The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JULY o'st
Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur have bee
°4
tacked with scarlatina. Their royal highnesses are go
on ve favourably.
Thesame disease has declared itself in Prince LePo
pold, who was left at Buckingham Palacein consequell
of a slight accident.
Prince Albert, accompanied by the King of the
glans and the Count of Flanders, embarked in the
yacht Victoria and Albert on Friday afternoon, It,
went towards the Needles. Her Majesty, witll4
Princess Charlotte of Belgium and the Princess
Roy,
cruised in the Fairy.
The Duchess of Kent, attended by La Friday.
Howard, arrived on a visit to her Majesty on Royal
The Queen, accompanied by the Princess
Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent, and Prill,ceet
Charlotte of Belgium, drove outin an open carrige'
cti
terday afternoon.
Prince Albert and the Count of Flanders VSI6
horseback. g
The royal dinner party yesterday included tbe 51:d
of the Belgians, the Dchess Kent,
the Princess the C°12,11,el
Flanders, the Princess Royal,lialt,°"ol
Belgium, Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess de
the Bar
de Boyce, Colonel de Moorkerke,
Robert Carswell, Captain Burnell, and Sir JanseeCilif
A Cabinet Council wash d on Saturday afterlool
the Foreign-office, Downing-street. It was
by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, tb
quis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke a Arlio
Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, of Jobs
Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the
quer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. It• in ve":d
Smith, Sir William Molesworth, Viscount Canngivd
the Earl of Harrowby. The council sat
hours and a half.
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Meetings of the Oxford University Commissione;o
held at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westinfustd
Thursday and Friday last.. The Commissioners Ppir
were the Earl of Ellesmere, the Dean of Wells/14u
John Wither Awdry, with the secretaries. 111
The Committee on Education of the Lords of x.e;re
jesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a Ireetwur
Saturday, at the Privy Council-office, Whitel39lBP.
sent : The Lord President, the Chancellor of
chequer, and the Right Hon. M. T. Baines.
A deputation from the Waltham Holy Cross fit,
Board of Health had an interview, on SaturdiV
the President of the General Board of IlealtbPje.lo
office, whitehall, with reference to the Public 111
Bill. The deputation consisted of the Rev. J.
man, Mr. Carr, Mr. Read, and Mr. JessopP,

the local board.
C'
THE MINISTRY.—After the separation of the oft
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Council on Saturday evening, Lord John 1346-e 411
town for Pembroke Lodge, Richmond. Visco110"30.
merston did not leave town, but dined with the cog
quis and Marchioness of Londonderry. The oell
munication from the noble viscount to the Queelio
conveyed by ono of the ordinary Treasury IneS6etse
IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE CONSERVATIO
—A meeting of the Conservative members of tbe
.I""ced
of Commons took place on Saturday at the resider 004
Mr. Disraeli. The attendance was very unmanlier
never was the feeling of the party more cordial ATI
cimous as to the course to be pursued by it. Id
SUCCESSOR TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL AS C°l'„°,lo4
SECRETARY.—As we have elsewhere observed, the
of Sir Wm. Mo'esworth and Mr. Vernon Smith area"
tioned as probable to be submitted as Colonial h'oet
nary ; the name of Lord Harrowby has also heell
tioned.—Merning _Herald. tod
Lord Derby has written to Sir J. H. Maxwell, 00
that "Parliamentary business" will prevent /0001
being present at the approaching Great Agri
Meeting at Carlisle. Reor
The band of the Ist Life Guards have coant
playing in the Kensington Gardens selections frnol,
most favourite composers, every Tuesday and .r.,;(11
from four to six o'clock, and will continue to do Fedor
titt
log the months of July and August, weather perltbe°,
During the week, preliminary arrangements bn"" rfr
made in forming an association to promote the 01110
tion and classification of meteorological pheneine,o4ol
Scotland. The Duke of Argyle has been norainneoli
president, the Marquis of Tweeddale as vice-prt,l4l
and Mr. A. K. Johnston as honorary secretary'
numerous council.
Mr. Arnaud, the collector of Customs at LivertNN~ °I
who succeeded Mr. Swainson in that office ur#4 t
thirty years ago, has just retired, it is stated, netlo,/
large superannuation allowance of 2,2001. A Y
.1
Skipping Gazette.
Captain John M`Dougall, RN., has been aPP
Admiralty superintendent of the Southarepteaissii
packet station. This officer was made captain 04010
and will probably be an admiral before long, Wm • A
will cease to hold his appointment. t
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SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND THE GRAND CBO0d -to f'
BATH. —Sir Charles Napier received a summon; ON
tend at Court for the purpose of being iestalle_doee,
however, declined the proffered boon. The rer,
signed by the gallant Admiral, if not officially giriaie
well known to his friends. " I have
denied the o 1
"censured .m.l degraded, and have been
portunity of cleart.s a. utation. Yet I 5
h
offs-red a G.C.B."—United Service Gazette.
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—m. Royal Ilighcejittbe
Duke of Cambridge honoured the performances °Tili4
Royal Italian Opera with his presence on Satnol
evening. The Queen's box was occupied by thevti
and Countess of Listowel and Lady Emily gore',"
and Lady Macdonald, and Mr. and Lady Aug
Proby. h
MDLLE. RACHEL.—It is definitively settled t-ibrio
eminent tragedienne will leave Europe forty PI, gib
early in August, but before her departure she lel
four performances at the St. James's near*
mencing on the 28th ow 30th inst. Pie
THE MOUNTGARRETT PEERAGE.—The fro
Somerset Butler, the plaintiff in the above Matt
ioa
case, applied on Thursday for his discharge, 011'..-
Insolvent Debtors' Act. After some oppositi
Court granted the application. Abe
General Jomini, the well-known military writer'pir
superintended the military education of the lat,eddr
peror Nicholas and afterwards became his first 01,d itscamp, has, says the Austrian Gazette, obtained fo/iVi
Emperor Alexander permission to retire to /31.0014
and is to take up his residence in that city at the be the
of October. The General is 77 years of age. t
immense preparations are said to be making, t
Porte St. Martin for the new drama intendee the
brace the history of Paris.
CHELTENHAM ELECTION.—The following Were
numbers at the close of the poll on Saturday
Berkeley 768,
Ridler
ag

Majority for Berkeley
to
THE FOREIGN LEGION—We are very haPPI C
nounce that his Royal Highness the Duke ef,.ooe
bridge is to be immediately arpointed Generatee' L
the Foreign Legion.—United Service Gazette.
Lady Theresa Lewis bad a soiree on Saturday et
at the official residence of the Chancellor of the
nbieP
quer, in Downing-street. Above 300 persons, "IA
members of the Peers and Commons, attended 13,e,c1 fr,
ship's assembly. The Right Hon. Vernon SMl'n,
the only member of the Cabinet present, el* A
Or
Premier. fttl Ar
THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—DIVIDEND AND
—lt has been estimated that the dividend of thlcetoteei
pany will be about 18s. 6d. per share for the, Ao,
half-year, or 4s. 6d. per share, or at the rate of
per cent. less for the year. This corresponds t°,oo,
20,000/. less profit on the half-year. The gross r
are about 11,0001. less.—Herapath. s
STATISTICAL SOCIRTY.—We understand that a' srOf
ing of the council of the Statistical Society, begcr
evening, Mr. Scargill was appointed to the of
assistant-secretary, vacant by the ;retirement "des
Cheshire. The fact that Mr. Scargill took a wrA,-007
degree in 1849 sufficiently speaks for his quab,,eo/e,
for the appointment. In reference to the retire",,,'
Mr. Cheshire the council passed the follovviag;stl
tion .—" That the council of the Statistical Spoof thir
cept with extreme reluctance the resignation ..,00;;01
assistant-secretary, Mr. Cheshire, and take this et'
pity of expressing to him their high sense of ter
advantages which have accrued to the society all
seal and ability with which he has discharged
duties of his office."
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THE THUNDERSTORM OF SATURDAY.—Shortly
o'clock on Saturday morning the metropolis vise tl,fh'e
by a violent thunderstorm, which continued fel. 'rj
an hour. The lightning was of a vivid character' eho
rain fell in torrents, and many of the small streets
east end of London were flooded for several holl;levit
market gardeners' grounds were also inundated, e,
siderable damage was done by the great fall of 00,5.0''
Bristol the storm took place an hour or two prledeho
It commenced about half-past 3 o'clock, and Oria
violence anything of the kind that has occurre°4l'ire
city for the last 30 years. The thunder was, lf—dofi
lent, and the lightning so vivid that the captain-41)00es
African and Indian ships in the port describe itthi'ileffof
the nearest approach to a tropical tornado that '-d0
witneised in this eountry. Considerable cls°,,a'll :01
done by the bail, which beat the wheat down ''„:136,1'.0
surrounding country, and brake thousands of cies,'
glass ; and at St. George's, Glocestershire, the 00 1
fluid struck a house near the Don John'o-er"4301
stroyed the chimneys, and split the house from
to the basement storey. II Ott
The Turkish Government have grante'r:lo,ol,l
elusive concession for a submarine telegraPh.,',3,(3o%s,
Dardanelles to Alexandria. The cost will be .'",;013r0,
and the line could be completed in twelve 1°- 0$
An annual subsidy of 4,5001. for twerit pis 0
is to be paid by Turkey for the traneao
official messages ; and, as the communicatiellmetilid
India will be accelerated from five to six days ligtsrls_A‘j?
and the general system of telegraphs now en" As r're
in European Turkey shall have been completed,
the 0;111
tional revenue of 10,400/. is calculated upon hi 0,0 r
rooters from that source. At the same time Phrse ctfro
are on foot for extending the project to India,„ ',ront)
ing the communication via Suez and Aden to-b-Llect
at the mouth of the Indus, where it would e 0013030040
the lines already in operation, or in course of fhost je
tion, by the East India Company throgli
various presidencies. The total length frofromt"e Da rP
re
000 to
the
nelles to Kurrachee is about 4 and
,000 miles,
uired for the whole (including the submarine ip eco
q ehasbtos
-it x indrir,), would bo Bro,ooo/. A pplicatiolpe otlio
in4slo to tile India-house l'or support, in the ti
rerdijat
annual allowance of 30,0001. a-year, subject tode
in proportion to the ultimate success of the lid De CP.'
The entire line to India may, it is estialat
plated in two year..