The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-21 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 19.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Brabant, the Duke of Brabant, the Duchess of Kent,
the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge, the Belgian Minister, the Marquis of Abercorn,
the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Brabant, the Lady
in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de
Speth, Sir George Couper, Count Gustave de Lanney,
and Baron Knesbeck.,
The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle
during dinner and played the following compositions :
March Beethoven.
Overture, " Figaro" Mozart.
Walzer, " Invitation a la Danse" Weber.
Potpourri, " La Gazza Ladra" Rossini.
Glee, " Mynheer Vandunck" Sir H. R. Bishop.
Ballabile, " Stradella" Flotow.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and
performed the following selection :
Overture, " Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn.
Coro. " Il Templario" Otto Nicolai.
March, " Athalie" Mendelssohn.
Selection, "Sonnambula" Bellini.

Les Dame aux Camelias Valses Bosisio.
The Queen, with the Duchess of Brabant, drove out
this forenoon in an open pony phaeton. Lord Charles
Fitzroy was in attendance on horseback.
Prince Albert, with the Duke of Brabant, went out
shooting, attended by Lord Waterpark. Col. the Hon.
C. B. Phipps, Lieut.-Col. the Hon. A. Gordon, Count
Gustave de Lannoy, Lieut.-Col. Parker and Col. Dixon
(commanding officers of the Ist Life Guards and 2d
Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards), had the honour of
joining his Royal Highness.
The Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge, and
the Marquis of Abercorn, left the Castle to-day for Lon-
don ; also the Belgian Minister, for New Lodge, Wink-
field.

The Duke of Cambridge arrived this afternoon, on a
visit to her Majesty.
The dinner party to-day included the Duchess of Bra-
bant, the Duke of Brabant, the Duchess of Kent, the
Duke of Cambridge, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess
of Brabant, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent,
Lady Charles Fitzroy, Lady Frances Bruce, the Hon.
Mrs. A. Gordon, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Count
Gustave de Lannoy, Major the Hon. James Macdonald,
and Mr. Gibbs.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended in the
Castle, and played during dinner ; and her Majesty's
private band performed the following selection in the
evening :

Overture, " Ruy Blas"
Introduction, " I 1 Crociato" Meyerbeer.
March, " Les Deux Journees" Cherabini.
Airs de Ballet, "L'Enfant Prodigrie" Auber.

Nov. 20.

The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, the ladies and gen-
tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at-
tended Divine Service this morning in the private chapel
of the Castle. The Duke of Cambridge was also at the
service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated.

The Mayor of Plymouth had an interview with the
General Board of Health on Saturday, at their office,
Whitehall.

Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office on Sa-
turday, to the Governors of Malta and Gibraltar, and
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
Despatches were received on Saturday from the Gover
nors of the West India Islands.

A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street, on Saturday. The ministers present
were the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, Earl
Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the
Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The
Council sat three hours.

PRIVY COUNCIL FOR THE PROROGATION OF PARLIA-
MENT.--Her Majesty is expected to hold a Privy Coun-
cil in the middle of this week at Windsor Castle, for the
purpose of settling the period of the further prorogation
of Parliament, which at present stands adjourned to
Tuesday, the 29th of November.

MOVEMENTS OF THE COURT.—An alteration has been
made in the intended departure of the Court for Osborne.
Another grand banquet is to take place at the Castle on
the 23d inst., and the Queen will not go to the island
before Saturday, the 26th, or Monday, the 28th. The
Court will return from Osborne to Windsor on the 23d
December, for the Christmas holidays. The Duke and
Duchess of Brabant take their departure on the Bth of
December.

THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The series of
dramatic entertainments before her Majesty and die
court at Windsor Castle will not be continued until after
Christmas, when Sir Bulwer Lytton's comedy of Money
will be represented. The four principal male characters
will be supported by four metropolitan managers :--
Evelyn, Mr. Charles Kean ' • Graves, Mr. Webster ;
Mr. Benjamin Stout, Mr. Buckstone ; and Captain
Dudley Smooth, Mr. Wigan.
The noble Premier, owing to the pressure of public
business, is not expected to visit Scotland this year.
His lordship will probably pass the recess at the Ranger .'s
House, Blackheath, where Lord and Lady Haddo and
family are staying.
His Excellency Commodore Sir Charles Hotham and
suite will embark the second week in January to assume
the government of Melbourne.
The venerable Prince Jerome, the last surviving
brother of the renowned Emperor Napoleon, gave a
grand banquet at the Palais Royal, on Thursday, to a
large party in celebration of his natal day, when he com-
pleted his 79th year.
The Marquis Turgot, the French Minister at Madrid,
gave a splendid fete dansante at the embassay on the
15th inst., to the rank, beauty, and fashion of the
Spanish capital, in honour of the fete day of the Emprests
Eugenie.
THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY.—This nobleman,
who has been confined from the effects of his late severe
accident and by a serious attack of influenza, is very
materially recovered, and it is' hoped that a short time
will restore him to his usual health, and enable him to
attend to business.
THE LATE PRINCESS ESTERHAZY.—The mortal re•
stiTllh ate T
mains of the late rauch•regretted Princess Nicholas
Esterhazy will be removed from this country for inter-
vatill Vieriesn are Vienna. tnent in the family mausoleum of the Prince Esterhazy,
Countess and
htnhoebLleadeaayrl Chlasemarernitvineda
from Brighton.
BENEVOLENCE OF HER MAJESTY.—It will be remem-
bered that the death of Dr. Bexfield, the talented organ-
ist and composer, of Norwich, was announceda few days
ago in the public journals. The circumstance of the
doctor having left a widow and three children unprovided
for being communicated to her Majesty, through IWi.
Anderson, the conductor of her Majesty's private band,
the Queen commanded the handsome sum of 20 guineas
to be forwarded to the widow, for the immediate necesai-
ties of herself and fatherless children. The gentlemen
of her Majesty's private band, commiserating the posi-
tion of the afflicted widow of so eminent a man, simulta..
neously expressed a desire to give a concert in aid of a
subscription which is
about to be set on foot and
has been heir
Majesty, with her accustomed kindness, as been gra.-
ciously pleased to grant those gentlemen permission to
wishes. The concert is fixed
out their benevolent
carry
to take place at Norwich,
on the 16th of December.
Loss OF LIFE BY FIRE.—
On Saturday, G
eorge
Alsbon, residing at No. 2, North Pole-lane
fire, when Greenwich,
was standing with his back to the re,by some
means his apron caught fire, and he was quickly en-
veloped in a sheet of flames.
His cries brought assist-
ance, when the fire was extinguished, and he was
thence
i
con-
veyed by rail to London-bridge Station, and from
moist
to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired nthe
excruciating agony.
GOLD TO RUSSIA.—It is understood that a large sum
in Russian half-imperials was on Thursday withdrawn
from the Bank of England for shipment to St. Peters-
burgh and Odessa.