The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Privy Council yesterday at Osborne,
Isle of Wight.
The Council was attended by his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the
Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcasle, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, Sir James Graham, the Marquis of
Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), and the Duke of Wel-
lington (Master of the Horse).
At the Council a- proclamation was ordered for the
election of a representative Peer for Scotland, in the
room of the late Earl of Seafield.
The Royal Speech on the dosing of the session of
Parliament was arranged and agreed upon by her Ma-
jesty in Council.
The Hon William Bathurst was Clerk of the Council
in Waiting.
After the Council, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers,
Judge Advocate-General, had an audience,
and silo-
Initted to the Queen the proceedings of some courts-
martial.
The Ministers and Great Officers of State left
town to attend the Council at half-past nine o'clock
yesterday morning, by a special train from the
Waterloo station of the South Western Railway.
They reached Gosport at twelve o'clock, embarked
on board the steam-yacht Fire Queen, and arrived
at Osborne at 1 o'clock. At half-past 3 o'clock all the
Ministers and Great Officers who had attended the Privy
Council, with the exception of the Earl of Aberdeen and
Sir James Graham, re-embarked on board the Fire
Queen and crossed to Gosport, when the Duke of Ar-
gyll, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Lansdowne,
and Earl Granville returned to London by the special
train.

OSBORNE, AUG. 19.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, Prince Adaibert of
Prussia, and Count Alexander Mendorff, and attended
by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, embarked on
board the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning, and proceeded to Spithead, where a
salute was fired from the squadron at anchor.
Her Majesty, the Royal party, and suite immediately
allbarked in the barge, and went on board the Duke of
selling,ton, Captain Martin, where Vice-Admiral Sir
Thomas Cochrane received her Majesty.
The Duke of Wellington, with six steamers of war,
and the Victoria and Albert and Elfin, the whole under
Sir T. Cochrane's command, got under way with the
Royal party on board, and proceeded under steam to
the eastward. Between 2 and 3 o'clock the Royal
Squadron made sail and returned towards Spithead.
Her Majesty was again saluted by the squadron at
anchor, and re-embarked in the Victoria and Albert at
a o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, left
Osborne
at 10 o'clock yesterday morning for London.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
1 Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, left
..own at half past 9 o'clock yesterday morning by the
treat Northern Railway for Newcastle, ea route for
4bergeldie. The Royal Duchess proceeds to Edinburgh
tais day.
Mr. Gregson, M.P , and Mr. Thomas Wright, of Man-
chester, transacted business. yesterday at the Home-office.
Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-
Ace to the Governors of the North American provinces,
the Governors Of Gibraltar, Malta, the Lord High Com-
missioner of the lonian Islands, and the Governors of
Hong Kong and Ceylon.