The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCITLAB.

WINDSOR, DEC. 8.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, His Serene Highness
Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria Daw-
son, Baroness de Speth, and Colonel the Hen. C. B. and
Mrs. Phipps.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in
the Castle.

The Queen, with the Princess Royal and Princess
Alice, rode in the Riding-house this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, wont out hunting, attended by
Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. N. Hood and Captain toe
Hon. D. de Ros.

His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen left
Windsor this forenoon for Germany.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have been invited,
and are expected this afternoon. The Earl of Aberdeen
is also expected.

TRH COURT.—Her Majesty and the Prince Consort
and Royal suite are expected to arrive at Buckingham
Palace on Monday next from Windsor Castle. On
Tuesday the Queen, itt the usual hour, will proceed in
state from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords,
to open the session of Parliament. The sojourn of her
Majesty in London is not expected to exceed 24 hours,
returning to the Castle until the first week in February,
when the court will arrive in London for the season.
CABINRT Courtcm.—A. Cabinet Council was held yes-
terday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of 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. The Council
sat two hours.
The Earl of Aberdeen left town after the Cabinet
Council yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle.
Prince Erneat of Leiningen passed through London
yesterday
bye the South-Easternnrouteto Railway.
Germany. Hisberene Highness
left
His Royal Highness the Count de Chambord has for-
warded to the Soci6tsi Francaise de Bienfaisance a gene-
rolls contribution in aid of this excellent old-established
institution.
The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon from
Hornby Castle, Catterick, Yorkshire.
The Duke of Beaufort comes to town on Monday next
from Badminton Park, Gloucestershire. The mansion
in Grosvenor-square, lately taken by his grace, the late
seat of the French
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for Lansdowne-crescent, Bath, for the winter season.
Sir Wm. Hartopp has left the Clarendon for Four
Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.
Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day morning from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope.
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opening
that the bases of an offensive and defensive alliance be.
twean Piedmont, France, and England are agreed upon.
ABINGDON ELECTION.—The nomination for this bo-
rough is fixed for Monday next. The candidates, Major
J. Ilaythorne Reed (Liberal) and Mr. J. T. Norris
(Liberal), are both confident of success.
THR TAM:NG of SEBASTOPOL.—A fortnight ago, at
Tatttersall's' a gallant general offered to bet 1,000/.
even that the Allies are in possession of Sebastopol on
or before Christmas Day, but nobody seemed inclined
to accept the offer. The odds since then have changed
considerably, and on Monday last 1,000 to 100 was
betted that it will not be taken this year !
Tan YOLUNTEER AT AIX A.—The gallant young volun-
teer of the Alma, Mr. C. P. Lane Fox, arrived at Bram-
ham on Monday night, on a visit to his cousin, Mr.
George Lane Fox, and was most joyfully received by
the inhabitants, The church bells were rung on the
occasion. It will be recollected that the gallant young
ccmn'
volunteerio went on the field of Alma in a shooting-jacket,
and used every exeition in getting up ammunition for
the troops, when lie received a bullet wound in the ancle,
and
in that state bore Capt. Biring, of the Coldstream
Guards, who had lost an arm, off the field. Mr. Fox
was highly complimented for his bravery by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and has been pre-
sented with a lieutenancy in the Coldstream Guards.
He is still suffering from the effects of the bullet, and is
unable to walk without the assistance of crutches, butwe
are happy to say he is progressing favourably.
MRS. L. S. BUCKINGHAM, OP THE THEATRE
ROYAL, HATMARKET.—We are requested by the legal
adviser of this estimable lady and meritorious actress
to announce that, in the action of divorce a vinculo
matrimonii, at her instance, against Mr. Leicester
Stanhope Buckingham, the Supreme Court of Ses-
sions in Scotland, on the 28th ult., pronounced the
following decree in her favour :—" That the said plain-
tiff is entitled to live single, or marry any man, as if she
had never been married to the said Leicester Stanhope
Forbes Young Buckiegham, otherwise Leicester Stan-
hope Forbes Young Ambrose Buckingham, or as if lie
were naturally dead. And decerns finds the plaintiff
entitled to expenses." The plaintiff, as we believe is the
invariable custom in similar circumstances, will resume
her family name, and in future appear as Miss Caroline
White in all theatrical announcements.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. -- Amongst other
works now in progress for improving the sanitary con-
dition of the [metropolis and itssthoroughfares may be
mentioned the closing of six streets in Westminster for
the purpose of effecting an efficient drainage, viz., De-
lahay•street and mews, Charles-street, Duke-street,
and Gardner s-lana. The narrowness of these streets,
and the fear of disturbing the foundations of
the houses, have caused the principal sewerag e
works to be carried out by tunneling—a rather difficulttask
in the streets of London, the many pipes intersecting prove
most formidable and annoying obstructions to the sewer
moles. The great line of communication with the East-
ern Counties, Long-lane, !las been again closed after the
formation of the monster sewer from Finsbury to the
Fleet, in Farringdon street. The earth having subsided
under the temporary roadway, Long-lane is now under-
going a substantial rapavement.—The Builder.

LATEST NEWS.

THE AUSTRIAN ULTIMATUM
TO RUSSIA.

VIENNA, DEC. 8.
The Ost Deutsche Post publishes the following as
the ultimatum, addressed by Austria to Russia :
Austria has sent her final summons to Russia.

No modification of her territorial possessions is

demanded.

Besides the four points, an indemnification for
the war expenses is to be a basis for peace pro-

positions.

A future Russian protectorate over the Greco-
Catholic subjects of the Porte is declared inad-
missible, as interfering with the Sultan's sovereign

rights.

The five Powers guarantee the privileges and
equal rights of the Christians.
The Russian protectorate in the Danubian Prin.
cipalities and in Servia is declared extinct.
The navigation of the Black Sea is to be gua-
ranteed by the razing of Sebastopol, and by con-

verting the other arsenals on its coast into com.

mon harbours.

The Russian fleet to be reduced to four frigates

and two line-of-battle ships. The remainder of
the Black Sea fleet to be allowed to withdraw to

the Baltic.

The free navigation to be insured by a forma

declaration.

The Sulina mouths, with the environs, to be

declared neutral territory.

Advices from Sebastopol, of the 27th Novem
ber, have been received here.

The siege was zealously continued.
The Russians had sunk another liner near the
mouth of the harbour.

Reinforcements to the number of 9,000 men
had reached the Allies in the Crimea.

The Duke of Cambridge was expected at Con•
stantinople.

We have received the following from our cor-
respondent at Marseilles :
" MARSEILLES, FRIDAY EVENING.
" The Caire, which has been overdue some
days, arrived to-day with despatches.
" There is no news from the Crimea.
"The Thabor, due this morning, has not ar-
rived.

"From Malta we learn that the Himalaya had
arrived there, with Sir De Lacy Evans on board.
" The Brandon, Europa, Hannibal, and Cara-
coa, taking 1,767 men, 14 transports with am-
munition, bc., have left."

We have received the following telegraphic
despatches from our correspondent in Paris, re-
ceived there yesterday evening :
" CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.
The Persian Ambassador has arrived from

Teheran.
His Imperial Highness Prince Napoleon visited
the Sultan yesterday.
A steamer has arrived at Constantinople with
Russian prisoners.

Osman Pacha has been named General of Divi

sion in the Ottoman army.
It is said that Fuad Effendi has been appointed
President of the Council of the Tanzimat.
The Allies have stationed a small corps of troops
at Katcha.
The Russians have sunk more of their vessels
at Sebastopol.
A division of Omer Pasha's army was quite
ready to sail for the Crimea.
Government agents are purchasing planks to
build huts for the army.
The Russians are blockading Eupatoria by
land.

TREBISONDE, Nov. 18.
A truce between the two armies of Asia is pro-
bable during the winter.
The cholera had ceased among the troops at
Batoum.

Communications with Persia have been re-
established ; but corps of Russian cavalry prevent

,he passage of caravans.

CORFU, Nov. 27.
GOO men of the regiment in garrison here have
left for the Crimea, and the rest will soon follow.

ATHENS, GTE.

The cholera continues to rage in this capital,
aad a considerable number of the inhabitants axe

.eaving.

THE BALTIC FLEET.
KIEL, DEC. 7.

H.M.S. Duke of Wellington, Royal George,
Nile, Hogue, and Blenheim are now (at noon)
getting under weigh for England.
The Edinburgh and Euryalus remain here.

NYBORG, FRIDAY EVENING,
Admiral Napier's flag-ship, the Duke of Wel-

lington, with British steam line-of-battle ships
and the steamers Driver, Rosamond, and Bull-
dog, have been compelled by the stormy weather
to anohor off Knuds Head.

DENMARK.
COPENHAGEN, DEO. ir.

Fiyveposten states officially that the King has
dismissed his Ministers, for reasons connected
with the recent address of the Diet.
MM. Half and Andrea are expected to enter
the new Cabinet.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.
500 French have gone to Bucharest and

Ibraila.

Colonels Duo and Mirecourt have gone to in-
spect Isaktcha and Toultscha.

THE CRIMEA.
THE STATE OF THE RUSSIANS lI\T
SEBASTOPOL.
The Augsburg Gazette says :—" There is not in
the Russian camp in the Crimea any correspondont
for a journal to give an exact and faithful pictu.r o
of the defence of Sebastopol and of the situation o f
the besieged. Whilst reports aro published em
masse on the position of the Allies, reports amd
versions which produce the greatest impression in
Europe, all the accounts which reach us from the
Russian camp come exclusively from the en of
Prince Menschikoff. It is true that the cepor is
of the prince have not been drawn up with a
complete disregard to truth, but they give no i n-
formation as to the state of Sebastopol or the can ap
of Bakshi-Serai. Some occasional, letters from

the .Crimea, however, make known to us
fhof the condifi'm :.he town is far from being
enviable. One faA is beyond doubt, and that is
that the 40,000 Russian soldiers and the 10,000
inhabitants of Sebastopol have only provisions for
three months. The 56,000 men of the 4th and
6th corps have hitherto subsisted from day to day
on what they have received from Perekop. If the
steppes of the Taurida which separate those troops
from Perekop should be no longer practicable for
six or eight weeks, the existence of the Russian
army will be seriously endangered. According to
letters from. Odessa, a convoy of 1,400 waggons
laden with provisions, is said to have been com-
pletely destroyed by the tempest which did so
much mischief to the Allies."

THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN OF OMER

PACHA.

A letter from Vienna, of the 4th, in the Cologne
Gazette, says :—" The Turkish ambassador, Arif
Effendi, had a long conference yesterday with the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and took occasion to
communicate some details relative to the plan of
campaign of Omer Pacha, which plan appears to
have of late undergone some important modifica-
tions. In particular, it is said that Odessa is to
be first attacked and taken possession of, as being
of great importance for the ulterior operations of
the Allies. In diplomatic circles no great hopes of
peace are entertained from the resumption of
flu, conferences at Vienna, because; on the one
hand, Russia has only declared herself ready
to accept the four points under reserve, and because,
on the other, the military operations are not to be
interrupted. There was again yesterday a council
of war held at the palace."