The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-26 00:00:00

COURT AND PRIVY COUNCIL.

WINDSOR, Nov. 25.—The Queen held a Court and
Privy Council at three o'clock this afternoon. The
Privy Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert ; Earl Granville, Lord President ; the
Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl
of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ;
the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies ; Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty ;
Mr. Sidney Herbert, Secretary at War ; Sir William
Molesworth, Chief Commissioner of Works and Public
Buildings ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain
(officiating for the Lord Chamberlain) ; and the Marquis
of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.

At the Council, Parliament was ordered to be further
prorogued from Tuesday next, the 29th inst., until the
3d of January, 1854.
Mr. C. Greville was clerk of the Council in waiting.
At the Court, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Williams
Wynn was presented to the Queen at an audience, by
the Earl of Clarendon, ' Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, on his return from his mission to the Court of
Denmark.

The Hon. Wm. Temple was presented to her Ma-
jesty by the Earl of Clarendon, on his return from
Naples.
The Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of the Queen.
Captain S. B. Lakeman, commandant Waterkloof
Rangers (Cape of Good Hope), was presented to the
Queen by the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State
for the Colonies, and received the honour of knighthood
from her Majesty.
Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen.
The Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, Judge Ad-
vocate-General, had an audience of the Queen, and sub-
mitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts-
martial.

Lord de Tabley and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville
West, were the lord and groom in waiting.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 25.

The Queen and Prince, the Royal Family, and Court
went into private mourning for eight weeks on Tuesday
last, the 22d inst., for the late Queen of Portugal, first
cousin of her Majesty and his Royal Highness.
The Earl of Clarendon arrived at the Castle yesterday
on a visit to the Queen, and left to-day after the Coun-
cil.
The Earl of Aberdeen remains on a visit.

The Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl
Granville, the Marquis of Abercorn, Sir J. Graham,
Sir W. Molesworth, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Sir H. Wynn, the Hon. W. Temple,
the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Mr. C. Greville, and
Captain Lakeman travelled from London to attend the
Council by a special train on the Great Western Rail-
way, and arrived at the Castle shortly before three
o'clock. The same noblemen and gentlemen, with the
exception of the Earl of Aberdeen, left the Castle at
half-past five o'clock, together with the Earl of Claren-
don, and returned to town by the special train.
Messrs. Leggatt had the honour of submitting to her
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on
Wednesday, Mr. Barker's (not Baker's, as appeared in
the Court Circular of yesterday), painting of Nelson
receiving the swords of the officers on the quarter-deck
of the San Josef after the battle of St. Vincent.

The Commissioners for Inquiring into the State of
the Corporation of the City of London held a meeting
yesterday, at the Privy Council-office, in Downing-
street. The Commissioners present were the Right
Hon. H. Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir John Patte-
son, and G. Cornewall Lewis, Esq.
Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yester-
day to the Governors of the North American Provinces,

THE COURT.—This (Saturday) morning, at ten
o'clock, her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of
Brabant, and others of the royal visitors and suite,
took their departure from the Castle for the Isle of
Wight. The royal party travelled from Windsor to
the coast on the Great Western Railway, by Reading
and Basingstoke. A large number of the royal esta-
blishment, and the usual requirement of horses and car-
riages, left Windsor for the island in the course of the
morning. The Court will return to Windsor Castle
from the island about three days before Christmas.
THE QUEEN AND THE IRISH EXHIBITION.—Her
Majesty the Queen has commissioned Mr. M. Angell
Hayes to paint a picture for her (a small one) of the in-
terior of the Great Exhibition. The artist had the com-
mission direct from her Majesty.
DEATH OF LADY CAROLINE SANFORD.—We regret
exceedingly to announce the demise of Lady Caroline
Sanford, who expired yesterday, at Brighton, after a
long illness, in the presence of her husband and several
members of her ladyship's much attached family.
DEATH OF EARL DARTMOUTH.—We have to record
the death of this respected peer, who expired on Tuesday
last, at Patshall, the family seat in Staffordshire, after
a short illness. The deceased nobleman was son of the
third earl by a daughter of the third Earl of Aylesford.
He was born in 1784, and married, first, in 1821, the
eldest daughter of the second Earl Talbot, who died in
1823 ; and secondly, in 1828, the second daughter of
the fifth Viscount Barrington. His lordship's son by
his first marriage, Viscount Lewisham, M.P. for South
Staffordshire, succeeds to the title and estates.
DRAWING AS A BRANCH OF NATIONAL EDUCATION.—
The Board of Trade have just issued a circular to the
masters
of schools throughout the kingdom in connec-
tion with the Department of Science and Art, with a
view to collect evidence as to the best modes now prac-
tised of affording elementary instruction in drawing.
The masters are desired to expression their opinion-
1. As to the extent to which they consider drawing can
be taught to a child in
vacations. &c., about 40 hour a-week ; or, consider-
ingwhich such instruction a-year.
pro-
cess in detail by 2. The
of
theinstruction can best be
given: 3. The characterexamples to be used,
and some definition of the stages in which they should
be used.
MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.--The late Mr. W. Parsons,
of Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, who died in December,
1852, bequeathed to the following institutions these
—To the British and Foreign Bible
handsome legacies :
Society, 5001. ; to the Religious Tract Society, 5001; to
the Missionary Society, 5001. ; to the Surrey Chapel
Benevolent Society, 100/. ; to the Southwark Sunday
School Society, 1001. ;to the Maze-pond Sunday ;
School,
1001. to the Infant School of Zion Chapel, Gravesend,
50/. The above legacies are by the will directed to be
paid free of legacy duty, and are now in course of pay-
ment by the executors.
THE BANK OF FRANCE.—The Bank of France have
resolved to adopt the plan, recently stated to be in con-
templation, of making all their payments in gold, instead
of allowing their silver to be drained from them for ex-
portation. The measure came into operation on Thurs-
day, and, as the public cannot now get 5-franc pieces on
application, the demand for silver out of doors has
greatly increased.