The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-24 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAx. 23.

The Queen walked in the Home-park this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting,
attended by Lord Rivers, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
and Colonel Wylde.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal family took their usual walking
and pony exercise.
His Urace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl
and Countess of Clarendon, and Viscount and Vis-
countess HArdinge have been invited, and are expected
to-day.

A deputation from All Saints, Southampton, includ-
ing Mr. T. H. Croft Moody and Mr. Edward Mayes
(churchwardens), had an interview with Viscount Pal-
merston yesterday at the Home-office.
Count Walewski, the French Ambassador, visited the
Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Marquis of Lansdowne left town after the Cabi-
net Council on Saturday, for his seat, Bowood-park,
Wilts.

Mr. Pope, the inventor of the patent smoke-consum-
ing furnace, and Mr. Wallington, representing the
Patent Furnace Company, had an interview with Vis-
count Palmerston yesterday, to explain the principle of
the invention to his lordship.
Despatches for the Governors of the West Coast of
Africa were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office.

Tax COURT.—According to present arrangements,
her Majesty and the Royal Family will arrive on Satur-
day next from Windsor Castle, until the following Wed-
nesday, when the Court will return to the Castle until
the second week in February. Lord Willoughby
d'Eresby, as Lord Great Chamberlain, we understand,
has issued the usual orders to the officers at the House
of Lords to issue the regulations regarding the admission
of peeresses, &c., and which will be published, it is
stated, in a supplementary Gazette on Monday.
The Earl of Eglinton and youthful family have arrived
in St. James's-square, from Eglinton Castle.
The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke and Lady Eliza-
beth Yorke, Lord Royston, and a family circle have
been visiting the ♦enerable Dowager Countess of Hard-
wicke, at Lettenhanger, Herts.
The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Arabella
Sackville West left Upper Grosvenor-street yesterday,
for Buckhurst-park, where Mr. and Lady Elizabeth
Russell and youthful family are staying.
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Lady Frederick Bentinek left Charles-street, Berko-
ley-square yesterday, on a visit to the Marquis and
Marchioness of Exeter, at Burghley-house, where a
seleot party are staying.
DIPLOMATIC CHIT-CHAT.—The Russian military Pleni-
potentiary, Count Constantine Benkersdoff, at Berlin,
has just received from King Frederick William a magni-
ficent sword of honour.

DEATH OF C. R. MORGAN, ESQ., M.P.—lt is with no
enviable feelings that we this week perform a duty by
recording the death of this gentleman, which took place,
on Saturday last, at Marseilles. The news, which was
received in Newport on Thursday, created a painful sen-
sation amongst all classes, to whom the deceased gentle-
man was endeared by the many amiable and excellent
qualities with which he was endowed. Sir Charles and
Lady Morgan have been staying at Marseilles for some
weeks past, and were present when their son died.—
Monmouthshire Beacom. _

ROYAL BETROTHAL.—The betrothal of Prince Friedrich
Carl Nicolans, the son of Prince Carl of Prussia, with
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt, took place on the 15th
instant, at the Ducal Palace in Dessau.
APPOINTMENT OF ROMISH CHAPLAINS WO PRISONS.—
The recent measures taken by the Government for the
appointment of Roman Catholic chaplains to the prisons
throughout the country, has, amongst the Protestants
of this city, produced no little excitement, and we find
that a public meeting is to be held on Monday evening,
to protest and to adopt a memorial against a proposal
so unconstitutional.—Manchester Courier.
THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS.—We understand that all
classes in her Majesty's dockyard, artificers, labourers,
&c., are placed on job stockwork, and all earn, accrd-
ing to a revised scale of prices, as much money as their
skill and industry can secure them.
WANT OF MEN FOR THE ROYAL FLEET.—Upon a
careful calculation, says the Morning Herald, we esti-
mate that at least 2,500 seamen (blue-jackets) are re-
quired efficiently to man the ships now fitting out at
the home ports.
THE ROYAL STEAM FORCE OF GREAT BRITAIN.—
The progress of our Royal steam navy is wonderful ;
England possesses more marine steam-power in her
Royal navy than all the Imperial steam-fleets of the
world combined could furnish. A few years since we
possessed only some 14,000-horse power, but on the let
of January, 1854, the British navy included no less than
202 steam-vessels of all classes, whilst the nominal
steam-power of machinery in those ships represented
more than that of 55,300 horses, with a reserve of
2,800-horse power available for other Royal ships. This
information we have from undoubted authority.