The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

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Lord Pannture had an audience of the Queen on Su•
tnrday at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge ♦isited her Majesty.
The Royal family took their usual exercise in the gar-
den of the Palace.

The Royal dinner party in the evening included the
United States Minis;er and Miss Lane, the Earl and
Countess of Clareidcn, Viscount Hardinge, the Right
Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Major the Hon.
Arthur Hardinge, Major-General Simpson, and Major-
General Wylie.
Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and
the Princess Alice, 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 Wiadsor offi-
ciated.

A Cabinet Council was held, on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign-office. It was attended by -Viscount
Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the
Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George
Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, Lord Panraure, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir Jame■ Graham, Sir Ckarles Wood, Vis-
count Canning, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat four hours.

The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-street,
Spring-gardens, on Friday. The commissioners present
were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of
Blandford, M.P., the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of
Oxford, the Hen. and Rev. H. M. Villiers, the Rev.
Dr. Wordsworth, and the Rev. Canon Selwyn.
A deputation consisting of the Rev. T. I. Mills, Mr.
J. Platt, the Mayor of Oldham, Mr. Alderman Worth-
ington, Mr. E. A. Wright, Mr, George Barlaad, and
Mr. Henry Radcliffe, accompanied by Mr. Heywood,
M.P.,. Mr. Brown, M.P., and Mr. Cheetkam, M.P.,
had an interview with Sir George Grey on Friday at
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Despatches for the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-office.

Her Majesty will give a splendid entertainment •n
Friday next at Backingham Palace, to him Royal High-
Ness the Duke of Cambridge, General Sir de Lacy E ranm,
the Earl •f Cardigan, to., on their return from serving
with the British army in the Crimea.

LORD JOIIN RussELL.—Lord John Ragmen is much
better ; the cold under which his lordship has been suf-
fering is grainally leaving him, and the noble lord at
present adheres to his intention of taking his departure
on his important diplomatic mission to-morrow.
The Right Fliin. Henry Fitzroy's successor, as Under
Secretary of State for the Home Department, is not yet
named, and the right hon. gentleman continues to act at
the Home-office.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston had a nume-
rous dinner party on Saturday evening, at their new
mansion in Piccadilly (formerly the residence of the late
Mr. Beaumont). The Duke of Cambridge honoured
the Premier and his lady with his company. In the
evening, the Viscountess had a very numerous assembly,
amounting to about 400. The house still contains all
the fine specimens of ancieht and modern art collected
by the late Mr. Beaumont.

TSB ADMIRALTY,--Rear-Admiral Henry Eden, ap-
pointed to succeed the Hen. Admiral Dundas at the
Admiralty Board, will enter on his duties next week.
The following were the only naval appointments made
at the Admiralty yesterday :—Jas. M. Hillyer, clerk to
the Agamemnon George Gann, surgeon, to the Phoe-
nix ; Simard Osborne, commander, to the Veativius.—
Sunday Times.

TYE FORBIGI,T-OFFICP.—A special courier was sent off
late on Friday night with de-patches from the Earl of
Clarendon to his Excellency Lord Stratford de Redcliffe,
at Constantinople, and from Lord Paranure, the Secre-
tary at War, for Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, in the
Crimea. We regret to learn over work and the incle-
mency of the weather in the East have rendered several
of the Queen's Cabinet messengers unable to fulfil their
duties, and that the ordinary staff of the Foreign Secre-
tary's messengers have been called on to officiate on
those distant journeys.—Sunday Times.
THE SPEAKER'S SSCCND PANLIAIIIINTART DINNER.—
The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his second Parliamen-
tary dinner en Saturday, Feb. 17, when the following
noblemen and gentlemen were present :—Theßiglet Hon.
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Stanley, Right Hox. Lord
Naas, Right Hon. Visceunt Newport, Right Hon. C.
Forester, Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Right Hon.
Spencer Walpole, Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Right
Hon. B. A. Christopher, Right Hon. Mr. Beresford,
Right Hon. Sir John Trollop; Hon. H. T. Liddell, non.
Captain Dnncetnbe, R.N., General Sir Geo. Berkeley,
K.C.8., Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, R.N., K.C.8.,
Sir F. Thesiger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Colonel Knox, Mr.
Bateson, Mr. Stafford, Colonel Duane, Mr. Grogan,
Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Knightley, the Rev. Mr. Gamier,
and the Secretary. The following gentlemen were pre-
vented from attending :—Theo Marquis of Granby, Right
Hon. George Bankes, and Right Hon. Joseph Napier.
DEATH OP LADY COLIAIRXE.—WO regret to announce
the demise of Lady Colborne, widow of the late peer,
whom she has survived only a few months. Her lady-
ship expired on Saturday morning, shortly before six
o'clock, at her house ix Hill-street, Berkeley-square,
after a short illness. The deceased lady was eldest
. daughter of the late Right Hon. Thomas Steele, and was
married to the late Lord Colborne, brother of Sir M. W.
Ridley, Bart., in June, 1813, and leaves issue three
married daughters.
We regret to record lithe death of Captain Arthur
Lowther, second sen of Col. the Hon. Henry Cecil
Lowther, M.P., and the late Lady Eleanor Lowther,
who died on Thursday last, at his father's residence, in
Bruton-street, in the prime of manhood, being in his
35th year. He was brother of Capt. Henry Lowther,
M.P., and the families of the Earl of Lonedale Lady
Frederick Bentinck, Lord and Lady W. Powlett,;
Lady Annie Beckett, Mr. and Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck,
&0., are placed in mourning by the distressing event.
SIR CIIRLIS NAPIEE AND THN BALTIC FLIZT.—
Sir Charles Napier has, addressed the following letter to
a contemporary :—"I :think lit would have been only
common Justice to publish my reply to Captain Elliett's
remarks on my saying, in my speech at the Mansion-
house that the Baltic fleet was very badly manned, and
worse disciplined.' Everybody but Captain Elliott knew
very well the Baltio fleet was badly manned. I never
wish to see a fleet sent to sea in such a state again.
When we first sailed half the men could hardly ge
aloft, and every sailor knows the meaning of want of
discipline, which is, simply, that men get hastily together
cannot be in a state of discipline, and every officer is not
possessed of :the transcendent abilities of Cept. Elliott,.
who can discipline his ship by simply hoisting his pen.
neat. So muck use has been made of that expression
that I beg at once to say, no reflection was intended en
the officers ; en the contrary, if there had not been the
greatest exertion en the part of the captains and officers,
and willing obedience on the part of the men, the fleet
never could have returned to England in the state ii
was ; and, had that fleet had as opportunity, I will
answer for it that it would have given a good account of

its opponents. Depending on the gunnery of that fleet,
I had no fear of leaying Admiral Martin at Nargen with
a third of the force of the Rusaian feet when I was at
Bomarsund, nor did I fear to lie in Baro Sound with a
third of their force or at Nargen with half ; and there
was nothing to beer Ituatiaus landing at Swetborg,
bad they thtleram