The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, DEC. 1.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent is expected
to arrive on Saturday on a visit to her Majesty.

The Cathedral Commission had a meeting yesterday
at their office in Parliament-street. Present —The
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Harrowby, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, the Rev. Dr.
Wordsworth, the Rev. Canon Selwyn, the Hon. and
Rev. H. M. Villiers, and the Rev. Richard Jones
(secretary).
Despatches were sent to the Governor of the West
India Islands yesterday from the Colonial-office.
The Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council
sat yesterday in the Privy Council Chamber, and re-
sumed the hearing of a petition of the States of the
Island of Jersey, for the recall of three orders in Council
of 11th February, 1853, and in support of their applica-
tion for the confirmation of certain acts passed by that
assembly.
The lords present were the Lord Chancellor, Viscount
Palmerston, Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment ; the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the
Lords Justices Turner and Knight Bruce, the Judge of
the Admiralty Court, and Sir J. Patteson.
The Hon. William Bathurst, Clerk of the Privy Coun-
cil, attended. The case was again adjourned.

Queen Christina of Spain has presented Mr. F.
M. Faulkner, the Custom-house agent at Folkestone, with
a handsome gold watch-guard, as a mark of her approba-
tion of his services at that port on the occasion of her re-
cent visit to England.

Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn arrived in
Bruton-street yesterday, from the Earl of Roden's, Tully-
more-park. The Viscountess shortly goes into waiting on
her Majesty.

Viscount and Viscountess Canning arrived in
Grosvenor-square yesterday, from Lord Ashbnrton's, the
Grange, Basingstoke.

Colonel and Lady Alice Peel have left Park-place
for Marble-hall, Richmond.

The Hon. Misses Waldegrave have arrived at
Park-square, from visiting Lord and Lady Waldegrave, at
St. Leonards-on-Sea.

His Excellency Sir Henry and Lady Bulwer, who
are still staying at Brighton, return to town early in the
ensuing week.

The Duchess Dowager of Hamilton, who is still
staying at Euston-park, Suffolk, is expected to arrive in
Portman-square at the close of the ensuing week, for the
winter.

Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence leaves the Amba s•
sadors' Court, St. James's, in a day or two, on a tour of
visits.

Lord and Lady Bloomfield have arrived in town
from Laughton, Tipperary. His Lordship is.about to re•
sume his diplomatic duties in the Prussian capital.

The Countess of Jersey, and Lady Clementina
Villiers, have left Berkeley-square, for Middleton Park.

Lady Howard de Walden, and the Misses Ellis,
who have been visiting the Duke of Portland at Welbec k
Abbey, are on the eve of departing to join his Lordship at
the British Embassy, at Brussels.

His Excellency Lord Howden, her Majesty's en-
voy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at the
Court of Spain, has left Paris en route for Madrid, to
resume the duties of his mission at the Spanish capital.

The remains of the late Earl of Dartmouth were
interred, yesterday, in the family vault in St. Mary's
Church, Wolverhampton. _ _ _

The Duke of Richmond, who arrived in town
with the Duchess and Lady Cecilia Gordon Lennox, on
Wednesday, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Derby,
at Knowsley, en route from Gordon Castle, will not leave
London, for Goodwood, until the week after next. His
Grace has been suffering severely from gent lately ; but we
are happy to hear he is now convalescent.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and
Lady Mary Cecil have returned to Burghley, from a tour
of visits—last from Knowsley, the seat of the Earl and
Countess of Derby.

The Earl of Derby is suffering from a severe
attack of his old enemy—the gout. We are sorry to hear
that the effects of this latest visitation have been more
;serious upon the noble earl's general health than those of
any previous attack.