The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-29 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, DEC. 28.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady-in-Waiting to her
Royal Highness, Baroness de Speth, Baron and Baroness
d'Usedore, the Earl of Clarendon, Viscount Canning,
Sir James Graham, and Major-General the Hon. C.
and Mrs. Grey.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards played in the
Castle during dinner, and her Majesty's private band
afterwards.

The Queen and Prince walked in the Castle-gardens
and slopes this morning. The Royal children took their
accustomed exercise.

Baron d'Usedorn was presented to her Majesty yes.
terday afternoon at an audience, by the Earl of Cla
rendon.

The Baron and Baroness d'lTsedom, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, and Viscount Canning, and Sir James Graham,
left Windsor this forenoon for London.
Tho Marquis of Br eadalbaneis expected this afternoon.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to grant a
pension of 50/. a-year to the widow of the late Dr.
Kitto, the well-known author of many important
Biblical works.

Despatches from the governors of Hong Kong, Cey-
lon, and the Mauritius, were received yesterday at the
Colonial-office.

Sir De Lacy Evans arrived in London yesterday
morning from Dover. This distinguished Crimean hero
was recognised at the London-bridge station by Captain
Barlow and Captain (Nemesis) Hall, and took his depar-
ture thdnce amidst the cheers of these present.
The Duke of Sutherland has left Trentham, on a ♦isit
to the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, at Lilies-
ball, Salop.
The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived at Stafford-
house, from Trentham.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has arrived in London,
from his seat, Bowood-park.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare have arrived
at Stafford-house from visiting the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland at Trentham.

The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor have arrived
at Calverley-park, Chester, from Trentham.
The Earl of Stamford and Warrington has arrived at
Enville-hall.
Lady Blantyre and family have arrived at Stafford
House from Erskine House, N.B. Lord Blantyre will
arrive in London early in the ensuing week.
The Bank of France has declared a dividend of 82f.
for the last six months of 1854.

hrmsliici--irTEc;;;;;.--Mr. Stephen E. De Vere, of
Currachase, Adare, has been returned without opposi-
tion as member for the county of Limerick, in the room
of the late Mr. Wyndham Goold.
MACAULAY'S PORTRAIT.—Sir John Watson Gordon's
admirable portrait of the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay
is about to be presented to the University of Glasgow
by Mr. James Keith. This portrait was painted during
Mr. Macaulay's occupancy of the Lord Rector's chair.
VESSELS LOADING AT LIVERPOOL FOR AUSTRALIA.—
There are only twenty-three craft on the berth at pre-
sent, a smaller number than for a considerable period.
The enterprising French company who recently pur-
chased the South American screw•steamers Lusitania
and Braziliera have become the owners of the Mediter-
ranean screw-steamers Danube, Syrian, and Rhone, and
it is understood that they are in treaty for others.
REPRESENTATION OF SUNDERLAND.—A correspondent
informs ns that it is intended to put Admiral Sir Charles
Napier in nomination for the seat in this borough, va-
cated by Mr. William D. Seymour's appointment to the
rectorship of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. At a meeting of
shipoweers, held on Wednesday to consider the subject,
it was unanimously resolved that the admiral should be
supported heart aid soul.
TEE GREAT BRITAIN.—This noble screw steam-ship,
from Australia, may now be daily looked for. She was
to have left Melbourne on the 28th of October, and is
now 61 dap at sea. She will bring a month's later
ad vices.

Loss OP A. COASTING VESSEL—It is feared that an
Inverness vessel, the Isabella Anderson, has been lost
during the recent storms. She left Louth about three
weeks ago, and has not since been heard of.
THE EAGLE.—The Eagle, Captain Murphy, started
yesterday on her fourth voyage to the antipodes from
the Mersey, with a full cargo and 250 passengers on
board.

TIE RED JACKET.—This ♦essel sailed yesterday fore-
noon at half-past eleven o'clock, for Melbourne, with
350 passengers, and a very fall cargo of merchandise on
freight. She will be towed past Cape Clear, and is ex-
pected to make a very rapid run. She took a large num-
ber of ships' letter-bags. The succeeding clipper from
this port will be the celebrated Black Bali liner Light-
ning, Capt. Anthony Enright, which sails on the sth
proximo for Melbourne, with the January mails, which
she engages tcp ddiver in 66 ON%

LATEST NEWS.

BERLIN, DEC. 28.

Accounts from St. Petersburg state that Prince
Menschikoff writes from Sebastopol on the 20th
of December,—
" Nothing new has taken place here.
" The weather is bad, and our well-directed
fire interrupts the enemy's works."

MARSEILLES, DEC. 28.

The Lougsor, which left Constantinople on the
14th, and the Egyptus, on the 19th, have arrived
with despatches for the Government.
The news brought by them from the Crimea is
unimportant.

VIENNA, DEC. 28.

Conferences of a positive character, at which
M. Gortschakoff and Count Arnim will be present,
take place to-day.
The Earl of Westmoreland being still indisposed
the discussion will take place in his apartments.

We have received the following despatch, dated
yesterday evening, from Vienna :
" The Oest. Correspondenz has dates from Con-
stantinople to the 18th. The Royal Albert, with
1,800 troops on board, had passed through the
Bosphorus.
"Up to the 18th the number of English and
French reinforcements to the armies in the Crimea

am.unted to 18,000 men.
" The Duke of Cambridge was better.
" The Turkish army at Kus was hard pressed
by the Russians."

MADRID, DEC. 23.
The Cortes has to-day voted the bill fixing the
effective force of the army at 70,000 men.
The Three per Cents. were done at 34.70.

PARIS, FRIDAY MORNING.

Yesterday evening, the President of the Bureau
Legislatif, accompanied by all the Deputies,
waited on the Emperor at the Tuileries, and pre-
sented the bill for the loan voted on that day,
with au assurance of their devotion and unre-
served co-operation. The President also laid be-
fore the Emperor an expression of the high sense
they entertained towards the English army, its
fleet, and illustrious chiefs, as alio their
solii-
tude and admiration for the valiant armies of

France on land and sea. The Emperor, in re-
turning thanks, concluded by saying that France,
with the loyal and energetic assistance of its
Allies, might wait with confidence the issue of
the war in which she was engaged ; and, sup•
ported by her brave Allies, by land and sea, she
will know how to maintain the rank due to
her in the continent of Europe.

FLAN CE.
PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The following telegraphic despatches have been
received here to-day :

" Warsaw, Dec. 27.
" The Russian Government has interdicted un-
til further orders the export of salt meat, cattle,
cordage, sail cloth, or Flemish cloth, as well as all
other articles manufactured from linen or hemp,
from the ports of the Sea of Azof, the Black Sea,
and the Danube."

" Vienna, Dee. 28.
" A. report is current that Prinee Mensoltikoff iq
indisposed, and that General Osten-Saclien will
replace him. It is also said that the dismissal of
Omer Paella OR his arrival at Constantinople had
been rescinded. The laud-tax will shortly be
applied."

" MADRID, DEC. 27.
" Yesterday the Queen distributed the standards
to the national militia. Her Majesty was received
with enthusiasm."

There never has been such a busy time in the
French arsenals as at the present moment. Letters
from Metz state that the carriages belonging to the
artillery train in that place are found to be insuffi-
cient for the transport of the projectiles despatched
from the arsenal for the Crimea. The Government
has consequently been obliged to hire private car-
riages. Besides this, all the workpeople of the
town are occupied in making a large quantity of
sheepskin clothing for the army in the East. In
the seaports and other arsenals the activity is
equally great.
The following are the names of the members
composing the committee on the bill relative to
the loan of 500 millions :—MM. Lequilm, Gouin,
Schneider, Taillefer, Count Prosper de Chasseloup-
Laubat, Count de Morny, and Baron de Montreuil.
Count de Morny was appointed reporter.
M. Drouyn de Lhuys was absent from illness
from the Imperial sitting at the opening of the
Legislative Corps, and is still confined to his room.
His complaint is, however, only a severe cold, and
he is not considered in any danger.
The Legislative Corps met to-day at two o'clock;
Count de Morny in the chair. MM. Cazellez de
Beauchamp, Creuze, General Boulle, Busson, and
the Marquis de Chaumont-Quitry took their seats.
Five bills were presented relative to exchanges of
property, three others concerning delimitations of
communes, and two others authorising the depart-
ment of the Ain" and the town of Cornpigne to
contract loans. A bill was also presented to accord
as a national recomponco on the widow of Marshal
de St. Arnaud a pension of 20,000 f. a-year ; and
another bill to accord to the widow of Marshal
Bugeaud de la Picoverie a pension of similar
amount, with reversion of 6,000 f. of it to her son.
The president then read the report, which he
had been charged to draw up by the committee
en the bill relative to the loan of 500 millions.
This document was most warmly applauded, and
particularly the paragraph in which a marked en-
comium is given to the bravery of the English
troops, and in which the committee declared, in
the name of the Chamber, that the French soldiers
have merited well of their country. The bill was
then brought forward, and adopted unanimously by
241 votes. The announcement of this result was
greeted with loud cries of "Vive l'Empereur !" The
Chamber then decided that all the deputies should
accompany, the same evening, to the Tuileries, the
members of the bureaux, when taking up the
bill to the Emperor. The proceedings then ter-
minated.
The lifoniteur publishes the postal treaty con-
cluded between France andthe united kingdoms of
Sweden and Norway. The charge for a single letter
either way between France and Sweden is to be If.,
and between France and Norway if. 20c. The
charge for a newspaper in the former case is to be
20c., and in the latter 24c. The Moniteur also pub-
lishes a decree giving effect to the postal treaty
lately agreed to between France and Great Britain.
The Malta Times of the 19th says :—" Orders
have been received by the authorities here to pre-
pare barrack accommodation for 12,000 troops.
Quarters are being prepared for an adjutant-
general and a major-general ; a quartermaster-
general is also expected. These troops will, we
believe, consist for the most part of the depots of
the different regiments serving in the East, and
the raw recruits will be sent out from England to
this island, to be drilled in the necessary military
exercises before joining the army in the Crimea."

BOURSE, DEC. 28.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4i per Cents 92 80 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 66 60 66 65
Credit Mobilier 722 50 Roman
Credit Foncier FiO Austrian
Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes
Piedmontese B6 Home Debt 331