The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FEB. 6.

The Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage
this afternoon. Major-General Buckley and Lieutenant-
Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon attended on horseback.

The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger
members of the Royal family took their usual walking
and pony exercise.
The Earl of Aberdeen arrived yesterday, and left the
Castle this morning for London.
The Duchess of Sutherland also left to-day for London.
Mr. J. G. Middleton had the honour of submitting
for her Majesty's inspection the portrait he has re-
cently finished of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of
the French.

A deputation from the Wesleyan body, consisting of
the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the Rev. Dr. Beecham, the Rev.
Charles Prest, Mr. James Heald, Mr. J. P. Bunting,
and the Rev. John Scott, had an interview with Vis-
count Palmerston yesterday at the Home-office.
The Committee on Education of the Lords of her
Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council had a meeting yes-
terday in the Privy Council-office. Present, the Lord
President, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Lord John Russell, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Sidney
Herbert.

Lord Duncan had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.
A deputation from Wandsworth, headed by Mr. Al-
cock, M.P., had an interview yesterday with Viscount
Palmerston at the Horne office. The deputation con-
sisted of the Rev. S. Gower ; Messrs. Charles Dagnall
and James Lyon (churchwardens) ; Mr. Joseph Lyon
(sidesman) ; Messrs. Samuel Cumbers, David Nicholson,
and Thomas Townsend ; and Mr. L. J. Upcher (vestry-
clerk).

The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, who have just
arrived at Rome from Tuscany, are expected to return
to this country in the ensuing month.
The Earl of Wilton has left Grosvenor-square for
Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, where the noble
Earl and Countess will entertain company until the
close of the hunting season.
The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell arrived in town
yesterday from the Cloisters, Windsor, to deliver a
lecture for the Young Man's Working Association.
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has left Hill-
street, for Envil Hall, Staffordshire.
The Duchess of Sutherland returned to Stafford
House yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty, at
Windsor Castle.

The Earl of Derby has, we hear, taken the spacious
mansion of the Earl of Dartmouth, in St. James's-
square, for a lengthened term, as being more capacious
than the mansion he now occupies.
The Earl and Countess of Gosford and family have
arrived in Grosvenor-street, from Gosford Hall.
COLONEL PEROEVAL. —We regret to learn that
Colonel Perceval, the much-respected Sergeant-at-Arms
of the House of Lords, was seized with sudden indispo-
sition, while engaged reading, at the Union Club, on
Wednesday last. The gallant Colonel's attack was of a
nature calculated to alarm his friends, but we are happy
to learn that its effect has already passed away.
THE RUSSIAN LEGATION.—We believe we are cor-
rect in stating that Baron Brunow will leave London
to-morrow morning for the Continent.

BUSINESS OF THE PORT Os' LONDON.—In the general
business of the port of London during the past week
there has not been much activity. The number of ves-
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and of sugar, 1,190 hhds., 69' casks, 8,794 cases, and
11,385 bags. The number of ships entered outward was
102, being an increase of 19 over the previous week.
Of these 22 were in ballast, and 15, as above stated, for
the Australian colonies.
RATES OF EXCHANGE.—The closing prices from the
Paris Bourse yesterday exhibited an improvement of
about three-quarters per cent. From Vienna the ac-
counts indicate a renewed and severe panic, the rate of
exchange on London having experienced a further ad-
vance of more than one per cent.—namely, to 12.29,
while the funds had suffered a fresh decline, as if Aus-
trian financiers entertained some doubts of the sincerity
of the course the Government are now pursuing. The
exchanges at Hamburg and Amsterdam show a ten-
dency favourable for this country, and at the former
place money is abundant at 21 per cent. The St.
Petersburg letters are to the 28th of January, and state,
that the effect of the depreciation of the currency at
present in progress was again observable, the quotation
for bills on London being 381 d. The rate of discount
was 7 to 8 per cent., and there was nothing doing in
stocks. From Odessa telegraphic information has been
received to the 31st of January, when freights and grain
showed firmness, and ships were being loaded over the
ice.