The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, JAN, 19.
The Queen walked out this morning accompanied by the
Princess Helena.
His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse went to Lon-
don to-day, attended by Captain von Westerweller.
The Bishop of Worcester has left Osborne.

A deputation, consisting of Sir Joseph Paxton, M.P.,
Mr. Alderman Lynes, presi lent ; Mr. Alderman Browett,
vice president ; Mr. H. R. Phillips, member of the council;
and Mr. Henry J. Davis, secretary of the Chamber of Com-
merce, Coventry, had an interview with the Right Hon. T.
Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the office of the Board of
Trade, respecting the statistical registration of the imports
of silk ribbons.
A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com-
mission for the Exhibition of 1851, was held yesterday at
the Privy Council Office. There were present—Earl Gran-
ville, Lord Overstone, Lord Taunton, the Right Hon. W.
E. Gladstone, M.P., Sir A. Spearman, Bart., Sir S. M.
Polo, Bart., M.P., Sir C. W. Dilke, Bart., Mr. T. F.
Gibson, Mr. Thring, and Mr. E. Buwring, C. 8., Secretary.
A deputation from St. Pancras and Marylebone vestries,
on the subject of the powers given to the electric telegraph
companies by private bills, had yesterday an interview with
the President of the Board of Trade. The deputation was
introduced by Mr. Harvey Lewis, M.P.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yes-
terday afternoon, from Hawarden Castle, Chester.
Mr. Miller, M.P., Mr. Provost Lindsay, aud Col. Mac-
gregor, from Leith, and Mr. Wakelord, parliamentary
agent, had yesterday an interview with the Right Hon. T,
Milner Gibson, at the Board of Trade.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Ceylon, Hang-Kong, the Australian
colonies, the North Amer can Provinces, Gibraltar, Ber-
muda, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
Maur,tius, Malta, and Labuan.

THE PRINCESS ALEXANDRA.—The new paper,
published at Copenhagen, the _Denmark, says :
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra, who mixes
but little in society during the mourning for Prince Al-
bert, seldom shows herself to the public. Some few per-
sons have assembled to see her drive to and from the Eng.
lish chapel, where the Rev. R. S. Ellis, M.A., officiates,
but otherwise she is chiefly visible to the public only on the
Long Line, particularly in the morning, arm in arm with
her father. Usually along this fashionable promenade
the Royal family, the Court, and the beau mantle may be
seen at this season enjoying their skating. But this
year the water obstinately refuses to freeze. It is in
vain that the attentive Prince of Wales has forwarded to
his coming bride a pair of elegant skates. St. Janarius
as sullenly denies the princes of our days as the billows
of the North Sea once resisted the appeal of Canute the
Great.

His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hekle
honoured the Haymarket Theatre last night with his pre-
sence.

His Excellency the Belgian Minister leaves Port-
land-place to-day for New Lodge, Windsor Forest.
The Duke of Cleveland has been entertaining a
large family circle and friends at Raby Castle, dining the
Christmas holidays, including—Viscount and Viscountess
Boyne, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Mr. and Lady
Augusta Milbanke, Mr. Vane Milbanke, Mr. Henry Mil-
banke, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Henry Forester, Mr. Morritt,
M.P., and Mrs. Morritt, Major-General Stanhope, Sir John
Hippesley, Mr. Vane, and Miss Augusta Somerset.
The Bishop of Oxford has been entertaining com-
pany at Cuddesdon Palace during the past week. Amongst
the company were the High Sheriff of Oxfordshiro and Miss
Mackenzie, Mr. and Misses Hugh Hamersley, &c.

The Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, who have
been receiving company at Heron Court, Hants, will return
to town on Monday next.

Lord Brougham has been receiving a succession
of visitors during the past week, at his seat in Wiltshire.
Chevalier and Madame Sintonio have left the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Faris, on their way
to Rome.

DEATH OF SIR DUNCAN CAMERON.—The Scots-
man announces the death, in his 87th year, of Sir
Duncan Cameron, Bart., of Fassifern and Callart. Sir
Duncan was the brother of the celebrated Colonel John
Cameron who fell at Quatro Bras, and whose chivalry and
daring led to his being reputed one of the most gallant sol-
diers of his day. Sir Duncan spent his younger years at the
bar in Edinburgh. He succeeded to the baronetcy and
estates in 1828, since which time he has *given himself to
the management of his property. He was greatly beloved
by his numerous dependents. One of his latest acis was
the munificent endowment of a now parish, inclusive of the
town of Fortwilliam, which has been named in his honour
Duncansburgh. His only child is the wife of Mr. Camp-
bell of Mouzie.

EXAMINATION OF LAW STUDENTS.—At a public
examination of the students of the Inns of Court
held at Lincoln's-inn-hall, the Council of Legal Education
awarded to William Grantham, Eq., student of the Inner
Temple, a studentship of 50 guineas per annum, to continue
for a period of three years. Certificates that they have
satisfactorily passed a public examination were awarded to
Arthur 31. Channel!, Esq., student of the Inner Temple;
Jas. Marshall Moorsom, Esq , student of the Inner Temple ;
Bruce Campbell, E,q., student of the Inner Temple; and
Frederick Whiting, Esq , student of Lincoln's-inn. The
public lecture of the Reader on Constitutional Law and
Legal History will be delivered on Wednesday, January 28,
at 2 p.m.

TRIAL OF A LlFEBOAT.—Yesterday some interest-
ing trials were made in- the Regent's Canal Dock,
Limehouse, with a beautiful lifeboat, 35 feet long, belong-
ing to the National Lifeboat Institution. Her qualities of
self-Lighting and self-ejecting of water were found to be in
every way satisfactory. The boat is callod the Thomas
Chapman, after the deputy-chairman of the society, in ac •
knowledgment of Mr. Chapman's long and valuable ser-
vices to the Lifeboat Institution. She is to be sent to-day
(Tuesday) to Newhaven, on the Sussex coast, in lieu of a
smaller lifeboat at present on that station A free convey-
ance has readily, as usual, been given to both boats by the
Brighton and South-Coast Railway Company, who, like all
the railway companies, are always ready to help forward by
such means the great and national objects of the Lifeboat
Institution.

The Journal du Havre tells us that a negro has
just discovered in Brazil a diamond larger than the Koh-i.
noor and the Star of the South united. The fortunate
Sambo is said to propose founding a colony for enfranchised
slaves with the proceeds of this extraord:nary piece of good
luck.
THE INFALLIBLE HOME-OFFICE.—It surely
never was intended that an officer of State, bur-
dened already with the whole interior economy of an em-
pire—conversant with minutes and dockets and corre-
spondence of the most portentous character—and very
often, if we may take the tremendous liberty to say so, an
exceedingly common-place personage, who would find it
the forceid
head"—should
of great difficulty to get a living " out of his own
ead"--should have the duty cast upon him of re-trying
conclusion to which the malefactors in his bureau—becoming a court of appeal
nstituted of a single judge. He is to trace his way
througheiassssofall the mazes of a trial, to weigh the various
way. It is the destiny
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the recorded opinion of the judge was against the aril.
and it is to be presumed would not be altered when') he was
consulted by the Secretary of State. If the revision be
openly assigned to a commissioner, as in the same case, who
is to take evidence and receive fresh testimony, such a
course practically amounts to a new trial, and can only bu
considered a very violent stretch of prerogative. If new
evidence be received, favouring the accused, why la it not
brought forward at a new and regular trial, in due course of
law, where the accused would receive its fall benefit in the
proper forms—perhaps leading to acquittal, instead of a
senseless and illogical commutation of punishment ? If it
why should he not have the op-
portunity
fair jury of his countrymen, who shall judge of its force?
n crrs:examination in open court, and a
This becomes a really serious constitutional question, and
1 it may be doubted whether it is not a practical invasion of
golfY regularagaiagainst him,
the right of a great Brit& tribunal of '2 men sitting in a
jury-box to deal with the malefactors of the State.—
Dickens's "All the Year _Round." Just _Published.
The Bishop of Orleans has just addressed a circu-
lar to the clergy of his diocese, instructing them to make a
general collection for the distressed operatives of Rouen.
eFßANCEfollowing
AND THE RED SEA.—La France makes
th
announcement :—" We are informed
that France is about to take possession officially of Obok,
a point in the Red
Babel Mandeb. The Sea in proximity to the Straits of
steam frigate Hermione has, it is said,
been charged to :carry this
ointo effect. Obok is admirably
station, and the necessary works will
shortly be commenced there'.,

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