The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, OCT. 19.
The following bad the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday,—his Serene Highness Prince Victor of
Hohenlobe, the Bishop of New Zealand, Sir James
Clark, Lieutenant-Colonel Edwards (commanding the
ISth Royal Irish), and Mr. Gibbs.
The Queen's private band attended after dinner in the
Castle, and played the following selection :

Overture, " Zanetta"
Coro der Dervische and Marseh, "Dio Rudman
von Athen"

A.uber.

Selection Ballet—" La Estrella."

The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds adjoin-
ing the Castle this morning.
The Royal children took their accustomed exercise.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince Victor
of Holienlohe, rode out on horseback in the forenoon,
attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour.
Their Royal Highnesses the Dachess and Princess
Mary of Cambridge are expected to-day on a visit to
her Majesty.
The following have been invited, and are also expected
this afternoon :—The Prussian Mini: ter and Countess
Von Bernstorff, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon,
Lord Burgher h, and Colonel Sir Charles Hamilton
(Scots Fusilier Guards).

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge
anal the Princess Mary left their residence at Kew yes-
terday afternoon for Windsor Castle.
Mr. John Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, and Mr. Pro-sly had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer-yesterday at his official re-
sidence in Dowsing-street.
Despatches were sent last evening from the Colonial-
office fur the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and also for the Governors of Malta and Hong
Kong.

A Cabinet Council will be bel e Foreign Office,
this day, at three o'clock.
The Nubia, which leaves Southampton with the India
and China mail to-day, will take out a quantity of me-

dical stores for the Crimea.
The Queen of the South Steamer, belonging to the
General Screw Company, will take out troops to the

Crimea from Portsmouth.

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Recruiting for the Guards has been actively going on
in the Isle of Wight.
The Archbishop of Canterbury ~.as collated the Rev.
Charley T. Astley, 8.A., incumbent of Holwell, near
Lechlade, to the vicarage of Margate, Kent, rendered
vacant by the preferment of the Rev. John Fentinian
Lingham, M.A , to the rectory of Lambeth.
Sir John Craven Carden, Bart., of the Priory, has, in
the most liberal manner, presented the church and parish
of Templemore with a costly and beautiful bell.
OPENING OF THE NEW TRAINING COLLEGE AT EXETER.
—On Wednesday the New Training College erected on
the Old B Ith-road, about a quarter of a mile from the
city of Exeter, was opened with great ceremony.
THE NORTH-WEST PANCRAS PAROCHIAL ASSOCIATION.
—Tbe anniversary of the establishment of this associa-
tion was celebrated on Wednesday evening at the Vic-
toria Tavern, Mornington-road ; Henry Farrer, Esq.,

churchwarden, in the Chair.
MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SANITARY ASSOCIATION.
—The annual meeting of the Manchester and Salford
Sanitary Association was held yesterday at the Town-
hall, Manchester, and was presided over by the Lord
Bishop of the diocese.
DOCKING AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.—The anni-
versary meeting of this association was held on Saturday,
at Docking. The distribution of prizes, which took
pace in the grounds of the Rev. H. J. Hare, was super-
intended by W. Hogge, Esq., and H. E. Myth, Esq.,
is the presence of a large party of the gentry and farmers
of t'Ae district. Upwards of 701. were presented to about
100 persons
ROYAL ASYLUM FOR DECAYED WATEEMEN AND LIGHT-
ERMEN.—The annual dinner for the benefit of this bene-
volent society was given yesterday evening, at the Lon-
don Tavern, when upwards of two hundred gentlemen
were present.
We understand that the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel has it in contemplation to open a fund for
maintaining an additional number of clergymen at the

seat of war.
EVENING CLASSES FOR YOUNG MEN.—Last evening a
lecture was delivered at Crosby-hall, by the Rev. A. C.
Smith, upon "The Invention and Early History of the
Art of Printing.
SERIOUS COLLISION ON THE OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND
WOLVERHAMPTON RAILWAY.—On Wednesday last a col-
lision took place on this line, near Hartlebury, which
providentially
was net attended by loss of life, although
it appears marvellous that the passengers escaped as
they seem to have done.
ABATEMENT OF CHOLERA.—Yesterday morning the
board of guardians for the parish of St. George in the
East, Middlesex, issued orders for the closing of the
cholera hospital, No. 3, Bath-terrace, Back-road, Can-
non-street, in consequence of the total disappearance of
the epidemic among the poor inhabitants. The medical
officers and nurses have been discharged, and the build-
ing is at present untenanted.
LONGEVITY.—On the 7th of October, Mrs. Susan
Ahlett died at Weybread, in the county of Suffolk, aged
104 years. She enjoyed the use of her faculties until
the last year of her life.
MALTA—According to advices from-Malta. of the 12th,
the Persian, which had been in collision with the Ganges
in the Sea of Alarmora, had suffered considerable damage,
and was forced to return to Constantinople. Lieutenant
N. C. Singer, of the Royal Artillery, who was one of
the passengers, had been killed.
The rectory of Skeyton, with the rectories of Oxnead
and Buxton annexed, near Soottow, in the diocese of
Norwich, has become vacant by the death of the Rev.
Henry Anson, M.A. (instituted 1807). The benefice,
which is worth 7001. a year, is in the gift of Sir Samuel
Bignold.
CHOLERA. IT BRADFORD.—We regret to state that
within the past few days nine or ten cases of malignant
cholera have occurred, at Bradford, Yorkshire. Active
measures are being taken by the local authorities to arrest
the spread of the contagion.
on Wednesday morning at
Manchester, during walls were blown down,
THE STORM IN LA.NCASHIRE.—There was a violent
e was done, besides several persons
muarnaingd others placed in considerable danger.
sabtneoaidrnnmgoohot
injured,ehf
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rn,dd andad
Loan or MAILS.—A letter from Messrs. William
Carson and Sons, of Dublin, states that a bag of letters
from Liverpool to Dublin was lost before reaching Holy-
head oa Tuesday evening.
The Bavarian Government has just published an official
return of the oases of cholera which have taken place in
that country up to the 30th of September last, from
which it appears that 12,753 persons were attacked, and
that 6,163 deaths ensued.—Paris paper.
The city of Milan has been but little visited by cholera,
though the epidemic was raging at no great distance
from it. The total number of cholera patients since the
31st of July only amounts to 44 up to the 7th instant,
some of whom were strangers.
SPANISH FINANCIAL COMMISSION.—This commission
has issued a notice stating that the Spanish Government
has decided that the sum of 375,000 reals which was as-
signed for the 34th auction of the foreign redeemable
debt, shall be increased to 750,000 reals, owing to the
suspension of the auction in July last, through the politi-
cal events of that period.
All the materiel of the submarine telegraph destined
to unite Elsinore in Denmark with Helsingborg in Swe-
den has arrived from England in the latter place, and
the laying dawn *1 the cable containing the electric
wires has commenced. The distance is about 5i miles.
When completed, Stockholm, which is in 59 deg. 20
min. north latitude, will be in direct communication
with Milan, and with all the electric lines of Denmark,
Gtrmany, Belgium, and France.—Galignani.
PLATE ROB/ART.—lnformation has been forwarded
to the Metropolitan police stations of a robbery having
been perpetrated on Monday last, at the chambers of
W. It Turner, Esq., 1, Field-court, Gray's-inn, when
three silver tankards were carried off by the thieves.
One of them is engraved with a crest, a lion reclining
with his fare-paw on a cross, and a T underneath ; an-
other bearing the inscription, "Ilex Beating Club, pair
oar match, J. H. Turner, 17th July, 1854 ;" and the
third is inscribed " Royal Thames National Regatta,
1854." A. reward has been offered, and the police are
actively engaged, but no trace has yet been discovered
of the property or the depredators.
SELF-MUTILATION BE A SOLDIER OF THE GUAEDS.—

During the past week notice has been given that a cer-
tain number of the first battalion of Grenadier Guards
was destined for speedy embarkation on active service,
and among the number thus required was the 7th com-
pany of the Ist battalion, stationed at the Wellington
Barracks. A private of the company, named Cumming,
expressed his disinclination to go abroad, and the day
after herl.ring the int•Alivnee he went to a retired part
of the barracks, and taking fl.ll.lteln,t, chopped off OP-
first and second fingers of his lett hand. He was con-
veyed to the hospital in Rochester-row, and will be tried
by a court-martial as soon as he has recovered.