The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Prince of
Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Prin-
cesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, arrived at Buckingham
Pa ace yesterday afternoon from Osborne.
The Queen, the Prince, and Royal Family left Osborne
at 10 minutes to 11 o'clock, and crossed in the Fairy to
Gosport, where a special train on the South-Western
Railway was in readiness to convey her Majesty to the
private station at Vauxhall, from whence the Royal
party was conveyed in five of the Queen's carriages, es-
corted by a detachment of light cavalry, to Buckingham
Palace, where her Majesty arrived at a quarter to 3
o'clock.

Her Majesty and the Prince were received, on alight-
ing from their carriage, by Lieut.-General Sir Edward
Bowater. The royal suite consisted of Lady Churchill,
the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Captain Du
Plat, the Master of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs.
Her Majesty, soon after her arrival, gave an audience
to the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, to which
their Royal Highnesses were introduced by the Earl of
Clarendon, LG., her Majesty's principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
The Queen gave an audience to a New Zealand chief,
who was presented to her Majesty by Sir William
Molesworth, Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs.
The Brazilian .Minister had an audience, of her Majesty.
The Queen also gave audiences to the Earl of Claren
don and Lord Pant-nine.

The Duke of Ca.tubridge dined with her Majesty last
evening.

M. Desarais had the honour of exhibiting on Tuesday
at Osborne before the Queen and Prince, and the whole
of the Royal children, his Parisian troupe of histrionic
dogs and monkeys ; and Mr. George Hodson had the
honour of perfcrming selections from his musical enter-
tainment and imitations.
The dinner party at Osborne on Tuesday included the
Hon. Colonel and Mr .l. Phipp3, Captain the Hon. J.
Denman, and Lady C. Barrington.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. s.—Her Majesty, his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, with the Royal family, left Osborne
this morning at 10.50, en route to this port and London;
the Royal standard being hoisted on board the Fairy
steam yacht, a royal salute was fired from the Cowes
Battery. As the Royal yacht came up to Spithead, the
salute was continued by the Neptune, 120, and St.
George, 120, at Spithead ; subsequently by the garrison
from the Saluting Battery, and afterwards by the Vic-
tory, flag-ship, and the Illustrious, 42, in harbour. The
ships were dressed in colours, manned yards, &c. The
yacht arrived at Clarence-yard at 12 o'clock, and on her
Majesty landing she was received by the Commander-in-
Chief, Vice-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane; Major-General
Brereton, Lieut.-Governor Admiral Superintendent Mar-
tin ; Captain Superintendent of Clarence-yard,. Sidney
nacres ; the flag and staff officers of the port and garri-
son ; Messrs. Pinhorn and Davies, of Clarence-yard ;
and a guard of honour from the Royal Marines. The
Royal train conveying her Majesty left for London at a
quarter past 12.
AMUSEMENT AT OSBORNE BY ROYAL COMMAND.—M.
Desarais, with his highly-trained troupe of dogs and
monkeys, who, it may he remembered, appeared in Lon-
don some time past, had the honour of appearing before
her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and all the Royal
family, with his celebrated troupe, on Tuesday, Sept. 4.
The Royal party were greatly pleased with the enter-
tainments, and expiessed their gratification. Mr. George
Hodson also amused the Royal family with sketches
from his Irish Portfolio, which caused great laughter,
the Prince enjoying the Hibernian sayings and doings
greatly. At the conclusion of the entertainment the
Queen freely conversed with M. Desarais as to the mode
of training the animals ; and on being assured by M.
Desarais that they were kindly treated, her Majesty re-
plied, " I am very happy to hear it ; they are beautiful
creatures." The Prince of Wales, Colonel Phipps,
Colonel Grey, and several of the gentlemen remained
some time after the performance, greatly enjoying the
pranks of the dogs. The Queen, on retiring, expressed
her satisfaction and approbation. The musical arrange-
ments were under the diection of Mr. William Lewis,
who presided at the pianoforte.
The prospectus has been issued of the proposed Lon-
don Joint Stock Warehousemen's Company under the
Limited Liability Act. The capital is to i.e 200,0001.,
in 201. shares paid up, with power of increase to 500,0001.
The promoters lay stress upon the well-known profits of
the wholesale drapery trade, and contend that, as the
success of the business depends in a pecaliar degree
upon the posses,ion of an ample capital, it is one well
adapted for a joint stock association.

RUSSIA.—The mercantile advices—from St. Petersburg
continue to afford scarcely a particle of news. The rate
of exchange exhibits a :lrooping tendency, calculated to
accelerate the smuggling of gold out of the country, but
it was still over 36d. The heaviness is attributed to the
large amount of paper issued to meet the expenses of the
war, the redemption of which, however, is by many
persons, with too much reason, relied upon to take place
out of a loan to be raised in London when the war is
over. The Nishni fair for manufactures and imports is
alleged to be going off favourably, good prices being ob-
tained and debts being ftirly paid. That the articles
presented for sale would find buyers was to be assumed
from the fact of the limited supply obtainable owing to
the difficulties in the way of importation and the stop-
page of home manufactories.

According to information lately obtained regarding
the Isle of Man Bank (Messrs. Holmes and Co.), which
failed for 190;000/. in November. 1853, the prospects of
the creditors are very poor. The bank had an estab-
lishment at Liverpool, and, like that of Mr. Oliver, it
was reported at the time to be in possession of a large
surplus. Much suffering has since been caused, and the
complications connected with the estate sre such that,
although its affairs are said to bare been several times
before the Privy Council, nothing is known as to the
probable date of a final arrangement. In the Isle of Mai
the local regulations are understood to provide that no
notes can be issued without security being given in real
property for the protection of the public, but the autho-
rities, most of whom in the present instance are among
the creditors, were lax in their duties, and the bank at
the time of its stoppage had 25,0001. in circulation, or
about three times the amount to which it was entitled.
The question as to the relative claims of the holders of
this circulation is the one that has interposed the chief
difficulties in the progress towards a settlement.
MIDDLESEX ARCHXOLOGICAL SOClETY.—Hitherto, so
far as we remember, Middlesex, the metropolitan county
—and certainly as rich in subjects of antiquarian and
historical interest as any other county in Great Britain
—has had no special body of archaeologists devoted to
the care and preservation of its monuments. A fact
so curious is, perhaps, explained by the assumption
that the metropolitan county must necessarily claim the
chief care of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, and its
subsidiary bodies, the Archaeological Institute and the
Archaeological Association, Such, however, is not the
case. These societies display a certain—or, we may more
truly say, an uncertain—activity in the investigation of
historical antiquities generally; but we are not aware
that they charge themselves specially with any care of
metropolitan monuments. For example—there is the
Tower. Of all the monuments of past times in Eegland
the Tower of London is first in interest. Indeed it has
no competitor. Its story is the history of England—a
history of its court and of its people, of its best men and
most beautiful women—of its wars, its pageants, its in-
surrections, its conquests, its reverses—of its manners,
its arts, its arms, its laws, its religion, almost of its
literature. Every room in the Tower is a record, every
stone is monumental. Yet in our own day parts of this
precious edifice have been dug up, thrown down; carted
away, and rebuilt—walls have been scraped and inscrip-
lions removed by ignorant men, without a'svord of prote4,
solar as we know, from these learoed bodies. Care of the
Tower would alone justify the establishment of a Middlesex
Archmlogical Society. Then, there are—Brentford, a
world in itself for the antiquary—Crosby Hall—the old
prisons—West minster A bbey—Old London Bridge—Old
prisons—Old St. Paul's—St. John's Gate—the Charter-
house—and a hundred others equally curious and im-
portant, most of which are still open to a good deal of
documentary and other illustration. Such a work de-
mands earnest workers ; and we are glad to announce a
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