The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-11 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 9.
The Earl of Aberdeen, the E ‘rl of Clarendon, and
Mr. Gibbs, had the honour of dining with her Majesty
yesterday.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner.
The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park this
morning.
The royal children took their accustomed exercise.
The Hon. Flora Macdonald and the Hon. Caroline
Cavendish have succeeded the Hon. Lucy M. Kerr and
the Hon. Mary Bulteel as Maids of Honour in Waiting.
The Earls of Aberdeen and Clarendon left Windsor in
the forenoon for London.
The Rev. Dr. Philpott, of Catherine Hall, Cambridge,
arrived to-day.
The dinner party this day included the Duchess of
Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Spoth, the
Rev. Dr. Philpott, and "lir George Coiper.
Her Majesty's private band was in attendance after
dinner.

DEC. 10

The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and Princess Alice, the
ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic
household, attended divine service this reoraing in the
Private Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Very Rev.
the Dean of Windsor read the prayers, aid the Rev.
Dr. Philpott preached the sermon. Thu Ducikess of
Kent was also at the service.
Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this (Monday;
afternoon at Buckingham Palace.

CLI3MTIZT COIINCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
tke Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke .f Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir
Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. Th. Council
sat three hours and a half.

The War Department, under the Duke of Newcastle,
which during the week has been removed to Pembroke
House, 7, Whitehall-gardens, will be constituted after
the model of the other Secretaries of State. Col. Mundy
and Mr. Henry Roberts will be the Under Secretaries
of State. Mr. Roberts will be succeeded, as private
secretary to the Duke of Newcastle, by Mr. Herbert
Fisher, who will be assisted by Lord Robert Clinton,
M.P., who will serve without salary, in consequence of
his having a feat in Parliament. The staff of the new
department will be made up chiefly front the Colonial-
office, and completed by the addition of two clerks from
the office of the Secretary at War, and the removal of
the whole of the Commissariat staff from the Treasury
Chambers.

GOVIIRNMENT APPOINTMKNTS.—Captain Joseph Niss,
C. 8., is appointed Superintendent of the Royal William
Victualling Yard and the Naval Hospital, at Plymouth ;
Mr. Joseph Senior is appointed Third Claes Clerk in the
Admiralty, Whitehall ; Mr. W. H. Strutt is appointed
First Class Clerk ; Mr. Peter Robertson, Second Class
Clerk ; Mr. Thomas Pitcairn, Acting Second Class Clerk ;
Mr. Rodolph Alexis Arundel', Third Class Clerk in the
Accountant• General's Department of the Admiralty, at
Somerset House ; Mr. J. S. B. De Courcy and Mr. G.
G. Wilson are appointed Acting Second Class Clerks in
the Comptroller of Victualling Department, Somerset
House.

At a late hour last night the Government recei►ed
despataiaes from the Crimea via Marseilles. The intel-
ligence by the Caire is of secondary interest, and has
been anticipated in the telegraphic despatches already
published.
The Duke of Leeds will, we understand, move the
address in the House of Lords in reply to her Majesty's
speech.
The Earl of Aberdeen's full dress banquet at Argyll-
house this evening is to include the Duke of Norfolk,
the Duke of Leeds, the Duke of Newcastle, the Duke
of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of
Breadalbane, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Spencer, the
Earl of Bessh•rongh, Earl of Granville, Earl Fitzhar-
dinge, the Earl of Wicklow, Viscount Canning, Vis-
count Hardinge, Lord Foley, Lord Stanley of Alderley,
Lord Wodehouse, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Sid-
ney, &C.
The Lord President of the Council has issued the fol-

lowing invitations for his lordship's full dress banquet at
the Foreign-office this day :—The Right Hon. the
Speaker, Viscount Palmerston, the Right Hex. Sir
George Grey, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Right Hon. Sir William Molesworth, the
Right Hon. Sir Jamei Graham, the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert, the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, the Right
lion. M. J. Baines, the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall,
the Right Hon. W. E. Cardwell, the Right Hon. the
Earl of Mulgrave, the Right Hon. Lord Ernest Bruce,
tqe Hon. H. Fitzroy, the Right Hon. G. W. Hayter,
Lord Elcho, tha Hen. H. T. Berkeley, the Right Hon.
W. F. Cowper, Mr. Frederick Peel, the Right Hon.
the Lord Advocate, Sir John Young, Mr. Bernal Os-
borne, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor General,
Viscount Drumlanrig, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
Mr. Herbert, the mover, and the Hon. F. Levesou
Gover, seconder of the iress.
The Right Hon. Sir John Young, M.P., Secretary
for Ireland, arrived in town on Saturday, accompanied
by Lady Young, from Dublin, for the Parliamentary
session.
The Earl of Ellenborough has arrived in Raton-square
front Southam Park, Gloucestershire.
Earl Spencer, the Lord Steward, will arrive in town
to-day from Brighton, to attend the Privy Council.
Captain Charles Graham and Sir Baldwin W.Walker,
K.C.8., are appointed paid Ades-de•Camp to the Queen;
and Captains Lord Edward Russell and Henry J. Cod-
rington, C. 8., are appointed zatpaid Aides-de-Carap to

the Queen.
The Hon. aid R,ev. T. Felham, of Christchurch,
Hampstead, is to succeed the Rev. Dr. Spry, as Rector
of St. Marylebine.
The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., has appointed
Mr. Charles Wiliam Freemantle, of the Treasury, to be
his private secretary.
Mr. George Bannerman has been appointed Clerk of
the Pelee, and Keeper of the Register of Sasines in the
county of Banff.
We are glad (says the Bucks Chronicle) to be enab led
to state that our representative, Mr. Layard, has re-
turned to this country. He reached London on Mon-
day last, and will, of course, be at his post when Parlia-
went assembles. As Mr. Layard was present at the
battle of Inkerman, it may be anticipated that he is per-
fectly informed as to the deficiencies and requirements
of the Alli
In a Congregation held on the Sth, the Vice-Chan-
cellor of the University of Oxford, the Senior Proctor,
the Junior Proctor, with Dr. Bliss, Mr. Ravrlinson, Cr.
a the new
c
Neate, and Mr. Pattison, were appointed ommittee
for the purpose of regulating the proceedings of
Congregation appointed under the University Act.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
has propounded, "The Religious History of the Sikhs,"
as the subject of the Essay for Sir Perrigrine Maitland 's
prize.

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