The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-20 00:00:00

Nov. 19.

The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady
Frances Bruce, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps.
The private band attended after dinner.

The Queen and Prince, the four eider Royal children,
and the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of
the Court, and the domestic household attended Divine
service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle.
The Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell officiated.

Viscount Canning, Postmaster-General, arrived in
town on Saturday from Windsor Castle. His lordship
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
at his official residence in Downing-street.

CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Ceuecil wa9 held on
Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Gra-
ham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sydney Her-
bert, Sir William Molesworth, and Earl Granville. The
Council sat two hours and a half.

The Countess Dowager and Lady Georgiana Grey
have left Eaton-square for Brighton, for the winter.
DEATH or LADY EMILY PIISEY.—Her ladyship died
at Pusey House, Berks, on Thursday last.
The Right Hon. Henry and Lady Mary Labouchere
have left Belgrave-square, for Brighton.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford arrived in Belgravia-
square on Saturday, from a visit to the Queen at Wind-
sor Castle, en route to Woburn Abbey, where Lord and
Lady John Russell and a numerous family circle will
assemble in a visit to their graces during the approach-
ing recess.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Nermanby, who are
staying at Florence, are expected to pass the winter in
the Tuscan capital. His lordship continues in rather
indifferent health.

The Earl and Countess of Wilton anti the Lady Ka-
therine Egerton arrived in Grosvenor-square, on Satur-
day, from Heaton Park, Manchester. His lordship and
family are expected to leave town to-morrow, for,Egerton
Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the season.
The Earl of Sefton's youthful heir apparent, Viscount
Molyneux, has just entered the Grenadier Guards, as
ensign and lieutenant. His lordship and Viscount
Hood, owing to the casualties in the regiment, in the
Crimea, get their commissions without purchase.
lEThe Hon. and Rev. Montagu Villiers has recently be-
come one of the vice-presidents of the 'Weekly Tract
Society.
The marriage of Mr. G. E. H. Vernon, M.P. for
Newark, with the Lady Selina Meade, only daughter of
the Earl of Clanwilliam, will take place on Thursday
next.

Mdlle. Cruvelli has not yet appeared at the Opera,
Paris ; people are asking what it all means, and Mdlle.
Cruvelli threatens to make a clean breast of it. _

Viscount Cannino., Postmaster-deneral, arrived in
town en Saturday, 'from Windsor Castle. His lord-
ship had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Duchess of Sutherland (says the Staffordshire Ad-
vertiser), who has long been honoured with the personal
friendship of the sovereign, has, we understand, received
an autograph letter of condolence from the Queen, on
the melancholy and premature death of her grace's
second son, Lord Frederick Leveson Gower.
Mr. Lewis Cass, the U. S. Charge d'Affaires, to the
Court of Rome, had an audience of the Pope on the
10th, in which he delivered new letters of credence rais-
ing him to the rank of Minister at Rome.
PIEDAONT.—On the 14th the Bank of Turin raised its
discount from 5 to 6 per cent.
THE DUTY ON PIPER.--The paper duty, as appears
by a Parliamentary paper just published, in the year
ending the sth of January last, was 1,057,637/. against
947,9051. of the preceding year, which was an increase
on 1852.

THE OFFICE 01 ADJUTANT•GENERAL.-It is under-
ssood that Major-General Wetherall has been appointed
adjutant-general, in the room of General Cathcart, de-
ceased.--Sunday Tintes.
RUSSIAN WAR PRISON.—From the representations of
Lieutenant Mann, the Government have sent down
orders that pork and peas are to be supplied twice a
week to the prisoners, and that each man is to have an
additional quarter of a pound of bread per diem.—Lewes
Express. _ _ _

ARRIVALS OP SPECIE.—The arrivals of specie last
week, including the sums by the Mermaid and Ballarat,
which are not yet delivered, have amounted to nearly
650,0001., and the exports to Paris, Alexandria, and
Portugal are believed to have been 400,0001. or
500,000/.

ULSTER RAILWAY COMPANY.—A majority of the
shareholders of the Ulster Company have agreed to con-
struct an extension line from the present station at
Armagh to.Monaghan, in connexion with a line to be
made by the Dundalk and Enniskillen Company, so
as to complete a communication between Armagh and
Cavan.
AUSTRIA AND PnussrA.—Tho Frankfort Post Gazette
states that Austria and Prussia have so far agreed that
in future neither will make any communication to the
Frankfort Diet without having previously imparted it.
to the other.

DUTY ON TOBACCO AND SNUFF.—On Friday a report
showed the increase of duty on tobacco and snuff in the
last three years, ending the sth January. In 1852, it
was 4,466,469/. ; in 1853, 4,542,5721. ; and this year as
much as 4,728,6421:. . _

The Town Council of Falmouth hare memorialised Sir
James Graham for a division of the fleet to be placed in
winter quarters at that port ; a leading plea being that
Falmouth contributes a comparatively larger supply of
seamen to the British navy than any other port in the
kingdom.—Pl //mouth Mail.
THE FRIEND OE THE CLERRT.--Yesterday two ser-
mons in aid of the Friend of the Clergy were preached
in the parish church of St. Giles's-in-the Fields—that in
the morning was delivered by the Rev. William Cadman,
M.A., Rector of St. George's, Southwark. The sermon
in the evening, by the Rev. Canon Bickersteth, M.A.,
Rector of St. Giles s.

DEPARTURE OP THE A.3IERICAN MAILS.-On Saturday
forenoon, the British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship Africa, Capt. W. Harrison, sailed from the
Mersey, for New York, with the usual mails for the
United States and British North American Provinces,
67 passengers, a full cargo of merchandise on freight.
THE MAIL STEAMERS AND THE ARMY.—The Nubia is
expected to-day at Southampton with the Indian mail,
and she will be immediately turned back to Toulon to
carry troops to the Black Sea. The royal mail steamer
Tamar has been taken up by the Government and will
proceed to Toulon to-morrow, if possible. This is the
ninth steamer the Government has taken up at South-
hampton on Friday
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MAILS FOR AUSTRALIA.—LiverpooI, Saturday.—ln
consequence of the Government requiring for the trans-
port service the General Screw Steam Navi,ration Com-
pany's vessel which was appointed to leave Southampton
en
the 4th proximo, the mails for Australia will be con-
veyed by the Black Ball clipper ship James
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Baines,
which will be despatched flora Liverpool on the 9th of
penalty,
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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE WEST-RIDING.—
No better proof could be afforded that the farmers'
minds are becoming awake to the value of correct agri-
cultural statistics, than the fact that no refusals of occu-
piers of land in the West Riding to fill up the schedules
forwarded to them have been reported to the Poer•law
Inspector. There is, we hear, every reason to believe
that the whole of the returns will be made up and p'aced
in Mr. Farnall's hands by the 30th inst. This will be a
very gratifying result of the first experiment of this kind
in the West Riding, and will encourage Government to
undertake the work of obtaining similar information to
that given is the schedules from every other county in
England.—Leeds Mercury.

THE SOUTH-EASTERLY GALES.— SHIELDS, Saturday
Night. —The Tyne, Wear, Hartlepool, and other north-
ern coal ports are now crowded with shipping, a great
number of laden vessels being detained by the bad wea-
ther, and the heavy sea that is breaking on the bars.
These is at present the extraordinary number of above
I,OOD vessels in the Tyne alone ; about 750 sail is lying
in Shields harbour, about 100 of which are first-class
vessels. The three stranded schooners at the harbour
mouth have been broken up, and the shore-side popula-
tion—mostly Irish—have pillaged whenever they have
had an opportunity. A schooner, the Victory, of Har-
wich, has.gone to pieces at Sunderland, and one or two
of the vessels stranded on Whitburn Sands are in a bad
condition. The damage at Sunderland by the gale en
Wednesday is considerable, as several of the vessels
that took that harbour came to the ground. The bark
Bullfinch has arrived in this port with injuries, laving;
been in contact with, and there is every reason to be- '
lieve, sunk, the Rapid, of Malmo, Olaf Larson, mas-
ter, and drowned the master and five of the hands.
Thursday 'tight was wet and dark at sea, with the
wind blowing half a gale at S.S.E. Theßullfinch, a stout
heavy vessel, was on her passage from Hamburg to the
Tyne light, and about half-past seven was running
flee before the wind, about 112 miles f. o-n
Tynetnoutla Lights, N.W. .1 W., when the men on the
look-out observed the schooner, which was on her passage
to the Mediterranean from the Tyne, coal laden. The
steersman aboard the bark made an effort to clear her,
but the bark did not appear to hate answered her helm
soon enough, ran into the schooner with fearful violence,
and there is reason to think sunk her at the bows ; for
immediately after the collision the bark's sails were pet
back, and she kept near the scene of accident for two
hours, but nothing was seen of the unfortunate schooner
after. At the moment of the collision, however, Peter
Magnus Henrick Lenstraum and Johan Jansen, two of
schooner s crew, leaped aboard the barque, and were
saved. They will be sent home by the Swedish Vice'
Consul M this place,