The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales and Prince Alfred, accompanied by the Duke of
Cambridge, and attended by the Viscountess Canning,
the Hon. Lucy Kerr, Major-General Bouverie, Capt.
Du Plat, Major• General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Wood, C. 8., Assistant Ad-
jutant-General, and Major Clifton, Equerry to the Duke
of Cambridge, proceeded at half-past 9 o'clock on Satur-
day morning, escorted by a detachment of carbineers, to
the Bricklayers' Arms Station, and thence by North
Kent Railway to Stroud, where her Majesty was met
by Colonel Eden, and the hcads of the medical and other
departments. An address was presented to the Queen
by the Mayor and Corporation of Rochester.
Her Majesty and the Prince, with the Prince-of Wales,
Prince Alfred, and the Duke of Cambridge, attended by
the General Commanding in Chief and the ladies and
gentlemen of the Royal suite, then proceeded to Fort
Pitt, and subsequently to the Invalid Depot, where her
Majesty visited the wards occupied by the wounded and
invalided men lately returned from the Crimea, inquir-
ing into the cases of the different patients. Her Ma-
jesty visited 450 sick and woundetti men.
Her Majesty, with the Royal party, then returned to
the Strood Station, and arrived at Buckingham Palace
about three o'clock in the afternoon. _

An address vas presented to the Queen at Fort Pitt,
from the Court Leet of the Borough of Chatham.
The Queen had a dinner party in the evening ; the
company included Prince Ernest of Leiningen, the Sar-
dinian Minister, Marquis d'Azeglio, General Della
Mariners, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn,
and the Ladies Harriett and Louisa Hamilton, the Earl
Cardigan, the Earl of Elgin, Lord Paninure, Lord
Stanley of Alderley, Lord and Lady Overstone, and
General Vivian.

The Duchess of Kent and Prince Ernest of Leiningen
are staying at Buckingham Palace, on a visit to the
Queen.

- The Hon. Lucy Kerr and the Hon. Mary Bulteel
have succeeded the Hon. Matilda Paget and the Hon.
Mary Seymour in their duties as the Maids of Honour
in Waiting to the Queen.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince
of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the
Princess Alice, with the ladies and gentlemen of the
Court and the domestic household, attended Divine
service in the private chapel of .Buckingham Palace ;
the Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor offi-
ciated.

The Duchess of Cambridge ant the Princess Mary
visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Buckingham
Palace.

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A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre-
sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of
Argyll, Sir George Grey, Lord Paninure, the Right
Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, and
Viscount Canning. The Earl of Clarendon was not pre-
sent, having left town at eight o'clock in the morning for
Boulogne to visit the Emperor of the French. The
Council sat three hongs.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on Satur.
r'ay morning for New Radnor.
A deputation of inhabitants from a portion of the new
road from St. Pancras Church to Hamilton-place had an
interview on Saturday with the PrePident of the General
Board of Health at his office, Whitehall. The deputa-
tion consisted of Messrs. Kemp, Fuller, Kirkham,
Whisson, and Strong.
Despatches were received from the Governors of the
Cape of Good Hope and Natal yesterday at the Colonial-
office.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston gave the third
of a brilliant series of entertainments on Saturday night,
at their residence in Picca,lilly. There was a select
dinner :'party of about 20, and a numerous evening
assembly, given by her ladyship to several hundreds of
the nobility and gentry, including the Commander-in-
Chief of the Sardinian contingent, General Della
Marinora.
THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right Honourable the
Speaker's fourth Parliamentary dinner took place on
Saturday last, on which occasion the following gentle-
men were present :—Viscount Monck, Viscount Ebring-
ton, Lord Henry Cholmondeley, the Right Hon. Sir
Wm. Somerville, Bart., the Right Hon. Henry Corry,
Sir James East, &nit., Mr. Bowyer, Mr. John Abel
Smith, Mr. M. T. Smith, Mr. Edward Egerton, Mr.
I?.oundell Palmer, Mr. Layard, Mr. Pigott, Mr. Bon-
ham Carter, Mr. Portal, Mr. Samuel Whitbread, Mr.
Compton, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Brotherton, Mr.
Thornely, Mr. Beaumont Coles, Admiral Walcott, Mr.
Fagan, Mr. Miles, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Cairns, Mr.
Alderman Cubitt, Mr. Malins. The following gentle-
men were prevented being present :—Mr. Francis Scully,
through indisposition ; and Mr. Keating, abeent from
town. The Rev. Mr. Garnier and the secretary were

present.
An accident happened to the Earl of Antrim, at
Glenarm Castle, on Tuesday evening, the 27th ult., by
which his lordship's thigh was fractured.
The Bishop of Durham is progressing favourably to-
wards recovery from his late accident.
His Excellency Herr Von Usedom arrived on Friday
afternoon at Hake's Lord Warden Hotel, Dover, from
Calais, and proceeded to London by train at 7.30.
BERLIN, Feb. 27.—Apartments have been taken for
Lord John Russell and his suite at the Hotel de 'tussle,
while the Russian Plenipotentiary to the Vienna Con-
ferences, Councillor Von Titoff, is staying at the British
Hotel, a circumstance that fills our witlings with ad-
miration at the delicacy of this diplomatic courtesy.
The Court of Directors of the East India Company
have invited a distinguished party to meet at dinner, on
Saturday next, at the London Tavern, Major-General
Vivian and the officers of the Turkish contingent, about
to take their departure for the East.
MM. Scribe and Legouvtis ,omedy, Bataille dc
Dames has been translated into Italian, and has been
given with success at Padua under the title of Battaglia
di Doane.
A now opera by Maestro Sanelli, Gusniano it Prode,
has been rather unfortunate at Mantua—no mention
whatever is made of the singers.
Mr. Mitchell is daily expected in Paris, with a view to
making engagements for a brief season of French plays
at his theatre (St. James's). Mlle. Rachel will perform
for a month at Mr. Mitchell's before her departure for

America.
The committee of the Theatre Francais has accepted a
comedietta in two acts, from the pen of M. Octave
Feinllet, in which Mmes. Allan and Fix, with Rtnier
and Delauney aro to take the principal parts.
An Italian operatic troupe is now singing at Odessa,
the principal artistes being Mines. Gordosa, Ferravilla,
and MM. Zaconi, Cammaranno and Sulieri. The last
opera was "Linda," which, it seems, went off swim-
mingly.
MADAMH TUBSAUD'S EXHIBITION.--Two new and
highly-interesting figures have lately been added to the
war group in the large room of this establishment. The
portrait models represent Marshal St. Arnaud and
Prince Menschikoff. Both figures are considered good
likenesse, and are certainly of a popular character—the
first from the fact of-his having died in the execution of
his duty, and the other furs his obstinate defence of his
position. We understand several figures are in prepara-
tion, and will soon be ready for public inspection.