The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 27.
Her Majesty held a Privy Council at three o'clock
this afternoon, at the Caste. It was attended by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord President, the
Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of
the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the
Postmaster-General, the Chief Commissioner of Works
and Public Buildings, the Lord Steward, and the Master
of the Horse.

The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in waiting.
The Queen held a Court.
The Duke of Hamilton had an audience of her
Majesty, and delivered to the Queen the ensigns of the
most Noble Order of the Garter worn by his father, the
late Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.
The Earl of Westmoreland had an audience of the
Queen. His Lordship was introduced by the Earl of
Malmesbury, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Her Majesty gave audience to the Earl of Derby and
Mr. Secretary Walpole.
The Queen was attended by Viscount Newport, Vice-
Chamberlain, Earl Talbot, Lord in Waiting, and Mr. R.
Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting.
The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of
Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Duke of Mon-
trose, the Earl of Jersey, the Duke of Hamilton, the
Earl of Westmoreland, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Sir John
Pakington, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl of Hard-
wicke,_the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Lord John Man-
ners, Viscount Newport, and the Hon. W. Bathurst,
travelled from London to attend the Court by a special
train on the Great Western Railway.
The whole of the noblemen and gentlemen returned to
London in the same manner after the Council broke up,
except the Earl of Westmoreland, who remains on a
visit to the Queen.
The following had the honour of dining with her
Majesty yesterday :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Duc de Brabant
and the Comte de Flandres, their Serene Highnesses the
Prince de Leiningen and the Princess Adelaide of
Hohenlohe, the Duke of Northumberland, M. and
Madame Van de Weyer, the Lady in Waiting to the
Duchess of Kent, Viscount and Viscountess Mandeville,
Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Colonel de
Moerkerke, the Count de Briey, and Sir Robert Cars-
well.

The band of the Grenadier Guards attended in the
Castle, and played during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band attended, and played the
following selection :

Overture' "Oberon"
Andante alla Marcia, " Antigone" Mendelssohn.
Entr'acte Choeur and Scene, Le Prophete " Meyerbeer.
The Duke of Northumberland, Monsieur and Madame
Van de Weyer, and Lord and Lady Mandeville, left the
Castle to-day for London.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty this day :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Due de Brabant and
the Comte de Flandres, his Serene Highness the Prince
of Leinengen, her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide
of Hohenlohe, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Westmoreland, Colonel the Hon. C.
B. and Mrs. Phipps, Colonel de Moerkerke, and the
Count de Briey.

NOVEMBER 28.
The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Prin-
cess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Duchess of Kent,
the Prince of Leiningen, and the Princess Adelaide of
Hohenlohe, with the ladies and gentlemen of the Court,
and the domestic household, attended divine service this
morning in the private chapel of the Castle.
The Earl of Westmoreland was also at the service.
The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated.
The private chapel at Windsor Castle, which was used
last week for the first time since the alterations,
decorated and considerably enlarged, from designs fur-
nished by Mr. John Thomas,

A deputation in support of a grant of a Royal Charter
of Incorporation to the London, Liverpool, and North
American Screw Steam-ship Company, had an inter-
view on Saturday with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley
and Lord Colchester, at the Board of Trade. The
deputation consisted of Mr. John Masterman, M.P.,
Mr. Peter Rolt, M.P., Sir Herbert Maddock, M.P.,
Alderman Thompson, M.P., Mr. John Vance, M.P.,
Mr. Charles J. Mare, M.P., Mr. Wyndham Goold,
M.P., Mr. Vincent Scully, M.P., Mr. William Hutt,
M.P., Mr. D. Waddington, M.P., Mr. C. B. Roche,
M.P., Mr. William Fagan, M.P., Mr. Robert Carter,
M.P., Mr. J. Francis Maguire, M.P., Mr. J. W. Rus-
sell, M.P., Mr. J. Macgregor, M.P., the Hon. F. H. F.
Berkeley, M.P., Sir John B. Y. Buller, M.P., Mr.
Richard M. Fox, M.p., Mr. Thomas A. Mitchell, M.P.,
Sir John M. F. South, M.P., General Sir George Ber-
keley, M.P., Mr. John G. Heard, M.P., Mr. W. H.
Gore Langton, M.P., Mr. Thomas H. Brooking, Mr.
Robert Gillespie, Mr. W. Hutton Clayton, Mr. Robert
Carter, Colonel Wooldridge, Mr. Henry J. Prinsep,
Mr. Robert Gillespie, jun., and Mr. Robert Lamont,
with Mr. Samuel J. Wadeson (solicitor), and Mr. James
Nelson (secretary).

The Earl and Countess of Derby gave a grand dinner
on Saturday at the official residence of the noble earl, in
Downing-street, to the representatives of foreign sove-
reigns and armies, deputed to attend the funeral of
the late Duke of Wellington, viz., from. Portugal,
Marshal Duo de Terceira and the Duchesse, and
General Comte de Ville Real ; from Spain, General
Duo d'Osuna ; from Russia, General Prince Gort-
chakoff and General Comte de Benkendorff ; from
Prussia, General Comte de Nostitz, General de Mas-
sow, and General de Scharnhorst ; from the Nether-
lands, Lieutenant-General Baron von Omphal ; from
Hanover, General Sir Hugh Halkett, Colonel Poten, and
Colonel Baron de 11Iahrenholz • and from Brunswick,
Major-General de Crichsen. The following were invited
to meet the distinguished officers :—The French Ambas-
sador and the Countess Walewski, the Prussian Minis-
ter and Madame Bunsen, the Austrian Minister and the
Comtesse Colloredo, the Portuguese Minister and the
Comtesse Lavradio,_ the Russian Minister Baron Brun-
now, the Spanish Minister M. Isturitz, the Netherlands
Minister Baron Bentinck, Viscount and Viscountess
Mandeville, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady
Clementina Villiers, the Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount
and Viscountess Harding and Lord Stanley.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial Office, on
Saturday, from the Governor of Victoria.
e,
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's most honour-
able Privy Council sat on Saturday in the Council
Chamber. The lords present were Lord Truro, Lord
Cranworth, the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, Vice-Chancellor Turner, the Judge of the
Admiralty Court, Sir J. Patteson, and Sir Edwd. Ryan.
The re-hearing of the appeal from Bombay, " Her
Highness Ruckmabhey v. Lulloobhoy Motteechund,"
was renewed.

It is announced that the Hon. Spencer Cowper is to
be married, on the Ist of January next, to Lady Harriet
d'Orsay, the widow of the late accomplished Count
d'Orsay, and
daughter of the Earl of Blessington.

We have authority to state, that the announcement
on Saturday last, is incorrect. The General is exceed-
ingly ill, but no such bad news as that of his death had
papers of the death of General Wemyss
rineatchhiesdinhi"ilins neargiesst friends up to twelve o'clock this day.
A private cL'cular has been addressed to the civil and
military friends of Lord Raglan, calling upon them to
assemble on the Ist of December, at 51, Portland-place,
the residence of
his Grace the Duke of Richmond, for
the purpose of entering into preliminary arrangements for
a public meeting, shortly to be convened, to carry out
the projected testimonial to that distinguished officer,
the military secret
Mr. Herries was
and intimate friend of the late
Duke of Wellington
was prevented by illness from attending
the Privy Council on Saturday. The right honourable
gentleman has been confined to the house during the
greater part of the past week, and, we regret to learn,
is still under medical treatment.
CLOSING PT. SPAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—On Saturday
last, at eight o'clock, the cathedral, which was open all
the week for Public view, was closed. The following
are the numbers who
passed in during the week :
Monday, 4,569
; Tuesday, 10,072 ; Wednesday, 14,284 ;
Thursday, 16,529 ; Friday, 22,6/7 ; and Saturday, up
to two o clock, 10,340.
COMPLIMENTARY, CERTAINLY.—The Morning Herald,
says, Sir James Graham and Lord John Russell are the
political Blueskin and Jack Sheppard, trying to break
into Lord Derby's house in Downing-street.
THE ROYAL THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES AT WINDSOR
CASTLE.—The dramatic en;:ertainments commanded by
the Queen will, it is understood, commence the first
week in January,
in the temporary theatre in the
"Rubens Room," and be continued throughout that and
the ensuing month. Several new pieces are on the tapir,
and a new drama, by Jerrold, will, it is said, be pro-
duced by the Royal manager, Mr. Kean.
SAINT ANDREW'S DAL —The festival annually held in
honour of Scotland's patron saint takes place to-mor-
row evening in the London Tavern : the gather-
ing is expected to be the most numerous that has been
for many years, in consequence, we suppose, of Lord
Tohn Russell being announced to-take the chair.