The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 10.
The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Kent, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lady in Waiting to the
Duchess of Kent, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady
Elizabeth Grey, the Right Hon. H. and Lady Mary
Labouchere, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the First Life Guards attended in the
Castle during dinner and performed the following com-
positions :

Overturo—"Fest" Lortzing
Walzer—"La Sensitive" Strauss
Terzetto—"Prophete" Meyerbeer
Ballabile—" Stradella"
Selection—" La Favorite" Donizetti
Galop
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the
evening, and played—.
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Sinfonia—"Eroica" Allegro con trio, Mar,
cia funebre, Scherzo, Trio, and Finale... Beethoven

The Queen walked in the Home-park this morning.
Prince Albert went out shooting.
The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal Family took their usual exercise.
Earl Spencer arrived from London today, had an
audience of her Majesty, and received his wand of office
on being appointed Lord Steward of the Household.
His lordship remains on a visit.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday,
30th inst. at 'Buckingham Palace, when the Royal
Speech, which excites unusual interest at this period,
will be arranged, as the prominent topics to be intro-
duced to Parliament, it is understood, will be the con-
templated
tenren Question."wk 3 teformlill 'of Lord John Russell and
the
A Cabinet Council was held at tile Foreign-office,
Doweing-street„ yesterday afternoon. The ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of
Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmer-
ston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sydney Herbert, and
Sir William Molesw.orth. The Council sat four hours.
The Greek Minister transacted business yesterday at
the Foreign-office, Downing-street.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in fown yesterday
morning to attend the Cabinet Council. The noble earl
returned to Windsor Castle in the evening.
The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town yesterday
morning from his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts.
Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday
morning, to attend the Cabinet Council, from his seat,
Broadlands, Ha nts.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert arrived in town yes-
terday, from Wilton-house, near Salisbury.
Despatches w ere received at the Colonial-office yester-
day, from the Governor of Canada.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE LORD PLITNICET.—TiIe re-
mains of this venerable and distinguished nobleman were
conveyed to .th•ir last resting-place on Saturday, ...-
compa.nied by a numerous body of . relatives and
friends.
DEATH OF LORD HAMILTON CHlCHRSTER.—lntelli-
gence has been received of the demise of this nobleman,
who had been many years at Malta, and who expired at
his residence in that island on the Ist inst., aged 43.
Lord Hamilton Chichester was fifth son of the late, and
brother of the present Marquis of Donegal. He married
the Hon. Anastasia Blake, but has left no family. The
deceased nobleman was an unsuccessful candidate for
Belfast in 1841.
DEATH OF THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF THE
ROYAL 'MILITARY COLLEGE, SANDHURST.—We regret
to have to state that Major-General Thomas William
Taylor, C. 8., Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Mili-
tary i College, t
ofd his son
iedonS-uinn-dlaayw,lasst; aNtvHalaterr-
ee e lDevon,ege,
se a the
P. Carew, Bart. at the advanced age fof 71. By the
el
gallant officer's Bart.,
the Colonelcy of the 17th Lan-
cers also becomes vacant.
His Excellency Mr. Mason, the newly-appointed
Minister from the United States to Paris, has arrived in
town, from Washington, en route to enter on his diplo-
matic duties.
The Earl and Countess Granville arrived in Bruton-
street yesterday from visiting the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, at Wilton-house, near Salisbury. The noble
o n
year,
the occasion
is
fixed
foefr appointing
Saturday,
Earl attended the Council yesterday afternoon in
Downing-street, relative, it is rumoured, to the affairs of
the East. His lordship's official dinner to the Ministers
so ffil
()er e rs ofstate,the
ensuing
the 28th inst. .
The Marchioness of Abercorn and youthful family
have arrived at Chesterfield-house from St. Leonard'sy
on Sea. The noble Marquis is shortly expected to pro-
at
the sheriffgren t
pro-
ceed to his splendid baronial seat, Barons, County
Ty-
rone, for a brief period.
It is rumoured that Mr. C. Fortescue, one of the
members for the county of Louth, will succeed Mr.
Sadleir as a junior Lord of the Treasury.—Dublin
Evening Mail.
THE SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN.—SIR E. BELCHER'S
EXPEDITION.—We are enabled to state that the Admi-
ralty have determined
again to despatch the screw-
steamer Phcenix, in the ensuing spring, to Beechy
Island, to communicate with and to convey supplies
to Sir Edward Belcher's expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin.
WHITTINGTON CLUB.—On Monday last the fourth
annual juvenile soiree took place at the above institution.
By 9 o'clock between 200 and 300 children, the relatives
and friends of members, had assembled. The young
people seemed to enjoy the dancing in the large room
immensely. In the drawing-room conjuring tricks were
exhibited as a diversion, after which the children par-
took of supper. Mr. Cox displayed his dissolving views
in the course of the evening. Dancing was afterwards
resumed and continued till about midight, when the
juveniles departed highly delighted, and left the dancing
room in the possession of the adult members.

THE METROPOLITAN POULTRY SHOW.—Yesterday the
winter show of the Metropolitan Poultry Club opened
to the public at the Baker-street Bazaar, and, although
it was a half-crown day, many hundreds of persons passed
through the show. Her Majesty the Queen was among
the first to avail herself of the rule of the club, which
declares that any pen of birds may be claimed at the
price affixed to them after one o'clock on the first day of
the show, by claiming at the price affixed to them, viz.,
101., the beautiful pen of gold-laced (Seabright) bantams,
numbered 973, in class 51, bred by Mr. Uriah Spiney,
Market-street, Dunstable, hatched in 1853. Prince Albert
also claimed the splendid Dorking cock, bred by Mr.
Fisher Hobbs, of Boxted-lodge, Colchester, which ob-
tained the fist prize in class 7, numbered 145. The 2d prize
in the same class, also carried off by Mr. Fisher Hobbs,
numbered 147, was claimed by Colonel Kingscote for
ten guineas. Prince Albert's pen of Brahma Poutra
fowls, numbered 581, in class 22, and to which his royal
highness had affixed a price of 251., were claimed,
although they had received no prize, at that sum by Mr.
Fox, of Skinner-street, Snowhill. Lord Robert Grosve-
nor claimed at 151., No. 135 in class 6, a Dorking cock
and two pullets, which obtained the second prize in. the
class, bred by Mr. Edward Terry, of Aylesbury.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 3 per mille discount (according to the last tariff),
which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.091 ; '
and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being
25.022, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent. dearer
in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg
the price of gold is 422 per mark, which, at the English
Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold,

gives an exchange of 13.3:4- ' and, the exchange at Ham-
burg on London at short being 13.21, it follows that
gold is 0.42 per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in
London. The course of exchange at New York on

London for bills at 60 days' sight is 109/ per cent., and
the par of exchange between England and America
being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is
nominally 0.17 per cent. in favour of England ; and,
after making allowance for charges of transport and dif-
ference of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling
profit on the importation of gold from the United
States.

OMNIBUS FARES.—The omnibuses on several -of the
lines of road in the metropolis appear to be taking ad-
vantage of the recent snow storm, by keeping up the
increased fares which they adopted on that occasion.
The necessity for such increase of fares no longer exists,
as the streets have been cleared of the obstruction, and
him remaed their original state,