The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-07 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 6.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount
and Viscountess Hardinge, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Speth, Lord George Paget, Lady Raglan,
and the Hon. Miss Somerset.
The band of the Royal Bucks Militia played during
dinner, and her Majesty's private band afterwards.
The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoin-
ing the Castle this morning.
All the visiting company left the Castle in the forenoon
for London.

The Earl of Aberdeen gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers last evening, at Argyll-house.
A deputation from the Board of Directors of the Ails-
tralian Direct Steam Navigation Company via Panama,
consisting of Mr. John Carnac Morris (chairman), Lieut.-
Colonel George Rushout, M.P., Captain J. C. Hoseason,
R.N., and Messrs. Jackson, Fanning, Herring, Macin-
tyre, and Henry Foreman (secretary), waited upon Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office, to solicit
her Majesty's Ministers to adopt measures in concert
with the Colonial Legislatures for establishing an effi-
cient postal steam communication with the Australian
colonies.

The Earl of Aberdeen returned to London yesterday
from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
Lord John Russell arrived at his residence in Chas-
ham-place yesterday from Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-
park.

SIR RICHARD ENGLAND.-It was asserted yesterday
by a contemporary that the above-named gallant officer
is now second in command of our army in the Crimea.
This statement is entirely incorrect. The general second
in command is Sir John Burgoyne.
We are glad to learn that the Duke of Somerset con
tinues to go on favourably.
The name of Captain Elrington, Rifle Brigade, men-
tioned in Lerd Raglan's despatch published in the Ex-
traordinary Gazette of 2d Dec., is erroneously given as
Ebrington.
The Earl of Rosso has returned to the Castle, Parsons-
town, from London.
Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Laurence Parsons and Mr. Par-
sons are en a visit to the Earl and Countess of Rosso,
at the Castle, Parsonstown.
The Hon. John Cole and suite have arrived at the
Gresham Hotel.
Sir W. Hartopp has arrived at the Clarendon, front
Four Oaks Hall, Warwickshire.
The Rev. M. Rice has arrived at the Clarendon, from
Wye Rectory, Wye, Kent.
We are happy to find that Sir John Blunden of Kil-
kenny, has nearly recovered from the effects of his recent
severe accident.
Lord Viscount Clifden has subscribed 1001. towards
the county of Kilkenny Patriotic Fund.
THE UNITED STATES STEAMER WASHINGTON took out
from Southampton yesterday the largest mail and cargo
which ever left that pert for New York. The mail con-
sisted of nearly 60 sacks of letters and papers. This
increase in the cargo and mails arises from the New
York mail packets running less frequently in consequence
of the war.

We are sorry to announce the death of Major-Gene-
ral Charles O'Neil Prendergast, which took place o❑
Monday, in Dublin. There are thus four more general
officers dead since the new promotion warrant came into
operation—General Lord Lorton, Lieutenant• General
Egerton, Major-General Sir George Cathcart, and Ma-
jor-General Prendergast. The deaths of the first three
cause a vacancy for the promotion of a colonel to the
rank of major-general. Colonel G. H. Lockwood, C. 8.,
half-pay 3d Light Dragoons, is the senior colonel on the,
list.

A letter from Rome, in the Parlamento of Turin, states
that the Conference of Bishops at Rome was closed on
the 2d, after coming to a nearly unanimous conclusion
on the matter under debate.
M. SouLE.—A Madrid letter, in announcing the re-
turn of M. Sould to that capital, states that M. Paaheco
has declared that, in order to avoid disagreeable discus-
sion, he would communicate with him only in writing.
It was not known, however, whether the successor of
M. Pacheco intended to adopt the same course in his re-
lations with M. Soult.
On the 18th ult. the Military Commission at Modena
condemned a man to six years' hard labour for being
found in possession of a pistol.
The Giornale di Roma contains a decree, dated the 27th
ult., by which the Papal Government guarantees the
notes of the Bank of Rome, and enacts that their pro•
gressive reimbursement is to commence immediately.
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.—By an imperial decree just
published, the Emperor of Austria has decided that the
expenses of insurance for articles to be sent to the Great
f Exhibition of Paris, and for their return, are to be borne
by the State, as also the cost of the preservation of the
paskage boxes during the exhibition, and the expense
of conveyance from the frontiers of Austria to those of
France.
DANTZIO.—The exports and imports by land and sea
at Daritzic exceeded in 1853 by more than 18,000,000 fr.
those of the year preceding. The number of vessels
Which entered was 1,739, and of those which sailed 1,7561
—total, 3,495, or 1,159 more than in 1852. The total
of the imports was 54,392,000 fr., and the export-
-59,2G5,000fr. The profits made by shipowners were exs
traordinarily large ; in some cases they were as much as
150 per cent. more than those of 1852.

AN INDIAN VISITOR.—We read in the Memorial of
Bordeaux, of Sunday :—" Prince Maharajah-Murren-
der-Sing-Mahinder-Ba.hadon, of Pultialah, in India,
whose expected arrival at London was recently an-
nounced, and who was preceded by a letter opening
a credit of 12,000,000 fr. at different Banks in Eng-
land, has marked his entrance into Europe by a
strange piece of eccentricity. Instead of proceeding
direct to London, as had been expected, he has com-
menced his peregrinations in the west by the city of
Bordeaux, where he disembarked three days ago
from a vessel which came from Calcutta. The opulent
nabob, instead of going to an hotel, purchased a house
in the Rue Tombe l'Oly, to which a garden is attached,
and he has at considerable expense caused it to be fur-
nished to his own particular taste. Yesterday he went
to the shop of a noted cap-maker, Ruelde Palement Ste-
Catherine, and bought a whole carriage-full of caps.
He then drove about the town, and amused himself by
throwing from the window of the vehicle caps to every-
body who wore hats. It was raining hard at the time.
The caps, which are waterproof, were received by the
public with hurrahs of satisfaction."
DR. WILSON AND THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.—Dr.
Wilson, mentioned by Captain Kingscote, Lord Rag-
lan's aide-de-camp, as having saved the life of the Duke
of Cambridge, by drawing his sword and leading a body
of men to his rescue, when his Royal Highness was sur-
rounded by enemies at the battle of Inkerman, is a
Scotchman. He is the son of a highly respected man
in Stranraer, and was formerly in the 7th Hussars,
where he was much esteemed by his brother officers in
that regiment. He is also an alumnus of the University
of Edinburgh.—Edinburgh, Courant.
THE OWENS COLLEGE, MANCHESTEk.—This institu-
tion, founded under the will of Mr. John Owens, a de-
ceased merchant, of Manchester, has just received au
accession of funds which has enabled the trustees to
found two new professorships. The building occupied
by the college has hitherto been rented from Mr. Geo.

Faulkner, one of the trustees, who had purchased it for
5,0001., and charged a rent of 4 per cent, upon the out-
lay. Mr. Faulkner has now come forward and given
the building to the institution, and out of the rent-fund
thus set at liberty the trustees have established a pro-

fessorship of Political Economy and Commercial Science,
and a professorship of Jurisprudence. The trustees have
at the same time given these chairs to Professor Chris-
tie, who already held the chair of Hi-tory in the Owens

College.