The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY VVENT., DECEMBER 6, 1854.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 5.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, the Earl of Aber-
(leen, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent,
Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge, Baroness de Speth,
Lord George Paget, Lady Raglan, and the Hon. Miss
Somerset.
The Band of the Royal Horse Guards played during
the dinner. Her Majesty's Private Band afterwards
performed in the Castle.
The Queen and the Princess Royal rode in the Riding-
house this morning. Prince Albert went out shooting.
The Earl Somers and Lieut.-Cel. the Hon. N. Hood
have succeeded the Earl of Listowel and Lieut.-
General Sir Frederick Stavin as Lord and Groom in
Waiting.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial
office from the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon.

THE ADDRESS.—It is rJported that the address of the
House of Commons, in reply to her Majesty's speech
from the throne, will be moved by Mr. Henry Arthur
Herbert, M.P. for Kerry.

Lieut.-General Wetherall has entered on his duties at
the Horse Guards, as successor to the late lamented and
eallant Lieut.-General Sir G. Cathcart.
' We are glad to announce that the Duke of Somerset
continues to go on favourably. The inquiries after the
health of his grace are still very frequent.
The Earl Somers has arrived at 'Windsor Castle from
his seat in Worcestershire to take his turn as one of the
Lords in Waiting on her Majesty.
Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge arrived In Great
Stanhope-street yesterday, from visiting her Majesty and
the Prince Consort at Windsor Castle.
The Hon. and Rev. Wra. Robert Capel, uncle of the
Earl of Essex, and for 55 years vicar of Watford, died
on Saturday last, at the venerable age of 79 years.
The Duke of Newcastle, Secretary and Minister of
War, yesterday transacted official business for the first
time in his Grace's department at Pembroke-house,
Whitehall-gardens, so many years the abode of the late
Lord Harrington, and which has been purchased by
Government, and fitted up as Government offices.
His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has suggd to
este
the Board of Ordnance the necessity of supplying the
troops berthed on deck, on board transports proceeding
to the East, with oil-skin capes, in the proportion of one
to three men, and has proposed that a portion of the
20,000 new being manufactured for the use of our army
in the East should be supplied for that purpose to each
transport conveying troops to the Crimea.
The Lady Raglan and the lion. Misses Somerset, who
have been honoured with an invitation to visit the Sove-
reign at Windsor Castle, returned to Great Stanhope-
street to-day, from the Regal residence in Berkshire.
We understand, from private sources, that the Sovereign
expressed herself, and also the Prince Consort expressed
himself, much gratified at the result of the late battles
in the Crimea, and at which the allied troops came off
victorious. The Hon. Richard Fitzroy Somerset, only
surviving son of the noble lord, is still officiating as Pri-
vate Secretary to his Majesty the King of Hanover.
LORD DOWNSHIRE.—We have heard with satisfaction
that the Marquis of Downshire, upon a representation
being made to him of the melancholy case of the Trainers,
who were lately drowned at the strand between Dun-
drum and Ballykiular, with exemplary kindness, re-
mitted the entire rent, payable at the Ist of November
by their surviving relatives, amounting to OZ.—Down-
,patricle Recorder.
Lieut.-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge we hear, attended by the Hon. Major J. Mac-
, donald, embarked at Balaklava on the .12th ult., onhe
board her Majesty's steam-frigate Retribution. Tfr
Hon. Captain Drummond, en route, we believe,o
England, was on board during the fearful storm of the
14th, and the frigate rode out the gale with the loss of
two of her guns.
The late Sir Alexander Clay Grant is succeeded by
his brother, Sir Robert Innes Grant, seventh baronet,
son of the fifth baronet by the daughter and heir of
Jeremiah Cray, Esq., of Ibesley, Hants. Sir Robert
was born at Malsanger House, in the same county, in
1796; and married, in 1825, the eldest daughter of C
The
or-
nelius Battelle, Esq., of the island of St. Croix.
next heir is Sir Robert's son, Alexander, fellow of Oriel
College, Oxford.
Lord Courtenay, secretary to the Poor-law Board,
will in all probability succeed the Right Hon. T. F.
Kennedy, as Commissioner of Woods and Forests. Mr.
Hayward, Q.C., will, we have reason to believe, have
the secretaryship te the Poor-law Board, vacated by
Lord Courtenay.
ST. PETERSBURG.—On the 24th of November the
thermometer at St. Petersburg was 20 degrees, Fahren-
heit, 10 degrees below freezing point. The Neva was
closed, and the ice firm, as far as the iron bridge.
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Rthbe
eBmthadinest.,
in
Consols before the dividends. India Stock closes on
Thursday, the 7th.
THE "NAVVIES" FOR THE CRIMEA.—The number of
railway navigators engaged for the construction of the
i tram line from Balaklava to Sebastopol is about 500,
1 and they will sail immediately.
Tan I.EsTuna MARKET.—In the leather market yes-
terday a large business was transacted at last week's
prices.
THE SHIP POLAR STAR.—Advices from St. Helena of
the 21st of October mention the arrival of the Anna
Mooka, having on board Captain Walker and the whole
of the crew and passengers, 96 in number, of the ship
Polar Star, which had been burnt at sea on the 4th of
that month, bound from England to New Zealand.
GRAND JUNOTION CANAL COMPANY.—At a meeting
of this company, held yesterday, the dividend declared
was 14 per cent. for the half-year, and the report was
adopted. The low rates of tonnage, and the increased
cost of horses, provender, and labour have unfavourably
affected the revenue.
LORD DALHOUSIE.—We believe we may announce
authoritatively that the Governor-General has consented
to retain his post for at least another year. We believe,
also, that even those who have felt the weight of his
censure—and he has no other enemies—will rejoice in
this announcement. Even they will allow that the states-
man who conducted us through the Punjaub war is the
best ruler for the empire in a European crisis,—that the
financier who converted the Five per Cents. may well
face the growing difficulties of the opium revenue, and
that the author of the Railway Report is of all men
the one best fitted to carry out the gigantic improve-
ments now in contemplation. For ourselves, we believe
Lord Dalhousie's stay to be absolutely essential to the
empire. The great projects which have been started re-
quire to bt matured by experience as well asintellectual
ability, and the great difficulties to be faced are half
obviated by the confidence the Executive reposes in the
capacity of its chief. Above all, every year of his reign
consolidates that unity which is the great political ne-
cessity of the empire.—Friendoflndia.
If the knowledge of a disease be half its cure, Mr.
Dufton, surgeon to the Birmingham Institution for the
Relief of Deafness, may well be proud of the very flatter-
ing testimony paid to him at the recent meeting of the
directors and subscribers to that praiseworthy institu-
tion. We understand that to Mr. Dnfton's strenuous
exertions the metropolis of the midland county is solely
indebted for the establishment of an hospital which has
:afforded such inestimable relief 'to suffering humanity.
Similar institutions ought to be encouraged in all large
communities throughout the kingdom.
THE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT.—The calling together
Parliament at this unwonted season has alreafy had the
effect of bringing a great many families of distinction to
London, and more may be expected to arrive daily. The
appearance of Regent-street and Bond-street is very dif-
ferent from that which is usually exhibited at this period
of the year ; and there can be no doubt the trade of the
metropolis must derive advantage from the presence of
so many persons of mark, who, under ordinary circum-
stances, would at this season be preparing to enjoy their
ChristmaslL Ess
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staying
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Church College,
brother, the Rev. Dr. Pusey. Dr. Watson, of London,
has been called in to consult with Dr. Acland, the family"
medical adviser, and great doubts are entertained of Mr.
Pusey's recovery.
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Towx CLERKSHIP OF BIRMINGHAM.—A meeting of
the Town Council of Birmingham took place yesterday
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Morgan. Four
being taken,
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Conservative
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men were put in nomination—Mr. Thomas Staabridge
Mr. Wm. Simmons Allen, Mr. C. H. Jagger, and Mr'
was declared electenNidn.aoatpeTdfihe salary is 1,0001. per anngume)
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party have not as yet announced a candidateralthou h
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wasJarn ates Foneergtuimaseosnp,
be
now on his way home from the Crimea, will be asked to
as likely to come forward on this occ • asion, but from an
anxiety to prevent division in the Liberal ranks
Craufurd has declined the request preferred Mr.
t
an influential section of the electors ; but, in to him
he by
event
of rio Conservative candidate being started, he will
pro-
bably contest the representation with
Mr. Oswald.--
Caledonian Mercury.
GENERAL MINING COMPANY OF IRELAND.—The half
yearly meeting of the shareholders of this comp half-
yearly
at their offices in Dublin on Monday—Sir James
was
Vf urray in the chair. There was no dividend ; and the
directors'es report stated that " the time of the board
intoh been in a great measure taken up in investigatin
no. the state of the company's affairs. They have tog
and over
that great losses have been sustained by advances
over payments to tributorsand
losses thus tutworkers. The
October sustained amount from Ist of July,, 1853,
, 1854, to 2,542/. 19 which ~ to
Os. 3d s. 3d., of sum 2,2561.
~ were the result of advances
made to the men
during ten months by the late agent or mining captain,
and before the present directors came into office."
FIRE NEAR DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—A fire, attended
with considerable damage, broke out at a late hour on
:Monday • night in the large range of premises belonging
to Messrs. R. and E. Foulkes, l•
3, Little inendrapers, No. 2 and
Russell-court, Drury-lane. It was caused by
the gas, which set the under side of tho counter in a blaze,
and the fire extended completely round the shop. The
engines of Drury-lane Theatre, the parish, and two of
the London Brigade, and that of the West of England
Office, quickly attended,
and
a good supply of water
ha •
ving been obtained all hands went to work, but the
fire could not be extinguished until the whole of the
costly stock in trade was considerably damaged. The
contents were insured in the Phceuix Fire Office. The
building was insured in the BUD, Office.