The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR•

WINDSOR, DEC. 8.
The dinner party yesterday included her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, His Serene Highness
Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Anna liffa.ria Daw-
son, Baroaess de Speth, and Colonel the Hen. C. B. and
Mrs. Phipps.
Her Majesty's private band attended after dinnet in
the Castle.
The Queen, with the Princess Royal and Princess
Alice, rode in the Riding-house this morning.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by
the Prince of Wales, weat out hunting, attended by
Lieutenant. Colonel the Hon. N. Hood and Captaia the
Hon. D. de Ros.•
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen left
Windsor this forenoon for Germany.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have been invited,
and are expected this afternoon. The Earl of Aberdeen
is also expected.

Tif COURT.—Her Majesty and the Prince Consort
and Royal suite are expected to arrive at Buckingham
Palace on Monday next from Windsor Castle. On
Tuesday the Queen, at the usual hour, will proceed in
state from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lords,
to open the session of Parliament. The sojourn of her
Majesty iu London is not expected to exceed 24 hours,
returning to the Castle until the first week in February,
when the court will arrive irr London for the season.
CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held yes-
terday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers
present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell,
the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the
Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Cla-
rendon, Sir George Grey,, the Duke of Newcastle, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir
Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney'
Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council
sat two hours.
Tho Earl of Aberdeen left town after the Cabinet
Council yesterday .afternoon for Windsor Castle.
Prince Ernest of Leiningen passed through • London
yesterday en route to Germany. His Serene Highness
left town by the South-Eastern Railway.
His Royal Highness the Count de Chambord has for-
warded to the Soci6te Fra.ncaise de Bienfaisance a gene-
• rous contribution in aid of this excellent old-established
, institution.
The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon from
Hornby Castle, Catterick, Yorkshire.
The Duke of Beaufort comes to town on Monday next
from Badminton Park, Gloucestershire. The mansion
in Gros-venor-square, lately taken by his grace, the late
seat of the French Embassy, is undergoing re-embellish-
ment and repair previous to its occupancy by their graces
and family.
The Earl of Hardwicke has arrived in town from
Wimpole Hall, near Cambridge.
The Earl and Countess of Winchelsea are detained at
the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, through the indispo-
sition of the countess.
Lord and Lady Blanche Dupplin arrived at Hampden
House, Green-street, Park-lane, yesterday, from Dupplin
Castle, Perthshire, en route to visit the Earl and Coun-
, tees of Kmnoul, at Brighton, where they are passing the

winter.
The Bishop of Bath and Wells (Lord Auckland), and
Lady Auckland and the Hon. Miss Eden, have left town
for Lansdowne-crescent, Bath, for the winter season.
Sir Win. Hartopp has left the Clarendon for Four
Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire.
surveyor
epsolches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day morning from the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening to
Australia.
A deputation from the Kentish Town Paving Board
had an interview yesterday with the President of the
General Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall. The
deputation consisted of Messrs. James Clarke, Samuel
William Halton, and Robert Furness (clerk and
r to the said paving board).
address in the Comaions which, as we stated some
days since, is to be moved by Mr. Henry Arthur Her-
bert, will, we have reason to believe, be seconded by
sereb ofe M
a htl at Brighton. It is
the Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, member for Stoke.
Mr,T
health has been for some
time in a h precarious°B SDun
state
feared the hon. gentleman will be unable to attend to
his Parliamentary duties at the opening of the ensuing
session.
TURIN, DEC. 3.—The Campana gives the assurance
that the bases of an offensive and defensive alliance be-
tween Piedmont, France, and England are agreed upon.
ABINGDON ELECTION.—The nomination for this bo-
rough is fixed for Monday next. The candidates, Major
J. liaythorne Reed (Liberal) and Mr. J. T. Norris
(Liberal), are both confident of success.
THE TAKLNG OF SEBASTOPOL.—A fortnight ago, at
Tatttersall's, a gallant general offered to bet 1,0001.
even that tho Allies are in possession of Sebastopol on
or before Christmas Day, but nobody seemed inclined
to accept the offer. The odds since then have changed
consi lerably, and on Monday last 1,000 to 100 was
betted that it will not be taken this year !
Tsi VOLUNTEER AT ALMA..—The gallant young volun -
teer of the Alma, Mr. C. P. Lane Fox, arrived at Bram-
ham on Monday night, en a visit to his cousin, Mr.
George Lane Fox, and was most joyfully received by
the inhabitants. The church bells were rung on the
occasion. It will be recollected that the gallant young
volunteer went on the field of Alma in a shooting-jacket,
and used every exeition in getting up ammunition for
the troops, when he received a bullet wound in the ancle,
and in that state tore Capt. B iring, of the Coldstream
Guards, who had lost an arm, off the field. Mr. Fox
was highly complimented for his bravery by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and has been pre-
sented with a lieutenancy in the Coldstream Guards.
He is still suffering from the effects of the bullet, and is
unable to walk without the assistance of crutches, but we
are happy to say he is progressing favourably.
Mae. L. S. BUCKINGHAM, OF THE TPLEATRE
ROYAL, HATMARKET.—We are requested by the legal
adviser of this estimable lady and meritorious actress
to announce that, in the action of divorce a 'vincula
matrintonii, at her instance, against Mr. Leicester
Stanhope Buckingham, the Supreme Court of Ses-
sions in Scotland, on the 2Sth ult., pronounced the
following decree in her favour :—" That the said plaits-
tiff is entitled to live single, or marry any roan, as if she
had never been married to the said Leicester Stanhope
Forbes Young Buckingham, otherwise Leicester Stan-
hope Forbes Young Ambrose Buckingham, or as if he
were naturally 'lead. And decerns finds the plaintiff
entitled to expenses." The plaintiff, as we believe is the
invariable custom in similar circumstances, will resume
her family name, and in future appear as Miss Caroline
White in all theatrical announcements.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. -- Amongst other
works now in progress for improving the sanitary con-
dition of the [metropolis and its thoroughfares may he
mentioned the closing of six streets in Westminster for
the purpose of effecting an efficieat drainage, viz., De-
lallay-street and mews, Charle,-street, Duke-street,
and Gardner s-lana. The narrowness of these streets,
and the fear of disturbing the founO.ations of
the houses, have caused the principa), sewerage
works to be carried out by tunneling—arathaa-difficulttask
in the streets of London, the many pipes ilatersecting prove
most formidable and annoying obstruations to the sewer ,
moles. 'The great line of communication with the East-
ern Counties, Long-lane, has been again closed after the
formation of the monster sewer from Finsbury to the
Fleet, in Farriaglon-street. The earth having subsided
under the temporary roadway, Long-lane is now under,
' going a substantial repayeinent.—The Builder.