The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-13 00:00:00

DRAMATIC PERFORMANCES AT WINDSOR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 12.
A dramatic performance took place this evening at
the Castle. The play selected upon this occasion was
Sir E. Lytton Bulwer's comedy in five acts, Money, and
the parts were filled according to the following pro-
gramme :
Lord Glossmore
Sir John Vesey, Bart., Knight of the }Mr. -
Guelph, F.R.S., F.S.A.
Sir Frederick Blount ,
Stout
Mr. Buckstone.
Graves...
Evelyn Mr. Webster.
Captain Dudley Smooth Mr. Charles Kean, Sharp
Frantz (a tailor)
Mr. J. F. Cathcart.
Mr. G. Cooke.
Tabouret (an upholsterer).
Mac Finch (jeweller and silversmith) Mr. Graham.
Mac Stucco (an architect) Mr. C. Bender.
Crimson (a portrait painter) Mr. Cullenford.
Flat Mr. Brazier.
Green
Old Member
.
Members of the *** Club (Mr. Terry.
Mr. F. Lloyds.
Mrng.
Servant to Sir John Vesey Mr. Clar. Heylik.
Evelyn's Servant
Waiter at the Club
Lady Franklin (half-sister to Sir
John Vesey) }Mrs. Winstanley.
.
Georgina (daughter to Sir John) Miss Murray.
Clara Douglas (companion to Lady
}Miss Heath. - -
Franklin cousin to Evelyn)
Director .................... Mr. Charles Kean.
Assistant Director
The Teeatre arranged and the Scenery painted by Mr.
Thomas Grieve.
At eight o'clock her Majesty the Queen and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert entered the Rubens Rooms,
accompanied by the elder Royal children, and the follow.
ing illustrious circle, who had previously had the honour
of dining with the Queen :—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cran-
worth, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the
Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley,
Lady Frances Bruce, the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount
and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord and
and Lady Bloomfield, Sir James Clark, Major-General
Sir George Bowles, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in
attendance.
The performance immediately commenced.
Refreshments were served in the Throne Room.
The Queen's private band was in attendance during
the performance in a room close to the theatre.
The following had the honour of receiving invitations
to witness the dramatic representation :—The Do wager
Marchioness of Downshire, Lady Mary Berkeley, Lady
Caroline and Miss Barrington, the Hon. Lady Grey,
Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, the Hon. and
Rev. Francis and Lady Elizabeth Grey, Colonel the
Hon. C. B. and Miss Phipps, Captain the Hon. Dudley
and Lady Elizabeth De Rus, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.
Nelson and Lady Mary Hood, the Right Hon. Henry
and Lady Mary Labouchere, Sir George and Lady
Couper, Miss and Mr. R. Couper, Captain and Mrs.
Lowther, Colonel Hall (commanding officer) and the Earl of Mountcharles and Lieutenant Caulfield, of the , ,
Ist Life Guards ; Lieut.-Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton
(commanding officer), and Lieut.-Colonel Onslow and
Captain De Bathe, of the 2d Battalion of the Scots
Fusilier Guards • Mrs. 'and Miss Bathurst, Mr. and ,
Miss Ricardo, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. Glover.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended during
dinner in the Castle.

UNITED STATES ARMY.

The American papers publish the report of the Secre-
tary of War, which gives a full and elaborate account
of the military establishment of the United States, and
at the same time recommends some important changes
and reforms.
The standing army of the United States (says the
Evening Post in its summary of the document), if com-
plete, should consist of 13,821 men and officers ; but
its actual number, according to the latest returns, is
but 10,417. Of these we have 8,378 employed in the pro-
tection of our frontiers, or on their march to that desti-
nation, where they have already been successful in pre-
venting Indian depredations. Except. in California and
Oregon, these depredations have not been very consider-
able. It is intended to make a better disposition of our
troops to the west of the Missgsippi, establishing new
posts, and dispensing with the less important ones, and
employing a larger force to protect the emigrants. On
the Rio Grande, Major-General Smith is now occupied
in selecting sites for permanent fortifications, one of
which will be opposite to El Paso, and the other at the
Comauche crossing, to protect the frontier against
Indian incursions from Mexico.
The removal of the Indians from Florida has ren-
dered it necessary, says the Secretary, to employ in that
country nine companies of artillery, and if it should be
necessary coercion will be used. Two regiments of
artillery will be placed on the Canada frontier and on
the coast of the Atlantic and on the Gulf, one on the
Rio Grande boundary, and a fourth on the Pacific
coast, where it is intended, as soon as possible, to sta-
tion a considerable force under the command of one
of the brigadier-generals. One cavalry regiment will
be employed in Texas, one in New Mexico, the
third oil our western frontier ; and the Secretary asks
authority to raise a fourth. Of the infantry three regi-
ments are needed at Texas, two in the country west of
the Mississippi, one in New Mexico, and one in the
Indian country on the Pacific.
The Secretary finds it difficult to keep the ranks of
the army filled. He proposes that the pay of the com-
mon soldier be increased, that for every five years a
soidier may remain in the army, an additional increase
of pay shall be allowed, that non-commissioned officers
of merit shall be promoted, and receive commissions of
the lowest rank, and that soldiers honourably dis-
charged, who may re-enlist within a month afterwards,
shall be entitled to an advance of pay.
The question of adding to the numbers of the army
he argues at considerable length, and from various con-
siderations.
He recommends that the minimum or-
ganisation of all companies be fixed as in the
mounted riflemen, at sixty-four privates, and that there
be added to the present military establishment one
dragoons, and two regiments of rifle-
eTht o,eyf
heobserves, will give a minimum organise-
tmrietegnini7n of 15.528 officers and men ; but may be expanded
if the limit fixed by the law of June 7, 1850, be con-
tinued, to 17,414; and on a war establishment of 123
privates per company, to 27,818—giving for a state of
war an effective increase of from 10,000 to 12,000 men,
without the creation of new regiments.
The report also recommends that there be added to the
engineer corps another company of sappers and miners.
There are other recommendations in this report, one
of the most important of which is, that establishments
for the manufacture of arms should be under the control
of the war department, and superintended by experienced
officers of the army, instead of procuring from contractors
arms made at private establishments.

THE MORGUE.—During 1853, there were deposited at
the Morgue of Paris 395 dead bodies, being 30 less than
in 1552. That number consisted of 254 men, 51 women,
and 90 newly-born children. Out of the 305 adults,
277 were recognised, and 97 of that number claimed by
their families to give them burial. The different kinds
of death may be thus classified :-141 suicides, 94 acci-
dental deaths, 37 sudden deaths, 26 deaths by submer-
sion, the cause of which is not known, and 7 by murder.
In addition, out of the newly-born children, 22 cases of
infanticide were ascertained, and 10 persons guilty of
that crime were tried and condemned. Suicides, sud-
den deaths, and murders have undergone a diminution
as compared with the preceding year, but the cases of
accidental death and of deposits of newly-born children
have increased. The increase in the item of accidental
deaths may be attributed to the immense works of con-
struction which arc being executed on so many points.
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COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 12.
The Queen, with the Princess Royal and Princess
Alice, walked in the Hoam-park this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Marquis of Salisbury, Viscount Sydney, the Earl of
Mulgrave, Lord Bloomfield, and Major-General Sir
George Bowles, went out shooting this forenoon, at-
tended by Lord George Lennox.
The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday :--The Lord Chancellor and Lady Cran-
worth, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the
the Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stan-
ley, the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount and Viscountess
Sydney, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, Major-General Sir
George Bowles, and Mr. Gibbs.
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the
Castle during dinner, and performed the following com-
positions :
March Triomphale, "Le Chant du Peuple," de-
dicated to the Duke and Duchess de Br :bant De Their.
Overture—" Sophia Catharina" Flotow.
Fantasia
Walzer—" Narragansett" Spaeth.G'l
Selection--" Il Barbiere di Siviglia" Rossiungn.
i.
Polka—" Humoristen"
Bilse.
Galop Masquerade—" Corsican Brothers" Prasca.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards was in attend•
anee, and played the following selections :
Overture—" Oberon"
Weber.
Selection—" Pre aux Clercs" ............ Harold.
Lieder—" Ungeduld"—" Der Ed Konig" Schubert.

A meeting of the finance committee of the Royal
Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was held at the
Privy Council Office yesterday. There were present
Earl Granville (chairman), Sir W. Cubitt, Mr. Coulson,
Q.C. Mr. F. T. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowring (secre-
tary). Captain Owen, R.E. also attended.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday morn-
ing to attend the Cabinet Council from his seat, Broad-
lands, Hants.

Mi. Tidd Pratt had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday. Lord Monteagle had also
an interview with the right hon. gentleman, at his
official residence in Downing-street.
The Royal Commission for inquiring into the state of
the Corporation of the City of London sat yesterday in
the Privy Council Office. Present, the Right Hon H.
Labouchere, Sir J. Patteson, and G. C. Lewis, Esq.
Lord John Russell had a dinner party on Wednesday
at his residence in Cheshain.place. The company in-
cluded the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Granville, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Panizzi, Mr. C.
Dickens, Mr. W. Coulson, Mr. H. Taylor. and Mr.
George Elliot.