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

corn CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, the
Hon. Mary Seymour, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner.
The Earl of Derby arrived from London this forenoon,
and had an audience of her Majesty.
Captain the Hon. D. Do Ros has succeeded Colonel
F. H. Seymour as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen.
The Earl of Derby returned to town yesterday after-
noon from Windsor Castle.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday in the Privy Council-effice, and heard a peti-
Men for Honiball's patent (anchors) confirmation. The
lords present were the Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and
Sir E. Ryan.

ARRIVAL OF THE MAURITIUS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING.

The screw transport steam-ship Mauritius, with
invalids from the Black Sea, arrived at this port
this morning. She has brought up in the river,
and is awaiting orders for landing her passengers.

LATEST NEWS.

VIENNA, FRIDAY, 11 A.M.

Authentic information has reached us that the
Turkish Minister hero has received powers to

treat for peace.

BUCHAREST, JAN. 30.

Largo masses of Russians aro again concontra,t-
ing at Roth.

A passage of the Danube is apprehended.
Sadik Pacha has marched to that point with a

strong division of troops.

KIEW, JAN. 26.
The Russians are sending considerable rein-
forcements to the Crimea.

Two grenadier divisions, 1,500 riflemen, and
fifteen reserved battalions occupy Perekop.
Another corps, under General Read, occupies
the second line of Bessarabia.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains a despatch
from Admiral Bruat, dated Kamiesh, Jan. 23,
which states that a blockade had been notified by
commanders in the French fleet, at Odessa, Caffa,
Kertch, Anapa, and Soujuk-Kale.
The fortifications of all these places were being
strengthened.

The Russians in Sebastopol were throwing up
an embankment to connect the detached bastion

with the other works.

For the two previous days a brisk fire had
been kept up from the tower called Malakoff, on
the English batteries.
On the 22d the Russians made a sortie, and
were repulsed, after a very brisk fire had been
kept up for two days against the English batteries.
General Niel had arrived at Constantinople.

TRIESTE, JAN. 31.

The Prussian Prince Gargareu has arrived here
from Constantinople with despatches up to the

22d January.
The Turkish police, with the authorisation of
the Allied Powers, had visited the dwellings of
several Italian refugees, and arrested those upon
whom arms had been found.
Several French soldiers have been assassinated
in Galata.

Mr. Stevens, British Vice-Consul at Trebizond,
has obtained from the Turkish Government the
proclamation of the firman which abolishes the
slave traffic.

Two Circassian slave dealers have been wrested
and the slaves detained.
The British frigate, the Tribune, supported the
demand of tho Consul.

FRA NKFORT, THURSDAY.

The United Committees of the Germanic Diet
jointly proposed that, instead of a general mobili-
sation of the Federal army, the principal contin-
gents should be made ready for war. This was
the Bavarian proposition; it was supported by
Prussia, acceded to by Austria, and carried.

Advices from Berlin and Vienna report that
great anxiety is felt to ascertain the manner in
which the Austrian Government will receive its
recent check in the Diet. It is feared that after
the position taken up by Prussia, Austria cannot
act up to its rights as a European power without
breaking up the confederation. It is believed
that no determination will be come to before the
now English Ministry has been constituted.

FRANKFORT, JAN. 30.

M. Bismarch Schonhausen, the Prussian Mi-
nister at the Federal Diet, has handed in a decla-
ration which unveils to a considerable extent the
tactics of his Court. The Prussian Court not
only incidentally declares that the conferences be-
tween the representatives of Austria, France,
England, Turkey, and Russia will have European
character unless Prussia be represented there, but
gives a pledge "to obtain for the Confederation
the same participation which it has reserved for
itself."

The declaration closes with this remarkable
language :--
"His Prussian Majesty believeighat that he shall
be able to obtain for the confederation, and for
each of its members, a guarantee against all pre-
tensions contrary to the dignity and interests of
Germany, even if the hope of an accommodation
should not be realised. His Majesty endea-
vour, with a view to such an accommodation, to
obtain from the belligerent courts, by confidential
negotiations, guarantees that Germany shall not
be drawn into a war except for the defence of its
own interests. But apart from, and independent
of, his efforts, his Majesty sees in his own power
and that of Germany sufficient guarantees for the
maintenance of the dignity, the honour, and the
rights of the common country."