The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, AUG. 24.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds yester-
day afternoon.
Mr. R. Ingersoll and Mr. Buchanan arrived from
London at 2 o'clock, and had audiences of her Majesty.
The Earl of Clarendon had also an audience.
Mr. R. Ingersoll delivered his letters of recal as
United States minister, and Mr. Buchanan was pre-
sented by the Earl of Clarendon on his appointment to
succeed Mr. Ingersoll.
The Earl of Clarendon and Sir Charles Lyell have left
Osborne to-day.
Colonel and Lady Catherine Harcourt had the honour
of being invited to dinner yesterday.

M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, had an in-
terview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his of-
ficial residence in Downing-street.
_ _

—T-lis Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State
for the Colonies, left town yesterday afternoon for the
recess.

TEL NEW ACT TO ABOLISH TRANSPORTATION.

Yesterday the important act to substitute in certain
cases other punishment in lieu of transportation, was
issued. It will come into force on Friday week. After
the commencement of the act (from and after the Ist of
September) no person is to be sentenced to transporta-
tion, except for life, or 14 years, or upwards. Any per-
son who might have been sentenced to transportation
for a term less than 14 years, is to be liable, at the dis-
cretion of the court, to be kept in penal servitude. Per-
sons liable to transportation for 14 years or upwards, or
for life, may still be sentenced to transportation, or
to penal servitude. The following terms of penal servi-
tude are to be awarded instead of the present terms of
transportation. Instead of transportation for 7 years,
or for a term not exceeding 7 years, the penal servitude
is to be a term of 4 years. Instead of any term of
transportation exceeding 7 years, and not exceeding 10
years, the penal servitude is to be not less than 4, and
not exceeding 6, years. Instead of transportation ex-
ceeding 10, and not exceeding 15 years, the penal ser-
vitude is to be for not less than 6, and not exceeding 8
years ; where it exceeds 15 years, the penal servitude is
to be not less than 6, and not exceeding 10 years ; and
instead of transportation for life, the penal servitude be
for the term of life ; and in every case where, at the dis-
cretion of the Court, one of any two or more of the terms
of transportation might have been awarded, the Court
alkali have the like discretion to award one of the two or
more terms of penal servitude in relation to such term
of transportation. There are three clauses in the act with
regard to tickets ofleave in the United Kingdom, and the
system is now to be tried for the first time in this country.
It is declared to be lawful for her Majesty, by an order in
writing under the hand and seal of one of the principal
secretaries of state, to grant to any convict now under sen-
tence of transportation, or who may hereafter be sen-
tenced to transportation, or to any punishment substi-
tuted for transportation by this act, a license to be at
large in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands,
or in such parts thereof respectively as in such license
shall be expressed, during such portion of his or her term
of transportation or imprisonment, and upon such con-
ditions in all respects as to her Majesty shall seem fit,
and it shall be lawful for her Majesty to revoke or alter
such license by a like order at her Majesty's pleasure.
So long as such license shall continue in force and unre.
yoked such convict shall not be liable to be imprisoned
or transported by reason of his or her sentence, but shall
be allowed to go and remain at large according to the
terms of such license. On a license being revoked the
convict may be apprehended and committed to prison.
After the commencement of the act persons convicted
of larceny, after previous conviction for felony, are not
liable to transportation. The act is not to affect the
discretion of criminal courts as to alternative punish-
ment, which may be in addition to the punishment now
substituted for transportation.

THE CABINET.—It is rumoured in circles likely to be
well informed, that the present Cabinet before February
next will have an addition of two members, viz., Viscount
Canning and Mr. Cardwell ; indeed, the absence of the
latter from the secret committee of the Privy Council,
as William Cobbett described it once, has been the sub-
ject of some surprise. So has been the young Duke of
Argyll's appointment to the office of Lord Privy Seal- -
a sinecure usually holden by some old and decayed
member of the ruling party.—Morning Advertiser.
THE EARL OF CARLISLE IN THE EAST. —We under-
stand that this distinguished nobleman purposes to ex-
tend his visit to the East so far as the plains bordering
on the Indus. According to the last accounts, he was
exploring the most interesting parts of Egypt.
THE WELLINGTON COLLEGE TESTIMONIAL. —The
amount received in this country towards the above tes-
timonial reaches above 83,0001. The sum remitted
from India, up to June last, was 20,0001., making the
present subscription list to amount to more than
103,0001.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY POLWARTH.—This
lady died, on the 19th inst., at Rogate Lodge. The de-
ceased was the daughter of Count Bruhl, for many years
Saxon Minister at this Court, and of Alicia Maria,
Countess of Egremont. Her ladyship had attained the
advanced age of 80.
DEATH OF LORD SUFFIELD.—This nobleman died on
the 22d instant, at the age of 40. The deceased noble-
man, Edward Vernon Harbord, was son of the third
holder of the title, by Georgiana Venables Vernon, only
daughter and heiress of George Venables, second Lord
Vernon. He succeeded his father in 1825, and in the
same year married Charlotte Susanna, only daughter of
Allan Hyde, second Lord Gardiner, by whom he has
not had any issue. Lord Saffield was formerly a pro-
minent member of the turf, b at, having fallen into diffi-
culties, was obliged to abandon the " green sod" and
reside for some years on the Continent. The Hon.
Charles Harbord, half brother to the deceased, succeeds
to the title and what remains of the family estates. The
father of the deceased was killed in 1825 by an accidental
fall from his horse. The family descends from Sir
Charles Harbord, Knight, Surveyor-General to Charles
I. The patrimonial estates are situate in the counties
of Norfolk and Lancaster.
COMPLIMENT TO AN ENGLISH MUSICIAN.—The direc-,
tion of the grand concerts of the Gewandhaus, at Leipzic,
dpreeastiidl,ehdasovbeereoboy Mffereedntdoelmssro.hn steuropdatoie tßheenntiemtte.
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concerts are considered the most famous in Germany.
THE GOVERNMENT OF INDlA.—Yesterday the new
act on the future government of India was printed. It
contains 43 sections, and is to take effect on the 30th of
April next year, when the act now in force will termi-
nate. By this new statute, until Parliament shall
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and they must have served three years in India. The
ordinary term of office of a director is to be six years,
andie i: iTtnhoser. s are to be eligible for re-election. The qua-
lification for a director is to be the holder of 1,000/.East
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