoon,
the report was adopted. The Portland and Swift River
leases have been declined, and the principal operations
are now concentrated at Silver-hill. In thin locality the
progress affords anticipation of a successful result. Tho
funds in band, 5,139/., exclusive of 1,647/. arrears of
call, the greater part of which it is hoped will be shortly
paid, are considered sufficient to prove the works at
present contemplated. In general management and ex-
penditure great economy continues to be exercised.
In the import trade of the port of London during the
past week there has been considerable activity. The
total number of vessels reported inward was 186, being
only 20 less than in the previous week, and, as they
have comprised numerous arrivals from China, the quan-
tities of tea brought in have again been great. There
has also been a larger amount of business in the export
trade, the total number of vessels cleared outward being
95, showing an increase of 24 over the previous week.
UNITED STATES.—The commercial advices from the
United States this week are important, from the fact of
the House of Representatives in Congress having sud-
denly adopted a Lill authorising a reduction of one-fifth
in the existing duties on foreign imports. It remains to
pass the Senate, but a strong impression seemed to pre-
vail that it would be carried through. The date which
it is proposed to go into operation is the Ist of July next,
and, beyond the general percentage of reduction contem-
plated in the various schedules, it will have a further
effect in the direction of free trade by transferring several
important articles from high schedules to lower ones.
Among these are nearly all articles employed in dyeing,
all drugs, raw flax, silk, and wool. Should the measure
succeed, an immediate and valuable effect will be pro-
dund on the manufacturing interests of this country.

FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL-
WAY.-Ou Saturday morning a luggage train left Cam-
bridge between two and three o'clock for London, laden
with meat, &c., for the metropolitan markets ; and
everything seemed to be quite safe on the several car-
riages until the train reached the goods depot in Brick-
lane, Spitalfields, when one of the guards named John
Hill, aged 33, was missin,, from his usual position near
the tender. The engine-driver and stoker, when the
train had stopped, went down the line in search of the
deceased, whom they discovered lying across the rails
fearfully mutilated, the upper portion of his head being
cut off, and various parts of the body being shockingly
injured. The poor fellow was carried by the servants of
the company to the Fighting Cocks public-house in John-
str4reili Passinget,adjoinoirviger the
.Shoreditch terminus, where Mr.
Vandenburg, the surgeon of Bethnal-green-road, promptly
attended ; but that gentleman was of opinion that the
deceased muEt have been killed imitantaueously by the