The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, JAN. 16.
The Queen, with the Princess Royal and Princess
Alice, walked in the Home Park this morning.
Prince Albert went out shooting.
Viscount Jocelyn and the Rev. Dr. Philpott left the
Castle to-day.
Colonel Wylde has succeeded Lord George Lennox in
attendance on the Prince.

A deputation from the Incorporated Law Society, on
the subject of the removal of the courts from West-
minster, had an interview with Sir W, Molesworth yes •
terday, at the Office of Public Works and Buildings, in
Whitehall place. The deputatiou ccnsibted. of Lir
Kinderley (president), Mr. Coverdale and Mr. K. Barnes
(members of the council), and Mr. Maugham (secretary).
Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing-street,
yesterday.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yes-
terday from the Governors of the West India Islands,
the Governor of Gibraltar, and the Governor of the
Falkland Islands.

Despatches were sent yesterday to the Governors of
Gibraltar and the West India Islands.

Letters from Eisenach of the 11th inform us that the
statement made in the Thuringen papers, according to
which the Count of Paris was seriously ill, is erroneous.
The prince, whose lungs seem to be delicate;had a cold
and an attack of rheumatism, by no means serious, which
obliged him to keep his bed for a couple of days. He is
now quite well again.

THE PRESTON STRIKE.

PRESTON, JAN. 15.

There was a full attendance of delegates at the usual
weekly meeting held here yesterday in connection with
the Power-loom Weavers' Association. Including a
small balance in hand of 281. 165., the total income
this week amounts to 2,2311. The chief contributions
announced yesterday were as follow :—Blackburn, 6201.;
Stockport, 2601. ; Preston, 1961. 10s. (this includes
1201. received from the Amalgamated Committee as the
weavers' proportion of the subscriptions of various
trades unions) ; Glossop, 1611. 10s. ; Ashton-under-Lyne,
160/. ; Hyde, 150/. ; Over Darwen, 1201. ; Staleybridge,
74/. ; Oldham, 56/. ; Tintwistle, 501. ; Church parish,
501. ; Clitheroe, 361. ; Bolton, 301. 14s. ; Droylsden,
25/. ; Accrington, 20/. ; Heywood, 201. ; Enfield, 201.
The remaining items were under 201. From the
reports delivered by the delegates, it appeared that
in many of the districts where the hands had been
working short time, they were now fully employed,
and would consequently be enabled to contribute
more fully towards the support of the opera-
tives of this town. In some places, however, the recent
severe frost and the snow storm had been productive of
serious several isolated mills being temporarily stopped
for want of coals (which they were unable to procure
because the canals were unnavigable) ; whilst others,
driven by water-power, were disabled by damaged water-
wheels, &e.

Hollins
Mr. Hollins has been enabled to get a few more looms
to work to-day ; the applicants, however, being strangers,
require some instruction in the weaving of the fine
fabrics produced at the " Sovereign Mill." On several
occasions the factory has been surrounded by a num-
ber of ill-disposed people, who have evinced their
hostility to the " knobsticks" (as the new hands are
designated) by hooting, &c. Conduct like this cannot
be too severely reprobated, and it is only fair to say that
such proceedings have alway-4 been strongly discounte-
nanced by the leaders of this movement.

This afternoon a large meeting took place in the Or-
chard ; Mr. Luke Wood, of Stockport, presiding.
Speeches were made, and the meeting having pledged
itself to persistence in the struggle, the customary cheer-
ing for the success of it closed the proceedings.

RETIREMENT OF SIR R. 11. INOLIS.-REPRE•
SENTATION OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

OXFORD, Jan. 16.—A convocation, pursuant to no-
tice, was held to-day at two o'clock, and the letter of
Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., resigning his seat in the House
of Commons for the University, was read by the Senior
Proctor to the house.

it is early yet to speculate positively as to the candi-
date for this highly distinguished seat. But our readers
may depend upon it that a gentleman in every way qua-
lified to represent the University of Oxford in the House
of Commons, and capable of supporting the gloriofig
institutions of the country in Church and State, will be
brought forward. We refrain from mentioning any
name.—llerald.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—OPENING OF THE NEW
STATION AT PADDINGTON.—The directors of the Great
Western Railway Company having determined, from the
advanced state of the works of the down line, in con-
nection with the new station adjoining the magnificent
hotel in Spring-street, to open it for passenger traffic at
the earliest moment, for the convenience of the public,
the greatest possible exertions were made for that pur-
pose, and the line having been worked for the past
week between the old and new stations with satisfac-
tion, in the conveying of the books and furniture from
the old station to the new offices, it was determined that
the line should yesterday be opened for general traffic.
Notice to that effect was extensively circulated by adver-
tisements and placards. At the same time it was not
deemed necessary that any formal opening by the direc-
tors should take place. At six o'clock yesterday morning
the Plymouth first and second class train left the station
for the first time, followed by the succeeding down
trains, with every success. The works on the line for
the arrival of the up trains are not in so forward a state
as was intended, and it will be at least three months
before they will be in a fit state to be opened. The
grand hotel is, however, in a very forward state, and in
about two months the internal decorations and fittings
will be completed, and the hotel opened for the conve-
nience of passengers. The suite of waiting rooms of the
down line, which faces and runs parallel with Eastbourne-
terrace, both in first and second departments, are fitted
up in a very elegant manner, with every attention to
the comfort of the public.
THE CAPE MAILS.—PLYMOUTH, Monday,—The Ge-
neral Screw Steam Company's ship Mauritius, Captain
Sceales, sailed yesterday afternoon, with a fair wind.
She conveys in all 47 mail bags and boxes, in charge of
Lieut. Everett, R.N.—viz., 1 each for Cape Verds,
Ascension, the fleet in Simon'sßacya,pCe Ceylon,
11 Madras,Ca
and Calcutta; 2 for St. Helena, 15
Colony, 5 Port Natal, and 7 Mauritius. Gen. 'Jackson,
with Colonel Carey and the rest of the staff, goes out in
her, to succeed General Cathcart in command at the
Cape. Her freight includes specie valued at about
60,0001., one box of which is for the Mauritius, and
nearly all the remainder for Calcutta. The engines of the
lauritius were out of order when she returned home on
the 25th of July last, since which the directors have had
a thorough overhaul of them and of the ship. Her
trial trip was a successful one, and her passage from
Southampton to this port has been highly creditable.
She left at 8 p.m. on Saturday, and at 945 the Hurst
lights bore N.E. by E., when her trysail, jibs, and stay-
sails were set. The Needles were passed at 10 46. At
11 the foretopsail and topgallant sails were set. Port-
land Lights bore N.W. by W. at 1 a.m., and N.W. by
N. N. at 3. The Start bore W. by N. at 4, and the
anchor was dropped in Plymouth Sound at 9 30 ; wind
south-east. The patent log showed a distance of 88
miles run in seven hours. She is said to be, under can-
vas, the smartest ship belonging to the magnificent fleet
of the Screw Company. Captain Lowe, H.M.S. Im-
pregnable, inspected her officially previously to depar-
ture. The next ship home, the Propontic, left Point de
Galle on the 24th of November. She is now due at St.
Vincent's, and will probably be here about the 25th of
January. The February mail will be brought by the
Queen of the South.
THE WINE TRADE.—The Custom-house list of port
wines exported from Oporto during the past year has
been received, from which it appears that the total
quantity was 55,811 pipes, being an increase of 24,312
pipes upon the shipments of 1852. To Great Britain
were shipped 46,834 pipes, the proportion this ydeator
being unusually large, while of the 8,977 shil
POO2 to
other parts, 2,521 were to Australia and
,p
1 000
Canada. The shippers to Great Britain of
pipes were—Sandeman and Co., 5,677; Cockburn
James
Dawson 3,197 ; Martinez, Gassiot, and Co., 3,10
va and Son,
Dawson Harris, 2,715 ; Bruno, Sil
2,401 ; Offiey and Co., 2,304 ; Nopke and Co.,
above ;
2,239 ; W. and J. Graham and Co., 2,j.16
J 4.;
Filour nr
et s at
enrd,
:7T141;0r and Co., 1,500 ;
Co., 2,011 ; Croft and
iC,05.5, 1
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1,646 ; Wine Company,
Gould and Co., 1,426; M. C. Browne, 1,208; Lam-
bert and Co., 1,162 ; Morgan, jun., and Ridge, 1,102 ;
Visconde d'Alpendura,da, 1,082 ; W. G. Roughtoni
1,025 ; and Kocher, Wigham, and Co., 1,001.