The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-10 00:00:00

001J.RT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 9.
The dinner party yesterday included her Imperial
Highness the Duchess of Brabant, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Brabant, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps,
and Count and Countess Gustave de Lannoy.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended in

the Castle and performed during dinner, and in the
evening her Majesty's private band played the following
selection :

Overture.—`• Prometheus"
Fantasia on airs composed by H.R.H. Prince Albert.
Selection.—" Marco Spada"
Triumphal March
Andante—Minuetto, Trio &Finale "Sinfonia" Mozart.
To-day being the birthday of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, the troops forming the garrison of
Windsor, consisting of the Ist Life Guards, commanded
by Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, and the 2d battalion
Scots Fusilier Guards, by Lieutenant-Colonel Onslow,
the whole under Colonel Dixon, paraded at a quarter
before 10 o'clock in the Home-park. Her Majesty, ac-
companied by Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of
Brabant, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Prin-
cess Royal, and the younger branches of the Royal
family, and attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in
Waiting, took her position immediately under the East-
terrace, when the line presented arms, fired a feu de joie
and gave three cheers for the Prince of Wales. The
troops then marched past in slow and quick time,
wheeled into-line, and again presented arms, after which
they returned to their barracks.
The Duchess of Kent breakfasted with the Queen this
morning.

Lord-Waterpark has succeeded Lord Camoys as Lord
in Waiting to her Majesty.

Captainlnglefield, had the honour of baying
an audience of her Majesty, and submitted for the in-
spection of the Queen and Prince his drawings connected
with the Arctic expedition.

Mr. R. ThorneyCroft had the honour of submitting
yesterday for the inspection of the Queen and Prince
a plaster cast of an equestrian statuette of her Majesty.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester is
now convalescent, and her physicians (Drs. Hawkins
and Ferguson) are satisfied with her Royal Highness's
state of health.

Mr. J. Nelson Wood (chairman), Mr. William
Mann, and Mr. Joseph Mondell (commissioners of pi-
lotage for Liverpool), together with Mr. David Row-
land (secretary), had an interview yesterday with the
Right Hon. E. Cardwell, at the Board of Trade.
A deputation from the Burial Committee of the parish
of St. Giles's, Camberwell, had an interview with Vis-
count Palmerston on Tuesday at the Home-office. The
deputation consisted of Messrs. William Etherington,
Thomas Potts, John Cooper, James Thornhill, Thomas
Billing, George W. Marsden (vestry clerk), and Wil-
liam Searle.

THE PRINCE OF WALES' BlRTHDAY.—Yesterday, at
an early hour, the bells of the metropolitan parishes
ushered in with merry peals the birthday of the Prince
of Wales. The boys of the Duke of York's School en-
joyed a holiday and free admission to the day perform-
ance at Drury-lane Theatre. The royal standards were
hoisted at the Tower and Somerset House, and from the
various breweries, the shot tower, and other high
buildings along the river Thames, large flags were dis-
played in honour of the day.
DEATH OF LORD CHARLES VERE TOWNSHEND.—
This nobleman died at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on Satur-
day last, in his 68th year. He was brother and heir-
presumptive to the present Marquis Townshend, and
dying without issue, Captain Townshend, son of the
late Lord John Townshend, becomes the next heir to the
title.
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gines, and blew off his steam, when a sailing barge coming
up, tacking about, suddenly struck the plaintiff's barge,
and drove her against the stem of the vessel in charge of the
defendant, a screw-steamer of about 600 tons burthen,
whereby the barge, having no fender on board, or other
means of protecting herself, received injury. The
learned judge, in directing a verdict for the defendant
(a pilot of 28 years' standing, and the first proceeding
ever against him), strongly condemned the practice of
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STEAM FROM ANTWERP TO NEW YORK.—The Bel-
gian Chargd-d'Affaires in Washington has made an
arrangement with the United States Government,
whereby the latter grants a considerable subsidy for the
establishing of a line of steamers between New York and
Antwerp, on the condition that they commence running
within three months.