The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 12.

The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of
Brabant, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Brabant,
the Duke of Argyll, the Belgian Minister, the Lady in
Waiting to the Duchess of Brabant, the Lady in Wait-
ing to the Duchess of Kent, Lord George Lennox,
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the Hon. Sir Ralph and
Lady Mary Abercromby, Sir William and Lady Moles-
worth, the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone,
Count Gustave de Lannoy, and Baroness de Speth.
The band of the Ist Life Guards atteuded in the
Castle during dinner.
The Queen, with the Duchess of Brabant, drove out
this forenoon in an open pony phaeton. Lord Charles
Fitzroy attended on horseback.
Prince Albert went out shooting.
The whole of the visiting company, except the Duke
and Duchess of Brabant, left the Castle to-day.

The Earl of Clarendon arrived this afternoon on a
visit to the Queen.
The dinner party this day included the Duchess of
Brabant, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Brabant,
the Earl of Clarendon, the Lady in Waiting to the
Duchess of Kent, Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness de
Speth, the Rev. Lord and Lady Wriothesley Russell,
Count Gustave de Lannoy, and Sir George Couper.
The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner ; the Queen's private band attended
in the evening in the Castle.
Nov. 13.

The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, Princes; Alice, and the Duchess of
Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended divine service this morn-
ing in the private chapel of the Castle. The Earl of
Clarendon was also at the service. The Hon. and Rev.
G. Wellesley officiated.
The Duke and Duchess of Brabant, with the Count
and Countess Gustave de Lannoy, went to the Catholic
chapel at Clewer.
A deputation on the subject of the Leicester-square
Junction Railway had an interview with the Right
Hon. E. Cardwell on Saturday at the Board of Trade.
The deputation consisted of Messrs. Tulk, Nind, Mar-
rable, Hamden, Dunn, Ottaway, Gordon, Drake, and
Lewis.
Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview on Saturday with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
The Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council
met on Saturday in the Court of Exchequer to settle the
roll of sheriffs for the ensuing year. There were present
the Chancellor of the Exchequer (presidin4 in his gold
robe of office), the Lord President of the Privy Council,
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of England,
the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the
Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and Mr.
Baron Parke. Judges Alderson,Wightman, Talfourd, and
others assisted at the ceremony. Mr. C. Greville, clerk
of the Privy Council was in attendance. Three gentle-
men were nominated for all the counties in England,
with the exceptions of Cornwall, and Lancashire, and
Middlesex. Three gentlemen were also nominated for
all the Welsh counties.
Sir William and Lady Molesworth arrived in town
on Saturday from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor
Castle.
Viscount Palmerston left town on Saturday evening
for his seat, Broadlands, Hants.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone
arrived in town on Saturday from a visit to the Queen,
at Windsor Castle.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office on
Saturday from the Governor of Hong Kong and the
Governor of Malta.

THE SILK TRADE.—A meeting of the committee of the
silk trade took place at the London Silk Conditioning-
house on Tuesday last, when it was ordered that the
weights of the samples detained for conditioning should
be stated on the conditioning note. The committee also
ordered a series of trials to test the accuracy of the new
apparatus, which was exhibited in operation before them
and which performs in about 40 minutes a task that by
the old apparatus took from 3 to 4 hours. Mr. De-
larbre, the director, reported that, together with the
directors of the conditioning-houses of Milan, Avig-
non, St. Etienne, Zurich, and Elberfeld, he had been
present at a series of upwards of 400 experiments
made at Lyons under the direction of M. Gamot,
' the director of the conditioning house of that
city ; that all had declared their entire satis-
faction with the new apparatus, and that the
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