The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 21.

The Queen held a Privy Counc 1 this afternoon, at 4
o'clock, at which were present Earl Granville, the Duke of
Somerset, and the Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
Mr. Helps, Clerk of the Council, attended.
Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen.

The Prince Consort Memorial Committee held a meeting
yesterday afternoon at the Palace of Westminster. Present:
The Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, the Lori Mayor,
and Sir Charles L. Eastlake.

A deputation on the subject of the Bleaching and Dye-
ing Works Act of 1860, had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
A deputation frcm members of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company had an interview with Viscount Palmerston
yesterday.
A deputation on Sugar Duties had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official
residence in Downing-street.

A deputation iespecting Prosecution Expenses Bill had
an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey yes-
terday.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governor of Canada.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.—Yesterday,
a numerously attended deputation waited upon Lord Pal-
merston, at his lordship's residence in Piccadilly, on the
part of the old Atlantic Telegraph Company, to solicit the
assistance of the Government to have fresh soundings made
between Ireland and Newfoundland, and to submit the
propositions of the United States Government of their
readiness to co operate in every possible way
with the British Government in the shape of granting a
subsidy or guarantee upon the amount of capital required
for a new cable. Samples of various cables were submitted
to his lordship, who requested that the proposals of the
company should be sent in for the consideration of the Go-
vernment.

THE ROYAL ATLANTIC COMPANY AND THE Go.
VERNMENT.—Yesterday a copy of a letter addressed by the
directors of the Royal Atlantic Company to the First Lord
of the Treasury, dated the 7th of last month, was printed
for the information of Parliament. The chairman informs
the Government as to the present state of the company's
steamers, the capital, &c., and expresses the entire confi-
dence of the directors in the ability of the company "to
carry out fully and faithfully all the obligations of the con-
tract in a manner creditable to themselves and satisfactorily
to her Majesty's Government." It is added that the direc-
tors will, at the earliest possible moment, submit a report of
the completion of the vessels, and ask at the hands of her
Majesty's Government a renewal of the contract and a re-
storation of the subsidy.
REPORTED Loss OF A PLYMOUTH SCHOONER
WITH ALL HANDS.—A report has reached us to the effect
that the schooner Contest, the property of Mr. King, grocer,
Quay, Plymouth, has gone down with all hands. A vessel
which was passing up the Channel sent the news ashore by
one of the pilot-boats belonging to this port. The crew of
this vessel stated that the Contest was lost at St. Michael's,
in a tremendous gale of wind, and that all hands perished.
She was 124 tons burden. The captain's name is Batiste,

and the crew were eight in number. She left Plymouth on
the 19th of January, and arrived at St. Michael's on the
2d of March. Mr. King, although he is afraid that the
report may prove correct, hopes it will be found incorrect.
It is also right to say that there was another vessel named
the Contest at St. Michael's at the same date, which pos-
sibly might have been mistaken for his vessel.— Western
Morning News.