The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR

WINDSOR, Nov. 15.

The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Highness the Maharajah
Duleep Singh, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth,
Sir James Graham, Sir William Molesworth, Major-
General the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Lady Emily
Cavendish, the Hon. P. Talbot, Sir Hamilton and Lady
Seymour, Lieutenant-General Sir Hew D. Ross, and
Sir John Logan.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and performed the following selec-
tion :

Overture, " Espagniola"
Selection "Frieschutz" Weber.
Waltz, " Fair Star"
Grand Duo, " Les Huguenots"
Quadrille, "Malta."
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in
the Castle, and played the following pieces :

Overture, "Seraglio"
Selection, " Sinfonia Pastorale "

Finale (third act),

" Zora".

Mozart.
Beethoven.

Rossini.

The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Maharajah
Duleep Singh, walked in the Home-park this morning.
His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Singh took leave
of her Majesty to-day and left for Wi►nbledon, accom•
panied by Sir J. Logan.
Sir William Molesworth, Sir James Graham, Sir
Hamilton and Lady Seymour, and Lieutenant-General
Sir Hew D. Ross left Windsor for London, and the
Hon. P. Talbot for Dover.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, and Mr. Timm had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official
residence in Downing-street.
President Roberts, Mr. Spencer P. Plumer, and Mr.
W. H. Fisher bad an interview yesterday with Lord
Clarendon at the Foreign-office, on business connected
with the Republic of Liberia.

LORD PALMERSTON'S VISIT TO PARIS.—Lord Palmer
ston was to have left town yesterday for Paris, but was
prevented by indisposition. We believe it is his lord-
ship's intention to take kis departure for France this
afternoon, if the state of his health permits.
Their Excellencies the Count and Countess of St.
Germans and suite have left Dover-street, for the Vice-
regal Lodge, Dublin.
The Earl and Countess of Desart and family left the
Earl of Cawdor's, in South Audley-street, yesterday, for
Desart Castle, Kilkenny.
Lord and Lady Ebrington and family have arrived at
Lord Fortescue's, in Grosvenor-square, from Castle Hill,
Devon.
Lord and :Lady Rokeby and the Hon. Misses Mon-
tague have arrived at Montague-house, Portman-square,
from Hughwood-house, Herts.
The United States Minister to the Court of the Queen
of Spain, M. Sould, arrived, we hear, on the 10th inst.
at Madrid, via Paris and Bordeaux.
Sir Benjamin Hall left town yesterday for his seat,
Abercarn, South Wales. The right hon. baronet will
remain absent for about a fortnight.
The Archbishop of Dublin arrived in Cork on Satur-
day, and is on a visit at the see house. His grace deli-
vered a sermon on Sunday at the Cathedral of St. Fin
Barr's, which was crowded. The Lord Lieutenant,
during his stay at Cork, will also be the guest of the
bishop.
The Lord Bishop of London has consented to preach
on Sunday morning next at St. Mary, Islington, a
sermon iR aid of the funds of the Islington Protestant
Institute, whereof the Rev. R. Maguire is the clerical
secretary.
SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.—These clinks look like one
vast workshop. The servants of the great steam-packet
companies labour with the utmost zeal to get the
steamers off to France as soon as possible. Everyone
seems to work with a will.
THE BALL AT GUILDHALL.—The Chartered Gas
Company has most kindly given 1001., being equivalent
to the expense of lighting the hall, and the concert will
be entirely gratuitous.
LLOYD'S.—The members of this establishment, at a
general meeting held yesterday, voted from their funds
the sum of 2,0001., as a contribution to the Patriotic
Fund.
GRESHAM COLLEGE.—The Gresham Professorship of
Geometry has become vacant by the death of Mr. Robt.
Pitt Edkins, M.A.
ARCHDEACON DENISON.—We understand it has been
determined to move for a prohibition in the case of the
proceedings instituted by the Archbishop of Canterbury
against this gentleman.
ORDINATION.—The Bishop of Norwich intends holding
a general ordination in the cathedral church of his diocese
on Sunday next, the 19th inst.
ST. MARTIN'S HALL.—Mr. Hullah has commenced
his annual series of concerts of sacred music. Last
evening Judas Illaecabeus was performed in an admirable
manner, and with great success.
ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday, the
rise in the price of bread became general throughout
the metropolis, the advance being one halfpenny in the
quartern leaf. The price now stands thus :—Best qua-
lity, lid. the 41b. ; seconds, 10d. and 9d. ; and thirds,
or household bread, 9d.
BAAZILIA.N CONSULATE, DEAL.—The government of
his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the Brazils has
confirmed the appointment of Norris Adams, Esq., as
Brazilian vice-consul for the port of Deal and its did
trict.
Majer-General Morton Eden, commanding this die
trict, has gone on leave of absence in consequence of the
death of a near relative ; the command during General
Eden's absence devolves on Colonel Ward, R.E.—.Ply
mouth Mail.
DEPARTURE OF AMERICAN MAlLS.—Yesterday after-
noon, about three o'clock, the United States Mail
steam-ship Baltic, Captain James Comstock, sailed from
the Mersey for New York, with the usual mails for the
United States, Canada, &c., 120 passe, gers, and a full
cargo of merchandise on board.
THE ATTACK ON MR. DARGAN'S WORKMEN IN
LIIJERICK.—Mr, Barron, R.M., Limerick, has offered
a reward of 301. for such information as may lead to the
arrest and conviction of the unknown parties who beat
Mr. Dargan's masons, in Carey's-read, on the 9th inst.
Farmers in the south of England are purchasing sheep
in the north of Scotland to fat them for the London
market. Four-year-old sheep are purchased for about
17s. 6d, a head. The conveyance of them to the south
costs about 3s. a head more. These sheep have been
fed on the Moors, and have never tasted a turnip. They
are found rather wild at first--almost too wild for the
follow.
DUBLIN, Nov. 15.—The Irish Poor Law Commis-
niissioners have given their sanction to an order of the
Governor of the Government Hospitals in Dublin pro-
hibiting the attendance of Sisters of Charity in the hos-
pitals, and adopting other restrictions previously in force
in the workhouse hospitals.
NEW CHURCH AT NOTTING-HILL.—The new church o
All Saint,,, Netting-hill, which has been erected and en-
dowed by Dr. Walker, who has offered to found the
bishopric of Cornwall, is approaching completion, and
will be ready for consecration early in the ensuing year.
REPORTING IN 1723.—" I was in the House of Com-
mons t'other day, and wrote shorthand from Sir R. Wal-
pole and other famous speakers, for which I was told I
had like to have been taken into custody, but I came
away free.—Drs Byron 's Remains.
TRADE WITH THE RUSSIANS —Mr. J. T. Damson tolls
us, in a paper recently read before the Statistical Society
on " Our commerce with .Rus‘ia," that, while Great
Britain exports goods to the annual value of sixty shil-
lings for every inhabitant, and France to the value of
thirty-three shillings per individual, the shipments from
Russia amount to no more than four shillings and two-
pence per head.
AUSTRIAN ITALY.--The Emperor of Austria has just
laid an additional tax upon Lombardy, to the amount of
41- kreutzers per florin of direct taxes (the florin is 60
kr. eutzers, and its value corresponds to 2f. 50c.)
The Bologna Gazette publishes a sentence, pronounced
by the tribunal of that city, condemning two robbers to
death, and twenty-six more of the same band to various
periods of hard labour.
The Weser Zcitung states that 80 persons out of 218
lost their lives by the stranding of the emigrant ship
Johanna, of Bremen, which was driven ashore off Neu-
Larrlingersyl on the 6th inst. The rescued passengers
have lost all they possessed.
According to Russian statements, the Russian Ural
gold mines have been extremely productive this year.
A quantity of bars, to the amount of somewhat more
than 200 puds, are said to have been forwarded recently
to the Imperial mint, the brute value of which, at 411bs.
troy per pud, would be about 450,0001.
A letter from Naples of the 7th, in the Parlamento of
Turin, states that the judicial proceedings in the
case of the Ercolano steamer, which foundered in May
last in consequence of a collision in the Tuscan sea with
the Sicilia (sinoe stranded off the English coast), are
likely to last many years, a conflict having arisen be-
tween the courts of Palermo and Naples as to com-
petence.
An Imperial decree, dated the 25th ult., inserted in
the Bulletin des Lois of yesterday, opens a credit of
7,000,000 f. for part payment of the subvention granted
to the Paris and Caen and Cherburg Railway Company,
fTohrethreee o
e iconsiderationreceipts
wohf otinthe
elc4o f the section from Rosny to Caen.
The sums paid into the Paris Savings' Bank last week
amounted to 460,773 fr. from 4,099 depositors, of whom
543 were new. The reimburnsetw.
Retraitenents wfoerre
031d25a,g62eOfforr.
the last fortnight amounted to 195,9431 r. from 2,275 de-
positors,
The following are thaBeispwse dereireee eschargedfor certain articles
which from time to time reach the camp of Sebastopol
from Varna :—Brandy, rum, and absinthe from 6fr. to
Bfr. a litre ; wine, according to the supply, 2fr. 25c.,
2fr. 50c., and 3fr. ; tobacco, 4fr. the kilogramme;
sausages and hams, Bfr. the kilogramme ; and potatoes
lfr. 25c,, and lfr. 50c. the kilog. These are nearly all
the artic'es that can be procured.
The Posen Gazette has the following from Thorn, Bth :
—" The Russian troops, who a short time since had oc-
cupied the towns near the left bank of the Vistula, such
as Sluzewo, Nieszawa, and Wloclaweck, left them last
week, and those places are now clear of troops. It is
said that the majority of them have gone to the neigh-
bourhood of Cracow, and the rest to that of Kalisch. It
ie not known whether they will be replaced by other
troops."
A serious accident, attended with loss of life, occurred
two days ago at the paper mills of Saint Apoilonie, in
the commune of Entraenmes (Mayenne). A quantity of
rags had been placed in a large iron cylinder to be re-
duced to pulp by the action of steam, and when the
cylinder was about to be opened, the gas which had col-
lected drove out the hot pulp with such violence on all
the persons near that seven of them were scalded in the
most severe manner. One of them, M. Lannos, the
director of th restablidament, has since died, after 20
hours' horrible sufferings.

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