The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 10.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Lady in Waiting to her Royal Highness,
Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. N. and
Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour,
Sir George Couper, Sir Charles Eastlake, Major-General
Wylde, Lieutenant-Colonel Vyse, commanding officer
Royal Horse Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards,
commanding 18th Royal Irish, Colonel the Hon.
Charles Maynard, commanding officer Essex Rifles,
and Mr. Glover.

The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and played the following pieces
March, "Prince of Wa1e5"......... Costa.
Overture (on the theme " God save the Queen") Schnieder.
Selection, " Diamans de la Couronne" Anber.
Quick Step, composed for the birth-day of the
Prince of Wales by the Duchess of Kent.
Galop, " Prince of Wales" Seaman.
The Queen's private baud afterwards attended in the
Castle, and performed the following selection :
Overture, " Der Freischutz" Weber.
Solo, Violin, " Carnival de Vouise"....
Selection, "Robert to Diable" Meyerbcer.
Lo Panquot des Dames
After dinner her Majesty had an evening party, to
which wore invited the Hon. Mrs. and Miss Phipps, the
Hon. Mrs. Grey, and Lady and Miss Cooper.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, walked
in the Home Park this morning,
Prince Albert went out hunting, attended by Captain
Du Plat.

The Hon. Lucy Maria Kerr and the Hon. Mary Bul-
teel have succeeded the lion. Mary Seymour and the
Hon. Matilda Paget as Maids of Honour in Waiting.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
Downing-street. It was attended by
oAbcee'rdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord
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Chancellor,
the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston,
the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of
Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, Sir William Molesworth, and Earl Granville.
The Council sat nearly three hours.
A deputation from the parish of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields had an interview with the President of the Gene-
ral Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, on the
subject of the nuisance created by unloading offensive
matter at the Adelphi Wharf. The deputation con-
sisted of Mr. Cobbett, Chairman of the Board of Guar-
dians ; Mr. W. H. Dalton, Vice-Chairman of the Board
of Guardians ; and Messrs. Barton and Clemence,
guardians, accompanied by Messrs. Latter, Coll, New-
all, Elder, Laing, J. Allen, Green, and Hill, inhabitants
of Adelphi-terrace ; and also by Dr. Cross J. Leonard,
district surgeon, and Mr. C. Griffiths, clerk to the Board
of Guardians.

Sir George Grey arrived in town on Thursday evening
from his seat, Falloden, Northumberland, and attended
the Cabinet Council yesterday.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury has recently
accepted the office of President of the Weekly Tract
Society.

The Hon. Edward Erskine has left town, to resume
his duties as Secretary of Legation at the Court of
Turin.

Count de Goltz left Berlin on the 4th for his post as
Prussian Ambassador at Athens. It is said that he is
charged expressly with the task of doing all he can to
maintain a good accord between the Western Powers
and the Greek Government.

The Baron de Geer, who for a long period has filled
the office of Secretary of the Swedish Legation at the
Court of St. James's, is about to leave London for the
Hague, having been appointed, provisionally, Charge
de Affaires at the Court of the Netherlands. The baron
will be succeeded as Secretary of Legation in this country
by Baron de Wrede, whose arrival from Sweden is
shortly expected.

The Duke of Portland, who is staying in compara-
tive retirement at Welbeck Abbey, Notts, bas improved
in health. Mr. Evelyan and Lady Charlotte Denison
have been visiting his grace during the past week.
The Marquis of Salisbury, who came to town to be
present at the grand civic bacquet, returned to Hatfield
House yesterday.
The Earl and Countess Craven and family leave Combe
Abbey, near Coventry, on Monday next, for Brighton,
for the winter.

The Earl and Countess of Durham, who have been
visiting their noble relatives, the Earl and Countess of
Elgin, at Broom Hall, Fifeshire, have arrived at Lamb-
ton Castle, Stockton-upon-Tees, for the winter.
The Countess of Jersey has returned to Middletoa-
park, Oxfordshire, from town. The Hon. Captain and
Lady Elizabeth Villiers are staying at Sulby Hall,
Northamptonshire, where they are entertaining a select
circle.

The Earl of Chesterfield is entertaining a party of
sporting noblemen and gentlemen with the sports of the
field, at Gedling Lodge, Notts. Lord Stauhope is doing
duty with his regiment, the Royal Horse Guards (Blue),
at Windsor.
The Dean of Waterford and Miss Hoare have ar-
rived in town from England, en route to Waterford.
Sir Thomas Fetherston, Bart,, is appointed to the
commission of the peace for Wexford, on the recommen-
dation of Lord Carew, lieutenant of the county.
Sir James Weir Hogg, Bart., M.P., has for some days
past been on a visit to his mother, Mrs. Hogg, of
Castle-street, Lisburn. About 40 years ago Mr. Hogg,
then a very young man, left that town for India, and
shortly after his arrival in Calcutta was promoted to one
of the most lucrative situations connected with the
Supreme Court. On his return home he settled in Lon-
don, where the high position be had held in the East
gave him great influence with the lords of Leadenhall-
street ; and no long term elapsed until he found himself
a director of that far-famed congregation of merchants—
the East India Company. Sir J. W. Hogg, though up-
wards of 60 years of age, is still a very fine, stout-look-
ing man. His venerable parent, we understand, has
reached her 90th year.—Belfast Memury.
It is said that intimation has been given to tht fol-
lowing gentlemen that the office of deputy-lieutenant of
the city of Cork will be conferred upon them :—the
Mayor, W. Fagan, M.P., F. B. Bearnish, M.P., A. J.
Wood, and T. Tobin, Esqs.
DEATH OP GEORGE ii'TUDDERT, ESQ.—It is with
much regret we (Saunders's News Letty) have to an-
nounce the death of our valued fellow citizen and late
magistrate for the city of Dublin, George Studdert, Esq.,
of Sackville-street. Mr, Studdert was 71 years of age,
and while strength was spared him a very aotive mem-
ber of many public boards and charitable societies. He
was descended of an ancient county Clare family, being
brother to Thos. Studdert, Esq., D.L., Bunratty Castle,
and of Admiral Studdert, Pella.
HUNTING EXTRAORDINARY.—As a funeral procession
was proceeding to the church at Roystone on Thursday
last, a hare, with the Ecclesfield pack of hounds close
upon her, came at full speed down the town, and poor
puss was killed right in the midst of the mourners.—
Doncaster Chronicle.
THE CHOLERA. —LIVERPOOL, Nov. 10.—The cholera
has disappeared from Liverpool. No new cuss have
been reported for up wards of a week, and there remains
only one patient under treatment in the parish.
Clt vinre.
MUSEUIC—Several newi
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names
of gentlemen who have passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received
orkshire certifi-
cates to practise, Thursday, November 9 :—Benja-
min ntbay,
Yorkshire Whitby,
H.anwell ; Henry Allnutt
Dal-
tonDm ienDd
DR KAHN'S
idNcicoholaAprrnhtdhusNossnt,RoAkGaeNff,lienouTsoiddmfeaenilree,A
and highly interesting. models have lately been added to
Dr. Kahn's Anatomical Museum in the Haymarket,
upon some of which a lecture was delivered last night by
Dr. Sexton. The principal of them is a fall-length
figure, which can be taken into very many pieces, the
elaborate execution of which was the admiration of a
numerous audience.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.—LISBON, Nov. 1, 1854.—The
Board of Health has issued the following orders of 28th
Oct., declaring Bahia and Rio ,
Janeiro "free from disease"
from 10th Sept. ; and declaring suspected of cholera,"
' Cadiz, from 20th Oct., altering the urder of 14th Aug. ;
Malta, from 11th Oct., altering the order of 2d August ;
Gibraltar, from 20th August, altering the order of 7th
October.
THE ASSYRIAN.—Another splendid clipper, built by
Messrs. Walter Hood and Co., of Aberdeen, has just
been added to the shipping of that port. She is named
the Assyrian, is the property of Mr.\ Alexander Nicol,
and is expected to rank with the fastest on the passage
between London and Australia. Another fine ship, the
Walter Hood, of 1,100 tons, has made the passage from
Sydney to London in 78 days ; and the Frances Henty,
built by the Messrs. Hall, the originators of this model,
has come. .from Melbourne in 72 days, each carrying
cargoes nearly double their tonnage measurement.
ENCOUNTER WITH POACHERS.—Considerable alarm
(says the Kent Herald) was created at Fredville-park,
the seat of J. P. Plumptre, Esq., on Saturday morn-
ing last, shortly after three o'clock, by a serious encoun-
ter with a number of poachers. Several reports of guns
were beard in the vicinity of the pheasant preserves, and
the head gamekeeper, with his assistants, went to the
spot to ascertain from whom they proceeded, when they
found four poachers. An attempt was immediately made
either to capture them or drive them off the premises,
when the poachers (all strangers) turned on the keepers
with their guns and sticks, and subsequently succeeded
in making their escape, leaving one of their guns behind
them. The head gamekeeper, besides receiving many
serious contusions, had his arm broken. Informationwas quickly conveyed to the authorities, but no traces
of the offenders have as yet been obtained.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE., LONDON.—The first session ef
the council for the current academical year was held on
Saturday, the 4th inst. The Andrew's scholarships of
1001. and 601. were conferred respectively on Mr. Wil-
liam Britten Jones and Mr. Henry Mason Bompas.
The Liston clinical gold medal, for surgical cases, was
awarded to Mr. John Zachariah Lawrence. The Fel-
lowes' clinical medals, for medical cases, were obtained,
the gold by Mr. Stephen Nesfield, the silver by Dr.
Frederick G. Clarkson. The Signor Conte Arrivabene
was appointed substitute, for the session, for the profes-
sor of Italian language and literature, Signor Gallenga,
absent at present at Turin, in discharge of his duty as
deputy for Trine to the Piedinontese Parliament. Thanks
were returned to the Court of Directors of the East
India Company for the presentation of valuable collec-
tions of books on Oriental literature, topography, Sze.,
and a vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Hume for the
gift to the college of the full-length portrait, by Lucas,
of Mr. Joseph Hume, MP., presented in August last
to Mrs. Hume by a large number of Liberal members of
the Legislature and other gentlemen, in testimony of the
affection and regard entertained by them for Mr. Hume,
and of their admiration of the energy, courage, and per-
severance with which during his long public career he
had laboured for political improvements, and for the re-
moval of disabilities on account of religious differences.

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF
SEBASTOPOL.

The following despatch has been received from
a correspondent at Marseilles, which had reached
that port by the French post steamer which left
Constantinople on the 30th ult :
Your correspondent in the army before Sebas-
topol writes on the 28th that' 607 light infantry
were engaged in the affair of the 25th, and that
only 198 returned.
Eight hundred cavalry were engaged, of whom
only 200 returned,

Nine officers were killed, 21 wounded, and 4

were missin ;.
The 17th Lancers were almost destroyed.
We require reinforcements.
Another despatch from Constantinople, dated
the 30th, says :
On the 26th, 8,000 Russians made a sortie
from Sebastopol, but were beaten by two divisions
of English infantry. The Russians lost 700 in
killed and wounded.
" The English lost 1 officer and 30 men."

We have received the following from our cor-
respondent at Vienna, dated Friday morning :
" According to authentic advices of the 28th
ult. from Balaklava, a council of war was held on
the preceding day, when it was resolved not to
attempt to storin Sebastopol until the effect of the
siege guns had been fairly tried.
" It is considered highly probable that a battle
will be fought with the Russians under General
Liprandi before Sebastopol is stormed.

" The Russian reinforcements are estimated at
30,000 men."

VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING.

The following telegraphic despatch has been
circulated in Vienna. It must be received with
the greatest caution :

" CZERNOWITZ, Nov. 9.
" A most violent attack has been made of
Sebastopol.

" There was a conflagration in the town, which
the garrison could not extinguish.

" Prince Menschikoff had demanded an armis.
tice of 12 hours, which was refused."

PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING.
A telegraph from Marseilles brings news from
Sebastopol of the 28th.
The trenches had been carried to 250 yards
from the wall.

The rifle firing bad been kept up as well as the
fire of the artillery by moonlight.
The new Lancaster guns are firing on the Rus-
sian fleets, which, however, is almost hidden.

BERLIN, THURSDAY, Nov. 9.
The following Russian despatch has been re-
received here :

" SEBASTOPOL, Nov. 3.
" The operations of the besiegers continue
without any visible result.
" The English fire was slacker.
" The damage done to the fortifications is in-
considerable, and is immediately repaired."

THE BALAKLAVA AFFAIR.
ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 2.—Yesterday was pub-
lished an extraordinary supplement of the Journal
de St. Petersbourg, of which the following were the
contents :

"lI.M. the Emperor has just received the fol-
lowing report from A.D.C. General Prince Men-
schikoff, under date of Oct. 13 (25).
" Our offensive operations against the besiegers
were commenced this day, and have been crowned
with success.

" Lieutenant-General Liprandi had been ordered
to attack with his division the special intrenched
camp of the enemy which defends the road from
Sebastopol to Balaklava. This morning that en-
terprise was executed by him in a brilliant manner.
Four redoubts, in which we captured 11 pieces of
artillery, are now in our hands.
" The principal redoubt of the enemy, which
was defended by Turks, was stormed by the Azoff
regiment of foot, which valiantly performed this
feat of arms under the personal command of Major-
General Semiakine, the commander of the brigade,
and of the commander of the regiment, Colonel
Kradener, who distinguished himself in this affair.
"The English cavalry also attacked our detach-
ment, commanded by Lord Cardigan. It charged
the Hussar Brigade of the 6th cavalry division
with extraordinary impetuosity, but, taken in flank
by four squadrons of the combined regiments of
Lancers of the reserve, and thrown back on the
cross fire of the artillery of the 12th and 16th in-
fantry divisions, which fired grape, and on the fire
of the Rifles of the Ist brigade of the same division,
the enemy suffered considerable loss.

" The Ist brigade of the 16th division, under the
personal command of Major-General Jabokritsky,
was thrown forward to prevent the outflanking of
General Liprandi's division by the enemy.
"At the same moment that it attacked our
Hussars, the English cavalry came at full gallop on
the heavy guns of the Don Battery, No. 3, and
sabred some artillerymen.
" Our loss in infantry in this affair does not ex-
ceed, according to appearances (a ce qu'il semble),
300 men in killed and wounded.

" The loss of our cavalry and infantry is not yet
known, even approximately.
" Major-General IChaletsky, commanding the
Hussar regiment of Prince Nicholas Maxi-
milianovitch, received sabre wounds on the ear and
the arm.
"It is difficult to determine exactly the loss of
the enemy.'
"We have made prisoners of about 60 of the
English, one of whom is a superior officer, and
two subalterns.
"Of the four redoubts taken from the enemy,
two will be to-night destroyed, and two more
strongly fortified, in order to enable us to hold this
important position, from which we can act on the
village of liadykoi, through which the road passes
that leads from Balaklava to the enemy's camp.
"To-day the artillery on the ramparts of Sebas-
topol has been in no respect inferior to the batteries
of the besiegers, but the bombs and incendiary
projectiles of the latter have burnt some 40 cottages
or ruazankas in the suburb of the artillerymen.
" This preliminary report and the information
collected by me on the spot will be conveyed to
your Imperial Majesty by my aide-de-camp, Baron
Willebrandt, who was near Lieutenant-General
Liprandi.
"I have the honour, in conclusion, to acquaint
your Imperial Majesty that I have permitted my-
self to thank in your name on the field of battle all
the troops, who fought with distinction on this
day."

* It is thought, however, that the English cavalry lost
as many as 500 men.

THE CRIMEA.

PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF'S DAILY LOSS.
A letter in the Augsburg Allgemeine, from the
Polish frontier, dated the 3d inst., gives the total
force at Prince Menschikoff's disposal at 62
but
bat-
talions, of 700 men each, with 144 field-pieces,
it does not include the 10th and 11th divisions of
Dannenberg's (4th) corps, which were expected to
reach Bakchi Sarai about the 3d or 4th inst. The
loss of the garrison, daily put hors de combat by shot
and sickness, is estimated at about 500—indeed,
Prince Menschikotf estimates his loss to average
nearly 300 killed and wounded. The bombardment
had lasted 14 days, according to the despatch of
the let from Sebastopol, so that there can be no
exaggeration in setting down the total number of
men put hors de combat, or unfit for duty, at 8,000.
The greatest loss has been in artillerymen, who
have bravely done their duty. This loss is the most
sensibly felt, and is in some measure irreparable.

INCIDENTS OF THE SIEGE.
EXPLOSION OF THE REDAN BATTERY.
Until twenty minutes after two o'clock, the French
batteries directed their fire on this work, when, unfor-
tunately, the Russians projected a shell so truly into
their battery, that, falling into one of their tumbrils
situated in the middle of their reserve ammunition, it

exploded, causing, of course, a fearful less of artillery.
men. A few minutes afterwards—that is, about half-
past two—another shell was directed towards the same
spot with similar unfortunate results. The Russian bat-
teries having it now all their own way, hammered unre-
mittingly upon us with the greatest vivacity. They had
sent forth from their ramparts loud shouts of defiance or
of victory when the explosion of the French and English
magazines acquainted them of our misfortune ; but it
was now our turn to crow, for about half•past three
there suddenly shot upwards from the works, or
rather the Redan on our front, a white livid
flame which ascended high into the air, and, while we
all paused to gaze on the spectacle, a sound which made
the very earth tremble beneath us, followed by a most
awful report, told us that the Redan had ceased to exist
—for in the next minute its garrison of hundreds, blown
to atoms, dismembered, and mutilated by the action of
the explosion, were discovered hundreds of yards above
the parent earth. So fearful and terrifying a spectacle
I never have, nor do I hope ever again to witness. In
the midst of a dense volume of smoke and sparks, which
resembled a water-spout ascending to the clouds, were
visible to the naked eye arms, legs, trunks, and beads
of the Russian warriors, mingled with cannons, wheels,
and every object of military warfare, and I may say
with every living thing it contained. The explosions in
the French and English batteries were like flashes in
the pan of a musket compared with this.