The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-06 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen, attended by the Countess of Gains-
borough and Lord Alfred Paget, visited her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday after-
noon at Gloucester House.

Prince Albert, attended by Major-General the Hon.
C. Grey and Colonel Seymour, left Buckingham Palace.
at half past nine o'clock yesterday morning, for the
Shoreditch terminus of the Eastern Counties Railway,
and proceeded to Cambridge, to be present at the an-
nual meeting of the Archzeological Institute.
His Royal Highness returned at six o'clock.
Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold took a drive in an
open carriage and four.

The Queen had a dinner party in the evening. The
company included ber Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, Lady Ma-
rianne Alford, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de
Speth, Viscount Torrington, Lord and Lady Poltimore,
the Right Hon. and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, and Sir
George Couper.
The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance
during dinner, and played the following selection :
Lord Seaton's Grand March
Overture, " Marco Spada" . Auber.
Waltz, " Balmoral"
Troika Song Grattan Cooke.
selection, " Maritana" Wallace.
March, "The Favourite" M.S.
Tubel March His Majesty the
King of Hanover.

God save the Queen.
Her Majesty afterwards gave a concert in the Palace.
The Queen's private band attended, and the performance
took place under the direction of Mr. Anderson. The
following was the programme :
Overture, " Prometheus"
Terzetto, " Soave sia it vento," Madame
Clara Novello, Mademoiselle Nathalie
Eschborn, and Signor Belletti, " Cosi
fan tutti" Mozart.
Aria, " Io l'udia ne' suoi bei carmi,"
Mademoiselle Nathalie Eschborn,
(Torquato Tasso)
Romance, "Le Chemin du Paradis,"
Signor Gardoni
Canzonet, " Th 3 season comes when first
wo met," Mme. Clara Novello Haydn.
Terzetto, " Protegga it giusto ciolo,"
Mme. Clara Novello, Mlle. Nathalie
Eschborn, and Signor Gardoni (II Don
Giovanni)
Barcatola, " Sulla poppa," Signor Bel-
letti, "La Prigione d'Edinburgo" Ricci.
Quartetto, "Un di seben rammentoni,"
Madame Clara Novello, Mademoiselle
Nathalie Eshborn, Signor Gardoni,
and Signor Belletti, " Rigoletto"
Mrs. Anderson presided at the pianoforte.
Mr. Stuart A. Donaldson had an interview with Sir
G. Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, Parliament-
street, yesterday. The commissioners present were the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Harrowby, tte
Bishop of Oxford, Sir John Dobson, and the Rev.
Canon Selwyn, and Mr. H. Kingscote, secretary.
Mr. White, agricultural chemist, and Mr. Henry
Stothert, patentee of the Sewage Deodorizing and Pate:nt
Manure Company, had an interview with Viscount
Palmerston, for the purpose of submitting to his 1(
ship specimens of oats and barley grown upon cl can
sand, and cultivated by means of pellucid sewage water.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer is going on
favourably.
Despatches for the Governors of the Australaan
Colonies were pent last evening from the Colonial-offit.pe.

Beethoven.

The Franciska, of Copenhagen, M. Michelsen master,
125 tons register, English admeasurement, from Tarra-
gona for Memel, with a cargo of wine and salt, was
taken by the Cruiser, on the 22d of May last, off Leith
Roads, and arrived at the Nore on the evening of the
4th inst. The master, carpenter, and one sailor have
been put on board the Waterloo flag-ship. The rest
were left on board the Cruiser.
The Danish schooner Union, of Flensburg, Jacob
Frederick von Berm master, prize to the Cruiser, left
the Nore for the West India Docks on the 4th instant.
She was taken by the Cruiser on the 21st of May, 12
miles English from Winda,u, partly laden with bricks for
ballast, the private property of the master, as reported
by him.
The schooner Nornen, of Bergen, Jans Dahl master,
arrived at the Nore on the 4tb, and afterwards pro-
ceeded for London. The Nornen was prize to the Archer,
and was taken on the Ist of June last, off Leith Roads,
distant 4 English miles.
The Johanna Maria, 81 tons, of Stavanger, R. F,
Lindmer, master, prize to the Archer, from Riga for
Norway, with rye and hemp, was taken on the 25th of
May, off Leith Roads, distance about 8 miles English.
The masters, officers, and men, now on board the
Waterloo, flagship, at the Nore, wish to state that the
officers and men have treated them with all the kindness
possible, for which they desire to express their warmest
thanks.

Captain Lord Frederick Kerr has given permission,
ininaediately on an application being made, for the master
of tke....§2salle's wife and child to go on shore, and re-

ye ab 1411211rOWU pwarsia ala ~ ....ow •
and crew are prisoners at large, and care is taken to
give them every indulgence their position will admit of.
No official instructions have yet arrived at Sheerness
ordering the Waterloo to prepare for sea, as reported
yesterday.
The Janus, 4 guns. paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieu-
tenant-Commander Colin C. A. Kane, is ordered to be
in readiness to proceed to the Baltic, in company with
the squadron of line-of-battle ships now preparing to take
French troops on board at Cherbourg.
The Wellesley, 72, guardship of ordinary, and flagship
of Commodore Superintendent Christopher Wyvill, at
Chatham, is being fitted at that port; and so far advanced
that one side has been painted. She will soon be ready
to be placed on her station at moorings in the Medway.
The Malacca, 17, steam-sloop, Captain Arthur Far-
quhar, in the adjoining dock to the Wellesley, is fitting
with great despatch for active service.
The Star, 8, Commander Luard, arrived at Spithead
from Sheerness, yesterday, and remains for further
orders.

The Royal William, 120, Captain Kingcombe, at
Plymouth, bent sails on Tuesday. She will receive 100
men from the Calcutta, and be towed into the Sound on
Thursday.
The Nautilus, apprentices' brig, Lieutenant-Comman-
der Dolling, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Monday,
and, having received some repairs, sailed again on
Tuesday, to cruise in the Channel.
Letters from the Vulture, Captain Glasse, state that
she was to leave the Baltic on Sunday for England, to
be refitted.
Letters from the Cumberland, dated Rim Sound, 2Gth.
of June, state that she had lost five hands from small-
pox. 63 men of war were then lying in Barn Sound.
Mr. Charles D. Lucas, midshipman of the Hecla
paddle-wheel sloop, commanded by Captain William H. .
Hall, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant, with
seniority from June 21 last, for his gallant conduct in
lifting a live shell which had fallen on the deck of the
}tech, and throwing it overboard, during an engage-
ment with the Russians in the Baltic.
Sir James Graham's son, a midshipman, is not ap-
pointed to the Dauntless. He has only taken passage
in her. The son of the First Lordof the Admiralty and
the son of the Duke of Newcastle, the Minister at War,
have both proceeded in the Dauntless to join ships in
the fleet. Mr. Graham serves with the Hon. Captain
Keppel in the St. Jean d'Acre, 101, screw ; and the Hon.
Mr. Clinton joins the Imperieuse, 51, screw, Captain
Watson, C.B.
The Lords of the Admiralty yesterday took up a
number of steamers for the conveyance of the troops
destined to reinforce the British expeditionary army in
the Black Sea ; as also two steamers for special service,
each of the latter to convey 600 tons of stores, and from
180 to 200 men.

The Rhadamanthus paddle-wheel steam store-ship,
Master Commander John Belam, left Woolwich yester-
day morning, and, after towing the Beaver steam-vessel,
with a quantity of spare machinery, and the funnel, &c.,
for the Royal Albert, to Sheerness, will proceed to Ports-
mouth with the machinery sent round to that port for
the Curacoa and the Swallow.

Very great improvements are in progress in Chatham
.dockyard. A spacious new slip has been laid down, ad-
joining that on which the Orion, 91, screw steam-ship,
has been built. The Orion was originally designed for
an 80-gun ship, but during the last year was lengthened
35 feet amidships, in order to convert her into a 91
screw steamship, and she now appears a fine vessel.
The new slip is completed, with the exception of laying
a few massive blocks of granite on the wharf wall, which
has been carried out a considerable distance into the
Medway, and will give a great depth at high water.
The slip has also been carried further inland than was
originally intended, in order to meet the requirements
for the great length of modern screw steam ships of war.
Messrs. Grissell and Peto have put up the metal sup-
ports on the south-west side for the roof, which is to be
placed over the slip at a considerable height, to afford
room for ships of great depth to be built under it. On
the south-west side of the slip a roadway will be made
to admit of timber being carted from the wharf wall to
the sawmills or stacks where it is kept ready, when re-
, quirej. An hydraulic crane has been put upon the
wharf wall on so simple and powerful a princi-
ple that a boy can manage it, and remove a piece of
timber of the weight of four tons from a ship in the
river on to the waggon for conveyance to any part of
the yard. On the north-east side of the new slip a
spacious tunnel hasbeen made, extending its entire length
and beyond into the mast.pond. Another powerful hy-
draulic crane, capable of raising ten tons, has been put
up on this side of the wharf wall, to remove the masts
and other heavy trees from the ships in which they may
arrive, previous to being taken into the mast-pond.
There is also a large convict prison being built, capable
of containing 1,000 convicts for the heavy work of the

yard.
The sentence on two Ferjeants and a corporal of the
Royal Horse Artillery, who were tried lately in Ports-
mouth garrison, was yesterday officially promulgated.
The prisoners were Serjeant Taylor, Serjeant Wallace,
and Corporal Jones ; and the prosecutor was Captain
David Edmund Wood, commanding the E troop of Royal
Horse Artillery. The charges were two—lstly, in hav-
ing made a false statement to Captain Wood, to the effect
that they had no money to pay the billets with, well
knowing that they had been supplied with sufficient
money for that purpose by Serjeant Crawford, acting as
Quartermaster-Serjeant to the troop ; and 2ndly, in
I having subsequently made a false statement to Captain