The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-08 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, Nov. 7.

The following had the honour of dining with her Ma-
jesty yesterday :—The Swedish Minister (Baron de
Hochschild), the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Claren-
don, Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Mrs. Gordon,
and the Hon. Arthur Gordon.

The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attend-
ance during dinner, and played the following pieces :

larch—" Allied Airrky",

Overture—

Marco SPada",

Selection—

"Don Giovanni"

Scidosser.

. Auber.

...... Mozart.

Waltz—" Dream of the Ocean " Gungl.
Selection—" Prophete" Meyerbeer.
Galop—" Bosphorus".. Mdlle. Christine.
The Queen's private band afterwards attended in the
Castle, and performed the following selection :
Overture—" Egmont"
Selection—" Lo Prophete"
The Queen and Prince walked in the Home Park this
morning.
The ristening of the infant daughter of Lieutenant
Colonel the Hon. Alexander and Mrs. Gordon took place
in the private chapel of the Castle to-day, her Majesty
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert attending as
sponsors.

The Dean of Windsor performed the ceremony.
The Earl of Clarendon introduced Baron de Hochs-
child to an audience of her Majesty last evening, to de-
liver his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary from the Court of Sweden..

The Swedish Minister and the Earl of Clarcndon left
"Windsor by an early train this morning, for London.
Lord Byron and Mr. F. Cavendish have succeeded
Lord de Tabley and Makr General B. Drummond as
the Lord and Groom in Vi aiting.
The French Ambassador had an interview with the
Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the Foreign Office.
A deputation from Merthyr Tydvil bad an interview
on Monday with the President of the General Board of
Health, at his office, Whitehall, on the subject of the
supply of water to that town. Tho deputation con-
sisted of Messrs. George Overton and Charles H. James,
of Merthyr ; and. Mr. J. G. Lynde, C.E., of Great
George-street, Westminster.
A deputation from Romford had an interview on Mon-
day with the President of the General Board of Health,
at his office, Whitehall, on the sanitary condition of
their town under the present local board. The depu-
tation consisted of the Venerable Archdeacon Grant,
Mr. C. P. Matthews, churchwarden, and Mr. N. Sur-
ridge, solicitor.
A deputation from the parish of Hackney had an in-
terview yesterday with the President of the General
Board of Health at his office, Whitehall, on the subject
of the sanitary condition of their parish, and of a pure
supply of water thereto. The deputation consisted of
the Rev. J. Davis Lamb, Rector of West Hackney,
Messrs. J. R. D. Tyssen, G. Offer, W. Holloway, J.
Matson, T. Frankland, and W. Harris, accompanied by
Mr. C. T. Pulley, vestry clerk of Hackney.
The deputation were introduced by Mr. C. Salisbury
Butler, M.P.

A Cabinet Council will be held on Friday, at the
Foreign-office, at three o'clock.
The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, who are still
staying at Gordon Castle, Banffshire, had intelligence
forwarded yesterday to them, and to the Princess Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, who is staying with their graces,
that the noble duke's son-in-law, Prince Edward, who
now holds the rank of brevet major in the 3d Battalion
of Grenadier Guards, was wounded at the siege of the
Russian fortress, but not severely.
The Duke of Devonshire, who arrived at Devonshire
House, on Saturday, from Chatsworth, left town yes-
terday for his grace's marine villa at Kemp Town,
Brighton, where we believe the noble duke, who con-
tinues to improve in health, intends to winter.
The Admiralty have given notice that the exemption
from stamp duty hitherto enjoyed by all bills drawn
either abroad or at home on account of the naval service,
will, according to the decision of the Treasury, still
exist under the news tame Act.

LATEST NEWS.

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THE SIEGE OF
SEBAST' OPOL.

PARIS 1., Nov. 7, 6.32 P.M.

The Moniteur publish( e; letters from Constan-
tinople, with accounts fro m the Bay of Kamshli
up to the 26th. The enemy's fire had much
slackened, and became ID are and more unsteady.
Artillerymen were scarce, a;nd the infantry worked
the guns.

In the attack by the Ithssians, 20,000 strong,
on the 25th, the French a..nd English cavalry re-
pulsed the enemy and reco'rered the positions by
a most brilliant charge, in, which the combatants
fought hand to hand will cold steel for several
minutes.

The English lost in all. 400 men ; the loss of
the French was trifling.

The assault was expected to take place on the
2d of November.

A despatch of Gener: e 1 Canrobert, dated the
22d, states that on,the night of the 20th and
21st the enemy made an attempt to spike some
French guns, but failed.

The loss from the cum/ ty's fire was less than
might have been expected., and the sanitary con-
dition of the French army was satisfactory, most
of the diseases beinlc those 3 produced by excessive

fatigue.

We have received the following from our cor-
respondent at Constantinople, dated October 28,
3 p.m.:—

A French steamer has just arrived, with news
up to the 26th from Seba stopol.
The French had advan.:ed within 300 yards.

Menschikoff had asked for three hours to bury
his dead, but it was refused on the ground that
the Allies had no dead t o bury themselves, and
thought there would be n o reciurocity.

There had been two skf near Balaklava ;
there are supposed to have been seven or eight
battalions of Russians engaged on the first day ;
they were repulsed with great loss. On the se-
cond day our cavalry advanced too far, got near a
masked battery, and were somewhat cut up.

It is said that there is a great deal of sand in
the Russian gunpowder through the swindling of
the contractors, and the deserters declare that
much of it is found useless. All is going on
slowly but well.

We have received news from the Crimea, under
date of the morning of the 25th, to the effect
that the besiegers had established their third
parallel at 200 metres from the ramparts.
Their fire was more lively than on the first

day.
Almost all the town was on fire, and the be-
sieged had desisted from their efforts to extin-
guish the flames.

Deserters had announced that there were in
the town 6,000 dead and double that number of
wounded.

From accounts received in Paris it appears that
the loss sustained in the cavalry action before
Balalrlava was less severe than was at first re-
ported. Instead of 500 men, it is said that only
124 were killed and wounded, and the names of
no officers are mentioned.

A Vienna correspondent states that, accord-
ing to information which reaohed that capital

yesterday morning, nothing important, up to the
Ist of November, had happened before Sebas-

topol.
The Turkish troops are leaving Varna for the

Crimea.

Mr. Seymour Tremenheere, who left Constan-
tinople by the additional mail steamer Gauge on
the 28th ult., reached London by special train
last evening with despatches from Lord Stratford
de Redcliffe for Lord Clarendon, but brought no
the Admiralty.
despatches for
.
intelligence from the Crimea of a later date than
eitherthat altrheaedymirneitcseievred, and no
of
War or
Mr. Tremenheere left Balaklava on the 23d
ultimo.